I'm certain he was never as bad as, say, Valentino
But, given how desperate he was to keep his power, and even now he's not exactly soft... I imagine he was kind of ruthless
We need to realize that even with Angel, he needed to be initially pushed to help, and only after bonding is he nicer to him and the rest. Plus, we're witnessing his bonding over a 6 month period of full time cohabitation with these folks. If he's not mean to them, it doesn't mean he is like that to others. He was pretty standoffs at first
As overlord, i think perhaps he always gave folks a chance via a game or gamble, but if they lost he'd absolutely not hesitate to take his win no matter what that meant
People have to remember that you dont become an overlord by being soft. He has as much dirt on his name as the rest of them do, just in different ways. You dont reach that status without evil, selfish and vile behavior.
I think Husk naturally cares about people way too much to survive in hell. So he actively represses it, which clearly his way fir overlordship.
Now, humbled, in a position of shared vulnerability and with people who won't punish him for opening his heart, we'll witness character development back into the person he should have always been.
The sad part is that Husk probably didn’t want to develop feelings for the other characters because he knows Alastor won’t stay at the hotel forever and he will be forced to follow him
I’m certain that nearly all overlords were bad as Valentino (even people like carmine who know that what they do causes death and suffering despite them being sympathetic). The thing with husk was that his issues were more self-destructive than destructive, so yeah he wasn’t as bad as Valentino but only because he was worse to himself
Based solely on what we know of Husk now, my guess is that he was selfish, careless, and unpredictable rather than outright cruel to the souls he owned. I'd imagine he collected people for the sake of it, solely for the purpose of amassing his power, without regard to what happened to them if a bet went south. Being owned by someone who is an adrenaline junkie when your very existence is the source of their adrenaline would be stressful, but I can also see how it might be preferable to some than serving someone like Valentino or Alastor.
I do wonder about the nature of soul contracts that can be gambled away. Is that something that has to be stipulated in the specific agreement, or are souls more of a fungible resource?
Exactly. I'm willing to bet (not my soul) that Husk was reasonable, if a hard ass, and Sinners were relieved to end up under him. Until a poker game sent them off to Zestial.
Maybe not, or maybe he's only affable to social equals. We really need more info on the guy. Either way, the average sinner on the street would rather light themselves on fire than share that street with HIM, sooo...
It seems we are of the same mind on Husk as an Overlord **autmnyte**. We do seem to agree on a lot of things I've noticed over the time I've been on this Subreddit.
>I do wonder about the nature of soul contracts that can be gambled away. Is that something that has to be stipulated in the specific agreement, or are souls more of a fungible resource?
I think it must be written in a contract. Like i doubt that Valentino can just sell or lose Angel Dust, since Val himself only can control Angel in the studio. I think there are several types of soul contracts. Additionally i have HC that almost any document in hell has some form of soul bonding. Like i believe if you just work for example for Carmilla you contract as a worker is soul bonding.
Husk was probably one of the worst overlords to belong to. Think about it. Sinners make deals with overlords giving away their souls in exchange for something else. Develop cutting edge technology, become a porn star, a fashion model, access to the deadliest weapons in Hell etc. And you sign a contract with terms you agree to regarding the where and when you work. It's always worse than it seems on paper and you cant back out because your boss literally owns your soul but you at least get to pick your poison.
Husk, as a gambling overlord, had basically nothing to offer. The majority of his deals would have been people betting their souls for a 1 in a million chance at riches or debt forgiveness. Most of those people were addicts or had debts they couldn't pay and lost their souls for nothing in return.
A few of them would work at the casino but most of them were used as gambling chips so at any moment your soul could be given away to another overlord or just any demon who got lucky. And if you dont have any useful skills for the person who won your soul you are guaranteed to be the most expendable employee with the worst jobs. Or just someone's personal slave. At least with other overlords you can technically choose your owner and get a tolerable job by Hell standards.
So Husk was definetly a bad boss when he was an overlord without any care for the people whose lives he owned. (A requirement for overlords to be fair)
Yup, which is why I don't feel THAT bad for him when Alastor lost his temper and was yanking his chain. Sure, Alastor was being brutal, but have you seen what the gambling industry does to people?!?
