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|Personality=There are two sides to Helena. What she wants people to see and who she really is. As Helena, she shows only what she wants to. As a coworker she's dutiful, quiet, reserved and private. As a teacher she's caring, compassionate and is always there for them. She's likewise protective and will drop whatever she's doing to help the children she teaches. To her extended family she's the dutiful niece, cousin and orphaned daughter. She pays her respects when she has to and she plays the game that needs to be played. To those that earned friend status, but are unfamiliar with her night life, they see something that's more true to her real personality, but still not everything. With them she can be sarcastic, blunt, a listener and someone who can and does help, but beneath all of that hidden behind her mask is a hatred, an anger and also hurt that she still carries around with her every day. As Huntress, she shows more of just who she is. The daughter of a slaughtered family, someone who wants revenge and while she's extreme with her hatred and her obsession, she still has her own brand of justice and ethics. She will help bring the Five Families down and she will help clean up Gotham City's streets. Wrongs must be righted and woe to anyone that gets in her way. But even Huntress isn't the full scope; the full scope is an amalgamation of the two, and the young girl who saw her family slaughtered before her eyes. She's a good friend, a loyal friend, she'll stand up beside you even when your other friends leave you. She's brash, not afraid to voice her thoughts and not afraid to be the naysayer of the group. She can get angry, really angry, and say things that are harsh, but they'll always be the truth. She doesn't trust easy, because she's too used to that trust being broken. She never wants to feel that pain again and she never wants to open herself up to the possibility of that pain. Even so she still yearns for true friendship, for people to understand why she's doing it and to convince her that they understand. Really understand why she's doing what she is. Sometimes she can go too far and while she'll gnash her teeth and growl at people who pull her back, help her find her center, in reality, she appreciates it. She's a broken person that's slowly trying to put all the pieces of herself back together and perhaps one day soon she'll realize revenge isn't what's going to fix herself. Only forgiveness to those that wronged her will.
|Personality=There are two sides to Helena. What she wants people to see and who she really is. As Helena, she shows only what she wants to. As a coworker she's dutiful, quiet, reserved and private. As a teacher she's caring, compassionate and is always there for them. She's likewise protective and will drop whatever she's doing to help the children she teaches. To her extended family she's the dutiful niece, cousin and orphaned daughter. She pays her respects when she has to and she plays the game that needs to be played. To those that earned friend status, but are unfamiliar with her night life, they see something that's more true to her real personality, but still not everything. With them she can be sarcastic, blunt, a listener and someone who can and does help, but beneath all of that hidden behind her mask is a hatred, an anger and also hurt that she still carries around with her every day. As Huntress, she shows more of just who she is. The daughter of a slaughtered family, someone who wants revenge and while she's extreme with her hatred and her obsession, she still has her own brand of justice and ethics. She will help bring the Five Families down and she will help clean up Gotham City's streets. Wrongs must be righted and woe to anyone that gets in her way. But even Huntress isn't the full scope; the full scope is an amalgamation of the two, and the young girl who saw her family slaughtered before her eyes. She's a good friend, a loyal friend, she'll stand up beside you even when your other friends leave you. She's brash, not afraid to voice her thoughts and not afraid to be the naysayer of the group. She can get angry, really angry, and say things that are harsh, but they'll always be the truth. She doesn't trust easy, because she's too used to that trust being broken. She never wants to feel that pain again and she never wants to open herself up to the possibility of that pain. Even so she still yearns for true friendship, for people to understand why she's doing it and to convince her that they understand. Really understand why she's doing what she is. Sometimes she can go too far and while she'll gnash her teeth and growl at people who pull her back, help her find her center, in reality, she appreciates it. She's a broken person that's slowly trying to put all the pieces of herself back together and perhaps one day soon she'll realize revenge isn't what's going to fix herself. Only forgiveness to those that wronged her will.
