Helba

Character Profile
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Name	Helba
Gender	Female
Class	Wavemaster
Media Information
Japanese Voice	Yumi Touma
English Voice	Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
First Appearance	.hack//SIGN
Offline
Name	?
Age	?
Gender	?

"There's an order that The World desires, then there's the order that you desire. Which one should it take, Balmung?"

— Helba —

Helba (ヘルバ) is an infamous hacker that appears throughout the .hack series.

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Helba

Appearance

Helba is a surprisingly tall female character that wears revealing clothing. She dons head-wear similar to a priest's cap that covers her eyes. Her normally masked face is revealed in the second volume of XXXX.

Personality

Helba is always calm, collective, and confident in what she does. She also puts on a mysterious persona and acts suspiciously around her so-called allies. She always seems to know more than she's revealing.

Offline

Basic Info

Nothing is known about Helba except for the fact that she is a professional hacker who takes her work very seriously. Though she uses a female persona, it is not known whether she is actually female, or even whether she is just one person. She is very active on the Japanese servers of The World however, leading many to believe that she is Japanese.

Hobbies

She enjoys playing mind games and hacking, and finds such things as deleted data particularly interesting. She also has some knowledge of the Epitaph of the Twilight.

History

.hack//SIGN

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Helba in SIGN

In SIGN, Helba gave information to the main characters by giving them hints to get into The Inverted Castle where AI Harald was located. At the later stage, Helba opened a Helba Gate, which gave them access to Net Slum. In Net Slum, they encountered copies of Tsukasa's data as well as Morganna's Guardians. After Aura was awakened by Tsukasa and the party encountered Skeith, Helba ordered them to retreat and deleted the field they were on.

.hack//Games

Helba plays a much larger role in the .hack//Games. She interrupts Skeith's attack, preventing him from Data Draining Kite. She later informs Kite about his Data Drain and Gate Hack abilities. Her role consisted of sending subtle hints as well as retrieving deleted data. As Kite defeated more Phases and the true enemy began to reveal itself, Helba would become actively involved, developing a program to counter the enemy and creating a server in which the final battle would be fought.

Helba in Another Birth

.hack//Another Birth

Helba's role in Another Birth is the same as in the Games.

Helba and Lios in XXXX

.hack//XXXX

Helba makes several appearances throughout XXXX to aid Kite and avatar Cubia in their quest. During a fight with Kite and Balmung against Corbenik, she is attacked and her mask is knocked off. This is the only time Helba's face is ever seen.

.hack//Unison

In celebration of the victory and the resulting rebirth of Aura, Helba programmed a fireworks celebration in Net Slum, showing a more fun side of herself. She invites characters from SIGN as well as a few of Kite's party. There, she turned down Lios's offer to turn Net Slum into an official Root Town. According to Analysis however, she later reconsiders and Net Slum becomes an official Root Town.

.hack//GIFT

In the opening, the "dancing lady" turns into Helba for reasons unknown. In the end of the special episode, she comes out naked and soothes Orca's and Bear's feelings, as well as tells everyone that she was the one who PKed BT, in order to make the plot more interesting.

.hack//Legend of the Twilight (manga)

Helba's role is significantly smaller in Legend of the Twilight. She only appears in the prologue chapter, in a single panel. Afterwards, she never appears in person, only references to her are made. Kazu provides Shugo with a Helba Key to Net Slum, where he would meet with Balmung. Balmung would provide Shugo with the Virus Cores necessary to access the field Aura was in.

Trivia

• Helba joins Kite's party once the player completes Quarantine at level 99 with a hacked level 93 weapon called 8 Wise Men.
• Helba is the only player that joins Kite with 99 in all stats and 9999 HP.
• Helba is the only character that moves by hovering.
• Both the English and the Japanese VA also did the voices of Kaoru Asaba from Liminality and Emma Wielant in .hack//Games.
• Helba shares her English VA with Bordeaux in .hack//G.U..
• It is thought that Zelkova from .hack//G.U. either is or has some connection to the original Helba. This is often supported by their similar clothing; max stats; infinite gold and Helba's weapon "8 Wise Men" and Zelkova's weapon "Goddess Scythe" wich represent different religeous symbols

Kite's party members.
Balmung	BlackRose	Elk	Gardenia	Helba
Marlo	Mia	Mistral	Moonstone	Natsume
Nuke Usagimaru	Orca	Piros	Rachel	Sanjuro
Sora	Subaru	Tsukasa	Terajima Ryoko	Wiseman