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thebubblyoneUser Name/Nick: Naomi
User DW: N/A
E-mail: asyndeta@gmail.com
Other Characters: Elijah Kamski, Credence Barebone
Character Name: Hilda (Hildegard Antoinette) Spellman
Series: The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Netflix series)
Age: 200ish, on the basis of being around to get wasted at Queen Victoria's coronation. Possibly a little older, though not much - she is a descendant, not a contemporary, of the Greendale witches imprisoned and hanged in the late 1600s.
From When?: The end of Episode 10
Inmate/Warden: Warden. Although Hilda exists in a fairly amoral world - raised with, and baptised into a church whose main tenet is simply 'do as thou wilt' - she is one of the better influences in the series. She genuinely cares about (most) people's lives and natural justice (as she sees it). She'll be a good fit for an inmate for whom being An Objectively Good And Nice Person isn't a realistic goal to aim for.
Item: A fairly ridiculous smutty romance novel.
Abilities/Powers: The CaoS witches tend to have and use their powers in a bit of a 'as the plot demands' way, but here's a list specific to Hilda, and here's a list of basically everything witches are capable of in this canon. Hilda can probably manage most of them with time, prep and/or help. She's also a trained midwife and an excellent cook.
Personality:
Hilda is the emotional heart of the Spellman household. Nurturing, maternal and empathetic, she's the one to share the pain of family members who bring their loved ones to the Spellman Mortuary. She's the one who's always there with a word of reassurance or a soothing tincture when things get fraught - as they so often do. Unlike her older sister, who's more likely to let the people around her try and fail on their own terms, she's more protective. She's sweet, good-natured, generous and incredibly slow to anger; she is, as a demon puts it, 'the bubbly one'. She has an awful lot of love to give and this usually manifests itself in cooking for her family, or coddling her young niece Sabrina; however, having someone to love her in return is a sticking point and a subject of nightmares for her.
However, her niceness doesn't go all the way down, so to speak. Being raised in the Church of Night, her family's coven, left her relatively sanguine about a lot of rituals that newcomers like Sabrina flinch away from. She has, for example, implicitly participated in several Feast of Feasts ceremonies - an act of ritual sacrifice and cannibalism, commemorating the decision of one witch to offer her body as sustenance to her starving coven. That being said, she was never entirely certain about joining the Church; she explained to Sabrina that she accepted her baptism because it was the only choice available to her at the time. Seeing more options available to Sabrina in the present day, she's more likely to advocate for them. When Sabrina expresses doubts about her own baptism, for example, Hilda is the one to push for her to speak to someone senior in the Church to allay her concerns.
Hilda's not-so-niceness shows itself in other faintly troubling ways. The amorality of her upbringing and the coven's culture shows itself often. Other people's autonomy isn't a massively big deal for her when it gets in the way of her loved ones' happiness: she drugs her nephew's disinterested crush with a love potion, extremely successfully, and never seems to acknowledge (or even realise) that it's not a particularly nice thing to do. Her logic is likely to be that Ambrose is lonely and deserves to be happy, and Luke will be happier with him - therefore, no harm no foul. Likewise, when she discovers that several children at the witches' Academy of Unseen Arts were killed during their 'harrowing' (a form of hazing), she shares with them the fact that she craved revenge for her own harrowing more than anything else. She goes on to instruct them in how to seek their own vengeance, simultaneously ending the tradition of harrowing at the Academy for good.
While she isn't the outright iconoclast that Sabrina is, Hilda is much happier to break or bend the rules than her older sister Zelda. She was the one to insist that the half-witch, half-mortal Sabrina attend a mortal high school, instead of home-schooling her as is the witches' way. Whereas the other Spellmans counsel Sabrina on the fact that her mortal concerns will fade away with time, and her mortal friends' worries and hopes will seem petty, Hilda is more determined to help Sabrina keep a foot in both worlds. Witnessing Sabrina's Catholic baptism, as a protective measure against her father's dealings, had Hilda excommunicated from her Church; in time, she doesn't seem to regret it at all. At one point she goes so far as to confide to Sabrina that she sometimes dreams of burning down Greendale woods, a place of great power for her coven. Hilda also seeks out greater connection with the mortal world herself, choosing to take a job in a comic store and coffee shop in Greendale.
Her relationship with her sister is...complicated. While they're very close - sleeping in the same room until toward the end of the first season - things are extremely fractious. For one thing, Zelda has repeatedly killed Hilda when she annoys her, burying her in a 'Cain Pit' which causes witches to resurrect. Zelda has been bullying Hilda (at least) since they were at school, when she subjected her younger sister to a painful harrowing, and to the current day treats her like a bumbling naive idiot. Hilda's day-to-day reaction to this is rarely more than mild passive aggression, but it conceals a deep resentment and frustration. Her worst nightmare, revealed by a sleep demon, is being physically attached to her sister - unable to get away from her and be her own person. That same experience, however, proved her to be incredibly resilient: while Zelda fell apart in the depths of her own nightmare, Hilda was able to advise Sabrina as to how to trap the demon.
