Black Queen

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## Background information

### Books

*Superquack* (indirectly mentioned)
*Superquack: Focal Point* (mentioned)
*Boys vs. Girls: The Coming Darkness
Boys vs. Girls: The Rise of the Serpent
Boys vs. Girls: The Fate of the Towers
Annie and the Blue-Eared Kid* (mentioned)
*Red Cavalier* (voice only)
*Band of Justice* (Postscript scene)
*Agents of the S.M.S.B.: Age of Innovation* (mentioned)
*Boys vs. Girls 2* (as Zira Miranda Grover's possessor)
*Morgan* (mentioned)
*Band of Justice: Omniverse* (mentioned)
*Adam Catalina and the Legend of the Black Bracelet* (voice only)
*Pink Figurehead* (voice only)
*Vault of Ages: Surface of the Elements* (unreleased)
*Vault of Ages: Fusion* (unreleased)
*Vault of Ages: Cosmic War* (unreleased)

## Character information

### Other names

**As herself:**
Hellhound
Mommy
Mother
One Above Them All
Something Far Darker
The Devil
The Great Darkness
Why of Existence
**As the Orc Devil:**
Hilary J. Black
Shitbag
The Beast
The unassessably mighty
Ugly piece of crap

### Personality

Destructive, ruthless, wrathful, megalomaniacal, tyrannical, determined, totalitarian, callous, sanctimonious, hypocritical, manipulative

### Occupation

Queen of the Realm
Recruit for Mr. Stupid NoHead (formerly)
Leader of Needed Evil

### Affiliations

Brotherhood
Arbiters of Viskaa (formerly)
Girl-Team (indirectly; formerly)
Needed Evil

### Goal

To obtain Yoke Advance and the resources of the Dark Gate in order to merge the Astral Plane with the Earthly Plane and reign supreme over all life (ongoing)
To help the Arbiters of Viskaa annihilate Viskaa
To have her henchmen destroy Earth
To access the Dark Gate and Yoke Advance to further her goals
To corrupt Summer Petersen and make her her slave (all failed but succeeded in the Fusion timeline)
To destroy the Guerrillas (succeeded in the Fusion timeline)

### Allies

Dorphane Giles, Hilary J. Black (ally/thrall)

### Henchmen

Soul Eaters, Mykew Hadeline, Laura Hu, Jamie Smith, Wraiths, Galfalor of Eris, Tehnett, Summer Petersen (potential future), Red Cavalier (potential future)

### Enemies

Steven Thompson, Josh Hogan, Helen McKeen, Summer Petersen, Sierra, Vincent Organa, Jay Organa, Annie McCallin, Savannah van Dukas, Freddy, José Camargo, Pamela, Chastity, Charity Hirz, Cherical McSnake, Adam Catalina, the Pink Figurehead, the Lumiking, members of the Halo Guardians

### Likes

Power, ruling her home plane, spirits, the Dark Gate, looking for Yoke Advance, taunting her enemies

### Dislikes

Machines, technology in general, incompetence, anyone who disregards the spirits

### Powers and abilities

Mystical Physiology
Superhuman condition
Ingenuity
Precognition
Great size (as Hilary J. Black)
Immortality

### Status/Final Fate

Prepares for her cosmic conquest by assimilating Needed Evil.

### Notable quote(s)

"Well, well, Steven Thompson. My host tells me a fully depowered humanoid is now forcibly becoming our guest? This should be a night to remember. Don't be shy. Step into my line of sight, young man."
"Do you believe your incessant flattery will keep you safe from the righteous wrath of a goddess?"
"So, Steven, we've got slashing, burning, stomping, settling for an early breakfast, you've got plenty to pick from. What sounds best to you, child?"
"Pleasant Grove! You stand on the threshold of destruction! The law will not save you now. They are the logs of your inferno!"

*"Choose not the path of fear, but of faith. For your fates, your destinies, are the works of something far greater."*
―The Black Queen[src]
The **Black Queen** is one of the overarching main antagonists of the D.I.T. Literary Universe. She is the ancient and powerful commander of the Brotherhood and the director of the Council of Devils who rules over the center of the universe with ambitious plans for the entire Multiverse including the acquisition of the unimaginable power of Yoke Advance, and the biological mother of Mykew Hadeline. Although the Confederacy abducted her, Dorphane Giles broke her out and rebelled against Viskaa, although they were ultimately forced into retreat. Having already come to take interest in Sol, she arrived on Earth and upon treading Thunder Quarters, she discovered an exotic living storm and used her cosmic power to reconstitute it into a gigantic, dark elf-like entity; a being that would come to be known as "the Orc Devil". Acting through her new avatar, the Black Queen orchestrated the School War between the Armies of Organa and the Girl-Team to further her hegemonic goals, and it is eventually discovered by Steven Thompson that the Orc Devil had also become an ally of Mr. Stupid NoHead. Thompson ultimately thwarted her daring plan, and so she tasked her exiled daughter and herald, Hadeline, to retrieve the five Naegri and force open the powerful Dark Gate. Thirteen years later, the Black Queen resurfaced, taking a more direct approach in her attempts to conquer as many alternate universes as possible and enslave existence itself. She was able to return after the destruction of the Apparatus of Spacetime and became the new ruler of Needed Evil. In a potential dark future known as the Fusion, the Black Queen was successful in conquering the Earthly Plane, using arzneillium to corrupt Summer Petersen and turn Sol into a hellish wasteland, leaving no one to stop her from launching her conquest over the entire Multiverse. Overall, the Black Queen has received widespread critical acclaim.

