Blood Huntress

"Poor little Danny, so desperate yet so determined." -Blood Huntress to Danny Torrance.

Alice Karven aka Blood Huntress is a character appearing in the HydroVerse series of comics, she is an antagonist as well as the long-time friend of Danny Torrance.

Throughout most of her teen life, Alice suffered from what was thought to be schizophrenia but it turned out that the voices she heard came from an even darker origin.

Appearance
Alice Karven is a Latin American woman, she sports brown hair and hazel eyes.

As the Blood Huntress, Alice takes on a completely emaciated appearance, resembling a charred corpse with glowing orange eyes. She also sports arm blades, as well as spiked protrusions growing from her back at times.

After transforming into the Queen of Lucifero, Alice grew in size and her human face was restored partially but her skin still appeared charred. Her lower half was that of a massive arachnid, with long spiked legs with multiple thorns protruding from them. Alice also sported clawed hands too and a collar-like growth around her neck.

Early Life
As a child, Alice Karven was a relatively happy child but was also quiet in class and rarely spoke to any of the other students except for a girl named Emily whom she formed a close friendship with. Unfortunately, Emily moved away and the two lost contact.

Going into her teen years, Alice started to hear odd voices in her head that told her very disturbing things that tortured her day and night. This condition was later recognized by her parents, and she was diagnosed with severe schizophrenia.

The voices began telling Alice to do bad things such as to harm other people, this eventually lead to her walking out into the living room and holding a knife to her mother.

Alice eventually moved out of her parents house and rented out an apartment, where she decided to live alone with her thoughts and wrote in her diary. During this time, she would meet Danny Torrance who worked as a pizza delivery man and the two began talking more as he was the only person she'd spoken to in a long time.

Comforting Danny
After Danny returned to Downpour after being away for so long, he reunited with Alice in a night club where the two spoke briefly where she consoled Danny learning he had lost both his girlfriend and mother.

Alice suspected that Danny was hiding things from her, such as his ability to travel to different areas rather quickly, Danny desperately tries to cover his tracks so as to not reveal his newfound powers.

After getting back from his run-in with Darkstar Corporation, Danny met up with Alice a second time in the same club where he prepared to open up to Alice about his secret.

However, he ends up not mentioning it and leaves abruptly.

Worsening Voices
During a meetup, a now homeless Danny Torrance apologizes for running out on their last conversation and decides to muster up enough courage to tell her his secret, however he once again detours from the topic and instead asks Alice to be his girlfriend, much to her surprise.

Believing he's made it weird, Danny goes to leave but he is stopped by Alice who turns him around and kisses him on the lips. Unbeknownst to her the Sikring of Fire, the source of Danny's powers, transfers a piece of its power into her due to the sudden flare of Danny's heart.

Back home as she cooks, Alice begins talking to the voices in her head and argues that Danny does love her, she then becomes angered and tells the voices to leave her alone. Alice begins moving her hand towards the stove, she begs them not to cause her to self-harm.

Alice decides to fight for control and pulls her hand back towards her, she decides to go see Danny and drives out into the night. As she speeds down the road she argues with the voices once more, she fears she is becoming less stable.

Feeling sudden changes happening within her, Alice's car begins to lose control as her eyes begin to emit smoke as they glow orange, her car then swerves off a bridge and crashes into the ground below. As her car catches fire, help arrives to extinguish the fire as citizens surround the area.

This commotion catches the attention of Danny who watches from a rooftop, he catches a glimpse of Alice's charred corpse which horrifies him. Danny slides downwards and breaks down from what he had witnessed.

Blood Huntress
Alice's corpse is held at the mortuary within Downpour Hospital, where she is identified by the doctors. As the staff continue their conversation, Alice's skin begins to regenerate and a now nude Alice stumbles off of the table she was lying on.

Finding some new clothes, Alice redresses herself and begins walking towards the door. However she begins leaving fiery footsteps behind her, her eyes begin emitting the same smoke and her entire body catches fire as she screams in a maniacal way.

This catches the attention of the hospital staff who smell the flames, Alice begins to change as blades sprout from her hands which results in the destruction of her skin. Alice laughs as her skin rips away violently, the hospital staff open the doors to the mortuary.

The staff member is then impaled through the chest by a massive blade, shocking the second doctor who is then stabbed through the neck. An emaciated creature emerges from the doorway, it observes its victims and feeds on their blood.

As Danny deals with a group of thugs in his neighbourhood as Hell's Child, he is attacked by the same emaciated creature. As Danny falls to the ground, the creature begins mutating and leaves the area.

Danny notices that his attacker sounded like Alice so he goes to her house to investigate, Danny is shocked to see his formerly dead friend answer the door, Danny goes to hug her but Alice pushes him away and suggests he leave.

Confused at the situation, Danny tries to talk to her but Alice coldly tells him to go away as he attempts to mention how he saw the body. Alice suggests that he was probably having a nightmare before slamming the door in his face.

