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Charles Foster Offdensen

Charles is a supreme chef--though, not that he’s ever needed to cook for himself. From as far back as when he was little, Charles has enjoyed fine dining, courtesy of the help around the house.

However, his parents did cook for him most of the time; he enjoyed his mother’s cooking more than his dad’s (we’re going by the Salacia married a human and had Charles as their half-demon kid headcanon, here). Salacia’s cooking is more cemented in his ancient Mesopotamian ways, and scrambled bread is not everyone’s cup of tea (said example of Mesopotamian scrambled bread. Yeah.)

I imagine that years down the line, when the Metalocalypse hits, there’ll come a time where it’s just Dethklok and Charles focusing on survival and evading the Half Man’s army. So, the boys will be pleasantly surprised when Charles rolls up his sleeves and serves them a Michelin-star dish from ingredients that he’s seemed to pull from thin air – not that they’re complaining, they’re just curious.

Pickles the Drummer

Pickles has these nostalgic itches for the 80s, and takes trips to vintage markets in search of relics from the first phase of his prime years.

He also somehow winds up paying for his whole family’s gifts for birthdays and Christmases, when Seth gives him a call a week or so before said occasion and not-so-subtly throws out suggestions like how lil’ Seth Jr.’s friends all have scooters and now all he can talk about is how much he wants that scooter, too [*insert Seth chuckle*].

Nathan Explosion

If the band are having a boy’s night and tearing up town, it’s an unspoken rule that Nathan is the one to drive.

Ever since almost manslaughtering Murderface, Nathan has sworn to NEVER drive while intoxicated and has additionally been ~1% more cautious while driving the band.

The only thing he has no control over (not that the guys would ever believe him), is that whenever he drives along a road that’s close to a body of water, he will be inclinedto swerve the car to the direction of the water (regardless of whether said vehicle is amphibious or- not).

Toki Wartooth

Growing up in the environment that he did, the internet is one of the many new marvels in Toki’s life. MMOs are his favourite, and as for his screen name…still thinking on that, but it’s gonna be something cute and brutal at the same time.

Although, due to his naïve & overly trusting nature, he’s liable to fall for scams and the Klokateer tech support have had to develop the most superior antivirus software for him (a software that’s Mordland-exclusive and is now widely used there – thanks Toki!)

Right, now onto the villain’s side, it’s Mr. Salacia:

APPEARANCE HEADCANON:

Salacia is TALL. If you saw him walking amongst a diverse crowd, he’d be looking down at everyone. He nerfs himself to the 7ft range.

Once he gets Dethklok’s powers confined to the five medallions on his armour, then he is as big as a mountain. Not quite Everest, but a mountain nonetheless.

As well as a buff in height, he also sprouts long-dormant wings and looks sort of like the Galaktikon II demon (seeing as the album was Brendon’s way of giving us some clues on how the finale would turn out, before it was fortunately renewed).

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JOKE HEADCANON:

Mr. Salsa is part dinosaur.

Roar.

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Choose your own topic! – FEAR HEADCANON:

Lol what does a demonic Half being fear?

I’ll list 3 major ones (again, this is from my Prophecy of the Water God AU interpretation of how I thought GII would play out):

1) Sea water: it’s like an acid bath to him, but a million times more horrific.

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2) Nergal, aka. the Sumerian Elder God that screwed him over and gave him this ultimatum:

It’s why – of all of Dethklok – he has it out for Nathan the most, since Nergal made him in his image (@papabigtoes did a fantastic commission for me of Nergal as he appears, in the third part of the photoset). Why? Because for Nergal, it’s the closest thing to him being the hero in the future stories & taking the limelight of how the Chosen Ones defeated the unholy Half Man, and so people will worship him again.

The above ultimatum also plays into another fear of his: Never Dying, just floating in the coldness of space, long after the sun burns out and all has ended on Earth.

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3) Along with that, it’s Losing His Family. He tried to live a normal life a second time with his reincarnated wife and child, but that just wasn’t meant to be. Having lost his wife (shortly before the time Charles was set to go to college), after inadvertently getting infected by his own hand, the fear of losing Charles aka. the only family he has left, grew all the more desperate. Charles is immune to that particular sickness now, but Salacia has foreseen some not so promising visions (courtesy of the Four Horsemen) of history repeating itself in another way during the final battle.

So, as soon as Offdensen has played his part in shepherding the Chosen to him, then he’ll give him his memories back, in order to convince Charles to not take part in the war and join his cause.

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MR. SALACIA:

I’m going off my HC of him being hella ancient, like Mesopotamian citizen ancient.

He worked as a fisherman, along with his best pal Gilgamesh (the similarities with the one from the Epic end with the shared name: his appearance’s based off of Teemu Mäntysaari).

Part of the backstory I came up for Sal is that the Gods above turned him into a healer to combat the plague that was infecting city folk (including his best friend), into monsters – the same affliction Murderface has at the end of Doomstar. Wanting to cure his buddy was one of the reasons he accepted the role. Along with that, Gilgamesh was one of the handful of people who didn’t shun him as a monster when he transformed into the Half Man.

~4,000 years down the line, Orlaag reawakened him so now he's stuck with him I guess lol

I've also toyed with the idea of Ishnifus and him forming a short-lived truce as they try to change the course of fate to work in both their favours. When things fell through, Salacia rid his hands of Ishnifus and the Church, it was again full steam ahead with project Falconback.

VATER ORLAAG:

Since he’s technically a priest, I’m guessing he took some kind of vow of celibacy.

Even if he didn’t, he’s too busy fulfilling his boss’s master plan to focus on anything else.

Then again, Rasputin (his doppelganger) apparently had this kind of sexual allure to him, drawing a number of female devotees, so who knows; I’m not gonna rule that out with Orlaag.

GENERAL CROZIER:

The hc of Crozier having a spouse in the background has some potential which I may/ may not explore…given what happens to him later down the line (also the interpretation of Crozier croaking at the end of Some Days Are For Dying).

MR. SALACIA:

The hc of Sal and Charles’s blood relation is one I’ll die on the hill of, so given that his wife is absent brings me to think that this particular romance had an abrupt and likely tragic end.

In happier times, Salacia was quite the romantic. If you want something to compare the dynamics to, I drew inspiration from the depictions of Dracula from the Castlevania Netflix series, and Coppola’s 1994 Dracula.

Nowadays, he uses all the charm and charisma he can muster, in order to lure his targets into a false sense of security, through any means - the end goal is all that matters.