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Hildegarde Von Musel, Egotistical Gang Leader

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Name: Hildegarde Von Musel
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Ethnicity: Connloathian
Height: 5' 4"
Weight: 110 lbs.
Occupation: Leader of "The Friends"
Residence: Zantaric
Favorite Food: Pasta Primavera
Alignment: Neutral Evil

Fanart by SDB's Little Sister!
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Fanart by Alize!
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Character Theme:
Evil Friends

Physical Description:
Hildegarde is a slender young woman with shoulder length blonde hair and brown eyes. She typically wears a very striking pink dress, and always tries her best not to get it dirty.

Personality:
Narcissistic to a fault, Hildegarde Von Musel lives off of the attention of others. She craves admiration, and this desire forms the motivation for nearly everything she does. Hildegarde also happens to be a gang leader in Zantaric, which makes her desire for everybody to admire her a bit difficult.  She's got the whole "quirky lovable criminal" shtick down though, and even most rival gangsters have some modicum of respect for her- if only for how quickly she managed to make a name for herself.

Hildegarde's success can be attributed to two things, the first of which is her magic. Her ability makes her obnoxiously powerful, and it's incredibly difficult- if not outright impossible- to fight her head on. She uses this as a crutch, and is fully aware that she's nothing without her powers.

This is where her real strength- her ability to make friends- comes into play. While she genuinely enjoys the company of others, her motivation for making friends goes deeper than a desire for companionship- Hildegarde believes that there's power in friendship. Friends are invaluable. You don't need to threaten or coerce them into helping you, because true friends will stand by each other no matter what.

On a personal level Hildegarde is friendly, if not a bit conceited. She can be surprisingly silly as well, as she has a very goofy sense of humor. She puts on a show of being "the lesser evil" compared to the other gangsters in Zantaric, but it's all an act- she doesn't truly care for anybody who isn't one of her "Friends". She actually does have a very loose sense of morality, but she'd never admit that to anybody.

Underneath the zany persona she puts on, Hildegarde is a deeply flawed person. She has anger issues, and can be sent into a white-hot rage very easily. She's very impulsive, and will often make stupid decisions without thinking them through. She's ridiculously petty as well, going to absurd lengths to get back at people for slighting her. Hildegarde is terrified of rejection, and she has frequent nightmares in which her friends all abandon her.

Relationships:
Hildegarde has been completely disowned by her parents, a fact that haunts her to this day.

Hildegarde has incredibly complicated feelings for her younger brother Eckhart. She had put him through a lot of emotional abuse when they lived together- her attempt at keeping him from outshining her. These days she recognizes that what she did was wrong- not for moral reasons mind you, but because she realizes that friendship is more effective than abuse if you want to keep a person in line. Update: They patched things up! They're a bit awkward around each other still, but that's to be expected.

Terrence Limethroat is Hildegarde's boyfriend. A lot of people think it's kinda weird she's dating a teenager, but she ignores them.

Magic/Abilities:
Hildegarde has the ability to remove oxygen around her within a range of ten feet. She herself does not need oxygen to breath. She can also transmutate oxygen into other gaseous elements (chlorine, neon, etc.) and manipulate them at a range of 30 feet.

Hildegarde also has the ability to breath freely- poisons and toxins have no affect on her. She can also survive in any atmosphere, or lack thereof.

History:
Where did Hildegarde even come from? She just kinda... showed up in Zantaric a few years ago and suddenly had people following her. Some people say she's an exiled Connlaothian noble, others say she's an Arcan criminal who'd been driven out by the Soot Wolves. Some people even think she's not human!

Whoever she is, Hildegarde managed to carve a name for herself remarkably quickly. Her organization, The Friends, grew from being a tiny street gang to controlling a sizable portion of Zantaric in little more than a year. These days her criminal enterprise has been creeping out of the city bit by bit, testing the waters for a larger empire...

Her *actual* backstory
Hildegarde was the golden child of the Von Musel family. She always behaved, always did her chores on time, and her parents favored her because of this. Her younger brother looked up to her, and tried his hardest to impress her. She treated him with indifference, which only made him try harder.

As she grew older and discovered her powers, she began using them to help others. She liked the positive attention she got from putting out fires and incapacitating criminals by de-oxygenating the air around her.  She also liked how proud it made her parents, and she was soon acting as a bodyguard for the richer Hyoitian citizens. That made her popularity skyrocket, and she got completely hooked on the admiration people had for her.

When she was 15, an icicle fell off her roof and impaled her arm. Eckhart discovered his powers by accident when he panicked and healed her through sheer dumb luck.  Initially grateful, she soon saw how their parents were praising Eckhart and grew jealous. Fearing that he may end up surpassing her in their eyes, she took it upon herself to destroy her little brother's self esteem so he wouldn't be able to use his powers effectively.  It worked, and three years of put-downs took their toll on Eckhart's mental state.  He's currently a total mess.

