Hellion

## Hellions

Hellion symbol.

Hellions (花輪 (はなわ) , *Hanawa*β, lit. "*wreath*") are an ancient race of monstrous, subhuman beings and the central antagonists of *amoureuse - phobos*.

## Overview

Hellions are a carnivorous, cannibalistic species whose primary diet is humans, consuming their flesh and blood. Hellions have an abnormally powerful physical constitution and potent regenerative abilities, making them immune to normal weaponry and granting them the ability to heal from any wound with ease, even regrowing their head if need be.

Practically all hellions possess a murderous instinct to kill and devour humans, and have lost most of their memories from their birth and principal education. While they do still retain their original personality, most times it becomes a darker version of what it used to be, often corrupted by their core beliefs and their past. However, there are a few hellions who have completely retained human emotions and memories, such as Enikle-Exoxilb, Asmodeus, and Yakushimaru.

Hellions are also known to mutate and grow stronger over time as they consume more humans, allowing them to grow into more monstrous forms and improve their physical and regenerative abilities among other attributes. Once hellions consume enough humans, they can develop **Sarcophagic Technique**, an array of hypernatural powers and abilities which are unique to each hellion. Different human blood types have different levels of nutrition for demons: the rarer the blood type, the greater the nutrition. The rarest blood type is known as **F-M7 33**; eating a single human with this blood type provides a demon with roughly the same nutrition as eating one thousand ordinary humans. Meanwhile, this also applicates to the hellions: the rarer the blood type, the more powerful the hellion is. The rarest blood type for hellions is casually known as **Einvald** (From Proto-Germanic "ainazwaldą", literally "supreme power, omnipotence, absolute sovereignty" in Norse), and its only known possessors are Mora, Shub-Niggurath, Enikle-Exoxilb, and late Yog-Sothoth. Meanwhile, the other blood types consist of: **Sfar** (lit. "lit"), immeasurably powerful; **Fiuuld** (lit. "guardian"), extremely powerful; **Drengdr** (lit. "warrior"), very powerful; **Mikill** (lit. "great"), powerful; and **Lhuor** (lit. "casual"), neutral. Hellions also have rankings. Those rankings consist of: **Tempestas** (lit. "storm"), Einvald's & SS-SSS+; **Valda** (lit. "power"), Sfar's & S+-SS; **Tyheth** (lit. "high"), Fiuuld's to Mikill's & B-S; and **Djöfull** (lit. "demon", also 'djofull), anything below Mikill's & F-B.

### Anatomy

Hellions have a high resistance to tumors, although it is likely that they are not entirely immune to related disorders. A potential mechanism that averts cancer is an "over-crowding" gene, p16, which prevents cell division once individual cells come into contact. The cells of most mammals, visibly including hellions, undergo contact inhibition via the gene p27 which prevents cellular reproduction at a much higher cell density than p16 does. The combination of p16 and p27 in naked mole-rat cells is a double barrier to uncontrolled cell proliferation, one of the hallmarks of cancer.

The reason hellions do not get cancer can be attributed to an "extremely high-molecular-mass hyaluronan" (**HMW**-**HA**), which is over four times larger than that in cancer-prone humans and other cancer-susceptible laboratory mammals.

Hellions can live longer than any other rodent, with lifespans in excess of 552 years; the apparent next longest-lived species is the Serdülő at "396" years. The mortality rate of the species does not increase with age, and thus does not conform to that of most mammals as frequently defined by the Gompertz-Makeham law of mortality. Hellions are highly resistant to cancer and maintain healthy vascular function longer in their lifespan than shorter-living mammals.

### Appearance

Hellions come in a variety of forms. Most are humanoid in appearance, only with slight alterations to their physiology, including but not limited to: paler skin, fangs, pointed nails, and/or a change in hair color. The changes differ from hellion to hellion, as some hellions can still retain their normal appearance while others gain distorted features like multiple heads, mouths, eyes, or limbs. There are also cases where demons possess bizarrely monstrous physiologies more akin to beasts than humans, similarly to Shub-Niggurath, who is the combination of dragons, dogs, serpents, and squids in her true form, and Yog-Sothoth, who was a titanic eyeball capable of flight. Similarly yet differently, there also is the **Fullvalda** class that mainly includes physically-changed hellions with slitted pupils, unnatural eye and hair colors, and hellion-bred features, such as Mora or Enikle-Exoxilb and Yoemon.

### Behavior

Hellions for the most part work in solitude, not bothering to group up and are, in fact, shown to be highly territorial and fight over both prey and potential hunting grounds. Nonetheless, hellions are all for the most part connected to their progenitor, Shub-Niggurath, who operates akin to a hive-mind.

### Types

**Natural Hellions:** Natural hellions are individuals, male or female, born hellion. They possesses an anatomy way more powerful than a normal human's, making her speed, velocity, endurance, stamina, and strength dramatically more powerful than a human's. As an example, there is Sasaki. Due to her being a natural hellion, she also is more powerful than a normal hellion. This was shown by her being a Tyheth-ranked hellion at the age of 2 months.

**Ersatz:** Ersatz are individuals, male or females, turned into hellions. They possesses an anatomy more powerful than a normal human's, making her speed, velocity, endurance, stamina, and strength dramatically more powerful than a human's. They are also naturally and originally weaker than natural hellions. However, they come with a faster growth rate, making them capable to become stronger than natural hellions upon eating or evolving or chronologically aging.

## Abilities

**Accelerated Growth Rate:** Hellions grow at tremendously rapid rates, dependent on the number of humans they have consumed and the amount of Shub-Niggurath's blood they have assimilated. This allows even the weakest humans to become one of the most powerful beings in existence in mere months. As a result, demons are able to reach further heights that are impossible to attain when human as long as they keep assimilating Shub's blood and consuming humans. Some hellions, however, have a limit to how much they can use to grow stronger, and they might be not compatible with a higher amount of Shub's blood and die if they don't consume enough humans. The hellions also relate over NOKORIBI to grow even stronger.

## Weaknesses

**Bölvun:** Each hellion created is also inflicted with a curse which activates if they call out divulge any information about Mora or any Einvald or Sfar bred, even something as casual as Mora's name. This was first created when Mora was first turned into a hellion by Shub-Niggurath and Yog-Sothoth. When activated, their continuous healing and regenerative abilities will cease and the cells inside the hellion will kill them by escaping their body by force. It has been shown to work automatically, such as when one hellion was immediately killed upon "accidentally" saying his name and divulging information about him to deities.