Barge Reactions: Since Hilda is fairly inured to weirdness in general, the Barge won't be....that shocking. The death toll in particular will be an incredibly small deal to her. She'll mostly be interested in making friends and learning about the various worlds represented on board. She'll be pretending to be a regular human at first, but the Barge has ways of shaking that kind of stuff out. Also, most of her pop culture knowledge seems to be about fifty years out of date, so fourth-walling isn't going to be much of an issue.
Deal: To have her nephew Ambrose pardoned for his crime of plotting to blow up the Vatican, allowing him to leave Greendale if he so wishes.
History: Link!
Sample Journal Entry:
[Guess who has two thumbs and has never used a cellphone! This lady. Therefore, there's an awful lot of fumbling and beeping before a round, smiling face appears offcentre on screen.]
Hello! I don't know if this is the done thing, but I'm brand-spanking-new here so I thought I'd best say hello. My name's Hilda! You can all see this, can't you?
[Little wave!]
So, um, what to say about me? I'm from Greendale - that's in New York State, I know I know, it doesn't sound like it should be - and I worked in the bookstore there. You know, until I came here, obviously. And I'm going to be a warden! Or - well, I suppose I am, already, but I don't have anyone to be a warden for just yet.
Anyway, I made some cookies! They're on a big plate near where you go to for tea and coffee in the dining room, and I'll be there too, if anyone wants a cuppa and a bit of a natter.
[The cookies also contain a potion intended to soothe the nerves a little, but it's so subtle that there's really no need to mention that.]
So, that's that from me for now! Now, how do you -
[Her hand enters the frame for a moment, and the feed abruptly ends.]
Sample RP:
They call it the 'death toll'.
Privately, Hilda would have been delighted to swap a few weeks laid up for thefew several many experiences of clawing her way out of her own grave, coughing up soil, eyes rimed with dirt - but nobody's keeping score, here, are they? Besides, that's all the past and they don't even have a Cain Pit on the Barge. Her inmate is top priority right now.
Said inmate is curled up on his side in the Infirmary, facing away from her, an unhappy-looking lump on the bed.
"I know, lamb, I'm sorry. You must be feeling rotten." She reaches into her handbag for a Thermos. "I made you some tea! Orange, immortelle and a teensy pinch of pine. We'll have you right as rain in no time."
No response.
"And then, once you're back on your feet, we can have a nice chat about how to make sure that little bugger doesn't do this sort of thing to anybody else. Mm?"
The lump hesitates, then a hand reaches out for the flask.
User DW: N/A
E-mail: asyndeta@gmail.com
Other Characters: Elijah Kamski, Credence Barebone
Character Name: Hilda (Hildegard Antoinette) Spellman
Series: The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Netflix series)
Age: 200ish, on the basis of being around to get wasted at Queen Victoria's coronation. Possibly a little older, though not much - she is a descendant, not a contemporary, of the Greendale witches imprisoned and hanged in the late 1600s.
From When?: The end of Episode 10
Inmate/Warden: Warden. Although Hilda exists in a fairly amoral world - raised with, and baptised into a church whose main tenet is simply 'do as thou wilt' - she is one of the better influences in the series. She genuinely cares about (most) people's lives and natural justice (as she sees it). She'll be a good fit for an inmate for whom being An Objectively Good And Nice Person isn't a realistic goal to aim for.
Item: A fairly ridiculous smutty romance novel.
Abilities/Powers: The CaoS witches tend to have and use their powers in a bit of a 'as the plot demands' way, but here's a list specific to Hilda, and here's a list of basically everything witches are capable of in this canon. Hilda can probably manage most of them with time, prep and/or help. She's also a trained midwife and an excellent cook.
Personality:
Hilda is the emotional heart of the Spellman household. Nurturing, maternal and empathetic, she's the one to share the pain of family members who bring their loved ones to the Spellman Mortuary. She's the one who's always there with a word of reassurance or a soothing tincture when things get fraught - as they so often do. Unlike her older sister, who's more likely to let the people around her try and fail on their own terms, she's more protective. She's sweet, good-natured, generous and incredibly slow to anger; she is, as a demon puts it, 'the bubbly one'. She has an awful lot of love to give and this usually manifests itself in cooking for her family, or coddling her young niece Sabrina; however, having someone to love her in return is a sticking point and a subject of nightmares for her.
However, her niceness doesn't go all the way down, so to speak. Being raised in the Church of Night, her family's coven, left her relatively sanguine about a lot of rituals that newcomers like Sabrina flinch away from. She has, for example, implicitly participated in several Feast of Feasts ceremonies - an act of ritual sacrifice and cannibalism, commemorating the decision of one witch to offer her body as sustenance to her starving coven. That being said, she was never entirely certain about joining the Church; she explained to Sabrina that she accepted her baptism because it was the only choice available to her at the time. Seeing more options available to Sabrina in the present day, she's more likely to advocate for them. When Sabrina expresses doubts about her own baptism, for example, Hilda is the one to push for her to speak to someone senior in the Church to allay her concerns.
