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[b]Name:[/b] Helena Allison Britt
[b]Age:[/b] 18
[b]Mutation:[/b]

[i]Telepathy/Telekinesis[/i] - Believed by S.H.l.E.L.D. to hold the potential to be the most powerful telepath since the deaths of Charles Xavier and Jean Grey; if she lives long enough to turn potential into reality.

[b]Personality:[/b]

Helena was once, not that long ago, the stereotypical alpha girl; prom queen, cheerleader, and able to charm her way in or out of nearly anything. Only a bully to other bullies, Helena saw to it that her high school class was welcoming and accepting of all kids in her school...no matter how weird, or creepy, or damaged, or socially awkward they were. Happy, though bored, with her suburban life and eagerly waiting to go off to college, all of that changed when Helena's mutation first manifested. Hatefully disowned by her beauty pageant mother as a 'freak of nature', Helena fell hard into the stages of grief...only coming to acceptance, the final stage, after meeting X-23 for the first time. 

A touch of ego and attitude make Helena still an alpha girl, even in the community of secret mutant warriors. Known as a natural leader just as much as she is known for her wicked, often times sarcastic and biting, sense of humor. Her daredevil, adrenaline hunting, devil-may-care attitudes sometimes come into conflict with this default leadership position--often times leading herself, and those following her, into the heart of danger. 

The last girl any want to trifle with, the passionate and intense Helena Britt is exactly what those recruiting want most: a fighter who wouldn't back down to any hardship...from sentinels to psychotic mothers.

Helena rarely talks about her personal past, finding too many painful topics to enjoy speaking about it.

[b]History:[/b] 

Born and raised in Mobile, Alabama to a former Crimson Tide football player turned attorney and a former beauty queen. A Southern upper class girl with the credentials to match; a member of the famed (and infamous) Cameron Park Country Club since birth, a card carrying member of the Daughters of the Confederacy, and an alum of the prestigeous, all white, Saint Francis Prep Academy. For much of her youth, Helena lived in a bubble of Southern wealth and priviledge. Pleasing her mother by becoming a pageant girl and pleasing her father by becoming a peerless student, life was on cruise control for Helena Britt as she entered her Junior Year at Saint Francis.

The belle of the ball, Helena entered the school year voted to Homecoming Queen, her long time boyfriend and athlete voted King. Between school, cheer, horse riding, and her mother's charity events, life was busily moving fast to the end of the year by the time the holiday break hit. Though she doesn't like to tell the story, her long time athletic rich boy boyfriend became drunk and raped her at his New Year's Eve party. In the extreme stress of the moment came an unleashing of telepathic power that put her soon-to-be-former boyfriend in a coma for over a month.

Though Mobile County sheriffs never discovered the nature of the coma, the fact that Helena was raped went unreported and covered up; her boyfriend the son of a local, long standing, County Judge. Pushed to the breaking point, Hel quit cheer, she quit the Student Senate, she even quit horse riding. Her father's gentle concern was drowned out by the aggressive anger of her mother. According to the woman, Helena was ruining her life because of a stupid mood. When Helena told her mother the truth, the woman dismissed it as a lie designed to gain pity.

Her father eventually talked her into joining Journalism, a platform from which Helena would attack the world of high priviledge and ignorant racism in which she was raised in. Though this strangely seemed to amuse her father, himself born in the harsh poverty of a poor country farmer's life that her grandfather led. But when Helena refused to do a fashion show for charity, the final fight between Helena and her mother was well on it's way. In the height of rage, Helena used her telepathy to expose every hateful and twisted secret of her mother; including her mother's paranoid belief Helena and her father were hiding an incestreous relationship.

Shocked and appalled, Helena's mother deflected Helena's accusations by calling her daughter a "monsterous mutant." Her mother officially disowned her that day, her father coming home to find his happy home life shattered beyond all repair. After hearing from both sides, Helena's father arranged for her to take a vacation to Southern California--to get her away from home, to get her away from her mother. Helena would return home a month later to find her mother kicked out of the house, divorce pending. 

Somehow, it felt like a win to Helena. But it wasn't. Even today, Helena feels like a foolish naive little girl for having believed any part of the situation could have been a personal victory. While her father could not continue to live with 'that woman', nor could he keep a clear concious if he allowed his mutant daughter to stay in Alabama. He knew his wife would call her friends and tell them all about their mutant daughter. He knew Alabama was no longer a safe place for Helena to stay. Helena was in the midst of trying to figure out a plan when she was first sent an anonymous e-mail claiming to be from a mutant like her, trying to put together a group of mutants to train and empower. 

Desperate for a place to go, Helena was ready to go immediately--her father preaching caution until more was learned about this mysterious mutant and their offer of hospitality. A government agent in a black suit came to see her father shortly after, explaining to Mr. Britt that not all mutants were created equal. That some were stronger than others, and that some powers were more coveted than others. The most coveted? Telepathy. Though the agent never said her name once, he was able to easily convince the Alabama attorney that his daughter was now the focus for a lot of sets of eyes.

Though he wanted to send Helena to Genosha for safety, Helena had decided she wanted to meet this mysterious mutant she had heard from numerous times now. Helena was given her mother's Mercedes (so she wouldn't get it in the divorce settlement--her father's way of being cruel) and a dufflebag filled with all the cash her father could gather quickly to go meet the mysterious mutant. There father and daughter said what became their final goodbye. Helena would drive on to Birmingham to meet a mutant woman who named herself as simply 'X', and go on to explain the way of the mutant world for the neophyte mutant Helena. 