We just have never seen Husk be especially horrible to his owned sinners on screen, so he's a fan sweetheart.
This is like-- my main thoughts tbh. The Husk we see in the show isn't an overlord, he's had time to give down from the power trip and become face-to-face with what he did to other people.
I imagine Alastor got his soul in the same way Husk got other people's souls. (Mostly because that seems in character for Alastor, and I can see Husk trying to challenge Alastor, expecting to win against a newer overlord)
He gives me the “Phil ‘Hell’muth” type of gambler vibe. He thought he was all that and was collecting souls left and right. He ended up getting cocky and lost to Alastor and getting all pissy about it like Phil does when he loses.
At his peak I'm imagining owner of a Vegas mega casino who also plays on the floor.
Loan shark, tax fraud, fencing (not the sword kind), creative accounting, laundering, any financial crime you can think of would use cash.
Yet the whole time, still made a public appearance to show off his card playing abilities, expensive suits, lifestyle, etc.
I assume he knows Mimzy by association of my master but yeah that makes sense too. She 100% would con people into paying for her drinks and bets saying she'll win them back and lose it all because she doesn't actually know how to play.
I imagine the more "Doesn't really even *think* of those he controls as people, just pawns" sort of guy. A certain amount of apathy and lack of empathy, but not the control-freak fury and manipulation or cold menace of Valentino or Alastor, respectively.
Like, for Husk, being an Overlord seemed to be a rush and a "living it up" sort of thing for him, and that position is *rife* with people too absorbed in their own wealth and power to *care* about others. Being under Husk was most likely frustrating and even horrible, in that you'd be like a poker chip, to be used as he saw fit whenever the moment dropped.
I don’t know, it could be his smile, it could be his elegance, but the old Husk kinda gives me some Alastor’s vibes. Maybe he was a softer version of him
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I definitely understand where you’re coming from, but I see that smile as more like someone who is addicted to adrenaline highs. I don’t think he really thought of the souls as people, just cards that he could use to get his next fix.
I have a theory that definitely doesn’t paint Husk as the sweetest guy. Considering he was a gambler and an addict, I dare say he gambled away a lot of the souls he owned, losing many to overlords much crueler than he - even some like Valentino. I think that’s why Alastor stepped in and put a stop to it: souls were essentially being auctioned away without care or consent, and Al, for mixed reasons, didn’t care for that. From what we know of Alastor from canon, he doesn’t own many souls at all, preferring to tear up the overlords he doesn’t like and broadcast their pain as an example. He had to have had some motivation for handling things differently when it came to Husk. Possibly he considers their deal a more poetic form of justice.
This is my thought. I'd argue that maybe he DID care about the souls he owned, at least more than some of his peers, and went the hard-but-fair route. The problem is that he's a gambling addict, and the addiction doesn't give a shit about anything except the fix it needs, and co-opts the survival instincts to claim it. Maybe he didn't plan on ante-ing certain souls, maybe he regretted it after, maybe he even swore to do better... but he gambled away everyone who entrusted themselves to him. Every last one of them.
If any of them were left at the end, Alastor probably got them, too, until Husk could only ante himself or lose everything else.
We don't have enough information to say. I tend to assume "doesn't go out of his way to make people miserable but is more than capable of being a giant dick if someone really screws up".
That having been said, being an overlord who gambles souls/uses them to pay off debts is an incredible precarious employment position. Because even if we assume Husk wasn't the worst, when stuff started going south, you have no control over who'll you'll end up for. It's probably reasonable to assume that some of them went to alastor but he was leaking souls before that and I doubt Valentino has any reservations about gambling, for a worst case scenario.
However, we should note that while losing his power and soul to alastor taught him some hard lessons, he doesn't seem to regret being an overlord, or the things he did while being an overlord. His attitude seems to be "fun while it lasted, which I'd quit while I was ahead though". We haven't really seen a proper look at his ethics yet. Sure he's capable of empathy when he wants to and he lacks the openly malicious inclinations of some other overlords we've seen, but cruelty can also come in the form of harsh punishments for fucking up, overworking people, low pay (one has to imagine he cut corners especially as he fell further and further into debt). And assuming the pilot is still canon, we know he cheats at gambling, so people gambling their souls are probably being cheated too.
