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"Helen Damnation is basically who I came up with the day I decided to give RP a try, after formerly being a total hater. I had one day witnessed an event being played out in Westside, and found myself immersed in the story. Mainly because I hadn't encountered anything else besides users acting like mewling baby animals or perverts looking for slaves. One walk through Club Caprice one and a half years ago, and I felt ashamed to have done so. But this was different, I was intrigued, and I had just joined an SG that Rp'd. Sure enough, after awhile Helen started forming in the back of my mind, and here is the physical end result, if nothing else.

Helen isn't from this world and has contact with only a select few humans, so she is somewhat socially awkward. She devours knowledge of the world but finds she is uncomfortable in it, mainly because her appearance is vastly different and she has only had 4 years since her birth to become acquainted to it. She has a primal hunting instinct and has only stayed that instinct to hunt humans due to the people she has encountered that have taken her in and showed her kindness and offered her refuge from the world. Her official entry into the world above and interaction with that world interests me. Will she acquaint herself with it? Can she? I can't wait to see how she develops!
Of course, this page is and always will be under construction, as I'll be adding on as I go along. As the story progresses and as my knowledge of all this tag and href and padding and borders, and bodies and headers an all that hawt mess becomes less daunting!

Oh yes, I'm keeping a list of people who'd I'd like to eventually thank for helping me with in this endeavor." --L

Real Name: Registered with PRIMUS as Helen Damnation
Alias: Listed on public record as Sarah Williams
Age: Aged 4 by human standards with a standard Terran yearly cycle of 365 days. Theoretically based on intellect in her early to mid twenties.
Gender: Female
Species: Intel salvaged from the downed Qularr Mothership (see Files of the Qularr Invasion September 1, 2009) suggest Ms. Damnation to be of a race known only as the Hyttaren. Due to the limited information we managed to decode, they were used for genetic purposes. Bred aboard similar ships, their DNA seems to have been of particular interest, as the few logs pertaining to their study suggest. However,no further details were attainable.
Ethnicity: Unknown; It should be noted that during Ms. Damnation's current public appearances she has been outfitted with an advanced image inducer, giving her the appearance of a human female with tanned olive skin, green eyes, and black hair. All anatomy which differs from the human genetic makeup, however, remains as it would be otherwise.
Place of Birth: Qularr Mothership, Millenium City Harbor
Relatives: There is currently no information available, suffice to say that upon Ms. Damnation's apparent escape from the burning vessel, she had been fostered by a group of nomadic homeless citizens calling themselves The Refuge. In particular Jaymar Williams, who is listed publicly as Ms. Damnation's foster son.
Occupation: Primus Trainee
Non PRIMUS Affiliation Alto Varia

~From Primus Training Log #492375~

Helen Damnation has had a slow start in training, due in part to her recent exposure to our facilities and hesitance to be part of the PRIMUS experience. She was prone to unruly behavior, from scaring her first trainer into wetting himself to simply not showing up. However, after certain reiteration of her agreement with PRIMUS, Ms. Damnation has proven very cooperative and indeed has been somewhat of a surprise.

Ms. Damnation enjoys an alien physiology which has certain traits in common with the human Animalia suborder Serpentes. It was PRIMUS' initial suspicion that Ms. Damnation was a Viper experiment, due to these snake like traits. But first contact and our telepathic division confirmed that she had never met or even heard from Viper, much less knows where she herself comes from. We found ourselves in the unique position of knowing more that she did on the matter.

Though there are many similarities between Serpentes and Ms. Damnation, who we shall name Helen from this point forth, there are definite alien traits unique to her species, although they do resemble changes taking place in other subspecies of earth.

