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feellikeibelong) wrote2013-10-21 03:02 am
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2. Canon Character Information
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Name: Helena Wells aka H.G. Wells
PB: Jaime Murray
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feellikeibelongAge: 147, but she appears to be in her mid-30s
Appearance: Helena stands at 5'7" and is slender, but she has a toned body type. Her skin is pale alabaster that's dotted with many freckles on her neck, arms and torso. She has black hair that falls to her shoulder blades and dark brown eyes. She has excellent bone structure, and aside from having both ear lobes pierced, she also sports four other ear piercings, two cartilage piercings on her left ear, one cartilage piercing on her right ear and one piercing higher up on the lobe of her right ear. Helena also constantly wears a locket which contains a picture of Christina. Helena also tends to favor wearing pants and a layered look of a shirt, scarf and jacket. She also likes wearing button up blouses and vests. As long as she doesn't have to wear a corset or a dress on a daily basis, she's happy.
History: Born in 1866, Helena Georgia Wells was a good citizen of the Crown and born to a privileged family. She always had the active mind, and she was a genius. Over-active imagination did tend to lead to a lot of fanciful stories. She had a brother, Charles, whom she shared these ideas with. When they were older, Charles wrote down all of her ideas, being the author everyone knew as H. G. Wells, and thus getting all the credit for the ideas while Helena received none. She greatly disliked that her idiot of a brother got all the attention and praise for all the ideas that were hers. However, she had to relent to the times she lived in. And though she was unmarried, Helena had a daughter, Christina, by an unnamed father. Helena adored her daughter. Helena often referred to Christina as her happiest place on Earth. She began her apprenticeship at Warehouse 12 in 1889. Upon her initial arrival at the Warehouse, Caturanga asked what Helena smelled, to which she replied apples. Caturanga said not everyone smells the apples, and that it's the sign that the Warehouse liked her. One of her first cases as a Warehouse Agent was tracking down Jack the Ripper's Lantern. In an attempt to snag it, Helena went undercover, as it were, using Harriet Tubman's Thimble to change her appearance and catch the culprit off-guard. The man chased her down alleys until she came to a barred gate she couldn't get past. At which point she put on a pair of sunglasses, took the Thimble off, revealing her true form, and took the culprit down, using her Tesla on him to render him unconscious so she and Caturanga could take the Lantern back to Warehouse 12. She snagged the Lantern in her first month as an Agent. Caturanga said the older Agents would become jealous, to which she said they already were. Caturanga noted that she'd taken very quickly and very well to the Warehouse. She said it was because she'd found a place were her other talents could be used for the good of the Empire. She'd found a new home of her own where she could freely be the person she truly was without restraint.
Helena was also an inventor, and constantly was working on projects when she wasn't busy tracking down artifacts for the Warehouse. She developed several devices, including the Imperceptor Vest, the Grappler, a psychometric Time Machine, and an antigravity generator. She also helped develop a rocket with another scientist. A man named Vincent Crowley, who was a Warehouse agent and was against the Warehouse being moved to America, learned about the rocket project by reading Helena's diary. The two had been lovers, thus how he'd gotten easy access to her diary. Crowley then killed the scientist Helena worked with and intended to use it in conjunction with Joshua's Trumpet to prevent the Warehouse relocating to America. Helena managed to stop him by launching the rocket into space. Crowley was killed by the horn blast that was emitted from the rocket as it took off.
1899 was the year everything changed for Helena. Her daughter was staying in Paris with cousins. While there, Christina was murdered. This news plunged Helena into a deep state of melancholy, and she became obsessed with finding a way to change the past and save her daughter. This was when she developed the psychometric Time Machine. It allowed her to project her consciousness into the body of another in the past. There was a time limit of 22 hours and 19 minutes. Using this device, she went back in time to try and save her daughter, but ultimately failed. After discovering who killed her daughter, Helena tracked them down and tortured and killed them in revenge. However, this didn't alleviate the sorrow she felt, and she requested herself to be bronzed in 1900. For the next 110 years, she remained in the Bronze Sector of the Warehouse immobile but still conscious.
In 2010, she was debronzed by Leena, who was being controlled by James MacPherson. The two managed to work together and successfully stole a case of antimatter. Helena used this to power the Imperceptor Vest, allowing her to navigate through the Escher Vault to reclaim her personal effects. Upon exiting, she found MacPherson captured by the Warehouse agents and ready to tell them about what she was planning, so she killed him and escaped using the Imperceptor. Once in safety, she began sketching a new device, one she'd been pondering over during her long years of being bronzed.
Not long after, Helena was tracking down an artifact at a college campus when Myka and Claudia ran into her while searching for the same artifact. She told them Myka was looking for the artifact to prove that she was still a "good" agent. Everything she'd once held dear was lost, and she told her the Warehouse was the only home she had. During the talk, a car nearly ran them both over, but using her Grappler, Helena saved both her and Myka's lives. After that, they joined forces to find the artifact that was causing the deaths of the college students. They eventually tracked the artifact down to a plant that produced a sports drink, and realized it was the ladle used to collect the test samples. During a struggle to get the ladle, Claudia was knocked into a vat of the liquid, and it seeped into her body through her pores, sending her body temperature sky rocketing. Helena deduced Claudia only had an hour, maybe two to live, but said she could make up an antidote if she was able to get a closer look and check the amino acids. Myka was skeptical because the work Helena had done with amino acids had been done 115 years before, by Helena was adamant that she could do something. Claudia was put into a tub of ice while Helena worked on the antidote. Luckily, the antidote worked. While Myka and Claudia had a moment, Helena slipped away, but not without leaving her grappler behind for Myka with a note reading "Keep it. You can owe me."
Later, after Myka and Pete's old boss was killed by an artifact, Helena showed up at the funeral, approaching Myka when she was sitting alone. Helena was tracking the same artifact, and she again expressed to Myka that she wanted to return to the Warehouse as an agent. But Myka told her Artie was staunchly against it, and that she'd need to know Helena's motives, and wanted to know why the Regents had bronzed her a century before. In a rare moment of vulnerability, Helena confessed that she didn't belong in this world, that this wasn't her time. Then, finally, she told Myka that she'd requested to be bronzed. Myka questioned why someone in their right mind would ask for such a fate, but Helena said she hadn't been in her right mind. After her daughter had been murdered, she'd become obsessed with wanting to find a way to change it. She went through every artifact in Warehouse 12 looking for something. Twice she was caught and left off the hook. The third time cost another agent's life. That's when she asked to be bronzed. After the heart-to-heart conversation, Myka said she'd talk to Artie. Helena thanked her, then left before Artie caught sight of her. Later when investigating a second death, Helena was caught leaving the building on one of the security feeds. This led Artie, Myka and Pete to break into Helena's hotel room, but she'd expected that, so she called the room phone once they were in, and said she was tracking down the artifacts and wasn't in possession of them. Instead, she told them that Artie had been photographed at the funeral and that she'd followed the man, but hadn't gotten inside the NSA building to stop the latest murder. She'd found something on the man's body which she felt was directed at Artie and had left it for him in the room. Helena was on the phone long enough to get the information that whoever was behind the killings was after Artie and that the killer had the names of all of Artie's family in Russia. Helena followed them to Russia, mostly due to the transmitter she slipped into Myka's pocket when she talked with her at the cemetery. They discovered, thanks to some digging Helena had done, that it hadn't been Artie's former contact that brought him to Russia as Helena had found a death certificate for him. In order to find Artie, Myka and Helena started going through the bag Artie always took with him, and they pulled out the case for his glasses, which Claudia had rigged with a tracking device because he always lost his glasses. However, he'd lost the receiver, but Helena used the receiver she'd used to track Myka to find Artie. They tracked him to an old warehouse. Upon hearing Artie's screams, Helena suggested they split up. Helena was the first one to find Artie, who was unconscious. She tried to free him, but his captor interrupted and used an artifact on her, which was a piece of the Titanic and caused the person affected to freeze to death. It's a death that takes a couple minutes to come to pass, killing the person the same way those who froze to death in the north Atlantic water did. However, while the captor was busy taunting Artie, Helena managed to get a shot off even though was freezing to death from the inside out. Her shot broke one of the chains holding Artie in place, and he managed to take the captor down long enough to completely free himself, then saved Helena. When they returned to the Warehouse, it was announced that Helena had been fully reinstated as a Warehouse agent. She thanked Myka and was welcomed by both her and Pete, but Artie still greatly distrusted her.
