Krampus Bounds the Competition Verosika

 

In 2018, Krampus gathered some deserving cartoon cuties for punishment, well it time to gather some more  bad cartoon cuties.  It seems even demons for Hell can run afoul of Krampus, as Verosika Mayday of Helluva Boss has discovered.

Verosika Mayday is a major antagonist in the adult animated web series Helluva Boss.

She serves as the main antagonist of the third episode “Spring Broken”, a cameo antagonist in the sixth episode "Truth Seekers" and a major antagonist in the seventh episode “Ozzie’s”.

She is a famous succubus in Hell and Blitzo’s ex-girlfriend, while also having a grudge against him after a couple of incidents when they were together.

She is voiced by Cristina Vee, who also voiced Elsa Granhiert in the English dub of Re: Zero - Starting Life in Another World.

While Blitzo drives Loona, Moxxie, and Millie to work, a car cuts in front of him and takes his parking spot. Blitzo recognizes passenger to be his ex-girlfriend, Verosika. After they insult each other, Blitzo tells her that she took I.M.P. only spot, but Verosika points out her name is on spot which is painted over I.M.P. She tells him that she freelanced for a successful company for the week and brought in to lead their team during Spring Break. After reminding Blitzo their history together, he follows her and demands her to move car or else, but is interrupted by her bodyguard, Vortex.

Blitzo, Loona and Moxxie enter the building to confront Verosika about the parking spot while Millie finds a temporary spot. Once they got there, Vortex informs them that Verosika rented the office space that’s across from them since there wasn’t room on the second floor. Moxxie goes into the office and tries to reason with Verosika, but she and her employees take on their fully demon forms and sexually assault him. Blitzo furiously storms into the office and challenges Verosika to a bet, if I.M.P can kill more targets than her demons can have sex with theirs by the end of the day, which Verosika accepts the bet.

As the I.M.P group killed their targets as many as possible, Verosika appeared on stage at her concert and her demons started to have their way with the crowd. As she sings, she throws her hip flask that had alcohol from Hell into the crowd and into the water, where a fish is mutated into a gigantic monster and attacks everyone. After Millie kills the fish monster and saves a drunken Moxxie, Verosika and her group mockingly compliments I.M.P. on how they handled the fish monster.

Millie tosses the hip flask back to her and warns her how bad it would look if they revealed that she was the one behind the fish monster. Verosika then tells them that they would also get in trouble for not disguised themselves as humans. Blitzo tells Verosika and her demons they won’t say anything about what happened if he can use their parking spot, which Verosika angrily accepts. Before they could leave the beach however, the police arrived and arrested the group, with Verosika hinting that she and her squad would have to pay them off with sex.

In episode "Truth Seekers", Verosika, along with Striker and Fizzarolli, appears as one of Blitzo's hallucinations. The hallucination of her calls him out for his selfishness and pushing people away to the point they become his enemies.

Verosika is a very seductive, perverted, and manipulative succubus that likes to taunt Blitzo for her own enjoyment. Despite keeping a calm attitude, she is shown to have a hostile grudge towards Blitzo due to their history together.

Tip of the Santa hat to for suggesting this gal.

In Central European folklore, Krampus is a horned, anthropomorphic figure described as "half-goat, half-demon", who, during the Christmas season, punishes children who have misbehaved, in contrast with Saint Nicholas, who rewards the well-behaved with gifts. Krampus is one of the companions of Saint Nicholas in several regions including Austria, Bavaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Northern Italy including South Tyrol and the Province of Trento, Slovakia, and Slovenia. The origin of the figure is unclear; some folklorists and anthropologists have postulated it as having pre-Christian origins.

In traditional parades and in such events as the Krampuslauf (English: Krampus run), young men dressed as Krampus participate; such events occur annually in most Alpine towns. Krampus is featured on holiday greeting cards called Krampuskarten.

The history of the Krampus figure has been theorized as stretching back to pre-Christian Alpin traditions. In a brief article discussing the figure, published in 1958, Maurice Bruce wrote:

There seems to be little doubt as to his true identity for, in no other form is the full regalia of the Horned God of the Witches so well preserved. The birch – apart from its phallic significance – may have a connection with the initiation rites of certain witch-covens; rites which entailed binding and scourging as a form of mock-death. The chains could have been introduced in a Christian attempt to 'bind the Devil' but again they could be a remnant of pagan initiation rites.

Discussing his observations in 1975 while in Irdning, a small town in Styria, anthropologist John J. Honigmann wrote that:

The Saint Nicholas festival we are describing incorporates cultural elements widely distributed in Europe, in some cases going back to pre-Christian times. Nicholas himself became popular in Germany around the eleventh century. The feast dedicated to this patron of children is only one winter occasion in which children are the objects of special attention, others being Martinmas, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, and New Year's Day. Masked devils acting boisterously and making nuisances of themselves are known in Germany since at least the sixteenth century while animal masked devils combining dreadful-comic (schauriglustig) antics appeared in Medieval church plays. A large literature, much of it by European folklorists, bears on these subjects. ... Austrians in the community we studied are quite aware of "heathen" elements being blended with Christian elements in the Saint Nicholas customs and in other traditional winter ceremonies. They believe Krampus derives from a pagan supernatural who was assimilated to the Christian devil.

The Krampus figures persisted, and by the 17th century Krampus had been incorporated into Christian winter celebrations by pairing Krampus with St. Nicholas.

Countries of the former Hasburg Empire have largely borrowed the tradition of Krampus accompanying St. Nicholas on 5 December from Austria.