How would your Hunter have reacted to Hailey becoming a greaser?
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Tbh i feel a teensy bit uncomfortable answering this because well there is an absolutely fabulous hunter currently in existence (seriously i love him so much omfg i wish i had a soc) and it seems a lil weird to talk about the old one when there’s a new one!! And also i dont want there to be a comparison or anything because you know, they’re different versions of the character with different relationships that they’ve formed and stuff. But!! I actually have thought about this a lot and i asked Hayley and she’s okay with it so i’ll answer but yes just pretend this is a different character who no longer exists okay?
(Sry that was rambly basically i just wanna stress that hayley’s hunter is amazing and my old hunter and hayley’s are different :) and hers is pretty much 5000 times better than mine xx)
also disclaimer this bit is just as rambly and really really long i am sorry there’s a tl;dr down the bottom
Honestly? He’d react violently. Very violently. Like, be consumed by hatred for the greasers. Not hatred for her, not even close, but…
I’m not sure he could ever forgive her for it. I mean, he could have (and did, sort of) forgiven her for taking over the socs, and he could have forgiven her for switching sides, eventually. But… Both of them together? And the way she did it? No.
I mean, i’m not saying what she did was wrong, but to him… She took away from him the one thing he really cared about just because she wanted power (to him!!), she played with it for a while, then she threw it into the trash and walked away to everything he hates most, without so much as an apology… And then to add insult to injury she didn’t hand the position back to him, she gave it to some girl with no experience and no passion for it.
Im not attacking haileys actions btw!! I think she was right to do what she did and its so sweet, but in his mind she did step on everything he cared about.
Idk man, he was very big on loyalty, and… She didnt just betray him, from his point of view, she betrayed every soc and everything that mattered. All for - not just a greaser and not just his enemy, but someone who hadnt loved her and been loved by her half as long as him. Not in the same way, but he’s only been in love once before (Bee), and he only realised that once she was gone, so he doesnt really get it, you know?
So yeah like maybe he couldve and wouldve forgiven her if she had already stepped down as leader when she moved, but. Also the thing is that he did tell her numerous times before she changed sides that hed never trust her again or fully forgive (neither true, just both how he was feeling at the time). But. He had a selective and biased memory, okay.
So yes. Hed feel betrayed. Very angry. And deep down, very very hurt. He did love her, a lot.
And, that anger would just kick-start his hatred for the greasers again, and without Holly or Kitty there to temper it, it would just grow. He’d become as filled with rage as he was after his father’s death -‘cause like, it kind of parallels that. They’re both heavy losses of people he loved that (to him anyway) the greasers caused. And at this stage, the healthy thing for him to do is just to leave tulsa and never come back but i think this time, his hatred of the greasers would consume him and he wouldnt be able to leave. Like… How he was when he got hurt was that he didnt have any purpose without being leader of the socs, and he wanted to leave. Or die. But his hatred of them would give him a purpose again.
SO!! I honestly dont think he would bother working up the soc ladder like he did the last time. Being called leader wouldnt matter to him this time because he’d have decided he didnt give a fuck about the title. He’d just act like a leader again. I mean, he’d still be charming as fuck, and very popular (idk in my head he had to be popular before he became leader, and so he was popular after too) and he’d just. He’d just throw himself intoit and beat up greasers and round up other people to do the same, he’d have given orders. Okay, actually, he’d care about the title a little - i mean, to him he was rightful leader and hailey was a traitor, so what right did she have to appoint the new leader? He just would have called himself leader maybe?
So yes. He’d have insulted any greaser any time he could, call them trash and joke about their smell and all that petty shit, beat them up if they provoked him and just generally assert dominance, kinda wild-animal-like, all the while being incredibly charming to the socs. He’d be the same amount of charming to his friends, too, but he would also shut them out. Idk. (I feel like rose would be the only person to get it, but he wouldn’t want her to… And he’d be angry at her for still being friends with hailey, but he wouldn’t say so because that would break his personal don’t-mention-hailey rule)
Yeah, he’d go on a very very self destructive path to get his revenge and fuck up the greasers. And without Holly, he’d probably fall back into drugs, too… though he would try his best not to because he would never want for her to come back and be let down by him again.
He’d hate the rest of the greasers, cain most of all, and he’d happily punch any of them, except for Hailey. I dont think he could ever bring himself to physically hurt hailey, even in a rumble. He’d just… Avoid her existence, ignore anyone who asked about her and pretended like he didnt care. Even though she’d be, in his mind, to blame, he’d still love her. Crying. K bye.
(tl;dr: he’d be really fucking angry and lash out the greasers and basically just act like leader regardless of what jasmine did and he’d feel very very betrayed and wouldn’t be able to forgive her but also wouldn’t be able to hate her)
I need to go study now i will reply to the other hunter messages and also to my chats and paras when i get back!!
