Hilling

Jiling (ヒリング, sometimes romanized as Hilling) is King Bosse's second wife, the second queen of the Bosse Kingdom, Bojji's step-mother, and Daida's birth-mother.

Appearance
Jiling is a thin, average-height woman with long blond hair, a prominent nose, and blue eyes. She typically wears her hair in a style that makes it appear chin-length. Her preferred outfit is a red bustle dress with a white fur-tufted neck, white gloves, and a solid gold crown.

Personality
To most Jiling appears to have a very brusque personality, and behaves in a distant, reserved manner befitting her rank as Queen. In reality Jiling cares deeply for the people around her, particularly her two sons, and is just bad at conveying her emotions.

Unfortunately Bojji took the brunt of Jiling's brusqueness, with Jiling's initial affection for him slowly changing into a domineering protectiveness that severely underestimated her step-son, and ruined their hard-won intimacy. It wasn't until Bojji, deeply distraught over being passed-over for kingship, attempted to escape the kingdom that Jiling realized her own behavior had driven a wedge between them. She then began to relax her protectiveness and allow Bojji more freedom.

Jiling was similarly domineering with Daida, insisting he become an exceptionally-strong man to help protect his brother. Though this motivated Daida, it also made him resent Bojji, and the two have yet to reconcile. Beyond that Jiling and Daida had a relatively loving, if cordial relationship.

Drushi, Jiling's personal bodyguard, was one of the first to understand her personality, and has since become one of her closest allies (though even he is kept at a relative distance).

Abilities
Jiling has the supernatural ability to heal wounds and injuries on other people, though doing so requires enormous concentration, saps her strength quickly, and forces her to drink magic potions to restore her strength (which are apparently disgusting).

Trivia

 * Jiling's healing magic saved the life of Mitsumata, the giant, double-headed snake.
 * Jiling's origins are unknown, but it's implied her family was already nobility, suggesting her marriage to Bosse may have been a political one.