First appearance: S3E11 — Blood Feud 1 — Havoc v Isha Inverraseth · watch it on YouTube
Havoc is a six-foot-four Lycan with a 60-pound maul, a body covered in scars and the newly earned title of alpha of the Kingslayer clan. She was pulled into the Void for a grudge match against Isha Inverraseth, the friend she had protected as a child and then torn apart on the worst night of both their lives. Played by byConnieChang, Havoc refused to fight for anyone’s entertainment. She became the first champion ever to take a swing at Gerald, and she came within an inch of a mutual death before the Grandmaster stopped time itself.
Story
Havoc arrived at The Dread Fortress looking every bit “a brick shithouse.” She wore crimson and obsidian leather, a tattered black cape and bright gold chains, and carried her gnarled maul across her back. She had been bathing in a lake in the Whispering Woods moments earlier, and she was not impressed by the welcome. She asked the Grandmaster whether she was a god, “a pretender to a god, perhaps?” Then her eyes caught the raised palm of the other champion. When the Grandmaster held a candle close, Havoc saw a scar on Isha’s palm that mirrored the old, jagged scar on the back of her own right hand. That scar had never stopped itching. She had believed Isha was dead. Isha accused Havoc of killing her, and when Havoc insisted she had spared her, Isha answered that she had, “only in vitality,” and promised to make Havoc bathe in her own blood.
In the Grandmaster’s fog-choked dark city, Havoc fought like someone who wanted to talk more than kill. She mocked Isha’s rooftop acrobatics (“Oh, Isha, skipping arm day”) and called out landing advice from their childhood, which only sent Isha crashing between two houses. A shared memory filled in their past. Isha had been a bookish runt who was picked on in the village library, and young Havoc had burst in with a huge stick and driven off the bullies: “Hey, fuck off! That’s my friend!” Later, Havoc gave Isha her first undercut in a bathroom off in the woods. In the arena, Havoc kicked down a hut door, barricaded the windows with furniture and a cast-iron pan so Isha couldn’t shoot her through them, and then raged. Her eyes burned gold, and a pillar of harmless primal light burst out through the roof.
Isha answered with fire. She reached into her mouth, pulled out her own wisdom teeth and gave them to the Box of Chaos, which handed her a sparking dagger. She lit an oil-soaked rag with it, walked through the flames into the hut, and put a spectral arrow straight into Havoc’s heart while Havoc sat in a chair Isha called “your throne.” A second arrow pinned her again. Havoc’s maul glowed red in the heat, and she rose to knock Isha down. Then she slung the weapon over her shoulder and walked out of the collapsing house. Isha held her dagger out and let Havoc walk right through the blade on the way past. In the town square Havoc turned on the crowd. She told The Acolytes she refused “to abide by the terms of your game” and swung her maul to slam the Box of Chaos shut. No one had ever attacked it before. Gerald answered with hot pink and purple flames that pushed her back, and she failed to shrug them off, even on a second try.
Her defiance worked on Isha, who threw down her dagger. Havoc told her side of that night: the wolves who slaughtered their village had sent her to hunt and kill Isha, and she had left Isha “within an inch” of her life because it was the only way to spare her. Isha drew two short swords for a fair fight and walked at her. The first blade sliced across Havoc’s chest; Havoc called on her luck against a second strike at her heart, but it hit anyway, and only Isha’s choice kept it from being lethal. Then Isha used a lamp from the arena to summon a genie and wished to “go back to where it began.” He took her literally and simply sent both champions back to where they had started. Havoc’s werewolf pack then appeared on the rooftops and in the alleys. They told her to finish the Lycan hunter herself, or they would. Isha said she would do it. For the first time, Havoc cried. She said “Isha, I’m sorry,” raised the maul and chose “let’s die together.” The blow froze just before it landed. The Grandmaster set the weapon aside and told Havoc she would “need to choose a side and prove who you really are and what you truly love.” In the farewells afterward, Havoc was pulled away to train, looking deeply conflicted. The match ended with no winner, and the feud was left unresolved.
Personality and Abilities
Havoc is huge, light brown-skinned and steely-eyed, with thick tangled black hair “like the wine dark waves of a storm-tossed ocean.” Her face is wolfish, and in wolf form she is a black dire wolf whose eyes turn gold when she rages. Her rage draws on a bear spirit that lets her shrug off almost any harm except attacks on the mind. It shows as a pillar of light and a soundless wind that swirls around her as if she were always swimming. She also has an eagle spirit, and as a beast-hide shifter she grows tougher when she changes. She fights recklessly and bluntly with her jeweled maul. She is just as likely to kick a door down or barricade a hut with kitchenware. She has also been to Disney World and loved it; people there assumed she was a character actor when she was shifted.
She is fiercely loyal and stubborn, and she has no patience for spectacle. To her, the Grandmaster and The Arbiter are “heretics,” and she treated the Box of Chaos as “this box of flaming skeletons.” She defends her pack: they slaughtered her village because vampires had driven them from their hunting grounds, and she says they are “not evil like we think they are.” But the oath she swore with Isha, “we live together, we die together,” has never left her. She says she has carried it “on my palm, etched across my heart every night since.”
Relationships
- Isha Inverraseth: Her childhood friend, whom she protected, scarred by the same oath. Havoc left her for dead to save her life, and Isha came back as the vampire Lycan Slayer to settle the debt.
- Kingslayer clan: The werewolf pack Havoc leads as new alpha. They demanded that she kill Isha herself.
- Grandmaster Elusia Skypiercer: Havoc asked whether she was a god or “a pretender to a god.” The Grandmaster froze the final blow and told Havoc to choose a side.
- The Arbiter: The other “heretic” in Havoc’s eyes. When Isha asked to fight elsewhere, he warned that “they’re going to want to come too,” and the pack appeared.
- The Box of Chaos: Havoc was the first champion ever to attack it, and Gerald burned her for it.
Memorable Quotes
- “This isn’t what I expected when I dipped into that lake to take a bath.” (S3E11)
- “You seek to laugh at our pain. You seek to exploit our grief. I refuse. I refuse to abide by the terms of your game.” (S3E11)
- “Your life, to me, has never been a mistake. It has always been beautiful.” (S3E11)
- “We live together, Isha, or we die together.” (S3E11)
- “I am a Lycan. I am Havoc. And this is my maul.” (S3E11)
- “A blood debt, like I said, Isha, must be paid in blood, but if the brokers are corrupt, why do I swing my maul?” (S3E11)