Fallen Leader
Name: Helena the Bloody. Her first name is all she remembers clearly from her early years. She's not sure she's even ever really had a last name. Currently, for the sake of formalities, she goes by Helena Rover, however, but most only know her as "Helena the Bloody".
Nickname(s): She goes by many names to others, but none have been acknowledged by Helena herself.
Age: Helena did not freeze at one particular time, but she looks around 18-22. Her ID currently says 21 (2076)
Birthday: Sometime in the summer, 64 BC
Bloodtype: O+, make a mistake by giving her O- and she will leave you as a bloody pulp on the floor. AB- comes at a close second
Place of Origin: Athens, Greece
Likes:
- Blood
- Torturing others
- Shakespear
- Violence
- Her reputation among the fallen.
- Sex
- Killing, especially forbearers
- Ruthlessness
- Scaring people
Dislikes:
- Being called animalistic - she views herself as more... sophisticated in her ways
- Forbearers
- Poor, modern excuses for music... which in Helena means "every kind of music but classical", although she really doesn't listen to music all that often in general
- Weak vampires
- Annoying voices
- When she accidentally kills her pets
Fear(s):
Helena fears only dying. Unlike most vampires, she has never gone through the pain, and dying to her is a very foreign word. She knows she can die, but she's never found herself in a situation where the experience was a real possibility.
Secret(s):
If you ask Helena, she has no secrets, but in reality there are thousands of things she keeps to herself, not because she particularly tries to hide them, but more due to the fact that she doesn't feel a need to share them. One among these things is that she actually cares about keeping all the vampires within her coven safe.
Personality:
In most cases, your first impression of Helena will be that she is completely insane. Not in such a way that she will sit in a corner drooling all over herself, but more in the way that she might talk to someone who isn't there, or suddenly forget about a conversation you just had with her, or something along those lines. The woman is exceptionally random in her ways, and most people find it incredibly confusing. Helena herself, however, hardly ever notices because it all seems very natural to her, and after a while, you get used to it. On top of that, she will find odd things amusing. Like Rox's (Gage Golighty FC) bitchiness, even when directed at her, or something of the like, where most people would be offended.
The ancient vampire is also very possessive - which also makes her very protective, almost to the point of obsession. You do not take, harm or intrude on what is hers, because if you do, she will make sure you regret it before she kills you. Which leads me to the fact that Helena loves torturing people, as she is highly sadistic. She gets a kick out of smelling blood, hearing screams and moans - the kinds wrought from intense pain, and she loves being the reason they're sounding too. She has no problem whatsoever killing, and she makes a game of making forbearers fall... then killing them. She very rarely trusts a forbearer turned fallen.
As Helena was born a vampire, one of the last to have been, she has no idea what it means to be human, and it makes her all the more ruthless and indifferent. Sympathy is foreign to her, and humans are edible toys, nothing more. She would never even consider bedding one for instance, because she views humans much the same as humans view cattle. Cattle she can turn, granted. However, she only changes others for her own gain or amusement, in some way or another. Changing someone to save a life is a preposterous thought to her, much like being religious. For instance, she met Jesus several times, and as she puts it "he was just another vein, but fine, if you want to believe he could walk on water, be my guest." She likes to think she's too old to not have seen some sign of the divine if it really existed.
Helena is smart too, incredibly so, or really, she's more... wise. Despite her growing insanity, Helena remembers all of her years clearly, from early childhood with her mother, to now. And though she is completely blind, she should never be underestimated. Her age makes her more powerful than most of her kin, and her blindness only improved her already keen senses. She can hear where you are, almost like she can hear where the wind meets resistance from solid material, and precisely where your feet hit the floor and how. It makes her highly lethal, but her blindness is of course a weakness she cannot get rid of. Of course, though, it is fairly new. Her sight started waning when she was around 1500 years old, and she has been completely blind for the last 300 years or so.
She is known as "Helena the Bloody" due to a quite extensive reputation as a master of torturing and killing. As far as anyone knows, she has killed more humans and vampires alike than any other 'living' vampire. Most likely due to her age, but the story does not mention that factor.
History:
Helena was born to the daughter of a powerful vampire king and queen, Persephona. She never met her father, who too was a vampire, and she never wished to. Back when Helena was a child, the world of vampires was a line of events running parallel to that of humans, yet the humans remained unaware - for the most part. Vampires had kings and queens; they had order. The war between the forbearers and the fallen had been stilled, peace ruling their world for a time. That was the world Helena came into, and though Helena is now very fallen, that was not custom of her family. In fact, they all believed in strictly taking what you needed, nothing more - just enough to survive. You were not to gorge yourself on blood, and you were to always leave your food alive. Not so much out of mercy, but more so because it was considered primal and uncivilized not to. So Helena did as she was taught, following the customs.
Until the age of 82, at which point her mother and grandparents were killed by a fallen army sweeping through Greece, much like the Romans had previously, taking over everything. Helena had been awed by their strange, red eyes, and the viewed these strangers with curiosity. Despite this, she stayed hidden, remaining unseen. Until that day, she had never seen a Fallen vampire, and that day... everything changed. Not just because her family was killed, her home destroyed, but because she found herself captivated by these new vampires who she had only heard horrific tales of.
The next day, a young fallen found her hiding out in the woods, and he brought her to the general. It turned out these warriors were not part of the peace treaty, as they did not serve a kingdom. Instead, they served only themselves and their own purposes, something Helena would soon learn to do as well. The general must have seen something in her, because he chose to keep her alive, instead spending weeks convincing her of the benefits of falling - how powerful it made you, how much easier it would be to survive now that she had no one to help her anymore. Eventually, Helena drank a human woman to death.
Within the next couple of centuries, Helena traveled with the warriors, learning all she could from them, adding to the training she had already received through her status as princess. With her growing experiences and astounding new knowledge, however, Helena began going insane. Or rather, maybe that was the amount of blood she consumed, betraying the customs of her own bloodline. Maybe guilt is what caused it, and then, maybe it was just bound to happen. The guesses keep on coming. Either way, staying with these warriors changed the princess, and she did not mind it in the slightest. In fact she felt more free and... like herself... than she ever had in her previous position. There, she had always felt different, like she was nothing like the rest of her family.
As time went by, however, she felt she needed something else; she needed to experience more in her life, so she went off on her own. She never saw the general and his army since, and she later deducted that they had been wiped out, either by forbearers or hunters; humans who devoted their lives to killing vampires, no matter the kind. After a century's time, however, Helena started aching for company, needing someone by her side, someone like the general she remembered so clearly. So she took the obvious path, scouring battlefields of roman warriors, looking for that perfect male; one who showed the right amount of ruthlessness.
She found that in Kristof (Tyler Hoechlin FC). However, captivated by him, and curious to see whether the battle would kill him like it had so many others, Helena stayed in the shadows, silently watching him. She was in no hurry; after all, he only needed her blood in his system when he died, and then he would join her in eternity, the companion she so missed. Once the warrior was wounded, she strode right in, distracting almost every warrior she passed, and took him with her where she fed him her blood, cooing, whispering to him how it was going to make him stronger - how it was going to heal him into something much more than a mere human. How magnificent she knew he would be when he woke up.
Anything Else:
I might add something here later. ;)
