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Hild
The leader of the forces of Hell in the Ah! My Goddess cosmology, Hild is one of the beings in charge of ensuring the Metacontinuity does not collapse.
Canon Description
Quoting from All The Tropes:
Hild is the ultimate Demon who is the opposite to The Almighty, known as the Ruler of Demonkind. She is incredibly powerful, with her power dwarfing even the combined strength of the three goddesses. Despite her immense power, she respects the doublet system, and thus limits her power to prevent killing any of the Goddesses. She is Urd's mother, whom she loves deeply, though Urd does not return the feeling (it is revealed that doing so would mean that Urd would acknowledge and thus be taken over by her demonic side). Hild displays a similar witty personality to Urd, though she is far more mean-spirited, and a fondness for dressing in revealing outfits. Hild dislikes Belldandy, because Belldandy's attitude and love for humanity reminds her of Belldandy and Skuld's father and the relationship they once had. Because of this, she has often tried to corrupt or hurt Belldandy several times throughout the series. She also seems to have some feelings for Keiichi Morisato.
She appears a few times before leaving an avatar child version of herself, who would go on to become a regular antagonist for the goddesses, as well as a direct supervisor for Marller. While this avatar possesses only one thousandth of the true Hild's power, it is still enough to make the avatar a powerful enemy for anyone. Despite this, as well as being generally more competent then Marller, she often proved just an inept. In the manga, a small team of demons sealed her main body and attacked her avatar in the human world, which lead to the Norns and Keiichi mounting a rescue mission that directly lead to the climax of the entire manga series.
Changes in the Metacontinuity
She's working with the goddesses to keep the universe from collapsing, although she still allows the occasional penetration test against Yggdrasil by Nidhog.
She's also allowing more displacees to enter the Metacontinuity on the same conditions that the original displacees entered. More displacees means more souls to bargain with... and for.
Original Skills and Powers
Hild can do anything except what The Almighty forbids her to do... which includes denying other beings free will. (She can coax, she can threaten, she can bribe... but she cannot simply change somebody's mind with a wave of her hand.)
In-Universe Power-Ups
"Power-ups" are impossible for Hild, short of her storming Heaven and taking The Almighty's place – which isn't going to happen.
Relationships
Hild still has her canon relationships with Urd, Belldandy, Skuld, and Keiichi.
She has delegated the Metacontinuity work to Ciel Phantomhive, who has delegated day-to-day matters to Sebastian. She trusts Satan to know how to do her job and lets her do it, without worrying that Satan will want to take Hild's job back.
And she was sufficiently amused by the hubris that Benjamin Rhodes showed in calling on her directly (to resurrect Alicia Testarossa) that she was willing to agree to a deferred-payment deal with no loopholes. She'll get what she wants in the end; she always does...
Hild
- Image: Hild, in normal and "handy petite" versions (fan art by "shiroboi")
- Residence: Niflheim
- Original ficton: Ah! My Goddess
- Metacontinuity Arrival Date: 2016-09-07
The leader of the forces of Hell in the Ah! My Goddess cosmology, Hild is one of the beings in charge of ensuring the Metacontinuity does not collapse.
Canon Description
Quoting from All The Tropes:
Hild is the ultimate Demon who is the opposite to The Almighty, known as the Ruler of Demonkind. She is incredibly powerful, with her power dwarfing even the combined strength of the three goddesses. Despite her immense power, she respects the doublet system, and thus limits her power to prevent killing any of the Goddesses. She is Urd's mother, whom she loves deeply, though Urd does not return the feeling (it is revealed that doing so would mean that Urd would acknowledge and thus be taken over by her demonic side). Hild displays a similar witty personality to Urd, though she is far more mean-spirited, and a fondness for dressing in revealing outfits. Hild dislikes Belldandy, because Belldandy's attitude and love for humanity reminds her of Belldandy and Skuld's father and the relationship they once had. Because of this, she has often tried to corrupt or hurt Belldandy several times throughout the series. She also seems to have some feelings for Keiichi Morisato.
She appears a few times before leaving an avatar child version of herself, who would go on to become a regular antagonist for the goddesses, as well as a direct supervisor for Marller. While this avatar possesses only one thousandth of the true Hild's power, it is still enough to make the avatar a powerful enemy for anyone. Despite this, as well as being generally more competent then Marller, she often proved just an inept. In the manga, a small team of demons sealed her main body and attacked her avatar in the human world, which lead to the Norns and Keiichi mounting a rescue mission that directly lead to the climax of the entire manga series.
Changes in the Metacontinuity
She's working with the goddesses to keep the universe from collapsing, although she still allows the occasional penetration test against Yggdrasil by Nidhog.
She's also allowing more displacees to enter the Metacontinuity on the same conditions that the original displacees entered. More displacees means more souls to bargain with... and for.
Original Skills and Powers
Hild can do anything except what The Almighty forbids her to do... which includes denying other beings free will. (She can coax, she can threaten, she can bribe... but she cannot simply change somebody's mind with a wave of her hand.)
In-Universe Power-Ups
"Power-ups" are impossible for Hild, short of her storming Heaven and taking The Almighty's place – which isn't going to happen.
Relationships
Hild still has her canon relationships with Urd, Belldandy, Skuld, and Keiichi.
She has delegated the Metacontinuity work to Ciel Phantomhive, who has delegated day-to-day matters to Sebastian. She trusts Satan to know how to do her job and lets her do it, without worrying that Satan will want to take Hild's job back.
And she was sufficiently amused by the hubris that Benjamin Rhodes showed in calling on her directly (to resurrect Alicia Testarossa) that she was willing to agree to a deferred-payment deal with no loopholes. She'll get what she wants in the end; she always does...
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Rob Kelk
Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown
Rob Kelk
Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown