Helena Bertinelli - Tumblr Posts
im starting a collection. also it kinda looks like she's flipping off eel in the last panel which is hilarious
For those who don't know where to start with female characters, here are a couple of League of Comic Geeks posts that have female bat character's reading lists. Now you can't claim you don't know where to start with these characters.
Barbara Gorden as Oracle
Cassandra Cain
Stephanie Brown
Helena Bertinelli
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Bette Kane
people on tumblr will make eloquent posts about how the batboys are actually ‘female coded’ instead of actually reading about a female character
Weird question, but I haven't read a lot of Helena Bertinelli comics (kinda nervous to since I was a fan of Earth 2 Helena, I like the JSA) and was wondering what you meant by her being a victim of CSA because I have never heard that be mentioned for, I tried googling but didn't find anything.
Hey its completely okay. So here are some panels I had saved that should explain it a bit.
TW: On screen depiction and implied CSA.
Huntress #1 (1989)
Skipping to when Helena comes back home
Then, in Huntress #1 (1994)
I really don't want to have to reread every Huntress issue to find if it's more clearly stated, but it is heavily implied and depicted as such. [I'm not in the best headspace go digging for more]
27 for the locg ask game? :D
Miss Helena!!!!
What's she looking at? Maybe an accountant's ledger from a local crime family, maybe her students' homework...
au where Bruce fucks off
7, 12, and 24 for helena bertinelli?
Helena Bertinelli
7. A quote of them that you remember?
Kid: Do you have super strength?
Helena: No.
Kid: Are you invulnerable?
Helena: I'm afraid not.
Kid: Then how are you gonna save him? What are you gonna do?
Helena: I'm going to do everything I'm capable of doing!
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Helena: Hypocrite
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Helena: Jabberwook
12. Sexuality headcanon?
I'm of two minds that exist hand in hand. Demisexual, Demiromantic, Bisexual. She wouldn't use those words for it, though. She knows she's queer and Bi, but doesn't exactly want to dig any deeper.
Also just realized the flag colors for all those identities (except for the demiromantic green) have matched her costume at some point throughout her history. No serious it matches.
24. What do you think is a secret they have that they never told anyone?
I think about this one a lot, actually. So far up to my reading, she doesn't talk explicitly about memories she has with her immediate family.. I think she keeps those to herself. She talks about her family history, but that's stuff that reasonably anyone could find out, but the personal stuff? She keeps those to herself. The moments where her mother brushes her hair or would pick out a dress, the moments at meals where they were almost normal. What she named her toys. She also keeps all the memories of her brother to herself.
She also keeps a lot of stuff private about her faith. Sure, she talks about it and devoted it with Artemis, but it's another thing for herself. Something that can't be taken away. Her family is dead, and a vigilante identity can be stripped, but her faith is her own. Even in the moments where her faith won't allow her in, it's still hers and hers alone.
I think she also stays quite on just how lonely she can be. How she doesn't have a family, she only started making friends later on, how that friendship can feel conditional, how separated she can be from people. It's never quite there, but still there. She loves working on her own, being herself. She does it and loves it. But sometimes it hits her just how alone she is. Moments where she remembered she was the only one in her building, using recorded conversation to fill up the empty space.
I also think she keeps quite on just how much she cares for the younger vigilantes. Robin and Spoiler, to be exact. Now, in canon so far in my reading, Huntress and Spoiler have met and teamed up 1.5 times. I think despite that very short list, Huntress cares a lot. She doesn't want another kid in a costume, as seen from Blunt Trauma. She's a teacher, she cares about her students, and she cares about the kids she saves. She goes out of her way to try to help kids even if logically she knows it's doomed. She doesn't want more kids going down the vigilante path. She sees Spoiler, and she hopes that it's not too late to turn her away from vigilantism even though she knows it won't work because she cares. She doesn't want anyone else to become a part of this life. Robin (Tim) she has a much longer history. She would never admit how much she wants to be an older sister, how she feels like an older sibling when around him. She won't admit it but she's proud of him.
She won't ever admit, not even on her death bed, just how much Batman's rejection into the main circle hurt. Sure, people know it. But not how deep it was.
