[hider= Helena Kingsley]
[h1] Helena Alys Kingsley[/h1]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/gZ3eARq.jpg?1[/img]

[b]Full Name[/b]: Helena Alys Kingsley

[b]Nicknames/Aliases[/b]: Hel

[b]Age[/b]: 16

[b]Gender[/b]: Female

[b]Primary[/b]: Defensive

[b]Student[/b] 

[b]Secondaries of Interest:[/b] Blood Magic, Familiars


[b]Description[/b]: Helena is not a terrible imposing creature, topping out at out an unintimidating 5'2. Her build is slim, with light curves on the hips and chest rather than any defined muscle and her face is heart-shaped and girlish, with a set of wide, blue-grey eyes. She has a mop of untidy, red hair, which falls for her lower back. She has very pale skin that is quite prone to burning. She has a noticeable, irregular pinky-red mark around her left eye, that continues down her face, neck and shoulder. Birthmark or scar, it's not completely clear.

People often pick Helena out on her somewhat..idiosyncratic sense of fashion. Her outfit tends to frequently consist of skirt, leggings, sheepskin boots, and some of the most hideous sweaters known to mankind, hewn in rainbow colours and emblazoned with animal designs. All are at least two sizes too big. Seeing what abomination she will wear is quickly becoming a bit of a morbid curiosity among students.

[b]
Personality[/b]: Helena is kinda of.....weird. Perhaps the fact that she'd not had a whole lot of peer interaction in her life, or perhaps inherently, she can be kind of strange. Her fashion sense is quite eccentric and she tends to both think about and react to things in quite...unconventional ways. 

She tends to let her mind wander frequently, and doesn’t often commit to things, her actions and her appearance often making people assume that she is rather weak-willed, but, her outward delicacy hides a fire or great proportions. When she commits to something, she can pursue things with a dogged determination that can be quite impressive. 

Helena is not too easily moved into fighting. She tends to put up with a great deal before losing her temper. That being said, when pushed too far, Hel’s temper is completely explosive in its short bursts.


[b]Skills[/b]: Helena appears to have some low level of inherent negation, however by magical bloodline standards she is quite underpowered. 

Aside from that she is a fairly talented artist and painter, though it has little practical application. 

For her size, she can be impressively strong.

[b]Weaknesses[/b]: Helena seems to have quite a weak magical ability. 

On top of this she seems prone to rather peculiar behaviour, often spacing out in the middle of tasks.

[b]
Brief History[/b]: Helena's family, the Kingsleys, are an old, relatively well-known magical family, coming out of Wiltshire, Southern England. The family was held in high regard for many years,holding the Council seat for Runic Casting,  however suffered a considerable lapse in its reputation after the civil war. The Kingsleys had long held a tradition of neutrality in the case of any conflict between the family, and the familial patriarch at the time, Algernon Kingsley, maintained the neutrality order, even in the face of the threat to humanity the cult posed.

As a result, once the dust cleared, the reputation of the ancient family would never be quite the same.
 The Kingsleys retain their wealth and status, however the mounting pressure drove them to willingly give up their council seat in order to preserve any kind of amicable relations with some of the major players in the magical world. 

Helena is the daughter of Aeryn Kingsley, the current family head after the passing of Algernon. She was also born long before Aeryn was married, during the war period. Aeryn, dissatisfied with her father's inaction, had broken away from the family with intent on changing the world, only to return, with an illegitimate baby and a general air of defeat.

This, her obvious difference in primary, and her tendency to not put on the best public face led to Helena being something of an embarrassment at formal events. 
The Kingsleys didn't really like to talk about Aeryn's daughter, especially with the birth of her brother, a good, strong, appropriately-born runecaster, and for the most part, people forgot she was there.

Until, well, Marchand happened, and her name turned up on the list of mages in the age bracket.[/hider]