My hunter from Freedom 1, Duke. He's named after Dukemon from Digimon since I ended up choosing lance as my prefered weapon.
Then after Freedom Unite, Gunlance beacame another favorite...

It's because of him that I also adopted that alias online for various years. "Duke" it's a male name and seeing it was basically all men on the MH server, I pretended to be just another guy. I didn't want to drawn unwanted attention for being a woman.

I consider Duke a MH OC nowdays.

Duke and his palico, Crystal.

TRANSLATION: "A Gravios flew right over me and blasted my cat with its laser beam"

Monsters Inc. reference.