| Mask: Helena is tall woman with a slender build and legs that seem to go on forever, pretty much exactly the kind of appearance that makes people think someone looks like they could be a model -- which she was. She has striking eyes of a blue so pale it's almost silver, with dark limbal rings that make them stand out even more, especially in contrast to her night-dark hair. The one other remarkable thing about her eyes is that they never seem to focus on or follow anything going on around her, unseeing as they are, despite the fact that she seems well aware of everything going on around her.
Mien: This long-limbed woman looks like something out a fable, a half-bat half-human woman almost six feet in height. Her skin, where skin is bare and not covered by a silky layer of fine faintly red-tinged black fur, is a dark and stony grey in color. Her face is set with beady eyes of solid black over a short muzzle filled with sharp teeth, and a pair of oversized ears that swivel toward the nearest sound peek from the longer, glossy black hair that tops her head. Her long and delicate looking fingers are webbed to the first knuckle and tipped with small claws, ones that seem more suited to gripping than to being weaponized.
Mantle: Helena's mantle carries the sounds of fluttering wings and the passing shadows of bats, occasional eerie lights like will-o'-the-wisps, and a soft breeze that sometimes sounds like it's carrying whispered words. It also carries a sensation like the prickling feeling that sometimes comes with being watched.
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- Little Fox - I hope you disappeared for better reasons than I did.
- Simone Gratz - My cousin and one of my best childhood friends.
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- Fashion: Helena might have gotten her entry into the world of fashion through modeling but her passion has always been design, which she has a clear talent for. Her modeling career was as short as her rise as a designer has been meteoric. When she didn't show up at a fashion show and was missing for nearly two weeks, only to show up at a Paris hospital disoriented and suddenly blind, there was speculation about whether that career was cut tragically short. Those concerns proved unfounded, as her work has continued to wow the industry in the two years since the sudden loss of her sight.
- Connected: All kinds of people are eager to be Helena's client, which means she has an easy time getting her foot in a lot of doors. She has a knack for getting people to talk, good at poking around without being noticed, and supremely talented at getting people to assume she's harmless, which means she has a talent for getting information, or other things, from sources other people cannot.
- Old Money: Helena's extensive family is old money in Philly, so if she doesn't know someone important around town there's a good chance someone in her family does, or that her family's name might open some doors.
- Activist: A lot of things concern Helena in the modern world, and she does her best to do something about it. This ranges from ensuring that her work is produced as ethically as possible, all the way up and down the supply chain, to being outspoken for the rights of marginalized communities whether she belongs to them or not. She's no stranger to scandal, but so far usually in a way that supports the saying that all press is good press.
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| Legal Name:
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Helena Gratz
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| Birth:
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May 1st, 1993
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| Nationality:
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American
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| Apparent Age:
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~30
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| Height:
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5'10"
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| Seeming:
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Darkling
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| Kith:
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Lullescent
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| Court:
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Autumn
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| Public Effects:
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S.Looks (Conventional Beauty) 2
Fame (Fashion) 3
Status (A&E) 3
Status (High Society) 2
Status (Unions) 1
Trained Observer 3
Acute Senses 1
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| Court Role:
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Ranger of the Thorns
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| Motley:
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None
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| Keeper:
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The Naturalist
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