Helga

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> *"I may sometimes lose the beat! But the beat will never lose me.. Heh.. I like that sentence. Should probably write it down for song lyrics!"*
>
> - Helga

Helga O. Terrifang (pronounced "terry-fang") is the famous rockstar with a passion for dancing. She is the daughter of the Guardian of Strength, Diesel Terrifang and his wife, the royal scientist and the reformed Grimdark, Kakolyn Terrifang. She is known for using her father's weapon and upgrading it to become focused on electricity. She would use it after her mother was taken over by Frewil, as a means to try and save her as a fighter, like her father. She specialises in using her father's axe, Sekitano. Only it's upgraded to be a guitar too and allows her to conduct electricity when strumming onto it.

## **Appearance**

Helga has a very average build and is reasonably tall. She is a tyrant, so she has red skin, black hair, yellow sclera with red irises, black nails and matching red ram horns. She also has fangs that resemble buck teeth, taken after her father. Her black hair is very puffy and long; plus it resembles a pompadour with added blunt bangs.

Her normal attire resembles a performer's attire. She wears a short white jacket, long gloves with buckles attached; that has her pointing finger and thumb exposed, a belt with matching buckles, white jeans with a thunderbolt logo and black heel boots. Her appearance is also meant to resemble a sheep. With her soft long poofy hairstyle resembling the wool of a sheep, her after mentioned heel boots that are meant to resemble the hoofs of a sheep and obviously, the bell necklace around her neck

Her casual attire features white shutter glasses, a white off-the-shoulder jumper with a light red polka dot mini skirt, pure black leggings and white timerland boots with black accents and laces.

Her ascension, Encore, makes electricity flow around her while her hair goes all messy and turns white. Like her mother's own hair.

## **Personality**

Helga is seen as a music loving daredevil. Always wanting to give a great performance to the people around her. She is apparently really good in her performing arts classes in her school. When she isn't doing anything like this, she is seen being very laid back and level-headed, Being very calm and cool towards her friends.

When her mother was taken over by Frewil, something happens to Helga that affected her greatly. Whereas on the outside, she is still the laid back daredevil she is known for being. On the inside, she is severely upset and hurt over her mother. She just does the stuff she normally does to cope over this incident but is known for being emotionally broken when something hits her like a truck. Like when she fought against Evelyn and Frewil states that Kako proved to be a great vessel for him to use. While also stating that Evelyn would devour her when he was done with her. This caused Helga to become furious and would make her lash out at, not only Evelyn and Frewil, but her own friends. This shows that, like her father, she can easily be emotionally heartbroken.

Despite this, Helga cares for her friends and family. She wouldn't confess that she was hiding her venting until she spoke to Susie about it. After all of this, Helga decided she will do anything she can to free her mother from Frewil, turning herself into one of the fighters to deal with Frewil.

### **Electricity Manipulation**

Helga makes use of her father's weapon, Sekitano, by turning it into a guitar. Once strummed, the fire becomes electricity, allowing Helga to control it the best she can. The types of electricity she can form varies. For one, she can fire a ball of electicity that she can whack like a baseball.

* **Lightning Rod Hair:** Her hair is very unique and acts like a lightning rod, able to absorb electricity, as well as conduct it. Helga can throw parts of her hair and they act like clouds. If she ever fires any type of her electricity powers into it, it causes it to fire bolts of electricity downwards like a thundercloud. Helga's hair also grows back immediately if she throws any but she can only have one out in the field. Which funnily enough, that means she can't get a haircut but she can theoretically tie it up, but she prefers to have it open.
* **Electrical Transfer:** Helga can transfer her body through electric currents like wires. She can inflict her opponent with electricity to go to them immediately or can even go to her cloud hair. Giving her access to quick travel as long as anything electrical is around.

### **Dance Combat**

Helga's gimmicky ability when she isn't using her father's axe. She fights by dancing via her Dance Mode and does many things such as headbanging, spinning in place and moonwalking. And somehow, these moves are great for combat. She can even use this to taunt her opponents, which helps in levelling her ascension.

### **Hover**

For some reason, Helga can briefly hover off the ground. This basically allows her to fly temporary but only horizontally.

### **Ascension: Encore LVL1/2/3**

Helga's Ascension. It is the only ascension that can get stronger via levelling up. This simply powers up her electricity, causing it to go into overdrive when at level 3. This makes Helga go into a powerful mode when she levels the ascension up by taunting her opponents with her dance moves. Which can be risky since she is left open but has a decent pay off when used enough times to level herself up. Becoming extremely powerful as a result.

## **Biography**

### **Backstory**

Helga was born in the Southern Land of Entertainment as the daughter of Diesel and Kakolyn Terrifang. Sadly, Diesel would die shortly after she was born. Helga had a great childhood with her mother and she meets with her best friend for life, Susie Pastel, since Kako was promoted as the Aranea Draco's royal scientist. The two became very close to the point of being the bestest of friends. One day, Susie says to Helga that she wishes to marry her in the future; not knowing the meaning of marriage back then.