## Roles

The Black Queen is a foreshadowed and indirectly mentioned character in *Superquack*, the unseen overarching antagonist of *Boys vs. Girls: The Coming Darkness*, *Boys vs. Girls: The Rise of the Serpent*, and *Boys vs. Girls: The Fate of the Towers* (in her Orc Devil form), and *Annie and the Blue-Eared Kid* and *Agents of the S.M.S.B.: Age of Innovation*, and is the unseen overarching antagonist in *Band of Justice: Omniverse*, cameos in *Red Cavalier* in which her voice is heard behind a booth, *Band of Justice* in which her silhouette is fully visible, and *Boys vs. Girls 2* in which her beautiful hands ominously appear out of a portal, and is a background villainess in *Morgan* where Joey describes her full body being seen covered in leather trappings from a blurry angle, and is indirectly mentioned numerous times in *The Marauder*. In the first *Boys vs. Girls* book, only Hilary's eye is seen and described while she is sleeping in her lair, in a Postscript scene. However, she is frequently mentioned, albeit in veiled and cryptic ways, throughout the book. Her voice is also briefly heard in a mysteriously harrowing context in *Adam Catalina and the Legend of the Black Bracelet* as her silhouette becomes visible.

She becomes unprecedentedly prominent in *Band of Justice: Omniverse*, in which she is mentioned and a banner woven in her image is seen partially. In the conclusion of *Pink Figurehead*, she appears, where she and her army of Soul Eaters invade the material universe, she is mentioned to have been in contact with Vinda the Vindictive in *Superquack: Focal Point*, and she is scheduled to appear in person in the *Vault of Ages* trilogy as the overarching antagonist of all three novels.

## Biography

### Ruler of the Realm

#### Dawn of the Brotherhood

*"If this cosmic entity is as powerful as you say, we'll need to prepare for the greatest battle this universe has ever seen."*
―Sieera Mitchell[src]
Hundreds of years ago, the Black Queen became the autocratic sovereign ruler of the Realm, an area of space at the direct center of the universe, the commander of the mighty Soul Eaters, and a phenomenally powerful force. She encouraged her people to make meditating a habitual and consistent part of their lives, and chambers were built across her dominion to this end. After she came in contact and created alliances with several cosmic beings, she ended up forming the Council of Devils. She also formed an organization known as the Brotherhood and enlisted the services of Tehnett to act as her loyal servant. Her conquests spanned hundreds of years and led to the conquering of countless civilizations in order to render her reign an absolute and create a cosmos where her word is law. As she sought to expand her hegemonic operations, opposition became inevitable. For instance, her success as a dictator made her bitter enemies of the vigilant Halo Guardians. Morena Fox became a militant enemy of the Black Queen as well, and the Apparatus of Spacetime limited the Black Queen's influence to her own universe for hundreds of years. Wondering how to overcome the Apparatus of Spacetime's limitation without destroying it, she infrequently molested the Resometh, but when she learned that their lord, who had sought to use an ancient weapon to revert the universe to its previous state of total darkness, had been missing and presumed deceased for centuries, she stopped worrying about them and carried on with her plans of expansion. She also enlisted Vinda the Vindictive to do her evil will by acting as a herald to her, and she came to believe the Black Queen would reward her greatly for taking the Subspace Barrack in for questioning. However, Vinda's endeavor became a failure when the Ruby Eidolon killed her and crippled the Subspace Barrack's soul, with both entities becoming lost to the Black Queen, for better or worse. In 1939, she had a daughter named Mykew Hadeline. However, she bailed her out at an early age, almost too young for Hadeline to remember, leaving her to die.

#### The hidden enemy

*"My mother has been here before. To Sol, to Earth, to America herself. And in your country, she came upon Thunder Quarters. Thunder Quarters is a fortress. A fortress blanketed in a perpetual storm raining pure acid that had raged nonstop for many decades. She extended her divine power into the storm, living and breathing as we do now, exuding a limited degree of sentience. She conjured scales held together by the stormy mist, and in doing so transmuted it into a gargantuan entity, a great beast akin to a malevolent elf ascending to a cosmic being. You have seen it before, Jaxon."*
―Mykew Hadeline[src]
In 2004, Dorphane Giles, in response to the murder of her father Luphon, brought together the Arbiters of Viskaa with the vow of battling humankind in order to save the outside populace at large. The Black Queen was set loose when Giles came for her, declared herself as the justice Viskaa was waiting for, and compelled her to join her cause. Following the lead of Dorphane Giles, the Black Queen went with the other Arbiters to the Viskaan homeworld, where they prepared to stage a coup on the entire planet and destroy it from the inside. However, three of the Arbiters were ruthlessly killed by Viskaan soldiers, and Giles and the Black Queen narrowly escaped. Several hours later, Giles and the Black Queen were both apprehended by several members of the Viskaan military. Despite Dorphane Giles and the entirety of Viskaa believing her to have been killed, the Black Queen in fact successfully faked her death and promptly left the planet. After Giles' corpse was taken in for experimentation, the Black Queen was pronounced dead by the Viskaans.

Much later, the Black Queen made her way to Sol and set foot on Earth, arriving in the United States of America and coming upon Thunder Quarters, a fortress which was blanketed in a perpetual storm which was essentially a living, semi-sentient organism. Using her abilities, the Black Queen formed a psychic connection to the storm, morphing it into a form that satisfied her, conjuring scales held together by the stormy mist, and in doing so transforming the storm into a gargantuan entity akin to a dark elf ascended to a cosmic being, that would come to be known as the "Orc Devil". With the Orc Devil at her side, she subjugated the man of the house, who was William Watson, and permitted him to tell his young son and daughter of the Orc Devil's existence.

Eventually, the Black Queen forged an alliance with the ambitious young woman Emily Watson, though she was forced to place her father under mind control in order to do this, and she decided it was not the time to reveal who the Orc Devil really was to the Watsons. Through him, the Black Queen told Emily it would be essential to destroy the Armies of Organa at all costs. Both of them agreed that threats to the star system would continue to come regardless of law enforcement. They also agreed that a number of other factors, such as the unmet desire for recycling and benevolent politicians, also needed to be tackled.

Together they began to devise a complex plan to protect Sol from all domestic and extraterrestrial threats coming within the future. Watson agreed to find a way to obtain the rank of Supreme Leader of the Girl-Team, so she could lead them to victory while keeping the Orc Devil's existence a secret. A short while later, Watson began her and the Black Queen's plot to destabilize the Armies of Organa by building the Boy Trap. During its construction, Steven Thompson, a peer of hers responsible for destroying the Thunder Queen, moved to Utah. Emily told William to inform the Orc Devil that she wanted something in exchange for her loyalty: the head of Steven Thompson, whom Emily considered "the bane of her existence".

