Helena Vortzeria

Helena, Hellcat

26

Female

Avalia

Senior Master Sergeant

Assault Specialist. She's the one kicking down your door, jumping on top of you, and stabbing your face until it stops looking like a face.

Nothing is particularly phenomenal about Helena's physical traits. She has a semi muscular build with brown hair and blue eyes. Despite military regulations, she keeps her hair somewhat long and usually wears it down and loose. In terms of her clothing out of combat, Helena keeps herself fairly neat and clean, always maintaining a sharp image to a reasonable degree.

Now, in combat, Helena wears the MK4 Ariel Assault Variant of the traditional Avalian exo-armor. The main difference between the suits, other than the slight difference in appearance, is an upgraded servo system built into the exo-skeleton of the suit. This means she can lift heavier objects than normally capable of and take longer to become exhausted. This makes this particular variant slightly heavier than others, yet as with the Avalians, it still maintains the ability of using boosters to allow long falls/jumps, or even short, sustained flights. Helena has modified her particular suit by upgrading her back mounted, forward facing boosters to allow her to gain short boosts of speed and increase her "long jump" arc.

Most could describe her attitude with one, simple word. "Pissed" Simply put, Helena never seems to be in a good, calm mood. More accuratly, one could describe Helena as, "The Avalian sterotype, that being, typically free matured, jumpy, and nearly suicidal bravery, pushed through a filter of absolute hatred and rage."

Off the battlefield, Helena is, for lack of a better term, a bit of a bitch. She'll be ruthlessly sarcastic and witty, calling people out on any kind of bullshit they try to fly past her. Often times she'll walk around base smoking, without a care in the world for anyone else's opinion.

On the battlefield, she is one of the fiercest motherfuckers out there. No hesitation, no mercy, no fear. To coin a term, one could easily see Helena as "Tactically Suicidal". She has absolutely no problem dieing on the battlefield, hell, it seems like she even wants to, desperately. However, she's not crazy/stupid either. For example, Helena will charge a machinegun nest, guns blazing, but only if she knows that there is a good enough chance she can take it down before her gun stops firing. Constantly, she bets her life, living on a knifes edge of odds, playing that game of Russian roulette, hoping, praying, that someday that one chamber with the bullet lands on her.

This is because, if one where to somehow tolerate her sarcastic, overcritical nature, they will find someone crying, someone calling for help. Helena has been not always been like this, and there are shards of a much kinder, much friendlier version of her lying around, deep inside. All it takes is someone to finally put her back together. For this to be seen, one must have the rare privilege of being in the presence of Helena when she is with her little sister.

Helena actually started out as a pretty charming gal. She was born into an agricultural floating island on Avalia and started off life with a happy family of crop dusters. Her mother flew a cargo plane airline between the island and a major city while her father flew his plane for farmers. Of course, her family wasn't particularly wealthy, but that never stopped them from trying to make the best of their situation.

However, as a wise man once said, "Life is a TV show of suffering, broken up by brief commercial breaks, and this one had been one long break, but now, we're back to our regularly scheduled program of suffering." First, Helena's mother lost her business when a larger airliner took over and ran the family business into the ground. While her father remained hopeful, the mother slowly began to descend into a pit of depression. That company had been the dream of Helena's mother, and now it was gone forever. It did not matter what her own children said, nothing changed and soon after, her mother disappeared all together. Thus Helena's father was left to take care of the family. However, despite his best efforts, he was forced to work himself to exhaustion, slowly chipping away at his health. Though by this time, Helena was of age to join the military, and decided she would support her family too by taking up the enticing offer to become an Airborne Soldier of the Union. The Airborne soldier is the shock trooper, the ones that usually die first in any major engagement. However, they were payed more than the average soldier, so she took the job, against her father's wishes.

At first, military life wasn't all that bad. Helena displayed plenty of natural talents for a soldier and had joined during a time of peace. It did not last, as one would expect, as she was soon called to action to deal with a rapidly growing "heretical" group on the fringe of Union territory. She was a deployed in the first wave via orbital drop pods. This would be later called the "Karia Conflict" as the group heretics turned out to be a larger, and better prepared for this assault than command had originally thought.

"You could look up in the sky every day for I think.... the first three... no.. uh, four, yeah, four months of the campaign and just watch as debris from our ships rained down on the planet. Just think, millions of fucking tons of metal, electronics, men, ect, falling from orbit. It was one hell of a spectacle. Disturbingly beautiful if I'm honest. I... I think that actually helped me get through that fucking hell hole... Just looking up from a muddy fox hole and seeing that tragic event.... It just made me glad to think those Terran bastards that put us here were now burning up in the atmosphere thanks to their 'superiority'." -Helena's description of the opening days of the Karia Conflict

The Terran commanders of the fleet had sent the Avalian 909th Airborne Assault Division to soften up ground targets so the regular Terran infantry could land easily and march right over the heretics who dare opposed them. However, after launching the first waves of drop pods, they unexpectedly had flew their small assault fleet right into an orbital minefield, well disguised as the asteroids that filled the belt that orbited Karia. The heretics had waited for the perfect time then simply obliterated the small fleet, stranding the remnants of the 909th on their planet. Despite this, the 909th didn't completely break. They held out, always remaining mobile and never letting the enemy encircle them. In fact, by the time the reinforcement fleet arrived, Karia's forces had been reduced considerably. However, it was brutal, dirty fighting. Many conflicts were ambushes set by either side, or merciless raids on military and civilian targets alike. Helena survived it all and was promoted thanks to that, but when she came home on leave, she was a different woman. She won't talk about the specifics, but her brutality is somewhat infamous among veteran members of the 909th. Helena went on to participate in a few more operations before she was recommended by her commander to join the 1st Recon. Her commander thought that a mission as equally outlandish as it was.... peaceful even, would be a good change in pace.