HenchStick

HenchStick is the slash ship between Henchman and Stickler from the Cuphead fandom.

Season 1
In "Sweater Off Dead" (S1E8), the Devil hosts a party celebrating the capture of many souls, and Stickler holds the party back while others celebrate, much to the annoyance of the Devil and Henchman. He insists that the Devil cannot rest because Cuphead's soul has not yet been captured. When the Devil leaves, Henchman condemns Stickler for his behavior, to which Stickler condescendingly refuses to apologize for doing his job.

While they're not seen interacting that much on-screen and judging by his reaction upon seeing Stickler coming in, where he says "not this guy," it can be assumed that Henchman does not have a positive view of The Devil's auditor. He expresses annoyance with him as he keeps pestering the Devil about how he hasn't collected Cuphead's soul yet, even frantically motions for him not to bring it up, and gets angry at him for ruining the latter's party, only to be met with Stickler reacting defensively and refusing to apologize for doing his job. Despite this, his annoyance towards him doesn't stop him from giving Stickler the invisible sweater so that the Devil can't kill him, indicating that he does seem to actually show some concern for him.

Season 2
Henchman is shaping up to be the perfect opposite of Stickler: personality-wise, Henchman is a tad dopey but emotionally intelligent and caring towards his boss, where Stickler is a highly intelligent auditor with a brain like a machine but relentlessly takes his own boss to task over bureaucracy despite the very real dangers of doing so. They also have opposite relationships with the Devil - Henchman is the closest thing the Devil has to a friend, whereas Stickler is completely and totally despised by Old Scratch. This culminates in an attempt by the Devil to flat out try to kill Stickler, only thwarted by the impenetrable, invisible sweater. Furthermore, Sticker either cannot or refuses to pick up on the Devil's mood swings. Henchman, however, is likely the only person in the setting who can safely counter his boss' volatile behavior and calm him down.

Season 3
The two demons, though not interacting much with one another, appear alongside one another in "Roadkill" (S3E4). Stickler interrupts the Devil during his snacking on doughnuts and informs him that he hasn't collected a single soul for a while. Unconcerned about it, the Devil goes to sit down on his throne, but gets suddenly launched off of it by the Bubbles of Failure, which seize everything that the Devil holds dear, including his pitchfork, throne, bed, paintings, coffee mug, elevator, and even Henchman. He has one day to get any soul to fulfill the requirements to get his possessions back or they will be seized forever. At the end of the episode, the Devil returns with Telephone's soul, having failed once again to capture Cuphead, and all of his items come out from the bubbles. The Devil asks if Henchman has brought more donuts, to which Henchman replies that he was in the bubble. The Devil grabs his pitchfork and sits back on his throne and demands that his two lackeys leave. As soon as Stickler and Henchman leave him be, he pulls out the ball of yarn he stole from Elder Kettle's house, and plays with it again.

Henchman and Stickler, along with a couple of the Imps, are summoned to an emergency meeting by the Devil in "A Very Devil Christmas" (S3E6), concerning their boss' intentions of getting on Santa Claus' Nice List (primarily in order to get a toy train). This catches everyone in the room off-guard to the point where, despite the complete lack of fear or respect towards the Devil, even Stickler doesn't want to explain to him why he isn't on the list, pinning the question on Henchman. This prompts the Devil to go to the North Pole, which eventually leads up to a quest to deliver presents to everyone who is on the Nice List, along with Henchman.

The two demon lackeys appear again in "The Devil and Ms. Chalice" (S3E11). While Chalice is in the Underworld, she tries to distract the Devil from the favour she owes him (to betray Cuphead and Mugman) through tap-dancing and singing. After weeks, Chalice's plan is stopped by Stickler due to it not following the rules and he points out that she's obviously trying to distract him. Realising this, the Devil reminds her about if they haven't made a deal, he shows her of what her condition would be like before he casts a spell on her that gradually causes her to break down into her skeleton and collapsing. The Devil then revives the young chalice back to life and ushers her to the elevator. Throughout all of this, Henchman and Stickler have opposite reactions, with the purple demon quickly pointing out how "unnecessarily graphic" it is and being visibly ill at ease, and the green demon barely batting an eye. After a series of circumstances with Chalice choosing not to betray her friends and challenging the Devil to a dance-off in order to have her life back, the Devil, using his picthfork, creates an ginormous arena in the middle of the city. Henchman and Stickler are teleported next to each other, along with all the citizens of Inkwell Isles to witness the event, unquestionably rooting for the Devil. In the end, when the three cups are free from the Devil's depts, Henchman comes in to comfort him, though Stickler is nowhere to be seen. A month after the dance-off, it can be assumed that they both work on the Devil's newly-opened casino, along with the rest of their co-workers.

Fanon
HenchStick is somewhat of a rarepair within the Cuphead fandom as there's no real reasoning behind it other than that they both work for the Devil. Much like DevilDice, the ship's portrayals tend to ignore the canonical portrayal of the characters' interactions. In this case Stickler as someone who doesn't care about anyone in the Underworld and Henchman hating Stickler's guts and pestering towards their boss, the Devil. Sometimes, the ship is portrayed in a similar way to Lumity, with Henchman being in the role of Luz and Stickler being in the role of Amity.

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Trivia

 * In the original script for "Down & Out", it's implied that Henchman really doesn't mind Stickler getting killed by a giant worm. In fact, he believes the day could get worse if he survives.
 * Henchman and Stickler seem to be opposites when it comes to emoting, as Henchman is, for the most part, cheerful and expressive, while Stickler is stoic and hardly shows any emotion.