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** Helga is an extremely beautiful, vain sorceress and.....an extremely sweet person. Her methods of staying young forever involve magical incantations and herbs from the forest.


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** Helga stays young and beautiful forever using not the souls of children but the SOLES from their shoes.
** Helga hides away when doing her magic to retain her youthful beauty, so rumors spread. The truth is it's a really long incantation that takes nearly a half hour to complete, and she can't pause, which means despite her best efforts, she's drooling about halfway through. She's so terrified of someone being grossed out that she prefers people spread what she calls "horrid rumors" about her than see her looking less than glamorous for even a moment.
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** The main characters are told that Helga is vain about her beauty, but when they finally encounter her, she turns out to be a repulsive [[OurHagsAreDifferent hag]] who doesn't care about how ugly people find her.

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** The main characters are told that Helga is vain about her beauty, but when they finally encounter her, she turns out to be a repulsive [[OurHagsAreDifferent hag]] hag who doesn't care about how ugly people find her.



** Hags have different ideas of beauty; by her people's standards, Helga ''is'' a great beauty and takes pride in her reputation as one of the most beautiful hags in the world. She simply doesn't care that humans don't find her attractive, any more than a typical human woman would care about hags [[HumansAreUgly considering her ugly by their standards]].

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** Hags have different ideas of beauty; attractiveness; by her own people's standards, Helga ''is'' a great beauty and takes pride in her reputation as one of the most beautiful hags in the world. She simply doesn't care that humans don't find her attractive, any more than a typical human woman would care about hags [[HumansAreUgly considering her ugly by their standards]].

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* '''Inverted''': Helga the Horror uses magic of epic proportions to control the fates of nations and as a side-effect [[OneWingedAngel turns herself into]] an EldritchAbomination. When someone confronts her about turning herself ugly, she finds it hilarious, says [[AGodAmI a god]] doesn't care about such things, then splatters him for wasting her time.
** Helga looks dischevelled from neglecting bodily care given an all consuming obsession with studying magic.
* '''Subverted''': The supposedly VainSorceress turns out to be perfectly normal-looking and dress comfortably at home when not expecting visitors. The big display of beauty and pride is all a show for the benefit of her royal clients.
* '''Double Subverted''': The sorceress tears off her loathsome "normal woman" disguise as soon as TheHero leaves--she knew that he wouldn't take advice from someone obsessed with their own looks.

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Helga the Horror uses magic of epic proportions to control the fates of nations and as a side-effect [[OneWingedAngel turns herself into]] an EldritchAbomination. When someone confronts her about turning herself ugly, she finds it hilarious, says [[AGodAmI a god]] doesn't care about such things, then splatters him for wasting her time.
** Helga looks dischevelled disheveled from neglecting bodily care given in favor of an all consuming all-consuming obsession with studying magic.
** Helga is unattractive or even downright hideous and ''proud'' of it.
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The supposedly VainSorceress turns out to be perfectly normal-looking and dress comfortably at home when not expecting visitors. The big display of beauty and pride is all a show for the benefit of her royal clients.
** The main characters are told that Helga is vain about her beauty, but when they finally encounter her, she turns out to be a repulsive [[OurHagsAreDifferent hag]] who doesn't care about how ugly people find her.
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The sorceress tears off her loathsome "normal woman" disguise as soon as TheHero leaves--she knew that he wouldn't take advice from someone obsessed with their own looks.looks.
** Hags have different ideas of beauty; by her people's standards, Helga ''is'' a great beauty and takes pride in her reputation as one of the most beautiful hags in the world. She simply doesn't care that humans don't find her attractive, any more than a typical human woman would care about hags [[HumansAreUgly considering her ugly by their standards]].



** In the setting, emotions and feelings can be transformed in magic. Helga just so happens to use lust as her fuel for which she ''needs'' to maintain a perfect sex appeal all the time.

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** In the setting, emotions and feelings can be transformed in used to generate magic. Helga just so happens to use lust as her fuel for which she ''needs'' to maintain a perfect sex appeal all the time.

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** Helga is an ImmortalitySeeker, obsessed with retaining youth because aging is a sign of impending death. Therefore, she's obsessed with maintaining a outhful appearance, ensuring that maintenance is successful, and goes into a mild panic at the least sign of ageing.

