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?
Complete Threads:The Brass Spider (last post has a flashback with her in it)
You Take My Breath AwayA Rude AwakeningI 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