Helene Schreave

> Everyone's waiting for my next massive fuck-up, and I'm terrified it's coming sooner than later.
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> Helene Schreave

## Helene Schreave

### Spouse(s)

Emmett Scott (m. 2115 ; div. 2117)

Walker McKay

(m. 2120)

### Issue

Brannon Schreave (son) (b.2122)Blair Schreave (son) (b. 2123/24)

Orla Schreave (daughter) (b. 2128)

### Family

Laurel Schreave (sister)Natalie Schreave (sister)

Callum Schreave (brother)

Ginger Schreave (sister)

Marina Schreave (sister)

## Selection Info

### Creator

Bertha and Anna

**Helene Sying Schreave** is the first the daughter of Jen Li and Arin Schreave and heir to the throne in the OC6 Universe.

## Personality and Skills

Helene is a kind and loving person to everyone, but she has issues of being the same to herself. She is very critical toward herself as a person and the decisions she's made. She is especially conscious of what the media says about her, despite being told numerous times that it doesn't matter. This is something she continues to struggle with her whole life.

Helene suffers from life-long anxiety and later PTSD after her marriage with her first husband, Emmett Scott. She goes to therapy on and off throughout her 20s but starts going consistently to deal with issues after her divorce.

As she grows older, she is less focused on what other people think about and instead focuses on herself and her family, which is the most important thing in the world to her. Along with family, she values honesty, trust, and love. A hopeless romantic, she finds herself in trouble more than a few times in her pursuit of love, but she eventually ends up where she needs to be.

## Appearance and Face Claim

Helene has a light complexion with freckles, hazel eyes, and long, dark hair. She is 5'8" and quite thin.

Helene takes great care in her physical appearance, priding herself in appearing put together. She's not often seen without makeup and gets acrylics frequently, along with other beauty treatments.

She has a very classic style that began developing in her early 20s. She can often be seen in button-downs and dress pants as casual wear, though she also frequents romantic styles of dresses as well. Her formal wear remains in the style but sometimes creeps into the risqué according to some.

She had a much more casual style in high school and college, and it edged into showing more skin as she got older. In an effort to appear more respectable, she ditched most casual clothing and anything she felt would get bad press for other items.

Helene is portrayed by Elizabeth Wood.

## History

### Early Life

Helene is the oldest child of Jen and Arin Schreave, born on February 29th, 2092 at 2:29am. Though she was a surprise pregnancy for her parents, she is immediately adored by her entire family. Because of how good of a baby she is, her parents are quick to consider having another before their previously agreed time of five years. Helene isn't an only child for long as her sister is born a few months after her first birthday on May 15th, 2093.

Helene is joined by three more siblings by the time she's a teenager, but she is never made out to be responsible for them. Despite her position and who her parents are, she has a fairly normal and happy childhood with much love from her family.

As a child, Helene is very care-free and silly, much to her parents' adoration. She has many friends all throughout her childhood despite relentless bullying. She is quick to gain a thick skin because of this, but it gets thinner as time goes on.

In high school, her friends begin to dwindle, and she is forced to reconcile with the fact that it will never again be easy to make friends in her position, but she looks forward to having a new beginning at college.

### College Years & the Fallout

Helene graduates from high school in 2110 with a very high GPA from a rigorous school and goes on to study Political Science and English at Wellesley College, a women's school thousands of miles from her home. Making friends at Wellesley takes time, but she ends up with a good amount and has a very good first year.

Her second year is met with few challenges until her parents reveal a surprise pregnancy. This rocks Helene a bit as she hadn't had a new siblings born in over ten years, but she isn't upset about it, especially since she won't be around much anyway.

In the spring semester of 2112, her second year, she leaves for Hong Kong to study abroad. She struggles at first integrating despite having a good grasp of Cantonese, but she eventually finds her place and meets Wan. Wan is enrolled as a student at the university she's attending in Hong Kong and is introduced to Helene by a classmate. They become fast friends and start seeing each other more than just friends quite quickly. Though they never label themselves as traditional boyfriend/girlfriend, both of them see each other exclusively, and he's Helene's first serious relationship.

While Helene is away in Hong Kong, she calls her father for his birthday, not knowing that her mother is in labor back in Angeles and not doing well. This news isn't broken to her gently by Arin, who, in his panic, treats her very harshly and doesn't allow her to come home like she wants to. Having never had her father speak to her that way or have to deal with a situation like this before, Helene shuts down and has to cope alone, ignoring any follow-up messages Arin sends her about her new sister. While she does contact her mom after, she refuses to talk to her dad after he spoke to her the way he did.

While Wan is supportive of Helene, he is aware that their relationship is going to end when Helene goes back home, but what he doesn't realize is that Helene is not on the same page about it. A few weeks before she returns home from Hong Kong, Helene reveals a secret she's been keeping from him all the months they'd been together: She's the heir to the throne of another country. It's during that conversation he gets the sense that Helene is wanting more from him than he's willing to give, so he breaks up with her, subsequently breaking her heart and contributing another thing to the list of events for the semester.