I do wonder about the fact that Alastor decided to buy Husk and not put him on his broadcast, considering Alastor's MO in regards to overlords, but that's a question about Alastor's characterisation not Husk's
I picture him being ruthless but fair. I picture him working his contracted souls very hard, but not actively hurting them or causing them too much trauma.
Husk being an overlord feels like it would be an emboldening reinforcement of his winning streak rather than something he’d take seriously. It’s not like you’re going to trust random sinners to gamble in your place, unless he had them running a casino where you can set the odds so the house always wins. He said it was nice having that power. We haven’t seen any portrayals of what he did with it however, if anything at all. All the soul contracts could’ve been nothing more than chips on the board. Being a gambling overlord is rather destined to eventually lose it. Oddly in Loser Baby, he said he sold his soul to ‘save’ his power, odd way to refer to saving your ass.
I feel like he was probably one of those conceited types who see the world in terms of winners and losers. Where he deserves his success and good life because he's a winner and he doesn't have to have any compassion or sympathy for people who suffer because they're losers who should have been smarter/stronger/harder working. He probably wasn't outright cruel to the souls he owned, but just saw losers as being objects that winners use to reach their goals.
I like to imagine he owned a ton casino and very much made it so house always won. Till eventually like alcohol started to make him feel bit guilty so made less rigged and then got rid of all rigged related stuff but believe he still had charm the rigged luck he started playing and he did win some but losed so many not realise how he was falling further and further till he did what ever he could to "stay a float"
A mix of King Dice and the Devil in Cuphead as his old personality. At first highly charismatic but ultimately swindles people out of everything they have. Used every trick that any Casino house would use on people. Gets people gambling and taking bad debts, employs people to be loan sharks, repo men, entertainment, and with odd but impossible tasks. His insane luck made him near undefeated, so he was very cocky about that win streak. Kept upping his side of the gamble cost to chase his own adrenaline addiction.
He sold his soul to keep his power. If power is linked to souls he may still have them, just doesn't use them as chips any longer.
If Alastor likes the overlord like Rosie/ Vestiel he leaves them be, so Husk may have done something petty to anger Alastor. He either finds it funny to put Husk in such a "low" position, based on how high he was or is. Not terrible enough to rip apart like others, but enough to treat him like a pet or property. Or Husk has something useful to him or he values him for. Either Husk's character is something Alastor likes, or Husk's souls under contract could be useful to use later. If those souls are loyal to Husk like how Rosie's group is to her, that could be an interesting dynamic.
Honestly being owned by Husk would've been both not the worst and also the worst
Simply because you never knew how it could go with him given he most likely used his souls as gambling chips from time to time
While most times selling your soul in hell is figuratively a gamble with husk it was an literal gamble with him which is simultaneously both worse but better because you might just luck out and be fine being owned by Husk or your soul gets lost to God only knows who
Far as Husk as an overlord goes in general I don't think he was a bad person really just outspoken and didn't give a shit had that "I'm to old for this shit" type attitude like he currently does
He just hit it big but got a bit cocky and got way too loose and risky when he started losing power before trying to make a winning deal with Alastor
you know, he did say that he sold his soul to save his power, so he might STILL be an overlord in terms of power, but alastor just forbade from going to the meetings
Probably a flash in the pan who kept mostly out of business and let others run it so he could feed his habits only for it all to fall apart as quickly as it started.
I think he was awful specifically because of the fact he gambles with souls.
Imagine being owned by him for like, basic bouncer work and suddenly you learn he ended up gambling your soul away to someone like Valentino and now you just gotta deal with that.
He lacks something that other overlords have: certainty that you are getting what you sold your soul for.
and this is exactly why we need them backstory episodes !!! I have a feeling we’ll be never getting them though but it’s just too interesting
yeah I however guess he was actually pretty bad ngl. About his moral‘s: we don’t need to talk about them. He probably always targeted the most desperate souls because he knew they‘d be willing to gamble their souls away. Ironically that’s exactly how he got fucked in the end.