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** Helga is an ImmortalitySeeker, obsessed with retaining youth because aging is a sign of impending death. Therefore, she's obsessed with maintaining a outhful youthful appearance, ensuring that maintenance is successful, and goes into a mild panic at the least sign of ageing.ageing.
** Helga is just a {{narcissist}} -- in an AlternateUniverse without any magic, she's shown to use lots of makeup and even [[PlasticBitch plastic surgery]] to improve her looks.
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** Helga is an ImmortalitySeeker, obsessed with retaining youth because aging is a sign of impending death. Therefore, she's obsessed with maintaining a outhful appearance, ensuring that maintenance is successful, and goes into a mild panic at the least sign of ageing.
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** Magic in mortals is [[DeusSexMachiba sourced by sexual relations with] TheFairFolk and they have very high standards of appearance before they even consider such lowly beings worth their time.

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** Magic in mortals is [[DeusSexMachiba [[DeusSexMachina sourced by sexual relations with] with]] TheFairFolk and they have very high standards of appearance before they even consider such lowly beings worth their time.

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** Magic in mortals is [[DeusSexMachiba sourced by sexual relations with] TheFairFolk and they have very high standards of appearance before they even consider such lowly beings worth their time.



** Helga looks dischevelled from neglecting bodily care given an all consuming obsession with studying magic.



** ... that's it, until the [[BewareTheNiceOnes ships are down]] and she shows why she was feared/being in such a High Place in the First place.

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** ... that's it, until the [[BewareTheNiceOnes ships chips are down]] and she shows why she was feared/being in such a High Place in the First place.
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** Helga seeks magic for the sake of gaining [[ImmortalitySeeker eternal life]], the fact that she can stay young and pretty is a nice side bonus.

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* '''Justified''': Helga started studying sorcery in the first place because she was afraid of growing old and losing her looks, the immense power was just a bonus.

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Helga started studying sorcery in the first place because she was afraid of growing old and losing her looks, the immense power was just a bonus.bonus.
** Helga makes money helping non-magic-users magically improve their looks, but she wouldn't seem credible if she didn't maintain her own. But once she'd fixed a couple warts and wrinkles, she realized she had no reason not to fix all her flaws and it became a compulsion. Being literally flawless went to her head and she grew vain.

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* '''Downplayed''': Helga the Enchanting is vain, aloof, and self-centered, [[MrViceGuy but she's also a surprisingly nice person once you get to know her]].

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Helga the Enchanting is vain, aloof, and self-centered, [[MrViceGuy but she's also a surprisingly nice person once you get to know her]].her]].
** Wanda the Wonderful is pleasant, sensible, and generally not too concerned with her looks, but can't resist the temptation to magic away the occasional zit.

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* '''Straight''': Helga the Hot checks herself out in mirrors she passes, is easily flattered by references to her beauty (and conversely, insults to her appearance are a BerserkButton) and uses magic to erase the tiny lines in her skin.

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* '''Straight''': Helga the Hot Enchanting checks herself out in mirrors she passes, is easily flattered by references to her beauty (and conversely, insults to her appearance are a BerserkButton) and uses magic to erase the tiny lines in her skin.



* '''Downplayed''': Helga the Hot is vain, cold, and egotistical, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold but a surprisingly nice person once you get to know her]].

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* '''Downplayed''': Helga the Hot Enchanting is vain, cold, aloof, and egotistical, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold self-centered, [[MrViceGuy but she's also a surprisingly nice person once you get to know her]].



* '''Zig Zagged''': The sorceress is beautiful and vain, but only in public, but her humble act at home is actually a disguise, but when the hero uses ThePowerOfLove, she gives up her self-centeredness, but she's still not half bad-looking.



** Helga the Hot acts like a typical vain sorceress, but her looks are at best mediocre, and she's a FashionVictimVillain. It's just that her temper and power have made it ill-advised for anyone to tell her the truth about her appearance.

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** Helga the Hot Enchanting acts like a typical vain sorceress, but her looks are at best mediocre, and she's a FashionVictimVillain. It's just that her temper and power have made it ill-advised for anyone to tell her the truth about her appearance.



