Miss Helen

This article is about the character. For the song from Miss Helen's Weird West Cabaret, see Miss Helen (Song).

### Affiliates

Miss Helen's One Pace From Disgraced Cabaret

## Portrayal

### Voiced By

Lauren Osborn

**Miss Helen** is the leader and narrator of *Miss Helen's One Pace from Disgraced Cabaret* and one of the people who were taken by the AIs in a desperate attempt to prevent their future selves from destroying New Albion. Miss Helen plays a major role in The Ballad of Lost Hollowand is voiced by Lauren Osborn.

## Early Years

During the Cabaret performance three of the four characters relate background stories, but these are all fictitious, although with details pulled from their actual backgrounds.

Helen's actual background, which we find our from her sister Shira in Uncle Raven's Super Happy Funtime Carnival is that their mother was gone early and her father became abusive. Shira's account of it gives a clear picture of their father striking Helen nearly regularly. It was in Helen's teenage years that their father stuck Shira. A fight between Helen and the father ensued and in the skirmish Helen stabbed him with a kitchen knife, killing him.

Helen and Shira ran, and ended up on the streets. They took care of each other for some time, Eventually Shira ended up with an abusive boyfriend named Eddie and Helen was kidnapped by the AIs.

In the Cabaret, Helen recollects a difference past. In this one Helen and Shira lived with their mother. Their father had run off at some point and the mother suffered from bipolar type of episodes, sometimes manic and sometimes heavily drepressed. She would talk about a carnival. She disappears by the time the sisters are teenagers and it is heavily implied she ran off to join this carnival.

Shira began to exhibit similar symptoms as her mother, and eventually disappears, presumably to the same carnival. Miss Helen reflects that the day will come when she too will head off towards the carnival music she can occasionally hear in the distance.

## The Ballad of Lost Hollow

### Miss Helen's Weird West Cabaret

*Main article*

AIs placed Helen in a recursive loop variation in which she was the leader of her cabaret group in Lost Hollow. Presumably Helen never really built the cabaret but was given that memory to suit the narrative. She was given a cast of three: Han-Mi, Henry The Alchemist and Hank Hernandez. They all played their parts of the show on a loop over and over again. No one, including Helen, noticed that something was not quite right for a long time.

Han-Mi was the first to notice that something else was controlling the show. This was a part of her flowering as she was a Post-Human. Helen at first dismisses the story and keeps the show going on. Her tragic memories prevent her from seeing that the show is wrong, apparently. The same happens to Henry and Hank, who also suffered losses before the Cabaret.

In a discussion with Han-Mi and Henry, Helen is forced to question the Cabaret but her old premonitions of the Carnival seep in and she warns that the Carnival comes for those who question the truth. Nonetheless, Helen sees that she has no clue who writes the show, who directs it or when the cast rehearses.

Helen calls for someone to speak to the cast. She is soon joined by the rest of the cast, on by one, in calling out. The voice of an AI asks them if they wish to initiate dialogue, but denies the dialogue and terminates the show.

### Uncle Raven's Super Happy Fun Time Carnival

*Main article*

Helen's fears of the Carnival come true as she and the rest of the cast appear trapped in Raven's Carnival. After Raven shows them the grotesque grounds of his prison, he places Han-Mi, Henry and Hank in The Hall of Mirrors to relive their worst feelings.

Raven keeps Helen, assuming she is also a Post-Human and that it was her who broke the loop back in the Cabaret. Raven starts seducing Helen, telling her all the things he could show her if she accepted, but she is reluctant. He then breaks into jealous rants, nearly forcing her to take his help in flowering.

Han-Mi breaks the maze and forces Raven to let Helen go. Raven is in shock at his mistake and realizes it was Han-Mi who was the Post-Human he had been expecting. He lets Helen be, but tells the cast that it was not him who trapped them in the Carnival.

At that moment Hank is revealed to be an AI, whose mind was wiped and who believed he was just a part of the group. Hank tells Helen, Han-Mi and Henry that he will protect them even if it meant from himself. Hank kills himself, the doors from the Carnival open and everyone, including Raven, leaves.

Raven takes the cast out but lets them proceed without him. He runs into Shira in the tunnels, who was looking for Helen. But, Raven takes Shira to the Carnival instead.

### The Grand Cyberpunk Gala of Gabriella Gadfly

*Main article*

When the remaining cast emerges on the other side of the tunnels, Han-Mi and Henry are trapped inside Helen's head in order to prevent them from doing anything that would endanger AIs' plans, and the only way for them to exist in their bodies again would be for Helen to die.

Mary the AI tells Helen that in the future when the AIs lose their last shreds of love and empathy they decide to transform themselves into post-physical beings for which they need large amount of energy and they can only find the source in a nuclear implosion of a city - their target will be New Albion. Mary and the AIs in the present decide to try to concoct a plan to stop themselves from becoming their future selves. Their plan needs to be illogical as their future selves can guess anything they might come up with.

Mary and the AIs plan to tap into the potential of the human collective unconscious, which involves creating a massive form of entertainment media. Their first attempt was not Lost Hollow, but a pre-existing franshise based on a mega-popular series of deceased author Nathan Brindesi. Helen and the cast originally performed an audio broadcast of that story.

In the Gabriella Gadfly story, Helen played the lead, Gabriella Gadlfy, Henry played her side-kick and Han-Mi was once more the villain. The story simply repeated over and over again, which eventually caused Helen extreme stress. However, during the endless repetition, Han-Mi deviated from the plot by flirting with Helen, their interactions growing more heated as the loop went on. The loop broke Helen's mind. The AIs attempted to restore her by wiping her memories, which are now restored.

The return of Helen's memories is not a good thing. Helen can no longer bear the weight of all that has happened, but can free Han-Mi and Henry with her death. She sings an aria, declares her love for Han-Mi, and kills herself.

### Fairypunk Trilogy

Helen was reincarnated into Jane the Cyborg, as was revealed in the third album of the series. Han had been narrating the fairypunk trilogy with the main goal to give her lost love a long and wonderful life where she would be loved so very much.

## Personality and Traits

Helen was presumably an exemplary child. Even in the worst of times, she took care of her younger sister and was a great student at school, not letting it suffer because of her family problems. Even when she killed her father, Helen was doing a heroic thing and protecting her sister from entering the life Helen had already experienced.

She was a friendly type of boss when she believed she owned a cabaret. She had a good relationship with all the cast members even if it at times appeared that she was annoyed by Han-Mi's tendencies to stray from the script. Helen was supportive of Henry, who appeared as a nervous performer insecure in his skills.

Helen's life is a tragic one, but she willingly sacrificed herself in the end to give Henry and Han, who she was in love with, a chance to escape.

Han-Mi was so devastated after Helen's death that she was not able to keep fighting. All she could do after weeping over Helen's body was manipulate the narrative to convince Henry to adopt his alter-ego and fight the AIs.

## Trivia

* Helen does not play piano in the cabaret, as the music is performed by the Teddy Bear Band, but she can play the piano
* There is a Gabriella Gadfly shirt, hoodie, and poster in the official merch shop, featuring art by EcstaticNek