#HELENA VESTERGAARD

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Helena Vestergaard by Brydie Mack

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Helena Vestergaard

For Spell, Australia 2016

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Helena Vestergaard polaroids for Kult Australia

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Rewatching Spy x Family inspired me to draw the Love & Legends cast in some snazzy outfits

Also! Since I got a new laptop, I can finally record speedpaints again!

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Helena Vestergaard by Brydie Mack

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Anthony Kiedis (/ˈkiːdɪs/ KEE-dis; born November 1, 1962) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and rapper, best known as a founding member and lead vocalist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Kiedis and his fellow band members were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.

Kiedis spent his youth in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with his mother, and then moved shortly before his twelfth birthday to live with his father in Hollywood. While attending Fairfax High School, Kiedis befriended students Flea and Hillel Slovak, who were members of a band called Anthym. After high school, Kiedis took classes at UCLA, but dropped out in his sophomore year.

When Kiedis received an offer to be the opening act for a local band, he enlisted Flea, Slovak, and drummer Jack Irons. After a show under the name Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem, the band progressed and the line-up eventually became the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He has recorded thirteen studio albums with the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Kiedis's lyrical style has evolved throughout his career; early recordings discussed topics such as sex and life in Los Angeles, while more recent songs focus on more reflective themes including love, addiction, and loss. He struggled with addiction until 2000, and maintains that he has been clean since then.

Family and Relationships

Kiedis's father, Blackie Dammett, was an actor who appeared in over 50 movies and television shows. Dammett's autobiography, Lords of the Sunset Strip, was released on March 31, 2013. Through Dammett, Kiedis also has a much younger half-brother. During the Chili Peppers show of June 25, 2017, in Grand Rapids, Kiedis dedicated "Soul to Squeeze" to his father, who was suffering from dementia. Dammett died on May 12, 2021.

Kiedis claims to have had a brief relationship in 1990 with singer Sinéad O'Connor, who inspired him to write "I Could Have Lied" on 1991's Blood Sugar Sex Magik, though she denied the relationship at the time. He was also in a brief relationship with Spice Girls singer Melanie "Sporty Spice" Chisholm, who inspired "Emit Remmus" from 1999's Californication. His band also covered their song "Wannabe" at a 1997 concert in Japan. Kiedis was in a relationship with Yohanna Logan on-and-off from 1998 to 2003. Kiedis had a two year long relationship with Australian model Helena Vestergaard that ended in late 2014; the end of this relationship inspired much of Kiedis' lyricism for The Getaway.

Kiedis acknowledges in his autobiography Scar Tissue that he had intimate relations with a 14-year-old girl when he was 23, before and after learning of her age, in the 1980s. This inspired him to write the song "Catholic School Girls Rule". In the wake of the Me Too movement, the alleged actions of Kiedis have been criticized by several media outlets, including the Huffington Post.

Kiedis was in a relationship with Heather Christie from 2004 to 2008. They have a son born October 2, 2007. In March 2018, Kiedis and Christie were involved in a custody battle.

In a June 2016 interview, Kiedis opened up about his past relationships, saying that there were years when he had over 100 sexual partners. Kiedis added, "If I saw a pretty girl, I wanted to have her." When asked about marriage and growing old and alone, Kiedis responded, "Maybe it is because I never learned to live in a relationship and as silly as it sounds, I do not understand women yet. They remain a mystery. I talked about this yesterday with a friend: do we focus on finding a person who fits with us, or will we remain single? I am open to both. If the right one comes – wonderful. If not, I accept what the universe has intended for me."

Drug Addictions

Kiedis has battled drug addiction, including heroin and cocaine, throughout his life. Since his father used drugs regularly, Kiedis was constantly exposed to drug-using and drug-dealing behavior while growing up. Some of Kiedis's early drug use came from substances he got from his father, including marijuana, which he first smoked when he was 12 years old.

Kiedis used drugs for years, including during the formation of the band. A few years into the band's career, he was briefly fired due to his heavy drug use. At times, it got so bad that he failed to show up to the band's performances. One night, after Kiedis missed a performance to score drugs, the band replaced him with singer Keith Morris.

Kiedis tried to get clean after Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Hillel Slovak died of a heroin overdose on June 25, 1988, saying he would never shoot up again. He entered rehab and ended up staying clean for five years, but he relapsed in 1994, causing a major delay in the release of the band's 1995 album, One Hot Minute. Kiedis kept using on and off over the next six years.

Kiedis's last major relapse occurred when a doctor prescribed him Tramadol despite Kiedis specifically asking not to be prescribed opiates. To a recovering heroin addict, synthetic opiates give rise to strong cravings. He has reportedly avoided another relapse since December 24, 2000. In May 2012, after over 20 years of speculation, Vulture asserted that the location where Kiedis would purchase and use drugs (which inspired "Under the Bridge") is located in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, California, based on clues taken from Kiedis' memoir. In 2014, LA Weekly strongly asserted that the conclusion of the Vulture magazine piece was incorrect.

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Helena Vestergaard

For Spell, Australia 2016

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ryan ross in 2015

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Helena Vestergaard by Robbie Masterson

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Do you have any head cannons for the Witch Queen (+the generals)?

Ooh yes

The Witch Queen had a personal tailor and put a lot of effort into her appearance. It might have occurred to her to dislike her magic scarring, but with her pride she fully leant into it

Lennox is the only general who cares about his appearance in the same way. Alain just wants to look how the Witch Queen wants him to, Helena and Magnus have other priorities, and Jinhai could not find a fuck to give

The WQ, Alain, Magnus, and Lennox all lived in the capital before her takeover, though Magnus and Lennox only met her after

Lennox and Jinhai were already outcasted by the Fairy and Elven domains respectively before joining the WQ. The scope of their crimes only expanded with her influence. Magnus was simply a soldier who chose a side.

The WQ had a few relationships that fizzled out before she became infatuated with the King. Most, if not all of them died in the war

The Witch Queen and Lennox are bi, Magnus is pan, Jinhai is ace, Helena is a lesbian, then Alain is straight and greyromantic but his general sexuality and romanticism is entirely distorted by his obsession with the WQ

Magnus might be married, but neither he nor his spouse were that attached before he left to become the WQ's general

The WQ keeps emotional distance from the generals as their queen, but she's fairly genial with Jinhai

Whenever the generals drink together, it's unpleasant and often violent. Alain has by far the lowest alcohol tolerance and Magnus, Lennox, and Jinhai are happy to leave him poisoned on the floor. Helena probably drank with them once early on before swearing off alcohol entirely

Magnus loves reading and watching overly-complicated social dramas. He cannot hate it more in his real life

Lennox knows how to play several instruments and is the best dancer of them all, though he doesn't get much opportunity to show it off

Alain and Magnus have absolutely no magic talent. While Helena is the WQ's apprentice and magical expert, Jinhai and Lennox both specialise in charms over animals and humans respectively but Lennox's charms get stronger over crowds and Jinhai's more powerful targeting specific creatures

Kind of canon, but the WQ is not originally the same age as the MC. She's 30 like Alain and Helena

Following, Jinhai is the oldest (300+), Lennox is ~90, Magnus is mid 40s

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Helena Vestergaard by Brydie Mack