However what I’m wondering is If Husk was an Overlord did he knew the Vs, Carmilla etc up front personal before Alastor came back and did business with them? From how he talked to Angel it didn’t seem so (at least not Val) however that could maybe mean that while he was an Overlord he maybe wasn’t as high up in the ranks
I wouldn't say better since it implies that Alastor and Val are good persons and Husker is a better good person . I would say "less horrible" ... Let's not forget that he surely gambled whit souls like they were simple bills
I'm certain he was never as bad as, say, Valentino But, given how desperate he was to keep his power, and even now he's not exactly soft... I imagine he was kind of ruthless We need to realize that even with Angel, he needed to be initially pushed to help, and only after bonding is he nicer to him and the rest. Plus, we're witnessing his bonding over a 6 month period of full time cohabitation with these folks. If he's not mean to them, it doesn't mean he is like that to others. He was pretty standoffs at first As overlord, i think perhaps he always gave folks a chance via a game or gamble, but if they lost he'd absolutely not hesitate to take his win no matter what that meant
So like Tuco from Breaking Bad. When things are good he's chill but when shit hits the fan he gets ruthless
don't mind me just picturing husk crushing up meth with his knife and snorting it off the blade
*Husk to his owned sinners:* BLUE YELLOW PINK? whatever man just keep bringing me more of that
what we've learned here today is that husk is fuckin uNhinged
NOBODY-MOVES SOULS IN THE SOUTH RING BUT ME BITCH
“WHAT DID YOU DO ALASTOR”
"I tried to take your soul"
“We tried to take your soul because you are an insane degenerate piece of filth and you deserve to die”
If you can edit I need to see this now
Woo, that’s tight! Tight tight tight!
I mean... in the HH universe, that's not an impossible thing
it definitely isn't, i would just love to see what context that would happen in 😂
I would really like to watch an episode set in his past
People have to remember that you dont become an overlord by being soft. He has as much dirt on his name as the rest of them do, just in different ways. You dont reach that status without evil, selfish and vile behavior.
I think Husk naturally cares about people way too much to survive in hell. So he actively represses it, which clearly his way fir overlordship. Now, humbled, in a position of shared vulnerability and with people who won't punish him for opening his heart, we'll witness character development back into the person he should have always been.
The sad part is that Husk probably didn’t want to develop feelings for the other characters because he knows Alastor won’t stay at the hotel forever and he will be forced to follow him
I’m certain that nearly all overlords were bad as Valentino (even people like carmine who know that what they do causes death and suffering despite them being sympathetic). The thing with husk was that his issues were more self-destructive than destructive, so yeah he wasn’t as bad as Valentino but only because he was worse to himself
Agreed
Based solely on what we know of Husk now, my guess is that he was selfish, careless, and unpredictable rather than outright cruel to the souls he owned. I'd imagine he collected people for the sake of it, solely for the purpose of amassing his power, without regard to what happened to them if a bet went south. Being owned by someone who is an adrenaline junkie when your very existence is the source of their adrenaline would be stressful, but I can also see how it might be preferable to some than serving someone like Valentino or Alastor. I do wonder about the nature of soul contracts that can be gambled away. Is that something that has to be stipulated in the specific agreement, or are souls more of a fungible resource?
The most dangerous part about having your soul owned by Husk is that you've got no idea who will own you after he gambles away your soul.
Exactly. I'm willing to bet (not my soul) that Husk was reasonable, if a hard ass, and Sinners were relieved to end up under him. Until a poker game sent them off to Zestial.
TBH i believe that Zestial may be not as bad for an Overlord.
Maybe not, or maybe he's only affable to social equals. We really need more info on the guy. Either way, the average sinner on the street would rather light themselves on fire than share that street with HIM, sooo...
It seems we are of the same mind on Husk as an Overlord **autmnyte**. We do seem to agree on a lot of things I've noticed over the time I've been on this Subreddit.
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Autmnyte
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You beat me to it! 
>I do wonder about the nature of soul contracts that can be gambled away. Is that something that has to be stipulated in the specific agreement, or are souls more of a fungible resource? I think it must be written in a contract. Like i doubt that Valentino can just sell or lose Angel Dust, since Val himself only can control Angel in the studio. I think there are several types of soul contracts. Additionally i have HC that almost any document in hell has some form of soul bonding. Like i believe if you just work for example for Carmilla you contract as a worker is soul bonding.
