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in-fair-verona-we-set-our-scene · 10 months ago

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#yeah rl casinos are. a whole deal and a half#I hope we get to see what overlord husk got up to because there’s so much potential for horrible messed up shit

- @goated33

You! You get it! Like he was gambling with people's souls. He was gambling people! And most of those souls would've been either the desperate, gambling addicts at rock bottom with nothing else to bet, or won from people who were gambling the souls of others! Genuinely that'd be so fucked up!

Plus the screwed up fantastical casino concept is just... so cool. So much potential. I love fucked up casinos.

Husk having once been an Overlord makes so much sense when you look at his character design. The Overlords are the sinners who own the most souls. They also have visual theming that communicates what their entire "deal" is. Carmilla is made of steel and points and she sells weapons. Valentino looks like a pimp and works in the porn industry. Alastor is a radio host. Presumably their jobs and specialties (or simple conquest) is also where they get most of the souls they own, like Valentino with Angel Dust.

But there's a gap in the line-up. Gambling. There's no Overlord with an obvious gambling motif like Husk has. Out of all the exploitative industries where people could end up signing their very souls away, gambling seems like the most obvious. So as the only character who looks like they could be running a bunch of casinos where people go so broke they end up betting their souls, which Hell has to have, it fits Husk very well.

#hazbin hotel #like the high stakes poker table probably involved gambling hundreds of souls at once between Overlords and other heavy hitters #and of course Husk would still lose a lot even if during his heyday he was winning more than losing #so like... even IF Husk was generally nice interpersonally to the people whose souls he owned (for a guy who literally #owned them of course) he would likely still end up putting them on the table. and LOSING often #sometimes purposefully as part of a longer strategy to get someone to make a bigger bet #like imagine the instability. the dehumanization. the fact that at any moment your boss could bet your soul to a guy like Valentino #and like... he'd do it! he's a gambling addict who got his power by gambling souls #and maintains his power through a constant influx and output of souls in his casinos #plus for Husk to have bet his own soul he must've been in dire straits #which means he probably bet all the souls he wouldn't have wanted to risk normally (employees he was fond of or individuals he #was sympathetic towards. people who might've trusted him to look after them)#and he did it! he bet them and lost them! perhaps condemning them to an even worse life!#and like... I think it'd be a stellar depiction of the destructive nature of a gambling addiction yknow?#because at some point you do end up putting the people who depend on you on that table #just usually not so literally

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