Helene can't bring herself to move home and have to face her father (who continues to text her despite getting no reply), so she instead moves in with her grandmother, Mélanie Schreave. She decides that instead of worrying about life that she's going to have fun over the summer, so she begins paying more attention to those celebrity invitations that get sent her way.

Of the many events she attends, the most notable is a yacht party in May of 2112 in which she meets West, a rapper that she's been a fan of and had previously met in 2110. While he'd come onto her then, she hadn't felt comfortable enough to accept the offer, but with her new party girl persona, Helene had no such qualms and ended up having sex with him on the yacht. She invites him over to where she's staying, which just happens to be her grandmother Mélanie Schreave's home in Angeles that she had been staying while she sorted things out with her parents. They have sex in Helene's room, only to be caught by her grandmother, who is very unhappy with the decisions Helene is making. She kicks West out and tells Helene to stop running from her father, which she adamantly denies. Despite going back and forth, Mélanie's words don't dissuade Helene, and she ends up sneaking out that night to see West again.

Helene goes to West's penthouse apartment in Angeles, and she spends the night with him. After being awoken by his cat, they talk about her plans to move back to her college apartment in Waverly, and West suggests that she travel, inevitably suggesting that he's the one she should be traveling with as he's about to go on tour. Helene needs little convincing before she agrees. Before she leaves, she finally texts her dad on Father's Day, telling him where she's headed and who she's going with but that she's not ready to talk.

Helene spends most of the summer touring with West in an environment she's not used to. For the first time in her life, she feels like she has no rules, and mixed with the partying and new people, this leads to her making decisions she never would have. In late July, she and West go to a party together at a penthouse in Manhattan, and it's there she tries cocaine for the first time. She enjoys the high more than she ever thought she would have, but when she reveals what she had done to West, he is anything but happy. He immediately makes them leave so that she doesn't embarrass either of them, which Helene isn't happy with at all, and they end up loudly arguing all the way back to the hotel they're staying at. Helene has a bad comedown from the cocaine, and when she's sober enough, she goes to apologize to West. He isn't very receptive but is much more forgiving after pressuring her into sex.

Arin continues texting Helene during all of this with no idea of how bad his daughter is. In late July, he invites Helene to her sister Ginger Schreave's birthday in Waverly in mid-August. Helene doesn't respond until less than a week before, but she is welcomed with open arms to join them. She has, however, developed a habit involving cocaine by then and is obviously quite different than the person her family is used to. She's very awkward when she comes home, feeling estranged from everyone, but she's still grateful to be there. It's there she meets her sister, Marina Schreave, for the first time. On the day of the party, Arin asks Helene if she wants to hold her new sister, but she refuses, which disappoints Arin. Helene reveals that her resentment isn't about Marina at all but the fact that Arin treated her like she wasn't even his child, which was just about the worst thing she'd ever experienced considering she's always been so close to her father. Arin asks her to talk about it more, but she refuses, instead retreating back upstairs to the room she's sharing with her sister, Natalie Schreave.

Not knowing how else to cope, Helene takes out her stash of cocaine and retreats into the bathroom. She's just finished a line when her sister walks in. Natalie, not even 16 yet, is already very critical of Helene not coming back when their family was in turmoil, but what she witnessed from Helene only cements her hatred of her sister. Helene begs Natalie not to tell their parents, making her promise that she'll leave right away that night but not to ruin Ginger's birthday. Natalie agrees, but only for Ginger and makes it clear she wants nothing to do with Helene. Helene leaves that night without saying goodbye.

The next morning, Natalie goes to her parents room to tell them about what she saw Helene do. They freak out and immediately text Helene that they want her to come home and they still love her, but Helene's already made up her mind that she's never going back.

Helene regresses further as the weeks pass, and while she's testing the bounds of what drugs can do for her, she's also testing her boyfriend's patience. Unhappy with the drugs and that she's doing nothing all day, West breaks up with her right before he leaves for the next stop on his tour. Helene begs for him to stay, and while he has no intention of doing so, he accepts sex one last time before he leaves her.

Helene stays in that hotel room for a few weeks by herself, doing nothing to a point that even coke doesn't sound appealing. Though the frequency dies down, the habit doesn't quite kick itself until she picks up a positive pregnancy test. She's absolutely besides herself and immediately calls West, who only offers to pay for an abortion. It's then she realizes she won't get anything she wants from him and makes the decision she's been dreading have to make since getting walked in on in the bathroom: go home.

Helene flies back to Angeles not long after and finds her father, who's surprised but so grateful to see her. She apologizes for everything, and he's quick to forgive her for everything. She nervously reveals her pregnancy as well, which Arin takes as well as he can, but he's still just grateful he has his daughter back, and Helene is grateful she has her family back.

