#war never changes

Thought-Provoking Headcanon Meme

(Bitter and resigned.

Could it be better? Of course.

Will it be better? Not by his hands.

While there's very little info that Capcom ever put out about HUNK, they did mention his campaign of killing people in Zaire (currently called the Democratic Republic of the Congo) and they also mentioned him being possibly Eastern European.

Capcom has also mentioned in Resident Evil how many characters who are mercenaries were taken from Eastern Europe and Russia either during or after the fall of the Soviet Union. These things got discussed more with Nikolai, Mikhael, (RE3) and later Sergei (from Umbrella Chronicles) and even Carlos is from an unnamed part of South America (he purposeful has concealed that). That was all explored in RE3, but the groundwork was there in RE2 with HUNK.

I'm bringing this up because if this canon is intended to be HUNK's backstory, then his experiences have been, suffice to say, mostly harmful and cruel. I do believe he struggled to have basic access to food and water, and for him to be willing to fight in a mercenary militia in central Africa, hundreds of miles from his home? I do believe he was willing to do anything to survive. He is described killing 'soldiers in grey' most likely French and Belgians, meaning he was most likely hired by Zaire militia itself.

So then Umbrella picked him up.

I think Nikolai and him both must have had a similar realization.

Being taken to America, the heart of capitalist industry, power, Umbrella's wealth, European nobility's power (Such as Spencer and the Ashfords) and the world around him changed.

There is something I can't really explain about HUNK, about Nikolai either, that is very real and happens to people. The experience of the person from a "developing country" seeing a "developed country" and realizing how much was robbed from them.

Food, security, shelter, safety, excess, wealth, all of it was there, all of it was available.

There was no reason for them to starve. There was no reason for his home's windows to shake from the force of bombs every night, there was no reason for children to flinch every time a door slammed open, thinking that someone was breaking in, there was no reason for the world to torture him.

But they did.

Because they can.

HUNK is not, and never has been, a good person. I think he shares more with Nikolai than it seems. HUNK is just muted. Unlike Nikolai who sneers in contempt and spits at the ground of people and will mock them, I think HUNK felt those feelings collapsing inwards, instead of outwards.

The world did not change. I think, he accepts, he acknowledges, just like Nikolai, that the moment he chose to serve Umbrella, it would not change. He is making the world worse, he is now a part of the problem. And that? That's fine. He doesn't want the old life. He wants the security of this new life. He has loyalty in the sense of duty. He survives because it is his responsibility to do so. But he has no love in his heart for Umbrella. Once Umbrella collapsed, its on to the next horrible corporation with the next horrible job to give him. The world did not change, and he, especially, is not changing it.

Children from HUNK's homeland will grow up exactly the same way he did. Become the same person he did. The children from the 'developed' world will be oblivious to this. They will have the comfort of never knowing.

>//i would probably return to work on a farm or finally settle down in village where I currently stationed at.