When Hildegarde was 18, she fell in love with a handsome young trapper. After stalking him for about a week, she made her move and cornered him in a bakery. Then something happened that Hildegarde had never experienced before- he rejected her. She couldn't make sense of it, how could he not want her? She was perfect in every way, how could this be happening? In a rage, she attempted to use her powers to suffocate the man, only to attract the attention of the local guards. Realizing that she had just destroyed her reputation, she fled, crying, back to her childhood home. To her great shock, her parents were despondent. "We didn't raise a killer" they said. Completely broken, she decided she only had one option left.  If she was a criminal now, then she was going to be the perfect criminal. She'd start a new life in Zantaric, they liked criminals there. She could still make it all work!

Right?
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Complete Threads:
The Brass Spider (last post has a flashback with her in it)
You Take My Breath Away
A Rude Awakening
I Just Want A Quiet Life... (Shows up around the end of page three)
Mirror Mirror in My Pocket (Shows up at the end of page four)
Putty In My Hands (Hildegarde reunites with Eckhart)

Current Threads:
A Simple Break-in for Minor Commercial Gain

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The Friends

Overview:
The Friends are a loosely organized gang of criminals based in Zantaric, led by the mob boss Hildegarde Von Musel. The group is vaguely hierarchical, and one's social status in the group is typically gauged by how much the older members like you.

As the name suggests, the Friends are all, well, friends. Infighting is heavily discouraged, and those who rock the boat don't last very long. It is very uncommon for members to dislike each other openly, and when they do they're encouraged to talk out their differences.

It should be noted that because of the bond the Friends share with one another, targeting even just one of them for any reason is like kicking a beehive. The Friends stand together through good times and bad, and anybody who underestimates them does so at their own peril.

Location And Headquarters:
The Friends control about five square miles of territory in the northernmost part of Zantaric. They've slowly been gaining more ground in the southeast, but the gangs to the southwest of them have been able to hold them back for the time being. Quite a few people in Zantaric see living in their territory as a blessing- The Friends are no saints, but they aren't monsters either.

Most of the Friends live in an apartment building that Hildegarde owns. Hildegarde herself lives in Room 313, which doubles as her office.

Rules And Joining:
There are no real requirements for joining the Friends- as long as you're friendly and don't do anything too terrible (i.e. murdering children), Hildegarde will usually let you in. New members are called "tag-alongs" by the older Friends.

While the Friends are typically pretty laid back and inclusive, there are a few rules. Harming children for whatever reason is an instant deal breaker, as is murder for the sake of murder- Hildegarde wishes to keep the Friend's image somewhat appealing to the masses.
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The real reason these rules are in place is because Hildegarde has lines she will not cross. She doesn't want anybody to think she's soft though, so she uses PR as a convenient excuse to force her personal moral standards onto a group of hardened criminals.
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So what do they actually do?
The Friends don't really have any concrete goals apart from making money and securing more territory. Their biggest source of income is the drug trade- The Friends have a very talented narcotics division. The Friends also charge the people who live in their territory a "protection fee". People who don't comply tend to have their lives "mysteriously" ruined.

Apart from that? Not much. The majority of them are content with their gang being a glorified social club, and those who have more ambitious motivations are encouraged to leave the Friends out of their plans- not every criminal wants to rule the world

Members:
With the exception of Hildegarde and her right hand woman, members of the Friends are divided into teams based on what they contribute to the gang. Tag-alongs do odd jobs until Hildegarde can determine what team they belong in.

It's worth noting that while there is a Assassination team, it has no leader- Hildegarde dislikes having people assassinated because it's "not flashy", and the last three leaders of the team quit in a huff after realizing they'd never actually get to do their stated job. The one assassin who has stuck around doesn't want to be team leader, and due to the lack of work she's really more of a glorified tag-along than anything.

Best Friend:
Hildegarde Von Musel
Second Best Friend:
Griselda
Narcotics Team:
Taza Faah (Team Leader)
Randal Barlow
Disposal Team:
Adelaide Carder (Mysterious team leader- most of the other Friends haven't even met her!)
Tiffany Starbrite
Infiltration Team:
Terrence Limethroat (Team Leader)
Enforcement Team:
Joan O'Reilly (Team Leader)
Interrogation Team
Kauzlarich Von Appenzeller (Team Leader)
Assassination Team:
Sarah Whitechalk
Tag-Alongs:
Ignatius Pratt
Porcelina Juárez

Disclaimer:
This is not a guild- I do not plan on letting anybody join. This post exists as an informational thing for the most part, since for a long time I had a ton of characters affiliated with the Friends but no information on the gang itself.

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