Once Helene is more settled, she goes to see a doctor about her pregnancy, only to reveal she'd gotten a false positive and she'd never actually been pregnant. She views this as the wake-up call she needed to get her life together before she continued to make bad decisions and actually end up ruining her life. She's kept on a much shorter leash at home, still residing in her family suite despite being in her 20s, but it's something she doesn't think to complain about as she continues repairing her relationship with her family. She also begins to bond with her new baby sister for the first time, much to the dismay of Natalie, who's not happy about her being home. Natalie's resentment toward her doesn't get better with time, and it seems as if their relationship is permanently severed.

Helene takes the fall and spring semester of what would have been her third year to get back into a good place mentally before beginning school again in the summer of 2113, returning fully to her college that autumn. She graduates only a semester late in autumn of 2114 with her Bachelor's in Political Science and English.

### Selection

As Helene ages, her struggles don't minimize, but they do morph. As she continues through college and early adulthood struggling with dating and the representation she has of her parents being the perfect match, she decided the best course of action for her will to have a Selection just like her father did. Jen and Arin adamantly for months, but they are still afraid that she'll possibly regress back into the decisions she was making years ago (especially considering she kept seeing her sometimes-on sometimes-off ex-boyfriend and near-baby daddy, West), so they eventually give in, but not without some words of caution.

Helene's Selection begins in early May 2115, and she very quickly realizes the mistake she'd made. Having grown up in a family of mostly girls, having men in her home is uncommon at best, and having them there specifically for her were the makings of a nightmare, but she was going to reap what she sowed, especially since she didn't want to give anyone the opportunity to say they told her so.

There are few main players in the Selection, but the immediate favorite of Helene was Emmett Scott, a baseball player for the Sonage Padres with an irresistible charm about him that has Helene interested quickly.

While not a favorite, the other key player is that of Walker McKay, a Scottish expat who makes it clear early on that he has no interest in Helene whatsoever, which, of course, means she can't stay away from him.

#### Walker

Helene intends to eliminate Walker upon their first meeting, but he narrowly escapes partially due to her forgetting.

### Marriage to Emmett Scott

Helene is married to Emmett Scott in November 2115.

### Marriage to Walker McKay

Helene is married Walker McKay in September 2118.

## Relationships

### Family

Helene has a very large but close family that she relies on greatly.

Helene is very close to her mother, Jen, and generally doesn't have many problems in their relationship except for the occasional fights in her younger years.

Helene and her father, Arin, have a much more complicated relationship. While they were close when she was a child and through adulthood, their relationship faltered during 2112. It was later repaired, but they continue to have some difficulties as Helene learns to navigate adulthood.

Helene is closest to her younger sister, Laurel, who is just over a year younger than her. Though their personalities are different, they support each other through thick and thin and have been best friends since childhood.

Her most tumultuous relationship lies with her second sister, Natalie. While Natalie looked up to Helene, after a severe falling out in 2112 Helene and Natalie's relationship is never the same. They make up years later after settling some differences and end up becoming very close friends.

She also has an overall positive relationship with her only brother, Cal, though they aren't very close.

Helene is very fond of her second youngest sister, Ginger, and was very excited for her arrival in 2100. They aren't very close due to their age gap, but she always remains one of Helene's favorites.

Due to being away while her youngest sister, Marina, was born and for some of her earliest years, she is not very close to her, but she enjoys her more as she gets older.

### Romantic Interests

Helene has multiple romantic interests throughout her life, starting when she's around 16. Most are not notable, but there are some highlights:

#### Wan

January 2112-April 2112

While studying abroad in Hong Kong, Helene meets Wan, a fellow student at the university she is studying at. The two hit it off and quickly become an item, though Helene doesn't reveal who she is to him in fear that he'll see her differently. When family difficulties occur for her, Wan was a kind and supportive boyfriend. A few weeks before she has to return home to Illéa, she reveals who she is, which causes him to promptly break up with her (which he'd been planning to anyway).

#### West

May 2112-September 2112

While Helene faces difficulties at home, she meets West, an A-list celebrity rapper, at a yacht party. What was meant to be a one-night-stand turns into Helene following him around the country on tour. The two have a very toxic relationship, which includes cheating on both sides, and it ends with West breaking it off just a few months later. They have an on- and off-again relationship, much to the dismay of her family.

#### Emmett

May 2115-June 2117

Emmett is the winner of Helene's Selection. The two have a sweet start to their relationship and have some chemistry but is not the man she's interested in for most of the Selection. Helene chooses him in September of 2115, and they marry very quickly after their engagement. Afterward, their relationship turns sour quickly as it plunges into abuse. The two separate in June 2117 and have a complicated but fairly quick divorce by their second wedding anniversary.

#### Walker

May 2115-August 2115 & February 2118-Present

Walker was a contestant in Helene's Selection. He and Helene have a tumultuous beginning to their relationship but begin to develop romantic feelings toward the end until Walker calls it off to go back home to Scotland. The two reconnect three years later at the 2118 Olympics in Edinburgh and begin seeing each other months later. They're together for two years before they marry.

## Trivia and Notes

* Her name means bright star
* She is born on Leap Day
* She prefers coffin and almond shape nails
* Her fastest mile time is 6:42