Bio (SPOILERS)
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crossbow_and_corsetFull name: Gretel
Aliases: None
Canon from: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Canon type (movies/books, etc): Movies
Age (approx if not sure): 27
Gender: Female
Link to picture of character (if possible):
http://cdn2-www.craveonline.com/assets/uploads/2013/01/file_203781_2_Hansel_and_Gretel_Witch_Hunters_Gemma_Arterton.jpg
Point in time when character has been taken from canon: Immediately after the movie
Character History:
Gretel’s story began when she was abandoned with her brother Hansel in the woods by their father, only to trip over a house made of candy and a monstrous witch that waited for them inside. Forced to stoke the flames as the witch threatened to kill her if her brother didn’t eat all the candy he was given, Gretel took up a loose nail and instead picked the lock of her chains rather than die as she was expected to. After stabbing the witch with the same knife she’d been threatened with, she cut her brother free of the ropes that bound him, and the two of them together hoisted the witch right into the oven and locked her inside.
That was the start of their witch hunting career, as even when they were ‘welcomed’ into a nearby village there was no place that felt quite right or safe ever again. With no home, no family, and nothing but the mystery of how the witch’s magic had failed to hurt Gretel, taking up their lifelong mission to burn every witch they could to the ground seemed like exactly the thing to do. They scrounged, they survived on bounties and more luck than not in their hunting endeavors until they managed to scrap up some skill to go with all that enthusiasm and hatred for the monsters that stole and ate children.
It was their life, and as much as it was the only life that had really been open to them and Gretel would never, never recommend it to anyone who could live in any other way, witch hunters were who she and Hansel were. And who they always would be.
She had her doubts, her questions, her wonderings over how their parents could have possibly left them alone in those dark woods all those years ago, even as she wondered what had happened to them in the intervening years. The promise Hansel had pressed for even when they had been small of never speaking of their parents again weighed on her, and for the most part she abided exactly by that rule. It was the one subject they never discussed as it was simply too painful to contemplate, the cocktail of emotions involved in that long ago night too much to ever properly dissect and understand.
She had never thought they would return to their beginnings, that much at least was true. She had never expected to be lured back to the village very near their old family home, or to learn the truth of what had happened on that night. Gretel had thought of the case of the eleven missing children in Augsberg as being strangely prolific and spotty, but she had never thought that it was part bait to lure her and Hansel back to where an old, unknown enemy awaited them.
After alienating the town’s sheriff by interfering in his attempt to burn a local woman as a witch, Gretel insisting on evidence before they set fire to any of the townsfolk (although she did consider spattering them with sheriff brain matter). Hansel cleared the woman and she was let go, leaving Gretel to headbutt the sheriff in their difference of opinions (he saw her as a bitch, she saw him as a man who had not broken his nose enough in his life) and Hansel’s shotgun to break up the ensuing standoff. Thankfully, the town’s mayor was far more willing to play (and pay) in exchange for their agreement to hunt down the witches to blame for the missing children and, if it were at all possible, return the children to their homes.
Their first hunt out in the woods netted them one of the lesser witches of the group, but before they could do more than discover the pattern of the children being taken, the village was attacked by the grand high dark witch Muriel and another lesser witch. Gretel was left to face the threats of the witch alone as Hansel attempted to save the last child from being abducted, with Gretel left beaten and unconscious after being thrown through a wall and Hansel dragged off in the chase after the other witch on her broom.
Gretel woke up in the lecherous care of the village boy, Ben, who was obsessed with the siblings, but after discovering a picture of her mother in his scrapbook as being named and killed as a local witch, she set off to find her brother. A search that saw her instead cornered in the woods by the Sheriff and his men, beaten, threatened with horrific things, and certain that she was about to die when she passed out from her wounds with a troll heading right for her. What was a surprise was that he killed her attackers and saved her.
Left in the woods with the cryptic insistence of the troll, Edward, that trolls helped witches, she set off to find her way as well as her brother, quite literally stumbling and falling into finding her brother in a pit beneath their childhood home. A witch’s den. But before she could tell him of her belief that their mother had been a witch, Muriel arrived to confirm her suspicions along with the declaration that she had engineered the death of their parents, and that there were white/good witches as well as those evil, monstrous ladies the siblings had spent their entire lives hunting. Rather than take a moment to digest that, the two of them attacked the witch, only for her to stab Hansel repeatedly and kidnap Gretel, who had every reason to believe that her brother might have died in the attack.
