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Character Name: Helena
Series: Orphan Black
Timeline: Season 3, episode 9 - "Insolvent Phantom of Tomorrow"
Canon Resource Link: Link
Character History:
Helena (last name never given) is a clone, a piece in a puzzle that is as horrific as it is compelling. How she even came to be is equally intriguing: Her birth mother, Amelia, (whom she never got to know as a child) was tricked into believing that she was going to be a surrogate mother. When she realized the couple was actually a pair of scientists who wanted to use the babies in experiments, she fled but had no way of taking care of the twins she found out she was carrying. She ended up giving her baby girls away and Helena wound up in a convent in Ukraine until she was twelve. At that point, she was taken in by a a man and a woman named Tomas and Maggie respectively, who told her about the clones. Se was told, however, that she was the important one, the original one, and the others needed to be killed. She was trained in weaponry, martial arts, and anything else that could put her on the path of being a brutal killer. If she ever feels out of control in a situation, her coping mechanism is to self-harm by taking a razor blade to her back. Over the years, she's managed to create a pattern that is akin to angel wings.
She begins to hunt down her genetic equals and killing all over Europe before tracking one clone in particular to Canada. It's then that she finds another clone, Beth, though she has no idea it's actually her twin sister, Sarah who has taken Beth's identity. When she discovers Sarah's ruse, she spares her life and instead of seemingly wanting to kill her, she almost immediately decides that she and Sarah have some sort of connection. The relationship becomes almost obsessive with Helena becoming vaguely aware of the fact that the crusade she's on, the one she thought was religious, actually comes down to science. But, it should be noted that while she is fierce and extremely capable, she has never been to school formally. Her understanding of the science is limited - she kills. That's what she knows to do. All of her other behaviors are childlike very childlike in nature.
Throughout her stalking of Sarah, she comes across Kira, Sarah's young daughter who Helena's supposed to take to Tomas. Instead, it's clear that Helena is good with children, mostly because her thought process means she relates to kids better than adults. Whatever it is about Kira, it moves Helena to the point that she doesn't go through with kidnapping her. Once she's lured away from her caretakers, Helena changes her mind and tells her to go home. Unfortunately, Kira is hit by a car. Helena is distraught and on top of that, severely abused by Tomas who locks her in a cage for not doing as she was told. Eventually she gets a message to Sarah for rescue, who is planning to turn Helena over to Doctor Leekie, a scientist involved in the cloning experiments. Sarah changes her mind when she finds out that she and Helena are twins and instead does rescue her sister, but ties her up in the basement of her home. The revelation that Sarah is her sister seems to be no surprise to Helena. She revels in it, but also feels abandoned by their birth mother who has arrived to tell Sarah everything she knows. After managing to escape her ties, Helena poses as Sarah to meet with Amelia, killing her when she does. When Sarah arrives she's horrified, but Helena can't bring herself to kill Sarah even as her sister beats her. Eventually, Sarah shoots Helena and leaves her for dead. The shot to her chest should have killed her, But Helena's a literal mirror of Sarah, which puts her heart on the other side of her chest.
Somehow, though we never see how, Helena gets herself to a hospital, where she is immediately taken by a group known as the Proletheans. They're a religious group, extremists who in the 'old age' opposed the cloning projects. But under a new leader - Hank Johanssen - the science and religion are brought together. He in fact thinks Helena needs to multiply and be fruitful so that he can take advantage of her genetics. He harvests eggs from her and implants them into his daughter and does the same with fertilized eggs to Helena. She has no idea why this is happening, Helena is simply under the impression it's been done so that she can give birth to children. When his daughter explains the truth, Helena first tries to run. She's caught, but she takes her second chance not long after. Strapping Hank to an exam table, she injects random DNA samples into him before burning down the lab, home, and other structures on the farm where she's been kept. Helena believes her safe haven will be with Sarah, so she finds her, saving her life in the process. Helena is safe for a while with all of her sisters, until Mrs. S (Sarah's foster mother) gives Helena up in exchange for protection for Kira, an attempt to be sure those she truly cares for aren't wrapped up in the extreme science project any more than they already are.