At her many schools, Helga was a popular student. Sometimes being the class clown. When she began her time in Alexander High, she would reunite with Susie and that was when the two started to do some notable things together. Like Susie introducing Grim to her, even though Helga can't even see her. But then one day, Helga would bring up their childhood about the whole marriage thing. Leading Susie to be embarrassed but Helga thinks it's cool that she feels that way towards her. Which led to her being in a loving relationship with her and never leaving each other's sides when in school or when they are on dates.

During this time, Helga was dealing with her mother taking care of the gem that Gregory sealed Frewil away into. Kako promised to take her daughter out one day but that day became ruined when she had to rush to her lab. Frewil was freed and several people were killed, all but Kako and Helga. Frewil was about to do this plan in choosing a host and went to latch onto Helga but her mother got in the way. This proved to be a success due to Kako apparently having the grimdark's blood due to being the reformed version of him, hence she was chosen instead. Helga would try to attack Frewil when he absorbed Kako but she would effortlessly be tossed away. Knocking her out.

When Helga wakes up, she is met by a person and a small animal with them. When her sight returns to normal, this figure is revealed to be Tangerine. Who was with Gregory. She apparently got Helga out of the area she was knocked out from. Tangerine says that she has been knocked out for a while now, meaning she missed out on the previous fighters dealing with their issues. After learning this and being told to return home by Tangerine, Helga returned home and thought about her current predicament. She then decided that she wanted to fight alongside Tangerine and the others. So she got her father's Divine Weapon, Sekitano, and upgraded it into a guitar/axe hybrid. Which results in it transforming it's fire properties into electricity. She was ready to fight her way to get her mother back, meeting new people along the way too.

On a side note, alongside, Cranium, Stephanie and Tangerine, she would form a band with them. With her becoming the backup singer and main guitarist.

## **Relationships**

### **Diesel Terrifang**

Helga knew her father a decent amount. But that was until he died. She states that her father was a bit of a stubborn hardworking doofus but was still lovable. She uses his axe as a means to pay respect to him.

### **Kakolyn Terrifang**

Helga loves her mother a lot. Even though she doesn't show this a lot on the outside. She wanted to spend more time with her but she was always busy. When Kako says she will have a day off with her, she was excited but this turned out to be the opposite of what she wanted, as Frewil was freed and he took her mother away from her. Helga would vow to save her before she was completely overtaken by Frewil. During childhood, Kako would sing Helga a song that she would always remember, even during her teen years. She would later sing the song herself towards Susie and Helga. Helga wouldn't know that her mother is the reformed Grimdark during the Guardian Era for a very long time until much later on when Frewil reveals it.

### **Flint and Steel**

Flint and Steel are the Terrifang family's pet cat and dog respectfully. Like with her parents, Helga loves her pets a lot. The two always seem to be very excited everytime Helga, or her other family members, returns home and they always comfort Helga all the time.

### **Susie Pastel**

Susie is Helga's closest friend and she would later become her lover during high school years. This was mainly because of what Susie said about marrying her despite not knowing the meaning of marriage back then. Susie cares for Helga a lot. She wants to help her get her mother back from Frewil and she was the first person Helga confesses to about her melancholy thoughts on the matter; since she's been hiding it towards others. Susie and Helga never really kissed each other until Helga confesses her melancholy thoughts to her in a attempt to cheer her up. It was thanks to Susie that Helga became more positive, leading to her forming a band with Tangerine, Stephanie and Cranium

### **Stephanie Pastel**

Helga is great friends with Susie's sister. Later on, when she discovers she is great playing the guitar, she sees Stephanie as a very friendly rival due to playing the guitar herself. As a result, Stephanie would later become a part of Helga's band as a guitarist.

### **Tangerine Gonzalo**

Helga meets Tangerine when she saved her after the Frewil incident. She would then meet her again when she was selling her products with her family at the Aranea Draco Kingdom's town marketplace. Helga was interested with her when she played Nano's ocarina as a means to attract customers. Tangerine was concerned over first meeting her and wanted to talk to her somewhere else. It's there where Tangerine says that her mother should of been at the lab to take care of Frewil. This was information she got from Melancholy Nano. But in this dimension, that does happen and it caused Frewil to latch onto Kako instead of absorbing his followers, which confirmed the main reason why everything is so different to her own timeline. Later on, Tangerine would confirm that she is from another dimension and would tell Helga about why she wants to fight as a fighter capable of taking on the Grimdark Brotherhood. This moment shows that she trusts Helga a lot. Tangerine later confirmed that the Aranea Dracos are kind of soulless for forcing their royal scientist to take care of such a evil threat, which got the attention of Helga greatly and caused her to barge into the Aranea Draco kingdom for answers. Later on, Tangerine would be part of Helga's band as the main drummer.

