Hel - the goddess of death

March 2020 submission for Character Design Challenge

"Are you a living being," he asked, "or a corpse?"
"I am only myself, Hel, daughter of Angrboda and Loki," she said. - And I like the dead people most of all. They are simple
beings, respecting me, though the living look at me with disgust.
Odin stared at the girl for a long moment, remembering his dreams. Finally he said:
- This child will become the ruler of the deepest of the darkest places and dead of all nine worlds. She will be the queen of those unfortunate souls, who died in an unworthy way (...)
For the first time since she was removed from her mother's womb, the girl Hel smiled with half her mouth. "

An excerpt from Neil Gaiman's "Nordic Mythology". My translation from Polish.