Smokeface

**Smoke Face** is a minor antagonist in High Guardian Spice. He works for the Triumvirate as a sort of messenger, giving Olive her orders to kill the four main girls and oversees her progress.

## Physical Appearance

Smoke Face's appearance takes on that of a smoky, purple, wisp-like entity as his name suggests. His eyes are white in appearance and take on a sinister expression. His mouth displays a wide grin being, slightly jagged in appearance. His mouth is the same white as his eyes are.

## Personality

While not much of Smoke Face is shown to ascertain a personality, it seems he is rather cruel, taking a sick delight in taunting Olive over how the Triumvirate will kill her if she fails her mission. In spite of this, however, it seems he is surprisingly lenient when it comes to these failures, for he does convince the Triumvirate to give Olive many second chances so she can complete her mission. Ultimately though, he is entirely loyal to the Triumvirate, and does not seem to have any qualms about carrying along their dark orders to their subordinates.

## Plot

After Thyme, Rosemary, Sage, and Parsley learn that they can use the healing water to cure the Rot, Olive reports to Smoke Face that the four are "...closing in on the secrets of Witch Country." After ferrying her report to the Triumvirate, Smoke Face informs her that she has now been ordered to kill them. When Olive tries to refuse, Smoke Face grows furious, reminding her that it's either them, or her.

Before she sets off, Smoke Face returns the tree Thyme cured back to it's infected state, informing Olive of his plan. She is to corner the girls at the upcoming Autumn Processional and destroy Thyme's vial of healing water. After that, she is to turn them all to stone and shatter them, returning the broken pieces back to the Triumvirate in Witch Country. To do this, he gives her a Spark Spell to imbed within her Terrasphere, giving her a single shot with which to petrify the girls. He reminds her that if she fails to do so, the Triumvirate will finish her off "...without blinking."

A few hours later, once Olive casts the spell and winds up turning *everyone* in town to stone (besides three out of the four girls, plus Amaryllis and Snapdragon), Smoke Face returns to berate her for making such an obvious mess. When Olive begs for more time to fix this, Smoke Face gives her until dawn to reverse the spell and kill the girls, otherwise he'll tell the Triumvirate of her failure. Olive once again proves to be a colossal failure, as she winds up injured by Rose and is unable to kill any of them. Smoke Face returns to tell her that he's decided to convince the Triumvirate to give her one last chance to complete her mission, but that Mandrake is going to be helping her.

A few days later, Mandrake arrives. Smoke Face informs Olive that from now on, she will be taking orders from him, and going along with his plan to murder the girls. When she tries to protest, saying she has a better plan, Smoke Face angrily tells her that it's been rejected. After threatening Olive to not make him reconsider post-poning her execution, he stresses to her and Mandrake not to draw attention to themselves, or Witch Country. After this he disappears, presumably back to the Triumvirate's lair in Witch Country.

## Traits and Abilities

* Magic Reversal (Implied, when he reverses the effect of the healing water)
* Teleportation
* Flight

## Relationships

* Olive - Fellow subordinate
* Mandrake - Fellow subordinate
* The Triumvirate - Masters
* Team HGS - Enemies