### **Teapot**

Helga first met Teapot when Susie brought her to the Purge Mansion. Helga thinks Teapot is pretty sweet and a great source of happiness. Teapot notably loves the song Helga sings; which happens to be the song Kako would sing to her. Eventually, Teapot would witness Helga lashing out at her by literally punching her in the face when she was trying to comfort her. This was due to being enraged by what Frewil said to her about her mother during her fight with Evelyn. Since Teapot, or Susie for that matter, didn’t know Helga was going through depression over her mother being used as a vessel for Frewil. At that point, even if Helga literally ran away after she hit the mampire, Teapot was still worried about Helga but was very much upset over her lashing out on her. When Helga returned, she literally literally went to talk to Teapot for forgiveness and to explain why she was upset. Teapot, being the extremely pure hearted woman she is, accepted Helga’s apology and since then, they’ve been great friends. It’s implied that Teapot and Helga got more to know each other more via sleepovers and hangouts.

### **King Ander Pastel**

Helga despised Ander for making her mother watch over Frewil after Tangerine tells her about it. Ander sees this as a fatal mistake and apologises to Helga. When he sees Helga's axe, he is now aware that she is the offspring of Diesel and notes Helga as a candidate for a fighter capable to fight Frewil. She already wanted to become one but after Tangerine's reveal, Helga had her doubts in fighting alongside the person who let her mother be the vessel for Frewil. Until Susie, who is part of the royal family herself, convinces Helga to fight as a fighter. For now, Helga forgives Ander for his actions.

### **Sir Cranium**

Helga knew about Cranium in the past but she never really thought she would be good friends with him. She notes that his ability to impersonate anything or anyone is perfect for a singing role. Hence, he became the main singer of her band.

### **Evelyn**

Helga runs into the ancient cyberimp when Susie and Teapot ran into her again. Helga didn't think much of her until she defeated her but she proved to be a tough opponent.

### **Frewil**

Helga obviously hates Frewil for taking her mother away. Frewil himself however, finds Helga interesting. Due to being the offspring of Kako, he wanted to test if Helga began to show signs of it the more angry she got, leading to her Encore Level 3 Ascension. Frewil says the Helga should embrace the anger within her, leading to Helga saying that she doesn't need the anger to stop him. This led Frewil into thinking both her and him are one in the same. Kindred sprits in other words.

## **Trivia**

* Helga is named after Helga Phugly from the Angus Oblong book to coincide with Susie being named after Creepy Susie. Though the name could relate to her being designed to look like a demon; with the “Hel” part being a pun on “hell”. This kind of goes against the origin of her name, as it is a feminine version of the name, Helge, which also means "holy" or "blessed" according to Old Norse heilagr.
	+ Her last name “Terrifang” is a pun on the word “Terrifying”.
	+ Her middle name, Opal, is in reference to her birthstone.
	+ Helga’s full name is regarded as Con Air's favourite name for a character he made. Hence why it's one of the many reasons why she stayed as long as Susie has during development.
* Helga was created as part of the original level 1 college project for Wowlife that started from what it is now. Despite looking evil, Helga wasn’t always planned to be a villain. She was originally a character who betrayed her mother to go to the side of good. In terms of design, she is very much different. She's very short and her hair is more messy and spiky. She also wore a beanie, a turtleneck jumper, mitten gloves, white pants and generic black shoes. She also has a sword instead of her axe. The only things unchanged is her teeth and electricity powers. Since this project, Helga has been a staple in Wowlife and never seemed to fade away unlike several other cut characters. Hence she wins the award for having the most redesigns through the years until her current one. But this was most in regards to her hairstyle. She is the prime example of Con Air experimenting in redesigning a character a lot. Though she didn't go through drastic changes like Otama for example.
* Her likes consist of:
	+ Omelettes
	+ Music
	+ Dancing
	+ Hanging out with her friends
* Her dislikes consist of:
	+ Frewil
	+ Her deep melancholy thoughts about her mother
* Helga pays massive tribute to famous pop singer, Michael Jackson and famous actor, John Travolta, via her dance moves, poses and her main outfit being based on Michael's Bad Outfit, only white instead of black. Originally, Michael Jackson's inspiration would of been towards a now unused character in Wowlife called "Frogbert".
	+ Speaking of Unused characters, Helga once had a sister during development. This was during the time Helga was originally like Grim Susie, a character who was created asexually through science. This sister of hers was a failed experiment and Helga was the successful one. Due to this concept being swapped over to Grim and Helga just being born normally, the sister became unused. Her sister was named Harriett.
* Her sheep design mixed with electricity powers is based on three things.
	+ The first being from the movie, Blade Runner, with their original title for the original novels that it was adapted from being called "Do androids dream of electric sheep". Helga even makes reference to this in her main quote.
	+ Second is the Mareep evolution line from Pokémon. Being sheeps with electric powers.
	+ And lastly, Absa from Rivals of Aether. Although they are a mountain goat instead of a sheep, their electric abilities served as a inspiration for Helga's own abilities.
* Helga's Character Select render is the only render who's full body isn't shown.
	+ It's also the only render where the character isn't looking directly at the camera. Mostly because Helga has her attention towards to the people next to her in the art piece that features this render.
* Helga is considered to be one of the hardest for Con Air to draw. Although not *the* hardest (that honour goes to Cranium), Con Air can have troubles drawing her horns, her guitar and her main outfit. Everything else is rather tame. It's one of the many reasons why she's had multiple redesigns through the years.
* Although not knowing each other directly, she shares the exact same height with Nano.

## **Gallery**

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