Helen Reyes

> *"What remains of my will exists only in you. And only because of what I sought to destroy."*
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Dr **Helen Reyes** is a supporting character and an antagonist in *Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle.* She was Dalila Reyes' younger sister and the head researcher of Project OGRE. She was also the main culprit behind the events at the Groom Lake facility.

## Biography

She was growing up close to her older sister Dalila. The two girls dreamed about changing the world. As a child, Helen was scared of the dark but was always comforted by her sister.

Helen chose to dedicate her life to science, as opposed to Dalila who chose to pursue a military career, which caused a divide between the sisters. Nevertheless, Dalila left her sister a D.I.D. prototype so the two could always send messages to each other. In 1983, Helen graduated from the Massachusetts University of Technology with the degree of Bachelor of Science.

In 1987, she was offered to work for the government's top secret project at the Groom Lake US Progress Research Facility, where she fell in love with Brian, a H.A.D.E.S. agent, but saw him in secret since their relationship was prohibited.

Helen's real job had to be kept a secret from her family, which caused further tensions between the sisters. After Dalila returned from war suffering from PTSD and depression, their relationship soured completely, which led to Helen leaving for good to join the research project at the Castle. When Dalila had turned off her D.I.D., Helen realized their relationship couldn't be recovered. Some time later, Dalila received news of her sister's apparent death, when in reality Helen continued working at the Castle becoming the head researcher of Project Ogre, a pre-historic sea creature sleeping underneath the Castle, whose DNA was harvested to be used in T-3 teleportation experiments. Helen eventually grew to regret the sacrifices they had to make in the name of progress, seeing how her lover Brian, who was forced to take part in the experiments, was losing his mind to Ogre, becoming obsessed with awakening the creature.

On March 11, 1994, Helen makes a decision to destroy the Ogre. Before carrying out her plan, she sends her last message to Ivan Radek, who had agreed to take Dalila's old D.I.D. prototype. She thanks Radek for everything he had done for her and her sister and asks him to pass her message to Dalila, telling her that her feelings for her never changed. Helen is stopped by Aptom, Brian's split personality, who murders her. Grief struck, Brian carries Helen's body into her lab, where she injects her with Ogre's DNA, hoping she will be reborn together with Ogre. This action sets the events of Operation Sandcastle in motion.

It's implied Helen's consciousness became a part of Ogre making her able to manifest herself to her sister Reyes and asks her to destroy the Ogre. Reyes is stopped by Gora and she has no choice but to kill him. Helen's body is reanimated before the Sarcophagus is destroyed, so part of the creature survives through Helen who became a mutated hybrid. She pursues Reyes summoning hordes of undead decoys but is stopped by Radek who shoots her with a rocket launcher blowing up her body to pieces. She still manifests to Reyes and reaches her hand out to her. It's implied Helen's consciousness will keep living through Reyes if she chooses to inject herself with Ogre's DNA.

## Gallery

### Concept art

* Mutated Helen concept art by Giulia Del Vecchio
* Ogre Helen
* Dalila with Helen

### *Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle*

* Face close-up
* Dalila and Helen
* Helen's Bachelor of Science degree
* Helen's graduation
* Helen with Brian
* Helen's dead body
* Helen's doll of Dalila
* Newspaper showing she never forgot her sister
* Helen's desk
* Helen's D.I.D. (front)
* Back of Helen's D.I.D. (left)
* Helen's phantom
* "Helen" with Ogre
* Helen and Foster
* Helen's OGRE form
* Dalila being grabbed by Ogre Helen
* Dalila being grabbed by Ogre Helen 2
* Ogre Helen kill animation
* Dalila's final encounter with Ogre Helen
* Ogre Helen's last moment
* Sisters reunited

## Trivia

* Concept artist Giulia Del Vecchio on designing Helen's boss form: *"I delved into the concepts of divinity and alien-sea creature, while preserving a recognizable and 'compelled' human identity within the monstrous incomplete transformation. I wanted to capture the intimate connection with Reyes, so I imagined a human arm still reaching out, trying to connect with her sister, as if they could still share an embrace or a caress."*
* Her name could be a possible reference to Helen of Troy from the Greek mythology, who was a sister of Castor and Pollux.