Helen has herself described the ability to "molt", a process which we can only theorize jumpstarts phases in her growth. The last of which has given her a human-like appearance, although one cannot say that she is able to go unrecognized among the general populace. We've taken samples from what Helen has referred to as her "rebirth chamber" in the catacombs near the riverfront of Millenium City's Harbor district, in order to get a clearer picture, and we correlated this information with the data from the Qularr ship. We managed to confirm that there is a molting process the Hyttaren generally experience, though how extensive and how many times this happens in an Hyttaren lifespan remains unknown at this point. Theoretically, and by intel given by Jaymar Williams, Helen creates a cocoon from her salivary fluid. In this she gestates for approximately one week, emerging more intelligent than before and less horrific in appearance each time. To date this has taken place 4 times, almost to the exact day each year. We are awaiting Helen's next birthday, or as she has dubbed it: Rebirthday, to further study this process. Helen has given us permission to study the phenomenon, after having approved the chamber we provided her with, a more comfortable and safer environment over which she has total control, as we wish to only observe. She has asked that Jaymar be allowed to be present in some sort of capacity. We must take into account that this molting process may very well present a form of adaptive evolution unlike we have seen in any of the known species Earth has encountered so far.

Helen's mainstay weapons are her claws, which extend from her fingertips when she is in battle. We believe her control of this is conscious. We have yet to study her physical attributes in detail, though we are searching, by request from the top, for a less intrusive way. So the question remains : Are they bone or a chitin like substance or metal of some sort? Our data shows they are durable and can cut through most anything we've managed to hit her with. She must sharpen them continually, and manages that to a high degree of sharpened precision.

How she does this she refuses to tell us.

In one of her holographic training sessions, Helen managed to massacre an entire room of enemies with minimal damage to her person, though we were able to determine that ice presents a weakness. We have yet to test how extensive that weakness is. Our scientists believe that though these claws present a danger to most enemies, there are other factors to consider, which we will summarize to a large degree, unless we deem further explanation is necessary.

Strength, Agility, Durability~ Combat training has revealed that Helen's strength reaches superhuman levels, possibly surpassing that with a more rigorous training program. Her agility is helped by the prehensile tail which is measured to be 3 1/2 feet long. She displays a naturalness in her usage of this tail in or out of battle, and in the few cases she has used this tail while her image inducer is active, this has given the false perception that she has a mild telekinetic ability, as the inducer influence gives the impression of human characteristics.We believe her bone structure in the spinal area is such that it is more flexible than ordinary humans. Notes pertaining to Helen's acrobatic training show , though there were rough edges in her personality getting in the way at the beginning, before her sudden "change of heart", that she is also on par with superhuman levels at this stage.

We implemented our standard training, but we soon realized that Helen was in such excellent physical shape that we could step it up a notch. Though we know that her species was mainly used in experiments, we suspect the Hyttaren race may have been combative by nature at some point, perhaps before first contact with the Qularr. She displays a ferocious appetite for combat. However, we feel fine control of her rage fits during battle could be bundled in such a way to physically affect the space around her. Our scientists believe that by training her to unleash her rage in such a way, it might allow her to use this consciously as an area of effect power. We've begun to set up a series of tests to determine how well she will be able to tap into this aspect of her abilities. Of course, we've taken measures to mask these tests as to appear as part of her training routine.

Innate Hunting Drive~ Silver Avenger Mayte Sanchez was able to confirm that a 4 year old case involving a dumping site of human remains in various stages of decay, may have a connection with an odd bit of information we'd happened upon while interviewing Helen's now foster son, Jaymar Williams. According to the story the 16 year old told our agents, the boy had met Helen weeks after her escape from the ship. From his description, she was a small creature in this stage of her development, roughly the size of baby/toddler, quadrupedal, and had been apparently accosting various members of what both call The Refuge( see file marked The Refuge for further in depth information). Jaymar insisted however, that of those victims he knew, they either wished their death or were those the group deemed "to be wary of".

The boy remained adamant that she had saved him the day he discovered her existence, though our interest lies in the fact that she managed to kill three grown men in a matter of minutes, to reiterate:while being the size of a human toddler, afterwards taking hours to feed on their flesh. These men had apparently been driven away from the riverfront area the Refuge now inhabited during the chaos of the invasion, and had come back to stake their claim, killing a respected member of the group known only as Old Saint Henry. Initially,our agents were ready to charge her with cannibalism, had we not stepped in and halted their actions. We were acutely aware that we were dealing with something significant, and that we did not want her name on any kind of record except our own.

