Hel

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**Hel** is a character in *Ghostrunner*. She is the second boss in the game, as well as the playable character in the *Ghostrunner: Project HEL* DLC.

## Appearance:

Hel is considered a variant of the Ghostrunners, though her appearance would say otherwise. In comparison to the Ghostrunners, whose design was sleek and ninja-like, Hel is the opposite. Her body appears mutilated, her arms and legs being replaced with cybernetics, her eyes lack pupils, the whites of her eyes coloured a bright red. Her skin appears pale, with a red X mark on her forehead. She has black hair, which is tied back in a ponytail.

## Events of Ghostrunner/Ghostrunner: Project HEL:

After the initial 100 Ghostrunners were taken offline following Mara's takeover of Dharma City, Mara initialized the creation of Hel. She altered the original design, removing many human attributes found in the Ghostrunners and focusing on combat skills. The final product was a specially tailored variant and an unstoppable killing machine. Jack pursues Hel after Zoe claimed to notice some interference from the security monitors. Jack chases her throughout Dharma City, eventually boarding a train to catch up to her, starting her boss fight. After a lengthy battle, Jack proves to be the superior fighter and beheads Hel, taking the data stored in her head and learning the Surge technique afterwards.

During the events of Ghostrunner: Project HEL, the origin of Hel was revealed. Hel was awoken by Mara and subjected to the Hanson-Hamada Motor Cognitive test, answering questions while dealing with prisoners who were part of the Climber's Rebellion. She gained access Motor Overdrive ability to change directions in midair and was granted the Rage Meter during the test which in turn unlocks her Surge Technique and Deflector Shield ability. While undergoing this test Hel picked up on the conversations between Mara, Commander Sasamori, and Commander Adrian Bakunin in regards to the mission currently assigned to them with ever growing frustration from her with Bakunin and his refusal to follow Mara's orders. Hel was successfully able to complete the test but at the risk of her becoming more unstable. Mara gave Hel the mission to capture Commander Adrian Bakunin at Upper Ratna Plaza alive.

After descending down to the next level of Dharma Tower, Hel begins her mission to capture Bakunin alive and twhile adhearing to Mara's orders on minimizing casualities of her own men in Bakunin's squad. She overhears the conversation between him and Mara arguing over that innocent lives will be lost if she moves forward with the plan on attacking the base. Bakunin's words fall on deaf ears though and Mara tells him and his Fenrir Squad troops to start boarding to being the assault on the base. However Bakunin decides to fully betray Mara and makes an announcement that states, "A line is being crossed today that should not be crossed. One that the Keymaster herself has been inching towards for years now." Bakunin gave his squad leaders and their men a choice to either leave or stay and join the rebels to bring down the Keymaster and that they will be boarding at Ratna Plaza. After the announcement some of the Keys were freaking out as they saw Hel approach saying they were under attack. During one of Bakunin's conversations over radio with his sergeant, Hel did hear that he that Mara might've sent someone to deal with them. Mara did check in for brief period with Hel track her progress and seeing if she has adhered to her minimizing casualities order. One of the Keys then reported to Bakunin that Hel was just spotted, she doesn't look like of their soldiers, and they've engage her in combat. Bakunin gave the order for his squad to retreat as he knew who Mara sent to deal with them. A Key Lieutenant part of his squad inquired who Hel was, and Bakunin stated "A secret weapon.", The Lieutenant then asked was it the Climbers wondering if it was a Ghostrunner, but Bakunin says it was theirs and no longer a Ghostrunner. According to Bakunin Mara scrapped the original design and removed all that was human from Hel to make a shell of her predecessor and a literal killing machine. Afterwards Hel makes it to the elevator to descend to Upper Ratna Plaza and deal with Adiran Bakunin.