Helena signed up on the spot, becoming the group's first 'student' to arrive at Bakersfield and settle in at the old ranch. Helena doesn't think much about her old life, considering it the life of a girl that no longer exists.

[b]OOC/Misc:[/b]

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X-23 - Hel has nothing but respect for the hard edged, impossible to intimidate, mutant leader of their group. X is the only mutant that Hel's ever known to have actually met with the X-Men, to be able to tell stories of Wolverine, to quote the poetic Beast, or to share the words about Xavier's dream that X was told firsthand by Xavier himself. X is the group's touchstone to the past and X-Men legacy. Though X can be tough skinned and demanding, none of that ever bothers Hel, who responds well to 'hard coaching' from the pageant days of her youth. 

'Rob' - Everyone knows that 'Rob' isn't really his name, but nobody seems to mind. Rob is a gentle soul that likes to wax poetically about surfing, the West Coast, and living a good life he can be proud of. It's clear Rob holds to a certain system of values, one designed with the intent to never be on the wrong side of karma. It's less clear if Rob's always had that system of values...because Hel has a feeling the man they all know now as 'Rob' used to be very different, living a radically different life than the life he lives now; that of a tough guy protector for a bunch of mutant kids. Rob likes drinking his beer and smoking his pot, and a trip to his cabin is almost always a fun night just waiting to be had. 

Annelise - A sweet thing that I originally thought would maybe make a good friend. When I found out she was a lesbian, the strangest thing happened: my behavior changed around her. Suddenly, I was flirting with her, maybe she thought I was attractive? Well she did, and it didn't take me very long to go from she finds me attractive to "Hey let's go do something together?" You know, winkwink. As the only mutant around resistant to my telepathy, you might think that was part of Annelise's appeal to me...and you'd be right. But while I started this relationship as a way to kill time and kiss on a pretty girl, I'm genuinely afraid I'm starting to grow attached to Annelise. I'd like it if I didn't, but she knows that. She knows my fears, about us, about the team, about it all; and I know her fears. I'm closer to her than I've ever been to anyone. So maybe I'm stuck with this girl. Wouldn't that be a blessing?

Noel - The amazing half-boy, half-man. So much about Noel screams youth and boyhood; from his shy nature to his quiet disposition. I ask him to help me with feeding the animals, Rob likes to ask him to help with repair jobs around the Ranch...anything to toughen him up, and get some self confidence in him. One day I think we'll see Noel walk around with his head held high and his shoulders squared, just maybe a while. Rob and I are still trying to get him to go hunting or fishing with us, but so far no luck. I've made it as plain, and sweetly said, as I can that if he ever needs to talk I'm there for him. I did warn him, with a grin, it might require he actually, you know, TALK.

Alexander - Every Ranch needs a Cookie, but not every group can get a BritJew of their very own! Alex suffers my Jewish jokes with the best of them, although as a former Southern Baptist it's not like there isn't ample ammunition to throw back at me--and I wouldn't have it any other way. He's a good cook, and it was a relief to know that the Mess kitchen wouldn't be a full time duty of mine. Although he can't do southern/soul food to save his life, nevermind his utter inability to BBQ, or bake a sweet treat. I've shown him how to do pork ribs and brisket, and save for the one time he forgot to peel the membrane off the pork ribs, he's learned those BBQ basics pretty well. Maybe one day I'll show him how to make grilled burgers not balloon up to an unwieldy size. Though I've flatly given up on his chances to ever be a dessert maker. He's even started watching college football with Rob and I. Alex and I got closer lately with his loss, I shared my past with him, the only person I've told the stories to outside of my lover.

Will - One of the newest arrivals to the Last Five, and one of the strangest. I've never seen a girl that looks like this, but then again I'm now painfully aware of the protective little bubble I was living within when I was growing up in Alabama. Strange as she may appear to me, strange does not mean unattractive. There's a chip on this one's shoulder, and I should know. I've witnessed the way Will looks at Annelise, and it just makes me smile. Jealousy is hard to fire up when you've been inside your lover's thoughts and know the reassurances she'd give you as well as you know your own name. But maybe it's not just that keeping me from jealousy. Maybe I've looked a little to long and a little too hard at Will myself recently. Maybe I'll invite Will out into town with me soon. Couldn't be a bad idea, right? Right. Plus she's got my name in her name, so totally star-crossed.

Jack - A nice young fellow. I have a feeling Jack has more in store for us than he's tipped his hand to show thus far, and hopefully any revelations don't come at the worst possible times. Plus, he's Canadian, and who doesn't love a polite Canadian? Makes him a winner in my book. And, plus, it's hard to be sweltering in summer heat when Jack's around. So that's another plus. Seems something of a straight arrow, doesn't hang around too much with Rob and I. Although it's quite obvious how much he respects Rob...and I certainly can't say I blame Jack for that, considering I know all of I do know about Rob. Rob's about as good a male role model as I can imagine for someone like Jack. We'll see how close Jack and I get, I have this suspicion we've got plenty of dialogue in our future. What Jack thinks about me? Please, I don't have a clue what any of the guys think about me. Save Rob.

Chase - A cute one, if a strange one. Gills? Ew, in a cool Science!!!! kinda way. I've seen him be a stubborn motherfucker, so it's nice to know I'm not the only hard headed one around here. What are his hobbies? No idea. He seems to hide from me, like I'm in the same league as X-23 or something. I find that very strange considering I'm still very much a Southern belle at heart and in outward appearance. Oh well, whatever. Maybe one day he'll figure out I'm one of the least abrasive people on the Last Five. Then again, maybe he won't. So long as he comes in handy when shit hits fan, I'm not sure I care, honestly.

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