Ohh this is really interesting though.
Because Helena becomes resentful of organized crime because of what it did to her family. She sought revenge and started her vigilante career for the expressed purpose of getting revenge. It wasn't a short-term idea either. She was actively working towards it for years. She took class on the mafia and the structure specifically with the purpose of it fueling her revenge. This wasn't something created by her extended family when she stayed with them or when they were teaching her fighting skills. If she was doing it against her will, she would have stopped after they got taken into custody during the Italian crackdown on organized crime. The key pillar of who she is comes from the early tragedy. It comes from being told she could get blood for blood. It comes from the realization that she could tear it down.
Tragedy fundamentally changes a person, for better or worse.
Could she, in a world where her family wasn't murdered have become resentful of organized crime and worked in other ways to take it down? Sure. Anything is possible. She has shown a great capacity to care, especially in how she becomes a teacher. Maybe she sees what organized crime is doing to children and comes to hate it.
I also think you have to ask at what point Helena Huntress would meet or see a version of herself who didn't loose her family, because early days Huntress would have a different reaction than Helena who's been in the game for a couple years and now is focusing efforts elsewhere as well.
Helena's story is about the cycles of violence. Blood Cries for Blood. That is a cycle of bloodshed and grief. The lose of someone leads to the death of someone else leads to the death of another etc.
A Helena who wouldn't pick up that cycle isn't Huntress, she can't be Huntress because she wouldn't be hunting down the mafia. Helena who picks up the cycle of violence in another way, though. In the continuation of the Bertinelli crime family. Maybe she stands directly in the way of Batman and co. Now.
Helena as Huntress has hero connections outside of Gotham, with the BoP, multiple versions of the Justice League, and various teamups throughout the years. Helena, who has her family, wouldn't have this.
There is a sort of grief in that. Helena, who gets to see her family, lives at the cost of everything she knows. The Question, Black Canary, Oracle, Lady Blackhawk. She doesn't know any of them. Helena, as Huntress, had the chance to become friends with Barbara, but Helena without Huntress wouldn't.
Thinking about Helena... The grief she feels over the loss of her family is powerful and moving to her and the tragedy of them being killed before her eyes molds her idea of justice. At the same time, what her idea of justice becomes is at odds with what her mafia family had done. I wonder what she would think of a version of herself whose family never died.
batmen and robin
Best way to start off the bingo is with:
Helena Bertinelli
Of course!
My blorogirl <3
Helena of course for Bingo, and hmm also Black Canary to mix it up
Helena! I'm just a bit unhinged.
There are only two characters I've ever wanted to kiss. One of them is Helena. I don't know if I want to be with her, be her, or if I just project too much. I will not explain anymore than that.
Black Canary
She's really high on my Locg list, but I'm not completely insane about her. She is dear to me, and the DinahBabs Yuri is real and true to me.
Helena Bertenelli for the charecter ask game?
Helena Bertinelli
Three facts about them from my personal headcanons
1. Helps with a summer reading program at the closest library where she helps younger kids break down books and look at narrative tools.
2. Visits the graves of the children she was unable to save. Late at night when she can afford a moment or two.
3. She still keeps snacks in her pantry that she doesn't like but knows other people like. Whether it's for when Dinah, or Babs comes over, or when other vigilantes need a close place to crash.
A reason they suck
She doesn't go to therapy, but will recommend it to others.
A reason they are great
Despite everyone trying to change and control her, she continues to be herself and only changes when she wants to change. Also, the slow healing she goes through but still backslide.
A reason I relate to them
Her anger and rage at what she has been through and the treatment she faces. Her grudges and the way that even when she has been wronged, she will still help because she is still a good person.
(What I consider to be) the top tier otp/ot3 for the character
I don't really ship her endgame with anyone? I like her ships in context. The BoP polycule is super fun, but I only see it in the context of the comic and can't see it in any other AUverse. I like Helena and Dick in the context of this is the best divorceable ship ever. I haven't read enough of either Question to have a big opinion.