* '''Deconstructed''':
** Helga winds up having to spend so much of her time and magical power just maintaining her looks in the face of advancing age that she never gets anything else done, and becomes irrelevant to anyone else.
** Helga just so happens to be very beautiful by birth and is normally vain like any other human. And simply had a [[FashionVictimVillain Terrible Fashion sense]]. But thanks to rumors and badly first impressions, she is constantly looked down by the most ''traditional'' of the Magical Circle and ridiculed behind her back by the noble/courtiers...
** Helga's obsession with her own beauty stems from a belief that her looks are the ''only'' thing anyone else cares about. Her past experiences have only reinforced this; when she first showed signs of aging, she found herself suddenly losing the attention she used to command, and worse, being belittled and dismissed as 'old and ugly'.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** In the setting, mind control spells are much more taxing than illusions and rejuvenation. Why exhaust yourself casting them when you can get other people to do stuff for you?
** ... that's it, until the [[BewareTheNiceOnes ships are down]] and she shows why she was feared/being in such a High Place in the First place.
** In the setting, emotions and feelings can be transformed in magic. Helga just so happens to use lust as her fuel for which she ''needs'' to maintain a perfect sex appeal all the time.

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* '''Deconstructed''':
** Helga winds up having to spend so much of her time and magical power just maintaining her looks in the face of advancing age that she never gets anything else done, and becomes irrelevant to anyone else.
** Helga just so happens to be very
'''Zig Zagged''': The sorceress is beautiful by birth and is normally vain like any other human. And simply had a [[FashionVictimVillain Terrible Fashion sense]]. But thanks to rumors and badly first impressions, she is constantly looked down by the most ''traditional'' of the Magical Circle and ridiculed behind her back by the noble/courtiers...
** Helga's obsession with her own beauty stems from a belief that her looks are the ''only'' thing anyone else cares about. Her past experiences have
vain, but only reinforced this; in public, but her humble act at home is actually a disguise, but when the hero uses ThePowerOfLove, she first showed signs of aging, she found herself suddenly losing the attention she used to command, and worse, being belittled and dismissed as 'old and ugly'.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** In the setting, mind control spells are much more taxing than illusions and rejuvenation. Why exhaust yourself casting them when you can get other people to do stuff for you?
** ... that's it, until the [[BewareTheNiceOnes ships are down]] and she shows why she was feared/being in such a High Place in the First place.
** In the setting, emotions and feelings can be transformed in magic. Helga just so happens to use lust as
gives up her fuel for which she ''needs'' to maintain a perfect sex appeal all the time. self-centeredness, but she's still not half bad-looking.



* '''Exploited''': Helga makes herself rich by selling "Bottled Beauty" and all the sorts of enchantments and potions [[ProfessorGuineaPig she has used on herself through past few centuries]]; that way she can share the wonders of beauty with her lesser folks, AND amass a modest fortune to buy an steady supply of reagents for her own magic-powered beauty treatments.




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* '''Deconstructed''':
** Helga winds up having to spend so much of her time and magical power just maintaining her looks in the face of advancing age that she never gets anything else done, and becomes irrelevant to anyone else.
** Helga just so happens to be very beautiful by birth and is normally vain like any other human. And simply had a [[FashionVictimVillain Terrible Fashion sense]]. But thanks to rumors and badly first impressions, she is constantly looked down by the most ''traditional'' of the Magical Circle and ridiculed behind her back by the noble/courtiers...
** Helga's obsession with her own beauty stems from a belief that her looks are the ''only'' thing anyone else cares about. Her past experiences have only reinforced this; when she first showed signs of aging, she found herself suddenly losing the attention she used to command, and worse, being belittled and dismissed as 'old and ugly'.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** In the setting, mind control spells are much more taxing than illusions and rejuvenation. Why exhaust yourself casting them when you can get other people to do stuff for you?
** ... that's it, until the [[BewareTheNiceOnes ships are down]] and she shows why she was feared/being in such a High Place in the First place.
** In the setting, emotions and feelings can be transformed in magic. Helga just so happens to use lust as her fuel for which she ''needs'' to maintain a perfect sex appeal all the time.



Back to VainSorceress! I, Helga the Hot, most beautiful of witches, command you!

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Back to VainSorceress! I, Helga the Hot, Enchanting, the most beautiful of among the witches, command you!commands you!
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* '''Downplayed''': Helga the Hot is vain, cold, and egotistical, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold but a surprisingly nice person once you get to know her]].

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* '''Parodied''': Helga the Hot acts like a typical vain sorceress, but her looks are at best mediocre, and she's a FashionVictimVillain. It's just that her temper and power have made it ill-advised for anyone to tell her the truth about her appearance.

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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
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Helga the Hot acts like a typical vain sorceress, but her looks are at best mediocre, and she's a FashionVictimVillain. It's just that her temper and power have made it ill-advised for anyone to tell her the truth about her appearance.



* '''Deconstructed''': Helga winds up having to spend so much of her time and magical power just maintaining her looks in the face of advancing age that she never gets anything else done, and becomes irrelevant to anyone else.