The Black Queen also acquired the subservience of Romilda Harvard by infecting her mind and converting her into an obedient servant. To this end, she corrupted her with false memories that she had lived in Thunder Quarters her entire life and had served the Orc Devil the whole time. She would occasionally use her body to kidnap various residents of Utah. She also acquired the services of the League of Wretched Worms when Longfellow wanted him and his followers to colonize within Utah, deceiving the captain into joining her and vowing obedience to Emily Watson because the Black Queen, speaking through the Orc Devil, promised them enough resources to make a new life for themselves and for Longfellow to have a fresh start. After Romilda cleaned and powdered the Orc Devil's scales, she took up a large handful of powder and, empowered by the Black Queen herself, levitated it and blew it away through the roof, traveling miles until it landed amongst three towering catacombs. Longfellow immediately understood the message and helped her gather the old comrades, prepared to do his part to aid and abet Watson in what was to come.

#### War with the Armies of Organa

*"Our number grows. Through our numbers, our strength grows. Through our strength, our chance of victory grows. Helen McKeen made a wise decision. My armies will assist you in balancing the gender roles, so long as you repay me."*
―The Black Queen[src]
One year went by since Longfellow received the message and did his part to set all of the pieces in place, and Emily Watson successfully set the School War into motion. Deciding the time was right, the Black Queen summoned her for the first time and had Romilda Harvard monitor the ensuing conversation. Using the Orc Devil as a vessel, the Black Queen talked to Watson and gave her a date for the bombings, who promised to continue working with her personally. Watson demanded the promise of the head of Steven Thompson, however, and the Orc Devil obliged before watching Watson leave through a hidden elevator platform.

Things did not go according to plan, however, as during the bombings that ensued, Watson and her band of skyfighters ran into Thompson and the latter's best friend, Summer Petersen, who thwarted them. Not knowing the enigmatic Magistrate had played both of them, the Black Queen furiously chided Watson for her failure, before enlisting her to capture royal heir Eegan Grover. However, Watson failed in her objective, and Thompson went directly to the Jade Sanctum and attempted to convince the Police Grand Army of the Orc Devil's existence, without success. Sometime prior, she also met the Magistrate in person and the two hegemonic women became friendly working allies.

Subsequently, Denim Spikes became aware of "the Orc Devil's genocidal plot" and, unaware of the Black Queen's existence, tried to force her proxy's hand alongside Helen after both of them had become disenchanted. Although they were unsuccessful, it caused Summer Petersen to theorize about Hilary J. Black's nature; and thus, the nickname "Hilary J. Black" was born. Furthermore, Steven's fears concerning Mr. Stupid NoHead's plans were confirmed when a page torn from Emily's notebook revealed that the Black Queen was waiting for the Dark Lord to return.

#### Meeting Steven Thompson

*"The rumors just simply didn't avail you, buddy."
"And now… what do they indicate?!"*
―Steven Thompson and the Black Queen whilst possessing Romilda Harvard[src]
In March of 2022, Cade Hogan was brought to Hilary J. Black by Radjatowsky and a robot after Emily Watson had captured the infant and his big brother. This resulted in Steven Thompson acting upon his discovery of her existence by infiltrating her underground hideout, hoping to stall Hilary by gaining more information, long enough for his friends to arrive and assist in saving Cade. Explaining her alliance with Watson, the Black Queen said that Watson had proven to be a true friend to her. Thompson told her why he was known as the Destroyer of Thunder and the class athlete. The Black Queen proceeded to speak of a darkness that was coming to their lands and preparing for war, hinting at her usefulness to Mr. Stupid NoHead. Amused by Thompson's presence, the Black Queen ended the banter with her subordinate's nemesis and prepared to attack him. Thompson had not earned his titles for nothing and masterfully dodged his adversary while the Black Queen flew Hilary around in rage and unleashed a torrent of acid around her own lair in an attempt to roast the Supreme Commander alive before he could escape.

When the Black Queen saw the assembled Decemahead arrive behind Thompson, she realized he had been stalling and commandeered her unholy puppet to charge, summoning its acid to her summit to burn them to death. However, the children and adolescents managed to elude her, firing multiple projectiles in futile attempts to incapacitate her proxy, and the Black Queen began to silently stalk the abandoned halls in search of her hidden prey.

Upon realizing the Orc Devil was blocking their only path out of Thunder Quarters, the newly reassembled members of the Decemahead hatched a desperate plan to lead Hilary J. Black out of the building and hopefully to her death via Boy-Team bombardment waiting outside. They revealed themselves to the Black Queen, initiating a perilous game of cat-and-mouse through the halls of the fortress, doing everything in their power to encumber the pursuing Orc Devil as they raced towards the entrance to Thunder Quarters. Thompson kicked her eyelid and Arcus magnified a fire lit against her misty scales, but even together, the ten children were no match for the Black Queen's avatar. Incorrectly believing that the Armies of Organa had received assistance from the men of Pleasant Grove, the Black Queen had her avatar leave to destroy Pleasant Grove once and for all. Hogan protested, but the Black Queen claimed she would spare him in order to watch the people die. The proxy form then flew from the Black Queen's fortress, and took flight toward the unsuspecting Pleasant Grove, leaving Steven Thompson and presumably the others dumbstruck at the horror they have unleashed.

#### Attack on Pleasant Grove

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*"Who are you, that would stand against the likes of us?"*
―The Black Queen whilst possessing Romilda Harvard[src]
Upon her avatar reaching Pleasant Grove, the Black Queen proceeded to puppeteer Hilary J. Black to destroy the city for their part in aiding the Armies of Organa, wrecking buildings and burning everyone in her proxy form's path. Once this was happening, Romilda Harvard materialized into the heart of the blazing city and brought Summer Petersen to the creature to be killed. Steven surmised that the Orc Devil wanted to kill the Sanguine Bullet herself because it would be less mentally draining for her to convey the truth about the double agent to Emily Watson if the Sanguine Bullet was already dead in advance.