|Skills=<span style="color:#800080">'''ATHLETICS'''</span><br>Helena stays in tip-top-shape. She uses a variety of exercises to stay limber, loose, lean and strong. She's probably on par with an Olympic level athelete with her fortitude, generalized strength and ability to dodge, roll and react. This doesn't mean she can dodge bullets, or every single knife strike, it just means she has a better chance of avoiding the blade than a regular old human does.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''FIRST AID'''</span><br>Helena learned a variety of field first aid. This means she can stitch up simple wounds, set simple breaks, bind wounds, apply ice packs and even administer CPR when needed. She can't quite put IV lines in, but with a little training she could have all the skills of an EMT. For now, however, her speciality is stitch herself, or another, up and get moving.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''HAND TO HAND'''</span><br>While Helena relies heavily upon her crossbows, she's actually an excellent hand to hand combatant. She was trained by two of her cousins, who were already well trained assassins. From this she learned a mishmash of martial arts (Judo, Karate, etc) to help her fight, as well as a lot of brawling techniques. Sucker punches are sometimes more satisfying when fighting the scum of Gotham City. While her skill is excellent, she's no where near the same level as some of the more heavily experienced or trained heroes out there. Her forte is the baser criminal element and typically she'll take them down with her crossbow, feet, fists, or even a well-placed headbutt. She's also not adverse to improvising weaponry that's around her; that chair? Break a leg off and you have an improvised blunt and sharp instrument of death. Broken glass? You can use it as both a dagger, or a clumsy throwing star. Dirt? That's a good way to blind someone when needed. With anything, however, should a person have a higher skill level, or power set, or just get the upper hand, she could find herself the loser, versus the victor.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''INVESTIGATION'''</span><br>Helena began investigating her family while she was still a teenager. This investigation led her into the realization that her family wasn't exactly right with the law. She finally understand why people called her Mafia princess, among other less nice things. This investigation into her own family only helped to cement the fact that she had to do something about her extended family; as she believed they had a hand in killing her mother, father and brother. It's been many years since she was that teenager who just pulled news paper articles and begun the tracing the family tree. Now she's older, more experienced, and has learned many things about investigating and following the clues. She's learned to look at a crime scene like a cop does, as well as picking up clues found within a scene, she also has a knack for connecting the dots and she likewise uses the interwebz to help find the missing pieces. Her level of skill is on par with your above average detective at GCPD. With more training and experience she could become even better, but for now, that's where she is.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''LANGUAGES'''</span><br>Helena is a native English speaker, as well as Italian. Along with English and Italian is the fact that she also knows Latin. She can read, write, speak in all three languages quite fluently.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''MAFIA KNOWLEDGE'''</span><br>Helena is part of the Bertinelli clan, which is one of the five main Mafia families within Gotham City. As such, Helena knows quite a bit about the Mafia within Gotham City; especially her families. She even knows the lesser families, the ones that support the five families. While she isn't all knowing about everything for the Mafia families within Gotham City, one could easily call her an expert. Especially with all the inside information she has access to.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''MARKMANSHIP'''</span><br>Helena was trained from a very young age to shoot and use crossbows. Primarily she was trained on the larger, regular sized crossbows, but when she became the Huntress she also trained on a mini-crossbow. As such, Helena's marksmanship is extremely high. Her accuracy rate is more spot-on versus not and she can compensate for people running or her own movement, the wind, the weather and even distance. Her accuracy can be compared to military experts, perhaps not quite sniper-quality, but very close. When she's doing a simple, draw, load and pull her accuracy is hit her target spot-on four times out of five. If she's able to set her shot up then her accuracy goes to nine times out of ten for hitting her targets where she intended.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''TEACHING'''</span><br>Helena is a substitute teacher and one who teaches Latin. Perhaps to some it may come as a surprise, but Helena is actually a good teacher. She connects with children like she doesn't with adults and employs a variety of technique to teach her lessons. These lessons can be visual, or more hands on, depending on what her students need.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''TRACKING AND HIDING'''</span><br>Along with all her other skills Helena likewise learned the skill of tracking and following people, as well as the reverse, hiding herself and her trail from others. The urban jungle is what she's best at, when it comes to following and tracking people, though she can also handle to a lesser degree forested areas, jungled and outdoorsy types. Typically she uses these skills against the various thugs and criminal element found within Gotham City, though she could also use it to track the more powered individuals too. For her own trail, she's good at hiding her movements from less experienced eyes. For those that the same or higher skill level, it's going to be a toss up with whether they can find her or not. The same can be said when she's following someone who's the same skill level of herself, or above.
