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[folklorist]

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Name: Levy
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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Helios Sprensonne
Age: 32

World Information:

It should be noted that the world which Helios comes from is Earth. More importantly it is Earth as of January 2010 and contains many of the similar factors and political personnel that the actual Earth does. However there are always two sides to every coin and in this case the other side is the magical aspect hidden within his world. Basically it’s Earth with mythical creatures inhabiting it, and some are rulers of nations like Germany and even America are in actuality mythological creatures. Magic is something of an underground system; not thoroughly believed in, but many people do use it such as magicians, witches and the like. There’s a High Council of elder magicians which meet every five years to debate and see which family bloodlines are most prominent and which are at the precipice of dying out. They also choose and discuss who is to be part of the Council to train under them and learn how to be a newly appointed Council member.

Helios’ universe is like Earth in the sense that it is basically the same planet, with all the matching countries and geographical locales, but also something more. Mythological creatures walk the Earth under the guise of being human. They interact much the same way as ordinary humans do and are separated into their respective clans. Typically most humans cannot use magic but certain bloodlines can harness its power which will be detailed further down.

Mythological creatures in Helios’ world are beings from a 4th dimension. The 4th dimension is of a plane that exists outside the realm of human sight, you can equate it to something like heaven or Mount Olympus, and usually the beings within it can cross back and forth between their plane and the plane humans inhabit by feeding on human belief. These beings came across Earth because of the potent magical energies Earth was giving off. They typical, and used to in the past, lived outside the realm which most people could see. They derived their energies from people’s beliefs, which they usually put into people's heads: so creation myths and lore were created by the mythologies themselves, and in return they showed people how to harness magic. But that makes one wonder as to why the mythologies would paint themselves in such ways? Alas lost in translation was a very common thing and thus the myths of today are solely products of people being afraid and often bastardizing the true myths that the mythologies once told.

The Mythica’s tampering with humans possibly caused genetic mutations in certain people and thus allowed them to control and use magic more freely and easily than most. But before the Mythica ever came to Earth humans used to be able to use magic no matter what bloodline they belonged to at the time (although humans did not possess any knowledge of having such abilities – magic wasn’t known to exist so technically they simply had the potential to use magic but never actually succeeded in doing so because no one knew how to actually tap into their magical roots). This innate ability was brought out and unlocked when Mythica came to Earth and began teaching humans in turn for humans believing in them. It also wiped out certain bloodlines due to all of them dying out while trying to use their magical skills and not having a very good grasp of it. In the end many people died via improper use of magic or spells backfiring and killing those who had no control over it. Due to the horrors and complications magic wielding brought about; most people simply stopped using it all together and grew to hate the Mythica, who in turn sealed people's powers and refused to train those who hated and despised them. Conversely other families like the Sprensonne bloodline grew into more powerful magic users and highly prodigious people among the magicking community. The magical traits left unused and unacknowledged caused a strict division between magical and nonmagical families.

Non-magical families had no knowledge of their ancestors being able to use such things like magic and even if they did know they would laugh it off as being off the wall and absurd. Also the lack of training a lot of people had with magic simply made it dissipate from their respective persons and bloodlines. This now, in the present, only makes certain people capable of using it and teaching it to their protégé. Because only certain bloodlines can now use magic there is a separation between magical families and normal human families. Also in the 1600s during the witch trials many magical families were wiped out because of them. Lots of bloodlines were killed off and many of the magical families sequestered and hid themselves amongst the everyday person. These horrors acted out against the magic community only widened the gap between magical and non-magical people in Helios' world. So much so that in present times The Council forbids anyone to ever use magic in front of normal human beings for fear that something like the witch trials could happen again.

As the years and times changed people stopped believing and the Mythica, who so desperately sought to return to their home plane, were now trapped on Earth because they lacked sufficient power to cross back over. Many gods and goddess were prey to this and many of them could only muster enough strength to take on the form of human beings and walk the planet to this day under such guises. An example would be E-Mun Ra who, while being a god, cannot exactly cross back over into the plane which he and so many other mythologies inhabit. And sometimes mythologies just didn’t feel like going back to their plane so they stayed put on Earth and never went back.

The Sprensonne family has a long line of descendants who were occult in their own teachings and religion. It’s said that they were known to practice these occult arts back in the time of the crusades. Harboring in a castle in Romania for much of their time the Sprensonne lineage grew into one of the most powerful magical bloodlines the world has ever known. They never had a true religious sect to which they belonged; and Sprensonne Academy was opened by Darin Sprensonne is the early 1600s at the same time the witch trials were occurring throughout the world. So Darin used the academy to house those wrongfully accused. For the most part after the 1600s there was a brief period of abandonment of the castle in which many thought it to be cursed and haunted due to those who were kept there. This proved to not be true at all and the castle was only made out to be haunted and cursed because of what lay beneath it. A powerful ley line which, in this context, is a source of very potent and powerful magics that can attract mythological creatures to it; one was founded underneath the academy. The Sprensonne family kept the ley line well hidden, under the Council’s direction, and it has been unknown to even exist beyond the people who have been told. The castle itself will lay dormant for a period of several hundred years by having a blood seal put upon, which decreed that only those of the Sprensonne line could ever open the castle again, the current generation of the Sprensonne family re-opened it in the late 1980s early 1990s.

Character Information:

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.

Personality:

Helios is an eccentric man on first appearance. 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 despises 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 by 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. 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 Ra 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 Helios is probably one of the most modest people you’ll ever meet.

5-10 Key Character Traits:
Creative
Curious
Protective
Self-sacrificing
Damaged
Modest
Open-minded
Diplomatic
Hardworking
Self-destructive