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Unwilling to stand down against the heinous onslaught, Steven lunged forward and courageously dove into Hilary's throat, where he entered her digestive tract in order to slash her heart to pieces. The Orc Devil adjusted her stance on a rooftop; she launched a tendril-like spike of acid directly at Summer. Almost simultaneously, Steven succeeded in his daunting task, though he was forced to swim in venom that deeply weakened and injured him. The unholy puppet of the Black Queen stumbled, knocking Josh and Helen off their perch, before flying back up while reacting to the pain before Romilda fell limp and her hollow body became fully inanimate as it proceeded to burn in the fires licking at the Black Queen's slave. Clawing and biting at the sky, Hilary's internal glow faded. As the light left the proxy form's sinister eyes, the Black Queen realized her proxy form was permanently rendered useless and inanimate as it then plunged against a swimming pool and the dissipating storm's huge hand weakly lurched forward to spitefully seize six teenage boys at once and forcibly pull them into vats of acidic residue. Thereafter, the boys burned to death as the avatar's mist evaporated and its scales weakened rapidly, and the lifeless monstrosity forever went still.

#### Seeking dominance of the Multiverse

*"Ready to see things our way?"*
―Black Queen[src]
As her enemies gazed somberly upon the burning city, the news of Hilary J. Black's death spread throughout Sol for the immense power vacuum it had inevitably created, leading Emily Watson to take advantage of her destruction by assuming what she believed to be her fallen mistress' role. After the Orc Devil's death, the veils of secrecy that surrounded the Girl-Team because of the Black Queen's reliance on mysticism unraveled as Watson seized control and moved to assert absolute dominance over the free peoples. In the meantime, the Black Queen, enraged at the setbacks she suffered in Pleasant Grove, promptly located her daughter in the underworld and set her free. Subsequently, the Black Queen ordered Hadeline, who became herald and second-in-command to her mother both out of fear and the desire to repay her for setting her free, to go to Earth to search for the Naegri, bringing with her what remained of her army of ghosts. During her invasion, she revealed that the Black Queen was the true Orc Devil, as the entity was merely a vessel. However, her new disciple was defeated by the members of the Union of Ladybugs. Despite knowing that both the Orc Devil and the Naegri were out of her reach once again, the Black Queen was undetterred and prepared for direct warfare against the Eight Worlds. Later on Earth, Commander Firestorm of the Phoenix Squad warned Sierra Mitchell that the Black Queen was not done with their native star system, although Mitchell insightfully deduced that trying to bring the union back together would likely not be the answer. Six years passed, and a powerful young woman named Ronan realized the Black Queen's intentions from a vision, becoming determined to find her.

Several years later, the Syndicate, a Uranian alliance, learned about the Black Queen's intentions. When they managed to communicate with the Band of Justice, they warned them about the inter-dimensional ruler and the threat she posed to humanity, so they offered their service to protect Mars. However, they knew they were no match against the forces of the Black Queen, so they only exploited the deal in order to get from the Band of Justice their stocks of Neptunian Ororium and to recruit an army of Martians.

#### The termination of the Apparatus of Spacetime

*"She cannot be destroyed! There is a portion of her in everything! She cannot be stopped! And in the ruin of this anthill planet, I shall build for her an empire of order!"*
―Xitol[src]
Following the subsequent Melanization, the Black Queen, who was furious with Genesis for being the culprit therein, strode into the Realm-based shipyard immediately after an insurgent named Stormicide was shoved off a crane by Galfalor of Eris. He fell to the ground, only to be caught mid-fall by Tehnett. Whirling around, the Black Queen softly seized his cheeks and their lips met for a moment, and they were shrouded in red light as she continued preparing her forces for the forthcoming war.

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While everything was being put in place for Heath to get to the Apparatus of Spacetime, Needed Evil, a team made up of heroes and villains from across the Multiverse whose worlds have been threatened or damaged by the various crises that originate on the reality-splitting Vault Crisis, lost their founder and leader Xitol when she was destroyed by the forces of Erno Silva. She became Xitol's successor as the head of Needed Evil. Seeking to prevent crossovers between alternate realities, Needed Evil agreed to serve her in exchange for her protection. The Black Queen knew they had created the Apparatus of Spacetime in the first place in order to do their part to stabilize space and time, and having deemed this a necessary drawback for the greater good of her conquest, she had allowed Xitol to believe she was oblivious to its origins for a very long time, having long plotted to bring about the destruction of the Apparatus of Spacetime when the time was right, and go forth into the Multiverse once more. The Black Queen was now free to traverse the various universes that comprised the cosmos without impedance. Xitol's untimely death had rendered the deal they had struck up betwixt them an inconclusive one, and her organization was now the Black Queen's to command. While she enriched the freshly assimilated organization, she promptly wrestled complete control of the very cosmos herself, directing several timelines to branch off the Earthly Plane and off each other in infinite proportions, knowingly splintering the Multiverse's very foundations in the process. She personally arrived in Embermane Sanctum, ordered a banner be weaved in her image and hung in place of Xitol's statue, and reorganized the entire system to fit her liking. As Jay Organa arrived at Embermane Sanctum to warn Needed Evil of the Black Queen, he spotted and gazed upon a banner of the Black Queen, indicating she had already taken over. Eventually, the Black Queen opened a wormhole to other parts of the timeline, where she and her army of Soul Eaters appeared on the prairie and were met by Adam Catalina, later appearing in the town square and being met by the Pink Figurehead.

#### Reverence of the Black Queen

*"Oh, gosh…"*
―Sebiscuits Cardarphen[src]
By 2053, there were people in Sol who approved of the Black Queen's actions. The phrase, "The Black Queen was right", was graffitied in the men's bathroom of NYC Hospital in New York. This phrase became marketable and people used this as profit. The phrase became labeled on coffee mugs and sold in stores, and among those who bought such mug was Gloria Sigismond.