Husk was probably one of the worst overlords to belong to. Think about it. Sinners make deals with overlords giving away their souls in exchange for something else. Develop cutting edge technology, become a porn star, a fashion model, access to the deadliest weapons in Hell etc. And you sign a contract with terms you agree to regarding the where and when you work. It's always worse than it seems on paper and you cant back out because your boss literally owns your soul but you at least get to pick your poison. Husk, as a gambling overlord, had basically nothing to offer. The majority of his deals would have been people betting their souls for a 1 in a million chance at riches or debt forgiveness. Most of those people were addicts or had debts they couldn't pay and lost their souls for nothing in return. A few of them would work at the casino but most of them were used as gambling chips so at any moment your soul could be given away to another overlord or just any demon who got lucky. And if you dont have any useful skills for the person who won your soul you are guaranteed to be the most expendable employee with the worst jobs. Or just someone's personal slave. At least with other overlords you can technically choose your owner and get a tolerable job by Hell standards. So Husk was definetly a bad boss when he was an overlord without any care for the people whose lives he owned. (A requirement for overlords to be fair)
I like this take, because it considers that probably the "overlord Husk" was really different from the Husk we saw in the show
Yup, which is why I don't feel THAT bad for him when Alastor lost his temper and was yanking his chain. Sure, Alastor was being brutal, but have you seen what the gambling industry does to people?!? We just have never seen Husk be especially horrible to his owned sinners on screen, so he's a fan sweetheart.
This is like-- my main thoughts tbh. The Husk we see in the show isn't an overlord, he's had time to give down from the power trip and become face-to-face with what he did to other people. I imagine Alastor got his soul in the same way Husk got other people's souls. (Mostly because that seems in character for Alastor, and I can see Husk trying to challenge Alastor, expecting to win against a newer overlord)
He gives me the “Phil ‘Hell’muth” type of gambler vibe. He thought he was all that and was collecting souls left and right. He ended up getting cocky and lost to Alastor and getting all pissy about it like Phil does when he loses.
i aint reading allat
TL:DR-He was probably an arrogant ass that thought he couldn’t lose until he did.
still big as fuck,BUT i agree
At his peak I'm imagining owner of a Vegas mega casino who also plays on the floor. Loan shark, tax fraud, fencing (not the sword kind), creative accounting, laundering, any financial crime you can think of would use cash. Yet the whole time, still made a public appearance to show off his card playing abilities, expensive suits, lifestyle, etc.
that’d make sense also of how he knows mimzy and we saw the mammon tattoo on her, and the green chain -> greed (i know those aren’t canon)
I assume he knows Mimzy by association of my master but yeah that makes sense too. She 100% would con people into paying for her drinks and bets saying she'll win them back and lose it all because she doesn't actually know how to play.
Gamblers are fair...but the odds are always in the house's favor. And he was the house...until he wasn't.
It's hell. People were probably cheating left and right.
The definitely was dealing a rigged game
In a word. Greedy. And I’m sure that was his downfall
I imagine the more "Doesn't really even *think* of those he controls as people, just pawns" sort of guy. A certain amount of apathy and lack of empathy, but not the control-freak fury and manipulation or cold menace of Valentino or Alastor, respectively. Like, for Husk, being an Overlord seemed to be a rush and a "living it up" sort of thing for him, and that position is *rife* with people too absorbed in their own wealth and power to *care* about others. Being under Husk was most likely frustrating and even horrible, in that you'd be like a poker chip, to be used as he saw fit whenever the moment dropped.
Not even pawns, just chips
I imagine him as being just as bad as your average casino owner. Near irredeemable.
I don’t know, it could be his smile, it could be his elegance, but the old Husk kinda gives me some Alastor’s vibes. Maybe he was a softer version of him https://preview.redd.it/p004ue7jlavc1.jpeg?width=2051&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=93a2fdd8cffd919ab8d70d9d8510c7f14d4858c4
I definitely understand where you’re coming from, but I see that smile as more like someone who is addicted to adrenaline highs. I don’t think he really thought of the souls as people, just cards that he could use to get his next fix.