Upstairs, Alice goes into her bedroom and inspects a man on her bed bleeding from his throat. Sprouting a blade from her arm, Alice decides to finish feeding on the man's blood.

A month passes and Danny becomes more concerned for Alice and becomes desperate to find out what happened. Danny goes to Alice's house and kicks the door open, he calls for Alice but no one answers. Danny runs upstairs and into Alice's bedroom where he discovers her eating away at a woman's corpse.

A terrified Danny questions Alice, and tells her to fight whatever is causing her to act this way. Alice states how she is weak and unable to do so, Danny attempts to comfort her but Alice viciously pushes him away before shoving him up against the wall. A demonic voice then bursts out of Alice, explaining that she is weak.

Alice apologizes to Danny before throwing him out of the window, he lands on the ground below. Transforming into her emaciated form known as the Blood Huntress again, Alice travels to another hospital and begins killing and draining everyone of their blood.

Making it his mission to put a stop to Alice's activities, Danny becomes Hell's Child and confronts Blood Huntress in the hospital. Hell's Child attacks by spewing a stream of fire, causing Blood Huntress to flee down the hallway.

Blood Huntress begins to pry an elevator open, Danny comes to investigate and equips himself with a bonesaw, Blood Huntress then appears and pulls Danny into the elevator shaft. As he is being held over the shaft, Danny insists that Alice is in there somewhere, due to draining Luciferian energy from Danny, Blood Huntress dismisses this and sprouts two spiked protrusions from her back.

Begging Alice to come back to him, Danny is tossed backwards by Blood Huntress and he latches onto the wall behind him. Blood Huntress then leaps at him and mocks how he has no best friend nor mother. This ticks Danny off, causing him to kick Blood Huntress away from him before throwing the bonesaw at her.

The bonesaw instantly slices into Blood Huntress' neck, she easily pulls it out. As Blood Huntress continues to mock Danny's efforts she is suddenly overcome with pain, her eyes briefly revert to Alice's and thanks Danny for "setting her free" and that she'll never forget him. After coughing up a considerable amount of blood, Blood Huntress loses her balance and plummets down the elevator shaft and into the ground below, causing Danny great distress.

Sometime later, a SWAT team investigate the carnage that ensued but little do they know Blood Huntress, who is still alive, stalks them from the darkness. Blood Huntress then slaughters the entire squad before leaving the hospital.

Queen of Lucifero
Sometime after the great battle of Downpour, a reverted Alice Karven wanders through the ruins in complete and utter despair at what has happened around her, she then falls to the ground in pain as her stomach gurgles violently, triggering another transformation.

During her search for blood, Blood Huntress comes across a squad of marines and instantly attacks them, she is struck in the face by one of them. Blood Huntress manages to kill one of the marines before she is scared off by their gunfire.

After reverting back into human, Alice travels elsewhere and falls to the ground unconscious. She wakes up and pleads for her own death, she then hears a similar voice nearby. Alice realises that a ram skull is speaking to her, Alice and the skull have a conversation which leads to Alice becoming convinced to become Lucifero's queen.

The skull gives Alice the task of travelling to a Luciferian-made portal that is hidden in the ruins, it tells Alice to use her power to open up a portal to let an army of Luciferians in that she'll command. Alice manages to find the structure and places her hand on it with joy as she believes it is calling out to her, Alice makes a remark about how she is not just another mental case due to her newfound purpose. After her new general Ignaltum extracts the Sikring of Fire from Danny, Alice waits for him at the portal until he arrives and hands over the Sikring.

Using its power to open up a portal to Lucifero, Alice welcomes her subjects through with open arms as numerous Luciferians flood through the gateway. She then begins channelling the power into herself, transforming her into a spider-like monster and taking her place as the Queen of Lucifero.

Commending Ignaltum for his actions, Alice decides that it is finally time for Earth to become their new home. Danny however pulls up to the scene in a car, exclaiming that he knows that Alice wants him to set her free. Ignaltum grows angry and stands to attack Danny as Alice looks on with a hint of sadness.

Danny charges his vehicle towards Ignaltum and they both speed through the portal into Lucifero. Danny manages to take back the power of the Sikring and defeat Ignaltum. Danny comes back through the portal to confront Alice and begins charging himself up with the raw energy he absorbed from Lucifero.

In a panic, Alice commands her subjects to attack but Danny expels his energy and incinerates all Luciferians in front of him. Furious with the deaths of her "children", Alice attacks Danny as he begins closing the portal by impaling her claws through his arm and chest.

Struggling to hold on, Danny manages to successfully close the Luciferian portal. Alice raises Danny up her face as she scolds him for taking away the one purpose in life that she had. Danny touches her face and mentions how she always wanted to be free, Danny says goodbye to his friend before suddenly tearing her head off from her shoulders.

Landing back onto the ground, Danny observes the lifeless head of Alice as her body collapses and catches fire before eventually burning away, ending Alice's life of torment.