Now pregnant (but only just), Helena wakes up in a box and is told by a hallucination of a scorpion (that she's named Pupok) that this is a test. She must get herself out of the crate she's trapped in. She winds up begin released, only to be waterboarded by what appears to be the military. It's described as a 'stress test' but is quickly put to a stop when a doctor arrives on scene and announces that Helena is carrying a child. From then on she's only given neurological tests, but Helena never cooperates. She is locked up and constantly talks to her scorpion until one day Sarah arrives as a prisoner as well. Feeling betrayed because she believes Sarah sold her out along with Mrs. S, Helena won't talk to her, instead accusing her of being a traitor, encouraged by Pupok. Eventually though, after hearing a conversation between Sarah and others at the facility they're being held in, Helena comes to believe Sarah had nothing to with her kidnapping and devises an escape plan. However, at the last minute she leaves Sarah in her cell, escaping the facility. It's only after stumbling around in the desert for a day that she goes back for her sister, unable to leave her behind. Together they escape to a cantina in Mexico where S picks them up. At first, Helena attempts to kill her, knowing that she's the reason why the torture happened. Eventually though, S gets through to Helena and they make amends. Back in Canada, Helena is given to 'Seestra Alison' (another clone), living with her family and helping to make soap for their spa store, 'Bubbles.' With her is a canister of her frozen eggs from the Proletheans, which are stolen when the drug lord Alison and her husband work for take them as collateral (not knowing what is inside the canister). Posing as Alison, Helena goes to get her babies back, but the man who has them threatens Alison's children and so, naturally, Helena murders them. This goes back to how much she loves children and will protect them.
At this point, Helena enters Wonderland. Note for the mods: Helena is pregnant, but not visibly so and naturally the pregnancy will never progress. She's never had any health concerns before in the show (and she was tortured extensively), so we can assume everything remains fine with the baby, and it will never be an issue. BUT, if I need to back up her canon point, I will!
Abilities/Special Powers: Helena is very, very well trained in weaponry ranging from knife skills to semi-automatic weapons. She's also highly skilled in hand-to-hand combat. She has no other special powers.
Third-Person Sample:
She has to keep her babies safe. All the tiny babies that are frozen. She wonders what they look like as she holds the canister in her arms, staring up at the mansion. This is not seestra Alison's house. This is no one's house, it is a castle. Bigger than any house, even bigger than the orphanage. Helena takes a slow step forward, wary and careful, unsure.
She cannot kill anyone with babies in her arms. Though perhaps she could kill them with the canister the babies are in. Yes. She will do this if she has to, but for now she walks in a bloody white parka, the hood up and very much looking as if she's just murdered someone. Or two or three people. Perhaps four. No one threatens babies, even babies that are not hers. Gemma and Oscar do not become playing pieces in this game, they are innocent.
But now, there is a new game. What is this, she wonders, where she was with Donnie and now she is at a mansion and there are people, many people she has never seen before. At least she isn't locked away. It's an improvement, though soon she'll realize it's still a prison of sorts.
"Come babies," she mutters to the silver canister of embryos in her arms, giving it a kiss. "We will go find someone who will tell us the answers."
First-Person Sample:
[Helena's found a room by now, and she sits cross legged on the floor in the empty space, holding her phone in hand, sending a video out to all of Wonderland featuring a thick, Ukrainian accent.]
Hello, everybody. What is this place with closet that gives me donuts and makes me stay?
[And a powdered donut makes an appearance, a bite taken as she chews thoughtfully, tilting her head to one side, contemplating the camera.]
There are many people here. Like rats, we are trapped? It only appears to be free. But this is not good place for me and my babies. I need my family. Tell me why we cannot leave.
[She's remarkably calm, and then she brings the camera right to her face, so that only her eyes are visible.]
Who is watching?
