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| “ | I always thought that I would keep blood off my face. But when that thing attacked, I had to act to cross that line and keep them safe. But, if anyone knew, then all of Hell would rise to war. And who's to say who'd survive the fray? I might lose the ones that I was killing for. So I, I'll be your keeper. Do whatever it takes, I'll make the mistakes. I'll keep you safe and keep this secret. | „ |
| ~ Carmilla explaining her motivation for hiding her being the first killer of an Exorcist Angel. |
| “ | ♪ You better show some respect! check your behavior, ♪ ♪ No one speaks to Zestial that way! ♪ ♪ Did you expect us to sit back and take your insolent, brazen display? ♪ |
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| ~ Carmilla to Velvette in the "Respectless" song. |
Carmilla Carmine is a major character in the adult animated musical series Hazbin Hotel.
An influential and powerful Overlord in Pentagram City and the Pride Ring of Hell, Carmilla makes her living selling weapons to demons throughout Hell, including angelic firearms and blessed weaponry with angelic steel.
Commanding respect among her fellow Overlords of Hell, she's determined to minimize the casualties of the upcoming Extermination while also avoiding war with Heaven. She's also the mother of Odette and Clara and has a close and strong relationship with her fellow Overlord, Zestial.
She is voiced by Daphne Rubin-Vega.
Biography[]
Nothing is known about Carmilla's background, other than that she was presumably a human before dying and going to Hell for equally unknowable sins. She eventually rose up to be an Overlord of Pentagram City in the pride ring of hell as well as the producer and distributor of every kind of deadly weapon a demon could want, including modified angelic weaponry. At some point she had two daughters named Odette and Clara. During the last Extermination, she decapitated and killed an Exorcist Angel (a seemingly impossible feat that no other demon had accomplished) to protect her daughters, which ends up being the major catalyst behind Adam's decision to move up the deadline for the next Extermination to 6 months instead of a year as is custom.
She's briefly seen in the opening scene of the Pilot following the end of the most recent Extermination, hiding in her mansion with Zestial, Lucifer, and Zeezi. She opens the curtains in response to Charlie launching a firework into the sky to signal the end of the Extermination.
Making her official debut in "Scrambled Eggs", she hosts a meeting with the other overlords to come up with a strategy to minimize the kill count for the upcoming Extermination. The meeting takes a sudden turn when Velvette presents the overlords with the head of the deceased Exorcist in order to convince them to wage war against Heaven's forces and begins to mock and belittle Zestial advises at Velvette's reckless tactic. Angered by Velvette's disrespectful attitude towards her friend Zestial, Carmilla calls out and scolds the young overlord Velvette and the Vees as a whole for the arrogance and lack of foresight. Velvette then questions why someone who makes a living off of selling weapons is suddenly opposed to waging war, using her reaction to make her out as knowing more about the cause behind the dead angel than she wants to admit, leading to Carmilla ending the meeting early and leaving with Zestial and her daughters.
In private, Carmilla admits that she was the one who killed the Exorcist Angel in defense of her daughters but refuses to make this knowledge public out of fear that the resulting uprising would lead to Heaven wiping out demonkind altogether, including her loved ones. Unknown to either of them, Alastor had one of Sir Pentious's Egg Boiz, Frank eavesdrop on the conversation and learn the secret, which he tells the spy in question to keep between the two of them.
Later, Vaggi, having learned from Alastor that Angels could be killed and that Carmilla was the one to do it, comes to ask for Carmilla's aid in defending the hotel. Carmilla fights her and shows that she is well aware that Vaggi is an exorcist angel because of the X on her eye and the fact she wields an angelic spear. Throughout their fight, Carmilla has the upper hand, telling Vaggi how the angel is clearly fighting for vengeance when the real power comes down by fighting for the people one cares for. Realizing what Carmilla is saying, Vaggi starts thinking of her girlfriend Charlie and realizing how much she wants to help her, allowing her to even the duel and eventually win Carmilla's respect. With this, Carmilla grants the hotel her finest angelic weapons to defend against the exorcist angels. Following the battle, Carmilla is shown in her office listening to the news of the hotels victory against the angels and smiles.
Personality[]
In stark contrast to the much more eccentric and hedonistic overlords of Pentagram City, Carmilla Carmine is a no-nonsense and coldly pragmatic woman who is always blunt in her response. This attitude allows her to command a degree of respect among her fellow overlords, who she shows respect towards (Zestial in particular) and won't hesitate to stick up for should they be the subject of mockery by another. She shows an open dislike for Velvette and the Vees, regarding the trio as "smug wannabes" whose impulsiveness causes more problems than they solve. She has a pragmatic sense of restraint to her, refusing to go to all-out war with Heaven with no full proof plan and risk Heaven committing outright genocide against Hell, causing her to hide her status as the first killer of an Exorcist to avoid this outcome.
