Leonard “Leo” Hakett (Hobgoblin)

Weight: 140

Apparent Age: 75

Archetype: Mercenary Adept: Circle Unknown

Preferred Weapon: Sabre

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 Bio: Mr. Hakett known simply as the Hobgoblin is the younger brother of the infamous War Machine and these brothers do share more than just a last name in common, the Hakett brothers are both extremely brutal and unforgiving. The Hobgoblin unlike his brother prefers to be far more hands on with his work then his brother, though they both relish in the agony of others and enjoy hearing the screams and pleas of their victims as they take their last dying breath. Do to the closeness in their age the Hakett brothers, are very tight and can almost be considered two peas in a pod, during their youth the brothers where consistently getting into trouble and could almost have been diagnosed as sociopath’s do to their violent nature and lack of any remorse for their actions. So it is really a surprise that Leonard ended up being accepted within the military with his long and troubled Juvenal record, where Martin continued on with his criminal enterprise and would eventually partner up with his good friend Alexander and Tudor; Leonard on the other hand would go onto become one of the United States most trusted Generals within the Army, raise a family and become a pillar of his community. This was just a cover for the darkness that lurked deep within the Hobgoblins soul and while he played make believe with his wife and children, he was secretly working as a deep cover assassin for the government and serving within the fabled Presidents Men.

       The Hakett brothers would find themselves on opposite sides of the law, though indirectly they would be both working to further each others goals and motivations. The Hobgoblin was living what would seem to be a normal life all the while he was committing cold blooded murder, destroying the enemies of the United States of America; killing anyone that would stand in the path of nation and her security. While his brother would end up becoming a terrorist and fighting on behalf of the newly formed Deaths Hand, this would cause the brothers Hakett to come face to face a number of times only to prove that blood is thicker than water thus allowing each other to escape unharmed and cause frustration for their commanders. Though this normally would be for the Hobgoblin’s commanders and not for those in the Deaths Hand, for Hobgoblin this would eventually be the beginning of his demise and eventual cause of his forced retirement from the military as his commanders would eventually come to learn of his relationship with the infamous War Machine.

      Unluckily for the Hobgoblin this also would converge about the same time as the Great Tragedy and the purging of the Presidents Men and any perceived threat to the formation of the United Abomination known as the False Flag. Thus eventually causing the retirement of General Leonard Hakett to almost be a permanent retirement, and cause the deaths of his wife and children as well as his grandchildren at the hands of the governments new strike force that was being commanded by Director Mitchell of the Central Intelligence Agency, these men where specially groomed and trained to combat these master assassins and warriors that held ideals that stood in direct defiance to the new America; with the President’s Men being the top priority of this new agency to remove.

        The Hobgoblin would go from being a full time retiree, and grandfather to being on the run for his life from the government he once served. This would force this man to use all his training, know how and resources to fend off the swarm of agents that would continue to hunt these once agents of the Old America. For the Hobgoblin the new agents that would become his tormentor, would be nothing more than a hurdle and keep his skills sharp and force him to live once again by his wits, as the younger agents would really stand no chance to his masterful skill, and decades of experience. Though he would be forced to suffer through the death of his loved ones as he would be unable to protect them from the relentless assault, and while they kept him on his toes never allowing Hakett to stay in one place very long, his relatives would be hunted to the brink of extinction; though the purging of the Hakett’s was not just caused by the purging of a former President’s Men but the combined actions of his elder brother Martin who was as well on the governments hit list thus putting the Hakett’s in a very dire situation and risk rendering their family line extinct as Martin and Leonard would end up standing alone in the world as the last of their kin.

         For the Hobgoblin their was one agent of the New America that would be his greatest pursuer and tormentor, and no matter how much preparation and planning he would employ this agent would still manage to breach his defences and cause the Hobgoblin to have to make a hasty retreat in order to survive the encounter and with reports coming in of the death of his friends and collogues at the hands of this agent, this one man that would become the governments top assassin and the eventual face of this new order. Agent John White who was hand picked by Director Mitchell and specially groomed and trained to become the destroyer of the Presidents Men, a man who was directly trained by Mitchell himself who was once part of the fabled order. Director Mitchell once served as a President’s Men and would turncoat on his own during the rise of the False Flag for the promise of continued service, fame and fortune and the privilege of commanding the new orders most dangerous and deadly servants.

