Helena Bertinelli

* Huntress
* Helena Bertinelli

Hel, Miss Prickly (Nicknames)

Frank Bertinelli (Adopted Father, Deceased)

Tomaso Bertinelli (Uncle/Guardian)

Outlaws

Batfamily

Batman Inc.

Justice League (Formerly)

## Biography: (Written By Oracle)

### Helena Bertinelli: 1991 - 2009

Helena was born to Roman Sionis and Maria Bertinelli, with the two being from wealthy backgrounds within Gotham's criminal element as Sionis had grown in attention as the infamous Black Mask, an crime lord that was known not to be crossed. Upon the arrival of The Bat, Sal Maroni was found arrested and had later moved on Carmine Falcone, using this to his advantage Roman had rose up in the ranks as a way to become Gotham's newest crime lord. Within the following year Tony Zucco was put behind bars, pooling in massive amounts of money, she had begun to take self defense classes to no longer rely on her body guards.

Once she turned twelve, Maria had left Sionis had she felt that his greed had began to overwhelm his need to maintain their family values, having entrusted a fellow member of the Bertinelli mob Franco Bertinelli, this led to a brief affair and the three had left the city for the time being to avoid Sionis' anger and had remained under the radar until the had gained new names. Though it didn't take long for their hidden life style to fail as Roman had found them and killed Franco before forcing the mother and daughter back to Gotham. After a failed series attempts of escaping Maria had killed herself leaving Helena by herself though she had grown scornful, towards her father because of this, hoping to end the cycle Helena had slashed her fathers face. While trying to take the knife away, Batman had stopped this from continuing, while Helena had escaped.

Helena had requested Tomaso Bertinelli to be her guardian, seeing as he was also her uncle in a way of sorts, upon her return to Gotham she hopped to use this to her gain as a way to enact her own form of justice towards her father, upon putting her own entry into Gotham Academy she had finished her academics and began to plot her return to Gotham...

### Huntress: 2009 - Present Day

Hoping to find some information in order to go through her plan she sought after the rich in hopes of rubbing shoulders with those who most likely ended up wit Gotham's more dirty variety of society, that so happened to be at a party hosted by Bruce Wayne. While Helena didn't get a chase to talk to Bruce she was able to talk to his adopted son Dick Grayson. Shockingly even to me, Dick had let slip out information of a case that he and Bruce were looking into (of course he used the fact the heard some talk in a bar to hide how he really got the info.) The two seeming had hit off that night as they left the Manor by the end of the night.

Helena used this information to her benefit of course, using some gear that she got from a WayneTech cache (or stole to put it lightly) and debuted as Huntress by holding a crooked Bludhaven detective arrow point, with the intervention of Nightwing stopping the arrow from firing. The two broke out into a fight over the matter eventually they both came to the fact that they were looking into the same case,

It didn't take long for Helena to learn that Dick and Nightwing were the one in the same, but kept it to herself preferring to work on her own and continued to fight through Bludhaven's crime ring as she would later come face to face with Black Mask and prepared to kill Sionis, however Helena seemed to underestimate the amount of men that Sionis had on his pay roll. Dick had tracked her and saved her once more, while there was still tension between the two as she revealed that she knew Dick was Nightwing, only for Dick to reveal that he knew after the first night he had saw her the two agreed to work together as they cracked the bones that they found.

Giving her a more armored suit along with better gadgets, the two worked well together before they pursued a relationship, Dick had found out that he quite the thing for wearing a mask... while doing things. I'd rather not dwell on the matter, anyways the two stayed together for two months before they broke things off, along with moving out to Gotham and began to work with the building block of Birds of Prey. Rumor is that she did some work with the Justice League and is in a hot and heavy relationship with Question...