### Fusion

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*"I tried to warn you, my queen... your inherent recklessness would set up your daughter for failure."
"Yes. And now the Naegri are out of our reach. Do not grieve, my friend, for we still have a means to recover what should be ours. Yoke Advance is found, and the great Magistrate knows of it in its entirety. The cosmos is ready to fuse."*
―Tehnett and the Black Queen[src]
With a dark potential future beginning to unfurl, the Black Queen resolved to consult the Magistrate for her knowledge of Yoke Advance, mulling over this in her meditation chambers in 2026 with her servant Tehnett, who had relayed orders and vital information to the late Hadeline. Meanwhile, Steven Thompson was somehow murdered (which Vincent Organa was apparently involved in). Seeing no other way to comfort the woman she hoped to sway to her cause, the Black Queen briefly possessed Zira Miranda Grover with her joyful consent, either spiritually or through mind control, and she gently touched and stroked the back of Summer's head as she tearfully mourned by the side of the window. She manifested through Zira's consciousness a second time to provide intoxicating doses of arzneillium to leave an already devastated Summer susceptible to her evil will. With Summer Petersen becoming an esteemed member of the Brotherhood, the Black Queen transformed Sol into an apocalyptic wasteland, eventually bringing about the death of the Lumiking in the hard war.

By the time Summer caught Vincent Organa and the team he had assembled to rebel against the Realm, the Wraiths were roaming around on Mars, completely unchecked. Summer executed Vincent and the remaining members of his team, eliminating a significant beacon of hope for the Black Queen's enemies.

## Physical appearance

*"Hadeline is just as fair as her mother is dark. Still... she deeply resembles her."*
―Cherical McSnake[src]
Despite her very indirect appearance on-page, the Black Queen is straightforward enough to indicate being a woman whose striking and chilling beauty is virtually unparalleled, and she is very well-known for this aspect of herself. Her hand, described as being sultry, ends with long, black fingernails mysteriously described as sturdy and well filed enough to have a sensual connotation in and of itself. During her mission with the Arbiters of Viskaa, Joey claimed that she wore a simple, curve-hugging leather bodysuit with an elegant silver necklace, though it is possible that he was joking. It is fact, however, that as Hilary J. Black, she appears as a massive entity, looming at least 50 stories tall. She has a beautiful and unique body composed of mysterious reptiloid scales wreathed in minuscule particles, giving her a misty and nearly ethereal appearance. The proxy has numerous tornado-like limbs, some of which branch into several smaller appendages. The body also features an elongated, flame-shaped, and extremely beautiful head that sprouts from the central body. While the sound of her true voice is ultimately unknown, she has supplied her avatar with a highly deep, sensuous, and chillingly seductive voice that amplifies the firm and domineering demeanor.

## Personality

*"The Black Queen is the kind of woman who would end slavery, just to bring it back so she could watch the hope fade from their eyes."*
―Beck[src]
For many centuries, the Black Queen has been infamously known for her tremendous and nearly unprecedented megalomania, seeing in herself as the true ruler of the entire Multiverse. Her lust for power is seen prominently when she immediately filled in for Xitol's absence from Needed Evil in order to reorganize into her image to usurp power. The Black Queen is therefore the ultimate walking power of malevolence, terror, and dominance, expressing her power over nearly all who dare face her to the point that she was callous enough to cast out her own daughter just for being small and leave her to die. She is intimidating and frightening, with Stormicide showing immense fear in her presence and Mykew Hadeline doing so at the mere mention of her, as well as being able to command the personnel of the Realm, including the highly savage and powerful Soul Eaters, unchallenged. Due to her devotion to the spirits, the Black Queen looks down on everyone around her, believing herself to be the most qualified moral and spiritual authority in the entire Multiverse. She was also aware of the return of Mr. Stupid NoHead, and was apparently intent on joining forces with him because of his own deep connection to the extramundane.

Deemed as the one who turned millions of civilizations into fiery embers to secure her cosmic dominion, the Black Queen is incredibly formidable and holds great confidence in her abilities. She is ruthless when facing enemies in battle as the Orc Devil, showing signs of enjoying a good battle when they put up a good fight. This was seen when she briefly smiled and laughed when her proxy form was thrown to the ground by Vincent Organa and Arcus, and smirked as she stopped a missile from hitting her in Pleasant Grove. Additionally, she is extremely obsessive and this prevents her from having any evident forbearance, especially with gaining her goals. Upon discovering the existence of Yoke Advance, she became hellbent on acquiring this new power. She was even pragmatic enough to form a short-lived alliance with Dorphane Giles and the even more unhinged and immoral Emily Watson, only to leave both women when they failed to assimilate the resources of Viskaa and win the School War in Utah and she decided the moderately populated planet was no longer worth the trouble of conquering and the decreasingly spiritual Girl-Team was no longer worth the trouble of commandeering. Her belief in the failed duty of man, coupled with her own spiritual affinity, even led her to shamelessly deceive the desperate and needy nomad Longfellow, showing willingness to use any means to achieve her goals. She was also intensely cruel and sadistic and took immense delight in the suffering of those who attempted to stop her from doing what she believed needed to be done, deriving much pleasure in psychologically tormenting Steven Thompson, making suggestions that Vincent Organa was just using him, that flattery wouldn't keep him alive, choosing to spare him and Summer Petersen just so that they can watch Pleasant Grove burn and showing pleasure that her archenemies cared about the people of Pleasant Grove and told them that their deaths would be on their head, and sarcastically asking them how come they would like to die quickly. This also shows that she has a sardonic sense of humor. During her attack on Pleasant Grove, the Black Queen went out of her way to mock and sneer at Helen McKeen.

The chillingly hegemonic sorceress was also manipulative, as she presented the Orc Devil as a brainless and unstable beast with purely animalistic and primal instincts so nobody would suspect her hand in the affairs of Terrans, and she also persuaded her daughter to serve her in spite of what she had done to her as a child and was also able to outsmart her unwilling liege into submission. The latter was seen in the Fusion reality; the Black Queen has already conquered the Eight Worlds, as well as Petersen herself (replacing the barbaric Hadeline with the intellectually innovative Petersen following the former's demise).