Further information from the boy detailed how he had brought victims to her during this early stage, usually unsavory types that in some way threatened the safety The Refuge provided all its members, until he was able to communicate with Helen in such a way that he was able to understand her and be sure she understood him. It was then that Jaymar introduced Helen to the rest of the Refuge, a task he found easier than expected. He began to appeal to her intelligence and weaned her off of human flesh, instilling in her that it was wrong, that she only do this if there was no other possible way to save a life. In sum, he instilled in her the human notion of the Sanctity of Life, and she indeed took the sanctity of the Refuge very seriously, becoming their protector when the need arose.

This may or may not be detrimental to our cause, as we believe that if not for the boy's intervention, Helen could have developed an advanced primal hunting instinct. One that, if allowed to flourish within a set boundary built by us, could make Helen a lethal agent in UNTIL level cases. Currently, however, we aren't entirely sure where we stand with this, suffice to say that, depending on Helen's adapting to our world and being in PRIMUS, we may have the option of making an assassin out of her. We believe her physical training may be the key to "refreshing" her instinct somewhat for the time being.

This is perhaps the reason she is prone to kissing her one on one on the mouth, ejecting the venom on lip lock. This usually is fatal.

Lightbending Through a special secretion that Helen excretes through her pores beneath her scales, she covers her skin with a substance that bends light in a such a way that she appears to "blend in" with her surroundings. Though this does not make her completely invisible, her illusion can be very convincing to the untrained eye.

Nocturnal Vision~When we speak of instinct and hunting drive, we cannot forget to mention Helen's eyes. Our observations have unearthed that she is able to look through mirrors, as she had done the in 24 hours since we had apprehended her and Jaymar Wilson after the incident in Westside. Cameras show that she looked through the tinted mirror directly at the agent who, sadly enough, didn't realize that she was watching him from the moment she sat down. Of course we relieved the agent of his duties, seeing as how the vulgarities and unprofessional manner he displayed had brought on a berzerker rage Helen hasn't displayed since. We thought it best to remove the agent from this facility, to avoid any possible 'mishaps' that might draw unneeded attention to PRIMUS in the press.

In the beginning of Helen's training we took her through a physical, where we were able to study her eyes and eyesight in depth. Physically she has the typical elliptical eyes of various genus of Snakes that we know of, but we've discovered that she has her species equivalent of a tapetum lucidum, found in most nocturnal and deep sea creatures with few exceptions. However, we believe her visual acuity stays unaffected, due to her ability to switch the spectrum scope of her eyes. So far we've measured that she has the ability to switch from Infrared to almost as high as x-ray vision. It's all theory at present, but we believe that this spectrum switching works in tandem with her tapetum lucidum, counteracting any negative reduction in her net visual acuity.

Venom Glands~ Helen is able to eject a zootoxin venom from two glands situated in the outer area beneath her tongue.

The substance, however, has an added component which we have not yet been able to determine. It has a gaseous form and manages to stun her victims on the spot for a period of time.This is perhaps the reason she is prone to kissing her one-on-one opponents on the mouth, she ejects the venom on lip lock. This usually is fatal.

Sadly, Helen's toxin breaks down almost immediately after exposure, making any study tedious at best. Since the samples deteriorate at an astonishing rate, we have not been able to fully study it's components, save for the unknown compound which our scientists cannot decode, despite having the most advanced technology at their disposal. We do know however on account of information given by Helen herself that her venom glands are very similar to those of a snake, that the venom sacks themselves are filled with the venom's liquid form, and that the gaseous form is more like a spray, caused by the use of a muscle no human possesses. Remarkable that her physical features do not betray that there is such a muscle at all. Studying this further would require taking a sample of the venom directly from the gland. However an unusual reaction upon posing the question to her has yielded caution on our part. We currently see no way to further study this ability.