Helena Tenar

Helena Tenar is a veteran Huntress operating independently throughout the Vale and Mistral kingdoms.

Marcus & Ellen
Helena's weapons of choice in her new profession she named after her dead husband and daughter. Weapons of her own design and built with help of Nigel Toombs they are a pair of custom Jagd Lanze with three seperate weapon modes:

Rocket Lance:
A simple improvement of the knight's lance where the attack range and power have been increased thanks to a cluster of small dust powered boosters and fins to give it surprising good range and limited manoeuvrability in the air.

Gatling gun:
The main body of the lance splits into three equal sized panels while the three pairs of barrels fold out and around the tip of the lance while the grip on the staff folds out to allow the weapon to be held like a chainsaw and fired from the hip. the ammunition is loaded behind the handguard portion of the lance which stays in one piece during transformation. the ammunition is beltfed and contained in a drum magazine she can hook up and reload with practiced hands and she keeps two spare drums on her belt

Harpoon cannon:
the final form of the weapons is the harpoon mode, which follows a similar transformation as the gatling gun but instead of the barrels of the gatling gun deploying the tip of the lance and it's firing mechanism are unfolded and the weapon can launch the harpoon tip of the lance. the harpoons have several different payloads which helena can swap quickly (like loading an RPG-7) and the weapon can fire them with or without a cable which is storred near the base of the lance on a coil that can reel the harpoon back in at high speed.

Types of harpoon:
Javelin: a simple aerodynamic harpoon with a longer shaft and thinner head. could be thrown like a javelin but with lesser effectiveness. this is her best choice for long range aside from the Seeker type and by far the cheapest of her harpoons.

Missile: her usual choice of harpoon, equipped with an explosive dust charge in the head that gets triggered when the cable is disconnected with a 5 second delay. the type of dust charge can be swapped and the trigger can be set to a timer if not connected to the cable.

Caster: a special but heavy harpoon head that blasts open to fling a net at the target. the net is strong enough to contain an Ursa but larger Grimm can break through with ease. the net can be electrified to incapacitate the Grimm or use other Dust batteries to apply other elemental effects to the net.

Seeker: Helena's most advanced weapon, more a guided missile than a harpoon it can slightly adjust it's course to impact with whatever the targeting laser built into the weapon marks. loaded with triple the charge of the Missile type the seeker is fired with wind dust before the rocket ignites and using the stabilizing fins it can slightly adjust it's course, but this is hardly noticeable outside of long range combat due to the speed and limited manoeuvrability of the rocket. Helena hardly ever uses the seeker as she only has five of them.

History
Helena grew up in Norema, a city not far from the capital of Vacuo. Norema was a relatively quiet town and had not seen any action since the Great War ended and Fort Norema lost it's strategic value and was eventually closed down and abandoned. Growing up Helena wanted to help her community and eventually chose to do so through law enforcement. she enrolled in the Vacuo police academy to become a police officer. not long before graduating she started dating Marcus Mason, a charming young man her age she met through a friend from the academy. It didn't take long for them to decide to spend the rest of their lives together, and shortly after Helena graduated from the academy at age 20 she married Marcus. They moved to her home town of Norema where Helena became a police officer and Marcus got a job with the wall maintenance crews.

two years later Helena had her fist child Ellen, and although she had to get back to her job Marcus had plenty of time to look after her as he was between jobs. Working as a cop was sometimes hard on Helena, but her husband and daughter were a good remedy for all the stress that work threw at her. taking care of her family helped keep her mind on the goal of keeping her city safe for her family's sake.

Sadly, despite her training, she could not save her family.

Fifteen years ago there were rumours going around the city about extremist faunus banding together to try and start a new human faunus war. Helena wasn't part of the investigation into the faunus activity but she kept tabs on the issue along with several of her co-workers. After a while they had discovered that a group of faunus terrorists had dug themselves in the old fortress and had brought a lo of dangerous weapons in with them. A team of Huntsmen along with the special police unit from Vacuo were brought in to flush out the faunus extremists, but something went wrong and what was supposed to be a sneak attack was turned into a bloody war of attrition within the tunnels of the old bunkers.

Helena was out on patrol when the fighting started, first just muffled echoes of gunfire and explosions from the distant fort. But later it reached the city.

Apparently the Faunus terrorists had managed to clear several of the old tunnels that connected the city to the fortress, these had been made to allow the civilian population to evacuate safely and to let the soldiers emerge almost anywhere in the city. Now instead of soldiers Grimm that had been captured by the Faunus and set loose against the hunters began to emerge from the tunnels and rampaged through the city. Due to the tunnels connecting almost all over the city a lot of Grimm managed to run unopposed. Several neighbourhoods were hit bad. When the fighting was finally over Helena found her home a pile of rubble along with half the block. that scene pretty much reflected her life after she found her husband's mauled body. she never found her daughter's body in the rubble, she likely would not have survived finding her like she had Marcus. At that point she pretty much considered her life to be over.

Helena grieved, fought a depression for five months and all the while tried to keep up her job as the final piece of who she was. eventually she could not take it any longer, could not stand to be in Norema and be constantly reminded of what she had lost. so one day she just left. set out into the world to find something, anything to build up a new life.