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Name/Work Name: Helios Sprensonne | Huang

Canon: Original Character

Canon Point: Just after the demon attack on the castle

AU/CRAU: Yes: After he leaves Luceti.

Age: 36


History:


Helios was born in America on December 15th 1978, but he is Romanian. His parents were living in America at the time, having moved back there since the Communist regime and not wanting to raise their children there because of it. Throughout much of his schooling in America Helios and Nero were taught English in school but also Romanian, by their parents, and Helios and Nero’s relationship was a bit rocky but not as bad as it would become. They studied magic and its properties under their parent’s teachings and were only allowed to use it at home. However the time finally came for the Sprensonne’s to move back to Romania after the 1989 Revolution and that is when both Helios and Nero’s parents re-opened the academy. Helios and Nero used to get along quite well as they both practiced magic together under their parent’s supervision and teachings. Nero however perceived himself to always be shadowed by Helios. Helios was a quicker learner, quicker to understand and memorize and thus gained much more light in his parent’s eyes, or at least that is what Nero thought to be true. The first stone was cast by this and it was throughout most of their time in primary school, which created the now present day fissure between the two brothers.

It soon came time for Helios and his brother Nero to attend Sprensonne Academy but not under their parents, who were supposed to be the Headmaster and Mistress, but a family friend took the position for them as they moved back to America to deal with other business matters. Throughout that time in school Nero was supposed to be taking care of Helios since he was the older of the two but he merely abused Helios for that long period of time, and thus formed the many phobias and psychological problems which now plague Helios in the present. Helios never attacked back because they were brothers and he was a bit more innocent than Nero. He never wanted to hurt Nero no matter what and that’s because of his pure heart and selfless disposition. He never told anyone about the things Nero did to him which created a rather large void in Helios often leaving him wondering why Nero hated him so much.

After their parents deaths Sprensonne Academy closed once again and it was deemed to stay that way forever. Helios went off to college in hopes of becoming a psychologist while Nero wanted nothing else to do with magic; his grudges and hatred making him forget his magical blood entirely and he basically shut Helios and everything in Romania out of his life for good. Nero returned to America where he joined the military and eventually became an FBI agent. Whereas in college Helios was more or less withdrawn and kept to himself most of the time, still unable to break the psychological strain and abuse Nero had instilled in him. Until of course he met Varron Capinello who would become his roommate and best friend for the next several years. Unwillingly Helios accidental showed Varron his magic one day having thought the other was at class. Varron approached Helios about the subject and Helios was honestly terrified about this and wasn't sure how to keep the other from talking. Because having yourself outed in a place surrounded by normal people was very bad. But Varron was taken with the information and he never thought for once that magic could actually exist. He and Helios talked about it for hours on end and this is where Helios' field studies of belief creating and bringing things into actual existence via the minds of others came to spawn from. Obviously this hypothesis would be claimed to be ludicrous by many of his colleagues and professors. So Helios took it upon himself and he set off back to to prove his theories right. He therefore re-opened Sprensonne Academy once again a plan of action in full swing for the middle-aged man as his dreams soon to come full circle.

Helios is the 19th generation of his family’s lineage (basing this off of generations being 20 years minimum) and therefore his magical growth and knowledge exceeds that of his ancestors by a ten-fold. Magic grows with each passing and with proper use and refinement. Helios receiving all those is now one of the most powerful magicians in his time period. Helios will use his power to make the subtle changes to the school over time for its final and current re-opening. Helios retook the school back with his True Light, Elise, be his side and with modifications towards curriculum and those who attend the school he soon re-opened it under the true founders bloodline of Sprensonne.

