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BOW REFERENCE: trashedbarbie.deviantart.com/a…

Finally, the ref is done.
I reused the head sketches I had uploaded before because I was too lazy to draw new ones, plus they turned out really well. Her face on the coloured version is almost a little too cute for my liking.
I'll probably update this a few times because I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton of things.

The written ref is not complete yet! I still have to add a lot of stuff but I'm so bad at making up my mind, also I'm super tired right now and I just wanted to post this...
So here you go~

Template by ChikitaWolf .

Credit for the idea for the chest guard goes to Mojomito .

{ B a s i c s

Name: Helena Darcy
Gender: female
Age: 19
Birthday: 04.04.18xx
Ethnicity: English, French(1/4)
Nationality: British
Zodiac: Aries

Her mother gave her the name Helena referencing Helen of Troy. She wanted her to grow into a beautiful woman, as Helen of Troy was known for her beauty.

{ P e r s o n a l i t y B a r
[5 = max; 3 = average; 1 = min]
Education: 5
Affinity: 4
Battle: 3
Mental: 3
Flexibility: 4
Etiquette: 5

She is very knoweldgeable because she was homeschooled.
(I might still change the Etiquette one)

{ A p p e a r a n c e

Height: 5’6’’ / 1,68cm
Weight: 112lbs / 51kg
Eye Color: greyish-blue-green
Hair Color: ebony
Skin Color: very light
Body Type: Skinny, delicate figure, small waist, long & slender fingers, average boob size & average hips. Not very athletic i.e. she’s not very strong physically, though she does endurance training. Looks rather mature.
Hair: classic length, stick straight black hair with a blunt edge haircut. Usually wears it open, but on missions puts it up in a hairstick bun or wears it in a braid.
(A/N: I know long hair in anime is not something special and everything but unusual… *sobs* But I still like to imagine that her hair is the main thing that makes her stand out and that it makes people wonder how she handles it)

Her uniform is adjusted to her fighting style, it doesn't limit her mobility. She wears a chest- and an armguard so the bowstring doesn't get caught, and the kneehigh boots serve as protection for her legs during battle.

{ E x t r a

Hobbies: reading, riding, walking, haircare
Likes: animals (especially horses and cats), autumn, open plains, high places
Dislikes: raisins (she gags if forced to eat them), heat, being forced to stay in a room all the time
Weakness note: She’s afraid of thunderstorms. When she’s stressed out, she doesn’t eat much.
Personality:
She’s a rather quiet person and can appear a little shy or aloof. She’s smart and logical but also stubborn, prefers listening to talking. Can be witty and sarcastic at times, though she's generally friendly and caring.
She's sensitive and very perceptive.
She’s a little insecure when it comes to her abilities and therefore afraid to fail in battle.
Stays composed most of the time and acts rather grown up, but can have an outburst if someone really gets on her nerves.
She has a deep love of nature. As a child she was often forced to stay inside and was mostly only allowed what girls were meant to do (knitting, learning an instrument, etc, inside activities basically) - and she accepted this fate, she’s not one to rebel against authority (i.e. her father) - but at every chance she got she would run outside, walk through the woods or take her horse out for a ride.

{ W o r k I n f o r m a t i o n

Affiliation: Black Order
Base of Operations: European Branch (HQ)
Occupation: Exorcist
Anti-Akuma Weapon: Phoebus (bow)
Partner: standard golem
Mentor(s): She sometimes trains with Kanda to learn close combat (using her bow like a staff, for training they use wooden staffs) and to build up strength (they haven’t been very successful at that, yet)

{ A l i a s / N i c k n a m e ( s )

/

{ A n t i - A k u m a W e a p o n I n f o

Anti-Akuma Weapon: A silver bow called Phoebus. (Phoebus is an alternative name for the greek god Apollon)
Innocence Type: Equipment
Synchro Rate: 74%
Deactivated Form: only a bow, no arrows.
Battle Strategy: She’s a long distance fighter and speed oriented. Helena is not very strong physically, she relies on being able to fight from a distance or to run from her enemies (and shoot while running). She’s very agile and a really fast shooter. She shoots intuitively and is therefore able to hit enemies even when in motion. On close encounter, she can use her bow like a staff and block attacks, or she can use an arrow to sting the enemy.
Helena does not have real arrows. The arrows she uses materialize in her hand as soon as she wants to shoot. Therefore she does not require a quiver, she does have one for her bow though (wearing the bow around the shoulder could wear it out and damage it). The arrows are made of Innocence and look almost chrystalline.
There are two reasons why Helena does not have real arrows:
-Firstly, if she had physical arrows she would at some point during a battle run out of ammunition, unless she runs around and collects every arrow she shoots. This would be highly impractical.
-Secondly, if she was wearing a quiver filled with arrows, the arrows would always bounce around and could even fall out of the quiver. This would again result in her running out of ammunition. Also, a quiver could get in the way and she wouldn’t be as mobile with it.
I purposely decided not to give her a wooden bow. A wooden bow could easily break in battle, therefore I imagined that the science department created a new material for her bow that is way more sturdy, and also won’t break in close combat.