|Skills=<span style="color:#800080">'''ATHLETICS'''</span><br>Helena stays in tip-top-shape. She uses a variety of exercises to stay limber, loose, lean and strong. She's probably on par with an Olympic level athelete with her fortitude, generalized strength and ability to dodge, roll and react. This doesn't mean she can dodge bullets, or every single knife strike, it just means she has a better chance of avoiding the blade than a regular old human does.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''FIRST AID'''</span><br>Helena learned a variety of field first aid. This means she can stitch up simple wounds, set simple breaks, bind wounds, apply ice packs and even administer CPR when needed. She can't quite put IV lines in, but with a little training she could have all the skills of an EMT. For now, however, her speciality is stitch herself, or another, up and get moving.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''HAND TO HAND'''</span><br>While Helena relies heavily upon her crossbows, she's actually an excellent hand to hand combatant. She was trained by two of her cousins, who were already well trained assassins. From this she learned a mishmash of martial arts (Judo, Karate, etc) to help her fight, as well as a lot of brawling techniques. Sucker punches are sometimes more satisfying when fighting the scum of Gotham City. While her skill is excellent, she's no where near the same level as some of the more heavily experienced or trained heroes out there. Her forte is the baser criminal element and typically she'll take them down with her crossbow, feet, fists, or even a well-placed headbutt. She's also not adverse to improvising weaponry that's around her; that chair? Break a leg off and you have an improvised blunt and sharp instrument of death. Broken glass? You can use it as both a dagger, or a clumsy throwing star. Dirt? That's a good way to blind someone when needed. With anything, however, should a person have a higher skill level, or power set, or just get the upper hand, she could find herself the loser, versus the victor.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''INVESTIGATION'''</span><br>Helena began investigating her family while she was still a teenager. This investigation led her into the realization that her family wasn't exactly right with the law. She finally understand why people called her Mafia princess, among other less nice things. This investigation into her own family only helped to cement the fact that she had to do something about her extended family; as she believed they had a hand in killing her mother, father and brother. It's been many years since she was that teenager who just pulled news paper articles and begun the tracing the family tree. Now she's older, more experienced, and has learned many things about investigating and following the clues. She's learned to look at a crime scene like a cop does, as well as picking up clues found within a scene, she also has a knack for connecting the dots and she likewise uses the interwebz to help find the missing pieces. Her level of skill is on par with your above average detective at GCPD. With more training and experience she could become even better, but for now, that's where she is.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''LANGUAGES'''</span><br>Helena is a native English speaker, as well as Italian. Along with English and Italian is the fact that she also knows Latin. She can read, write, speak in all three languages quite fluently.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''MAFIA KNOWLEDGE'''</span><br>Helena is part of the Bertinelli clan, which is one of the five main Mafia families within Gotham City. As such, Helena knows quite a bit about the Mafia within Gotham City; especially her families. She even knows the lesser families, the ones that support the five families. While she isn't all knowing about everything for the Mafia families within Gotham City, one could easily call her an expert. Especially with all the inside information she has access to.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''MARKMANSHIP'''</span><br>Helena was trained from a very young age to shoot and use crossbows. Primarily she was trained on the larger, regular sized crossbows, but when she became the Huntress she also trained on a mini-crossbow. As such, Helena's marksmanship is extremely high. Her accuracy rate is more spot-on versus not and she can compensate for people running or her own movement, the wind, the weather and even distance. Her accuracy can be compared to military experts, perhaps not quite sniper-quality, but very close. When she's doing a simple, draw, load and pull her accuracy is hit her target spot-on four times out of five. If she's able to set her shot up then her accuracy goes to nine times out of ten for hitting her targets where she intended.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''TEACHING'''</span><br>Helena is a substitute teacher and one who teaches Latin. Perhaps to some it may come as a surprise, but Helena is actually a good teacher. She connects with children like she doesn't with adults and employs a variety of technique to teach her lessons. These lessons can be visual, or more hands on, depending on what her students need.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''TRACKING AND HIDING'''</span><br>Along with all her other skills Helena likewise learned the skill of tracking and following people, as well as the reverse, hiding herself and her trail from others. The urban jungle is what she's best at, when it comes to following and tracking people, though she can also handle to a lesser degree forested areas, jungled and outdoorsy types. Typically she uses these skills against the various thugs and criminal element found within Gotham City, though she could also use it to track the more powered individuals too. For her own trail, she's good at hiding her movements from less experienced eyes. For those that the same or higher skill level, it's going to be a toss up with whether they can find her or not. The same can be said when she's following someone who's the same skill level of herself, or above.
