Hanne

Hanne is a side character featured in a couple of titles in the Elsaverse. She is the chief editor at a local newspaper, "The Sangrive Times", which makes her Joel Dresden's immediate boss. Hanne is also one of Detective Nathanial Blake's casual sex partners. She has no powers known.

Character Overview
Hanne is a journalist who currently works as the chief editor of "The Sangrive Times", a local newspaper from Sangrive. Some time after the Mayoral elections in which Anne Kruin defeated Joey Bertradino, she's quite stressed as her boss keeps asking her for new topics to cover; fortunately for her, a vigilante has started to act in the city and the Sangrive Police Department has decided to use her to try and avoid this vigilante's supernatural powers to become public knowledge. The plan devised by Lara, the Internal Affairs officer who also serves as a link between detectives Nathanial Blake and Michelle Won and Lara's mysterious superiors, consists in leaking some details about the case so that Hanne's newspaper is perceived by the public as the most reliable source of info, which would eventually allow the authorities to spread their desired version of this vigilante not having any supernatural powers. Obviously, Hanne is fully unaware of all of this plotting, and she just beams when Detective Blake tells her about the case after a pleasant dinner date, asking her to keep her source completely anonymous.

One of the details that the Sangrive PD shares with Hanne, and only with Hanne, is the vigilante's callsign: "Tainted Arrow". As an expert and smart editor, Hanne decides to sit on this exclusive info for a bit to let her journalists take the lead over their media rivals. Also, her idea is to try and focus on the vigilante's most personal side and motivations, as she thinks that every other media company will be focusing on the vigilante's actions and she has a very skilled employee who seems to have a knack for finding the personal side of stories. That's why she chooses Joel Dresden and asks him to cover the vigilante's case, as she feels his talent is a bit wasted in his successful advice column. Initially shocked as he thought she was planning to make him cover an armed conflict again, Joel quickly regains his composure and accepts the job as soon as he hears the name of "Tainted Arrow". He follows that lead and, a few days later, Joel comes back with a very touching article about the death of "Tainted Arrow" after being shot during her last hit, and Hanne decides to publish it immediately: the article states that the vigilante was just an ordinary woman with no supernatural powers.