Not long thereafter, a former Warehouse 13 agent, Rebecca St. Clair returned to enlist the help of the agents to track down an artifact that she and her partner Jack Secord had failed to locate when they'd blacked out for a period of 22 hours and 19 minutes in 1961. The time the blackout lasted prompted Helena to realize that this had been a result of her psychometric Time Machine. After pulling the machine out of storage and getting it up and running again after a century, Helena used it to send Pete and Myka's consciousnesses into Rebecca and Jack's bodies so they could locate the artifact. The whole time, Helena kept a vigil over them both, making sure things were working as they should and both Pete and Myka were doing all right. During that time, Claudia asked her what day she'd gone back to, expecting something grand and exciting. But Helena told her she'd gone to Paris in 1899 to try and stop her daughter from being murdered. Helena found out the hard way that the past cannot be changed, no matter how hard one may try. Claudia made the statement that losing a child must be the worst pain a person can go through, but Helena assured her that what she did to the men who killed her daughter was the worst pain a person could go through. In the middle of the time Myka and Pete spent in Jack and Rebecca's bodies, Artie, who was completely oblivious to what was going on with Helena and her time machine, saw a problem in the power system of the Warehouse and tried to flush it out, sending a surge through the time machine. It burned out the re-integration circuit, rendering Helena unable to bring Myka and Pete back. If she didn't fix it in time, Myka and Pete's consciousnesses would be lost forever. Claudia rushed off to get something to cool down the machine to keep it from overheating. The instant she was gone, Artie showed up, putting a gun to Helena's head and demanded she stop whatever she was doing to Myka and Pete. Rebecca managed to convince him to stand down, and Helena told him he could watch her every move but to let her save them. Artie agreed, but said if they died, he wouldn't bother rebronzing her. Helena succeeded in repairing it and brought Myka and Pete back safely. After that, Rebecca asked Helena if the machine still worked. She replied that the circuitry was badly damaged and that it wouldn't work more than a few moments and that she wouldn't be able to bring her back. Rebecca, who was dying of cancer, didn't want to come back. So Helena sent her back to 1961 so Rebecca could see Jack, the love of her life, one last time. Afterwards, Artie had commented to Myka that Helena had done a good job in the case.
There was a brief lull in having to chase down artifacts, so Helena was helping keep things in order around the Warehouse. One day, while her, Myka and Claudia were going through and sorting papers, Pete was attempting to ask for advice about his love life, on whether moving in with his girlfriend was a good idea. Though he made the comment that none of those three women were normal women, to which Claudia objected and Helena shot at him that she did know a thing or two about the opposite sex, that many of her lovers had been men. The conversation was ended by her and the other two women concluding Pete loved his girlfriend, and when Mrs. Frederic appeared, the women left her alone with Pete. Suddenly, Mrs. Frederic collapsed and started muttering in an unknown tongue, which Helena recognized to be Demotic, the language of ancient Egypt. Claudia translated it on the computer, and it translated to "The penalty is death." After learning about three mysterious deaths of American students in Egypt, the agents go out to interview the family of one of the victims. While Pete and Myka question the victim's mother, Helena noticed the victim's younger sister, and she went to talk with her, befriending her. After asking to see the girl's computer, she found a picture the girl's brother had sent her, but didn't know where it had been taken. Myka sent the picture back to Artie at the Warehouse, who recognized the writing in the background. He ordered the agents back to the Warehouse, where they went into the archives and learned that the writing in the background of the picture pointed the way towards Warehouse 2 that had been in Egypt until the agents of that time buried it to protect it from the Romans. They also surmised that the students had found the Warehouse, broke the seals and activated the defenses, which in turn was causing Mrs. Frederic's current condition. So Helena, Myka and Pete were sent to Egypt to find the Warehouse and shut it down to save Mrs. Frederic.
After locating and entering Warehouse 2, Helena and the others are soon met by a trap, one of the defenses. The door is sealed behind them, and the ceiling starts to descend towards them. Pete realizes that the pillars in the room need to be moved into certain positions to keep the ceiling from killing them. Working together, they manage to get the pillars into place, and disarm the trap. Seeing a door open, they head through it into another room, which has axes swinging back and forth and jets of fire blocking the way forward. Valda, the expert on Warehouse 2, says the hieroglyphics refer to an ancient Egyptian martial art. After Pete tries to make his way through the trap and fails, Helena climbs to a higher vantage point and uses her grappler to secure a way across the trap. Helena slides across on the wire, followed by Myka. Valda tells Pete that "the water bearer holds the key" and gives him the ankh necklace that will allow them to shut down the Warehouse. Valda goes last, but doesn't make it. Helena then leads the rest of the way. In the next room, they find the head of a Medusa on the wall, whose eyes glow red. Helena suddenly finds herself back in her original time with her daughter Christina. She embraces her daughter, so happy to see her again. Pete and Myka are also caught in the trap. While the three of them stand in their trance, the floor begins to crumble away beneath them. She notices a flash of red eyes in her trance, but doesn't snap out of it until Myka manages to do so shortly before she would've fallen to her death. Myka threw her torch at one of the eyes of the Medusa, shattering it and disarming the trap, setting the floor back to normal. Helena was devastated all over again upon losing her daughter and broke down, but Myka reminded her that they were Mrs. Frederic's only hope. Pulling herself back together, the three of them continue forward, entering the Warehouse office. They notice a glowing orb on the floor and realize that's what's affecting Mrs. Frederic. Helena lit the main chamber, then went down to the floor to find a way to shut it down. However, Pete is the one who figures it out and manages to shut it down just in time to save Mrs. Frederic. Helena called Pete and Myka down to the floor, and with her back to them, she asked for their forgiveness just before turning around and shooting them with a Tesla-like device, rendering them unconscious.
