Gretel

Warning: Time shenanigans
This character only exists in canon after the events of HanselQuest.
Gretel is a supporting character in North Park and student at North Park Elementary. 
==Background==
During the events of HanselQuest, Hansel sets out on a mission to find his long lost sister, after hearing from Bobland that they were separated as infants in the woods. Hansel finds Gretel living within a hidden mansion belonging to a secret assassin family. Gretel is commanded to attack Hansel and his friends, however Hansel manages to convince her to switch sides and come back to North Park instead with him. She betrays and kills her old mentor and moved into North Park to join Hansel in homelessness. 
She currently is being taken care of by Hansel as she gets used to a normal life, or at least as normal a life a homeless kid in North Park can have. She has joined Hansel in sneaking into North Park Elementary to attend classes, but often gets into physical altercations with her classmates which gets her in trouble. 
==Appearance==
Gretel has similar messy brown hair to her brother Hansel, although longer and with messy bangs. She has blue eyes and visible eyelashes, and wears a small red bow in her hair. She wears a dark blue scarf over a red blazer and light grey shirt with grey gloves. She wears a tattered dark blue skirt over dark grey torn tights and dark red laced shoes. 
In her original appearance, she had much neater hair done up in a braid over her right shoulder, her skirt and tights were not torn, and she adorned a red necktie, no gloves and dark red mary jane shoes. 
==Personality==
Gretel comes across as a spoiled, rich, snobbish preppy girl who seems to hold a general dislike of everyone she meets, besides her brother Hansel. She will often talk down to people and expect them to do as she says when she asks of it, or else she resorts to physical violence. Even when she is homeless she carries this same sense of superiority over her peers. She tends to feel her emotions very strongly when they come, which she tends to make a problem for everyone around her. She is obsessively possessive and protective of her brother, often lashing out at anyone she believes is trying to take his attention away from her. 
Gretel grew up with a sheltered life, where she underwent rigorous training and conditioning that had a negative effect on her mental state. She has described herself as "evil" which is indicative of her toxic upbringing as an assassin trained to kill without remorse. Her seeming disregard for the feelings and safety of others may suggest some form of undiagnosed sociopathy. Despite being confident, self assured and physically capable, Gretel tends to struggle in most social situations, often interpreting things literally and acting on her whims instead of what is socially expected of her. She lacks many skills required to survive on the streets, so Hansel has to work twice as hard to provide food, shelter and warmth for the two of them. 
==Family==
====Hansel====
Gretel's brother Hansel is the most important person in her life, and cares for him dearly. Before she was reunited with him during HanselQuest, she had been told that he had been taken away by a bear and presumed dead. Gretel however believed that the two had a "cosmic link" and that she knew he was still alive and out there somewhere. Upon being reunited she swore that they would never be apart again. When Hansel told her to come back to North Park with him she had to choose to give up on her whole life so far, everything she had been made to be by the assassin clan, in order to be a family with her Brother again. This is why she considers Hansel to be the most important person in her life, however she is very self conscious and fearful that she may not be the most important person in Hansel's life, the one thing she wants the most. Because of this she tends to act very coldly at best and violently at worse towards anyone she fears is trying to get close to Hansel to secure her place as the most important person in his life. 
====Assassin Clan====
Gretel was adopted and raised by an old woman who was the leader of an assassin clan. They raised her to be the perfect weapon, forcing her to undergo rigorous training from as soon as she could stand. After the clan forced her to choose between them and her brother, she chose her brother and killed the leader of the assassin clan. The rest of the surviving clan's whereabouts are currently unknown. 
==Relationships==
====Cindy====
Cindy was one of the friends who came along with Hansel to help find his sister. When Gretel learned of Bobland's involvement in her and Hansel getting separated, and that Cindy was his daughter, this lead to a fight between the two that thankfully resulted in neither of them dying. After Gretel changed sides and betrayed her assassin clan to go back to North Park, she ended up coming to forgive Cindy's family for what happened, as she was grateful for being reunited with her brother in the end, and that both Cindy and her Father helped with that. Gretel now considers Cindy to be a 'bestie" and will sometimes attempt to hang out with her or come to her for advice. Cindy is nice in return, although finds Gretel to be somewhat off-putting and intense at times. However she understands everything Gretel as went through and shows her sympathy. 
====Mute====
Once Gretel started occasionally hanging out with Cindy, this naturally lead to her also spending time with Cindy's best friend, Mute. Gretel likes that Mute hardly ever talks, because to her it means she will never be interrupted by her, and that she'll never try talking to Hansel to get his attention away from his sister. Mute surprisingly, but perhaps not so surprisingly likes having Gretel around, because she sees it as another friend of hers who can commit spontaneous acts of violence on others, which Mute enjoys immensely. 
====Ashley====
Gretel doesn't understand how Ashley can regard herself as "everyone's sister", when to her she'd rather be no one else's sister than Hansel's. When she first found out she considered herself Hansel's sister, she was outraged believing that Hansel was cheating on her with Ashley. After being explained how that makes no sense and that you can have more than one sister so there is no "cheating" involved, Gretel managed to calm down slightly. 
====Dorothy McDougall====
Gretel was fairly quick to notice that Dorothy seemed to have an interest in her brother, which immediately made her suspicious. Luckily Dorothy is too shy and timid currently to directly confront her fear of Hansel, and also come to terms with her crush on him, which spares her from Gretel's wrath. Gretel would absolutely hate if Hansel fell in love with some weak, feeble little ginger girl, so it is going to be very interesting whenever Dorothy does make a move. 
==Powers and abilities==
====Assassin clan training ====
Gretel was trained from a very young age in multiple martial arts styles, underwent rigorous physical training and exercise and gained proficiency in using a variety of deadly weapons and poisons. Because of this she is now uncannily strong for her age and build. 
====Cosmic sense====
Gretel has a self proclaimed "cosmic sense" that connects her to her brother, allowing her to know if he is alive or not, and allowing her to identify him even when she doesn't physically recognise him. It is unclear how this cosmic sense works, or how legitimate its existence is.
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Category:North Park Elementary Students
Category:Female Characters