|Resources=<span style="color:#800080">'''APARTMENT'''</span><br>Thanks to what money can buy, Helena has an excellent apartment. Her apartment is the top floor of a middle to upper class apartment complex. In fact, her apartment takes the complete top floor of the complex. You could say it's her own little 'penthouse'. Within her apartment she has the typical rooms; living room, kitchen, two bathrooms, two bedrooms and even a study. Along with the typical rooms are the not-so typical rooms. Within her living room there's a false wall and behind this false wall is all of Helena's gear. This includes weapons, costume, ammunition and anything else that Huntress uses when she's fighting crime. Only Huntress knows the secret switch to cause the wall to retract and reveal what's inside. Along with this false wall is the fact that her apartment has a skylight. This skylight is how Huntress goes in and out her apartment without being seen.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''COSTUME'''</span><br>As Huntress, Helena has a costume that both disguises her identity, as well as protects her body. Her particular costume is a mix of kevlar and nomex, which affords her a degree of resistance to bullets, knives and fire/heat attacks. It can possibly stop small caliber gunfire, thanks to the kevlar blend, as well as softening blunt attacks from feet, hands or baseball bats. Sharp edged attacks, like knives, will find it harder to pierce the costume than your average spandex. For fire based damage, it'll take longer for her to feel the heat, or a burn, but it is definitely /not/ fireproof. It's on the same level as what firefighters have available to them. The costume at its base is mostly purple with accents of white. The base bodysuit is a dark purple and covers from neck to ankle and sports short sleeves. An overcoat atop her base bodysuit affords an extra layer of protection and offers a hood, short sleeves and a long 'skirt' that falls over her hips and the sides and back of her legs. Thick gloves protect her fingers, hands, wrists and forearms, as well as thick boots which protect her feet, ankles, legs/calves and up to her knees. Last, but never least, is the mask that covers Huntress' face. The mask itself covers around her eyes, along and above eyebrows and nose. Like the costume the mask is purple and within the mask a small receive and mic can be found, which allows her to have her 'comm gear' with her at all times. Lenses cover her eyes which afford her protection against bright flashes of light, which helps to preserve her night sight.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''CROSSBOW BOLTS'''</span><br>Huntress has a variety of crossbow bolts that she uses. These bolts are both for a regular sized crossbow and her custom made mini-crossbow. These bolts consists of your typical metal tipped quarrels, blunt tipped quarrels for non-lethal attacks and an assortment of trick bolts. For her regular sized crossbow and regular sized crossbow bolts the lethal range of these bolts is typically 100 yards. They can go well beyond a hundred yards (up to five hundred), but by then the energy behind the bolt has bled off so much that it might not cause very much damage. For her mini-crossbow and mini-crossbow bolts the range is reduced. The optimal lethal range is up to eighty yards. Anything beyond that and the bolt might do /some/ damage, or none, depending on how much force has been lost. As for the force behind the arrows, the closer she is to her target, the more damage it could potentially do. Her quarrels are forge-hardened and because of this, they're able to punch through cinderblocks and solid brick or concrete walls. Lastly with her crossbow quarrels she has a variety of trick 'arrows'. These range from bolts with smoke-bombs attached, to sonic-based ones to incapacitate and also 'spyware' bolts, where the shaft has a listening device attached to it and can be left within a wall for ease of eavesdropping upon conversations near. She also has a variety of grapple-hook arrows with line attached to them, to help traverse the rooftops of Gotham City.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''CROSSBOWS'''</span><br>The primary weapon that Huntress uses is a specially made mini-crossbow. The crossbow is pistol-sized and can be stored upon her left glove, thanks to a special harness built into the glove. The mini-crossbow is spring loaded, so when attached to the glove it's much more compact looking. When pulled from the glove, the limbs of the bow will spring forward to the typical crossbow configuration. Typically Helena has one bolt already pre-loaded upon the mini-crossbow so that she'll always be ready to fire that first shot. Typically Helena can fire two-three bolts per second, unless encumbered in some way. For her mini-crossbow the force behind each projectile is such that her metal head quarrels can pierce cinder blocks, brick and cement by several inches. For Helena's regular sized crossbows, these are much stronger and nor do they have a very compact way to carry them. Typically she keeps it slung across her back, via a strap. Usually she only brings out the big 'guns' when she knows she's heading into a terrible fight. Much like her mini-crossbow, Helena's full-sized crossbow can pierce cinder blocks, brick, cement as well as several inches of steel, or steel-like metal.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''HEROIC COMMUNITY'''</span><br>While Huntress isn't necessarily an always liked name within the heroic community, she is still one of the good guys within Gotham City. As such, other heros can and have called upon her for help. Likewise, if Huntress required aid she could call upon them for the same thing.<span style="color:#800080">'''QUIVER'''</span><br>Huntress has two quivers upon her costume. The first quiver is attached to her right hand glove. This quiver holds up to a dozen mini-quarrels and often holds her trick bolts. A second quiver sits upon her hip, attached to her utility belt. This quiver is larger than the one upon her glove and holds up to thirty-two mini-quarrels. Should she need to bring out the big crossbow, she could easily use the second quiver to hold between twelve and sixteen regular sized bolts.