Hela/Merciful Hela

Queen Hela Odinsdottir is the Asgardian Goddess of Death and a former Princess of Asgard. Originally, Hela aided Odin in subjugating the Nine Realms under the rule of Asgard, but Odin found her bloodthirst concerning and decided to banish Hela on Earth, stripping her of her powers. Landing in China, she was approached by Xu Wenwu, who offered her an alliance, but Hela refused. She found refuge in Ta Lo, where she was trained by Jiayi and obtained inner peace. She joined Wenwu in fight against Odin, who descended on Earth to claim the Ten Rings, sparing him. As she learned mercy, Hela regained her powers and united the Asgardian army with the Ten Rings, fighting against the injustices in the Nine Realms.
==Biography==
===Early Life===
Hela was the firstborn child of Odin, king of Asgard. As a child, forced to watch her pet wolf Fenris being chained, Hela was raised to become her father's personal executioner and commander of the Einherjar, Asgard's army. Together, Hela and Odin embarked on a bloody conquest, bringing all of the Nine Realms into Asgard's power. During their campaigns, Odin rode his steed, Sleipnir while Hela rode a fully grown Fenris. In battle, she wielded the mighty hammer Mjølnir and her own Necroswords.
But Hela's ambitions exceeded the realms of Yggdrasil, and she began plotting a wider and bloodier conquest of other worlds. By this time, Odin had realized that peace was ideal in maintaining order and ceased his expansionary campaigns. Hela refuses to back down from her intent, telling Odin that he made her this way. Deeming exile to the desolate wastes of Hel would not quell Hela, Odin decides to instead banish her to Earth without her strength so she can learn a vital lesson in mercy.
===Giving Peace a Chance===
Ending up in China, Hela encounters Xu Wenwu of the Ten Rings while attempting to reclaim her crown. But unable to reclaim her crown and is forced to travel with Wenwu to the Ten Rings' base, offered a place in the organization as her talents could benefit the Ten Rings' goals. Hela refused and knocked Wenwu cold before escaping, only to cross paths with Jiayi of Ta Lo and becomes her apprentice. During her training, remembering all the training she endured under her father's guidance, Hela realizes she seeks liberation from those who seek to control her.
But sometime after, Hela learns that the countryside is being terrorized by Odin, who assumed she killed by humans possessing a power that threatens the peace he established. Against Jiayi's advise, Hela equips the Dragon Scale Armor to face her father so she can finally be free to choose her own path. She aids the Ten Rings when Odin's forces attack, Odin explaining his reasons despite Hela's reluctance to believe him while stating her refusal to rejoin her father and allow him to take the Ten Rings from Wenwu. She works with Wenwu to disarm Odin of Gungnir, regaining her powers at the last second. Odin accepts his defeat, amazed that Hela exceeded his expectations while abdicating the throne of Asgard to her. Hela accepts, forging an alliance between Asgard and the Nine Rings to battle injustice across the Nine Realms while unmaking her father's empire.
Hela and her forces are last seen responding to Thanos invading Zen-Whoberi.
==Personality==
To be added
==Powers and Abilities==
===Powers===
*Asgardian Physiology: Hela is the firstborn of King Odin, possessing tremendous physical attributes of her own Asgardian nature, but which were also potentially heightened due to her years of fighting in battles alongside her father. She was appointed by Odin himself as his executioner in the battles they both fought together because of her great skills.
**Superhuman Strength: Hela has very high physical strength, both above human standards and most other conventional Asgardians. In the battles on behalf of Asgard, she was certainly the strongest opponent, surpassed only by Odin. When she arrived in Midgard, she fought Xu Wenwu's troops, who demonstrated great strength in combat, but were defeated due to the power of Xu's rings. With Odin's arrival on Earth, Hela went to confront him, helping Xu and his warriors, managing to easily battle the Asgardian army and almost on an equal footing with Odin. By becoming merciful and worthy of her crown, her power was greatly increased, possibly along with her physical strength.
**Superhuman Durability: Hela is much more resistant than human beings, being endowed with great durability. She remained almost completely intact when attacked by Xu Wenwu's troops, but still bled when struck, possibly because she lost some of her power when she was without her crown. When teaming up with Xu to face Odin, she demonstrated resistance to large physical attacks and even energy released by her father. By becoming merciful and worthy of her crown, her power was greatly increased, possibly along with her endurance.
**Superhuman Speed: Hela is able to move faster than normal. She was able to attack multiple Xu warriors at once due to her high speed, in addition to carrying out attacks on Odin at great speed.
