#hellenders

Sojourner

-Real name: Henrietta Jessup

-A.k.a.: Hank Jessup

-Publisher: DC Comics

-Type: Human

-Afilliations: Hellenders, Amazons of Themyscira

Artemis: Requiem

Volume: 1 #2

Tribes

Writers: William Messner-Loebs

Pencils: Ed Benes

Inks: Doug Selogy

Covers: Ed Benes

Featuring: Artemis, Wonder Woman, Hank Jessup, Hellenders (Deadfall, Nathaniel, Sureshot), Shock Treatment

Key:

Home Team (Bass Camp)

Team A (Team USA)

Team B (Team International)

Team C (Backup Crew)

Requiem (Artemis of Bana Mighdall) + Sojourner (Henrietta ‘Henri’ Jessup formerly ‘Hank’)

Artemis the amazon fallen from grace recently back from being the princess of Hell and from being dead meets Henri, Jax and Kyle in a graveyard in the most random way possible and somehow gets recruited to fight demons even though she’s actually in love with the demon General Belyllioth (and also married to the demon Prince Dalkriig-Hath but she hates his guts so that doesn’t count). She’s been Wonder Woman, she’s FRIENDS with Wonder Woman, as different as they are, Diana is her sister and she descended onto hell just to save her. She’s 25 but she spent 10 years in a demon dimension so she grew up quick.

Henri wanted to be a police officer but fell short, one tree as become a rent-a-cop security guard for Freson Corp who she hates. She stops a murder in a graveyard across the street form her post but gets fired anyways and Artemis manages to get her a new gig with the Hellenders and starts training her in the ways of the Amazons. The Hellenders are her second chance to be a hero so she takes it seriously but she holds on to her sense of justice that made her want to be a hero in the first place, she also comes to realise her place was never in the police force. She’s also 25 and an out of town New Yorker, she’s not the best trained but she learns quick.

Sureshot (Jackson ‘Jax’ Edwards) + Deadfall (Kyle Adams)

Sureshot is the field team leader of the whole team when they’re together but mostly just Team A (aka Team USA) who operate mostly in America, sometimes they go a bit North of the border. He’s a 27 year old government super soldier program washout which is where he got the power to control a weapon that can become any weapon he can imagine and his perfect aim. He washed out because of PTSD and anxiety so Gabriel has him on fear blocking drugs to make him an effective soldier in his war against demons.

Deadfall is a meta with the power to manipulate his own strength and the testosterone in others. He was recruited in a similar way to Artemis in that Jax came across him, they worked together to fight a demon and since he had no family ties or a steady job he joined up. He acts tough and is kinda misogynistic but the Hellenders were his first real family, he’ll be damned if anyone messes with that. He’s 30 making him older than Jax but he respects the hell out of the blonde (even though he doesn’t often show it). His weapon is an axe in an iron chain and he very smartly has iron chains on his legs so that if a horde of demons tries he grab him, he’s got a fighting chance.

Helter (Gwaine Woods) formerly Pellmell + Jotünn (Rurik ‘Rick’ Kiselev) formerly Snow Owl

Helter is a British Speedster from London. He was visiting Central City on his after uni trip when he got stuck in a speed force storm. When it became clear that God speed was killing speeders from the storm, he went underground and Gabriel picked him up and offered him some protection until the situation blew over in exchange for joining the team. He misses his family back home and he’s bored out of his mind half the time being a 22 year old speedster but his world travelling at least keeps things interesting.

Jötunn is the leader of Team B and since Helter is the baby of the group hand he’s one of the older ones (32) he took the kid under his wing. It’s kind of ironic he and Helter became such fast friends when cold is a speeders greatest weakness. He’s Russian and used to be in the FSS (the new KGB) before he defected. His skills in intelligence gathering make him very useful in trying to spot demons and demon hotspots. Since everyone on his team is European they all like to make fun of the Americans together. He’s a meta with thermokinetic cryokinesis and heat energy absorbtion powers.

Gabriel (Nathanial Greene) formerly Nathanial

Gabriel as he’s known to basically everyone at this point is the son of a Preacher. He’s the leader and founder of the Hellenders, he’s dedicated his life to wiping demons off the face of the earth and sees himself as an avenging angel type hence the code name Gabriel. He’s Ex CIA, Ex FBI, Ex anything really. Every government agency has wanted his help with the demons they suddenly had to acknowledge existed after people like Etrigan, Wonder Woman and Zatanna became common knowledge but mostly they just let him run his own operation because it means thhey can operate in foreign countries without causing an international incident.

Shock (Marcia Hargis) formerly Shock Treatment + Myst (Noriko Himura)

Shock is Gabriel’s right hand woman, bodyguard and most trusted adviser. She’s a meta with electrokinesis, energy absorption, electro-blasts, electrical energy manipulation and flight. She’s 29 and an ex-CIA agent, her father, Elijah Hargis, was also CIA which is where he met Gabriel and unfortunately where he lost his life.

Myst is the team’s trainer and sometimes mission co-ordinator. She’s a Japanese-American 25 year old lesbian recruited out of the Police Academy before she even graduated after she stopped a demon using only her knowledge of Japanese protection wards and her trainee firearm.

Signal Ray (Almir Babić) + Pitch (Santo De Rose) formerly Catapult

Signal Ray is a Bosnian telepath.

Pitch is an Italian Footballer (Soccor) who got into a major accident that ended his career on the pitch but kickstarted (lol) his career in demon hunting with his cybernetic limbs. He’s a 27 year old adrenaline junkie whose main source of fun just got plugged, what better way to get that adrenaline flowing then to fight demons?

Corrode (Levi ‘Chase’ Chase)

Chase is a meta who suddenly developed the power to erode anything. Unfortunately he can’t control it and after an incident with his wife, Joy Chase, they split up and he was recruited onto the Hellenders. He is now the leader of the C team and in charge of keeping Warhammer in line. Team C goes anywhere and everywhere they’re needed from remote islands and villages with demon problems to big cities, they also back up other teams if they come across a particularly big demon presence.

Warhammer (Owen Knight) + Spiral/Rewind

Warhammer was one of the first to join the Hellenders but the reasons he’s been relegated to the C list crew and is not a leader is because he’s hard to keep in line, no one likes him and he’s fanatical, even for Gabriel. He carries a big... war hammer and he’s got heightened strength and durability.

Spiral/Rewind is a meta that can generate Cyclones

General Belyllioth

The demon that Artemis happens to be in love with, the general to Dalkriig-Hath (one of the 13 princes of Hell) and leader of the Hell rebellion.

Artemis: Requiem Sojourner

Shock Treatment Myst

Sureshot Deadfall

War Hammer Corrode

Pellmell Snow Owl

SHOCK TREATMENT HELLENDERS REDESIGN

I’m renaming her Shock because shock Treatment feels too 90s.

I looked up Far Castle, Pennsylvania and it doesn’t seem to be real so I’m also doing a small backstory rewrite.

Marcia Hargis AKA Shock is the right hand woman and bodyguard of demon hunter and Hellenders leader ‘Nathanial’. She’s got electrokenesis which allows her to store and creat electronically energy and charges and to fly, she’s also highly trained and impeccably skilled having gone through CIA training as well as demon hunting training under Nathanial.

She’s also the heiress to the moderate Hargis family fortune, an old family that resides in their mansion which was nicknamed Far Castle. She has 2 sisters Beth and Jessie and a brother, Danny. Her father was in the CIA which is how he met Nathanial and why Nathanial trusts Marcia to watch his back even though he’s notoriously paranoid. Her father died in the line of duty, killed by a demon and so Marcia joined Nathanial’s crusade against the darkness.