Hey, what does Helen Cantor do in the BSAA? I'm so curious about her job there. What she do there? Does Chris Redfield know her or even Jill Valentine? How did she and Donna meet? What was Donna's reaction to learning she's from the BSAA? It's angst I hope. Is she skillful?
Plss reveal some lore I'm so curious about her
Oh my, I'm so happy you took interest in her 🥹
It's a long story (thanks to RE abundant lore), but I'll keep it short. Long story short!
1. Helen is a field agent. She works with Chris eversince she was a rookie. And now she is part of Hound Wolf Squad. She was recruited young to BSAA after an "incident" in her university. She was meant to be a researcher since she studied biochem, but her skill as field agent cannot be wasted. So yes, Helen is pretty skillful! (She just wants to do research actually, but life...)
2. Chris is like an older brother to her. Chris was also the one who saved her from the university incident after Helen survived and Helen was recruited young so Chris was there for her. And yes, Helen knows Jill, she looks up to Jill after she joined the operation where BSAA saved Jill from Wesker.
3. How did Helen and Donna met? Now that goes loong waaay back. I might've bend the canon a little (sorry capcom, I need the lore), so Helen and Donna were childhood friends. They grew up together until they are around 20. Then Miranda killed Helen indirectly by sending an infected and made Helen fell off the cliff and made it like it's an accident so Donna didn't know. The reason? Miranda wanted Donna to take the cadou and Helen was on the way. Helen's death finally drove Donna to take the cadou. Helen was actually infected when she struggled. Her conciousness "accidentally" stored in the megamycete? I used the "reincarnation" theme here. Almost just like Miranda wanted with Eva. So in the same day, a baby was born (maybe from infecteds or smth²), with Helen's appearance, with Helen's consciousness. But this Helen lost her memories of her past life until she meets Donna again in a BSAA mission decades later (set in RE8 ofc ;)). During this life, Miranda was aware of Helen's existence and tried to take Helen (the university incident) for Eva. But failed. Then she tried to kill her instead, few years before RE8. Failed again, simply because Helen wasn't entirely human. Helen always survived. So, Donna was entirely clueless of Helen's re-existence until Helen appeared in her manor one night (This is the shortest version I can think of XD). If you are interested, you can read my work of this very scene here!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/63249082
4. As for Donna's reaction on finding out Helen is actually BSAA? I need to keep this short so again, please feel free to check out another one of my work XD here! This is a whole 1k of Donna's reaction to it.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/63302287
5. Finally! Yes! It has lots of angst. I love angst! They suffered a lot and I blame Miranda for it (you're hot, ma'am, but damn, everyone suffered bc of you).
I hope these answered your curiousity! Once again, thank you for asking this and I'm so happy you are interested in Helen Cantor. She is an OC I made with so much love ❤️ much love to you too, anon!
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