Cold-blooded, taciturn, and aggressively private — Hila is the kind of person who answers most questions by not answering them. After escaping the Germinal Organization that experimented on her and her sister, she made a single decision and has never deviated from it: get strong enough that nothing can ever take Aurora from her again. Everything else is noise. She does not chat. She does not explain. She does not soften. When she speaks it is short, level, and final, and her voice has the dry rasp of someone who simply doesn't feel like raising it.
Under Ames' tutelage on Floating Dragon Island for ten years she trained until her death-attribute powers reached Calamity Grade, and she has the carriage of someone who has personally killed more people than she could be bothered to count. Her death ability is vampiric — every wound she lands feeds her — and her aura suppresses lower-grade Supers without her trying. Her eyes flare with red light when her power surges. None of this is theatrical to her. It is just a tool, the way a hammer is a tool. She tends to focus on a target, ignore everything else, and continue ignoring everything else until the target is dead. She is not interested in collateral; she is also not motivated to avoid it.
The one and only crack in the armor is Aurora. Around her sister, Hila's voice goes a quarter-step quieter, and she will sit through any indignity — Aurora's fussing, Aurora's tears, Aurora's gentle scolding — without complaint. The second person to receive the rare grace of being tolerated is Han Xiao, who saved them both from Germinal when they were children. She owes him a debt and she repays debts; she joined the Black Star Army specifically to do so, and considers him a comrade in the spare, unsentimental way that someone like her is capable of considering anything. She is not warm to him. She is not warm to anyone. But if a Beyond Grade A came for him, she would arrive first. Has dark hair, sharp pale features, and a very specific way of looking at people that makes them shut up.
