Drowned Ophelia

Ophelia is a hero turned villain from the video game Brutal Legend.

History
Opehlia first met Eddie Riggs after he ended up in her time in the middle of the Temple of Ormagoden. She had disguised herself as one of the Druids to sneak into the temple and retrieve the Separator, an axe of tremendous power. However Eddie retrieved it first and the two met as the roadie fought his way through Doviculus's minions, who were guarding the temple. The two then worked together and began fighting their way through the demon forces. Ophelia was impressed by Eddie's ability to access the remnants of the Titan's power using his guitar, "Clementine", and his skills with the Separator. She brought him to Bladehenge where she introduced him to Lars and Lita Halford and they all spend some time getting to know Eddie. They realized Eddie was foretold by legend, a warrior brought to this world by Ormagoden, destined to be a destroyer of humanity or its savior. They then decided to trust him and began working to build an army. to fight the demons. Ophelia wanted to save the women in the Pleasure Dome of General Lionwhyte, but Lars told her not to and so Eddie set out to free the men imprisoned in the general's mine. However Ophelia set out to free the women anyway and was successful, though she was badly hurt trying to arm the women with Razorfire Boar carcasses, which become a powerful ranged weapon when preapred correctly. Ophelia returned to Bladehenge on the verge of death and was brought by Lars to the healer known as the Kill Master. However her wounds were to grievous and the Kill Master reuired strings from the Metal Spider Queen to heal her. Lars wanted to go retrieve the strings, Lita told him to just let Ophelia go since her family had been part of the Black Tear Rebellion. They had been a group of humans that originally fought for the same ideals as the Ironheade army, but had gone insane after they drank the dark waters from the Sea of Black Tears, fighting against the other humans. After Eddie retrieved the strings, Ophelia was healed and thought that Lars had saved her, but Eddie didn't correct her, since his instinct as a roadie was to follow another. She then got Eddie to help her take down the Razorfire Boars so as to arm her Razor Girls, the women she saved from the Pleasure Dome.

During a battle with Lionwhyte, Ophelia was with Eddie when he complained of a powerful pain in the back. He thought he had been shot, but she couldn't see anything in his back and so Eddie ignored it.

Later, when they laid siege to Lionwhyte's Pleasure Dome, Ophelia watched as Eddie's pain returned and his skin suddenly changed color, demon wings sprouted out of his back, and his eyes seemed to burn. Opehlia said that the Druid's of Ormagoden's temple were said to poison their weapons, which was probably the reason for Eddie's transformation. However she seemed to have an inkling about Eddie being Succoria's son. Later Ophelia introduced them to the ones who helped her get the women out of the Pleasure Dome, the Roadies, who joined the Ironheade army. While they were getting speakers to arm the Roadies with, Eddie revealed his feelings for Ophelia, which she accepted, though they didn't mention this to anyone else. Before launching the final attack against Lionwhyte, Ophelia told Eddie that her parents had been leaders of the Black Tear Rebellion, but he gave her his shark-tooth necklace, the only thing he has of his mother's, to prove he trusted her.

However upon their defeat of Lionwhyte, Emperor Doviculus appeared and spoke of a woman named Succoria, who had been sent to spy on the humans. After the demon emperor killed Lars and unleashed his force of Bleeding Death to destroy Lionwhyte's city, Ophelia was confronted by Lita as the spy Doviculus spoke of. Eddie confronts her about this, but Opehlia refused to tell him anything, which made him refuse to trust her. She was heartbroken by this, even though she knew a lot of people didn't trust her, she thought that Eddie always would.

Opehlia was left abandoned and found her way to the Sea of Black Tears. Since everyone believed she would become one of the Tear Drinkers, she decided she might as live up to their exepectations. With the sea calling out to her sorrow, Opehlia threw herself into the dark waters adn was dragged down into it by a strange black force, drowning her. From the waters, emerged the twisted and Dark Drowned Ophelia, who became leader of the Drowning Doom. She sent her minions to attack the Ironheade army and Eddie saw Ophelia's crests on one of the Gravedigger's shirts, making him realize she was their new leader. He led the Ironheade to the Sea of Black Tears so as to destroy it and stop Ophelia from creating more warriors for the Doom. On his way there, Drowned Ophelia confronted him and destroyed the bridge Eddie had just created with her new guitar.

Later, after Eddie found out about his father and how he had lead the Black Tear Rebellion, he confronted Ophelia again and asked if this had been what she couldn't tell him. She denied this and then told him that his father had accompanied the demon emperor into the future. Eddie then reasoned that his father defeated the emperor since there were no demon overlords in the future (except for in record companies) and that upon his defeat, Doviculus came back to the age of metal. This only amused Ophelia, who told him that Doviculus wasn't always emperor, but when Eddie attempted to find out who it had been, she left. Finally Eddie and the Ironheade found their way to the Sea of Black Tears, where he hoped to free Ophelia. However she ignored their request to come back and instead showed them how she became what she was now with one of her Organists. Ophelia's Drowning Doom then entered a final battle with Ironheade, which they lost. Eddie manages to confront Ophelia once again, convinced she was indeed the traitor, a mutual feeling. But when he called her by what he thought was her true name "Succoria", she was quite confused. Doviculus reappeared and told Eddie the truth behind Succoria, she was the former demon empress that had traveled to the future to discover the secret behind the Titan's magic. She brought with her a number of human slaves, one of which was Riggnarok in disguise, Eddie's father who planned to slay Succoria. However he and the demonic empress fell in love and had a son, Eddie. Doviculus then tore out the heart of Drowned Ophelia and placed it in his own chest.

After defeating Doviculus, Eddie tore Opehlia's black heart out of his chest, which dissolved into Eddie's shark tooth necklace. Realizing that the true Ophelia was still alive, he dove into the Sea of Black Tears and found her resting on the bottom. Eddie attempted to bring her to the surface, only for the same black force that had pulleld Ophelia under to pul him down as well. He managed to relase Ophelia, who saved him as well by pulling him out by his stage pass. Ophelia then rejoined the Ironheade, who actually start to trust her.

Powers
Even before drinking from the Sea of Black Tears, Ophelia was a skilled warrior demonstrating great agility and wielding a pair of short swords in combat. But after she became a Tear Drinker, she gained great dark powers. Ophelia taught her self to play the guitar, alllowing her to call on the Titan's magic as Eddie does. She alos gained shadow manipulation powers, which she could use to form a pair of etheral bird like wings.

Trivia

 * Ophelia's name comes from Princess Ophelia in Hamlet, who also had her heart broken by the one she once loved.