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''TEACHING'''</span><br>Helena is teaches English Literature at the high school level in Gotham City. While she doesn't really require the paycheck, she still earns one. That paycheck of hers goes right into the bank to be rolled into her overall wealth. There are times that she also uses these paychecks as 'spending' cash, when she doesn't feel like pulling a stipend from her bank. Beyond the paycheck for her job, Helena's teaching also keeps her in touch with the brighter side of Gotham City. Her fellow teachers and educators who are trying to help lead the next generation to adulthood and also the innocents of the children, which always reminds her why she puts on the mask and cape.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''THE FAMILY'''</span><br>While Helena would love to say her extended family isn't a resource, it really is. When she plays the dutiful niece and visits with her family she can typically pick up gossip, tid-bits and outright plans for what the 'family' is planning. She uses this inside knowledge to help her plan her next moves as the Huntress and her family, for now, is none the wiser.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''UTILITY BELT'''</span><br>Huntress wears a discreet Utility Belt. This belt holds a variety of pouches upon it, as well as her large-based quiver. Within the pouches of her utility belt are a variety of things; smokebombs-pellets to be used by hand, zip-ties to tie up unruly thugs, the thin flexible lines she uses for her grapple hooks and a disposable or burner cellphone. Anything can really be carried within these pouches, but typically it's the smokes, the zip-ties, the line and the burner cellphone.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''VEHICLES'''</span><br>Huntress keeps a couple of vehicles in a discrete garage near her apartment. The first is a purple Kawasaki ZX-12R Ninja. A racing bike, its only attributes are its speed and handling. With a top speed pushing 200 mph, it gets her around the city faster than the rooftop express. The other vehicle is a Lamborghini Aventador, also purple, which she uses for longer trips outside the city.<span style="color:#800080">'''WEALTH'''</span><br><br>While Helena doesn't have as much wealth as some of the elite within Gotham, she is still quite rich. When her family died she became the sole heir to their fortune and when she came of age she found she had a nest egg of about three billion dollars. Unlike some trustfund babies, Helena didn't immediately go out and spend it. Instead she hired a banker, a lawyer and an investor to handle her money and to continue its growth. While she doesn't live within her billion-dollar, or have a billion-dollar lifestyle, that doens't mean she lives beneath her means either. In fact, if she wants to buy something, she typically does, and only considers the expense of it when it approaches many thousands of dollars.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''WEAPONRY'''</span><br>In her quest to become the Huntress, Helena acquired a variety of weaponry. As such, her stash of weaponry typically includes crossbows, her specially made mini-crossbow, throwing knives, a collapsible quarterstaff, throwing stars, a variety of crossbow bolts, a variety of mini-crossbow bolts, as well as night vision goggles, zip-ties, zip-lines, smokebombs and a variety of attachments for her bolts (IE: grappling hook and lines). All of this gear is the best that her money can be, as such the throwing knives and stars are harden steel, whereas the night vision goggles are the best on the market; just under military grade. Her zip lines that are used for her grappling hooks is a weave of very strong and quite flexible metal. It can typically hold her weight and up to three others, before it begins to stress.
|Resources=<span style="color:#800080">'''APARTMENT'''</span><br>Thanks to what money can buy, Helena has an excellent apartment. Her apartment is the top floor of a middle to upper class apartment complex. In fact, her apartment takes the complete top floor of the complex. You could say it's her own little 'penthouse'. Within her apartment she has the typical rooms; living room, kitchen, two bathrooms, two bedrooms and even a study. Along with the typical rooms are the not-so typical rooms. Within her living room there's a false wall and behind this false wall is all of Helena's gear. This includes weapons, costume, ammunition and anything else that Huntress uses when she's fighting crime. Only Huntress knows the secret switch to cause the wall to retract and reveal what's inside. Along with this false wall is the fact that her apartment has a skylight. This skylight is how Huntress goes in and out her apartment without being seen.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''COSTUME'''</span><br>As Huntress, Helena has a costume that both disguises her identity, as well as protects her body. Her particular costume is a mix of kevlar and nomex, which affords her a degree of resistance to bullets, knives and fire/heat attacks. It can possibly stop small caliber gunfire, thanks to the kevlar blend, as well as softening blunt attacks from feet, hands or baseball bats. Sharp edged attacks, like knives, will find it harder to pierce the costume than your average spandex. For fire based damage, it'll take longer for her to feel the heat, or a burn, but it is definitely /not/ fireproof. It's on the same level as what firefighters have available to them. The costume at its base is mostly purple with accents of white. The base bodysuit is a dark purple and covers from neck to ankle and sports short sleeves. An overcoat atop her base bodysuit affords an extra layer of protection and offers a hood, short sleeves and a long 'skirt' that falls over her hips and the sides and back of her legs. Thick gloves protect her fingers, hands, wrists and forearms, as well as thick boots which protect her feet, ankles, legs/calves and up to her knees. Last, but never least, is the mask that covers Huntress' face. The mask itself covers around her eyes, along and above eyebrows and nose. Like the costume the mask is purple and within the mask a small receive and mic can be found, which allows her to have her 'comm gear' with her at all times. Lenses cover her eyes which afford her protection against bright flashes of light, which helps to preserve her night sight.