While Pete and Myka were unconscious, Helena took an artifact, a spear, from Warehouse 2 before she left. Before Helena had been bronzed, she'd learned where Warehouse 2 had been located, and after she'd been reinstated as an agent at Warehouse 13, she'd hacked into the Warehouse accounts to glean what she needed, then used the three students to activate Warehouse 2. Once she had what she needed, Helena headed for Paris, France, where her daughter was buried. Claudia also remembered that Helena had said she wished to return to Paris to bring her daughter back to life, so Pete and Myka headed there. Upon arriving, Helena forced a lawyer to help her with opening her daughter's tomb. Once he pulled the casket out, Helena took a moment to gently stroke the coffin, then stepped back, pouring some tar on the floor. She told the lawyer to take off his shoes and step into it. She then poured water on the tar, turning it into a tar pit, and the lawyer started to sink. Myka and Pete showed up and saved him, but realized that during that time, Helena had gotten away with one of the handles from her daughter's coffin. The handle is actually part of the Minoan Trident, and MacPherson had debronzed her in order to find Warehouse 2 and the other part of the trident. That is why Helena killed him because he was about to reveal that to the agents. Helena called Pete, informing him that she emptied her accounts and buried her trail. She then told him he should check on his girlfriend, that she'd gotten a present from him. In reality, Helena had sent her an artifact, Lizzie Borden's compact. This was mostly to distract Pete while she put her final plan into action.
With Pete busy with his girlfriend, Myka and Artie left to go find Helena after discovering she was heading to the Yellowstone Caldera. Upon arriving, they find that Helena has put the trident together. The danger of the trident was that it was referred to as the "original weapon of mass destruction." It is responsible for the destruction of the Minoan civilization and, consequently, the sinking of Atlantis. If it is stabbed into the ground three times, it will cause massive volcanic erruptions. Helena believes that the world has gotten worse and the only answer is to destroy civilization and let the Earth rebuild itself. Artie tries to stop her by shooting her in the arm, but Helena is wearing the Corsican Vest, and Artie gets shot instead. Helena then jammed the trident into the ground causing geysers to start shooting up all around them. She then jammed it into the ground a second time, causing the geysers to grow larger. Myka confronts her, deciding to talk her down. She tells Helena she's so full of grief and anger and is doing this for the wrong reasons. Then she tells her if she's wrong to kill her. Myka put a gun in Helena's hand, then pressed it to her forehead, telling her to shoot her if she didn't care, if it didn't matter since they would all die anyway. Myka wanted Helena to look her in the eye and shoot her. But Helena couldn't do it. She let out a scream as she dropped both the gun and the trident and fell to the ground. After this event, Helena was arrested by the Warehouse higher ups, and taken away to an unknown facility.
After Myka's resignation, Mrs. Frederic used Helena to convince her to return to the Warehouse. Mrs. Frederic sent Helena to Myka's bookstore using a projection through an unnamed sphere. Helena told Myka not to blame herself, and that hate, if bottled up long enough, can turn into fear. As a result, Myka did return to the Warehouse and resumed her duties as an agent.
A little while after, there was an unexplained death in Pittsburgh. Pete and Myka went to investigate, and Myka decided they should ask Helena if she knew anything. Pete was against it, but back at the Warehouse Artie said the Regents had all ready allowed it. Using the sphere, they brought Helena in to help, and she confirmed Myka's suspicion that she knew what had caused the death. Her return, obviously, was met with hostility by Pete and Artie, but she was only a hologram, thus unable to actually affect anything in the physical world. Artie also gave her the ultimatum that she could stay as long as she could help, but the instant that changed, she'd go back to where she was before. Helena accepted the terms. She started by telling the agents everything she knew about the case she'd dealt with in 1893 involving Joshua's Trumpet. After revealing that the artifact they were after was Joshua's Trumpet, the agents and Helena set about trying to track down it's current location. Claudia started with triangulating where the horn was when the latest death occurred, and Helena gave her the approximate distance from which the horn could kill someone. Pete shot down that idea, that no one had been anywhere near the guy when he'd died, so Myka suggested that perhaps the horn had been modified so it could work at greater distances. After revealing that the horn went into space in a rocket, Pete shot the idea down. To which Helena retorted that he'd used her time machine yet shooting a tube into the sky was beyond comprehension, despite the fact she'd built it 1893. During the bickering, Artie came in with a case file where the horn had in fact crashed back to Earth in 1962. The agents, along with Helena, were sent out to Ohio where the crash had occurred in 1962. Originally, Jack and Rebecca had investigated the happening but concluded that the horn had been destroyed. Pete and Myka deduced that the son of the guy that had lived on that farm in Ohio in 1962 was the one behind the deaths in current day Pittsburgh, so they had Claudia pull up anything she could find on him. When Myka and Pete found Daniel, they found he was protected by a forcefield. They tried to talk him down from doing what he was doing, but they weren't getting through to him. So Pete told Myka to use the sphere to bring Helena to talk him down. Daniel wanted to kill Helena, but she managed to talk him down. She told him about the loss of her daughter, knowing it was the only way to get through to him. She managed to do so, and stopped him from inadvertently killing thousands of people. Helena tried to comfort Daniel, but she couldn't because she was a hologram. Once back at the Warehouse, Helena was with Myka while she put the horn into safe keeping. Helena thought they'd made a good team. Myka agreed and confessed she wished Helena had realized that sooner. Helena agreed. She was then returned to her limbo prison.
Shortly thereafter, the agents managed to locate the breech in the Warehouse system, and traced its origin back to Tyler Struhl, who was located in Chyenne, Wyoming. Pete and Myka went to investigate this. While at the high school in Chyenne, Myka saw that Helena was teaching a class. Instantly, Myka surmised that Sykes was looking for Helena. Myka approached her and questioned her, but Helena didn't know what she was talking about. There was also the fact Helena spoke with an American accent instead of her native British one. Then when Pete came running in and drew a gun on her, Helena fainted. When she came to, she hid under her desk, to which Myka told her that her and Pete were Secret Service investigating a stolen identity and needed to see Helena's driver's license. Upon reading the name on the license, it was very clear that something was definitely wrong. While the woman may have looked like Helena, she was actually Emily Lake, a high school English teacher. After seeing Emily's apartment, Myka spotted that the pictures she had were faked and someone had created a whole new identity for her. Both her and Pete now knew that the Warehouse Regents were behind this, and when they both realized they got this information from the file called Atlas-66, which Sykes now had, they knew they needed to protect Helena no matter what. However, former Warehouse agent Steve, who was now working for Sykes, took out Pete and Myka with Myka's Tesla, then took Helena back to Sykes. She was interrogated, but she was adamant she didn't know what Warehouse 13 was and that it was insane that she was H. G. Wells. Steve knew she was telling the truth as he had that ability to tell when people were lying, and told this to Sykes.