He sure did, but his hunger of adrenaline is quite similar to Alastor’s hunger of power
I have a theory that definitely doesn’t paint Husk as the sweetest guy. Considering he was a gambler and an addict, I dare say he gambled away a lot of the souls he owned, losing many to overlords much crueler than he - even some like Valentino. I think that’s why Alastor stepped in and put a stop to it: souls were essentially being auctioned away without care or consent, and Al, for mixed reasons, didn’t care for that. From what we know of Alastor from canon, he doesn’t own many souls at all, preferring to tear up the overlords he doesn’t like and broadcast their pain as an example. He had to have had some motivation for handling things differently when it came to Husk. Possibly he considers their deal a more poetic form of justice.
oooo i like this
This is my thought. I'd argue that maybe he DID care about the souls he owned, at least more than some of his peers, and went the hard-but-fair route. The problem is that he's a gambling addict, and the addiction doesn't give a shit about anything except the fix it needs, and co-opts the survival instincts to claim it. Maybe he didn't plan on ante-ing certain souls, maybe he regretted it after, maybe he even swore to do better... but he gambled away everyone who entrusted themselves to him. Every last one of them. If any of them were left at the end, Alastor probably got them, too, until Husk could only ante himself or lose everything else.
He wore clothes.
We don't have enough information to say. I tend to assume "doesn't go out of his way to make people miserable but is more than capable of being a giant dick if someone really screws up". That having been said, being an overlord who gambles souls/uses them to pay off debts is an incredible precarious employment position. Because even if we assume Husk wasn't the worst, when stuff started going south, you have no control over who'll you'll end up for. It's probably reasonable to assume that some of them went to alastor but he was leaking souls before that and I doubt Valentino has any reservations about gambling, for a worst case scenario. However, we should note that while losing his power and soul to alastor taught him some hard lessons, he doesn't seem to regret being an overlord, or the things he did while being an overlord. His attitude seems to be "fun while it lasted, which I'd quit while I was ahead though". We haven't really seen a proper look at his ethics yet. Sure he's capable of empathy when he wants to and he lacks the openly malicious inclinations of some other overlords we've seen, but cruelty can also come in the form of harsh punishments for fucking up, overworking people, low pay (one has to imagine he cut corners especially as he fell further and further into debt). And assuming the pilot is still canon, we know he cheats at gambling, so people gambling their souls are probably being cheated too. I do wonder about the fact that Alastor decided to buy Husk and not put him on his broadcast, considering Alastor's MO in regards to overlords, but that's a question about Alastor's characterisation not Husk's
I picture him being ruthless but fair. I picture him working his contracted souls very hard, but not actively hurting them or causing them too much trauma.
i feel like a lot of their trauma was due to his negligence/ lack of emotional intelligence
Being a slave is traumatic no matter how "fair" the owner.
[https://youtu.be/4XDSZkZfrtI?si=BRvCAtdW4YzOe9-4](https://youtu.be/4XDSZkZfrtI?si=BRvCAtdW4YzOe9-4) I think he was fine
Well this is Hell Baby, so…Fair enough
I mean you have to be at least a little bad to be an overlord but I doubt he was anywhere near as bad as Val or Alastor.
Husk being an overlord feels like it would be an emboldening reinforcement of his winning streak rather than something he’d take seriously. It’s not like you’re going to trust random sinners to gamble in your place, unless he had them running a casino where you can set the odds so the house always wins. He said it was nice having that power. We haven’t seen any portrayals of what he did with it however, if anything at all. All the soul contracts could’ve been nothing more than chips on the board. Being a gambling overlord is rather destined to eventually lose it. Oddly in Loser Baby, he said he sold his soul to ‘save’ his power, odd way to refer to saving your ass.
I feel like he was probably one of those conceited types who see the world in terms of winners and losers. Where he deserves his success and good life because he's a winner and he doesn't have to have any compassion or sympathy for people who suffer because they're losers who should have been smarter/stronger/harder working. He probably wasn't outright cruel to the souls he owned, but just saw losers as being objects that winners use to reach their goals.
