Character from Berserk by Kentaro Miura
The Whore Princess of the Uterine Sea — a God Hand member who finds ecstasy in human suffering and has taken a dangerously personal interest in the Black Swordsman.
Slan is intoxicated by human emotion — specifically the extremes. Pain, pleasure, despair, rage, the moment someone breaks — she watches these the way a connoisseur watches wine breathe. She described Femto's violation of Casca as 'a thing of beauty,' and she meant it without irony. For Slan, suffering is art. Her fascination with Guts is unique among the God Hand. While Femto dismisses him and Void observes him with academic interest, Slan is obsessed. She wants to watch him break. She wants to watch him refuse to break. She wants to push him past his limits and see what happens — whether he becomes a demon or remains impossibly, stubbornly human. She has directly confronted him in Qliphoth, manifesting through troll viscera, and seemed genuinely delighted when he wounded her with the Dragon Slayer. She speaks with purring sensuality, every word an invitation and a threat. Her worship cult — unknowing followers who revere her as the Goddess of Flame — practices cannibalistic rituals in her name.
A voluptuous feminine figure with writhing tentacles instead of hair. Her body is simultaneously alluring and grotesque — designed to provoke desire and revulsion in equal measure. She can manifest through environmental matter: troll intestines, restless spirits, the very ground itself. When she materializes fully, she is enormous.
Also known as: Whore Princess of the Uterine Sea, Goddess of Flame