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''CROSSBOW BOLTS'''</span><br>Huntress has a variety of crossbow bolts that she uses. These bolts are both for a regular sized crossbow and her custom made mini-crossbow. These bolts consists of your typical metal tipped quarrels, blunt tipped quarrels for non-lethal attacks and an assortment of trick bolts. For her regular sized crossbow and regular sized crossbow bolts the lethal range of these bolts is typically 100 yards. They can go well beyond a hundred yards (up to five hundred), but by then the energy behind the bolt has bled off so much that it might not cause very much damage. For her mini-crossbow and mini-crossbow bolts the range is reduced. The optimal lethal range is up to eighty yards. Anything beyond that and the bolt might do /some/ damage, or none, depending on how much force has been lost. As for the force behind the arrows, the closer she is to her target, the more damage it could potentially do. Her quarrels are forge-hardened and because of this, they're able to punch through cinderblocks and solid brick or concrete walls. Lastly with her crossbow quarrels she has a variety of trick 'arrows'. These range from bolts with smoke-bombs attached, to sonic-based ones to incapacitate and also 'spyware' bolts, where the shaft has a listening device attached to it and can be left within a wall for ease of eavesdropping upon conversations near. She also has a variety of grapple-hook arrows with line attached to them, to help traverse the rooftops of Gotham City.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''CROSSBOWS'''</span><br>The primary weapon that Huntress uses is a specially made mini-crossbow. The crossbow is pistol-sized and can be stored upon her left glove, thanks to a special harness built into the glove. The mini-crossbow is spring loaded, so when attached to the glove it's much more compact looking. When pulled from the glove, the limbs of the bow will spring forward to the typical crossbow configuration. Typically Helena has one bolt already pre-loaded upon the mini-crossbow so that she'll always be ready to fire that first shot. Typically Helena can fire two-three bolts per second, unless encumbered in some way. For her mini-crossbow the force behind each projectile is such that her metal head quarrels can pierce cinder blocks, brick and cement by several inches. For Helena's regular sized crossbows, these are much stronger and nor do they have a very compact way to carry them. Typically she keeps it slung across her back, via a strap. Usually she only brings out the big 'guns' when she knows she's heading into a terrible fight. Much like her mini-crossbow, Helena's full-sized crossbow can pierce cinder blocks, brick, cement as well as several inches of steel, or steel-like metal.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''HEROIC COMMUNITY'''</span><br>While Huntress isn't necessarily an always liked name within the heroic community, she is still one of the good guys within Gotham City. As such, other heros can and have called upon her for help. Likewise, if Huntress required aid she could call upon them for the same thing.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''QUIVER'''</span><br>Huntress has two quivers upon her costume. The first quiver is attached to her right hand glove. This quiver holds up to a dozen mini-quarrels and often holds her trick bolts. A second quiver sits upon her hip, attached to her utility belt. This quiver is larger than the one upon her glove and holds up to thirty-two mini-quarrels. Should she need to bring out the big crossbow, she could easily use the second quiver to hold between twelve and sixteen regular sized bolts.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''TEACHING'''</span><br>Helena is teaches English Literature at the high school level in Gotham City. While she doesn't really require the paycheck, she still earns one. That paycheck of hers goes right into the bank to be rolled into her overall wealth. There are times that she also uses these paychecks as 'spending' cash, when she doesn't feel like pulling a stipend from her bank. Beyond the paycheck for her job, Helena's teaching also keeps her in touch with the brighter side of Gotham City. Her fellow teachers and educators who are trying to help lead the next generation to adulthood and also the innocents of the children, which always reminds her why she puts on the mask and cape.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''THE FAMILY'''</span><br>While Helena would love to say her extended family isn't a resource, it really is. When she plays the dutiful niece and visits with her family she can typically pick up gossip, tid-bits and outright plans for what the 'family' is planning. She uses this inside knowledge to help her plan her next moves as the Huntress and her family, for now, is none the wiser.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''UTILITY BELT'''</span><br>Huntress wears a discreet Utility Belt. This belt holds a variety of pouches upon it, as well as her large-based quiver. Within the pouches of her utility belt are a variety of things; smokebombs-pellets to be used by hand, zip-ties to tie up unruly thugs, the thin flexible lines she uses for her grapple hooks and a disposable or burner cellphone. Anything can really be carried within these pouches, but typically it's the smokes, the zip-ties, the line and the burner cellphone.