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Hunter Michael White

Name

Hunter White

Gender

Male

Status

Alive (Rookie)

Index Number

H-1923-2198

Occupation

Inventory & Filing

Previous Occupation

Student

Area of Expertise

Cryptography & Immense knowledge of historical topics

[Source]


Born with ADHD and low-functioning autism, Hunter White was once a student on the brink of failure when he was recruited by the Regents to work as a field agent for the Warehouse. He is currently tasked with digitizing the Warehouse Manual and Filing system, as well as converting the paper artifact tags to LED displays. He often jumps to conclusions on various occasions, leading to often unforeseen consequences. He can also often be seen sleeping overnight in the Filling room due to the immense workload.

Life Before Warehouse 13[]

Hunter White was born in Manassas, Virginia on February 1, 1998. In his early life, he always had a natural fascination with antiques and unusual items, often learning as much about their histories as he could, then proceeding to collect them. When he turned 16, his parents made him start taking medications for his overactive brain, which was how managed to retrain minor details about the various objects he came into contact with. When he graduated from high school, he was taken off of his medications, which caused his overactive brain to resurface.  However, as Hunter had been channeling his energy into writing short stories about his collection, his parents decided to keep him off the medicine he had been assigned.

A few weeks after his graduation, he began looking at the histories of some of the more unique items he had collected over the years, he started to notice inconsistencies in the stories of the items. He also started to notice strange patterns in that wherever the objects went, trouble followed. On June 8, 2019, following multiple pings from the Winchester, Virginia area, agents arrived in Winchester and quickly got to work tracking down the source of the pings. They soon narrowed the search down to one house on the outskirts of town.

Upon arriving at the White’s residence, the agents found that Hunter had inadvertently collected upwards of 15 artifacts, some of them quite deadly, leaving the agents to wonder how a civilian could survive among so many uncoordinated ones. Regents were soon notified of the artifact trove Hunter had built up. The agents took Hunter aside and warned him to be more careful around artifacts, but were impressed with him, as not many people can survive an encounter with a plague doctor’s cane.

Confused, Hunter asked what the agent had meant by “artifacts,” which he then got a history lesson on the basics of artifacts and the Warehouse by the agents. Initially not believing them, Hunter called them crazy, and soon the agents were on their way out. But, before the agents left, Pete Latimer handed him a card and said to call if anything strange occurred and if he started to believe them. For whatever reason, Hunter chose to pocket the card.

A few days after the agents’ visitation, on June 12, 2019, Hunter decided to clear his mind from the craziness by going antiquing, one of his favorite hobbies. Whilst perusing within the store, The Blue Peacock, for something interesting, Hunter had found an ornate antique spoon that puzzled him. It was a spoon that the owner of the antique store had gotten in a few days prior and claimed it once belonged to the singer Fats Domino, although he claimed to have heard it from the man who sold the spoon to him.

Hunter had wanted to buy the spoon for the purpose of restarting his collection, but before he could make the purchase, 2 agents from the Warehouse appeared unnoticed and asked for the spoon from the owner, which he complied with after seeing the agents' Secret Service badges, not questioning why the government would want a simple spoon. Accompanying the agents was a person Hunter didn’t recognize from their first visit. Questioning the agents about their presence, Hunter was informed that in the days after they had taken his collection, they received another ping in the same area and thought they had missed an item, which led them to the spoon.

Now realizing what the agents had told him about artifacts and the Warehouse was true, Hunter began to rethink his hobbies and began to head home. But before he could, the new person, who introduced themselves as a Regent, took Hunter to a back alley behind the store and offered him a position at the Warehouse.  Hesitantly, Hunter told the Regent he would take a few days to clear his head and think it over and went back through the store to go home. As he left the store, he had accidentally flung open the door, knocking over a bucket that was by the entrance, causing a tiny stream of water to trickle out. Just as he exited, Hunter saw the stream of water, but thought nothing of it at the time, figuring the store owner would clean it up.

