HughieLight

HughieLight is the het ship between Hughie Campbell and Annie January from the The Boys fandom.

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In "The Name of the Game", Hughie and Annie meet for the first time on a park bench. Annie had just gotten off the phone with her mom and she was upset. When Hughie asks her what's wrong, she vents about what happened without saying what exactly happened or who did it to her (i.e. The Deep "assaulting" her), and that she feels horrified and ashamed. Hughie then tells her about how he and Robin (i.e. his dead girlfriend) would go ice skating and how, when he would just hold on to the railing, she would charge ahead and fall down over and over again, but would say just because you fall down doesn't mean you have to stay down. Hughie then then tells Annie she doesn't have to stay down either and this inspires Annie to stay with The Seven and confront The Deep. Hughie is also inspired to work with Billy Butcher from this meeting.

In "Get Some", Hughie meets Annie again while he is trying to steal a sample of Compound V from A-Train during the latter's big race. This time around, Annie is in her Starlight costume (the second one) and realizes who she is. Hughie then offers to buy her some nachos so Frenchie (one of Butcher's friends) can more, which she accepts. When they start eating Annie tells Hughie a little about the trouble Vought (i.e. the supe company) has been putting her though; then Hughie turns off his comms to speak to her without the others listening. He then tells her that she can quit her job if she hates it. Then Annie leaves, but not before she gives Hughie her number.

In "The Female of the Species", Hughie almost cancels his date with Annie after his encounter with The Female, but Butcher has him go to bug her phone despite Hughie's insistence that Annie is a good person. On the date, Hughie and Annie go bowling and talk about their first kisses. Later, they talk about Annie's up coming appearance at Believe Expo (which Hughie jokes about) and then Hughie points out that she is doing badly for someone who has bowled for years and has super powers, so she bowls a strike with her strength. She then tells him about how when she beat up a bully for a guy she liked and the guy never spoke to her again, but Hughie say he likes the real her and thinks her strength is cool. After a moment of joking about ketchup however, Hughie hallucinates Robin and that gets him to bug her phone when she goes to the bathroom.

In "Good for the Soul", Hughie goes with Starlight to Believe Expo, although the rest of The Boys come to. They talk for a bit and Hughie meets Annie's mom before she in pulled away and Butcher tells Hughie to get Annie to him in to see Ezekiel (for blackmail), which Hughie does, albeit reluctantly. Later, when Annie has her emotional breakdown on stage and gives brutal speech, Hughie is the only one who claps. Hughie then finds her off stage and tells her that the speech was amazing, but then Annie goes off on him for using her to see Ezekiel. However, as she is yelling at him, he finally tells her that his girlfriend died not that long before he met her and that her speech is the only thing that has made sense to him since she died. Then they tell each other their sorry and hug.

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HughieLight is a very well liked ship with within The Boys, being one of the few relationships fans are actively rooting for. The real rival for it is Butchie (aka Butcher/Hughie), and even then it's hard to tell how popular the latter even is. Likely owe to the fact that both the comic and the tv show are hard R and very bleak, there aren't many fanfics involving any given paring. HughieLight has, however, been a hit for a majority of the audience base on reviews and reactions, with their relationship seem as a high point for both characters. The ship sailed in the show when they exchanged numbers after eating together.

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 * Both Hughie and Annie/Starlight were created by Garth Ennis.