## Strengths

* **Archery:** Helena carries her trademark crossbows on her at all times when "on-the-job". Whether she decides to use dual mini-crossbows or one large crossbow is up to her whims and fancy her as she has expert skill and equal proficiency in the use of both styles. Oliver Queen himself has remarked that she's likely a better crossbow shot than he is.
* **Criminology:** Helena grew up in a criminal environment and later spent a few years surrounded by gangs and criminals. Helena knows how criminals works, especially those in the Italian mafia families. Helena retains a large number of such connections which she has used on a number of occasions for both good and... less good pursuits.
* **Driving:** Helena is a very effective driver, having been able to pilot the Batmobile in high stress and combat situations as well as her own motorcycle at varying degrees of above-average driving situations (being shot at, accelerating to high speeds and over semi-separated bridges). I should mention that it has been years since Bruce let her near his Batmobile.
* **Firearms:** Over the years Helena realized that firing and reloading bolts at armed individuals may not be the most effective even if they were the most non-lethal.
* **Investigation:** Batman, himself, has mentioned Helena's prowess during investigation situations. I will admit she has a better mind for field detective work than even I do and she is the go to detective of the Birds of Prey team. Helena apparently used to keep her skills sharp by regularly spending her free-time between classes solving cold cases especially when the Mafia is involved.
* **Martial Arts:** Helena was very much a street fighter before honing her skills in martial arts. She spent many years getting into intentional fights just to prove and test her mettle. She has since fine-tuned her skill after years of work with Black Canary. She learned various disciplines of martial arts, enough to prove a challenge for even Lady Shiva. She prefers to use a specific kind of Kung Fu but is also a master of Stick Fighting, Boxing, Capoeira, and Judo.
* **Stick Fighting:** Although she prefers to use her martial arts and hand-to-hand combat when it comes to close quarters there has been many occasions where Helena learned that hard way that she might need addition close-quarters armaments. To this end, has used her a special collapsible Battle-Staff equipped with electrical taser mountings and an emergency grapnel line.
* **Multilingualism:** She can speak both English and Italian fluently.
* **Peak Human Condition:** Huntress works hard to keep her body in peak physical condition. Due to her costume's ample amount of exposed skin, Helena does 300 ab crunches every morning.
* **Pedagogy:** Helena has taught at various schools as a teacher of history and Italian language. She has also worked as a substitute teacher for a variety of classes. I hear she is a rather popular teacher, but I suspect that may be more on account of her wardrobe choices or the fact that she is prone to putting movies on so that she can take cat-naps in the back of the room with the lights out to make up for lost sleep due to her particular nocturnal activities.
* **Stealth:** Helena can be very stealthy when she needs to. With her specially outfitted suit and various toys in her utility belt, she can sneak into a facility and learn whatever information she desires although she sometimes prefers to fight her way in.
* **Throwing:** Helena learned the art of throwing from her cousin Salvatore Asaro.
* **Huntress' Motorcycle:** Helena uses a customized MV Agusta Turismo Veloce 800 Lusso motorcycle with a purple and black paint job, added armored plating, an enhanced Kord-Tech engine, and all the standard Bat-Cycle gadgetry added after-market. Dinah calls it Helena's crotch rocket as an insult to its design, but Helena isn't bothered by the term and affectionately calls it the same.
* **Huntress' Crossbows:** Helena uses dual mini-crossbows or a heavy duty large crossbow with a scope to fire her plethora of trick bolts, though mostly she just likes to shoot people in the knee with the real thing.
* **Huntress Battle-Staff:** A collapsible, combat metallic staff that she has adopted since she realized that she needed extra tactical support when dealing with metahumans. The staff has taser mounting jolt delivery system incorporated and an emergency grapnel line.

## Weaknesses

**Anger:** Like Jason Todd, Helena is prone to letting her emotions get the better of her.

## Trivia

* Helena was prone to flipping off paparazzi and using crass language on television during her time with the League.
* Helena's best friends are Artemis Crock and Zatanna Zatara. The two take frequent vacations together.
* Helena is an honorary Amazon warrior, having been given the honor by Queen Hippolyta herself.
* Helena is a heavy drinker but does not seem to be an alcoholic as she seems fully capable of being sober for weeks at a time if she is working on an important case.
* After Jason died, Helena became the first official dropout from the Titans. Her membership was reinstated later as Victor Stone understood her reasons for having quit.
* Her mother used an antique crossbow to save Helena's life. Helena uses a crossbow as a heroine now as a reminder of that night.
* Barbara listed Helena's sexual orientation as "straight-ish" because Helena admits she can become "lesby-like" if you put a few drinks in her. Having been on the receiving end of my roommate's drunken affections.
* Helena's favorite non-alcoholic drink is desert pear lemonade from Chicken Whizee. It's a seasonal beverage so that means that at least once a year, Helena comes home utterly depressed when she finds out it's been discontinued for the remainder of the year. This usually means some poor thug that night gets put in the hospital with an extra injury... or five.
* Helena has a not-so secret crush on Captain Atom. She denies it, but she forgets I can hear her giggle like a schoolgirl through her comms whenever he sits next to her at a Justice League meeting.