Helena (Hel)

■ Name: Hel, Queen of the Lost

■ Alias: Helena, Lena, Helen 

■ Age: ??? 

■ Height: 2'8

■ Personality: 
Despite her selective mutism and mysterious illness, Hel remains a bubbly, cheerful and mischievous child. She seems to have good intentions at heart, but keeps a strange distance between herself and others - her friendly disposition and curious nature not quite enough to dispel the sense that she is a lot older than she may appear. Though it may seem as if her actions are born of childish whims, there is often a reason for them hidden deep beneath her enigmatic exterior. 

+ Bubbly, Cheerful, Friendly
/ Enigmatic, Unpredictable, Curious
- Impulsive, Mischievous, Reckless

■ Relationships:

Jordyn - (sister)
Fenrir - (brother)
Loki - (father)

■ Origin:

Hel, it was a name that both belonged to her; yet also did not.

The third child of Loki's ill-fated brood, Hel, was perhaps the loneliest of all. For where her brother, Fenrir, was bound - and her sibling, Jörmungandr, swam freely in the oceans that surrounded midgard, the youngest was not given a name. Instead, she was promptly buried beneath the roots of the holy tree, Yggdrasil, and forgotten for a millennia. 

There, beyond the reaches of the sun, she was left to the realm of the dishonored. This was the place where those who did not die in the glorious throes of battle were sent to fade away into the echoes of time; forever lost. The forgotten lands from which she adopted her name - Hel.

 Where the hall of Valhalla was a jubilant, cozy place filled with the warmth of the hearth and the laughter of the triumphant, Hel was a landscape as empty as it was vast, it's mountains and plains shrouded in eternal fog. Her company in this shadowed realm were a wicked bunch - the cowardly, the conniving, the evil. But so too was her company pitiful - the sick, the weak, the broken. Perhaps not unlike herself. After all, Hel was a goddess of halves. Half good, half evil. Half god, half giant. Half living, half dead. Fractured, never whole.

Though her exile was long, it was not entirely without gain. There, in the plains beyond life, she slowly assumed power. In time, she rose to become the arbiter of the after. It was she who oversaw the balance of good and evil, carefully measuring life against death. It was she who worked miracles to save the dying; and also she who brought terrible calamities upon the living. For who was better suited to keep the balance than the one whose very existence straddled the line?

On the day that she could maintain equilibrium no longer, Hel joined her siblings in battle. The bloody combat raged as Ragnarok tore apart the Nine Worlds, bringing about the prophesized end of days. At that time, all of creation together closed their eyes for the last time.

When next she woke, there are three things Hel remembers clearly: A familiar crimson gaze, shining platinum hair, and the bite of winter wind against her skin.

■ Abilities:

Prophet's Sight
Hel can see glimpses of possible futures; the balance of good and evil demands intervention. Whether that intervention be good or evil depends on the situation. To kill someone, or to spare them. To imprison someone, or to free them. To love someone, or to hate them. The butterfly effect from these simple choices sends unseen shockwaves through the fabric of time - but the prophet's sight is absolute.
Additionally, the prophet can see the natural time limit of all living things - except for her own.

Dance With Death
The dual goddess is slowly dying. The horrific disease she suffers is but a remnant from her previous life; a dire affliction that rots away her body while yet she breathes. She lives on the brink of death, dancing along the razor's edge with every passing moment. Due to her close proximity to the plains of the after, she retains her ability to manipulate the lifespans of the dying. Lengthening some, shortening others. Using this, she is able to steal time from other lifespans - artificially adding those precious seconds to her own.

Arbiter's Bounty
As the arbiter, Hel is due a bounty. By straightening out fates and fulfilling the prophecies she glimpses, the fallen goddess is graced with luck. When saving someone who was meant to live, or killing someone meant to die, Hel completes her duty. In doing so, sometime in the future, that deed will pay off. Saving someone meant to live, who later saves her in return. Killing someone who was meant to die, preventing a tragedy that would have otherwise involved her. While Hel cannot always see the outcome of her actions, the results remain the same. The arbiter's bounty never goes unpaid.

■ Trivia:

- Selectively mute. if Hel speaks at all, it is almost exclusively in one to two word phrases to her sister, Jordyn.

- One side of the dual goddess bestows life, while the other steals it.

- Extremely physically weak due to her mysterious illness. Prone to fainting, fevers and often sleeps for days at a time.

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Riding (Day) - Breath of The Wild OST
Sis Puella Magica! - Yuki Kajiura