Hilda's not-so-niceness shows itself in other faintly troubling ways. The amorality of her upbringing and the coven's culture shows itself often. Other people's autonomy isn't a massively big deal for her when it gets in the way of her loved ones' happiness: she drugs her nephew's disinterested crush with a love potion, extremely successfully, and never seems to acknowledge (or even realise) that it's not a particularly nice thing to do. Her logic is likely to be that Ambrose is lonely and deserves to be happy, and Luke will be happier with him - therefore, no harm no foul. Likewise, when she discovers that several children at the witches' Academy of Unseen Arts were killed during their 'harrowing' (a form of hazing), she shares with them the fact that she craved revenge for her own harrowing more than anything else. She goes on to instruct them in how to seek their own vengeance, simultaneously ending the tradition of harrowing at the Academy for good.
While she isn't the outright iconoclast that Sabrina is, Hilda is much happier to break or bend the rules than her older sister Zelda. She was the one to insist that the half-witch, half-mortal Sabrina attend a mortal high school, instead of home-schooling her as is the witches' way. Whereas the other Spellmans counsel Sabrina on the fact that her mortal concerns will fade away with time, and her mortal friends' worries and hopes will seem petty, Hilda is more determined to help Sabrina keep a foot in both worlds. Witnessing Sabrina's Catholic baptism, as a protective measure against her father's dealings, had Hilda excommunicated from her Church; in time, she doesn't seem to regret it at all. At one point she goes so far as to confide to Sabrina that she sometimes dreams of burning down Greendale woods, a place of great power for her coven. Hilda also seeks out greater connection with the mortal world herself, choosing to take a job in a comic store and coffee shop in Greendale.
Her relationship with her sister is...complicated. While they're very close - sleeping in the same room until toward the end of the first season - things are extremely fractious. For one thing, Zelda has repeatedly killed Hilda when she annoys her, burying her in a 'Cain Pit' which causes witches to resurrect. Zelda has been bullying Hilda (at least) since they were at school, when she subjected her younger sister to a painful harrowing, and to the current day treats her like a bumbling naive idiot. Hilda's day-to-day reaction to this is rarely more than mild passive aggression, but it conceals a deep resentment and frustration. Her worst nightmare, revealed by a sleep demon, is being physically attached to her sister - unable to get away from her and be her own person. That same experience, however, proved her to be incredibly resilient: while Zelda fell apart in the depths of her own nightmare, Hilda was able to advise Sabrina as to how to trap the demon.
Barge Reactions: Since Hilda is fairly inured to weirdness in general, the Barge won't be....that shocking. The death toll in particular will be an incredibly small deal to her. She'll mostly be interested in making friends and learning about the various worlds represented on board. She'll be pretending to be a regular human at first, but the Barge has ways of shaking that kind of stuff out. Also, most of her pop culture knowledge seems to be about fifty years out of date, so fourth-walling isn't going to be much of an issue.
Deal: To have her nephew Ambrose pardoned for his crime of plotting to blow up the Vatican, allowing him to leave Greendale if he so wishes.
History: Link!
Sample Journal Entry:
[Guess who has two thumbs and has never used a cellphone! This lady. Therefore, there's an awful lot of fumbling and beeping before a round, smiling face appears offcentre on screen.]
Hello! I don't know if this is the done thing, but I'm brand-spanking-new here so I thought I'd best say hello. My name's Hilda! You can all see this, can't you?
[Little wave!]
So, um, what to say about me? I'm from Greendale - that's in New York State, I know I know, it doesn't sound like it should be - and I worked in the bookstore there. You know, until I came here, obviously. And I'm going to be a warden! Or - well, I suppose I am, already, but I don't have anyone to be a warden for just yet.
Anyway, I made some cookies! They're on a big plate near where you go to for tea and coffee in the dining room, and I'll be there too, if anyone wants a cuppa and a bit of a natter.
[The cookies also contain a potion intended to soothe the nerves a little, but it's so subtle that there's really no need to mention that.]
So, that's that from me for now! Now, how do you -
[Her hand enters the frame for a moment, and the feed abruptly ends.]
Sample RP:
They call it the 'death toll'.
Privately, Hilda would have been delighted to swap a few weeks laid up for the
Said inmate is curled up on his side in the Infirmary, facing away from her, an unhappy-looking lump on the bed.
"I know, lamb, I'm sorry. You must be feeling rotten." She reaches into her handbag for a Thermos. "I made you some tea! Orange, immortelle and a teensy pinch of pine. We'll have you right as rain in no time."
No response.
"And then, once you're back on your feet, we can have a nice chat about how to make sure that little bugger doesn't do this sort of thing to anybody else. Mm?"
The lump hesitates, then a hand reaches out for the flask.