Before the actual school’s reopening Helios was engaged to Elise Gaita a woman who was part dryad and whom he had met in college. It was typically common for magical families to marry into one another, especially in this world, and the reasoning behind it was the mixture of magical attributes would pass over to the children giving them both powers of each parent and thus making powerful witches and wizards. Sometimes they even allowed the mixing of mythological creatures with humans as well. They would be half-breeds but extremely long living and more powerful than the regular human magician. Despite their halfbreed nature they were not persecuted against and were actually accepted with open arms in many cases and many turned into fine instructors for magic. Elise had a very big part in healing the wounds inflicted upon Helios from Nero's years of abuse. She helped him cope and seek out help for his stuttering, to which in the present no longer remains and only crops up from time to time. But she also helped him devise and plan the opening of Sprensonne Academy with the intent to garner an understanding and to rekindle the mutual relationship between mythologies and humans. Seeing Elise have to hide herself in public, whether it's by wearing a wig or even dying her green hair, made Helios come to realize that outwardly appearances shouldn't be taken into consideration when it came to myths. He also found this out by Elise taking him to visit many of her family's acquaintances which were mythologies and Helios having no prior connection or interaction with them wanted to help in any way possible. It was here that he began to gain a small following of sorts in the realms of mythologies, and his ideas spread rather quickly to the other families. However the Magic Council at the time didn't realize what one of their soon to be members was doing. It was only after Elise's death that they realized Helios was consorting with mythica and that wasn't very tasteful in the magicking community simply because they, as mythologies, were different and much too powerful. The Magic Council feared them and therefore alienated them or gave them menial jobs to which they could only rise up in the ranks so much. There is a very apparent rift between mythologies and magicians for this reason and Helios was trying to be the final mediator between the three (humans, magicians, and mythologies) with his school.

Elise was what they call Helios’ “True Light” a term quite commonly used in the magical underground world. True lights are specifically limited to magical individuals simply because their magical wavelengths and souls affect one another in such a way that they create a perfect union between the two. It meant that both spouses are so perfectly bound and intertwined to one another’s souls that it is nearly impossible to separate or break them; a perfect match if you will. Of course, such bonding and soul sharing can be problematic and dangerous. If either one was to die, the other's soul would essentially be damaged; this damage meant a cessation of any and all ability to feel romantic love or desire ever again, as well as a host of other problems.

It was the night of their engagement party, September 10th 2005, when the life altering event occurred. In the attempts to summon a lower leveled mythical being Helios accidentally gained the attention of Apep the Egyptian god. The powerful bond between him and Elise drew its attention and it quickly went after her pure soul and dryad powers. Apep was being targeted and battling a dragon god known as E-Mun Ra and therefore it was highly injured and barely alive; this opportunity was one in a million and it merely took all the chances it could to regain its strength by feasting on such a pure and powerful soul.

Suffice to say it possessed Elise ate her soul and the subsequent effects that happen changed Helios’s life forever. The fact that her soul was tainted left him tainted as well. But beyond that since Apep was killed by E-Mun Ra before he could devour Helios' soul that taint is actually the remnants of Apep residing within Helios' soul from Elise being possessed. This knowledge however has yet to be divulged to Helios by Ra, who isn't quite sure if that is the case. Since Helios and Elise were true lights to one another in rare occurrences like this if damage is done to either one of their souls it would harm the other. In most cases the other half usually dies alongside the other a few months or even years afterwards since the strain is far too great on the other half. This is wha makes True Lights a very controversial subject in recent times. Due to what happens Helios loses all the heat from his body and an intense cold now envelopes him. In present day if you were to touch him this still holds true he feels more like a corpse than anything and cold temperatures affect him less than they usually would. People with the ability to see auras can easily sense and see the tainted presence about him, it looks like a black writhing cloud to those with the ability to perceive souls.

E-Mun Ra protected Helios by killing Apep once and for all but he was unable to revive Elise or reverse the effects on Helios. In return for the dragon god saving his life Helios gave the other a temporary form, via illusionary magics, which he could safely reside with humans in until Ra had regained enough strength to hold the human form on his own. Since Ra could no longer return to his plane of existence, his power much too drained from the battle, this was the god's only option. This began their odd, but mutual, friendship between man and god.

Wrought with distress at losing his soul mate and the only love of his life Helios almost killed himself, this was only propagated by the trial which followed after her death. The Magic Council found out about what happened to Elise, since Helios was about to be inducted into the Council as the youngest member in over fifty years. They used this as a perfect example of what happens when you consort and aid mythologies, Helios' distress and tragedy was broadcasted publicly and he was forever shamed and humiliated for it. Once they learned of Helios' transgressions to which there were multiple such as: summoning, black arts, as well as the endangering of one's true light (an offense that is punishable by death), Helios was sentenced to death. Nero stopped the process by barging in on Helios' trial and saying that allowing him to live would be a better punishment, a better way for people to see what happens. Thus Helios was allowed to live and to endure his crimes alone; he was subsequently ostracized from the magicking community as a whole and any learning magicians were not permitted to attend his school.

