Helga Hoff

"Nothing about Helga was quiet. Not her voice, not her actions, and certainly not her bodily emissions."

- The Crowns of Croswald

Helga Hoff is the head cook who lives and works at the Castle Plum. She is described by Ivy Lovely as having a horrible personality and appearance, and is often yelling. She has little care for the people around her, the only exception possibly being the Plum royal family. She resorts to verbal and physical abuse when things don't go her way. She is controlling and hates when her time is wasted. Although scaldrons play a very important role in the kitchen, she doesn't care for them and is not opposed to getting rid of them if they fail to pull their weight.

Appearance
Helga is described as having frizzled hair with scars covering her face from her incessant scratching. She has a wart on her forehead and foul-smelling breath. Her build is stocky and she wears pointy black boots.

History
Helga was Ivy's superior when she lived at the Castle Plum. She and Ivy did not have a good relationship, and Helga refused to let Ivy even have a light in her dark room, not wanting her to use it to sketch or read in her spare time as she felt it was a waste of time. She talked down to Ivy and likely the rest of the kitchen staff, and had a tendency to blame Ivy for anything that went wrong in the kitchens, whether it was her fault or not. She was also not below taking Ivy's meals away and making her eat scraps leftover by the scaldrons as punishment.

In the beginning of The Crowns of Croswald, Helga is the unfortunate receiver of a full case of raw blueberry batter when Humboldt sneezes on her, having been sick with flue flem. Red-faced with anger, Helga chases Ivy and Humboldt out of the Castle Plum and tells them to never return again.

Appearances

 * The Crowns of Croswald