Underneath her cold exterior, Carmilla is shown to have a vulnerable and empathetic side to her character. She's shown to love her two daughters Odette and Clara, putting their protection and safety above everything else, killing an Exorcist to protect them. She also cares for Zestial, standing up for him in the face of Velvette's mockery and confiding her fears in him. She also sincerely cares for the demon sinners of Hell beyond seeing them as a mere resource for her and the overlords to build their power from, wishing to protect as many as she can from the cleanse and avoids provoking Heaven into slaughtering her people completely in response to her actions.
Carmilla appears to be largely professional, though she can lose her temper, especially when Zestial is insulted or her family is in danger. Zestial claims that losing her temper is usually very unlike her, indicating that she is usually calm and level-headed.
She cares about her daughters, willing to cross any line to protect them, even if it means killing an Exorcist while knowing there will be disastrous consequences for it. She even cares about Zestial, willing to protect him too.
She wants to avoid resorting to violence and avoid going to war, but at the same time, she'll do whatever it takes to protect her loved ones. She refuses to help Vaggi join Charlie's war against the Exorcist due to the fallout threatening her daughters' safety, but she does have a sense of pride when she demonstrates to Vaggie the weakness in the exorcist's fighting style as well as motivates Vaggi to "fight for love".
When she finally recognized that Vox's actions would condemn Hell as well as Heaven, Carmilla finally turned against him and helped Vaggi and her friends destroy the Might of Lilith.
Appearance[]
Carmilla Carmine is a very tall and slender humanoid demoness with an hourglass figure, light grey skin, and very long, thick white hair with a dark grey streak in her bangs. Her hair is usually kept into a pair of long and large beehive-like demon horns by thin, ballerina-like black ribbons, but when she lets her hair down and loose, it is calf-length and voluminous.
Her mouth has black lips and noticeable small fangs inside, and she has a marking colored in a darker shade of her grey skin tone resembling a mask that envelopes her eyes, which themselves have white irises, bright red sclera and black slit pupils. She has thin arms and big hands that reaches from her deltoids down, with her hands being rather large in proportion to her body with black pointed nails. She also has bridged wrists, instead of the alignment of her arms narrowing at the wrists like humans and most demons.
Carmilla wears attire similar to a ballerina, which consists of a short-sleeve off-the-shoulder black dress with two small white buttons on the left side and a white stripe located down the front and at the rim of the spiked white skirt, which includes carmine-red lining. She also wears long white opera gloves, and bistre-black waist stockings covered by very long white ballet shoelaces.
Carmilla walks on the tips of her toes in her white pointé shoes, which in "Hello Rosie!" are revealed to be made out of angelic steel. She also accessorizes with a set of black hoop earrings, despite lacking visible ear lobes.
In the flashback of the most recent extermination prior to the pilot, she is shown to be wearing a short-sleeve, v-neck, all-black, form-fitting battlesuit with white veins running through it that line her shoulders, chest, and small narrow waist. The suit consists of black pants that emphasize her long legs with her usual ballet shoes, a white belt with X-shaped straps tied around her hips, a white collar that lines her clavicle, and her long opera gauntlets are accompanied by white stripes that separate them from her deltoids.
Powers and Abilities[]
Skillset[]
- Enhanced Kinetic Balance: Carmilla can stand and walk on the tip of her feet for long periods without faltering like a ballerina.
- Ballet Combat: Carmilla fights with the grace, speed, and agility of a ballerina.
- Dance Battler: As her outfit suggests, Carmilla is a excellent ballerina, and has mastered a fighting style where her dance moves can be used against a foe offensively, in combination with razor-sharp blades built into her ballet shoes.
- Weapon Engineering: As owner of Hell's foremost arms dealing company, she produces and distributes a wide variety of weapons, both conventional and mechanical. She has proven able to build weapons out of the angelic steel salvaged from those the Exorcists drop during the annual purge.
- Bilingualism: Carmilla is fluent in English and Spanish.
- Musical Talent: She is capable of singing.
- Business Intuition: Befitting her keen mind, Carmilla was not only able to understand the properties and capabilities of standard and angelic weapons, but she was able to start and run a successful weapons business, earning her position as the top weapons dealer in Hell.
- Intelligence: Carmilla correctly deduced that Vaggi used to be an Exorcist Angel based on her appearance and fighting style with her angelic weapon. She was also capable of finding the weakness of Exorcists and a way to kill them.
- Enhanced Speed: Carmilla can move at incredible speeds that allow her to easily evade and counter Vaggi’s attacks while being too fast for Vaggi to react.
- Enhanced Agility: Carmilla is incredibly agile, enabling her to swiftly pass through a squad of Exorcists and score her first angel kill. In addition, she was able to outrun her opponents such as using her kinetic balance to run around the staircases and balcony railings in her home while teaching Vaggi the flaws and importance of her former fellow Exorcists' weakness. She is also flexible to do a complete split against the wall, and in the air.
