Helena Ainsworth

**Helena Ainsworth** is an OC of Leah, from Brookley.

## Biography

Helena was born as Helena Acton on October 3, 1900, in Cheshunt, England to a rather poor family. Her parents were worked as a seamstress and a farmer for the Lord and Lady Hewitt and due to the long and hard hours they worked they couldn't properly take care of Helena, therefore Lady Hewitt often treated Helena as though she was her own, mostly due to her her infertility and unhappiness in her marriage. She would often take her to lesson and let her play the piano, letting Helena grow up intelligent and privileged..

One day, her father attempted to steal from Lord Hewitt which resulted in banishing his entire family from the Hewitt house, on to the streets of the village surrounding it. Despite this Lady Hewitt still loved Helena as her own and would allow her nephew, Charles Ainsworth, to continue teaching and playing with her. Soon Helena's mother started to grow sick and died when Helena was 18. Her father, too depressed and sick to continue or find work, had left Helena to care for herself as he continued to only care for her mother as though she were still alive.

Helena lived quite rough in several villages until she was 28, she took on many jobs to find money to survive as Lady Hewitt had died and couldn't care for her. Furthermore, this meant that Helena could not see Charles as his parents would greatly disapprove if they found out the true reason of his visits to the Woolbeck house. Just after turning 28, Helena ran into Charles once again in a pub in a faraway town she had moved to and the two were finally free to fall in love. Charles introduced her to his friends, Alexander and Eleanor Dayton, whom had a strange aura surrounding them.Soon it was revealed by Charles that they were vampires who had narrowly escaped prosecution as "witches" and had to move, they were helped by Charles. Eventually, the four became close friends and the couple had turned Helena and Charles into vampires after their wedding. However, the two quickly lost each other again after Charles was sent onto an everlasting journey, where he wouldn't be able to see her again for several centuries.

Helena spent years travelling with the Dayton's who had aims of building their family in the late 20th century. In the 90s, Charles re-appeared in Helena's life and finally they could start a family of their own, even though Charles had only so much time left as he was on the run from his mission to be with her. Over the decade the Ainsworth's made their family together and it wasn't until Christmas of 2004 when Charles simply disappeared inexplicably and was presumed dead, the family was broken but they grew stronger through the loss of their husband and father. Helena re-married a year later to Andrew Drake, a successful businessman who was newly divorced and willing to give his next "true love" his millions in case anything happened to him. Soon enough, Andrew died of a heart attack and out of "grief" Helena and her family decided to move back to England to Brookley, a hidden magical town where they couldn't be bothered.

## Physical Description

### Appearance

Helena is a roughly 120 year-old vampire with extremely pale skin, unnaturally green eyes that she gained upon turning and dyed black hair which was naturally ginger before she bleached it in the 70's. She stands at 5'8" (178 cm) which makes her the second member of her family, behind Sam and Meredith. Helena has six tattoos; two rose stems across her collarbones that lead to a rose on her back, a spider in between her chest, " XXXI-VIII-MCMXXVIII" on her upper left arm, and all of her children's names and birthdays tattooed on her right wrist. Her most recent tattoo is of Sammy’s birthday and name.

### Attire

For someone of her assumed age (around her 30s) Helena likes to believe she is rather fashionable, dressing in glamorous dresses, fine-tailored suits and constantly wearing a high heel of some sort. As she has lived through many decades she occasionally dresses in the styles of those periods, claiming that they are "better then what kids wear nowadays". She is always seen wearing her wedding ring from her marriage to Charles as she treasures it dearly and it allows her to walk in the sun.

## Trivia

* She was created based off of EXO songs: Hurt, The Eve and Exodus.
* Her appearance is very loosely based off of Jodi Lyn O'Keefe.
* Helena was created on 15/01/18.