Hela Kvichsky

> *"Death isn't kind. It's dark and black and as far as you, as far as you can see, you're all alone, there's no one else."*
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## Hela Kvichsky

* Lessers
* “True” Form
* “True” Form with Death Armor
* While wearing Surtr’s Crown

### Aliases

* Hel
* Lady Hell
* Lady Hela
* Odin's Executioner
* Grave Guardian
* Entombed Goddess
* Walker-between-Worlds
* Evil Demoness
* Daughter of Odin
* Brunhilde

### Titles

* The Merciless
* Mistress of the Darkness
* Mistress of Death
* Queen of Helheim
* Matron of the Dead
* Goddess of the Dead
* Goddess of Death

## Personal Status

### Relatives

* Odin (Father)
* Hel (Twin sister; deceased)
* Thor Megingyoruzu, Loki Laevatein (Brothers)
* Iduna Arfonia (Sister-in-law)
* Nidhoggr (Pet dragon)
* Garmr (Pet wolf)

### Likes

* Apples
* Black tea
* Black roses
* Anything with apples
* Rotting/desiccated food/drink

## Professional Status

### Occupation(s)

Goddess of Death
Ruler of Helheim

**Hela Kvichsky** is the Goddess of Death, Failure, Famine, Hunger, Despair, Greed, Cruelty, and Harshness.

## Appearance

Hel is said to appear as a fearsome girl whose appearance could scare the lookers off. She seems to have the eyes of the deceased; cold, horrid, and terrifying, giving her the appearance of some walking corpse. For this horrid visage she is outcast among the gods, but admired by the dead.

She has a gloomy, down-cast appearance. Her visage is frightening for mortals to view. When she reveals the upper half of her face, it inflicts fear in even the bravest of mortals.

## Personality

Initially, Hela is an enigmatic, gloomy, very withdrawn, solitary and antisocial girl who doesn't see value in having a bond with someone. Hela is intellectually gifted, yet she has problems in social behavior. It's been stated that she either never learned or never bothered to learn social skills. She even considers herself a 'gloomy outcast', often deciding to distance herself from others.

She is fascinated by a pair of conjoined dolls that she owns, wondering how they can be so calm even though they are attached. When Balder suggests that is the reason, Hela claims that that's impossible. She also claims that, in the end, everyone is alone, no matter how many bonds they may have. However, despite telling Balder to stay away from her, as time goes on, she becomes accustomed to his presence and doesn't seem to mind having him around.

She expresses her opinions freely and extremely, which can come across as mean and often rubs people the wrong way, though she claims she is just being honest. She has an unusually quick tendency to self-victimize and she refuses to believe compliments from other people. She also is very self-conscious about her body and tends to think that other people consider her ugly. She also has a tendency to scold other people for being indecent, sometimes with no good reason. Due to her paranoia, she easily assumes that boys have bad intentions if they wish to spend time alone with her.

Hela is often considered to have very dark humor, such as saying that she'll turn Balder into "one of her puppets'", only to say that she's joking later on.

Hela is a person that refuses to take command and refuses promotion unless she was mandated to do so. She is also extremely afraid of blood and the dark due to very traumatic experiences. She also strongly dislikes bathing, to the point of fear, which might also be a result of an unknown trauma. Furthermore, she gains a fear of ghosts due to her ability to interact with them.

Eventually, Hela revealed a slightly kinder and more caring side of herself. Though she remained rather pessimistic and gloomy, she was more mature and stronger. While not used to touching other people, she is later fine with hugging Balder, and willing to comfort her friend though she says she isn't good at it.

Hela's withdrawn and gloomy nature is later revealed to be the result of the death of her cousin, as she discovered when she was ten, was actually her twin sister. When her sister was alive, Hela was much happier, even wearing brighter clothes, though she was still notably shy compared to her sister. Hela and her sister quickly became inseparable, and the two would often meet up in secret, as Hel's adopted mother/aunt didn't like them meeting up with fear that Hel would return to her biological family. As a result, Hela was completely devastated by her sister's death by leukemia (brought upon by her Curse), to the point that she initially didn't want to accept she was gone and even fulfilled her promise to give her a doll she wanted for her birthday. The sheer despair of losing her sister has apparently rendered Hela null to any other trauma.

Her hobby is drawing, though she states that she doesn't enjoy creating art so much as she enjoys looking at it. Hela is also very insecure about her eyes, which is why she hides them using her hair that she had grown over. When she shows them to Balder for the second time, however, he says that they're beautiful and she doesn't need to hide them. Because of her eyes, Hela knows that death is not a blessing since when it happens, you are all alone.

