Husk

Husk is a foul-mouthed and grumpy demon who resembles an older anthropomorphic cat with large feathered wings. Most of his remarks tend to be sarcastic, apathetic, and coarse. He was bribed into working as a bartender for the Hazbin Hotel by Alastor using nothing but cheap booze. He struggles with alcoholism and a gambling addiction and claims to have lost the ability to love and care about other people. Despite his prickly demeanor, he has a soft spot for doing magic tricks.

Husk is an anthropomorphic avian cat demon. His look is evocative of a magician, paired with a casino referencing playing card theme. The sclera of his eyes are black, with light yellow irises and slit pupils. He has large and lengthy, red feather-like eyebrows with black vertical stripes near the tips, and a small black heart above each eyebrow.

His fur is a dark taupe, overlayed with white on his face, torso, feet, and upper arms. The insides of his ears are white with a red tip at the point and red heart in the center. A black tuff of fluff protrudes from each, creating the appearance of small hearts.

He has a darker shade of his fur encircling his ankles, mimicking cuffs on a set of pants. His tail is long and dark taupe-colored, ending with a large spray of plume-like feathers which are a vivid-red with black and white stripes. He has heart-shaped, light yellow paw-pads underneath the paws on his hands and feet.

His wings are large and red, with darker-taupe on the undersides. The undersides of his wings are decorated with black stripes which feature red and white roulette wheel dot markings. The outside of his wings are decorated with more black stripes, which wrap around the joints and run around a row of white roulette wheel dots.

Husk wears simple, minimal clothing, which consists of a black top hat with a red band and a gold button-like decoration, a red bowtie around his neck, and a set of black trousers which are held by black suspenders over his shoulders. Husk was originally from Las Vegas and grew up in a casino there. His familiarity with the fast-paced gambling atmosphere, as well as his multilingualism, is a result of his upbringing.

It was in Las Vegas that Husk's deep adoration for stage magic grew, as he would often run down to the entertainment areas in the casino to watch the shows that took place as a child. He also played the saxophone professionally at several Vegas lounge bars.

At some point, Husk became a magician himself, but has also been described as "washed up", "bitter", and a "has been", implying that, although Husk may well have progressed to become a successful stage magician himself at some point, it was a career that would apparently not end well for him.

Husk was noted to have travelled a lot. He died in 1975 due to old age, being sentenced to Hell and given a form he heavily disliked. Husk was an Overlord at some point, but as he gambled he got on a losing streak and met Alastor during that time. He made a deal with him under to save his power but ended up losing his status as an Overlord and ownership of his own soul. As a former, Husk is familiar with other Overlords, such as Zestial and Rosie.