Hunter soon came back to the Blue Peacock the following week, only to find it closed due to a water leakage. Recalling the stream of water and the bucket, Hunter had picked the lock and barged into the store, quickly starting to search for the bucket. Finding the artifact, Hunter pulled out the card Pete had given him and called the number. He was soon put in touch with Artie Nielsen, the Warehouse's custodian. Artie was impressed by his quick thinking and mentioned that the Regent that Hunter had met with had wanted to keep him on the Warehouse’s radar.

Hunter soon mentioned the proposal the regents had offered him a week prior, and now seeing that the world of the Warehouse was real and that there were potentially dangerous artifacts out in the world, Hunter felt an urge to pursue this opportunity. Hunter told Artie that he would accept the position on the condition that he be kept in contact with his family. Artie, against his better judgment, relented and said would contact Claudia Donovan and the regents when possible.

Hunter was eventually put in touch with Claudia herself the next day and repeated to her the compromise he had given to Artie. Claudia agreed to his conditions and soon sent regents to recover all of his files and tell his family that he had been offered a student teaching position from a private school in South Dakota and that outside visitors were allowed, but were encouraged to stay out of town for their visit. They were allowed phone calls and visits from Hunter during the summer season, however. Over the next few days, Hunter boxed up all of his possessions and shipped them to a new room at Leena's Bed & Breakfast in Univille.

Life as a Warehouse Agent[]

After settling in at Leena’s, Hunter was officially inducted as a Warehouse agent on July 6, 2019, but was at first assigned with the arduous task of organizing the Warehouse Manual and digitizing the Warehouse's old filing system and artifact tags. It took him several months of sifting through the numerous files to piece together everything he could about the Warehouse, including histories of previous warehouses, the effects of various artifacts, the backstories of most of the agents, etc.

Over his first few months at the Warehouse, he managed to strike up a friendship with the agent who he had first met during his initial encounter with the Warehouse, Pete Lattimer. Both shared a love for comics and would talk for hours about their favorite series, as well as Pete inviting him out for drinks on occasion. Hunter had also made a less-than-pleasant introduction to Felix Draco, following a mishap regarding the mis-categorization and misplacement of an artifact. Starting in March of 2020, he began to go on field missions with the help of Artie.

Skills & Abilities[]

  • Cryptography: Hunter is frequently seen tinkering with various ciphers and online puzzles, as well as researching various coding methods. He is often caught working late into the night for code cracking sessions.
  • History: Due to his being on the spectrum, Hunter retains vast amounts of the information he comes across, resulting in him becoming what Pete calls a “walking encyclopedia.”
  • Accelerated learning: Another effect of being on the spectrum is that it enables Hunter to learn many skills with relative ease, such as lockpicking and languages.

Relationships[]

  • Having first met Pete during his initial encounter with the world of the Warehouse, Hunter soon became friends with him after becoming a Warehouse agent. They are often seen hanging out in Pete’s Man-Cave for movie marathons of superhero and action films. Hunter has been trying to get Pete into modern, “hardcore” horror films, such as the Saw and Final Destination franchises, with little success.
  • Following an incident dealing with themiscategorization and misplacement of an artifact during his first month, Hunter made a less-than-admirable first impression with field agent Felix Draco. The two are still weary of each other.
  • Initially stationed within the Warehouse’s filling system, Hunter was more or less stuck with Artie for his first week at the Warehouse, however the two eventually came to realize they had similar interests, leading to Artie taking Hunter under his wing to become the Warehouse’s next custodian.

Artifact Usage[]

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Artifacts Collected[]

Trivia[]

  • Hunter is a sucker for seemingly useless historical and pop culture trivia, which has come in handy on various artifact retrieval missions.
  • Over the last few years, Hunter has been working on a book series involving a fictional alter-ego: an immortal Englishman named William Black. The choice to make William immortal has earned some questionable looks from his fellow Warehouse agents
  • He has a short attention span, making it difficult for him to keep focused on specific tasks.
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