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Character Basics:

Character Name: Helen Magnus
Journal: daredtobelieve
Age: 162
Fandom: Sanctuary
Canon Point: 3x1 with CR AU
Debt:

GRAND TOTAL: 7500

A mixture of assault, kidnapping, treason. Helen has lived a VERY long life and does whatever it takes to get the job done and take care of her Abnormals. She will break laws… and often does. Sorry, I am the worst rough estimator but you love me right???

Canon Character Section:

History: here

Personality: Helen is quite multi-faceted, which can be expected from all of her years lived. In her time, she has been a daughter, a student, a friend, a lover, a mother, an employer, a therapist, a doctor, a savior, and so much more. Juggling her various roles has given Helen the ability to move fluidly through a variety of emotions at a moment's notice.

She's incredibly intelligent, and seems to only grow more curious and eager to explore the world around her as she grows older. As a young girl, Helen idolized her father, a surgeon and scientist whose work Helen would later continue for many years to come. Even while he tried to shelter her from his work, not wanting to drag her into the ridicule that he received from the scientific community, Helen couldn’t help but hunger to learn everything that she could. She refused to let her curiosity be limited by Victorian gender roles and sat in on courses at Oxford, continuing her education against all odds.

There's a sense of authority that seems to just exude from her, causing others close to her to easily fall in line behind her command. She can be forceful, when pressed, but prefers to take a more diplomatic approach to conflict in most cases. You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, sure, but that doesn’t mean that you have to ruin the whole dozen. Helen tries to balance her various forms of power as much as she can. Exploiting the connections she has forged within various government agencies is not something likes to do, but will, if pushed into a corner. Likewise, while she is perfectly capable with a weapon, she values life enough to execute plenty of control.

Her compassion for all life is one of the key reasons she continues to expand the Sanctuary Network, in hopes of one day making life more pleasant for humans and abnormals - and to hopefully allow them to co-exist someday. Helen’s work and likewise her own life is grounded in the core belief that all things have the right to live a full life. Because of this, she shelters those people and creatures that might be subjected to scrutiny in the common world, while also protecting the world from the more dangerous species that the world is not ready for.

In her personal life, Helen can be humorous and caring, mothering to those that she has raised - whether they be of her blood or not. She jokes when the time is right for it, or other times to break tension. Her heart is guarded, though - as she has been hurt in varying ways by those closest to her. Her once-fiancé John Druitt became the serial killer Jack the Ripper, running into a dark life instead of taking her offered help. Her daughter Ashley was corrupted by her enemy, the Cabal, and turned into a weapon used against her. Ashley died because of these actions, and Helen lost a part of herself with her daughter. The members of her team who remain are now part of what keeps her in the here and now, as she focuses quite strongly on keeping them safe.

Powers/Abilities: Due to an experiment in her youth with a source of pure vampiric blood, Helen has been granted the gift of longevity. While it is uncertain if she ages at all, she certain ages extremely slowly. She can be wounded and killed just like any normal human, but if she is left unharmed, she will carry on and on- and has for over a century. She’s extremely scholarly and has acquired multiple degrees in fields (including an MD, as well as degrees in crypto-zoology and xenobiology). She’s also well versed in self-defense. Helen can fight hand-to-hand, use firearms, and improvise weapons.

Appearance:

CR AU

Game You’re Transferring CR from: beyondtherift logs from the game can be found here

How has your character changed from their canon self? Helen learned great deal about herself in Chicago, mostly in that she can always rebuild. She started in the city with nothing, no connections, no clout. But in the two years that she lived there, she rebuilt her legacy. She created another Sanctuary, built connections in the city’s police force. She made powerful friends who came to her aid when she needed them. While her Sanctuary Network may have started as her father’s idea, his brain child, it was truly hers now. She also learned how deeply family means to her. After adopting a young woman in the city, Kali, she had to face her fears with motherhood and her previous failure in losing her daughter Ashley. It helped her open her heart, which also helped her accept the love of a man, Sonny. Sadly, they were torn apart by the world’s end and thus she finds herself now in Teleios struggling to reconcile that pain.

Are they gaining any abilities from their time in game? Did the game setting take something from them? Her stay in Chicago in Beyond the Rift also granted her an ability to split into two distinct versions of herself (one motherly and compassionate, one focused and methodical).

Samples:

Actionspam Sample: here - not from her BTR days but it is my most recent endeavor with playing with her voice again! I think it shows a good range of her personality. Let me know if you need something else.

Prose Sample: Helen says goodbye to the man she loves