The Black Queen seemed to hate the modern world and technology, believing that by embracing technology, humans have strayed too far from the natural order and, as a result, have become distracted from the traditions and the spirits. She is extremely arrogant and sanctimonious, as she proudly boasted of her superiority and impregnability to Steven Thompson during their encounter; being insulted by Jay Organa was also quick to earn her anger. She was utterly ruthless, completely capable of committing genocide in pursuit of her goals. The Black Queen especially had a disdain for the far less spiritual California in comparison to Utah, something that she seemed to pass onto Watson, as she expressed similar sentiments. The Black Queen is very prejudiced against Kratons, as she blames them for spirits being driven off the mortal plane and segregated on the Astral Plane. Ultimately, her goal is to, aside from conquering existence, use her new authoritative influence to end this separation and make sure humans and spirits can coexist together. As far as her recreational tastes are concerned, she was known to enjoy inhaling tablets of arzneillium, although her superhuman physiology meant they did not addict her or control her actions at all. Still, she was willing to allow her daughter Hadeline to live in the Realm if she could synchronize the Unification so the Black Queen could arrive in the Dark Gate and plant a metaphorical black flag there.

## Powers and abilities

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### Powers

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*"I originally thought she was just another candidate in a long line of scoundrels waiting to feel a superhero's wrath. I couldn't've been more wrong. This woman's terrifying. She's planned out everything. She's seen everything. She's aware of everything!"*
―Jay Organa[src]
* **Divine Physiology**: As an unchallenged monarch who commanded the Soul Eaters, the Black Queen is a phenomenally powerful divine being capable of even connecting herself to a living storm, superior to even the power of Mykew Hadeline, who would not dare challenge her despite resenting the Black Queen for casting her out as a small child. The Syndicate, despite their combined strength, openly admitted that their forces could not face the Black Queen and said even if Beck, in his initial stages of having Neptunian Ororium, were to join forces with the S.M.S.B., he would still lose. When Ronan told Annabeth Black that she planned to kill the Black Queen, Annabeth stated that she didn't know if it was possible.
	+ **Superhuman strength**: The Black Queen is likely much stronger than humans and other beings, as the extremely powerful Mykew Hadeline, with enough strength to crush the likes of Cherical McSnake had she gotten the time and to overpower most of the Terran opposition singlehandedly, never fought the Black Queen, presumably out of fear of the latter's abilities. However, her godlike strength has its limits, as she was able to be captured in 2004, albeit by completely unknown means and in a holding chamber the Arbiters of Viskaa were able to breach. Her grip around Summer Petersen's supple chin gave her the accurate sensation of her entire body being immobilized. She passed this practically incalculable strength into Hilary J. Black, sufficient for her to have her puppet easily break through walls and to destroy several massive government warships with a single swipe.
	+ **Nigh-invulnerability**: The Black Queen is immensely durable, far superior to her daughter Hadeline and other beings such as Terran mutants and comparable to deities. Defensively, the scales she conjured around the mist of the living storm she made as the Orc Devil rendered her puppet impervious to virtually all known weaponry and even left her immune to magical flames and the prospect of smashing into a wall of brick. When Steven Thompson masterfully kicked her eye, she closed it and his foot glanced against the skin around her eyelid, leaving her unharmed. She shrugged off huge barrages of government firepower, withstood mighty attacks from all ten members of the Decemahead, and even came into contact with her own molten acid, all with little to no stress and no apparent harm to herself. Even American firepower of immense scale merely staggered the Black Queen's proxy for a moment. Her armored scaly skin is virtually impenetrable, only pierced in death when Helen McKeen cut open a hole in a more sensitive body part to free Thompson just as the flesh was beginning to decay rapidly in the aftermath of fatal injury.
	+ **Superhuman speed**: With her slim yet muscular frame, the Black Queen has levels of great superhuman speed, able to effortlessly outmaneuver and defeat several opponents, as in the Fusion timeline, the Black Queen was able to easily stab the Lumiking before he could launch another attack upon her.
	+ **Spatiokinesis**: The Black Queen can distort, manipulate, and potentially create space, as shown when she could manifest her hand and voice into a different section of the universe, which helped her maintain complete control of her proxy form. Using her Nexus Apparatus, the Black Queen can even open portals to any part of the timeline. She used it to open a portal to the prairie, unleashing her army of Soul Eaters.
		- **Flight**: The Black Queen can control her location in space, and can use this to have her proxy form levitate or fly by preventing its location from altering as it would do if one succumbed to gravity and fell. She can also control the direction and speed of the Orc Devil's flight by changing the location.
		- **Remote Possession**: The Black Queen also appears to possess a form of mind control, briefly hosting herself into Zira Miranda Grover's body without the need for actual entry within her being with contact nor distance being an issue as she remained in a much more mystical place (in the dark potential future). She can remain in control of herself, and is hugely implied to be capable of controlling multiple hosts at once while retaining control over her core body.
	+ **Enhanced senses**: The monstrous appearance of the Black Queen's proxy belied its puppeteer's keen, godlike senses.
	+ **Clairvoyance**: The Black Queen appears to possess a form of clairvoyance, as she was able to tell that Steven Thompson is only a mere Fobble merely by seeing him.
	+ **Acid Generation**: The Black Queen imbued the Orc Devil with a signature ability, to breathe streams of searing hot acid from her mouth, as the living storm had consisted of acid rain. It is implied that the reconstituted storm's entire body was imbued with acid, as her usual paths were said to have been "smoothed and slimed" (i.e. melted) by her passage. She can also change how her acid spews from her proxy form, depending on the situation. Usually, it is liquid and napalm-like, which had enough power and mass to shatter stone buildings, and its blast could spread on the ground with immense firepower, enough to engulf her entire proxy body.
	+ **Immortality**: The Black Queen is immortal, having ruled supreme since at least the 1930s without visibly aging in the process.

