Supporting Hella Magnusson

18 | July 31 | Female | Dragon
Citizen | Bartender at the Fox Hole

Hella stands tall for her age, being just under six feet in height. She has a lithe build with gentle curves and a sharp, angular face. Her ears are pointed prominently enough to notice even at a distance and are usually adorned with some kind of jewelry. Her eyes are a dark forest green with small flecks of amber within them. This contrasts with her pale skin along with her long, dark brown hair that she usually wears up in intricate braids

Hella’s fashion sense follows what one might call Bohemian Gothic sensibilities. She tends to dress warmer than might otherwise be necessary and mixes modern gothic fashion with more traditional, if modernized, Saxon aesthetic. Most of her clothes are handmade and incorporate leather, fur, and iron in some way.

Hella's dragon form is slightly smaller than a typical van, though is longer with her neck and tail included. In this form she appears distinctly lupine, with fur-like scales in patterns of black and the same pale rose color of her hair. Her dragon form bears a pair of long, spear-like horns growing back out of her head and a pair of wings sized proportionally to her given size.

Hella has regained a good deal of her former self since dealing with the Fae who had imprisoned her. She retains her dignity and her slightly regal air, but has relaxed considerably to try and enjoy life more. She is dedicated to her sisters and she has and is willing to sacrifice much of herself to protect and nurture them. She still has difficulty with thanking and apologizing, but she is working through it as best as she can.

True to her nature though, Hella has both a ruthless and an obsessive streak as long as her tail. She can be unsettlingly cold and efficient when she sees the need to be and is not in any regard averse to violence. Likewise, she can often lose herself in an obsession, usually one that involves helping a loved one.

Active
Bloodthorn Dragon
Hella can fully or partially shift into a dragon. While in her dragon form she has scales that can deflect small arms fire, can lift and throw a small car with ease, and fly at roughly twice the speed of a hawk. In either form her sense of smell is increased to twice that of a wolf.

While partially shifted Hella can resist normal melee weaponry and lift and throw objects twice her size and weight. Either partially or fully shifted she has claws that can gogue an inch of steel.

Hemomancy
Hella has complete control over exposed blood and her own blood even if it is not exposed. She can remove foreign materials from it and shape it into constructs as strong as steel. Exposed blood needs to be within twenty feet of her for this to work. By absorbing exposed blood intoher body, she can heal wounds pound for pound

Magnusson Necromancy
Hella can animate empty vessels with death energy to make soulless undead that obey her every command. Dead things (such as a dead animal) are easier to animate but the magic is rudimentary and more easily broken. With a handmade vessel (such as a ritually prepared stuffed animal) takes more time but can generally have more stable, unique results. In general, Hella can create about a dozen small (squirrel sized) undead in about a week if she is making them from dead things. This same amount of time would be required to create a single basic “zombie” stuffie roughly a foot tall. From here, weeks are added at a time to add abilities onto a single undead. She can theoretically give her undead any ability, but the parts required to do such a thing are both expensive and likely illegal to get her hands on (for example, she would need whatever part of a dragon produces fire to let a single undead be able to breathe fire).

Another major limitation on Hella’s necromancy is the volume of creations she can have activated at a single time. For easy reference, Hella has 50 ‘slots’ she can put undead into.

She can have as many undead as she wants at the ready, but they will remain inactive until she allocates some of her magical energy into them. Activating one of her undead requires her to spend time concentrating on the undead in question. This takes less than ten seconds if she is within 3 meters of the target, but takes exponentially longer the further away they are. Anything more than half a kilometer away will take at least an hour to activate.

Some examples of her undead:

Zombie Squirrels: Physically as strong as a squirrel. Iron capped claws. Non-sapient, cannot act without orders. Highly flammable. Take up 1 slot per 10 squirrels. Takes 14 hours to make. Degrade over a month to be unusable.

Einherjar: "Undead" stuffed animals. Physically as strong as a grown human man. Resistant to physical damage. Can learn, show signs of personality, and can even resist orders if they deem fit. Can manipulate objects despite having no fingers. If destroyed, return to Hella’s side, deactivated, while she sleeps. Take up 5 slots each. Takes 1 month to make 1.

Magnus: Massive undead abomination, looks like a moose if you squint and drink to forget the horror. Can throw a large truck easily. Fast and agile as a bison. Iron capped hooves and antlers. Generally autonomous once given general commands. Wounds leak acidic mist. Can repair damage to itself by eating flesh, pound for pound. Takes up 50 slots. Takes a year to make. Degrades over a month to be unusable.

Sex Change Charm
Hella has a bracelet, which she is never seen without, that swaps her sex while she is wearing it.

Passive


Weakness
Taste of Underhill
Hella cannot taste any food she eats.

Sensitive Nose
Hella's sense of smell if highly acute. As such she can occasionally be subjected to sensory overload and lose focus.

Bloodlust
Hella finds herself drawn to exposed blood. If she smells or sees blood that is not in a person's body, she must fight to not focus most of her attention on it.

Hella was born Magnus Magnusson V, oldest son of Magnus Magnusson IV. She was raised to be a necromancer like all her forebears, but was also treated poorly for her gender identity. Eventually, she made a deal with the Elven Queene of Ebonyridge to truly be seen as a girl by her father and ended up a slave to the fairy Court. Her father banished her for endangering their family and she moved to Manta Carlos.

Months went by and she started a relationship with one Virgil Drakenhardt and got a job at a cafe called The Forbidden Zone. Things were going well until she got an order from the Queene to murder a member of her Court. She did as she was told, but got partially caught (for kidnapping). Her ties to Ebonyridge were severed, including her necromancy and the magic making her a girl.

She broke up with her boyfriend and got a tattoo to make herself a girl again. Since then, she has been going through the motions, trying to find something to make her feel fulfilled again. She eventually had to return to Ebonyridge with her friends Lynn and Destra to retrieve her kidnapped sisters.

Dropping out of school to work full time to take care of her sisters, Hella grew increasingly paranoid until she lost her job and made a deal with the fox God, Jericho, to become a dragon to better protect her sisters and herself. She went back to Ebonyridge again, this time to kill the Queene and end her influence over Hella and her sisters.

She has gotten a job at the Fox Hole to help maintain a decent lifestyle for herself and her sisters. She is currently dating Aura Fynn.

In a recent attempt to save her girlfriend from the eldritch monster that had attached itself to her, Hella performed some radical necromancy, the consequences of which may not have been fully realized.

Lives with her sisters in a modest home with their inheritance, her job, and her oldest sister's welfare checks paying for a nanny to take care of them and keeping the lights on. Has an iron pair of scissors usually sheathed to her hip like a dagger. She calls them Skredder. She a rapier made of thorny wood named Ylva that she leaves next to her bed.