Back at the school after the trial Helios tried to take his own life but Varron, his friend from college, saw that was about to happen. Varron talked him out of doing it, asking him if this would be the path Elise truly wanted him to take. Helios knew it wasn't and that it would be wrong for him to take such a path, after having so many mythologies confide and support him, and now the only way to continue living would be in her memory which would be in the form of the academy. Helios didn't want forget Elise's death and so he re-opened the academy despite Varron pleading for him to come back to America. Helios declined saying that there was more to be done and that he would not let Elise's life go to waste. He would never forget her, ever, and the school would be in her memory as well as their joined dream of a peaceful world where myths and humans could live together in harmony.

Before opening the school Helios conducted a series of long experiments with the Mirage Ring using Ra as his guinea pig much to the others stubborn chagrin. These experiments took around a year to complete and the Academy was opened in September 2007 despite the turmoil and hardships Helios was going through; he wouldn't back down and learned to smother his grief by keeping himself occupied and busy. The Mirage Ring was created by Helios through subtle combinations of two differing spells. Helios calls this a îngemăna. This type of, new world magic as Helios calls it, allows him to take two different spell sigils, one for cloaking and one for spacial dimension altering, and then combine them to form the key properties of the Mirage Ring. The ring's properties allowed it to cloak a supernatural beings true form with a human figure; in the trial periods it usually lead to many a disaster and the dragon god getting much of the brunt of the failed experiment.

After perfecting the ring’s abilities Helios re-opened the school and this time it was truly different from anything seen before. Sprensonne now housed human students and mythological creatures otherwise known as Mythica. This naturally got the attention of the Magic Council and they tried to stop the opening of such a place, but when you have lots of powerful mythological creatures backing an institution you know when to back down. And so begrudgingly Sprensonne Academy re-opened with the Council and the magic community having no part of it whatsoever. The help from the mythica gave Helios the strength and courage he needed to go through with his plans and dreams, despite the humiliation and exhaustion he went through because of all this. He would be strong for Elise, for the mythica and even for the humans to whom his school would soon represent. He would try to start a new age of living in the underground world an age that he hoped would surface with good results and intentions.

In the Academy myths and humans both co-exist and interact with one another in a way that the more humans began to believe in certain myths the more they will be able to see their true forms beyond even the Mirage Ring's powers. Also this belief allows humans to access certain myth's dorms of the castle should they wish to. This occurrence that was being seen by Helios made him coin term Legame di Credenza or Bond of Belief. Things were going surprisingly well and as September approached so did the turbulent school year.

The first incident occurred when evil remnants of Apep resurfaced, creating a living manifestation of the fear, darkness, and loneliness within the hearts of all those within the school’s grounds it called itself Absscheulich. Unable to stop it Helios was beaten and the creature escaped after it rendered even E-Mun Ra powerless. It broke the blood seal created by Helios and placed in the basement’s summoning chamber where Apep was first encountered all those years ago and sure enough it opened four different rifts in time. Splitting into four separate entities Absscheulich tried to regain more power by gathering holy artifacts of time periods long since passed. It was successfully stopped by Helios and his varying mythical student body compatriots.

After such an incident it was, for a majority of time, peaceful and quiet but all good things must come to an end and sure enough they did. This time, however, the catalyst to the event took place in a world similar to Earth but it was different. The world which herald this new incident was called Amnesia and everything in it was reversed. The “Mirror World” incident as it was labeled to all those who remembered it occurred on a rather normal school day, or as normal a school day as Sprensonne could have. The stabilizing super computer AVISS (Advanced Visual Imagining Synchros System) sensed a fracture in Amnesia’s plane of existence at approximately 10:10am on a Thursday morning in November 2009. The subsequent event led to all the mirrors on Earth to fissure and open. The Helios in Earth’s plane heard the warning given to Amnesia’s Helios (who was given the title of Mirror!Helios) in his own plane, since the two are constants in both their worlds, meaning that Helios and Mirror!Helios’ species did not change and they were both human magicians. Because of this they both now shared a mental link with the AVISS system which is in layman ’s terms is a super computer that was built by Mirror!Helios to see every corner of the Earth via a psychic link. Helios from Earth used this to his advantage in finding his opposite and they both met with less than kind words.