### Abilities

*"I believe my plan will be effective. But my plan requires courage, courage I will feel as an alternative to the wrath of my mother…"*
―Mykew Hadeline[src]
* **Master combatant**: The Black Queen is an extremely powerful and skilled fighter, said to be capable of taking out the entire S.M.S.B. with ease, making her comparable to an Arts-enhanced Thomas Meyer. Her fighting prowess likely surpasses Mykew Hadeline's, as Hadeline never dared to challenge her mother in battle. She was still successfully captured once, but the ways and means of this are completely unknown. In the Fusion timeline, the Black Queen's combat prowess allowed her to kill the Lumiking, one of the oldest and most powerful known entities in the universe.
* **Gifted intellect**: As the ruler of the Realm, the Black Queen is a tactical and manipulative genius of the highest caliber. While Viskaa notably remained safe from her, it was only because she lost interest in conquering it after her new allies were gunned down. She had an encyclopedic knowledge of the Girl-Team, but was far worse about knowing her enemies, a significant curb to her nigh-omniscience.
	+ **Master tactician**: The Black Queen is a mastermind capable of setting up incredibly complex, elaborate, and well-coordinated plans to outwit those who would resist her rule and executing them flawlessly, with the strategies she created and employed being so effective that she gave the Band of Justice, the Union of Ladybugs, and the Armies of Organa immense trouble It was only after Ronan received a vision that an Earthling discovered the Black Queen's involvement, with Ronan admitting that the Black Queen had been "playing a very intricate game," and has effectively used the Terrans as pawns without any of them realizing it until Black saw a vision, eventually installing herself as the leader of Needed Evil by orchestrating Heath's rebellion and leading him to the Apparatus of Spacetime due to deeming the time was right to bring forth its destruction, all while allowing him to think he was acting on his own initiative.
	+ **Master manipulator**: The Black Queen was highly manipulative, to where she was able to manipulate Emily Watson into doing her bidding by promising her peace without end, which she desired, and also persuaded Mykew Hadeline to serve her in spite of what she had done to her, and she managed to swiftly manipulate Summer Petersen into submitting and pledging her allegiance to her by using the extreme grief she felt over the death of Steven Thompson and using arzneillium to make Summer believe Vincent killed Steven or Joshua, effectively turning her against the people of the Eight Worlds and the Armies of Organa. As Ronan indeed noted, the Black Queen had successfully manipulated numerous Terrans for her own goals.
	+ **Expert leader**: Being a ruler and having the absolute loyalty of all her subjects, and expertly commanding the Council of Devils and her armies of Soul Eaters unchallenged, it is certain that the Black Queen is an extremely skillful leader.
	+ **Expert shaman**: The Black Queen was able to make use of her great knowledge of the Astral Plane and presumably other dimensions of the vast Multiverse to gain an advantage over her foes.
* **Master intimidator**: The Black Queen, due to her virtually unrivaled capacity for destruction and tyranny, is a mistress of intimidation, with Stormicide showing immense fear in her presence and Mykew Hadeline doing so at the mere mention of her.
* **Indomitable willpower**: The Black Queen has tremendous willpower, very nearly emerging victorious in the Attack on Earth. She was capable of remaining steadfast and focused in her agendas, first to open the Dark Gate and second to get the Realm through the devastating Melanization. It was her willpower and absolute belief in her goal that made her such a tremendously dangerous person to have as an enemy.

## Weaknesses

*"I tried to warn you, my queen... your inherent recklessness would set up your daughter for failure."
"Yes. And now the Naegri are out of our reach. Do not grieve, my friend, for we still have a means to recover what should be ours."*
―Tehnett and the Black Queen[src]
* **Internal organs vulnerabilities**: While her proxy form's hide is too durable to be pierced on the outside, its organs are not afforded the same level of durability, with Steven Thompson cutting into her heart to deal the Black Queen's avatar fatal cardiovascular wounds, hence finding the only conceivable way to mortally wound her, even indirectly.
* **Arrogance**: The Black Queen's other severe flaw is her overconfidence and arrogance, with the Black Queen believing that since she has seemingly perfect leverage over all of her cooperative allies and oppositional enemies, that this makes her supremely powerful. Hence, the Black Queen is completely caught off-guard when an unexpected turn of events causes her plans to not work out the way she indented, with burning Pleasant Grove only spurring Steven Thompson into action and radicalizing public opinion of the potential involvement of the spirits rather than theoretically romanticizing them. This catastrophic error of judgment turned out to be her undoing and it allowed Steven to find her physical weakness and destroy her proxy form, eradicating her influence on Earth. She was also confident Mykew Hadeline would succeed in her mission and was alarmed when Tehnett was right about Hadeline not being adequately equipped to be victorious in the Attack on Earth.

## Facilities

* **Realm**: The Black Queen dwelt here as her home and her base of operations, having built a great kingdom in the center of the universe.
* **Lair of Adages**: Located directly under Thunder Quarters, the Lair of Adages was the Black Queen's stationary home, where she was accompanied by her unwilling thrall, Romilda Harvard. After losing her proxy form, she abandoned the manor.

## Possessions

* **Viskaa attire**: During her mission with the Arbiters of Viskaa, she wore a simple, curve-hugging leather bodysuit, with modified thigh-high boots (they can be worn outside, but also have the illusion of lacy thigh-highs on top).
* **Nexus Apparatus**: The Black Queen used these devices to open Space Entries to alternate universes after the Erno Silva Multiversal Crisis.
	+ **Space Entry**: The Black Queen used these devices to cross into alternate universes after the Erno Silva Multiversal Crisis.
* **Arzneillium**: The Black Queen inhaled this drug to induce an altered state of consciousness on herself for her pleasure. However, it seems that beings of tremendous willpower, like Summer Petersen, are resistant to arzneillium, since the Black Queen only took over the Terran's mind after the death of Steven Thompson.

## Relationships

### Family

*"I have my reasons for accepting the alliance of the one above all, the why of all existence. I believe my plan will be effective. But my plan requires courage, courage I will feel as an alternative to the wrath of my mother..."*
―Mykew Hadeline[src]
Mykew Hadeline was the Black Queen's biological daughter whom she cruelly neglected and later manipulated into fighting for her and leading to her being conquered and slain on Earth.

