#Helena eagan

[alicentlesbian]

can't make one post being like "omg helena is my baby she's so sad i love her 🥺" without all the hannibal lestat saw franchise toxic yaoi fans showing up to give you a lecture on morality and how actually helena is TOO evil to like so you shouldn't ever sympathize with her and if you go one second without mentioning the severity of her crimes you're a bad person and going to hell

[crow-with-a-chef-hat]

OUGH that expression is PERFECT that’s just SPOT on I can’t ev

i am a person. you are not.

[eclrrtwo]

Helena Lameagan

[reaandull]

trying to forget s2e4

[jumpscart]

severance doodles i'm making stickers of....

[faunshiii]

WHAT THE HELLY

[optics-anddesign]

I think it’s very interesting that when Helly wakes up in the conference room she pushes on the wall to see if there’s a door there. And then we see later Lumon does in fact have doors in their walls. I think it’s just a neat little sprinkling of her Lumon knowledge coming through, like I don’t think a typical person would be like “maybe secret door in the wall” but she does, because subconsciously this is a typical thing for her.

[everythingiisromantic]

(tries to escape) (tries to escape) (tries to escape) (series of failed suicide attempts) (nearly successful suicide attempt) (participates in department-wide whistleblowing scheme) (has sex with mark) (has sex with mark) (gives revolutionary speech) (locks you in a bathroom and hits you on the head with a trombone)

[notdanerickson]

Old interview from after the S2 finale, but still a banger.

dan erickson’s words on the choice mark had to make between gemma and helly are making me emotional — “he’s looking at this woman and he may sympathize with her, but the woman that he loves is standing behind him” (x)

[helly-ena]

what then.

[notdanerickson]

… Man, I’m excited for Season 3.

ATTILA Severance – 2.06

[swearengen]

helena really is the comic relief…doing a pr stunt to prove to everyone that severance is totally safe and normal 👍 and then she almost dies twice and nearly loses four fingers and still has to throw her stupid ass party where she immediately gets hijacked and thrown off the stage

[dinkykate]

hey here’s the full zufu scene for vibes and enjoyment

[helenaeaganenjoyer]

Helly rebels against a tyrannical system not only because she has an innate sense of justice, but because she has nothing to lose. Born into oppression without indoctrination. She is a clear-cut victim. She doesn’t have to unlearn anything to act on her gut feeling without internal collapse. It's easy and natural for the audience to love her.

Helena was born into a gilded prison. She is trauma bonded to a cult and cannot conceptualize what a normal life looks like. She survives by aligning herself with the abuser (her father, the board, the mythos of Kier). At Lumon, she's a paper tiger, clinging to the illusion of power to justify sacrificing everything that makes her a person. Because power has been used against her for her entire life, it's the only thing she believes can keep her safe.

At surface level, for a good portion of the audience, it's easy to see Helena as the oppressive force, directly antagonistic to the obvious hero, Helly. It's easy for them to ignore the context clues that show Helena as the latest cog in a never-ending cycle of generational trauma, because we empathize with Helly so strongly. It's easier to blame our parents for raising us poorly than to face the reality that they are deeply flawed, broken people too.

So when Helena does morally dubious things like stealing Helly's identity and calling the innies animals, it's easy for the audience to write her off as an evil wench who should be banished to non-existence, giving her body to the person who actually deserves it. But how long until Helly gets broken down by life? How long until Helly decides she has something to lose (MARK) and is forced to compromise her morals and actions to protect herself? We've already seen a glimpse of this during the season 2 finale and people are so allergic to the idea that they're convinced she must actually be Helena.

Helena didn't choose Lumon any more than Helly did. Helly is morally lucky because she's free of the psychological chains Helena was born into. I have a feeling those chains are coming for her soon.

[notdanerickson]

Adam and Britt hanging out in New York during a break from filming.

On their way to a bar, according to the fan. Adam asked Britt if she felt comfortable taking a photo.

Source: Lucky fan from Reddit.

[stillatzufu]

i don't understand why dan erickson & co were so surprised that the zufu scene turned out to be very flirtatious. they're bantering and she says he should meet her father. meanwhile the background information lingering on everyone's mind is that he was inside her mere hours before that and neither of the two have any recollection of this. it's a contemporary cinematic masterpiece