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''VEHICLES'''</span><br>Huntress keeps a couple of vehicles in a discrete garage near her apartment. The first is a purple Kawasaki ZX-12R Ninja. A racing bike, its only attributes are its speed and handling. With a top speed pushing 200 mph, it gets her around the city faster than the rooftop express. The other vehicle is a Lamborghini Aventador, also purple, which she uses for longer trips outside the city.<span style="color:#800080">'''WEALTH'''</span><br><br>While Helena doesn't have as much wealth as some of the elite within Gotham, she is still quite rich. When her family died she became the sole heir to their fortune and when she came of age she found she had a nest egg of about three billion dollars. Unlike some trustfund babies, Helena didn't immediately go out and spend it. Instead she hired a banker, a lawyer and an investor to handle her money and to continue its growth. While she doesn't live within her billion-dollar, or have a billion-dollar lifestyle, that doens't mean she lives beneath her means either. In fact, if she wants to buy something, she typically does, and only considers the expense of it when it approaches many thousands of dollars.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''WEAPONRY'''</span><br>In her quest to become the Huntress, Helena acquired a variety of weaponry. As such, her stash of weaponry typically includes crossbows, her specially made mini-crossbow, throwing knives, a collapsible quarterstaff, throwing stars, a variety of crossbow bolts, a variety of mini-crossbow bolts, as well as night vision goggles, zip-ties, zip-lines, smokebombs and a variety of attachments for her bolts (IE: grappling hook and lines). All of this gear is the best that her money can be, as such the throwing knives and stars are harden steel, whereas the night vision goggles are the best on the market; just under military grade. Her zip lines that are used for her grappling hooks is a weave of very strong and quite flexible metal. It can typically hold her weight and up to three others, before it begins to stress.
|Weaknesses=<span style="color:#800080">'''BERTINELLI'''</span><br>Yes, Helena is one of those 'Bertinelli's'. This means her name is connected to the Mafia, for those that know such things off-hand, or for those that investigate. This usually means people are very wary of her, or have assumptions already made about who she is and what type of person she is. While it angers her that people assume these things, she can't really blame them. Her family isn't, wasn't, the best sort and neither is her extended family. As such, she typically finds her name more of a hindrance than a help; unless she's with her extended family, then it's mostly a help.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''EXCESSIVE FORCE'''</span><br>Huntress isn't afraid to use excessive force. It's one of the things that sets her apart from the other costumed folk within Gotham City. It's what also typically gets her excluded from general heroic pow-wows, or excluded as a potential source of help. This doesn't necessarily bother Helena on the outside, but on the inside, it does. That doesn't stop her from using excessive force, but it's definitely a chip on her shoulder, when it comes to dealing with other heroes. She feels she has something to prove and there's the anger there because she feels most heroes have never tried to figure out what her underlying reasons are. Most. Not all. There are a few that have entered her circle of trust.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''PTSD'''</span><br>As a young girl Helena saw her family brutally murdered before her. For many years she had nightmares that played over and over the death of her family. While those nightmares have quieted down, that doesn't mean she still doesn't have flashbacks, nightmares when she's particularly stressed, or mood swings because something triggers her. This is typically what causes her to lash out at people, especially those close to her, and what also will cause her to keep people at arms-length. Slowly, she's begun work upon all of her hurts and feelings, but it'll be a long road of healing ahead. Obviously, if a case she's working on is like her own tragic past, she'll most likely become fixated or obsessed with it. Her vision will become so narrowed and focused that mistakes could possibly happen and cause her to not see what's right in front of her face.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''SECRET IDENTITY'''</span><br>Only a select few know that Helena Bertinelli is the Huntress. Should it ever be found out just who she is during the nights, her life would literally be more danger than it normally is. Her extended family would immediately become her enemy (more so than the petty jealousy that she's subject to now) and they would mark her for death. As such, Helena takes great pains into making sure Helena is never associated with Huntress.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''TEMPER'''</span><br>Huntress has a temper. This mainly is from her tragic past, seeing her family killed before her, and realizing at such a young age that terrible things always happen. Her anger, or temper, only increased when she finally realized what her family and extended family were. The bad guys. That anger increased (of course) when she realized one of her family authorized the hit upon her mother, father and brother. Because of her temper and her lack of control with it, Huntress tends to go off half-cocked a lot. It also is what drives her into using more force than what's absolutely necessary; especially if the crime was heinous. Either way, this lack of control often gets Helena in trouble, not that she often cares.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''TRUE FATHER'''</span><br>Helena has yet to uncover that her father wasn't her actual biological father. Her true father is Santo Cassamento. Santo and her mother had an affair and Helena was the result of it. This knowledge could be used against her should it be found out, but more importantly, Helena's world will be turned upside down (for a minute) when this revelation is found out.