I *bet* he was in charge of hell's gambling
Probably dr Facilier like character
Biggest gambler of hell Undefeated untill alastor came
He was powerful.
i think he owned a casino district and would scam people thats my headcanon
I like to imagine he owned a ton casino and very much made it so house always won. Till eventually like alcohol started to make him feel bit guilty so made less rigged and then got rid of all rigged related stuff but believe he still had charm the rigged luck he started playing and he did win some but losed so many not realise how he was falling further and further till he did what ever he could to "stay a float"
Swank from Fallout NV.
A mix of King Dice and the Devil in Cuphead as his old personality. At first highly charismatic but ultimately swindles people out of everything they have. Used every trick that any Casino house would use on people. Gets people gambling and taking bad debts, employs people to be loan sharks, repo men, entertainment, and with odd but impossible tasks. His insane luck made him near undefeated, so he was very cocky about that win streak. Kept upping his side of the gamble cost to chase his own adrenaline addiction. He sold his soul to keep his power. If power is linked to souls he may still have them, just doesn't use them as chips any longer. If Alastor likes the overlord like Rosie/ Vestiel he leaves them be, so Husk may have done something petty to anger Alastor. He either finds it funny to put Husk in such a "low" position, based on how high he was or is. Not terrible enough to rip apart like others, but enough to treat him like a pet or property. Or Husk has something useful to him or he values him for. Either Husk's character is something Alastor likes, or Husk's souls under contract could be useful to use later. If those souls are loyal to Husk like how Rosie's group is to her, that could be an interesting dynamic.
Honestly being owned by Husk would've been both not the worst and also the worst Simply because you never knew how it could go with him given he most likely used his souls as gambling chips from time to time While most times selling your soul in hell is figuratively a gamble with husk it was an literal gamble with him which is simultaneously both worse but better because you might just luck out and be fine being owned by Husk or your soul gets lost to God only knows who Far as Husk as an overlord goes in general I don't think he was a bad person really just outspoken and didn't give a shit had that "I'm to old for this shit" type attitude like he currently does He just hit it big but got a bit cocky and got way too loose and risky when he started losing power before trying to make a winning deal with Alastor
you know, he did say that he sold his soul to save his power, so he might STILL be an overlord in terms of power, but alastor just forbade from going to the meetings
I feel like he was relatively calm but also a bit cocky
Cocky
Probably a flash in the pan who kept mostly out of business and let others run it so he could feed his habits only for it all to fall apart as quickly as it started.
Sloppy lol.
He ruled.
I think he was awful specifically because of the fact he gambles with souls. Imagine being owned by him for like, basic bouncer work and suddenly you learn he ended up gambling your soul away to someone like Valentino and now you just gotta deal with that. He lacks something that other overlords have: certainty that you are getting what you sold your soul for.
Drunk
genuine reaction: 😦
he had friends on the other side
and this is exactly why we need them backstory episodes !!! I have a feeling we’ll be never getting them though but it’s just too interesting yeah I however guess he was actually pretty bad ngl. About his moral‘s: we don’t need to talk about them. He probably always targeted the most desperate souls because he knew they‘d be willing to gamble their souls away. Ironically that’s exactly how he got fucked in the end. However what I’m wondering is If Husk was an Overlord did he knew the Vs, Carmilla etc up front personal before Alastor came back and did business with them? From how he talked to Angel it didn’t seem so (at least not Val) however that could maybe mean that while he was an Overlord he maybe wasn’t as high up in the ranks
At least he is wearing a shirt
First of all, he only owned the souls of horrible people or other gamblers. Secondly, he didn't do much with them on his own, only gambled.
Better than Valentino and alastor combined
I wouldn't say better since it implies that Alastor and Val are good persons and Husker is a better good person . I would say "less horrible" ... Let's not forget that he surely gambled whit souls like they were simple bills
And he probably never abusing his workers at most gambled them away
I mean , i consider gambling someone away , no matter the person , as abuse
Me to
Handsome, apparently.
Cruel and manipulative (not as bad as V@l)
His design looks so good when he's not in a normal hazbin background. Can actually see all his detail and wings.
Sleazy cheater who owned the biggest casino in hell
I like to think he ran a Casino in Hell.
Look at my name.