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Other Characters: Henry Mills |
henrydaniel and Michonne | thesamuraiCharacter Name: Helena
Series: Orphan Black
Timeline: Season 3, episode 9 - "Insolvent Phantom of Tomorrow"
Canon Resource Link: Link
Character History:
Helena (last name never given) is a clone, a piece in a puzzle that is as horrific as it is compelling. How she even came to be is equally intriguing: Her birth mother, Amelia, (whom she never got to know as a child) was tricked into believing that she was going to be a surrogate mother. When she realized the couple was actually a pair of scientists who wanted to use the babies in experiments, she fled but had no way of taking care of the twins she found out she was carrying. She ended up giving her baby girls away and Helena wound up in a convent in Ukraine until she was twelve. At that point, she was taken in by a a man and a woman named Tomas and Maggie respectively, who told her about the clones. Se was told, however, that she was the important one, the original one, and the others needed to be killed. She was trained in weaponry, martial arts, and anything else that could put her on the path of being a brutal killer. If she ever feels out of control in a situation, her coping mechanism is to self-harm by taking a razor blade to her back. Over the years, she's managed to create a pattern that is akin to angel wings.
She begins to hunt down her genetic equals and killing all over Europe before tracking one clone in particular to Canada. It's then that she finds another clone, Beth, though she has no idea it's actually her twin sister, Sarah who has taken Beth's identity. When she discovers Sarah's ruse, she spares her life and instead of seemingly wanting to kill her, she almost immediately decides that she and Sarah have some sort of connection. The relationship becomes almost obsessive with Helena becoming vaguely aware of the fact that the crusade she's on, the one she thought was religious, actually comes down to science. But, it should be noted that while she is fierce and extremely capable, she has never been to school formally. Her understanding of the science is limited - she kills. That's what she knows to do. All of her other behaviors are childlike very childlike in nature.
Throughout her stalking of Sarah, she comes across Kira, Sarah's young daughter who Helena's supposed to take to Tomas. Instead, it's clear that Helena is good with children, mostly because her thought process means she relates to kids better than adults. Whatever it is about Kira, it moves Helena to the point that she doesn't go through with kidnapping her. Once she's lured away from her caretakers, Helena changes her mind and tells her to go home. Unfortunately, Kira is hit by a car. Helena is distraught and on top of that, severely abused by Tomas who locks her in a cage for not doing as she was told. Eventually she gets a message to Sarah for rescue, who is planning to turn Helena over to Doctor Leekie, a scientist involved in the cloning experiments. Sarah changes her mind when she finds out that she and Helena are twins and instead does rescue her sister, but ties her up in the basement of her home. The revelation that Sarah is her sister seems to be no surprise to Helena. She revels in it, but also feels abandoned by their birth mother who has arrived to tell Sarah everything she knows. After managing to escape her ties, Helena poses as Sarah to meet with Amelia, killing her when she does. When Sarah arrives she's horrified, but Helena can't bring herself to kill Sarah even as her sister beats her. Eventually, Sarah shoots Helena and leaves her for dead. The shot to her chest should have killed her, But Helena's a literal mirror of Sarah, which puts her heart on the other side of her chest.
Somehow, though we never see how, Helena gets herself to a hospital, where she is immediately taken by a group known as the Proletheans. They're a religious group, extremists who in the 'old age' opposed the cloning projects. But under a new leader - Hank Johanssen - the science and religion are brought together. He in fact thinks Helena needs to multiply and be fruitful so that he can take advantage of her genetics. He harvests eggs from her and implants them into his daughter and does the same with fertilized eggs to Helena. She has no idea why this is happening, Helena is simply under the impression it's been done so that she can give birth to children. When his daughter explains the truth, Helena first tries to run. She's caught, but she takes her second chance not long after. Strapping Hank to an exam table, she injects random DNA samples into him before burning down the lab, home, and other structures on the farm where she's been kept. Helena believes her safe haven will be with Sarah, so she finds her, saving her life in the process. Helena is safe for a while with all of her sisters, until Mrs. S (Sarah's foster mother) gives Helena up in exchange for protection for Kira, an attempt to be sure those she truly cares for aren't wrapped up in the extreme science project any more than they already are.
