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[h2]BASIC INFO[/h2][hr]
[indent][b]Name:[/b] Helen Hart

[b]Age:[/b] 18

[b]Year:[/b] Senior

[b]Gender:[/b] F [/indent]
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[b]Height:[/b] 5’5” 

[b]Weight:[/b] 130 lbs

[b]Skin Color:[/b] White with freckles

[b]Physical Description:[/b] Helen is a pretty average-sized girl, not short or tall or thin or fat. She has broad shoulders for a girl, but also wide, feminine hips. Helen is quite proud of and comfortable with her body, holding her head high and her chest out in a more traditionally-masculine posture. She is by no means fit or athletic- occasionally she gets the urge to exercise or run, but the habit never sticks (they never do). If you saw her with her clothes off, she’d have a slight muffin top. Helen has a few different tattoos on her body. On her right wrist is [url=https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31kdFv3W86S._AC_.jpg] a triple moon tattoo, a symbol of her Wiccan faith[/url]. On her upper chest on the left side is a [url=https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b5/50/80/b5508022da291a8516413801d7111ceb.jpg]Celtic Shield Knot[/url], said to be a talisman of protection against dark forces. One day Helen plans to cover most of her body in tattoos, but she’s young and poor so she hasn’t gotten there yet. 

Helen has a round face with a large forehead, often a point of scorn for bullies. She has prominent cheekbones and a slightly upturned nose. Her eyes are a gentle, pale green and her eyebrows are light to the point where they’re sometimes hard to see. Helen’s cheeks are more freckle than skin in some spots (this is the case for most of her body), but all in all she’s rather pretty. Helen’s hair is long and flame red, parted down the middle but often kept messy and wild like a mane of flame. Typically, she keeps her ears covered, as they get made fun of a lot for being too small for her head. 

[b]Clothing:[/b] Helen has a very feminine wardrobe, lots of flowy dresses and skirts. She loves sundresses and wears them often, typically with strong patterns (Helen isn’t one for plain clothing). Her favorite colors are green and purple, and as such that makes up much of her wardrobe. Most of Helen’s clothes come from the Rustic Palace or Goodwill (she loves thrifting) and she tends to become very attached to things she finds there that look like no one else would wear them. When it’s very cold, Helen will switch to jeans or leggings, but this is only when it’s absolutely necessary. She typically wears a nylon necklace with a metal pentagram on it. 

[b]Voice:[/b] High and airy, like Evanna Lynch minus the British accent (she played Luna Lovegood). 

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[h2]PERSONALITY:[/h2][hr]
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[b]Character Traits:[/b] A lot of competing influences have shaped Helen: bullying by school children, support from her parents, societal prejudice, general Wiccan attitudes about not blending in. As a result, Helen is like a balloon full of weirdness: rising high until some bastard comes along with a needle to pop it. Around people she’s close to, like Willow, Helen is capricious and goofy, constantly seeking out adventure and mystery. Helen has a fascination with the occult, from witchcraft to ouija boards, and seeks such things out as much as she can. She loves conspiracy theories and fringe pseudoscientific beliefs, though whether she actually believes any of them is a mystery even to herself. Helen doesn’t have many friends, but the ones she does have she loves fiercely. She is incredibly open-minded and supportive of those she meets, typically making a point to be nice to the freakier CLs in Leesburgh. 

Then some bastard comes along to pop the weird balloon. Despite all of this, Helen is really self-conscious and thin-skinned. Even mild judgment from strangers or bullies causes her to clam up and seek shelter, going so far as to leave her friends hanging when they need her. When she’s alone, Helen is, in fact, quite shy, not making eye contact with people and speaking only when spoken to. She is very defensive around strangers, as in her head she automatically assumes that they’re going to bully her (or if they don’t, they’re thinking about it). When it comes to social interaction, Helen’s strategy is to duck her head and wait until it’s over. 

If it wasn’t obvious already, Helen has pretty bad ADHD. Even with medication, she has trouble focusing on things and can very easily become overwhelmed by sensory perceptions. She changes her mind constantly, thinks of the bizarrest ideas out of nowhere, and often speaks before her brain has processed what she’s going to say, sometimes leading to her being blunt or rude. Helen also has a tendency to snap at people when in tough situations, lashing out with anger even at her friends just due to how easily-overwhelmed she gets. 

Helen is lesbian, yet another thing that makes life hard for her in a small Pennsylvania town. There’s not a lot of lesbians in Leesburgh, and as such Helen has never really dated anyone. She crushes on girls constantly, though, especially athletic girls. Much to her own frustration, she harbors a tremendous crush on Evelyn Noblezada.

[b]Bonds:[/b] Like much else in her life, Helen’s career and college plans change constantly. Sometimes she wants to be a writer, other times a reporter or a painter or an oceanographer or a park ranger or a nature photographer or a helicopter pilot or a professional skier or a farmer. One thing’s for sure, though, she wants to do something great with her life and she’s excited to see what it’s going to be. For now, Helen has a part-time job at Mooncash as a barista. It’s not much but it gives her some spending money. 