        Mr. White would become the true tormentor of the Hobgoblin as he was well versed in there tactics and knew the inner workings of each and everyone of his targets, he was trained directly on the tactics of the agencies most dangerous and would employ their own personal tactics against them. The Hobgoblin would learn that the man who would be hunting him, would as well be well versed in his personal tactics thus causing the Hobgoblin to have to think on his feet and develop new tactics and improvise on the go. Slowly he would learn of the death of his friends at the hands of Mr. White and as the numbers of his former allies would decrease, the direct threat to his life would increase with each passing year. Eventually Mr. Hakett would once again be the last man standing, he would be the last of his order to be among the living, and Mr. White would have only one target left to complete his quest and prove that the New Order would stand triumphant.

       Though for Mr. White the Hobgoblin would prove to be the hardest of targets, and as well prove that you can teach an old dog new tricks. When the famous agent would eventually corner the Hobgoblin, and await his eventual surrender and acceptance of defeat. The Hobgoblin would show Mr. White that he wasn’t the one within the trap. but Mr. White himself had stepped into the rats nest and was about to suffer a defeat that he would narrowly survive, but make his value to Director Mitchell non existent. As Mr. White would raise his pistol to the back of the Hobgoblin’s head, Leo would set his plan into motion and prove without a shadow of a doubt that he was far more prepared then his peruser had planned as Hobgoblin would back kick the legs of the barstool he was sitting on and cause the stool to collapse as Mr. White would pull the trigger, sending his first round directly into the bar surface instead of the Hobgoblins head. As the Hobgoblin would fall to the floor and begin to roll out of the way, Mr. White would unleash two additional shots with his .22 pistol with the first round ricocheting of the ground and embedding itself into the wall and the second finding it’s home into the Hobgoblins lower back.

        Though what Mr. White failed to realise was that when the stool that the Hobgoblin was sitting on collapsed, and he began to roll away and eventually disappear behind the bar. He had already deployed his retaliation and send Mr. White a nearly career ending injury as the Hobgoblin pulled on the ripcord he had hidden behind the bar and unleashed the wrath of multiple strategically placed claymore mines that would catch Mr. White off guard as they would explode and send hurling buckshot into the famous agents body. The Hobgoblin would use the distraction of the explosions to escape the bar, and vanish into the cold dark night, though he was not out of the woods, and the bullet in his back would force him to seek medical attention from a local doctor that was willing to perform emergency procedures and would’t ask any questions for the right price.

        Though for Mr. White, he would be knocking on deaths door as the buckshot would tear through most of his body and cause him to almost meet his maker. The only reason he survived his injuries was do to the quick thinking of his back up and the sudden disconnection of his heart monitor. Paramedics would race onto the scene and perform life saving first aid on Mr. White as well as starting cardiopulmonary resuscitation and keeping his heart pumping until they would arrive at the hospital. With the Hobgoblin now missing and the trail cold, the government would begin to focus on saving their favoured agent and considering the Hobgoblin to have been disposed of on record, though officially he was still very much alive and very angry with the man who murdered his friends, family and collogues.

         Mr. White would have to go through multiple surgeries, and countless hours of rehabilitation as well as being given multiple pieces of cybernetic and bio organic implants to replace the many organs and appendages that where destroyed by the flying buckshot that tore through his body. After many further cosmetic surgeries to repair the scared tissue, and the implanting of a new experimental piece of memory wear that would allow the government to erase an reprogram the wounded agent, seeing that Director Mitchell no longer had any interest in Mr. White do to his failure and was more than happy to eradicate the old memories and implant new ones creating an entirely new agent that can be reprogrammed and recycled into a new division that would be needed to fight the ever growing threat of the rebelling forces and terrorists that would begin to plague the False Flag.

       Well for Mr. White this would be the end of his hunting of the Presidents Men do to their order being officially removed and his memories being lost to the new brainware that was implanted into his head. Also for Mr. White he would be out of commission for multiple years do to the injuries the Hobgoblin caused with his claymore mines. Though for Hobgoblin, he would go on to become the true terror of the False Flag and their loyal supporters; this man would use his new found freedom to seek revenge on the traitor that would narrowly bring to an end the agency he once loyally served. Though for the Hobgoblin, this task would prove to harder then he thought and Director Mitchell would continue to avoid his hunter and remain a loyal servant of the False Flag.

