Please dispense your HUNK HCs. He looks soooo cute with his little gas mask and its' big red eyes.
⸻ I AM CLAWING THE CURTAINS BC HUNK HCs REQUEST ⸨ also I am low energy and busy as hell so I will answer unceremoniously to this ask and move everything into proper HC posts........ later. ⸩
As always: Headcanons posted for my works of fiction are merely my interpretation of the respective character(s) and should not be considered as "single point of truth".
He has Prosopagnosia (face-blindness) when it comes to himself. From an early age on he had a bad sense of self, due to having been exposed to the conditioning of Umbrella in their Military Training Facility on Rockfort Island, where he soon stood out with his skills and talent. He was dispatched on missions, where he earned his reputation as Mr. Death or Grim Reaper, and it didn't take long for him to completely identify with this persona, resulting in him taking on new missions almost constantly with next to no downtime. With his teams always ending up dead, soon no one knew the man beneath the mask anymore. Not even he himself.
He has a sweet-tooth. It developed as a result of Umbrella having their soldiers hooked on substances ("Panzerschokolade") during their service - in the years after he left the corporation, he tried to substitute as best as possible, which ended him in a sugar addiction. Due to his extremely high-running metabolism, it basically fuels him more than harms him (although it's naturally not healthy by any means).
Mentioned in a separate post before but worth adding here too: He met the Duke, who introduced him to the merchant guild. After some back and forth and meals shared over a fire, HUNK decided to join their guild and thus became the Merchant. Even after the Las Plagas incident, he kept tabs on Ada and Leon, and they are bound to meet again (in my fic^^)
He was raised in the Raccoon City Orphanage. During this time he has been exposed to microdosings of various virus strains to which his body adapted, causing him to become stronger, faster and even raised his IQ - while not in ways that would have made him a good subject for Umbrella’s programs in which they raised children to become the next generation of CEOs (as it was done in the Spencer Foundation Home), he was quickly picked out as extraordinary specimen. Consequently, his exposure to microdosed virus variants slowed his body’s aging process, causing him to look younger than he actually is (and in turn furthering the disconnect he feels from himself - leading to his Prosopagnosia - and his hyperfocus on being HUNK).
HUNK has a strange sense of humor. It shines through most when he works as the Merchant ("Gun rhymes with fun for a reason!"), and is a little more awkward and dad-joke-y when he is outside of any persona, just being himself (whatever that means). He falls back on this when he feels insecure.

















