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[dreamfyres]

❥ Character Information

Character Name: helaena targaryen
Character Age: 19
Character Species: mortal. helaena is a targaryen, which roughly means that she is very special and largely considered closer to gods than other humans - it's suspected targaryens may have mated with dragons, as they can bond with them and premature children have been known to be born with scales.
Current Health: alive and well
Outfit: link
 
Character Canon: house of the dragon
Link to History: wiki
Canon Point: 2.05
Canon Iteration: original
Canon Iteration Explanation: n/a

❥ Folkmore Roles & Attributes

Skills: speaker of high valyrian, dragon flying, singing, dancing (not her best skill), embroidery, sewing, basically anything to do with a needle (she could stitch a wound if need be), drawing, painting, dissecting bugs/animals, very good at math
Canon Abilities: dragon rider, bound to the dragon dreamfyre. dragon dreamer, meaning she is a seer and sees the past, present, and future events. the way helaena “sees” is never specified; most dragon dreamers have dreams, but helaena seems in possession of a deep intuition and knowing (the actress shares this belief), things pop into her mind or on her tongue, though i play her as also having cryptic and creepy dreams.
Role: familiar
Role Qualities/Attributes: transforming into various animals, including bugs such as butterflies or spiders as she feels a special affinity to insects
Role Reasoning: Helaena is considered very innocent by the likes of her mother, almost like an angel (especially when compared to the malicious creatures that crawl around the Red Keep), but she is much closer to a familiar than a legend.

Helaena is a Cassandra of Troy figure, but nobody hears her any more than they did Cassandra. She also keeps some of her prophecies to herself, such as when she doesn’t warn Aegon when she foresees him burnt in battle, partly because she doesn’t quite realize she’s a seer—but had she really wished to, she could have tried speaking up. From what we see, Helaena is a very passive individual. She is not a hero but neither is she a villain.

My wish is to have Helaena fully grasp and understand her gift of fortune and misfortune, and hone it. Right now she’s only just started to connect the dots. The show teased a proper arc for Helaena and her powers but failed to develop them. I think she would be a great source of knowledge for either a Legend or even a Myth, depending on who she grows attached to.

❥ Personality

Option 1. In a nutshell, Helaena is an enigmatic creature on the best of days. She is out of step with the people around her, but at home with insects. She prefers silence and sanctuary to other mortals, and spends much of her time by herself, her children, and pursuing her hobbies.

In the modern world, an autism diagnosis would almost surely be assigned. She has a particular aversion to touch, and struggles to communicate. This is undoubtedly compounded by the visions that plague her.

Though she has problems with social cues, Helaena has a sharp eye that sees things others do not, owed in no small part to her prophetic nature. She's thought to be simple, but this is an oversight. She's merely quiet, and dreamy to distraction. Her communication troubles often make her nonverbal, or induce her to speak in halting sentences and riddles. Her brother, Aemond, is the one person she feels better able to communicate with and to speak in longer coherence, though she’s growing closer to her mother over the season as well.

As Alicent’s daughter, Helaena is dutiful. Like most women in Westeros, her lot in life is to do as her mother and father ask of her. Primarily, to marry and provide her husband with heirs. Especially when she is groomed to be queen consort by her aspiring Hightower family. Helaena is wed as a young woman to her brother, Aegon, also the only person we see her show active contempt toward. They are a very unlikely and incompatible pair. All the same, she did not rebel as his wife, and thinks it is "not so bad" at the end of the day, because her husband mostly ignores her—except when he's drunk, and Aegon is often drunk, hinting at marital rape. Unfortunately, consent is abstract in Westeros, and Helaena doesn’t have the tools to know that is the case.

Only recently has she questioned this duty and its cost, after the loss of her son at the hands of Blood and Cheese. This epic moment at the beginning of the season sees Helaena forced to choose between her two children, and she witnesses the beheading of her toddler child. When Alicent later informs her that she and her grief will be paraded around King's Landing for the good of the crown, she is visibly distraught and asks "Why?" This is a big moment for Helaena and begins her journey of reflection. The crown has never been her want. She has no taste for politics.

This is to say that, unlike the rest of her family, Helaena does not seek power in the traditional modes. She does not join the small council, she does not sit at court like other consorts, nor is she remotely considered for the role of regent once Aegon is incapacitated (at the hands of their ambitious and vengeful brother, Aemond). She doesn't really seek power at all, except to understand her own power— her gift—which she has only just begun to realize for what it is.

❥ Player Information

Player Name: eloise
Pronouns: she/they
Are you over 18?: y
Contact(s): dm, pomegranates
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