Helga

"Helga is my mom's name. She is pretty and has a pretty singing voice."

### Personality

Optimistic* Never let anything get you down! Resistant to sick, sleep, afraid, and immunodeficiency.

### Abilities

* High Five
* Comforting Smile
* Mental Clarity
* Pep Talk

### Relatives

* Jimmy (Son)
* Buck (Son)
* Andrew (Husband)
* Lars (Brother
* GAMM-E (Mother)
* Hans (Father)

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**Helga** is Jimmy's mother. Kind and optimistic, she acts as a healer in battle, using her cheery attitude to keep her allies' spirits up. Helga's memory zone is the Secret Cavern.

## Appearance

Helga's in-game sprite shows her with a plain expression. Her attire is similar to a 50's housewife, sporting blonde hair, a blue floral dress with a black belt, a blue floral headband, and blue heels to match.

## Tumblr Blog Description

*"Jimmy’s mother, Helga, is sunshine in human form. She loves smiling more than anything. No, she loves her job more than anything. Wait, no, she loves gardening more than anything. She just loves everything. Well, maybe she loves her family the most, but that doesn’t mean her boundless love for everything won’t distract her from time to time.*

*Helga is the emotional core of Jimmy’s family. She protects and encourages Jimmy, and she’s the only member of the family who Buck respects, both because of her strength and, well, she’s his mom.*

*Helga is so **optimistic** that she refuses to let anything get her down, including most common status effects, which she’s immune to.  This works well for her, as most of her skills are centered around healing, so, like in her family, she’ll hold the team together in combat."*

## Personality

Helga seems to be the typical power mom, she cares deeply for every member of their family, especially Jimmy. But behind the facade, she puts up she can exhibit depressive mood swings and bouts of de-motivation and tends to completely shut down in times of crisis.

## In Battle

Helga is the party's dedicated healer, her unique skills exclusively dedicated to supporting her allies. Her high Max MP allows her to use these healing abilities with little fear of running dry, and her high AGI ensures she'll likely be able to get these heals out before the enemy can act, oftentimes saving the party from what would've been fatal otherwise. Helga has no particularly bad stats, though she's a limited attacker due to her skills being so heavily focused on support.

Her natural speed also has the secondary effect of making any startle she can do much more likely to be effective, giving her great utility with Roman Candles or the manual skill, Psyche.

While she's dost suited for the healer role, Helga CAN be a pretty decent form of DPS, especially with the right items. Most notably the Heavy-Handed Glove, which gives her a massive buff to her attack stat as well as giving her a 300% damage move with no cooldown. Make sure you're prepared to handle things without being as solid as a healer, however, Super replaces High Five leaving her with only Comforting Smile as her only healing move.

Helga is the most consistently available party member in the game, rarely leaving after she joins the party, and thus fills the role of healer for most of the game.

### Base Stats

When Helga initially joins the party, her level is set to the average of Jimmy and Buck's levels.

### Mothering

 **Optimistic** | Never let anything get you down!
 **High Five** | Give a friend a high five to boost their confidence.
 **Comforting Smile** | Show the party that everything will work out.
 **Mental Clarity** | Focus your mind to purify your body.
 **Pep Talk** | Talk excitedly about life.

## Trivia

* She and her side of the family are of German descent, given that her familiarity with Bee Sting Cake, a recipe of German origin, and her father's affinity for Polka Music, which is a genre of music that originated in Germany. This was outright confirmed by Kasey on the official blog.
* Helga is about 37 years old.
* She likes coffee. According to the description of the furniture item Coffee Maker, she drinks 3 cups every morning.

## References

1. ↑ https://jimmyandthepulsatingmass.tumblr.com/characters
2. ↑ https://jimmyandthepulsatingmass.tumblr.com/post/190681728626/are-helga-and-her-parents-of-german-descent-bee
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/KaseyOzymy/status/1196102751006187521