Although she can be rather creepy at times, Hela is actually a really kind girl. She is also very selfless, which is evident by the fact that she willingly "sacrificed" herself to prevent any more people from falling victim to her Curse, as she couldn't stand to see anyone else die after losing her sister, showing that she really does care despite her seemingly apathetic nature. When asked by Balder how she can stand being treated like she doesn't exist, Hela states she thinks it's a better alternative than having to treat someone else like they don't exist, further showing how selfless she is.

According to her brothers, she is arguably more deceitful than her father. In all matters, Hela's demeanor is downcast and severe, she is cold and pitiless, neither benevolent nor hateful. She simply is. Her existence brought disease into the world, and she was born to a prophecy that she would bring destruction and doom to all things. However, it's not known if this was her or her twin sister Hel.

## Background

She was appointed by Odin to be the ruler of Helheim, supposedly. She cares for the ones (typically gods) that have died of age or sickness and sends "wolfish murderers," "men who seduce another's faithful wife," and oath-breakers to Nástrand where the lindworm dragon Nidhoggr dwells.

In this realm, Hela has grand mansions with extremely high walls and immense gates, a hall called Eljudner, a dish called "Hunger," a knife called "Famine," the servant Ganglati (Old Norse "lazy walker"), the serving-maid Ganglot (also "lazy walker"), the entrance threshold "Stumbling-block," the bed "Sick-bed," and the curtains "Gleaming-bale." Loki said that Hel is "rather downcast and fierce-looking."

She is also said to be the only one capable of controlling the dragon Nidhoggr. Not only is Hela the queen of Helheim but she is also the queen of greed, cruelty, and harshness.

Hela herself states that Odin didn't make her Helheim's queen, but rather, Helheim itself made her its queen.

## Powers and Abilities

As the goddess of death and Helhe and one of the children of Odin, Hela is a formidable goddess among the most powerful of the chthonic gods and the Norse gods as a whole, having great proficiency with both physical and magical powers. In fact, it is implied that Hela is arguably the most powerful of the Nordic deities given her mastery over death applies to even the gods themselves. Despite her great and terrifying power, Hela rarely if ever engages in combat as she is more interested in maintaining balance between life and death and overlooking the development of her realm. However, this does not mean that she is vulnerable as Freya herself stated that Hela is one goddess that no one should ever provoke.

* **Superhuman Speed:** Hela is capable of running and moving at superhuman speeds, achieving a peak of potentially 115 mph.
* **Superhuman Durability**: Hela's body, much like that of Thor, appears nigh-invulnerable, although her durability surpasses even her brother's, which allowed Hela to easily block spear strikes from Gungnir with her bare hands, and to even catch Mjølnir without injury. Hela was even unharmed after grabbing a handful of the Eternal Flame of Hestia, impaled through the torso with a sword and stabbed with Gungnir without her body or her clothing being damaged, and emerged completely unharmed after a fully-empowered Thor hit her with massive lightning bolts.
* **Superhuman Stamina:** Hela's body produces considerably less fatigue toxins than the bodies of human beings, or most other Gods for that matter, during physical activity. As a result, Hela possesses almost limitless physical stamina.
* **Immortality:** Hela is immortal and doesn't age beyond her prime. This is due to her being the Goddess of Death who controls life. She can rapidly age people. She can also grant immortality to other beings.
* **Regenerative Healing Factor:** Despite her body's high resistance to injury, it is possible to injure her. However, Hela's body is capable of healing itself with high levels of superhuman speed and efficiency.
* **Portal Creation**: Hela can create holes/portals to Helheim since it is her realm.
* **Death-Force Manipulation**: Hela can control the essence of death, a force in every mortal which causes things to wither, rot, weaken, and eventually die for various feats such as;
	+ **Age Manipulation**: Hela can use death force to induce death on her victims through accelerated aging.
	+ **Disease Manipulation**: Hela can use death force to cause and spread harmful disease that can kill those it touches. She automatically senses all deaths by disease, accident, or poison, and anything which occurs in graveyards.
	+ **Necromancy**: Hela can use death force to perform necromantic feats such as reviving the deceased.
	+ **Death Empowerment**: Not surprisingly, Hela can gain strength from death itself, perhaps through souls of deceased mortals.
* **Ice Manipulation**: Hela can manipulate ice and cold to some degree, though compared to that of other deities, her cryokinetic powers leaned more to its destructive and harmful aspects.
	+ **Snow Mimicry**: She is able to turn into a flurry of snow.
* **Control Over Life and Death:** As the Goddess of Death, Hela holds the power of life and death over the gods. Death for a God is somewhat different from death for a human being. In both cases, the corporeal body ceases all functions and activities, but whereas mortal spirits flee the physical form at the moment of death, the spirits of gods remain in their bodies until the death goddess draws them out and dispatches them to their afterlife. These spirits (or astral selves) remain integral for eternity and reside, apparently forever, in the other-dimensional realm, where they take on a quasi-physical existence, under Hela's control.