Five things that have never happened to this character that I believe should have happened
1. Even if briefly, experience the dynamic of having a sidekick.
2. Save her class of students while as a civilian.
3. Bonding experience with Cass. Could go good or bad but they will bond in some way.
4. A team-up or team with no strings attached. Where she doesn't end up being in the role of being controlled.
5. A spin-off series with her and Artemis. They had such a fun dynamic in the gods of Gotham story and I would have loved to see more of it.
Five people that character has never fallen in love with and why?
1. Dick. She could never fall in love with someone who keeps so many secrets and never fully trusts her. She never saw it as being long-term and already knew that a relationship between the two of them would never last long.
2. Babs. She could never fall in love with someone who seeks to control her. She never wants to end up in the position where she is unable to leave, unable to make her own choices without feeling that string of control.
3. Dinah. She could never fall in love with someone while knowing that the person's heart belongs to another. That the love she could hold would always be second to another. Knowing that the other would go back to another.
4. The people she has to flirt with while on the job. She could never fall in love with someone who would know only one part of herself and someone whose first connection is to the mask.
5. Herself. She can never truly love herself because she sees so many flaws and passes too much judgment onto herself. She knows her own past and knows the toll it has taken on her to live with it but also the toll that being Huntress can take on her. She knows what she is doing to herself, and for that, she can't fully love herself.
HELENA BERTINELLI IS G O N E .
‡ she was a FACADE, masking a great deal of pain.
/ masking her feelings.
⠀⠀ ⠀ masking her fears. /
THE OLD FACADE HAS C/R/A/C/K/E/D.
the stoic, the sharp tongue — all broken down to provide fuel for a new self.
helena thought she was intimidating.
SHE COULDN'T SCARE ANYBODY.
— ⌖ it's time to invent someone who can.
to confront the ultimate killers, i must construct the ultimate alias. to combat the MURDERERS who would destroy my family, CRUSH MY OWN LIFE on their way to consuming everything — i must become a greater, more fearsome DESTROYER. to track down the ANIMALS who PREY on the INNOCENT, i must stalk them first … i am no longer their quarry.
⌖ › I AM THE HUNTRESS.
requited by sans. ⠀⠀ ⠀† side blog to @birds-of-x.
I was presently surprised because I didn't know every single one of your favs, so I thought I might find one I didn't know about, but also not shocked by the answer I got either.
take my uquiz... if you want to
i was inspired by the one @franollie did a little while ago :)
Helena Bertinelli in Harley Quinn & the Birds of Prey #003 (2020)
Helena Bertinelli in Detective Comics #1036 (2021)
reasons you should read huntress (year one):
she beats up batman/bruce wayne twice
Dating Helena Bertinelli | Headcanons
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. God, I love her, she’s so gorgeous ⭐️
First, the crush
-Okay so hear me out, Helena in crush will be more awkward than ever
-like, yes it’s possible
-don’t ever expect her to tell you, she don’t know how to do it and don’t want to be weird
-she don’t want to ruin your friendship, and what if you don’t like her back ?!
-if you confess your feeling, she will be like : ah.. uh… you, hum… oh… i…
-For ten good minutes
-After that, she’ll be looking at her feet, blushing mumbling that she like you too
Dating part
-at the beginning, Helena will not show a lot of affection
-the poor baby grew up only with violence, so being touchy isn’t easy for her :(
-but she’ll be way more protective over you
-always around if you fight with the birds, glancing at you every 5 second
-let her being comfortable around you and she will trust you
-super soft kisses
-hug you like you were made of glass
-don’t like to show PDA in public, or only holding hand
-Private, she will hug you and kiss you, she’s not letting you go
-rest her head on your chest, the sound of your heartbeat help her to sleep
-Rage issues showing up when the Birds tease her about your relationship
Little + ;)
-she like when you braid her hair
-all her life, she focus on vengeance, she don’t had the time for movies so be ready to rewatch all the classic with her
-Prefer Home made dinner than Restaurants
-Give you sweet nicknames in Italian :)
-She talk in her sleep and move a lot, be warned, you might take a punch or two (by accident of course :/)
Ok, it’s my first Headcanons ever, sorry if it’s a bit short and sorry for my English, I’m learning ^^’