Zdrada

* Idle
* Unlit Cigarette
* Smoke Cloud

"Yo. I've heard about your harem. I'm in."

**~~~Zdrada, The Bitch Demon**

**Zdrada** is the fifth demon encountered in *Helltaker.* She is referred to as "The Bitch Demon".

## Appearance

Zdrada, like most of the *Helltaker* cast, is depicted as a short demon girl with pale skin, red irises, a black arrow-tipped tail, and silvery-white hair. It's quite short and most of it covers her left eye. Poking out of her hair are two small black horns that are rounded inwards. She has black eye shadow along with piercings on her mouth, ears and nose. On her arms you can see sorts of black bracelets, one of them reaching to her fingers. In addition to her white cross necklace, which is a clear reference to her name, she also wears a black choker. Her base attire consists of a red tuckered shirt, black skinny jeans and black, knee-length heeled boots.

In "Just a Short Comic About Glasses", she temporarily wears a pair of black glasses with translucent white lenses, since she lost her contact lenses.

## Personality

Zdrada is shown to be a mean-spirited smoker and rarely cares for anything, and is very dorkish as her label implies. She dislikes solving problems, nerdy puzzles and Malina's video games. She seems to always be smoking, and she doesn't care even if it is forbidden. She is shown to be sadomasochistic as well, as she finds pleasure in watching other people, including herself, in pain and despair, and doesn't care of what she has said. Her self-afflicted sadomasochism is shown with the cross she wears. Due to it being a holy symbol, it constantly burns her skin. She also loves to irritate and pester her younger sister, and calls her "Malinka" (diminutive of her name in Polish) instead of her proper name. She is rather down-to-earth, and tells the player that they can go kill themselves if they don't want to solve the puzzles in Level 6.

## Encounter

When Helltaker first encounters Zdrada at the end of level 5, she introduces herself by talking about the player's harem and saying immediately she is joining it. The player is given two options to respond with:

1. "Wait. I have a feeling I'll regret it."
2. "It's not really a harem anymore. We just play turn based strategies."

If the player picks the first option, she tells the player she will be coming anyway and how Helltaker is free to try and stop her. A big cloud of smoke comes out of her mouth as she giggles. She joins the party and the player receives a "SUCCESS" prompt, advancing on to Level 6.

If the player picks the second option, Zdrada puts you out of your misery by killing you. The player is given a "Bad End" screen, which says "Your vision swam. The last thing you noticed was a knife buried hilt deep between your ribs."

### Life Advice

Zdrada will answer to life advice in Chapter VI.

> Zdrada: "Don't look at me for puzzle hints. I'm not a nerd. Maybe go kill yourself on some spikes. It'll be amusing."
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> Malina: "My sister's always like that. I can't believe you invited her..."
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> Zdrada: "Yeah. What were you thinking, man? Glad you invited Malina, though. She spends too much time, all alone, playing most nerdy video games I've ever seen."
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> Malina: "Can you please shut up?"
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> Zdrada: "Do you know how turned on she gets while playing them? That one time when she..."
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> Malina: "Kill one of us. Me or her. Please. Fast."
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The player is given two options to respond with:

1. \*Kill them both\*
2. \*Kill yourself\*

If the player picks the first option, Pandemonica will urge Helltaker to just leave them be. If the player picks the second option, Helltaker will follow Zdrada's advice and impale himself on some spikes despite Pandemonica trying to stop him. Doing this will also grant you the Lifetaker achievement.

## Trivia

* The name "Zdrada" directly translated from Polish means "treason" or "betrayal", fitting with her and her sister being of Slavic roots as well as the cross on her necklace.
* According to "Just a Short Comic About Glasses", Zdrada wears contact lenses.
* As shown in "Another Short Comic About Angels", the cross Zdrada wears constantly burns her, leaving a scar where it usually sits.

## Gallery

Zdrada's concept art.Zdrada's map sprite.Zdrada in one of the ending CGs.Zdrada in one of the ending CGs.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/vanripperart/status/1407042180003373056?s=19
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/vanripperart/status/1374027338854334464