Origin

Huck grew up in Mississippi. His father died driving while intoxicated, and his mother died a few years later due to cancer. He eventually trained for the FBI, where he was poached by the Department of Truth to be a tulpa hunter.

Creation

Huck first appears in The Department of Truth #26 by James Tynion IV and Alison Sampson

Major Story Arcs

Marilyn Monroe

In 1962, Huck was sent on a different kind of mission than his usual tulpa hunts. He was asked to check in on Hollywood icon, Marilyn Monroe. She has spiraled into depression and substance abuse after she sang Happy Birthday to President Kennedy. The unique way that she sang it started rumors of an affair. So many people believed it that she was plagued by dreams and memories of the incident as if it actually happened.

Huck was surprised when he arrived at her manor and recognized her as a tulpa. She admitted to seeing Babalon in the mirror and aliens in her backyard. Huck complained to Director Capra that she wasn't some monster but a person, and the rules should be different. Capra disagreed. Huck couldn't bring himself to kill her even though Marilyn knew and seemed at peace with the idea.

Ultimately, she killed herself to spare Huck the responsibility.

Elvis Pressly

In 1977, Huck was assigned to check in on Elvis Presley. Capra was worried that the Russians were getting close to him. Instead, Huck found him as a fourth type of fiction, the first of its kind. His power levels and appearance were wild and erratic. While they were getting to know each other, members of the Ministry of Lies raided Graceland.

Huck and Elvis were able to take the task force out, revealing each of the masked men looked like Elvis. One Russian asset explained that the Ministry of Lies had been spreading rumors and lies about Elvis as if he was the king of America, hoping to damage the American dream through its most popular avatar. This resulted in a blowback on Elvis which caused him to become the wildest fiction.

When Huck called Lee for answers, Lee admitted he knew the Elvis had hit the tipping point. His story was no longer his, it belonged to America, and he implored Huck to convince Elvis to come in willingly and let them take over his story for him. Huck didn't want to subject Elvis to that, so he used one of the dead Russians with Elvis' face to fake his death, allowing the real Elvis to take off and make his money as an Elvis impersonator.

Death

Between years of chain-smoking cigarettes and exposing himself to wild fictions, Huck ended up contracting cancer, which he eventually succumbed to.