Helen Hill

**Helen Hill** was a participant in the First Nonary Game.

## Appearance

Helen is an attractive looking woman with a build of about 5’9” and of average weight. Although she’s begun to develop wrinkles around her eyes and mouth, she wears enough layers of foundation that she remains quite youthful looking, at least during her typical workday. She has hazel eyes and long, dyed auburn hair that she generally ties up in a ponytail with a small black ribbon. According to her, she keeps it long because, “Only old women cut their hair.” She usually wears business or professional looking attire, with a preference for skirts as short as she can get away with. Her ears are pierced, and she often wears jewelry that looks more expensive than what she herself can afford.

## Personality

Helen is a bit cheeky, having a rather juvenile sense of humor for a woman her age. She also happens to be rather flirtatious, more frequently with men, but also at times with women. She's presumptuous, in the sense that she’s quick to judge others and once she develops an opinion on someone it won’t change. Also, she's rather snooty upon first meeting someone, yet oddly warm to those whose company she comes to enjoy. She can be manipulative if she needs to be, and from her perspective, her controlling behavior is always for “the greater good." She has a tendency to overshare, but leaves out just enough details of her personal life to avoid being chastised or fired. Despite these qualities that benefit her in her working life, however, it is important to note that she lacks a level of intelligence to work her way out of certain circumstances, usually relying on her "charms" rather than brains.

## Backstory

Her childhood was uneventful. She was salutatorian of her high school and voted “Most likely to never get married.” She went to an average college, and got average grades. After she graduated, she joined an insurance company in a lowly position, but through determination, slowly moved through the ranks. She’s stepped over a lot of people to become the boss, but she doesn’t feel very remorseful about it. She’s seen many employees come and go, but one that sticks out in her memory is Gin Laghari. He’d listen to her whining, and seemed to genuinely care about what she was talking about— at least, from her perspective. He was the type of person who she would've assisted in raising through the ranks, and she almost seemed to take on an older sister or motherly role to him. She also liked how he shared a first name with one of her favorite types of alcohol. She hasn’t found another assistant since his departure, and mourns the fact that no one can make coffee quite like Gin.

## The First Nonary Game

**SOON**

After the events of the Nonary game, Helen Hill resigned from her position at the insurance company. Despite her career being the key part of her motivation for escaping, she was unable to cope with the fact that her ex-employee, Gin, died because of her own failure to convince him to escape.

Having few friends and little family in the outside world that she remained on good terms with, Helen lived in the seclusion of her own home for many, many years. She survived off of the money she'd previously been saving for a new home, a sports car, and her long wish list of plastic surgeries. While living as a hermit, Helen developed an issue with hoarding, collecting items from the roadside and picking up stray animals whenever she saw them. She felt a deep need to nurture after losing Gin, and the material objects and animals distracted her from her nagging guilt of, in a way, betraying the only person who seemed to value her.

Eventually, Helen’s home was foreclosed on and, by that time, she had moved into an assisted living facility. In her old age, she ultimately took her own life by refusing to take her medication and refusing to treat her kidney failure caused by her alcoholism.

## Trivia

* She likes to catfish old men with pictures of younger, more attractive women on dating apps.
* She's a femdom.
* Helen names the majority of the cats she hoards after Gin.