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* '''Deconstructed''': '''Deconstructed''':
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Helga winds up having to spend so much of her time and magical power just maintaining her looks in the face of advancing age that she never gets anything else done, and becomes irrelevant to anyone else.



* '''Reconstructed''': In the setting, mind control spells are much more taxing than illusions and rejuvenation. Why exhaust yourself casting them when you can get other people to do stuff for you?

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* '''Reconstructed''': '''Reconstructed''':
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In the setting, mind control spells are much more taxing than illusions and rejuvenation. Why exhaust yourself casting them when you can get other people to do stuff for you?



* '''Averted''': Magic-users in the story make no reference to their own appearance, and are not shown maintaining it.

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Magic-users in the story make no reference to their own appearance, and are not shown maintaining it.



* '''Enforced''': In this universe, magic-users must have a striking appearance in order to maintain their magical powers. You can be either really good-looking, or really ugly, but you can't be average.

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In this universe, magic-users must have a striking appearance in order to maintain their magical powers. You can be either really good-looking, or really ugly, but you can't be average.
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** Helga just so happens to be very beautiful by birth and is normally vain like any other human. And simply had a [[FashionVictimVillain Terrible Fashion sense]]. But thanks to rumors and badly first impressions, is constantly looked down by the most ''traditional'' of the Magical Circle and ridiculed behind her back by the noble/courtiers...

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** Helga just so happens to be very beautiful by birth and is normally vain like any other human. And simply had a [[FashionVictimVillain Terrible Fashion sense]]. But thanks to rumors and badly first impressions, she is constantly looked down by the most ''traditional'' of the Magical Circle and ridiculed behind her back by the noble/courtiers...



** In the setting, emotions and feelings can be transformed in magic. Helga just so happens to use lust as her fuel for which she ''needs'' to mantain a perfect sex appeal all the time.

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** In the setting, emotions and feelings can be transformed in magic. Helga just so happens to use lust as her fuel for which she ''needs'' to mantain maintain a perfect sex appeal all the time.



** Its done in a harsh, gritty [[TheDungAges Low Fantasy]]. Magic allows to have a healty, normal complexion which is oftenly mistaken for "stricking beauty".

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** Its done in a harsh, gritty [[TheDungAges Low Fantasy]]. Magic allows to have a healty, healthy, normal complexion which is oftenly often mistaken for "stricking "striking beauty".
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** Magic-users try to appear plain so they won't attract attention which could make them [[SquishyWizard an easy target]].
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** Helga's obsession with her own beauty stems from a belief that her looks are the ''only'' thing anyone else cares about. Her past experiences have only reinforced this; when she first showed signs of aging, she found herself suddenly losing the attention she used to command, and worse, being belittled and dismissed as 'old and ugly'.
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** Helga just so happens to be very beautiful by birth and is normally vain like any other human. And simply had a [[FashionVictimVillain Terrible Fashion sense]]. But thanks to rumors and badly first impressions, is constantly looked down by the most ''traditional'' of the Magical Circle and ridiculed behind her back by the noble/courtiers...


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**... that's it, until the [[BewareTheNiceOnes ships are down]] and she shows why she was feared/being in such a High Place in the First place.
** In the setting, emotions and feelings can be transformed in magic. Helga just so happens to use lust as her fuel for which she ''needs'' to mantain a perfect sex appeal all the time.


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** Its done in a harsh, gritty [[TheDungAges Low Fantasy]]. Magic allows to have a healty, normal complexion which is oftenly mistaken for "stricking beauty".
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* '''Inverted''': Helga the Horror uses magic of epic proportions to control the fates of nations and as a side-effect turns herself into an EldritchAbomination. When someone confronts her about turning herself ugly, she finds it hilarious, says [[AGodAmI a god]] doesn't care about such things, then splatters him for wasting her time.

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* '''Inverted''': Helga the Horror uses magic of epic proportions to control the fates of nations and as a side-effect [[OneWingedAngel turns herself into into]] an EldritchAbomination. When someone confronts her about turning herself ugly, she finds it hilarious, says [[AGodAmI a god]] doesn't care about such things, then splatters him for wasting her time.
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* '''Reconstructed''': But hey, at least she's beautiful, right?

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* '''Reconstructed''': But hey, at least she's beautiful, right?In the setting, mind control spells are much more taxing than illusions and rejuvenation. Why exhaust yourself casting them when you can get other people to do stuff for you?

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