However all her belief that one of them would only fall with the second following shortly after, Gretel was spared having to go far down that path when Hansel burst onto the scene where Muriel and her collection of witches planned to sacrifice the twelve kidnapped children along with Gretel herself for her heart (as a grand white witch, as had been revealed during Muriel’s monologue in their old home) in order to gain immortality. Needless to say, Hansel and Gretel saw that that plan ended in blood and fire, but that it was the mass of witches left in pieces and scattered about the place, and that the children were hurried off to safety.
She nearly lost Edward in the thick of it, as he was thrown off the edge of the cliff after freeing her from her chains against all orders of the dark witches he had been serving, but Gretel ran first to revive the downed troll with an electrical jolt from a tool they often used to stun witches. Then once she was sure he would be okay, she, Hansel, and the girl they had cleared as being free of magical influence (but who was, in fact, followed Muriel … right back to that old gingerbread house. The girl, Mina, was killed attempting to defend Hansel, leaving the siblings to a grueling brawl with the witch until finally they were able to decapitate her with a shovel before they burned that bitch right to the ground.
Gretel and Hansel put Ausberg immediately behind them (after collecting their reward, of course), and set off with Ben and Edward to continue on their mission of wiping every black witch they could find right off the earth.
Character Personality
Gretel has always been (and will always be) exactly one half of a pair. Their abandonment as children and the life they threw themselves into was a lonely, isolating one where the only thing that she and Hansel could ever depend on was each other. She is quite capable of making her own decisions, having her own opinions, is prone to bickering here and there with Hansel over small annoyances and tactics alike, but she feels unsecured and just a touch unsteady when she is all on her own. She’s still capable and still able to hold her own in either a hunt or a brawl, and is not about to believe that her brother isn’t equally able in either capacity, but the moment they’re separated it becomes her main priority to find him again.
She’s investigative, thorough, a realist who takes the world in measures of evidence and leaps of intuition but never on faith. She’s a woman with a temper, a ready fist, a brutal sense of justice and injustice, and an iron stomach when it comes to gore.
She’s also a good deal more open than her brother is when it comes to her own emotions, although she is not without her own moments of denial and the need to square her shoulders and see it through to its bloody end. Outnumbered, she fights back with all she’s got. Insulted, she attacks first. Amused, she’s quick to share a grin. She loves the thrill of a victory and throws herself into every fight with the same lack of survival instinct that screams of how she fully expects that she and Hansel will both die in battle one day, and that she’s only surprised they’ve lasted as long as they have.
Although, honestly, the revelations of the past days as she knows them have rocked her right off balance. The parents who abandoned her and her brother had only been attempting to protect them. Witches lived out there in the world who were good and not evil, with her mother one powerful enough to be a threat to grand high dark witches. She’s been told she’s a witch as well, though she’s never used magic. And, as well, in those dark moments before the troll arrived to save her and the sheriff’s hands had been going to his belt, she had been utterly helpless in a way she never had before.
Gretel’s confused and off-center, will likely be stuck on the violence she experienced that was wholly outside of the realm of witches and motives driven by pure evil, and most of all searching desperately for her brother. No time has she been held against her will without a whole lot of blood being spilled, making her future in Glaxcin sure to be a doubly confusing, stressful thing.
Physical Description :
Gretel is fairly tall for a woman, particularly for a woman born in Germany in the middle of the dark ages. Dark haired and dark eyed, with an oval face and freckles spattered across her cheeks and nose, Gretel has the dubious honor of being a rather attractive woman where it might have done her better as a hunter to be otherwise. The traditional wear of cumbersome, heavy skirts and restrictive clothes wouldn’t have allowed her to survive a moment fighting creatures stronger, meaner, and faster than her, even if Gretel had paid much attention to the idea of bows or lace, and so she instead wears functional, close-fit clothing that allow her to move as freely as possible. Their era does require she wear a corset as part of her daily life, but there’s little fancy in the dark clothes she does quite enjoy pulling on on a daily basis.
Magical powers or special skills:
Learned: Gretel is one of the best witch hunters who has ever lived, and so has become quite skilled in investigating, planning, tracking, ambushes and trap-making, brawling, shooting, and all manner of ways to kill a witch. Hansel, of course, he prefers burning.
Magical: Gretel is immune to all dark magic, being a grand white witch herself, but does not know any magic or use it herself.
Any crimes committed in canon: Assaulting an officer of the law, arson, aggravated assault, massive property damage.
Crime incarcerated into Glaxcin for: Assaulting an officer of the law, resisting arrest.