Meanwhile, the agents at Warehouse 13 learned why Helena was now Emily Lake. After Helena had tried to destroy the world and was arrested, the Regents had decided to try and give Helena the best shot at a normal life, while still being able to utilize her knowledge if needed. The Regents used the Janus Coin on Helena, separating her consciousness from her body. When the coin was placed in her hand, Helena was walked through her life from her earliest memories to her most recent ones. They all were stripped from her, the identity known as H. G. Wells now would exist only within the Janus Coin. The body that was left behind was then given a whole new set of memories, a new identity that the Regents had given her. Helena's one request was that she be able to retain her love literature. The new identity, Emily Lake, was then born. The Janus Coin was being kept at a Regent Vault in South Dakota, so Pete, Myka and Claudia went to retrieve it before Sykes got to it. They managed to get it and the sphere, realizing that the entire time they'd spent using the sphere to utilize Helena's help that the Janus Coin had been inside, much like a harddrive. They activated the sphere, and filled Helena in on what was happening. Helena had an innate dislike that she was now an American and had a cat, but there wasn't anything she could do about it now. After getting her up to speed, they deactivated the sphere and headed back to the Warehouse, doing their best to get Helena there safely. On their way back, Pete had an idea of how to protect the Warehouse, but said Myka wouldn't like it. He proposed to destroy the Janus Coin, thus effectively killing Helena and thwarting Sykes' plan completely. Myka objected to the idea, insisting that they were talking about killing a human being and someone who had one of the greatest minds in history. While Pete and Myka argued, Claudia went and got the sphere and activated it, thinking Helena should be part of the conversation. To everyone's surprise, Helena agreed with Pete, knowing that destroying the coin was the only way to protect the Warehouse. She told Myka that they had to think rationally, not emotionally. She made a comment that they should also think quickly before Helena remembered that she wasn't this noble. With that, Helena said her goodbyes, telling Pete he'd have to be the one to destroy the coin. She then turned to Claudia and told her that she regretted not being able to see her go to her destiny, but she was confident it would be a glorious one. She then turned to Myka, asking how you say goodbye to the one person that knows you better than anyone else, to which Myka told her she wished she knew. Helena asked her to be brave, that she needed her strength. After getting her last look at the sky, Claudia deactivated the sphere, took out the Janus Coin and handed it over to Pete to destroy. Myka couldn't watch and left with Claudia. However, before Pete could destroy the coin, Steve and Marcus showed up, Marcus armed with an artifact that can control someone's body and move it to the wielder's will. Marcus used it to stop Pete from using the rock to destroy the coin. After Steve finally confessed to Claudia that he was undercover and part of the Regents' plan and not actually working for Sykes, Claudia gave him the Janus Coin. Sykes immediately used it to restore Helena to her body. Upon her consciousness being reunited with her body, Helena looked at the coin, her heart sinking now knowing that she was in the hands of the enemy and Sykes could finally get what he wanted. After she was restored to herself, Sykes took her in the plane he had waiting, and had Marcus kill Steve, tying up all loose ends.
While in a car, Sykes and Helena had a little conversation in which Helena expressed disgust at his having killed Steve in cold blood. Sykes responded by asking her what temperature her blood was when she'd killed and said she had a higher body count than he did. Retorting that she was seriously considering adding one more body to the count, Sykes taunted her to kill him. In the process of moving to try and get rid of Sykes, he pulled out the artifact that controlled another's body and used it to stop Helena, putting her at his complete mercy. Relenting to the fact that she couldn't beat him, Helena wanted to know what he wanted from her. He proceeded to tell her he needed information that she'd learned when she'd apprenticed to Caturanga. He'd told her something that would lead Sykes to his ultimate goal. Helena said she'd die before she helped him, but he was adamant that she'd help him and whether she lived or died was entirely up to her. They got on a plan and headed to Hong Kong along with Tyler, leaving Marcus behind. Once in China, Sykes took both Helena and Tyler to the location of the ancient Regent Sanctum. Pete and Myka are on their trail, and Helena left a trail for them to follow in the sign of discarding her locket by the secret entrance that leads to the underground Sanctum. Upon finding the way in and starting along the corridor, Tyler was pleading Sykes to not make him do this. It is revealed that there is a lock that needs to be undone in order to gain entrance to the Sanctum. The lock is a game of chess where the player must sit in a chair and are subsequently strapped into it. Above their head there is a sharp blade, and should they lose the game, the blade falls, killing them. The catch is that the player begins the game in Check and they only have a limited number of moves to win the game in. Tyler is the one in the chair and Sykes is using an artifact to control Helena's body. She's holding a gun at Tyler's head and telling him how to move the pieces. The move Tyler made put him in checkmate, resulting in his death. Sykes then told Myka and Pete to come out of hiding as he needed a new player.
Pete and Myka came in with guns drawn, but Sykes forced Helena to shoot, grazing Myka's arm. Sykes forced the two agents to put their weapons down or the next shot would be between Myka's eyes. They put their guns down, and Pete moved Tyler's body out of the chair and put it with the pile of other skeletons. Sykes explained the lock to Myka and Pete. Helena told him she'd never seen the chess lock nor had Caturanga ever taught her anything about it. Sykes then realized he'd used the wrong incentive, and forced Helena to put Myka in the chair, much to Helena's horror. Helena mused that chess had been Caturanga's passion and that they had played every day for years, but she never beat him. This only intensified the anxiety and horror she felt knowing that Myka's life was in her hands. Sykes said it was time to make a move, so Helena started to think out loud. With Tyler, she'd used the King's Gambit move, which in retrospect she knew Caturanga would have expected. So she took a moment to think and decided on trying the Dragon's Variant. She told Myka to move the King's Knight to E6. The board then moved the queen to claim the knight, and Myka announced check. Above her head, the blade shifted downwards, again adding to the anxiety felt by both Helena and Myka. Helena then told Myka to move the Queen's Bishop to H4. The queen then moved to claim that bishop, and in a voice with fear creeping in, Myka proclaimed check. Again, the blade above her head shifted precariously. Helena lost it, not knowing what else to do. She wasn't willing to risk Myka's life yet she was completely powerless to do anything. Helena was at the mercy of the artifact Sykes had, and Myka was one move away from death. She felt her heart breaking in her chest and she apologized to Myka as tears filled her eyes. Myka then looked at her and though she was afraid, she told her that she wasn't going to die because Helena was going to take a breath and then she was going to save her life. That statement prompted Helena to remember when she'd complained to Caturanga about the use of guns. She refused to use such a weapon and thought the Regents were mad to have the agents use them. Caturanga told her that the Regents make the rules and that the rules state all agents must carry a firearm. Helena insisted that there was always an alternative to killing. Caturanga agreed and presented his alternative, which was a Tesla gun, and when she said it wasn't standard issue, Caturanga simply said that he changed the rules. He demonstrated the Tesla on an agent that came in to take Helena for target practice. He then told Helena that when the rules don't agree with one, it is necessary to change them. This prompted Helena to realize that she needed to change the rules of chess. The only way to win was to make an illegal move. Helena told Myka to move her pawn in D3 to E8. Myka said she couldn't move her pawn like that, but Helena encouraged her to make the move. Hesitantly and fearing it would be the last thing she did, Myka followed suit, putting the opposing king into checkmate. With that, the blade retracted, Myka's restraints retracted and the Sanctum opened. The Sanctum opened right into Warehouse 13. Pete managed to knock the gun out of Helena's hand and was going to attempt to stop Sykes from entering the Warehouse, but Sykes released Helena from the artifact's grip and used it to control Pete. Pete drew his Tesla and used it on Myka and Helena, causing them to collapse and allowing Sykes and Pete to move into the Warehouse. Sykes then had PEte closed the portal. Myka and Helena regained consciousness but not in time to make it through the portal to the Warehouse before it closed.