Level 1 (Initial Activation): will follow

Level 2: will follow

(She can shoot one or multiple arrows (though the more arrows the shorter they fly). She also has a few moves, one being a howling arrow, but I still need to work on that.)

{ R e l a t i v e s

... Darcy (father, alive)
name will follow

... Darcy (mother, deceased)
name will follow. She was half British, half French.

Aunt ... (aunt; alive)
name will follow. Her father's sister, who is very annoying.

{ H i s t o r y

Helena is the daughter of a wealthy business and belongs to the upper class. Before joining the Order she lived in a mansion with her father, nanny, and some maids and other employees.
Helena had a private teacher and is therefore very educated. She was also taught a lot of "womanly" things, like knitting (which she hates), playing an instrument(piano) and dancing.
When she was free of her duties, she liked to go outside, shoot her bow or ride her horse. Sometimes she even combined riding and shooting, even though her father had forbidden it. One day she rode through the woods, passing Team Tiedoll on the way. For some reason her horse shied at Kanda and ran off, making her fall off. During this encounter Tiedoll noticed that she reacted to one of the Innocence fragments he was carrying, so they accompanied her home, where he convinced her father to take her to the Order.

(more detailed story will follow)

{ Q u o t l e t s

will follow

{ T r i v i a

o Before the Order she owned a stallion named Eclipse, whom she dearly misses.

o She speaks English and French fluently, as well as some German.

o She uses pointy metal hairsticks to put her bun up which she can use as weapons if needed.

o more will follow (im tired sorry)

Helena Darcy (c) me
D.Gray-man (c) Katsura Hoshino

Description
BOW REFERENCE: trashedbarbie.deviantart.com/a…

Finally, the ref is done.
I reused the head sketches I had uploaded before because I was too lazy to draw new ones, plus they turned out really well. Her face on the coloured version is almost a little too cute for my liking.
I'll probably update this a few times because I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton of things.

The written ref is not complete yet! I still have to add a lot of stuff but I'm so bad at making up my mind, also I'm super tired right now and I just wanted to post this...
So here you go~

Template by ChikitaWolf .

Credit for the idea for the chest guard goes to Mojomito .

{ B a s i c s

Name: Helena Darcy
Gender: female
Age: 19
Birthday: 04.04.18xx
Ethnicity: English, French(1/4)
Nationality: British
Zodiac: Aries

Her mother gave her the name Helena referencing Helen of Troy. She wanted her to grow into a beautiful woman, as Helen of Troy was known for her beauty.

{ P e r s o n a l i t y B a r
[5 = max; 3 = average; 1 = min]
Education: 5
Affinity: 4
Battle: 3
Mental: 3
Flexibility: 4
Etiquette: 5

She is very knoweldgeable because she was homeschooled.
(I might still change the Etiquette one)

{ A p p e a r a n c e

Height: 5’6’’ / 1,68cm
Weight: 112lbs / 51kg
Eye Color: greyish-blue-green
Hair Color: ebony
Skin Color: very light
Body Type: Skinny, delicate figure, small waist, long & slender fingers, average boob size & average hips. Not very athletic i.e. she’s not very strong physically, though she does endurance training. Looks rather mature.
Hair: classic length, stick straight black hair with a blunt edge haircut. Usually wears it open, but on missions puts it up in a hairstick bun or wears it in a braid.
(A/N: I know long hair in anime is not something special and everything but unusual… *sobs* But I still like to imagine that her hair is the main thing that makes her stand out and that it makes people wonder how she handles it)

Her uniform is adjusted to her fighting style, it doesn't limit her mobility. She wears a chest- and an armguard so the bowstring doesn't get caught, and the kneehigh boots serve as protection for her legs during battle.