[b]Activities:[/b] Helen spends a lot of time reading, especially about religion or occultism. She’s read most of the books in the Rustic Palace and regularly goes to the library as well. She reads a lot of poetry too and loves Emily Dickinson. Helen practices witchcraft as part of her faith and will often go into the woods to construct magic circles or perform other rituals. She regularly tries to get her few friends to join her for these rituals. Helen is also a sucker for other occult objects such as ouija boards and dowsing rods. In addition to this, Helen also is constantly picking up hobbies and then almost immediately dropping them. She has been involved in fencing, taekwondo, knitting, gardening, HEMA, painting, pottery, carpentry, candlemaking, and sewing at various points, and her room is littered with cast-off equipment of these various hobbies (including a European broadsword hanging on her wall). 

[b]Skills:[/b] Over years of picking and dropping hobbies, Helen has learned a little bit of many things. She has a basic understanding of fighting and knows a lot about various crafts and how to make them. She’s actually really good at sewing and her next hobby will probably be dressmaking, which may or may not stick. Helen knows a lot about literature, history, and religion. 

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[h2]BACKSTORY[/h2][hr]
[indent][b]Backstory:[/b] Helen doesn’t know her birth parents, but it’s never really bothered her. At the start of the CLs appearing, she was abandoned by her birth parents for her abilities, but quickly adopted by Kristy and Ella Hart, a lesbian couple who lived on the outskirts of town near Mount Grey. Southern Pennsylvania was not very friendly to gay people in the 1990s, but Kristy and Ella made it work. In addition to this, Kristy and Ella were devout Wiccans, worshippers of nature and the mother goddess. Due to their already tenuous nature in the town, the couple kept their religious beliefs a secret, though they did indoctrinate their daughter. 

Her entire life, Helen has known she was an outcast. She was always the weird kid at school, the one who would spend recess playing alone in the woods or in the library. She got bullied a lot and didn’t have many friends. In 6th grade, Helen was in the same class as Willow, and they quickly became friends. Helen spent most of her time and allowance deep in the Rustic Palace, reading the old used books that inevitably accumulate in an antique store. Occasionally, Helen tries to rope Willow in on her occult weirdness, but mostly she does that herself these days or with her mothers. Once she graduates, Helen wants to go to college and pursue a degree in english or religious studies. [/indent]

[h2]POWERS:[/h2][hr]
[indent][b]Description:[/b] Helen possesses the ability to manifest eyes on structures she touches. She can manifest an eye on any structure, from glass to brick to plants or animals. The eye can be structured to look like an anatomically-correct human eye, or it can be disguised to resemble a piece of art or a pre-existing eye on a poster or object. Once the eye has manifested, Helen can see through the eye as if it were her own and control it freely. The eye is fixed in place, but it can move like a normal eye and can blink or close (even if it normally wouldn’t be able to, like with a doll eye). The eye lasts indefinitely, receiving a supply of nutrients from Helen through mysterious means. 
	Helen can also cause eyes to manifest on her own body, and when she does this she gains some additional abilities. If Helen manifests an extra eye on her body, the eye can be modified to perceive other forms of light, such as infrared light, ultraviolet light, or radio waves. These eyes can also see through solid surfaces up to 3 inches thick, such as doors or cars. These eyes can be manifested on any spot on her body (she often manifests them on her hand in a homage to the Fates, or on her face to create a third eye on her forehead). 

[b]Limitations:[/b] Helen can only manifest up to 3 extra eyes at a time, and to make a new one she must remove a previous one. Once an eye is made on a spot, it cannot be moved. Helen must touch an object to plant an eye on it, and the eye appears exactly where she touches (so she can’t plant one higher up on a wall than she touches or something). The eyes can be made larger than a human eye, up to the diameter of a soccer ball, but cannot be any larger. 

[b]Weaknesses:[/b]  Helen’s eyes that manifest on objects cannot see through objects or see non-visible spectrums of light, so just covering up one of them prevents Helen from using them. The biggest weakness of Helen’s eyes, though, is that they are inexplicably attached to Helen through mystical means. They receive blood and nutrients from Helen’s body and vice versa. A toxin placed into one of the eyes will end up in Helen’s bloodstream, and if one of the eyes are damaged, Helen feels the pain as if her own eye had been harmed and can lose blood. She can close an eye remotely, but the damage is still done. Additionally, once one of Helen’s eyes has been physically-destroyed, she cannot manifest it again for 24 hours, so her supply of eyes goes from 3 to 2 until it recovers. 
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[b]Favorite Subject:[/b] English

[b]Least-Favorite Subject:[/b] Math

[b]Grades:[/b] Generally a B student, Helen gets Cs in science and math and As in English and history. 

[b]Embarrassing Moment:[/b] In middle school, a bully took Helen's pentagram necklace in the middle of a crowd of fellow students. Filled to the brim with anger, Helen held out her hand and began to mumble words in Latin which she'd read in a book once, attempting to inflict a magical curse upon the girl. Nothing happened. 

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[b]Other Information: [/b]

[b]Other Information: [/b] Helen has a car, a green Toyota Prius with flower decals all over it. It has a variety of bumper stickers: “Save the Whales”, a peace sign, a UFO-shaped sticker that says “I Believe”, a pride flag, etc. The car’s name is Doug (short for “Duh Green Car”). [/hider