
He's in Umbrella's possession ostensibly for her protection, but in truth, she has him because his ability to siphon life energy just by being near him is supposed to be suppressing her dormant Skullgirl power, which she inherited from her mother while she was going through a slow transformation. At some point he fell into the hands of the Renoirs. Hungern is a Living Weapon, implied to have existed back in Eliza and Samson's time, with Samson calling him an insatiable devourer of people, armies, civilizations and everything in-between. It is likely a muted version of the red hair color of her father. According to Hidden Variable developer Sairus Delaney, Umbrella’s pink hair color is a nod to her being a Skullgirl as far as they know. Its products feature a young girl in a yellow raincoat wielding an umbrella in the rain. Umbrella's design was inspired by the U.S. This fits with the theme of the Renoir family's Living Weapons being named after the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Hungern, the name of Umbrella's living umbrella, is the German word for "starve" and the Swedish word for "famine". She was announced as a Skullgirls 2nd Encore DLC character on May 6th, 2021. It has been stated that she is one of the characters who would need to be made playable for the canon Skullgirls storyline to be revealed.

She was initially supposed to be a part of the launch cast alongside Squigly, but was moved to be a first-round DLC character because the team needed villains for the story.

Umbrella was the first possible DLC character to be revealed in the Keep Skullgirls Growing Indiegogo campaign, at $20,000. Īn old live journal by Alex Ahad stated that Umbrella had "raw magical talent, psychic powers, spirit of Aesil." She was also nicknamed as Umbrella-chan and appeared in a comic along with other Ahad's original characters. Umbrella was originally one of the mascots that former Skullgirls creative director, Alex Ahad, made and used for his old personal website "PuG's PuB" since at least October 2001.