Basically the world which Helios and his students came from was switched entirely in Amnesia; demons in Earth’s plane of existence were angels in Amnesia’s and so on and so forth. The only continuing constants were Helios and his Amnesia counter self and also much to Helios’s surprise Elise was alive in that world. The reason for this is because Amnesia was actually a world created out of one of the infinite possibilities of Elise dying on Earth. Elise's continued existence in Amnesia tore at Helios as he went to try and stop his Mirror self from destroying Earth permanently to save his own world. The two worlds colliding with one another left each in a deadly imbalance, with cataclysmic results to follow, since they both now existed in the same plane one would have to be destroyed for the other to exist. The zodiac stones which were precious, holy, objects of Amnesia had the power to right the rift between both worlds and seal them off for good or potentially destroy one world leaving the other to exist. Thus Helios and his fellow coworkers raced against time to stop Mirror!Helios from obtaining the stones. Safe to say Mirror!Helios reached the final stone before Helios and from his castle, which was situated in the worldly capital of New York, was Mirror!Helios about to destroy Earth once and for all. The AVISS system was hooked up and ready to go the sequence merely needing the flick of a switch and the ample magical input from the stones was all that was needed to breach the rift and cause Earth to be consumed and lost forever.

Helios turned the tides when he sealed his other self’s powers however he was very tempted to take Elise back to his world with him; though he felt it inhumane to take that which his mirror self could truly cherish. Helios knew that his Mirror!self would do anything in his power to get Elise back and that the war between the two worlds would only escalate and many more would be hurt by Helios’ selfish actions. But beyond that Helios feared that if he had taken Elise back with him that he would ruin it again somehow and end up hurting or killing her in some way yet again. Both of these fears propelled him to take action and do that which he so unwillingly wanted to do. So even against Elise’s own wishes to come back with him he sealed the other world, with help from varying Mythica, back in its own plane so that nothing like that would ever happen again. Heart throbbing with losing his loved one a second time before his eyes he told Elise to take care of him in that world…and that perhaps he could be happy there in a place where he had not killed her.

The return trip back to Earth was the end of that debacle and fortunately neither of the two worlds were destroyed. Only minimal damage was done to Earth and as usual a mind wiping spell was conducted by Helios to all humans who had seen the event occur. The mind wipe spell left Helios rather…exhausted for what it was worth, that spell being rather powerful.
He recovered but it took a little over a month to do so, so all throughout December, and because of his weakened state Helios' protection spells around the castle were also weakened as well. It was a blistering cold night in January 2010, just after the New Year, when everyone was returning for the second term when a group of vagabond demons took control of the school. Their mission was to kill its headmaster, Helios, for they had heard from tales long since passed that beneath the castle is a wonderful mass of pure magical energy (the ley line of legend) and that with one taste one can become an extremely powerful individual. The legend is partially true, most of the headmasters are just mere shadow beings that help warn Helios when something is amiss on the school grounds, and they are all in fact the past headmasters and their wives as well. The Academy is a living entity in and of itself. But what the demons did not know is that if the headmaster is to die without properly closing the school down for good, via the blood seal, or without declaring a proper heir the castle itself will fall to ruin.

It was a battle to regain control and to regain power over the one thing he had worked so hard to keep alive. Too much was at stake but in his condition Helios was left extremely vulnerable and he was ultimately captured and would have been executed had it not been for several of his students. The demons were pushed back with the help of the angelic students and with it everything returned to normal once again. Helios was finally able to regain his full strength, and the new semester started with much of a buzz but that was just daily routine in Sprensonne Academy.

And then he was dragged into Luceti.


