iris : if your muse could convey one last message to someone they have lost or left behind , what would it be ?
“mary, mary knox, it’s me, huntress. i wish i could’ve told you my real name earlier, i wish i had given you my number, i wish i understood that you didn’t need my help to barely survive, you wanted a reason to live, to live loudly and truthfully despite your fears. i’m sorry i judged you for naming your cat doug or talking hours and hours about dental insurance or anything you did to cope with your anxiety, i’m sorry i didn’t understand you were having a panic attack on your porch and i scolded you for being reckless about your safety like a kid, i’m sorry i was such a bad friend to you. i’m not used to people living loud with their weirdness and all, i’m not used to anybody finding comfort in my company, i thought my duty was to keep you safe. but it was too late, i’ve always been too late. i hope you can forgive me, i hope you know that i will never let anything happen to doug for as long as i live, i hope you know that i loved you and i cared about you, i never meant to dismiss you. you were one of the realest friends i had in a long time. i undermined the normalcy you had once brought to my life. mary, i hope your soul rests in peace. i will never stop praying for you. my name is helena bertinelli, and i will always be your friend, good or bad, beyond life and death.”
basil : does your muse have a love - hate relationship with anyone or anything ?
off the top of my, barbara gordon <3 i love frenemy-ish helbabs so much, gosh. and for things... i'd say reality tv shows, they're so mind-melting but she can't get enough of them 😭
mint : does your muse view themself as virtuous & moral ? what do these words mean to them ?
helena used to dream of being a nun one day, of attaining sainthood. she even dared to wish to be the pope. the huntress, to some degree, was an extension of her faith. was.
helena knows she's knee-deep in blood and gore. she knows she's shrouded in darkness. she knows she has ghosts in her ribcage, that her blood cries for more blood. she knows that the mafia took away her innocence a long time ago, and she'll never have her girlhood back. she knows she'll never be whole again, that she's difficult to love, difficult to defend, difficult to forgive.
but her being huntress isn't about some arbitrary values or ideals anymore. it's about survival, it's about the gritty reality, it's about how danger is inevitable and she needs to keep people safe from it.
regardless of the labels placed on her, at her core, helena bertinelli simply wants to help people and do the right thing. she listens to a voice higher than that of law, of superheroes, of theological decree, of god: her own.
thank you for the ask my friend!!! 🩵