- Weaponry Knowledge and manufacturing : Due to having a business selling weaponry, she appears to have a vast level of knowledge regarding weapons, such as the details of angelic weapons. As shown in "Scream Rain", when Vox convinced her to cooperate with him, Carmilla possess advanced knowledge and skill in weapon's manufacturing, engineering, and gunsmithing, instantly understanding the mechanics of the weapon's blueprints Vox showed to her, and personally overseeing and part of its construction. Later in "Curtain Call", due to being the weapon's inventor, Carmilla knew precisely how to safely disable the weapon and the dangers of the device's overload.
- Ocular Illumination: Carmilla's eyes can glow when she is feeling strong emotions and in dark environments.
- Deal-Making: While not shown on-screen, as mentioned in "Scrambled Eggs" that the overlords in the meeting together "own millions of souls" implies that Carmilla can make deals with others in order to collect their souls like other Overlords.
- Energy generation - Carmilla showcased the ability to produce a glowing white-red energy, which she used in "Curtain Call" to help coat Vox's angelic laser cannon in a barrier.
Weaponry[]
- Bladed Blessed Angelic Steel Ballet Shoes: Her ballerina shoes are metal-plated and razor sharp, made of angelic salvaged weapons dropped by the Exorcist Angels. As such, these blades are thus able to injured or permanently kill both angels and demons and As shown during her fight with Vaggi and her fight against the Exorcists, Carmilla's ballet shoes are made of angelic steel. Carmilla's fighting style mainly revolves around kicking and precise legwork, with the shoes greatly enhancing her offensive strength and allowing her to easily behead an Exorcist.
Quotes[]
| “ | Zestial. So good to see you, my friend. | „ |
| ~ Carmilla to Zestial. |
Gallery[]
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Videos[]
Trivia[]
- It has yet to be confirmed if Odette and Clara are her biological daughters (since sinner demons are incapable of producing their own offspring to further their punishment in Hell) or if she adopted them. It's possible that her daughters were also human and she gave birth to them when she was human or if Odette and Clara are hellborn demons. Also, it has yet to be revealed who their father is.
- Carmilla being a sinner demon is further hinted in "Hello Rosie!" when the exorcists were after her and her daughters, as the exorcists spare hellborn demons from the extermination.
- She is first mentioned in the Helluva Boss episode “The Harvest Moon Festival” although she first appeared in the Hazbin Hotel pilot.
- Both of Carmilla's daughters are both named after female protagonist characters from Tchaikovsky's classic ballet Swan Lake and The Nutcracker.
- It's unknown if Carmilla owns souls like the other Overlords. Considering her kind nature, she may instead employ the kinder and more vulnerable souls in Hell.
- Due to having a similar hair and skin color to Vaggi, it’s been widely theorized by fans that Carmilla is a fallen angel herself. Other hints to this are the blessed angelic weapons she crafts and sells, her immense knowledge of the exorcist angels and their weaknesses, and her immediately figuring out Vaggi is one herself.
- Her name "Carmilla" means "garden" or "orchard", while "Carmine" is a shade of red and a red pigment.
- Her last name may also be a rhyme or play on the term "carbine" (car-byne) meaning a short rifle, which matches well with her company in scavenging, recycling, and distributing angelic steel.
- The garden meaning of the name Carmilla may also reference the famous axiom "It's better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war" attributed to legendary Japanese swordsman/kensei Miyamoto Musashi.
- Carmilla's audition song was "Americano" by Lady Gaga.
- In a Collider Interview Vivziepop states that Carmilla is an Overlord that is supposed to represent Dance since her Design is based around Ballet, as her own Media and art form.
- Carmilla is the only overlord from Hazbin Hotel to be connected to the spin-off series, Helluva Boss, specifically in the episode "The Harvest Moon Festival", with the sniper rifle titled as "Carmine-Crafted".
- Despite her age, Carmilla may have been inspired by Blaze the Cat from Sonic, she has very similar clothing and personality.
- Out of all the Overlords seen so far, Carmilla is arguably the least evil as she values her partners and loves her children while certain Overlords like Alastor or the Vees do things mostly for their own benefit and out of pragmatic reasons while Carmine genuinely cares about Sinner demons not wanting them to risk their lives and be killed by the Angels.
- In a Bluesky post, Vivziepop confirmed that Carmilla is pretty humanoid and has a dancer/supervillain theme.
- In a collider Interview, Vivziepop says that as the show goes on they will learn where her Guilt and pain lies but a lot of it is due to Angelic weaponry and because she wields so much power that she was kind of the originator of where it is from and had lead to so much more death.
- As indicated in "Scream Rain" and later confirmed in "Weapon of Mass Distraction", Carmine Industries specializes in not just scavenging and distributing Angelic Weapons collected during Exterminations, but also recycling the Angelic Steel of the weapons into new weapons. As demonstrated where Carmilla successfully engineering an angelic weapon of mass destruction that uses Lucifer's immense angelic power as its power source.
External Links[]
- Carmilla Carmine on the Villains Wiki.
- Carmilla Carmine on the Hazbin Hotel Wiki.
- Carmilla Carmine on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki.
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