Personality:


Helios is an eccentric man on first appearances. He’s quite friendly and he'll usually open up and speak with anyone if given the chance. However the amount of information he'll divulge to any one individual is hard to say. He works with age groups from high school and onward...as you can imagine not many of his students are teenagers at all. The fact that he works with mythical beings far wiser than himself has made him a bit too wise and a bit too knowledgeable for his own good. Also his time studying psychology has also made him genuinely knowledgeable about people's states of mind, but he doesn't really default to that knowledge and he hasn't put it to use in a rather long time. The basics are there but the fundamental teachings he acquired through college are lost to an extent. He does however have a very bad way with technology and is completely oblivious to it at times. Something like how geniuses lack all common sense only you can apply Helios with technology.


He is the headmaster of a highly prodigious school for humans and mythical creatures. Helios’s dream is solely embedded into this school and he becomes absorbed and focused on it entirely. He sacrificed too to not continue on with his aspirations, it is also for Elise’s sake that he does this and hopes to see his and her dreams come to fruition.


Whimsical, open-minded, carefree and wise for a man his age, being only 32, Helios is an expert in his field: Folklores. He’s seen things most humans could only dream about and it was, is, his goal to allow humans and myths to coexist together. Despite his inner mindset of being rather pained and hurt Helios appears outwardly normal to most. His whimsical nature and absentmindedness stem from his own coping methods. Keeping himself busy and putting on a face of happiness in front of others to make them not worry about him is what Helios typical defaults to when it comes to strangers and people he doesn't know. However inwardly he is quite a mess but he has learned how to mask it and make it so that many people would hardly ever even think that he's been abused in the past this and Helios' self-destructive personality is the main reason for this.


He has then been exposed to many supernatural and inhuman events dangerous and harmless so such things will not be as taxing or as shocking to him as most would think, actually he might find them to be interesting and amazing in all honesty. One thing that really makes him tense though is violence. Helios despise violence, with good reason, and he never really jumps to the conclusion of having to use his powers, and most of the time he tries to settle disputes with reason and talking out the differences first. He’s seen far too much violence in his life and he hates it when enemies and friends alike are hurt.


Then there is also his serious side. Which from time to time you can and will see when there are problems or crises that need to be dealt with. He can also be somewhat of a joker and he does have a playful side to him as well. Teasing Max or people he’s close with for example, even making terrible jokes he knows aren’t funny.


He tends to get very excited about food and his ever apparent sweet tooth isn't proof of this, there's also the fact that he gets easily excited over some of the most pointless things especially holidays like Halloween and Christmas.


His extreme thirst for knowledge and curiosity about all things supernatural or weird helps fuel his absentminded, eccentric, outward appearance. There really isn’t anything he wouldn’t want to learn when it comes to other cultures and this is also fueled by his ever apparent open-minded personality.


Helios is, unfortunately, also plagued with a myriad of internal problems. The psychological trauma inflicted upon him in the younger years of his life made him very hard to get close to, but Varron, Elise and even in a sense Ra has as well. He will befriend those around him, and talk to them as if they were his own. But it is few and far between the people who he speaks to about his abuse and the past that riddles the darker aspects of his life. Helios also is all too willing to sacrifice himself for others wellbeing, never taking into account his own weaknesses and limits, which is a major and dangerous flaw in his personality. He often sees himself as undeserving when it comes to others friendships and wanting to help him, which is why he keeps people at a distance and is often surprised when people ask about his healthy or wellbeing. Nero ingraining the fact that he killed his own soul mate and could quite possibly kill anyone who ever got close to him again only fueled Helios’ self-destructive personality.


His years spent with his brother being abused and harmed by someone who was his own blood; and this has caused him to lose faith in himself and anyone who tried to get close to him. Plagued with multiple defined phobias such as: aphephobia and avoiding being alone in darkened rooms Helios is anything but mentally solid. But he knows what his own mental demeanor and make-up is like and instead of talking about his problems he knows how to hide them very well. It’s not until when Elise, his fiancée, comes into his life that those prominent debilitating fears dissipate for a short time. She helped him get over his speech impediment, stammering, something caused by Nero along with the multiple phobias. By going with him to a speech therapist and working with Helios as well to get his stammering to a controlled level. Elise, being his true light, essentially helped Helios recover from many of his fears and even emboldened him to a point where he could safely say he was…confident in himself. But the stammer does come back from time to time, especially since Elise’s death, when situations he’s in are very stressful or he is simply very uncomfortable in them.