{ E x t r a

Hobbies: reading, riding, walking, haircare
Likes: animals (especially horses and cats), autumn, open plains, high places
Dislikes: raisins (she gags if forced to eat them), heat, being forced to stay in a room all the time
Weakness note: She’s afraid of thunderstorms. When she’s stressed out, she doesn’t eat much.
Personality:
She’s a rather quiet person and can appear a little shy or aloof. She’s smart and logical but also stubborn, prefers listening to talking. Can be witty and sarcastic at times, though she's generally friendly and caring.
She's sensitive and very perceptive.
She’s a little insecure when it comes to her abilities and therefore afraid to fail in battle.
Stays composed most of the time and acts rather grown up, but can have an outburst if someone really gets on her nerves.
She has a deep love of nature. As a child she was often forced to stay inside and was mostly only allowed what girls were meant to do (knitting, learning an instrument, etc, inside activities basically) - and she accepted this fate, she’s not one to rebel against authority (i.e. her father) - but at every chance she got she would run outside, walk through the woods or take her horse out for a ride.

{ W o r k I n f o r m a t i o n

Affiliation: Black Order
Base of Operations: European Branch (HQ)
Occupation: Exorcist
Anti-Akuma Weapon: Phoebus (bow)
Partner: standard golem
Mentor(s): She sometimes trains with Kanda to learn close combat (using her bow like a staff, for training they use wooden staffs) and to build up strength (they haven’t been very successful at that, yet)

{ A l i a s / N i c k n a m e ( s )

/

{ A n t i - A k u m a W e a p o n I n f o

Anti-Akuma Weapon: A silver bow called Phoebus. (Phoebus is an alternative name for the greek god Apollon)
Innocence Type: Equipment
Synchro Rate: 74%
Deactivated Form: only a bow, no arrows.
Battle Strategy: She’s a long distance fighter and speed oriented. Helena is not very strong physically, she relies on being able to fight from a distance or to run from her enemies (and shoot while running). She’s very agile and a really fast shooter. She shoots intuitively and is therefore able to hit enemies even when in motion. On close encounter, she can use her bow like a staff and block attacks, or she can use an arrow to sting the enemy.
Helena does not have real arrows. The arrows she uses materialize in her hand as soon as she wants to shoot. Therefore she does not require a quiver, she does have one for her bow though (wearing the bow around the shoulder could wear it out and damage it). The arrows are made of Innocence and look almost chrystalline.
There are two reasons why Helena does not have real arrows:
-Firstly, if she had physical arrows she would at some point during a battle run out of ammunition, unless she runs around and collects every arrow she shoots. This would be highly impractical.
-Secondly, if she was wearing a quiver filled with arrows, the arrows would always bounce around and could even fall out of the quiver. This would again result in her running out of ammunition. Also, a quiver could get in the way and she wouldn’t be as mobile with it.
I purposely decided not to give her a wooden bow. A wooden bow could easily break in battle, therefore I imagined that the science department created a new material for her bow that is way more sturdy, and also won’t break in close combat.

Level 1 (Initial Activation): will follow

Level 2: will follow

(She can shoot one or multiple arrows (though the more arrows the shorter they fly). She also has a few moves, one being a howling arrow, but I still need to work on that.)

{ R e l a t i v e s

... Darcy (father, alive)
name will follow

... Darcy (mother, deceased)
name will follow. She was half British, half French.

Aunt ... (aunt; alive)
name will follow. Her father's sister, who is very annoying.

{ H i s t o r y

Helena is the daughter of a wealthy business and belongs to the upper class. Before joining the Order she lived in a mansion with her father, nanny, and some maids and other employees.
Helena had a private teacher and is therefore very educated. She was also taught a lot of "womanly" things, like knitting (which she hates), playing an instrument(piano) and dancing.
When she was free of her duties, she liked to go outside, shoot her bow or ride her horse. Sometimes she even combined riding and shooting, even though her father had forbidden it. One day she rode through the woods, passing Team Tiedoll on the way. For some reason her horse shied at Kanda and ran off, making her fall off. During this encounter Tiedoll noticed that she reacted to one of the Innocence fragments he was carrying, so they accompanied her home, where he convinced her father to take her to the Order.

(more detailed story will follow)

{ Q u o t l e t s

will follow

{ T r i v i a

o Before the Order she owned a stallion named Eclipse, whom she dearly misses.

o She speaks English and French fluently, as well as some German.

o She uses pointy metal hairsticks to put her bun up which she can use as weapons if needed.

o more will follow (im tired sorry)

Helena Darcy (c) me
D.Gray-man (c) Katsura Hoshino