### Allies

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*"For the unification of all life! For the Black Queen."*
―Brotherhood warcry[src]
The Black Queen had many quality allies to enforce her cosmic rule. Tehnett was one of the Black Queen's closest and most trusted allies; she even gave him credit for warning her her daughter would fail, despite the obvious disrespect in his tone. She also allowed Galfalor of Eris to live in the Realm when he was cast out and defeated, provided he was willing to become her servant. She was also friends with Zira Miranda Grover, who trusted her enough to let her mind control her for a couple of minutes at a time, and she may even have a sensual curiosity about her since she was stroking Zira's bare midriff whilst in possession of her. The Orc Devil was first discovered by the Black Queen after she came upon Thunder Quarters. Using her remarkable cosmic power, the Black Queen gave the Orc Devil its gigantic, elven form and established a psychic connection with the stormy entity, forming a kind of symbiotic relationship. Acting through the Orc Devil, the Black Queen attempted to subjugate humanity in 2022. However, Steven Thompson and his allies ultimately thwarted her plans.

A loyal and trusted follower of the Black Queen was Emily Watson, who shared her disposition for cruelty and violence. The Black Queen was always impressed by and proud of Emily's martial abilities and intelligence. Without a maternal figure, Emily genuinely wanted to live up to "the Orc Devil's" expectations, and even though she succeeded, she was pressured into becoming a perfectionist, settling for nothing less than what would make the Orc Devil proud. At most, the Black Queen also trusted Emily, commending her for apparently being a good friend to the spirits, either unaware that Emily was using a facade on her, or not prioritizing concern. However, the betrayal of her best friend caused Emily's mind to deteriorate, which permanently affected her relationship with the Black Queen. Following the Orc Devil's complete destruction and what was presumably the Black Queen's callous and opportunistic desertion, Emily was infuriated by the radical changes it brought, resulting in her complete descent into madness. After all, she was the one who convinced Emily that it is better to be feared than to be loved.

Despite her apparent pride in Emily's prodigious bladework and sheer prowess, it was clear that the Black Queen held little genuine care for Emily. Like Romilda Harvard, she was largely a tool to further her own efforts of conquering the cosmos. Emily was apparently aware of this, because after Helen's betrayal, she was unable to handle Kate's expression of genuine friendship, and became completely insane.

### Enemies

*"We never made contact with alien life, at least, nothing comprehensible or discernible for human understanding. The stars are vast, and in their vastness our voices have touched the ears of something truly incomprehensible. Something thirsty and malevolent."*
―Ronan[src]
The Black Queen's success made her some extremely bitter enemies, such as the Halo Guardians.

## Victims

 Numerous Pleasant Grove residents
 6 teenage boys

## Gallery

### *Boys vs. Girls: The Coming Darkness*

Coming-Darkness-Book-Serpent.pngThe Black Queen personally awakens her proxy form.
### *Boys vs. Girls: The Rise of the Serpent*

The Orc Devil and Steven Thompson.pngThe Black Queen meets Steven Thompson.Steven versus Hilary.pngThe Black Queen has her proxy form bite at Steven.Acid.pngThe Black Queen firing a jet of acid at the oncoming Decemahead members.Orc Devil smirking.pngThe Black Queen smirks at her enemies.Josh facing Hilary.pngThe Black Queen advances on Josh Hogan.The Orc Devil in flight.pngThe Black Queen's proxy form takes flight, bound for Pleasant Grove.
### *Boys vs. Girls: The Fate of the Towers*

Attack on Pleasant Grove.pngThe Black Queen raining acid on Pleasant Grove.BVG3 09.pngThe Black Queen's proxy form hovers over Pleasant Grove as she rains fire.Hilary in Pleasant Grove.pngThe Black Queen directing her proxy form to face off against Steven and the others.IMG Orc Devil BVG3.pngThe Black Queen warning her enemies to stand down or die.The Orc Devil's light fading.pngThe Black Queen's proxy form deteriorating in the sky.The Orc Devil Defeated.pngThe Black Queen is forced to relinquish her proxy form as it falls into a swimming pool.Orc Devil12.pngThe unholy creature's corpse.
### *Band of Justice: Omniverse*

BlackQueen.pngBlack Queen (Omniverse).pngThe Black Queen's banner was woven in Embermane Sanctum.Black Queen Flag.png

## Behind the scenes

After the Godslayer is apprehended in her cell, he silently laments that "she" has heard it and "her" hunger is about to be satiated and that "she" is on her way (It has been confirmed by D. Isaac Thomas that he was talking about the Black Queen and not Mykew Hadeline).

## Reception

After the release of *Annie and the Blue-Eared Kid* in 2013, the Black Queen's character was well received, with several readers considering her performance biggest highlight of the *Boys vs. Girls* trilogy and eager to see more of the character in future novels.

## Trivia

* The Black Queen's behind-the-scenes role in *Annie and the Blue-Eared Kid* is similar to that of Thanos in *Marvel's The Avengers*: being the superior of the main antagonist (Loki Laufeyson for Thanos and Hadeline for the Black Queen). Furthermore, The Other speaks on the behalf of Thanos, while Tehnett serves the Black Queen in an extremely similar capacity.
* Her proxy form's name is actually conceived by Summer Petersen and Steven Thompson as the latter once knew a secretive yet diabolical girl with that name.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 *Band of Justice: Omniverse*
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 *Annie and the Blue-Eared Kid*
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 *Boys vs. Girls: The Rise of the Serpent*
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 *Boys vs. Girls: The Fate of the Towers*
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 *Pink Figurehead*
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 *Red Cavalier*
7. ↑ *Superquack: Focal Point*
8. ↑ *Morgan*
9. ↑ *Boys vs. Girls: The Coming Darkness*
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 *Boys vs. Girls 2*
11. ↑ *The Marauder*
12. ↑ *Band of Justice*
13. ↑ *Band of Justice* (Postscript)
14. ↑ *Adam Catalina and the Legend of the Black Bracelet*
15. ↑ *Agents of the S.M.S.B.: Age of Innovation*
16. ↑ *Boys vs. Girls: The Fate of the Towers*

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