It was soon after Elise’s death that many of his symptoms returned along with now a debilitating belief of self-doubt. To accompany that he also has some form of survivor’s guilt which is a mental condition where the survivor of a traumatic event blames themselves for the death of someone close to them. In this case it's Helios blaming himself for Elise’s death. He mostly deals with this by setting up the academy and trying to help people to a stunning degree by putting in as much as he can into doing whatever possible for them. His absentmindedness and whimsical nature were both products of a way for him to cope and that's simply become a method of coping for him in the future.


Also his lack of interest in any other female is due to the fact that Elise was his undeniable soul mate and he lost all of those romantic feelings for the opposite sex. This paints the picture of him not wanting to be in another relationship, and he's something of a lonely man; but also fueling this is his thought process of not being deserving of such things after killing Elise. You could say he’s emotionally apathetic when it comes to the idea of sex and romance in general, albeit he knows when females are hitting on him and thus this makes him awkward usually because he can't exactly explain his situation to people without lying outright.


In regards to his symptoms; they are not as overpowering as before, due to the help of mostly Elise, Varron and Ra, but never has Helios gone to a psychologist for his problems directly and therefore he still sometimes lapses into shaking, flinching (when people get close or try to touch him especially at his tension points: arms, wrists and shoulders), and being plagued by nightmares about the night of Elise’s death. Mere thoughts or visions can and will make them resurface at full force.


It is really only in the presence of his older brother that he shows any sort of recollection or continuity of these fears. More often than not he is normal and hardly feels the need to tell anyone about his problems mainly because he feels himself to be a burden. Because of past abuse, both mental and physical, Helios never really attributes himself to being anything great even though offhandedly he knows he’s an amazingly powerful magician; he’ll simply brush it off as being somewhat good but that there are others out there who are better. Safe to say one of the most modest people you’ll ever meet.


However Helios' time in Luceti has changed him quite drastically. He no longer fears forming friendships with people around him and he no longer denies himself some forms of comfort, which come from having people close. Also touching, which has been a very difficult task for him to do given his cold skin and being called a monster for having it also because of the physical abuse he endured, he has been able to actually give those he's close with hugs or even offer hands to help people when they needed it. It's a milestone in his personality really that he finally trusts people who are close enough to him to be able to give and receive (albeit with still some flinching, tentativeness and minor twitches here or there) such actions.


Helios most importantly has learned how to open up and talk to people about his problems and his past. He no longer hides his emotions when he has his bad days and he’s able to talk more about what’s bothering him instead of just bottling it up inside him. He’s made so much progress that he’s even told people about Elise and two or three people about Nero. This is a clear sign that Helios has grown and made significant headway in his respective burdens. Burdens which he would normally carry by himself but since Luceti has allowed people to get close enough so that they too may help him up when it gets too much to bear. There's also the fact that normally he would never mention magic, mythica or even being able to use such things because in his own world such knowledge would likely get him killed or possibly thrown into an asylum. But with Luceti he's learned quickly that most, if not all, people are used to magic and that he can talk about such things without need to worry.


Also Luceti has given Helios a more realistic mindset towards such things like being taken to another world with no explanation. He obviously will not question it since Luceti has proven a very good introduction into being pulled to other worlds and he honestly won't mind in the least and will naturally be curious, but he will also be more cautious. Helios usually tried to be brightly optimistic about the outcomes to the crazy events that occurred in his own world and in Luceti but such thought process has hit him hard. After all the hardships he's been through in his own world and in Luceti it's hard to keep a bright, optimistic mindset, but Helios keeps trucking because he knows that he needs to be strong for those around him and those he cares about but also for himself as well.


Luceti, and his relationship with Max within Luceti has also given Helios a new start to life. The fact that he is in a relationship with another person, and a man of all things, is a very stark contrast to the man who arrived in Luceti 3 years ago. Helios has learned and known that Elise would never hate him for trying to find happiness and he found happiness in another man, Max. His love for her is unconditional and will never disappear, but he knows that if he never tries to be happy again he never will be. Helios will never, ever, forget Elise but for once in his life he actually believes himself to have the right to be happy. After giving people second chances so many times in his life he can finally accept and grant himself the second chance that he deserved and needed to regain what he's lost all those years in mourning. He still stumbles along the way, as all people in new experience are wont to do. But he's making steady progress in being more happy and content with who he is and letting the past lie, but also not forgetting it either. Helios doesn’t see himself as a man who no longer deserves happiness, but a man who can bring another person happiness as well as bring it to himself and not feel guilt over it. He's determined and proactive in the relationship hoping to not make the same mistakes twice.