While trapped on the Hong Kong side of the barrier, Helena and Myka picked up the chess pieces that had fallen to the floor when the Sanctum had opened. Helena apologized to Myka, and thought they should have destroyed the Janus Coin the moment they found it so none of this had happened. Myka then told her to stop it, that she wasn't the villain and that Myka had believed in her and had been right. Myka then told Helena to get off her cross and help her figure out a way out. Together, they did manage to get through the Sanctum portal again. It wasn't shown how they did it, but presumably they set the board again and played the chess game once more to open it. Myka and Helena arrived just in time to stop Sykes, who had just gotten the artifact he'd been looking for, from killing Pete. Myka used her Tesla to destroy the riding crop, the artifact that controlled a person's body, thus freeing Pete from it's grip. However, the backlash of the shot caused the rigging rope from the Mary Celeste to fall off the shelf and entangle Helena. Though she was being strangled by the rope, she called out to Myka for help, but Myka too ended up entangled. Struggling and pulling on the rope only caused it to pull tighter around them. Artie saved them by using the anti-artifact goo which nullified the power, thus causing the rope to fall harmlessly to floor. The three of them finally rendezvoused with Pete and discovered Sykes was dead, having been caught in the portal as Pete had closed it. Pete, in a shocking turn, hugged Helena and thanked her. She was stunned by this, but returned the hug. However, it didn't take long before they discovered there was still a threat to the Warehouse. A protective barrier had erected itself when Sykes had Marcus launch a canon ball at it, and the barrier had not deactivated despite the threat being gone. Artie remembered Sykes had kept saying he'd kill them, but never actually had. Returning to the wheelchair Sykes had left behind, they that under the seat, Sykes had planted an artifact. Helena recognized the writing on the piece of stone, saying it was from the House of Commons in London. Artie revealed that it had absorbed the entire concussive force of the German luftwaffe during the Blitzkrieg. The piece of masonry was hooked up to an explosive device, counting down the time to when it would blow up. The explosion would be a nuclear blast, and had the Warehouse not had the barrier erected, it would've taken out a large part of South Dakota. However, they were all in danger because the barrier wouldn't let anything in or out until the threat was gone. The barrier would protect the rest of the world from the nuclear detonation, but the Warehouse and everything and everyone in it would be incinerated. Taking the artifact to a somewhat more secure part of the Warehouse, Artie, Myka and Pete made several attempts to diffuse the bomb, but to no avail. While they made their attempts, Helena was largely forgotten by them, and she instead had her own plan. She poked around in the Warehouse's computer system where she located an anomaly. This allowed to reroute some of the barrier to a small area within the Warehouse. She managed to do so, encompassing Artie, Pete and Myka, but not herself.
She explained that the barrier could only be activated from outside of it, and that this was the only way she could think of to save them. Artie and Pete started protesting, but Helena didn't hear anything they said. Instead, she focused on Myka, smiling gently at her and thanking her, giving her a private goodbye. Myka smiled back, though there were tears in her eyes, just as there were tears in Helena's eyes. In the moments just before the explosion, Helena caught a scent and she smiled sadly, stating that she smelled apples. A second later, the bomb exploded, incinerating Helena, the Warehouse and everything else within it, except for Myka, Pete and Artie. In her death, Helena had redeemed herself, and the Warehouse had reminded her it liked her with the scent of apples. While she had laid down her life for Artie, Pete and Myka, Helena felt the most comfort in having died to save Myka. She had come to love her, and her death had meaning. She only hoped that she would stand redeemed in the others' eyes, for she knew she all ready was redeemed in Myka's.
In her saving Myka, Pete and Artie, Helena had known that as long as Warehouse agents survived, Sykes would never truly win. However, she had not expected what had come to pass. After a series of events, Artie found and used Magellan's Astrolabe, which turned the clock back 24 hours, and he reappeared in the Warehouse just after Helena and Myka were released from the Rigging Rope from the Mary Celeste. At which point Artie had started mumbling about something, until finally he exclaimed that Sykes had a bomb in his wheelchair and that his plan was to blow up the Warehouse. Helena made the observation that it made sense given Sykes had planned this for a long time, then questioned how Artie had known that there was a bomb. Artie deflected the pointed question and he, Helena and Myka went and retrieved the bomb, then went to locate Ghandi's Doti that would, hopefully, nullify the bomb. Helena was the one carrying said bomb, and she pointed out it was from the House of Commons in London. While Myka and Artie pulled the Doti out of it's containment, Helena pointedly asked how Artie knew about the bomb being in the wheelchair. Artie responded that it was logical, and upon Helena's question of how he knew about using the Doti, Artie pointedly said it didn't matter. At which pointed he threw the Doti over the bomb. The ticking seemed to stop and Artie and Myka shared a moment of relief while Helena, still holding the bomb, still heard the ticking. Realizing it didn't work, they tried to figure out what to do. Myka realized that it was hatred that fueled the artifact-turned-bomb, and thus it wasn't the bomb that they needed to diffuse. Helena stated it Walter Sykes they needed to diffuse. Upon Artie mentioning Sykes was about to be killed, they made for the portal to the Sanctum to intercept Sykes. Again, Helena questioned how Artie knew these things. Pete pushed Sykes through the portal, but Artie stopped him from closing it and told him to bring Sykes back. And upon succeeding in that, the Doti was laid over Sykes, diffusing the hatred within him, and the counter on the bomb stopped counting down, effectively diffusing the bomb and saving the Warehouse. After this, Artie plead on Helena's behalf to the Regents and Mrs. Frederic that she be allowed to retain her freedom. Eventually, after some lengthy discussion, the Regents agreed to allow Helena to maintain her freedom.
While her whereabouts are then unknown, she was most likely kept under close surveillance by the Regents to ensure she didn't try to do anything similar to when she'd put the Minoan Trident together and tried to destroy the world. It was perhaps because Artie had witnessed Helena selflessly sacrifice herself that he eventually called her and tasked her to find an artifact for him. Finding this dagger, however, was no easy task, even for a woman as resourceful as Helena. She traveled all over the world, tracking down leads and doing her best to find it. But all the while, something kept tugging at her. Artie's behavior in the Warehouse had not been normal. The knowledge he'd demonstrated of Sykes' plan was too precise to have simply been guesswork. So eventually, Helena returned to South Dakota and went to Leena's B&B where she secretly met with Artie. After saying she had a few leads on the location of the dagger, Helena began confronting Artie on her suspicions of how he knew things about Sykes. She told him she understood that when he plead on her behalf to the Regents, he spoke with great certainty that she'd lay down her life for the Warehouse. After he said he was a good judge of character, Helena asked if he was also a good judge of wheelchairs and laid out the facts that he'd suddenly known Sykes had had a bomb and precisely where it was hidden. Artie tried to brush it off, but Helena persisted, telling him that if there was one thing she was a world class expert on it was time travel. She kept backing him into a corner, pressing him on this, knowing that he'd only known the things he did because he'd been ahead in time and come back again. Finally unable to keep up lying to her, Artie said she couldn't tell anyone, but she said she all ready had. She'd shared her suspicions with Mrs. Frederic. And then she let loose her theory that she believed he'd used Magellan's Astrolabe.