**Superhuman Agility: To be added
**Superhuman Stamina: Hela can fight for long periods of time if she shows signs of exhaustion or physical weakness due to fatigue. She can learn combat and wind mastery techniques from Jiaya considerably quickly. In the confrontation with Odin, Hela remained with the same posture and resilience even after many efforts on the battlefield.
**Superhuman Reflexes: As traits of her speed, Hela also possesses heightened reflexes. When fighting Xu's warriors, she demonstrated that she could almost always sense when an opponent was going to attack her from behind. Due to her training with Jiaya, her reflexes were improved, as at first she was unable to master some of her mentor's attacks, a fact that changed soon after.
**Regenerative Healing Factor: Hela demonstrates that she can recover from injuries more quickly. Even though she suffered a wound to her face when attacked by a Xu warrior, she apparently recovered soon after. At the end of the battle against Odin, she appeared to have no injuries.
**Longevity: Being an Asgardian and also considered by her people as the goddess of death, Hela has a lifespan much longer than that of a human, being able to live for possibly centuries.
*Flight: Upon becoming merciful and worthy of her crown, Hela received a great amount of power, which now allowed her to fly.
*Weapon Summoning: When entering combat, Hela always summons her necroblades in the form of durable swords or spears that she manifests from her hands, but can also fire them from any part of her body.
*Armor Creation: Hela can cover her body with highly resistant armor by running her hands over her body. She also wears her crown as a helmet. 
*Magic: Hela has gifts for magic, being able to manipulate it in her form of Asgardian magic. Upon earning her crown for her act of mercy with Odin, Hela received a wide range of Asgardian magic that transformed her robes into white armor, also allowing her to contain and redirect Odin's energy attack towards himself.
*Great Protector Empowerment: Upon being welcomed into Ta Lo, Hela was trained by Jiaya and managed to master new combat techniques through concentration and practice in balancing her breathing, receiving empowerment from the Great Protector.
**Air Manipulation: As the main result of her training with Jiaya, Hela mastered the ability to manipulate air, managing to create blows of wind that were strong enough to throw several Asgardian warriors into the air and even push Odin away.
***Aero-Telekinesis: Through her control over the air, Hela was able to manipulate the movement of materials around her. She began developing this ability when she repelled several carpets being thrown at her by Jiaya until moving flower petals during her training. In the battle against Odin, she used several pieces of flaming broken blades to move them through the air and throw them at Odin as an attack.
***Air Blasts: As her main form of attack through her control over the air, Hela concentrated and directed strong blasts of air. She demonstrated this ability when she attacked several Asgardian soldiers with a strong gust of wind combined with a blast of energy from Xu and, shortly afterwards, she was able to repel other attacks from them and push Odin away with a blow of air.
===Abilities===
*Master Combatant: To be added
*Sword Mastery: To be added
*Hammer Mastery: To be added
*Spear Mastery: To be added
*Multilingualism: Hela can speak English and Mandarin Chinese and can understand Dijiang.
==Equipment==
===Weapons===
*Mjølnir: Hela used Mjølnir during her and Odin's conquest of the Nine Realms. The weapon was lost to her when Odin crushed it in his hand.
*Necroswords: Hela was able to use her Crown to manifest these bladed weapons from her body. She typically used the swords as throwing weapons, but also employed them in melee combat.
*Dragon Scale Spear: To be added
*Dragon Scale Shield: To be added
*Gungnir: To be added
===Other Equipment===
*Crown: Hela wore this crown prior to banishment in Earth, later regaining it upon being deemed worthy to use it. Hela used the crown as a means for defense and as a weapon to parry attacks and slash opponents, while also creating her Necroswords.
*Dragon Scale Armor: To be added
==Facilities==
To be added
==Relationships==
===Family===
*Asgardian Royal Family
**Buri † - Great-Grandfather
**Bor † - Grandfather
**Odin - Father
===Allies===
*Fenris - Pet
*Einherjar - Temporary Enemies
*Ten Rings - Former Enemies
**Xu Wenwu - Friend
*Morris - Friend
*Elder Council of Ta Lo
**Jiayi - Former Trainer and Friend
**Shunyuan
===Enemies===
*Thanos
==Behind the Scenes==
*Hela was initially intended to be included in the Party on Midgard in What If... Thor Were an Only Child? However, A.C. Bradley and Matthew Chauncey could not find a place to include her. This led Chauncey to suggest that should Cate Blanchett return, Hela deserved her own episode, leading to the development of this version of Hela.A.C. Bradley on X - December 28, 2023
*Hela was one of the heroes in the second season of What If...? which A.C. Bradley cited as being written to give her and others hope during the and rising political tensions due to the and the then-upcoming .A.C. Bradley on X - December 30, 2023
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