Norman Helheim

Atom's ex-husband, and member of the Doombringers.

## History

### Pre-Campaign

Norman was the son of the Mirage Casino's owner, in Las Vegas, Nevada. His father was heavily abusive toward both him and his mother, he was an alcoholic and pill addict. He became friends with the son of one of his father's workers, Walter Wakefield. The two became close and joked about running away together.

On Judgement day, they were locked outside the hotel's bunker, his parents saving themselves rather than wait for him. He and Atom survived the bombing, the radiation, and eventually manifested powers. They wandered the ruined city together after the bombs decimated life inside. Norman was heavily mutated, and gained supernatural physical strength, while Atom seemingly came out unscathed.

A few weeks after the blast, Norman and Atom found a supermarket and scavenged its resources. Norman gorged himself on sweets and was sick for days afterward. He also found a bottle of alcohol and drank the bottle.

A year later, in 2082, they two boys were found by Eddna Strauss, an old woman who gathered them up with other survivors to form a commune. On March 15th, 2085, Norman married Atom in a ceremony put together by their group. They lived peacefully for a time, until Silas found the group two years later, taking control of the commune in his search for more prospective Doombringers. In the beginning, it seemed to them he actually wanted to protect his people.

Silas pulled Atom and Norman into training for his cult, and it was a brutal process. Norman's mentor pulled no punches, harming him when he mistepped, and forcing him to try and try again. A few years later, he killed his own mentor, and that was when he started to follow in Silas's bloodlust. In 2092, After Atom attempted to break away from the Cult, he went after him on Silas's orders. It was in Reno that he beat Atom's mentor to death, and aided in the slaughter of all of Reno's non-mutant population. He left Atom strung up from a telephone pole as a warning to those who would attempt to betray the Mutant King.

### Arc 1: Star Nationals

In February of 2096, Norman came to Oasis on behalf of the Doombringers to work with the Star Nationals in creating a virus to turn people into walking dead. On the 3rd, he was in the basement of the Oasis mall, overseeing the experiments when an explosion tore through the Star National mercenaries in the room behind him. The door proceeded to be thrown from its hinges, and Atom stepped through. Norman revealed himself then, wielding his own nuclear glow stick. He greeted Atom, telling him he was interfering with the Doombringer operation, and there were bigger players involved than he could know. With that, Norman moved on him.

Norman dodged Atom's initial swing, and retaliated with a blinding light that Atom shrugged off. Atom slammed his weapon against Norman, landing a couple blows, before hitting his neck and decapitating him. His body started glowing before collapsing on the ground.

Atom later took his body and buried him outside the walls of Oasis.

### Arc 5: Plague's Servant

On March 16th, Atom showed Addie some of the videos of him and Norman.