Now pregnant (but only just), Helena wakes up in a box and is told by a hallucination of a scorpion (that she's named Pupok) that this is a test. She must get herself out of the crate she's trapped in. She winds up begin released, only to be waterboarded by what appears to be the military. It's described as a 'stress test' but is quickly put to a stop when a doctor arrives on scene and announces that Helena is carrying a child. From then on she's only given neurological tests, but Helena never cooperates. She is locked up and constantly talks to her scorpion until one day Sarah arrives as a prisoner as well. Feeling betrayed because she believes Sarah sold her out along with Mrs. S, Helena won't talk to her, instead accusing her of being a traitor, encouraged by Pupok. Eventually though, after hearing a conversation between Sarah and others at the facility they're being held in, Helena comes to believe Sarah had nothing to with her kidnapping and devises an escape plan. However, at the last minute she leaves Sarah in her cell, escaping the facility. It's only after stumbling around in the desert for a day that she goes back for her sister, unable to leave her behind. Together they escape to a cantina in Mexico where S picks them up. At first, Helena attempts to kill her, knowing that she's the reason why the torture happened. Eventually though, S gets through to Helena and they make amends. Back in Canada, Helena is given to 'Seestra Alison' (another clone), living with her family and helping to make soap for their spa store, 'Bubbles.' With her is a canister of her frozen eggs from the Proletheans, which are stolen when the drug lord Alison and her husband work for take them as collateral (not knowing what is inside the canister). Posing as Alison, Helena goes to get her babies back, but the man who has them threatens Alison's children and so, naturally, Helena murders them. This goes back to how much she loves children and will protect them.
At this point, Helena enters Wonderland. Note for the mods: Helena is pregnant, but not visibly so and naturally the pregnancy will never progress. She's never had any health concerns before in the show (and she was tortured extensively), so we can assume everything remains fine with the baby, and it will never be an issue. BUT, if I need to back up her canon point, I will!
Abilities/Special Powers: Helena is very, very well trained in weaponry ranging from knife skills to semi-automatic weapons. She's also highly skilled in hand-to-hand combat. She has no other special powers.
Third-Person Sample:
She has to keep her babies safe. All the tiny babies that are frozen. She wonders what they look like as she holds the canister in her arms, staring up at the mansion. This is not seestra Alison's house. This is no one's house, it is a castle. Bigger than any house, even bigger than the orphanage. Helena takes a slow step forward, wary and careful, unsure.
She cannot kill anyone with babies in her arms. Though perhaps she could kill them with the canister the babies are in. Yes. She will do this if she has to, but for now she walks in a bloody white parka, the hood up and very much looking as if she's just murdered someone. Or two or three people. Perhaps four. No one threatens babies, even babies that are not hers. Gemma and Oscar do not become playing pieces in this game, they are innocent.
But now, there is a new game. What is this, she wonders, where she was with Donnie and now she is at a mansion and there are people, many people she has never seen before. At least she isn't locked away. It's an improvement, though soon she'll realize it's still a prison of sorts.
"Come babies," she mutters to the silver canister of embryos in her arms, giving it a kiss. "We will go find someone who will tell us the answers."
First-Person Sample:
[Helena's found a room by now, and she sits cross legged on the floor in the empty space, holding her phone in hand, sending a video out to all of Wonderland featuring a thick, Ukrainian accent.]
Hello, everybody. What is this place with closet that gives me donuts and makes me stay?
[And a powdered donut makes an appearance, a bite taken as she chews thoughtfully, tilting her head to one side, contemplating the camera.]
There are many people here. Like rats, we are trapped? It only appears to be free. But this is not good place for me and my babies. I need my family. Tell me why we cannot leave.
[She's remarkably calm, and then she brings the camera right to her face, so that only her eyes are visible.]
Who is watching?