Later, after sending Pete and Myka off on a job and after sending Claudia and Steve off to get Steve off of the Metronome, Artie was confronted by Mrs. Frederic, Helena and Leena. Artie gave Helena quite the pointed look, but she was determined to get to the bottom of this and try to stop whatever was happening. Mrs. Frederic at first reprimanded Artie for using such a formidable artifact as the Astrolabe, but Artie said he'd had no choice. The Warehouse was gone, Mrs. Frederic was gone. He also revealed that Helena had sacrificed herself to save Myka, Pete and Artie. After which, Helena realized that was why Artie had plead on her behalf to the Regents after they stopped Sykes. And upon further questioning, it was revealed that Pandora's Box had been destroyed and that hope had been lost. After getting that out, Mrs. Frederic asked what the repercussions were, to which Artie said that Brother Adrian had told him he would be creating an evil that he would have to live with for the rest of his days. Upon Helena asking what exactly this evil was, Artie revealed that he didn't have any theories, just a feeling, and he revealed that he thought the evil was Claudia and that he had visions of her stabbing him with a dagger. Upon which Helena stated the dagger that he'd tasked her to find. Mrs. Frederic assured him that the evil wasn't Claudia as she'd know if that was the case. It was then that Mrs. Frederic posed the fact that it was Brother Adrian that was the evil considering he was bringing artifacts back into the world. Trying to figure out why Brother Adrian would want this, Artie said the man wanted him to use the Astrolabe again, to restore the original timeline once again, but Artie refused to do that. Upon Mrs. Frederic's suggestion she take this up with the Regents and reach out to the Brotherhood through other channels, the meeting broke up. But Artie stopped Helena, telling her that this wasn't how he wanted to handle it and she knew it. Helena defended her actions by saying she was trying to help him, that no one understood the perils of time travel artifacts like she did. She'd all ready lost two agents because of them, and she refused to lose Artie as well. He merely responded that he hoped she was right and that there was no turning back now, and he left. Later, Mrs. Frederic and Helena were in the Dark Vault, retrieving the Astrolabe as Leena had seen where Artie had hidden it. Helena wasn't comfortable not telling Artie about what they were doing, but Mrs. Frederic reminded her that the less Artie knew about where it was, the better it was for all of them. Mrs. Frederic handed her the Astrolabe, telling her to take it and to disappear. Helena wanted to stay and help them with the Brotherhood, by was reminded they couldn't risk Artie undoing what was done to the Warehouse. Knowing that if Artie was forced to use the Astrolabe again, it wouldn't be to Helena or Mrs. Frederic's advantage. Helena said she'd leave Leena her research on the dagger, which was proving quite elusive. Mrs. Frederic instructed Helena that she couldn't communicate with any of them given it was clear the Brotherhood would stop at nothing to force Artie to use the Astrolabe again. As Helena turned to leave, Mrs. Frederic told her she could trust no one. With a nod of understanding, Helena left with the Astrolabe. She left Leena the research on the dagger, and then she disappeared.
During her time in hiding, Helena began to realize that the life of a Warehouse agent was no longer for her. It wasn't what she wanted. After all, the Warehouse was no longer a place of endless wonder to her, it was largely just a memory of everything she had lost in her life. So after things regarding the Astrolabe were settled, Helena returned it to the custody of the Brotherhood of the Black Diamond and she retired, taking up the identity of Emily Lake and she settled in Boone, Wisconsin. She got a job as a forensic scientist working for the local police department. At a cooking class, she'd met a man named Nate and they struck up a relationship. She met his daughter Adelaide, and she eventually moved in with them. For six months, she lived a quiet, normal life, one that she never really had gotten to live, and she was enjoying it. At least until one day an artifact crossed her path. A suspect in a murder case had come into the police station and confessed to the murder. Helena arrived to collect physical evidence from him, during which she watched him physically change in front of her. Knowing that only an artifact could be responsible for this, she called Myka, the first time she'd contacted anyone at the Warehouse in months, and asked her to investigate. Helena refused to get involved, wishing nothing more than to leave the Warehouse behind her as much as she could. Myka and Pete flew out to Boone to investigate, though Myka questioned why Helena was doing this and that they hadn't heard from her. Helena explained she'd been under strict orders not to contact any of them while she had the Astrolabe, and after she'd returned it to the Brotherhood, she'd wanted a new life far away from the world of artifacts. She then turned the conversation back to the case at hand and reported the details of the murder, the suspects and what she'd witnessed as she collected physical evidence from the confessed killer. The case did worry Helena given the fact that in all of her years hunting artifacts, she'd never seen anything that made someone transform like this one did.
After hitting some dead ends, Myka tracked Helena down, finding her at her home. Helena repeated that she wanted to be left out of the investigation, but Myka said they needed help. At which point Nate and Adelaide both came to the door, and Adelaide deduced that she and Myka knew each other but hadn't seen each other in a long time. Nate stated that "Emily" had taught Adelaide the skill of deduction. Helena came up with the cover story that she and Myka had been roommates at Iowa Tech. Nate invited Myka in, then he and Adelaide went into another room while Myka and Helena talked. At this point, Helena opened up to Myka about Nate and how one of her favorite things about him was that he was a civilian. She confided to Myka that for the first time in over a century, she felt like she belonged somewhere. At which point Myka asked if Nate knew who she really was, and Helena said she couldn't very well tell him she was H.G. Wells, the one hundred and forty-seven year old father of science fiction. Myka asked if Helena would help, and Helena refused again. At which point, Myka stated that she might owe it to Adelaide to have one more crazy adventure, and Helena couldn't refuse that. So Helena used her credentials to get into the police station to get into the room where they could get the surveillance video to see what the confessed killer looked like initially upon arrival. However, they both were stopped by a cop on their way to the room. Helena used her quick thinking to spin a story that the over the years the officer must have impressed a lady or two with a tour of the station and insinuated that she was doing the same with Myka right then. They were then allowed to pass, and got the footage Myka needed. Pete called Myka, and she relayed to him that the artifact seems to revert the victims into a primal state as the confessed killer looked more like a primal human ancestor as opposed to a modern human. Pete said the family of the murder victim weren't responsible but that a cop named Briggs had come to them and creeped them out with promises of getting them justice. Helena knew the cop and told Myka to pull up footage of the interior of the police station. They found that Briggs had been waiting for the confessed killer to come in, that he knew he was coming, so they concluded he was the one who had used the artifact on him. Myka and Pete then went to Briggs' home to apprehend the artifact, and Helena went back to the home she shared with Nate and Adelaide. However, when Helena arrived, she found Briggs using the artifact on Nate. She took Briggs down, warning him that she could think of six different ways to kill him right then and there when she had him pinned to the ground, but she was trying so hard to not be that person anymore. When he told her she should check on her boyfriend, she let Briggs go and went to Nate's side as Myka and Pete pulled up. They bagged the artifact, neutralizing the effect it was having on Nate.
Once inside, Helena and Myka talked in the kitchen while Pete and Nate talked in the living room. Helena reiterated that every time she and the Warehouse mixed lives were ruined and that it was over. At which point Myka asked if Helena realized it was strange that she'd become attached so quickly to a man with a daughter around Christina's age and how a part of Helena still wanted to get Christina back. Helena got upset and told Myka this had nothing to do with her daughter, and further told her that she could take her observational skills and leave. Myka insisted that Helena was denying who she was to chase a ghost and how the life she was currently living wasn't who she was. However their argument was cut short as Nate got a call from Briggs and was told that Briggs had Adelaide. Pete tried to convince Nate that they were there to help and that they'd get Adelaide back. However, as Nate asked why he should trust any of them, Helena felt her heart break and she knew it was all her fault that Adelaide was in trouble. When she tried to talk to Nate, he turned her away. Pete went after him, leaving Helena with Myka. Helena told Myka that she'd been right that she couldn't have a normal life. Helena stated it was foolish and selfish of her to have tried to have one, and wondered how she could bring anything but misery to people. Myka tried to correct her, saying that wasn't what she'd meant. Helena cut her off saying she knew what she was and knew what she had to do. She went into the garage where she'd hidden her Tesla in a hidden panel in the work bench. Nate came out and saw her with it and asked who she was. She assured him she would explain when this was all over. At that point, they heard squealing tires and opened the garage door to find that Myka had taken the SUV and the artifact. Pete remembered that Briggs was going to text instructions to Nate's phone, so he, Nate and Helena ran back inside only to find that Myka had taken the cell phone as well.
