Character Base

• Character Name: Helena Bertinelli
• Age: 32
• Canon (Date/Year Released)/Canon Point: Birds of Prey (2020)/Post-canon
• Items Coming Along:
1) Crossbow
2) Crossbow bolts
3) Motorcycle
4) Small purple toy car
• Content Warnings for Character: Helena's backstory includes Mafia violence, family annihilation, and violence against children (including the death of a child).

Original Deerington Application

• Link to Accepted Deerington Application: Here.
• Additional Adjustments to include: N/A

Deer Country Attributes

• Canon Powers: Helena is a normal, non-superpowered human being and does not have any magical/supernatural abilities that would need to be warped. She is a very skilled assassin and great with combat & marksmanship, but nothing outside the realm of a trained human being.
• Blood Type: Coldblood
• Omen: Falcon
• Blessed Day: The Reckoning
• Patron Pthumerian: July 21st
• Blood Power Manifestation: Helena will very quickly begin using her new powers to infuse her crossbow & bolts with elemental powers, particularly flaming arrows as well as jolts of electricity in her shots.

The Player

• Player Name: Catharine
• Player Age: 33
• Player Contact: Plurk username: queenoftheimps
• Permissions: Here.

Link to your reserve for this character: Here.

IN CHARACTER

Character Name: Huntress/Helena Bertinelli
Canon: Birds of Prey/DCEU
Canon Point: Post-canon

In-Game Tattoo Placement: Collarbone, near left shoulder
Current Health/Status: Alive and healthy
Age: 31
Species: Human

Content Warnings: mentions of violence, including the deaths of children

History: Link

Personality: Helena is a person whose goals and personality are hugely affected by her greatest trauma: witnessing her entire family being gunned down in front of her. Her entire life was spent training and honing her skills specifically so that she could seek revenge on the men responsible for her family's massacre. This goal became a violent obsession at a very young age -- even as a child, she would draw pictures of herself killing the men who'd destroyed her family. As a result, she grew up to be a violent but determined, methodical person who was skilled in multiple forms of combat and especially deadly with a crossbow.

The result is that she is an expert fighter and incredibly capable, but other areas of her life are left lacking -- she is incredibly bad at managing her emotions, especially her anger(even when over minor slights), and she hasn't had much of a life outside of her goals. Helena has also been sheltered from the world outside of her own narrow mindset, and her entire childhood & adulthood were subsumed by a quest for revenge. It's implied that successfully carrying out her vengeance was a more hollow victory than she had imagined it would be, which is why she immediately began putting her talents into general crime-fighting afterwards.

Another area in her life that has been left lacking is her connections with others. While she was raised by a set of father figures who she respects, their relationships revolved around her training to become a killer. As a result, her main connections are to the people she's already lost, the family who was killed and who she was obsessed with avenging. She has very little in the way of friends or a social circle, but at the end of Birds of Prey, this starts to change: she befriends Renee Montoya and Dinah Lance to form a crime-fighting squad. These relationships are new to her, but she enjoys her new companions and is learning to open up.

One difficulty in her new, budding social life is that she is very awkward when not pursuing a goal and has difficulty interacting with others casually. She is very invested in how to behave when in combat or facing a foe (to the point of practicing her catchphrases in front of a mirror until she gets them right). However, she never learned how to behave like a regular human being in normal situations, including not understanding social norms (like what a fist bump is) and misreading social cues (such as bursting into loud, inappropriate laughter at the wrong times). Her new role on the Birds of Prey has been a learning opportunity for her to get more experience with friends and socializing, but she's still definitely not fully up to speed yet.

In spite of her ruthlessness, Helena still has morals that she keeps to, and is not an evil person. Her violent tendencies are only aimed at those who have hurt her or who are trying to cause harm, and she can be supportive & protective to those in need. She especially has a softness for children, trying to shield them from harm and trauma to prevent the same distress she experienced as a child. Helena has a strong belief in justice, though not through legal means -- she is a pure vigilante, wanting to achieve her goals outside the law to accomplish what's necessary.

Abilities/Powers/Weaknesses & Warping: Helena is a normal, non-superpowered human being and does not have any magical/supernatural abilities that would need to be warped. She is a very skilled assassin and great with combat & marksmanship, but nothing outside the realm of a trained human being.
Inventory: Her crossbow, a supply of crossbow bolts, a Kevlar vest, and a small purple toy car from when she was a kid.

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OUT OF CHARACTER

Player Name: Catharine
Player Age: 31
Player Contact: queenoftheimps on Plurk, backwardschic@gmail.com by email

Other Characters In Game: Albus Dumbledore

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In-Game Tag If Accepted: Helena Bertinelli: Catharine
Permissions for Character: Here
Are you comfortable with prominent elements of fourth-walling?: Yes, for sure!
What themes of horror/psychological thrillers do you enjoy the most?: I love the elevation of normal human fears and emotions using horror tropes. For example, I love the film Hereditary and the way it takes normal human emotions around grief/loss and elevates them with a supernatural plot around ghosts & cults, or how films like Silence of the Lambs can be used to discuss sexism in society/the workplace.
Is there anything in particular you absolutely need specific content warnings for?: No, I’m generally not easily triggered and won’t need any specific warnings beyond the general ones provided.
Additional Information: N/A

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