Once there Hel finds Adrian Bakunin with his men, with her stating that he needs to lay down his weapons and surrender. However he refuses to do so and draws his weapons ready to fight. During the battle Adrian states that he doesn't want fight her but Hel responds with, "Roll over and die then." After awhile Bakunin then summons his Squad to help deal with Hel, but they're unable to stop her. She uses the the Surge Technique consecutively to make Bakunin fall to the ground and with him stating "You never shouldhave existed.", and she in turn responds with "I never asked to." Bakunin then goes on to say "Bloodshed ends here.", with Hel charging at him and Bakunin drawing his blade for one final defense. Hel overpowers Bakunin severing his right arm clean from his body effectively disarming him and ending the fight. Hel was still adhering to Mara's orders on capturing him alive, asking Bakunin if he was ready to obey, but he refused to do with innocent live still on the line. When Bakunin tried to reach out to his blade with his left hand, Hel decided to put her own blade into his back rendering him unconscious while saying she won't back down either. Hel then goes to contact Mara that Bakunin has been apprehended and is awaiting extraction at Upper Ratna Plaza while taking his blade as her own. Mara while a little concern tells her to keep going and head to sector four to deal with the rebels before the consolidate their forces with the Keys that have betrayed Mara.

## Personality:

Hel's personality would be considered unstable due to her lack of a biological brain which means she can't filter emotions and must be kept in check. Each Hel Unit must ask permission to use more functions such as Experimental Drivers, use Lethal Force, etc. as part of this check. There are varying differences in the main game and DLC characters as there were 2 units.

The Hel Unit in Ghostrunner is a bit more stable following Mara's orders with little to no trouble. She seems to follow orders to exact specification. She only became unstable after losing the fight and her weapon to Jack.

In Ghostrunner: Project HEL, the Hel unit's personality started out fairly obedient following Mara's orders, but with a risk of becoming unstable. Overtime her personality became more unstable and with the lack of a biological brain and Hel started to develop a will of her own. Starting with Adrian Bakunin's capture it showed that Hel was willing to use excessive force to complete her objective regardless of orders even asking Mara to undo the limiters on her experimental functions to deal with him. Another sign of Hel of becoming unstable was killing a Climber after he told them that Jack was the leader of the rebellion. Next sign of unstability was her not reporting about Jack as the Ghostrunner and leaving him there. Then Hel went on state that as long as she kills Mara enemies she can do what she wants. Hel became fully unstable after the fight with Diego and decided to go after Mara.

## Powers and Abilities:

Hel is the result of Project HEL, a project spearheaded by Mara after her takeover of Dharma City. Many of her abilities were based off the original design of the Ghostrunners, though it's unclear whether or not she shares the same abilities.

**Biomechanical Physiology**: A Biomechanical cyber warrior, like the Ghostrunners, Hel's abilities are vastly superior to that of a normal human.

* **Enhanced Physiology**: Hel's capabilities are inhuman thanks to her biomechanical body.

**Abilities:**

* **Swordsmanship:** Like the Ghostrunners, Hel is incredibly skilled using a sword, though her skill differs from Jack as she is able to swing in tougher directions/angles when fighting because her design is significantly different.
* **Parkour:** She is significantly adept at parkour during her chase sequence in Ghostrunner, and thanks to her enhanced physiology her ability is much greater than that of a normal human.

**Techniques:**

* **Surge:** A ranged attack where Hel releases a slash of energy towards her target, she can access this ability faster than Jack.

## Weaknesses:

* **Techniques:** Hel lacks the ability to use any other techniques other than Surge - although she is able to access it faster.
* **Lack of Brain:** The Hel model was created a variant of a Ghostrunner, but without a biological brain. Due to this, emotions aren’t able to be filtered and it frequently must be kept in check.
* **Limiters:** Unlike Ghostrunners**,** Limiters were built into the designs of Hel, as to keep them under Mara's control. Though they can be overridden depending on the threat assessment of their opponent.

While still considered a Ghostrunner despite the alterations of the original design, The Architect considers Hel a 'cheap knockoff' in comparison to the original line of Ghostrunners.

## Trivia:

* She is voiced by Eileen Anglin.
* She can be seen across various Dharma City levels.

## Citations

1. ↑ only named in the subtitles, achievements, and game credits
2. ↑ IMDB