After Myka had left, Helena grabbed her forensics kit and went about collecting evidence that Briggs had left behind earlier while Pete and Nate stayed inside and talked. When Nate went outside, Helena apologized, but Nate quickly asked if she'd found anything. She related that she'd found a shoe print from a hiking boot that was brand new. She found a price tag left in the shoe print, but there was no store name on it. Nate said that Pete said Briggs might have a place near the police station and said a camping store had recently gone out of business. They both went inside and told that to Pete who then informed them that Briggs most likely had an accomplice. So Helena and Pete went to the store to help save the day. Upon entering, Helena told Pete that Briggs was hers, and Pete retorted with telling her no killing because Myka would be super pissed. Helena merely rolled her eyes and they split up to search through the store for Briggs, his accomplice, Myka and Adelaide. Helena found Briggs and snuck up behind him, hitting him and knocking him out with a metal rod. She told him she'd warned him, then strolled off, continuing her search for Adelaide. Helena found Myka and asked if she was alright, and Myka told her Adelaide was being kept in the back room and said Helena should be the one to get her. Helena gave Myka her Tesla and asked her to take care of it for her and told Myka to be careful as she went off to get Adelaide. Entering the room, Helena saw that Adelaide had initially been tied to a chair, but she'd freed herself, and Helena said Adelaide's name. Adelaide dropped the weapon she'd picked up and Helena grabbed her and hugged her tightly, congratulating her. And she then told Adelaide that her name was Helena.
After returning Adelaide home, Adelaide went about relating the tale to her dad while Helena talked to Pete and Myka outside. Helena said the main thing was that Adelaide was safe now, but as for Nate and herself, who knew. Pete wished her luck because he wanted to believe there was an alternate Warehouse retirement plan and Helena said she'd do her best not to let him down. Pete got in the car, letting Myka and Helena talk privately. Myka asked if that was goodbye, to which Helena said she would assume not. Myka then told her to fight for Nate, that she was wrong when she'd told her she wasn't being true to herself that she was instead afraid of losing a friend, but that Helena was obviously very good at caring about someone. She also told Helena to make this her home. Helena thanked her and assured her she would never lose her as a friend. Myka then hugged her. As Myka got in the car, Helena suggested that next time they just have coffee, and Myka retorted with "Or save the world." They said their goodbye, and Helena stood in the driveway and watched them drive away.
After the incident with the Artifact, and Myka and Pete had both given Helena encouragement to fight for Nate, Helena went back inside to do that. However, things did not go well at all. Helena got as far as telling him her real name, Helena Wells, and upon being questioned why she hadn't just said so from the beginning, she brought up that she worked for a secret organization. It was at that point that Nate decided he didn't want to hear anymore. They broke up, and once again Helena found herself needing to start over.
Later on, Helena returned to the Warehouse to help with an Artifact that was endangering Artie. She'd built a Shrink Ray that allowed her to shrink Claudia and Steve and send them inside Artie to find the Artifact there that was endangering him. However, during the course, Helena lost communication with the three Agents and grew exceedingly worried. Upon finally making contact with Claudia again, she urged them to hurry up, that her Shrink Ray only allowed for one to be shrunk for three hours before it reversed. If they didn't hurry, the ray would reverse and they would explode out of Artie's body, effectively killing him. Claudia said they'd found the Artifact and that they could get to it before time ran out. The clock Artifact was lodged in Artie's heart. Steve found the Artifact and took it out, saving Artie. They safely got out of Artie's body before the shrink ray reversed itself, so the day was saved.
Powers/Talents: No supernatural abilities, but she has a genius level intelligence quotient. She is both a science fiction author and an inventor. She is also a skilled martial artist, having been trained in kenpo. Helena also has very sharp observational skills, and she is very detail-oriented.
Personality: Helena is a genius, first and foremost, and she will not hesitate to flaunt her intelligence where she can. But being a genius, she does need a constant challenge otherwise she will bore easily and sometimes bad things may result. In this, her genius is both a blessing and a curse. She has invented many things, including a psychometric time machine, as well as written science fiction novels. Hers is an active imagination, one that she cannot turn off even if she wishes too. There's always ideas bouncing around in her mind for better or for worse. She can be susceptible to becoming obsessed with her projects, such as time travel used to be an unhealthy obsession of hers. She has a great love of the sciences and mathematics, though much of what she knows about them she taught to herself or learned from friends who had knowledge in those fields.
Patience, however, is not exactly Helena's virtue. She can exercise patience, but it is certainly not something she has an endless supply of. Her patience has a limit, which can be shortened if she's dealing with someone whom she does not like or get along with for one reason or another. She does, however, have a large amount of patience when it comes to those she cares for. She isn't typically quick to anger, but if she does become angry, it is best to get out of her way. Helena can have quite a nasty temper when it is roused, and she is most certainly not the forgiving type. She will hold grudges for quite a while, and she is notorious for holding onto her anger and hate.
Extremely charismatic, Helena knows how to talk to people. She is a social creature and it takes little effort on her part to earn favorable opinions from others. Helena knows the importance of a well placed compliment or coy smile. Out-going more often than not, Helena has a very charming smile and a glint in her eye to match. Helena is flirtatious by nature. Also having been born and raised in Victorian England, Helena has extremely proper manners. Even in the modern day, she can still act quite Victorian in her mannerisms. Another thing she enjoys about the modern day is how sexual orientation is, at least for the most part, accepted and not kept completely quiet as it was in Helena's day. She herself identifies as bisexual and has had many lovers of both genders.
She was a woman born far ahead of her time, and she is bit of a dual person because of it. She feels more comfortable in modern times with intelligent women being far more accepted in society than they were in her day. Yet at the same time, she feels so very out of place in the modern world. Ever since she was unbronzed, Helena has been playing catch up in learning about the things she missed during the one hundred and ten years she spent in the Bronze Sector. She hasn't really found anywhere to truly call "home" since she awoke in the 21st Century. Inwardly, she does want to be able to put down roots, so to speak, and have a home somewhere, to feel as though she belongs somewhere. As it stands, she doesn't feel as though she really has a place she belongs, and it tends to make her feel disquiet. Though these aren't exactly things she has expressed to anyone, at least not until very recently to Myka.
However, Helena has a dark side. She is a cold-blooded murderer, though this did not come about until after her daughter was murdered. Helena sought vengeance, hunted down, tortured and killed the men who had killed her daughter. The act left her forever tainted with darkness, and she has since taken the lives of other people, both directly by her own hand, or indirectly because of her actions. She has killed both the innocent and the guilty. In the present day, she carries the weight of guilt for these actions on her shoulders, though she will never regret what she did to Christina's murderers. Everything else, she feels deep guilt and regret for. She makes a conscious choice every day to not be that person any longer, and the psychological effects from her anger and hate will always be with her. This is something she has started to come to terms with and accept about herself. She is forever changed by the events of her life, and after spending time being both psychotic and deeply regretful, she has finally found some balance within her between the dark part of herself and the lighter part. She is neither black nor white, she is, by her own view, a dark shade of grey.
