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| Name | Helba |
| Gender | Female |
| Class | WaveMaster |
| Japanese Voice | Yumi Touma |
| English Voice | Mary McGlynn |
| First Appearance | .hack//SIGN |
| Name | ? |
| Age | ? |
| Gender | Unknown |
- "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 a hacker and is infamous throughout the .hack series.
Online
Appearance
She's a surprisingly tall female character that wears revealing clothing. She dons 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 outfit that dances in .hack//SIGN's opening and the fact that she is a professional hacker who takes her work very seriously. 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
Helba in 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 shut down the server they where 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.
.hack//Another Birth
Helba's role in Another Birth is the same as in the games.
.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.
.hack//GIFT
.hack//Legend of the Twilight (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.
End of The World
According to "The End of The World" she reconsidered Lios's proposal and makes Net Slum into it's own Root Town.
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.
- She's the only character that moves by hovering.
| 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 |