|Weaknesses=<span style="color:#800080">'''BERTINELLI'''</span><br>Yes, Helena is one of those 'Bertinelli's'. This means her name is connected to the Mafia, for those that know such things off-hand, or for those that investigate. This usually means people are very wary of her, or have assumptions already made about who she is and what type of person she is. While it angers her that people assume these things, she can't really blame them. Her family isn't, wasn't, the best sort and neither is her extended family. As such, she typically finds her name more of a hindrance than a help; unless she's with her extended family, then it's mostly a help.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''EXCESSIVE FORCE'''</span><br>Huntress isn't afraid to use excessive force. It's one of the things that sets her apart from the other costumed folk within Gotham City. It's what also typically gets her excluded from general heroic pow-wows, or excluded as a potential source of help. This doesn't necessarily bother Helena on the outside, but on the inside, it does. That doesn't stop her from using excessive force, but it's definitely a chip on her shoulder, when it comes to dealing with other heroes. She feels she has something to prove and there's the anger there because she feels most heroes have never tried to figure out what her underlying reasons are. Most. Not all. There are a few that have entered her circle of trust.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''PTSD'''</span><br>As a young girl Helena saw her family brutally murdered before her. For many years she had nightmares that played over and over the death of her family. While those nightmares have quieted down, that doesn't mean she still doesn't have flashbacks, nightmares when she's particularly stressed, or mood swings because something triggers her. This is typically what causes her to lash out at people, especially those close to her, and what also will cause her to keep people at arms-length. Slowly, she's begun work upon all of her hurts and feelings, but it'll be a long road of healing ahead. Obviously, if a case she's working on is like her own tragic past, she'll most likely become fixated or obsessed with it. Her vision will become so narrowed and focused that mistakes could possibly happen and cause her to not see what's right in front of her face.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''SECRET IDENTITY'''</span><br>Only a select few know that Helena Bertinelli is the Huntress. Should it ever be found out just who she is during the nights, her life would literally be more danger than it normally is. Her extended family would immediately become her enemy (more so than the petty jealousy that she's subject to now) and they would mark her for death. As such, Helena takes great pains into making sure Helena is never associated with Huntress.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''TEMPER'''</span><br>Huntress has a temper. This mainly is from her tragic past, seeing her family killed before her, and realizing at such a young age that terrible things always happen. Her anger, or temper, only increased when she finally realized what her family and extended family were. The bad guys. That anger increased (of course) when she realized one of her family authorized the hit upon her mother, father and brother. Because of her temper and her lack of control with it, Huntress tends to go off half-cocked a lot. It also is what drives her into using more force than what's absolutely necessary; especially if the crime was heinous. Either way, this lack of control often gets Helena in trouble, not that she often cares.<br><br><span style="color:#800080">'''TRUE FATHER'''</span><br>Helena has yet to uncover that her father wasn't her actual biological father. Her true father is Santo Cassamento. Santo and her mother had an affair and Helena was the result of it. This knowledge could be used against her should it be found out, but more importantly, Helena's world will be turned upside down (for a minute) when this revelation is found out.
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Revision as of 01:45, 15 November 2017

Huntress (Scenesys ID: 166)
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Quote
"Every hero has a story, not that I'm some kind of hero. But there comes a point when to survive, the hunted must become the Huntress. "
Profile
Full Name: Helena Rosa Bertinelli
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Theme: DC (FC)
Occupation: School Teacher / Vigilante
Citizenship: {{{Citizenship}}}
Residence: {{{Residence}}}
Education: {{{Education}}}
Status: Active
Groups: Batman Family
Other Information
Apparent Age: 28 Actual Age: 28
Date of Birth 2 October 1996 Actor: Rachel Weisz
Height: 180 cm Weight: 68 kg
Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Blue
Theme Song: "Gethseman" - Nightwish

Profile

To most Helena Rosa Bertinelli is a substitute Latin teacher. Perhaps ironically she's quite good at her job and she loves the children she teaches. Even the troublemakers. Especially them. she's protective of her students and will do whatever it takes to make certain they're safe and protected. As Helena the person, she's quite private. To her coworkers her civilian life is shrouded in mystery, but if someone put some effort into it, they'd easily uncover just what 'Bertinelli' she is. They'd also find out that she was the sole witness and survivor of her family being murdered. Most articles during that time attribute the hit to a 'turf war within The Families'. They're not too far wrong in that conclusion.

As Huntress, this particular vigilante has been around Gotham for several years now. Her style of justice is harsh and extreme. More so than most of the costumed sect found within the City. With enough digging a person could possibly see the pattern of her attacks, which focus primarily upon the Mafia families within Gotham City; though any criminal can be game for her crossbow.

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