         Now for the Hobgoblin he would prove to become the hardest and worst enemy the False Flag would ever have, seeing they took everything from him and know he was going to return the favour and remove everything they would hold deer from them. Hunting their agents, their citizens and their politicians and removing their lives with the cold steel of his sabre, never thinking twice of the blood he would spill and never loosing any sleep over any poor soul that he sent to the pearly gates and his conscience never suffering as he sat in church on Sunday praying for his lost family, he would even have the gumption to attend the funerals of the people he killed and offer the grieving victims a cold shoulder to cry on, only knowing that in a few days he would be visiting the grieving again to send them to a reunion in the sky. Though for Hobgoblin he would never forget about Director Mitchell and Agent Jonathan White and for Hobgoblin revenge would be a dish best served cold and his hatred for those two men would simmer in the back of his mind and keep him focused throughout the years, as Director Mitchell would prove to be far more evasive then he planned and Mr. White was one of the luckiest bastards the Hobgoblin ever encountered as he always seemed to slip through his grasp or survive the injuries from the many traps he set for this bastard of an agent.

          Though this would only allow for the Hobgoblin to focus his rage into further attacks on the UCAS and send many souls to meet their makers, some innocent and many truly guilty for the Hobgoblin he could care less and as long as his sabre drank the blood of his enemy and he could witness the tears of the mourners he was content. Unlike his brother War Machine that would use true terror and brutal tactics to employ fear, Hobgoblin would use the fear of shadows, the fear of the unknown to his advantage; he would hunt his prey and bring them down when they would feel the safest. He would even strike his targets as they sat in church during a weekly worship service, as he would slice their throat from ear to ear and pull their tongue out through the opening giving them a second neck tie to wear, though no one would ever witness the murders even if they happened in front of them; many would just ignore the actions until the perceived danger was gone, though no one could directly remember the killers identity. Thus allowing the Hobgoblin to go about as business as normal.

      Now for when this man joined the Brotherhood of Mercenaries is unknown, but through some accounts and reports state that he was among the earliest of members. There are a few articles from the old “Meet the Mercenaries Magazine” that was popular during the 2020’s have accounts and references to a man known as the Hobgoblin within the pages of a few issues, but no actual interviews or directly written articles on this man. Only a few old photos (See Below for Photograph of Leo Hakett from the November 2023 edition of Meet the Mercenaries) Other then the few references and some old photos there are no actual records that state that the Hobgoblin is part of this order, though do to General Buckley’s disdain of the media and not wanting to release complete documents to the public about his people; I can only assume that the Brotherhoods Son’s of Odin divisions public records are incomplete and if you dig deeper you will find the Hobgoblin is deeply rooted within their ranking structure. Though do to his lack of compassion, his murderous tendencies and not caring if civilians die, the Hobgoblin makes for a bad public relations member and would cause multiple agencies to pull there contracts, if they knew that the Brotherhood employed not only a cold blooded murderer but the brother of Deaths Hand High Commander Martin Hakett also known as War Machine, it would be a public relations nightmare and destroy the creditability of the entire division. So I guess I have become a whistle blower by outing this information and will have to sleep with one eye open from now on, but someone needed to report this and show that the Hobgoblin does exist, and he is part of the Brotherhood, what his rank is well that is unknown, but one can assume it’s high since he was once a three star general in the United States Army and has been within there order for almost fifty years.

        Well in closing this man has rejoined his brothers that survived the purge and proving that Mr. White was far more incompetent then just failing to kill Mr. Hakett, since he also failed to kill Mr. Rummy, Mr. Dean and Mr. McKinley thus allowing for the resurrection of the Presidents Men and the training of the new agents to replace those that fell during the purge creating a serious national threat, and allowing for these men to unify and re-establish themselves as the top of the food chain. The Presidents Men are once again in action and with the fate of this nation being up for grabs come November 2074, when Old America competes against the New America the last thing we need is the official/unofficial return of these sanctioned killers that obviously serve an extinct notion and are fighting to restore a relic from the past, one that wants us to go backwards instead of moving towards further diversity, and progress; move away from the freedoms bestowed upon us by the UCAS and into a system that wants us to live in fear not in harmony. One that condones the killing of civilians, war within our streets and towns and one that wants us to serve an archaic ideal that has no place in today’s world. The Presidents Men are an antique order from an antiqued past that are no longer needed, these men where removed and replaced for very good reason back in the 2020’s and before proving that the new UCAS ha no need for such killers that are loyal to an ideal and not to those that are placed legally in office by the people. Come November the peoples voice will be heard and Johnson will remain within the oval office telling Kingsbury and his dinosaurs that they have no place within the UCAS and within the government anymore, the people will stand for diversity, progress and peace for all not the old terror regimen and the antiquated War Hawks that linger like a parasite within the Federal District, their time has come and gone and their antiquated values will be nothing more then bad memory as the New America stands united against these dinosaurs.

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 <<Image taken from “Meet the Mercenaries”  November 2023 edition. Image of General Leonard “Leo” Hakett aka the “Hobgoblin” wearing his Army uniform in an undisclosed location.>>