## Equipment

* **Death Armor**: The Death Armor is a divine armor created by the two Dwarven craftsmen Sindri and Brok which boosts her death and underworld powers while making her immune to anyone else powers under those concepts (with exception of The Grim Reaper and Tartarus themselves).
* **Nightsword**: Hela can summon her Nightsword for battle, and is a proficient swords-woman.

## Relationships

### Romances:

#### Balder Hringhorni

She tells Balder to stay away from her, but as time goes on, she becomes more used to him, because he would always try to speak to her. She tells him to be careful of her curse, indicating concern. They soon start to spend a lot of time together, walk home together, and often have lunch together. She grows to trust Balder to greater extent and confides in him about her family, acknowledging her disdain for her father and admitting Hel was her twin sister, as well as her devastation at Hel's death. Later on, Hela is also shown to smile the most often when Balder is around, adding that she sees him as a close individual to her.

### Diggvi

King Diggvi was a mortal king who fell in love with Hela.

### Family:

#### Hel (Twin Sister)

Hela and her twin sister were best friends. They met in secret and were often found together. They talked to each other a lot, told each other secrets, bathed together, dressed the same way, etc. Hela was very attached to Hel, even if Odin didn't allow Hela to see her. Hela was afraid of losing Hel when she saw the color of death on her one night, and was overprotective of her until she died. After Hel's death, Hela was angry, upset and devastated as she lost her best friend and twin sister.

#### Odin (Father)

Hela's father. Hela is described as "Odin's favorite", as she is the only child he is not disappointed in.

### Servants/Pets:

#### Nidhoggr

The lindworm dragon who was gifted to Hela by her dad, Odin, when Nidhoggr was just a little baby. Hela named him Nidhoggr, which means "one who burns with rage".

#### Ganglati

Hela's servant. Not much is known about their relationship, but it's implied that Hela gave him the name of Ganglati.

#### Ganglot

Hela's serving-maid. Not much is known about their relationship, but it's implied that Hela gave her the name of Ganglot.

#### Hræsvelgr

A frost giant, in the form of an eagle. It's implied that Hela gave him the name Hræsvelgr, which means "Corpse Swallower". Hræsvelgr has at times been known to visit Helheim where he consumes the corpses of the tormented spirits residing there while his flight brings chilling winds to Hela’s realm. Noting this, it's very possible that Hela has some form of arrangement with the giant eagle.

#### Garmr

A fierce dog who watched over the entrance to Helheim. Garmr was given to Hela by Odin when Garmr was a puppy.

## Trivia

* Her name shares the origin of the English word for "Hell", and means "hidden", "concealed".
	+ The phrase "Go to Hell" actually originated from "Go to Hel" meaning the same thing, which is "go die", since Hel was the name for both the ruler of the underworld as well as the name of the underworld.
	+ The Old Norse word for "rime" or "hoarfrost" is Héla.
* Hela suffers from a pathological fear of the dark, blood, and ghosts.
* In January 2017, the Icelandic Naming Committee ruled that parents could not name their child *Hel* on the grounds that the name would cause the child significant distress and trouble as it grows up.

## Quotes

* *"It doesn't matter how many relationships we seem to have. We're all alone."*
* *"It's sad when people die."*
* ''*I don't dislike rain. My favorite is the cold rain that falls in midwinter, just before it turns into snow."*
* *"Trust me."*
* *“Dolls are hollow, you see? Completely hollow in body and soul. That void connects them with death. But hollow things seek to fill their emptiness.”*
* *"If you pick a fight with a god of death, I can’t guarantee your soul’s safety."*
* *"You wanted revenge? You’re just making other people as miserable as you. Revenge is just the path you took to escape your suffering."*
* (About Odin) *"Odin likes me. No one else does. Maybe that's why. He likes me because no one else does."*
* *“I… I never realized. I always thought I was alone, but… I never realized I had so many people who loved me.”*
* *“No matter what you might accomplish in life, all living beings have the cold realm of the dead waiting for them. Nobody can run from death. As soon as life is granted, the hourglass's sands begin to fall away... Someday, death will swallow even you, and the memory of your deeds, your whole existence, will fade away. Knowing that...you continue. You persist. Without hesitation, you struggle against destiny. I will stay to watch you struggle... Until that moment your body goes limp and cold, I will watch, waiting.”*
* *“I am Hel. I rule over the dead. Those who are unworthy of a greater reward enter my dark realm. King Surtr, Ruler of Flame...your power is now mine.”*
* *"No, you're wrong. Odin didn't make me Hel's queen. Hel itself made me it's queen."*
* *"The prayers and wishes of the living often affect the dead. Mortals have always known that."*