Heloise was born to a struggling mother, and an abusive father. For the first eight years of her life, she experience mostly terror, until the moment when her father sought to murder her mother and herself, slashing Heloise across the face, which gave her mother the strength to turn the tables on her father, wrangling the knife from him and killing him in turn. Medical professionals tried to save her eye, but it wasn't possible right then. .

Her mother relocated them when she was cleared of killing, and tried to give Heloise a better life. All Heloise cared about was learning how to defend herself, and she learned how to fight, learned how to use a gun, and learned how to use more mundane weapons such as swords. She had trouble at school, bullied by other kids, taunted not just for her scar and blind eye but also for the fact that she was quite a bright young girl, what one would call a teachers pet. When word got out about her past, Heloise begged her mother to let her be homeschooled, going so far as to even get a part time job to pay for a tutor. One might wonder how she managed to juggled her defensive training skills, a part time job and life itself. Heloise was very organized, and found that homeschooling enabled her to finish her days earlier then if she was at school itself. She only worked on the weekends, and she found classes for her combat skills that she could go to after her schooling. As for a life...she didn't have much in the way of social.

Heloise flourished under this, and she managed to get great grades, making it into a good college. She fretted about that, worried about it because she didn't have that good social skills, didn't make friends easily, but the part time job helped. She began to develop relationships, even had a boy friend, but when he began to beat her, when she got pregnant "and ruined" his life, she left only to suffer a miscarriage, Thought to be from the beating. She promised herself she'd never be in a relationship like that, and so she walked away. She took a year off, before going to college.

She sought a degree in criminology, wanting to be able to become someone who could protect those that needed it, before transferring to become a lawyer. She was just about to graduate, when the apocalypse started.

Heloise tried to find her mother, but got involved in riots, road blocks, jams, so that by the time she managed to reach home, it was deserted, but there were signs of a struggle. Heloise grabbed what she could, including the weapons she currently has, and some supplies. She set out to find her mother, and do what she could to help others.