Helen Taylor

**Helen Marie Taylor** is a young celebrity jockey managed by Kacper Batar.In universes where it's applicable, she is known as the Ultimate Equestrian. Despite her talents with racing, and her incredible ability to connect with the horses she raises, Helen is better-known for her many scandalous affairs. Her manager, Kacper, believes that Helen's athletic prowess is just a stepping-stone to larger celebrity aspirations.

## Personality

*Copy-Pasted from Various Sources; Will Be Rewritten*

While she presents herself as a confident, sultry and sophisticated woman, this is all a carefully-crafted facade. Helen is a deeply troubled, traumatized, self-loathing piece of shit. She’s been brainwashed and groomed into fitting the role of a perfect sexy celebrity (even more upsetting since she has only JUST come of age) by her manager, and her entire concept of self-worth relies on how other people perceive her. Do they want to sleep with her? Do they think she’s wealthy? Do they think she’s better than them? Do they see how talented she is? Like many others, she just wants to be loved and respected deep down. She wants to break out of the life that she’s been forced into, return to her real family, and live a very happy, normal life in solitude--maybe even raise children oher own. But she’s too far gone and has given up on herself. In her mind, she will always be a villain and has to control her guilt however possible (usually with self harm in the form of degrading sex, which relates back to her relationship with Kacper). She’s a femme fatale, whether she likes it or not.

Helen is high strung and demands perfection, most of all from herself. She seems calloused at first glance, but it all comes down to her needing approval from everyone and needing to show how capable she is in EVERY leadership role. She works hard, even skirting the lines of what is socially acceptable, to win at all costs. If it hurts someone? Oh well. She's the better choice anyway. And even if she knows deep down that she isn't that great, she can just punish herself over it later.

As should be obvious, Helen is deeply insecure and manipulative. If she can't get genuine approval from someone, she'll pit suitors against each other to get some kind of satisfaction that way.

Point blank: she’s ambitious, a perfectionist, cultured, masochistic, self-important, immoral, and lacks self-confidence (but is still OBSESSED with herself and how she’s seen). She can be quite flirty and is a romantic deep down, but is simply too insecure and afraid of being seen as anything but perfect or being seen as weak. She’s very intelligent, a quick learner, observant. She’s patient (though certain things can trigger her into a VICIOUS wrath). She holds grudges, even when SHE was the person at fault, and she is very self-critical. She often seeks out punishment for her actions (usually sexual punishment, as she has a lot of shame and trauma related to sex) after doing something immoral. She’ll do anything to win and be seen as a perfect leader… she’ll just regret it later.

## Backstory

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Helen is the daughter of wealthy businessman, Alexsandro Taylor, and has been primed from birth to be a debutante. Her love of horses was shown early when she was taken to horse races as a child (considered the height of fashion at the time), and her family took every opportunity to give her time with the animals. She was a natural! She had an eye for breeding, she seemed to ride better than she could walk, and the horses seemed to genuinely adore her.

She was often alone as a child--privately tutored and kept away from anyone that could negatively influence her--and was the youngest in her family. Helen was the baby. The lonely child. The perfect daughter. She HAD to be! Alexsandro and his wife should’ve been too old to have more children, and yet there Helen was. A miracle baby. An accident turned to gold. While she was loved the same as any child, the Taylors always valued her more as a piece to be traded away for money or power over her own individual person.

Becoming a champion horse racer? That changed things.

She won many races as a child, she pushed her family to let her compete, and she worked every day with the most expensive trainers money could buy. She had to prove herself. Helen HAD to be more than a prize for some man to win. While her prowess was hard to ignore in her family’s social circles, it wasn’t until she contacted Kacper Batar that the world became aware of Helen Taylor.

Helen had always been independent (and her family neglectful enough to allow such things), so she contacted Kacper and sent him articles, videos, lists of awards--anything that would convince the man to take her on as a Talent. After all, he was known for managing several young athletes and he had connections Helen needed to secure her importance to the family. He, in turn, contacted her parents and convinced them to sign over Helen’s life to Kacper.

Miss Taylor has been in the public eye ever since. Kacper is a genius when it comes to promoting talent. Helen has been on the cover of magazines, dated wealthy (and much older) celebrities, sold her own branded horse care supplies, is the face of several brands. She’s a celebrity hybrid, getting the same gossipy attention as any young actress and the respect of an aged athlete. She’s unstoppable, and Kacper hopes to set her sights ever higher (and get an ever bigger cut of her funds).

**PRIVATE INFO:** Alexsandro is actually her uncle. Brandon Taylor and his wife, Sathi, are her true parents. Sathi is a Punjabi Sikh that the Taylor family didn’t approve of, and when they found out Brandon had married her they disowned him. He lost all his wealth and connections, and ended up living with a family friend who took pity on Brandon, Sathi and their unborn child. Helen grew up poor and her connection to horses is mostly due to the fact that she grew up in a very racist neighborhood and felt isolated from her peers, so her only friends WERE the horses raised on the ranch where she lived.

Most info is detailed in her bio, but it’s worth mentioning:

* It’s an open secret that she was groomed and abused by Kacper, but she blames herself for this and has, in some way, convinced herself their relationship was consensual.
* Helen has dated numerous celebrities and Satoshi was among them. The two were forced together for publicity, but began to genuinely care for each other and open up about their deeper fears and pasts. They’d planned to marry--to run away from the people who kept them locked away for their talents and learn how to survive on their own--but Kacper discovered their plan. He’d noticed that he was losing his grip on Helen and that she was becoming too independent, so he started keeping a closer eye on her and hired detectives to follow her. Once finding out about her and Satoshi’s plan to ‘go rogue’, he spoke with Satoshi’s professors and formulated a plan to break them up. He arranged to meet Satoshi, told him not to trust Helen, and produced illicit photos of Helen with various men and women (himself included) to ‘prove’ she was cheating on Satoshi. Whether he believed it or not, Satoshi was shaken enough to break up with Helen and she, broken down to her most vulnerable state, ran back into Kacper’s waiting arms.