Debt: Trying to bring mythologies and humans together in his world.

Previous Game Info:


Helios has been in Luceti for four years now and there are several instances which have changed his person quite drastically.

It's around late August when Helios meets one man in particular, Rupert Giles, who changes and aids Helios quite a bit in their time together in Luceti. Helios and Giles hit it off very well when Giles first arrived and from then on their relationship grew into something like a familial bond.

The next important event which Helios and village go through is Halloween on October 23rd. This experiment in particular was important for Helios because Elise and Nero made appearances via the experiments traits, which people were plagued by the hallucinations of things they feared most. At some point throughout the experiment it will lead Helios and Giles to try to escape the village; however it is moot to try because of the fog. It also leads to Giles slicing up his own arm which in turn makes Helios accidentally mention Nero, during another experiment in November, only solidifying Giles' protectiveness towards the other man.

At some point in November Giles is sent back home and Helios falls into a small depression having lost one of his best friends in Luceti but knowing that such things could always happen. He moves on, yes, but the other is in his thoughts always. January another round of people enter the enclosure one such person being Robert Hastings a scientist from a world known as Terra. He and Helios become rather close in the yearly Valentine's Day experiment. March rolls around and Giles is returned to the village in time for another experiment where people change their species Helios goes unaffected for this but he enjoys talking and speaking with the rest of the villagers in their respective new forms.

April has another important event known as Luceti Valley. Everyone in the enclosure if made to believe they are part of a family and most importantly Helios becomes Giles' brother which, after event ends and remembering who his real brother is, Giles and Helios have a sort unspoken agreement that they are family there in Luceti. The next important thing to happen occurs in a draft, where the people of the town are sent out to fight for the Malnosso against humans with wings known only as the Third Party. In this instance, however, Helios is killed protecting Frederic and Giles from four legged beasts known as shift hunters. He is returned to the village a week later without the ability to read and he goes four months without being able to albeit Giles, Frederic and others circumvent such things by reading to him and the like.

Several more events occur such as Luceti Land which is a theme park in which Helios and Giles go into the hall mirrors against both of their better judgment’s and Helios ends up seeing a future form of himself possessed by Apep. Giles also sees Helios as he was right after Elise's death and is thankful that Helios was stopped from taking his own life. Some more events and drafts occur and then another disaster occurs when Giles dies right before Helios' very eyes trying to protect their mutual friend Robert.

But this Halloween is one of the more significant ones since it's where Giles and Helios attack one another and their relationship is strained to an extraordinary degree. Giles impales Helios hand while wearing a mask which brings out the darker, eviler, side to a person and then afterwards Giles leaves to have his own death penalty removed. Helios manages to get the same mask Giles does and winds up attacking Alice, Ginia's alternate personality, as a means of getting revenge on Giles. While wearing the mask and Giles returning back to village, just as the moon is about to fall upon the town as made obvious by the experiment itself though nothing happens afterwards, Helios goes after Giles equating the other to Nero in his moment of pent up anger, despair, and pain which is brought out by the mask. Helios doesn't kill the other, thankfully, but the resulting day afterwards makes the two's relationship strained especially since Helios attacked Giles' girlfriend, Ginia. This experiment fueled occurrence brings back most of Helios' prior phobias and his flinching and keeping to himself after being injured crops up again. He doesn't tell anyone about what has happened and he still to this day hasn't.

Valentine's Day experiment happens yet again and this time Helios is paired with none other than Alice. The end result has Helios open up to Alice about his scars and that it was his own brother who gave them to him and who he is so very terrified of. Helios begs Alice not to tell anyone for fear of Nero coming to Luceti and finding out.

