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Helen Alcantara-Williams


"Do you want me to help you face your fear?"

Name: Helen Alcantara-Williams
Gender: Female 
Age: 22
Nationality: Filipino
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Family:
Harry Alcantara-Williams - older brother
Paulene Alcantara- mother
Richard Williams- father

Witch or Warlock: Warlock
School of Magic: Necromancy (8)
Ever since she was little, Helena always had a strong connection to the dead, and them to her. She can see and talk to them just like any other living being would. This strong connection towards the supernatural comes naturally for her and the dead feel the same as well.

Key Spells:
Tether: Connection - Helen creates a poppet or an effigy to represent the target. To "link" the effigy to the target's soul, she integrates a piece of them into it like their toenail clippings or hair. While linked, whatever is done upon the effigy will reflect back on the target but they cannot be killed through it. To break the connection, the effigy of the target must be destroyed or set on fire.
Haunting: Infestation - Calls upon a horde of ghouls and spirits within an area to strike fear in the hearts of Helen's foes and to generally create chaos. She uses this spell to make a person's house haunted or 'infested' with different types of ghosts. To make it more long-term, she can create a totem. When she creates a totem, she pours a bit of her soul energy into it so it becomes a medium for the ghosts to keep coming back to this specific place and continue to haunt it even when she's away. The totem lasts up to three days max on its own or until Helen's energy that's stored within the totem runs up. The infestation can be stopped when the totem is destroyed or set on fire.
Possession: Legion - Helen's body becomes a channel, allowing multiple spirits to possess her at once. On top of giving her improved strength, speed, and dexterity, a dozen spectral arms will sprout out of her body to assist her in battle. However, it also uses up all her pent-up rage, fear, and sadness to cloud her judgement and make her act on instinct like a rabid animal, hellbent on destroying the person or group of people that made her feel such extreme negative emotions. She only uses this spell unconsciously in the most dire of situations and she can only come back to her true self by a purification spell or through an act of love from a loved one.

Personality:
Helen is quiet and mostly keeps to herself. She's not the type to go clubbing at night or partying over someone's house; crowds drain the life out of her. She mostly likes calm, serene environments like a cafe, the forest, or her room. It's not like she hates socializing but personally, the living is too complex for her. The dead are more transparent, no pun intended, as they always say what they need and what they feel out loud right from the get-go. Worrying about what other people might think about you is useless when you're dead, after all. Besides, she's not that famous in her class anyway. While she might be more straightforward and a little too honest compared to what most people might think, she always helps those in need if it's within her capabilities. She's a very patient and understanding person who doesn't like conflicts and does everything she can to avoid them. It's a whole other matter if her loved ones are involved however, and Helen will stop at nothing to exact her revenge.

History/Bio:
Helen and her brother Harry were born in America and had been living in Tanner, Washington for as long as they could remember. Her mother Paulene was part of a foreign exchange student program at a university where she met Richard and the rest was history. Harry was the star athlete and mister popular in their school while Helen was more of the nerdy wallflower. At a young age, Helen developed a talent to hear voices from people who weren't there. It definitely made her look like the weird kid at school and the other students bullied her. That only made her feel more connected to these voices instead of people. At least they knew the right words to say to her. 

Listening to these voices often lead her to situations that would harm herself. Despite her parents telling her not to listen to them anymore, they were Helen's only friends and she didn't want to feel lonely anymore. It had become worse when she would have died if her dad didn't save her at the nick of time.   

Determined to not let her be in trouble again, her parents decided to tell her and her brother the truth about who they were. Paulene's family came from a long lineage of babaylan, priestesses that talked to the spirits of the old for guidance and wisdom. They were essentially warlocks who dedicated themselves in the magic of necromancy, using their magic to commune with the dead. Most of them had been killed off by the Spaniards but bloodline managed to withstand the test of time, passing the gift of their ancestors from a mother to her daughter and to her daughter's daughter. Her father knew this about his wife and he still accepted her as a whole despite his own beliefs; that's how much he loved her. Paulene also told the siblings she was a part of the Coven, a secret community within Tanner comprised of witches and warlocks. 

From then on, Paulene introduced Helen to the Coven and have her trained as a warlock that practiced necromancy just like her. When they were at home, Helen would also be taught necromancy based on how their people practiced it at their motherland. Paulene hoped that with Helen being half-Filipino, half-American, she would be the bridge that connected two different worlds together to harness her magic and become strong with it so that she will not fall victim to it again. 

Helen would then leave Tanner for a bit to get her bachelor's degree in psychology before moving back home while her brother went on with his father at another state for work. She had already set her mind in working for the Coven again, for the immediate time at least while she figured out what she wanted to do in life.

Misc:
FC: Janella Salvador
Text Color: DarkGray
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