<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/1/13/Akame-ga-Kill-Najenda.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Helena Vogel<br/><strong>Age:</strong>28<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Status:</strong>Mercenary and former State Alchemist<br/><strong>Title:</strong>The Storm Front Alchemist<br/><strong>Rank:</strong>Major<br/><strong>Origin:</strong>Cameron - East Area<br/><strong>Stationed:</strong>N/A<br/><strong>Alchemy:</strong>Oxygen/Hydrogen Molecule Manipulation<br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">Common transmutations</span></strong><br/><span class="bbc_u">Dry Lightning</span>- By using her alchemy to manipulate molecules in the air and cause them to rapidly heat up, Helena can create short ranged bursts of ionized gas, or plasma as it is more commonly known.  It earned its name due to the loud crack and burst of light that accompanies it, reminiscent of actual lightning.<br/><span class="bbc_u">Icy Touch</span>- Through physical contact with an object, Helena can create a coating of ice over it, which spreads rapidly at first but loses steam after a short distance, usually around three meters.  This is done via the manipulation of oxygen and hydrogen molecules to first create water, then freeze it by rapidly slowing the movement of said molecules.  This same technique can be used to create small objects from ice, but only if it's in her hand or in very close proximity, at most twelve inches from the palm of her hand.  This is due to the fact her level of control worsens the further away from her the target of her alchemy actually is.<br/><span class="bbc_u">Air Burst</span>- Able to control the air as finely as her alchemy allows, she can turn it into a weapon, causing blasts of wind strong enough to send grown men flying or even shatter relatively thin walls.<br/><span class="bbc_u">Air Walk</span>- Thanks to specialized transmutation circles carved into the soles of her boots that create bursts of air beneath her feet, Helena is able to, essentially, "walk on air".  This term is wildly inaccurate, of course, and the technique itself is potentially quite dangerous.  It looks<em>really</em>cool, though.<br/><strong>Brief:</strong>Born in the small town of Cameron in the East Area of Amestris, perhaps sixty miles east of East City, Helena learned alchemy at the feet of her mother, who was rather famous locally for her supposed "weather alchemy".  She could, more or less, control air currents and create water by combining air molecules, helping the town during times of drought.  Helena was so proud to be her daughter, to learn from her and help others.  She loved her mother... which is why it was so crushing to lose her.<br/><br/>Left an orphan, though thankfully not entirely alone thanks to the grateful people of Cameron, Helena struggled to come to grips with her mother's death and find a purpose in life to follow.  Some suggested she take up her mother's work in town, but, despite their kindness, all she had now of the place she once called home were sad memories.  Continuing to live in her mother's house without her there just wasn't something she could do.  So, when state alchemists came to town in search of the purported "weather witch", Helena latched onto the chance they offered like a drowning man to a life raft.<br/><br/>In the years that followed, Helena fought the enemies of Amestris, and paid the price for it.  She lost friends, her arm, her eye, and felt the price of patriotism was just too high.  She turned in her badge of office and resigned from service, turning to the life of a mercenary when money became tight.  With a combat automail right arm, specially designed to be resistant to extremes in temperature, as well as packing a built in grappling device and enhanced hydraulics for increased striking power, she now works in the West Area, having not had the heart to return home.