Aliases: None
Canon from: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Canon type (movies/books, etc): Movies
Age (approx if not sure): 27
Gender: Female
Link to picture of character (if possible):
http://cdn2-www.craveonline.com/assets/uploads/2013/01/file_203781_2_Hansel_and_Gretel_Witch_Hunters_Gemma_Arterton.jpg
Point in time when character has been taken from canon: Immediately after the movie
Character History:
Gretel’s story began when she was abandoned with her brother Hansel in the woods by their father, only to trip over a house made of candy and a monstrous witch that waited for them inside. Forced to stoke the flames as the witch threatened to kill her if her brother didn’t eat all the candy he was given, Gretel took up a loose nail and instead picked the lock of her chains rather than die as she was expected to. After stabbing the witch with the same knife she’d been threatened with, she cut her brother free of the ropes that bound him, and the two of them together hoisted the witch right into the oven and locked her inside.
That was the start of their witch hunting career, as even when they were ‘welcomed’ into a nearby village there was no place that felt quite right or safe ever again. With no home, no family, and nothing but the mystery of how the witch’s magic had failed to hurt Gretel, taking up their lifelong mission to burn every witch they could to the ground seemed like exactly the thing to do. They scrounged, they survived on bounties and more luck than not in their hunting endeavors until they managed to scrap up some skill to go with all that enthusiasm and hatred for the monsters that stole and ate children.
It was their life, and as much as it was the only life that had really been open to them and Gretel would never, never recommend it to anyone who could live in any other way, witch hunters were who she and Hansel were. And who they always would be.
She had her doubts, her questions, her wonderings over how their parents could have possibly left them alone in those dark woods all those years ago, even as she wondered what had happened to them in the intervening years. The promise Hansel had pressed for even when they had been small of never speaking of their parents again weighed on her, and for the most part she abided exactly by that rule. It was the one subject they never discussed as it was simply too painful to contemplate, the cocktail of emotions involved in that long ago night too much to ever properly dissect and understand.
She had never thought they would return to their beginnings, that much at least was true. She had never expected to be lured back to the village very near their old family home, or to learn the truth of what had happened on that night. Gretel had thought of the case of the eleven missing children in Augsberg as being strangely prolific and spotty, but she had never thought that it was part bait to lure her and Hansel back to where an old, unknown enemy awaited them.
After alienating the town’s sheriff by interfering in his attempt to burn a local woman as a witch, Gretel insisting on evidence before they set fire to any of the townsfolk (although she did consider spattering them with sheriff brain matter). Hansel cleared the woman and she was let go, leaving Gretel to headbutt the sheriff in their difference of opinions (he saw her as a bitch, she saw him as a man who had not broken his nose enough in his life) and Hansel’s shotgun to break up the ensuing standoff. Thankfully, the town’s mayor was far more willing to play (and pay) in exchange for their agreement to hunt down the witches to blame for the missing children and, if it were at all possible, return the children to their homes.
Their first hunt out in the woods netted them one of the lesser witches of the group, but before they could do more than discover the pattern of the children being taken, the village was attacked by the grand high dark witch Muriel and another lesser witch. Gretel was left to face the threats of the witch alone as Hansel attempted to save the last child from being abducted, with Gretel left beaten and unconscious after being thrown through a wall and Hansel dragged off in the chase after the other witch on her broom.
Gretel woke up in the lecherous care of the village boy, Ben, who was obsessed with the siblings, but after discovering a picture of her mother in his scrapbook as being named and killed as a local witch, she set off to find her brother. A search that saw her instead cornered in the woods by the Sheriff and his men, beaten, threatened with horrific things, and certain that she was about to die when she passed out from her wounds with a troll heading right for her. What was a surprise was that he killed her attackers and saved her.
Left in the woods with the cryptic insistence of the troll, Edward, that trolls helped witches, she set off to find her way as well as her brother, quite literally stumbling and falling into finding her brother in a pit beneath their childhood home. A witch’s den. But before she could tell him of her belief that their mother had been a witch, Muriel arrived to confirm her suspicions along with the declaration that she had engineered the death of their parents, and that there were white/good witches as well as those evil, monstrous ladies the siblings had spent their entire lives hunting. Rather than take a moment to digest that, the two of them attacked the witch, only for her to stab Hansel repeatedly and kidnap Gretel, who had every reason to believe that her brother might have died in the attack.
However all her belief that one of them would only fall with the second following shortly after, Gretel was spared having to go far down that path when Hansel burst onto the scene where Muriel and her collection of witches planned to sacrifice the twelve kidnapped children along with Gretel herself for her heart (as a grand white witch, as had been revealed during Muriel’s monologue in their old home) in order to gain immortality. Needless to say, Hansel and Gretel saw that that plan ended in blood and fire, but that it was the mass of witches left in pieces and scattered about the place, and that the children were hurried off to safety.
She nearly lost Edward in the thick of it, as he was thrown off the edge of the cliff after freeing her from her chains against all orders of the dark witches he had been serving, but Gretel ran first to revive the downed troll with an electrical jolt from a tool they often used to stun witches. Then once she was sure he would be okay, she, Hansel, and the girl they had cleared as being free of magical influence (but who was, in fact, followed Muriel … right back to that old gingerbread house. The girl, Mina, was killed attempting to defend Hansel, leaving the siblings to a grueling brawl with the witch until finally they were able to decapitate her with a shovel before they burned that bitch right to the ground.
Gretel and Hansel put Ausberg immediately behind them (after collecting their reward, of course), and set off with Ben and Edward to continue on their mission of wiping every black witch they could find right off the earth.
Character Personality
Gretel has always been (and will always be) exactly one half of a pair. Their abandonment as children and the life they threw themselves into was a lonely, isolating one where the only thing that she and Hansel could ever depend on was each other. She is quite capable of making her own decisions, having her own opinions, is prone to bickering here and there with Hansel over small annoyances and tactics alike, but she feels unsecured and just a touch unsteady when she is all on her own. She’s still capable and still able to hold her own in either a hunt or a brawl, and is not about to believe that her brother isn’t equally able in either capacity, but the moment they’re separated it becomes her main priority to find him again.
She’s investigative, thorough, a realist who takes the world in measures of evidence and leaps of intuition but never on faith. She’s a woman with a temper, a ready fist, a brutal sense of justice and injustice, and an iron stomach when it comes to gore.
She’s also a good deal more open than her brother is when it comes to her own emotions, although she is not without her own moments of denial and the need to square her shoulders and see it through to its bloody end. Outnumbered, she fights back with all she’s got. Insulted, she attacks first. Amused, she’s quick to share a grin. She loves the thrill of a victory and throws herself into every fight with the same lack of survival instinct that screams of how she fully expects that she and Hansel will both die in battle one day, and that she’s only surprised they’ve lasted as long as they have.
Although, honestly, the revelations of the past days as she knows them have rocked her right off balance. The parents who abandoned her and her brother had only been attempting to protect them. Witches lived out there in the world who were good and not evil, with her mother one powerful enough to be a threat to grand high dark witches. She’s been told she’s a witch as well, though she’s never used magic. And, as well, in those dark moments before the troll arrived to save her and the sheriff’s hands had been going to his belt, she had been utterly helpless in a way she never had before.
Gretel’s confused and off-center, will likely be stuck on the violence she experienced that was wholly outside of the realm of witches and motives driven by pure evil, and most of all searching desperately for her brother. No time has she been held against her will without a whole lot of blood being spilled, making her future in Glaxcin sure to be a doubly confusing, stressful thing.
Physical Description :
Gretel is fairly tall for a woman, particularly for a woman born in Germany in the middle of the dark ages. Dark haired and dark eyed, with an oval face and freckles spattered across her cheeks and nose, Gretel has the dubious honor of being a rather attractive woman where it might have done her better as a hunter to be otherwise. The traditional wear of cumbersome, heavy skirts and restrictive clothes wouldn’t have allowed her to survive a moment fighting creatures stronger, meaner, and faster than her, even if Gretel had paid much attention to the idea of bows or lace, and so she instead wears functional, close-fit clothing that allow her to move as freely as possible. Their era does require she wear a corset as part of her daily life, but there’s little fancy in the dark clothes she does quite enjoy pulling on on a daily basis.
Magical powers or special skills:
Learned: Gretel is one of the best witch hunters who has ever lived, and so has become quite skilled in investigating, planning, tracking, ambushes and trap-making, brawling, shooting, and all manner of ways to kill a witch. Hansel, of course, he prefers burning.
Magical: Gretel is immune to all dark magic, being a grand white witch herself, but does not know any magic or use it herself.
Any crimes committed in canon: Assaulting an officer of the law, arson, aggravated assault, massive property damage.
Crime incarcerated into Glaxcin for: Assaulting an officer of the law, resisting arrest.