Despite what she and her manager would have you believe, Helen was not raised in a wealthy family. Her family is quite poor. Her father worked for his family business and was set to inherit enough to leave the next several generations of his family millionaires, but during a business trip to India he met a woman and fell in love at first sight. He smuggled her into the country, putting his family’s reputation and business at risk, then married and impregnated her to guarantee citizenship. This not only conflicted with his family’s conservative values, but brought a great deal of shame to his new wife Sathi’s family as well. They were disowned, cut from family ties (including the business that had been Brandon’s whole life), and soon the two were struggling to support their budding family. Brandon managed to convince an old coworker to let them stay at his summer home--a Texas ranch--and the two attempted to settle down there. It was difficult, to say the least. Sathi drew a lot of negative attention--her age, her accent, her questionable citizenship, etc--and she and Brandon worried what that would mean for their daughter. They’d heard stories, and they experienced first-hand how cruel ignorant people could be towards those who are different, and they sought to shield their child from this. They vowed to never tell Helen about their estranged family, and to homeschool her until she reached an age where they could trust her to protect herself from anyone who would wish her--or her family--harm.

Once they had established themselves in the community and were earning enough to live by (some of which came from their landlord, who would pay them to care for his horses and cattle), things were a dream. Helen loved living on the ranch and had a special love for the horses! Sathi and Brandon encouraged her to feed and care for the animals, believing it would teach their daughter empathy and the value of hard work. To this day she feels closer to horses than to any human. Sathi and Brandon were pleasantly surprised to see her attempting horseback riding with the foals and decided to spend what little savings they had to get her a riding instructor. They felt that participating in shows would be a perfect way to ease her into socializing with kids her own age, and she took to riding like no child they’d ever seen before! Soon she was old enough to join in small county fair shows, and Brandon and Sathi proudly took her to every show.

Helen started off just participating in kiddie competitions where the winner was usually the kid who could stay on the horse longest. She excelled at this and quickly drew the negative attention of other pageant parents. They would try to tear her down by encouraging their children to ignore her, spreading rumors about her mother’s citizenship status, and being outwardly racist towards the family. Helen didn’t fully understand at the time—she couldn’t have been older than 8—but she internalized this early adversity and it affects her to this day. But, she was so good at competitions and she had so much fun showing off with her beloved horses that Sathi and Brandon continued to let her participate.

Helen’s first REAL competition happened when she was 12. She entered a nationally ranked competition which would span several days—she’d be tested in Dressage, Eventing, Show Jumping, Games, Polocrosse, Tetrathlon, and overall Riding Ability. Helen entered with a horse she’d raised since birth, Lily, and easily won the first several competitions. Her family’s apparent coldness (born out of fear and a need to protect their child) had already won Helen many enemies and she became the target of increasingly cruel pranks. Helen continued to rank high despite this, but in the final days of the competition Lily’s health took a sharp downward turn and they had to leave the show. Lily had at some point ingested a lethal amount of rodenticide, clearly a prank gone wrong, but Helen’s family couldn’t afford any kind of treatment for the animal.

Helen was depressed, having experienced true loss for the first time in her life. She and her family returned to their ranch where she struggled to even get out of bed. She became introverted, cold, and couldn’t shake the feeling that somehow Lily’s passing was HER FAULT for showing off at competitions; her fault for just being who she was. This continued for several months, all the while her parents were fending off potential managers who had seen what an accomplished rider Helen was (even at such a young age) and were desperate to recruit her to their talent roster. Her family had been so protective of her and this tragedy had only strengthened their resolve, but they couldn’t keep Helen away from the spotlight forever. One agent managed to worm his way in and ended up sharing a cup of coffee with her father while discussing Helen’s future in horse racing, and Helen happened to hear… She wanted to compete again! It was the last time she’d felt happy! The agent knew most parents couldn’t say no to a sad kid, so he threw in a few manipulative words to push her Brandon’s hand. Soon they’d signed over their daughter’s future to a talent agent, and her participation in future events was out of their hands.

Helen is now travelling all over the world with her agent, Kacper Batar, as her primary guardian. She’d grown up around adults, and Kacper felt that pushing her to act older than she was—more sophisticated, worldly, etc.—was the perfect way to make her not only a TALENTED equestrian but also something of a legitimate celebrity! As questionable as his methods are, Kacper did one hell of a job marketing his client. She’s constantly in the news and is seen as unbeatable in her field. If she isn’t racing, she’s breeding racehorses or practicing a new dressage routine. When she’s not seen beside her beautiful show horses, she’s on the arm of some wealthy socialite who can add legitimacy to her celebrity status. She still prefers the company of her beloved animals, but Kacper’s done a lot to train Helen in the ways of posh society. He’s even started sewing the seeds of higher aspirations—why stop at being a famous athlete? You could go into politics! You could control cities, states, even the whole damn country if you just keep playing on your celebrity status! Her family has tried in vain to reach Helen, seeing through Kacper’s manipulation and understanding that he only sees her as a pretty athlete to exploit for money, but he’s gotten in Helen’s head and turned her against them. She misses them, but believes they were holding her back from her true potential.

## Relationships

The majority of Helen's relationships were casual hookups, or were thrown together by Kacper for the sake of publicity. For the sake of brevity, only relationships that have had a significant effect on Helen are listed here.

#### Satoshi Hiyama

*See also, Helen/Satoshi Relationship*

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