The next most prominent occurrence that shaped Helios’ time in Luceti was in August 2012 wherein Helios is possessed by the deity resting within his soul, Apep. Apep harmed many people and hurt a good few of Helios’ close friends and their acquaintances in the process. Apep was eventually sealed away by Harry Dresden and Saori Kimura but the damage done was deep. Helios secluded himself from his housemates and deigned to stay in a separate living settlement for some weeks after the initial happenings. Eventually Helios came to accept and understand that he wasn’t at fault, a large and painful process for him to admit to himself, but he was welcomed back with open arms to the house and everyone eventually recovered, if slowly.

The next important event in Helios’ Luceti life was meeting a mage called Max Woodville in January of 2013. Helios didn’t know about Max’s initial infatuation with him and they continued to be good acquaintance all the while. It’s only until Valentine’s Day in February that they slept together and much like Helios’ bout with Alice he told Max everything about Nero and why he couldn’t technically ‘love’ someone. The two had mostly agreed that this wouldn’t be a long standing thing. However on the draft in March 2013 Max unconsciously kissed Helios in the heat of the moment and Rei Hino, one of Helios’ good friends, saw this. After the draft Rei managed to rope both Helios and Max into her shrine and locked it so they both had to stay the night. Helios and Max worked out their issues and both decided to give this relationship a shot. They’ve been happily dating for almost a year now and Helios will be taken the day before Valentine’s day, so Thursday the 13th.


Inventory:

-Mirage Ring (1)
- Spell Compendium


Abilities:

Helios has a myriad of magical capabilities at his disposal. Most of the spells he wields are elemental and lower tiered magic spells that humans created via the larger more powerful mythica spells. There is of course a price paid for the more powerful the spell. Usually extreme exhaustion and even unconsciousness follow depending on the state he is in, he is only human after all, and even lower leveled spells if used consecutively can dampen and lower his stamina. Therefore he tends to not use such spells unless drastic times call for equally drastic measures. Here’s a list of spells he can use.

Helios can summon creatures with the right sigils as well. Sigils are a sort of fingerprint for summoning mythologies and you have to have the right sigil in order to summon a specific mythology. Helios also dabbles in something he calls a îngemăna. This type of new world magic as Helios calls it allows him to take two different spell sigils, ie: one for cloaking and one for spacial dimension altering (it’s kinda like the TARDIS where it can make small spaces bigger on the inside and he’s used it before in his castle), and then combine them to form an entirely new spell, the mirage ring for example.


Strengths, and Weaknesses:


Strengths:

Helios is one of the most high ranking powerful alchemist and magicians in his world. He can summon gods, demons, and angels if he so desired. However here in Luceti that power is completely cut off something which will probably perplex him. His spells range from the most simplistic easily used spells, like a simple flick of the wrist creating fire, to those that mythical creatures use and are considered extremely hard to control and even have enough stamina to use. His time in Luceti has also boosted his physical endurance as well as his ability to wield weaponry. He’s pretty decent with a sword now and he’s even got some experience with a bow.

Mentally our headmaster is quite wise, well rounded, and hardly judges anyone on first time appearances. He’s very open-minded but that’s not to say he’s naive in any regards. Helios knows when people are trying to trick him, he works with tricksters and all sorts of creatures that use such tactics so don’t expect him to be easily fooled. He speaks very proper as well, minding his words so as not to offend anyone, or thing, mythical creatures are quite touchy sometimes.

He has a sunny disposition most of the time never really one for pessimism despite all he’s been through. Helios can really brighten up anyone’s day if you let the man get to know you. He’s clear headed and never really gets frazzled by odd things happening around him.

Weaknesses:

Despite the power Helios has he’s still just a human, no other way about it. Therefore he gets easily tired and the physical tax of upper level spells has on his body sometimes drains him to complete exhaustion. Hence the reason as to why he doesn’t use his powers all that frequently. He still requires sustenance and is easily hurt should you manage to graze him. All in all he is not infallible and sometimes his disregard of his own limits puts him at more of a risk than his foes.

He has a lot of mental weakness our dear headmaster. Regardless of what it seems like Helios is far from perfect and even he lacks knowledge in certain things. Like technology, current fads and such. He's a bit old school for the modern times mostly due to his magical upbringing never really requiring him to use a cell phone or any such gadgetry. He tends to babble and still gets stammer when in uncomfortable positions, though it’s not as frequent as before.