Christina's death has also left her with a deep-seeded grief that she had largely been unable to let herself feel. Grief was not something she knew how to handle, and in the 1890s she buried her grief and embraced her hate and anger. While she has come to terms and let herself grieve for her daughter, Helena will always carry the pain of loss that is easily seen by others who know that similar pain of loss. Also despite progress she has made in accepting her grief and who she is, Helena does, at times, still possess a highly negative and extremely critical view of herself. While she has a great capacity for love, Helena can still feel as though she ruins the lives of everyone she comes in contact with.
Emotions can be both Helena's undoing and her salvation. When she feels strongly, her emotions can control her if she is not careful. Her anger and hate controlled her when she didn't keep them under control, and that ultimately led to her trying to destroy the world. However, she also has given up her life selflessly to save her friends, though that particular event was erased when Artie used Magellan's Astrolabe. She has come to a more emotionally stable ground recently, which was helped by her deciding to retire from the Warehouse and making personal connections outside of the Warehouse. To an extent, Helena does fear her emotions, but she now has a far better grasp on them so she can keep herself balanced instead of going to extremes.
Even though she is a deeply emotional person, Helena very rarely lets others see her softer emotions. She will hide her pain and sadness, all of the emotions that make her feel vulnerable and weak. While this is partly just who she is by nature, it is also what she was raised to do. Victorians were not open about their emotions, so Helena learned early on to keep her emotions close to her heart and put on a mask. Helena does not let people in easily and she does not show her vulnerabilities to everyone she chooses to open up to. She strongly dislikes feeling weak, and expressing her sadness and pain makes her feel weak. This, however, is something she can get past if someone is patient enough and understands her well enough to know when to push her to talk and when not to. She is innately stubborn and if she is pushed when she doesn't want to be, she will push back and dig her heels in on the matter.
Why would your character be chosen? Helena is a genius and is extremely resourceful. She is a non-conformist through and through. She is never afraid to push boundaries when she feels she has to...or simply because she wants to.
How much does your character know about nonhumans? Helena has no knowledge of nonhumans. At least outside of fairytales and science fiction books (a couple of which she herself wrote).
Why this character: I have a deep love for Helena's dual nature. I love the fact that she is not black or white, she is very much a grey-area character. Her psychological make-up intrigues me, and I love delving into her character. The fact that she is a complex and many-layered character is something I absolutely adore, and I love peeling back each layer of her character and exploring each and every layer. I have written her at various canon points in various games for over a year and a half, so she is certainly a character I never tire of writing. She is without a doubt one of my favorite characters to write and explore in different situations.
Past Game History: If your character is coming in with past game history, please tell us what that is and how it has changed them.
If your character is a canon character, skip this and move on to the fourth section.
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Home World: Where does your character come from? Tell us about that place.
History: Please give us a few paragraphs about your characters' history, focusing on significant events that helped shape this character into the person he or she is.
Powers/Talents: If your character has supernatural abilities, list them here. Also include any strong talents or skills your character has.
Personality: This is really the meat of the application. You should get into what distinguishes your character from others. What are their goals? How would other people describe them? What do they desire, what are they afraid of? How do they present themselves, and what do they internalize?
Why would your character be chosen? Give us a sentence or two, guessing why your character might be chosen. Don’t worry about getting too deep or profound. You might pick a unique physical trait or an impressive ability. Just something that would make your character stand out from others in a way that would attract attention. For example, Helen of Troy might be chosen for her beauty. Xander Harris from Buffy might be chosen for his empathy. Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter might be chosen for her individuality, or lack of conformity. What makes your character unique?
How much does your character know about nonhumans? This will determine how much information about the Nysgods your character will have the option to bring into the game. For example, we might allow an Albus Dumbledore or a Rupert Giles to know a great deal of information about the Nysgods, while we will probably say that a George Costanza or a Cinderella would never have heard of them. If your character is very familiar with supernatural/alien/demon/etc species, please give us some detail about why they know this information. PLEASE NOTE this information will not affect your character's involvement in the metaplot either way.
Why this character: Why did you decide to play this character? What about them holds your attention? Do you think that you'll be able to keep this character voice and still find them interesting after playing them for awhile?
4. Samples
First-Person: Might I just say that being told I am a potential mate for someone I have never met right after completing unexpected spatial travel is most disconcerting? Relationships are not a strength of mine. That aside, this communication device is positively marvelous! I adore the fact it simply sits in your ear! Much easier than using a cell phone. Though as a pressing matter, is this dress meant to be worn at all times? I do prefer to wear pants, thank you very much.
Third-Person: Example, as the user "ismellapples"
Third Sample: Example, as the user "indelibleink"
Canon Update: 5x06 - Endless (series finale)
London 1889
In an attempt to snag Jack the Ripper's Lantern, Helena went undercover, as it were, using Harriet Tubman's Thimble to change her appearance and catch the culprit off-guard. The man chased her down alleys until she came to a barred gate she couldn't get past. At which point she put on a pair of sunglasses, took the Thimble off, revealing her true form, and took the culprit down, using her Tesla on him to render him unconscious so she and Caturanga could take the Lantern back to Warehouse 12. She snagged the Lantern in her first month as an Agent. Caturanga said the older Agents would become jealous, to which she said they already were. Caturanga noted that she'd taken very quickly and very well to the Warehouse. She said it was because she'd found a place were her other talents could be used for the good of the Empire. She'd found a new home of her own where she could freely be the person she truly was without restraint.
Canon update:
After the incident with the Artifact, and Myka and Pete had both given Helena encouragement to fight for Nate, Helena went back inside to do that. However, things did not go well at all. Helena got as far as telling him her real name, Helena Wells, and upon being questioned why she hadn't just said so from the beginning, she brought up that she worked for a secret organization. It was at that point that Nate decided he didn't want to hear anymore. They broke up, and once again Helena found herself needing to start over.
Later on, Helena returned to the Warehouse to help with an Artifact that was endangering Artie. She'd built a Shrink Ray that allowed her to shrink Claudia and Steve and send them inside Artie to find the Artifact there that was endangering him. However, during the course, Helena lost communication with the three Agents and grew exceedingly worried. Upon finally making contact with Claudia again, she urged them to hurry up, that her Shrink Ray only allowed for one to be shrunk for three hours before it reversed. If they didn't hurry, the ray would reverse and they would explode out of Artie's body, effectively killing him. Claudia said they'd found the Artifact and that they could get to it before time ran out. The clock Artifact was lodged in Artie's heart. Steve found the Artifact and took it out, saving Artie. They safely got out of Artie's body before the shrink ray reversed itself, so the day was saved.
Even in retirement, Helena would still return to lend her aid when needed. But by and large, she was integrating herself into the modern world, expanding the amount of people she knew beyond only that of the Warehouse staff. After her break up with Nate, she was a bit more jaded in the way of romantic relationships, but she'd also taken a lesson from it. She dropped her Emily Lake alias, save for on official documents, and would use her real name when introducing herself. She didn't want the lies to get in the way of anything she could potentially have with someone. Besides, if someone could handle the knowledge she was actually H.G. Wells, chances were they could handle the rest of her story and knowledge of the Warehouse.
So in a nutshell in this canon update, Helena will get closure to her relationship with Nate instead of sitting here theorizing and worrying about it as she has been doing in game. While it normally would serve to jade her further, given her and Zoey have admitted feelings for each other in game, that won't play much of a role when her memories of Zoey return to her. This closure with Nate is also serving to help stabilize her a little bit, to give her one less issue weighing on her. It won't help with the whole moving from place to place in-game thing, but it will give her a better understanding of herself and to help her move forward in the relationship department.