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	Unknown
Age	Unknown
Gender	Female

"There's an order the world desires and an order you desire. Which shall it be, Balmung?"

— Helba —

Helba is a hacker and is infamous throughout the .hack series.

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Appearance

She's a surprisingly tall female character that wears clothing that's revealing. She wears a head-wear similar to a priest's cap that covers her eyes.

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 then she's revealing.

Offline

Basic Info

The only things known so far about Helba in the real world is that she is the woman in red dress that dances in .hack//SIGN´s opening and the fact that she is a professional hacker. She may have worked under Harald Hoerwick, and she may know Ichiro Sato personally.

Hobbies

She enjoys playing mind games and hacking. She also finds such things as deleted data particularly interesting.

History

.hack//SIGN

In SIGN, Helba gave information to the main characters, giving them access to a Helba Gate to enter Net Slum, where 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 gated them out.

.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.

.hack//Unison

In celebration of the victory and the resulting rebirth of Aura, Helba programmed a fireworks celebration in Net Slum, inviting 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 server.

.hack//Legend of the Twilight

Anime

Helba does not make an appearance in the anime

Manga

Helba's role was significantly smaller in Legend of the Twilight. She merely provided 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.
• Her level is at 99 when she first joins you.
• Her weapon is called the 8 Wise Men, a hacked level 99 wand.
• Helba is the only player in the game that joins you that has 99 in all stats and 9999 HP.
• She's the only character that moves by hovering.