Helica

Helica (ヘリカ) is a minor character in Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea. She is a humanoid type of sea snail and a member of Uomihime's court.

Physical Description
Helica is most likely the personification of a venus comb murex, a type of predatory sea snail.

Helica has Russian green colored hair held in pigtails by dark green venus comb shell bands. Her eyes are a green gradient with white pupils. Helica's pupils have been known to turn black when she is enraged.

Helica wears a green dress that has white cuffs at the wrists, a white collar, and a white middle piece lined with eight green buttons. The bottom part of her dress is a mixture of pale dark green, pale light green, and white. She wears gray-green knee-high boots, each with six buttons on a white cuff at the top, similar to the middle piece of her dress. Underneath, she wears dark green leggings. Helica often carries a dark green drill-like shell (?) as a weapon covering her hand.

Personality
Helica is rather thick-headed and dumb. She possesses a rather infantile demeanor; she enjoys looking at picture books, playing Othello, and dislikes sour persimmons - traits akin to a small child. As stated in the physical copy of the manga, her favorite color is white. Her specialty is performing sudden attacks. Her favorite food is rice crackers and dumplings. Helica is prone to becoming enraged easily, especially when drunk; when she becomes intoxicated, she loses the ability to differentiate friend from foe. Prone to easy drunkenness, Helica will visibly blush and become quite loud.

Helica also resents the Totsusa soldiers to the point that she goes into a state of madness. To return to her normal self, she must be drained of her energy. This trait only worsens when she has ingested alcohol.

Despite her shortcomings, however, she has a strong sense of justice and is loyal to her liege, Uomihime.

Background
Not much is currently known about Helica's past.

Appearances

 * Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea - Supporting character.

Pulmo
Pulmo is Helica's co-worker under Uomihime's court and also love-interest. In the manga of Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea, in celebration of Wadanohara's successful repairs to the barrier stones, a banquet was held within the castle. After getting drunk during the festivities, Helica grabbed hold of Pulmo, dragging the jellyfish close and kissing her. Later, in an omake found in the back of the manga, she kisses Pulmo again.

Seguro
Seguro and Helica are close friends with each other, as well as Miyura. They're seen together often, both referred to as "squeezes" by Miyura. When blinded by rage at the sight of her enemies (Totsusa Soldiers), Seguro is one of the few who attempts to calm her down. Knowing that Helica is a lightweight drinker and becomes boisterous when drunk, Seguro expresses concern over her drinking but appears to drink with her regardless.

Wadanohara
Wadanohara is one of Helica's friends.

Uomihime
Uomihime is Helica's master.

Tatsumiya
Tatsumiya is Helica's co-employee of Uomihime's court.

Syakesan
Syakesan was Helica's former co-employee of Uomihime's court.

Natural Abilities

 * Nigh-Absolute Immortality - Like all non-human characters in the Deep-Sea Prisoner Universe, Helica cannot die from natural causes such as aging or disease.
 * Underwater Breathing - Being a sea snail, she can naturally breathe underwater.

Trivia

 * Helica's name may be a portmanteau of the words helix (a spiral form or structure) and mollusca (the phylum of which a snail belongs to.)
 * In part of the game, she mentions not knowing the surface; this could be assumed that she has never left the sea and that she does not know the surface lands.
 * When Helica becomes intoxicated, her in-game sprite will show her blush.

Funamusea's Private Deep-Sea Academy
Translated by Yao, typeset by Jo.

Quotes

 * "None shall upset the morals of this sea!" (Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea)
 * "Aaaaah! Just a whiff of beer an' I'm out!" ("Somehow Already Drunk Helica" during the festival in Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea)