#helen ibott

[bug4932]

twig keychain designs are here!!! more info on ordering in my other post

too tricky fitting them all into one silhouette and i couldnt come up with a bg frame i was satisfied with, so they each only pair with one other character. i also updated jessies glasses to be lighter so they wont show on sy as much as they do in pics lol

i ordered 1.5 inch charms for each of them in the pictures! mary and lillian turned out so cute im gonna gnaw off everyone else

[cpericardium]

For the art challenge, Helen in 24!

quick & messy but I had fun!

[lilliankillthisman]

Boy these girls sure do have things wrong with them though. God.

I get the rationale of splitting the arc 7 interludes into two like this, but the naming scheme seems. Off somehow.

[lakesbian]

“I kind of want to see the vat-grown humans that Polk made,” Helen said.  “I wonder if they can have babies?  Jamie, do you know?  Lillian?” Lillian made a squeaking sound as her name was mentioned. “Do you?” Helen pressed. “Why do you want to know?” Jamie asked, very cautiously, then before Helen could answer, he quickly added, “And do I want to know why you want to know?” “I’m just curious,” Helen said. “Do you want babies?” Jamie asked. “No.  Why?  What does that have to do with anything?” Helen asked. Which all added up to the Lambs being very confused. I wondered if Ibott had instructed Helen to practice psychological warfare.

continued obligatory reposts of every helen freak moment so everyone can see the most special of girls

[dw-flagler]

BLONDE WILDBOW CHARACTERS

Every wildbow character with hair color described as blonde or similar to blonde. Characters are listed in alphabetical order.

A character's category is determined by their debut appearance. Though Lisa Wilbourn appears in both Worm and Ward, she will be listed as a Worm character, and not as a Ward character.

WORM:

Ashley Stillons I (Damsel of Distress)

Ava ? (Cuff)¹

Brad Meadows (Hookwolf)

Carol Dallon (Brandish)

Crystal Pelham (Laserdream)

Dean Stansfield (Gallant)

Elijah Mathers (Valefor) (Later dyes white)

Elle ? (Labyrinth)

Emily Piggot

Eric Pelham (Shielder)

Gabriel Maxberry (King)

Glastig Uaine/Valkyrie

Greg Veder (The Worst)

Hero

Hoyden

Jaager Charles (Gasconade) (Appears ONLY in PRT Quest)

Jeanne Wynn/Brown (Citrine)

Jessica Biermann (Fenja)

Katherine Oldershaw (Grace)

Kurt Wynn (Harbinger/Number Man)

Leonid(?)

Lisa Wilbourn (Tattletale)

Marissa Newland (Sundancer)

Melody Jurist (Cricket)

Mike ? (Lightstar)

Missy Biron (Vista)

Mrs. Knott

Neil Pelham (Manpower)

Nessa Bierman (Menja)

Oliver ? (Oliver)

Principal Blackwell

Riley Grace Davis (Bonesaw)

Sam ? (Prism)

Sarah Pelham (Lady Photon)

Tammi Herren (Rune/Scribe) (last name presumed)

"Tom Moss" (Acidbath)

Victoria Dallon (Glory Girl/Antares)

"White Fairy"²

Blonde Adjacent:

Alabaster (white hair)

Kamil Armstrong (white hair)

Madeline ? (Winter) (white hair)

Paige Mcabee (Canary) (yellow feathers, hair unknown)

Polka (white hair)

Scion (gold hair)

Scrub (white hair)

The Simurgh (silver hair)

Worm has: 38 blonde characters, and 8 blonde-adjacent characters, for a total of 46.

WARD

Ashley Stillons II (Swansong)

Ashley Stillons III (Damsel of Distress)

Axehead? (Presumed)³

Bianca ? (Goddess)

Harbinger V (Limerick)

Hunter ? (Mincemaid)

Jay ?

Kathlee Rosenthal (Monokeros)¹

Lachlan ?

Lionwing

Moose

Mr. Drowsing

Nate ? (Reconciliation)

Paris

Rain O'Fire Fraizer (Precipice)

Ryan ? (Cradle)

Samuel Vasil

William Giles (Scapegoat)

Blonde Adjacent:

Anita Vera (white hair)

Christine Mathers (Mama Mathers) (silver hair)

Coiffure (silver hair)

Colt (Colt) (bleached hair)

Dino (silver hair)

Egg (yellow hair)

Engel ("glowing" hair)

Enyo (silver hair)

Foggy Idea (gray dyed hair)

Nailbiter (bleached hair)

Presley ? (gray-white dyed hair)

Vince Crowley (poorly-bleached hair)

Voltrage ("pale" hair)

Ward has: 18 blonde characters, and 13 blonde-adjacent characters, for a total of 31.

PACT:

Blake Thorburn

Chloe Duchamp

Diana Thompson

James Thorburn

Joanna Duchamp

Lea Duchamp

Lola Duchamp

Paul Thorburn

Penelope Duchamp

Peter Thorburn

Rose Thorburn Jr.

Rose Thorburn Sr.

Roxanne Thorburn

Sandra Duchamp

The Briar Girl

Blonde Adjacent

Malcolm "Fell" Atwell ("light" hair)

Pact has: 15 blonde characters, and 1 blonde-adjacent character, for a total of 16.

TWIG:

The Baron Richmond

The Duke of Francis

Duncan Lambsbridge

Emily Gage

Gordon Lambsbridge(?)

Helen Ibott

Jamie Lambsbridge

Jessie Ewesmont

Lord Carling

Lord King

Lord Leeds

Marcella

The Duke of Francis

The Twins (counts as 2)

BLONDE ADJACENT

Lady Glora ("pale of hair")

Lara (white hair)

Nora (white hair)

Twig has: 15 blonde characters, and 3 blonde-adjacent characters, for a total of 18.

PALE:

America Tedd

Anthem Tedd

Avery Kelly

Edith James

Eloise Miraz

Freak (of Freak & Squeak)

Gillian Ross

Liberty Tedd

Reggie the Composite Kid

Snowdrop

The Family Man

Ulysses Miraz

Wallace Davis

BLONDE ADJACENT

Mrs. Schaff (white hair)

Crooked Rook (white hair)

Gemma Duchamp (Grey hair)

Luna Hare (white hair)

Pale has: 13 blonde characters, and 4 blonde-adjacent characters, for a total of 17.

CLAW:

"Valentina's Mom & Sister"

Claw has: 2 blonde characters, and 0 blonde-adjacent characters, for a total of 2.⁴

Notes

¹ Both cuff and monokeros are noted to have dark hair in Ward while having blonde hair in their original appearances (Worm and WD Helena respectively).

² White Fairy is Mr. Gladly's girlfriend and a prolific redditor who is seen during the leviathan battle and the PHO greg interlude. deep cut. As a mortal enemy of greg veder, please treat her with appropriate respect.

³ Axehead is never seen in ward. However, Titan Skadi (who forms from Axehead) is described as having golden hair. I am presuming that this is from axehead the human having blonde hair.

⁴ Literally 1 person told me any characters from claw. i haven't read it. there's more than 2, but i haven't seen anything.

[v1leblood]

You can't just keep spiraling me into thinking about helen ibott several times a day like this

the weak shall perish

[ewingstan]

You know, I never really considered before why Ibott named his creation after the woman with a face that sunk a thousand ships. Or why he gave her a codename of someone created solely to be her makers' wife and love. The idea of Ibott wanting Helen as an adult, as an adult....

Fuck this story just keeps throwing me the most dismal curveballs. You think creating a child solider subject to constant verbal abuse and lack of autonomy is bad! Lets throw in that her creator is fucking grooming her! Jesus Christ!

I don't think its just for shock value or general grim-darkness though. I've already talked about how wildbow seems to return to bodily autonomy as a central theme throughout his work, and in Twig this manifests as a focus on creation of a being for instrumental purposes/treating your progeny as something you are owed control over. Still percolating on what exactly wildbow is doing with the theme though. Still new to that kind of lit analysis.

Anyway, kinda funny to run into this line after I just recently made a few art pieces using scenes and quotes from Worm that hit on the same Nabokov-tinted theme of creating something beautiful and horrific for twisted ends.

[gcu-sovereign]

Spoken like someone who will be afraid of how much they love Helen Ibott

A conversation I had today:

Me: So you know pact, the book I’ve been talking about all week, there’s this character called green eyes shes a murder mermaid from the abyss she likes eating people-

My friend: … she what?

Me: She likes eating people but I love her so much anyway she’s amazing.

My friend: …

[senviva]

compilation of lambs sketches

[canonical-transformation]

a chance conversation with @obligateanthrovore has gotten me rereading Twig—the mad-science-biopunk coming-of-age web novel by Wildbow (Worm, Pale)—and an arc and a bit in I am already recalling how much I loved Helen's eldritch big sister dynamic with Sy. She's a person but she's impossible for him* to read, and she's metaphorically an apex predator, I love her just randomly hugging and headpatting Sy and Sy going full deer-in-headlights!?

(and also the obliviousness of Sy (who is admittedly twelve-ish) to his* burgeoning aroace dom(me)* instincts.)

((* ...look, that is not a cis boy, fight me))

as always with Wildbow's work, CW for body horror, existential horror, whump, systemic injustice, torture, and anything else you could think of

[bug4932]

chwig fanart

[red-red-spout]

not to repost my own tags but I also forgot to add - Mary, Percy, and the Bad Seeds, the Mice (literally serving as a hub for those the family system casts off), Helen and Ibott, Candida/Candy/Emily and the Gages, and like a trillion other things i'm forgetting. Literally the story is obsessed with the family, everything about it is family family family. Surely someone has to have written SOMETHING about it

There really has to be some kind of fascinating essay on how twig views the family

[theothin]

“You’ll cease that too.  Present yourself to the room as you are, without the act.”

Helen nodded.

All of the details went away, the facial expressions, the considerations, the balances and her judgments of people around her.   Her expression faded, until she was only staring.

She looked at each of the people around the table, assessing them.

Ibott spoke, and he sounded a little smug, having shown off his control and his ability to make her go quiet, “Now, focusing on the matter at hand, tell us about the mental state of the others.  You reported Sylvester was acting strange.  None of the other Lambs stepped in, forcing him to hand over the reins?”

She didn’t have to make the mental adjustments to fit his feeling of superiority into her ‘act’, because there was no act.

---

“We’re asking you questions.  Sit down,” Ibott said.

“What are you thinking?” Hayle asked, voice calm.  He was gesturing to the men at the door.  Helen remembered they had guns.

“About him,” Helen said, pointing at the man in the military uniform, and that rush she was feeling did change her voice slightly from the monotone.  She could have controlled that if she had wanted to, but this still wasn’t an act.  To the man, she said, “I’m very flexible.”

“Uh,” he said.  “You’re-”

“I’m thinking,” Helen continued, “About if I can crawl into your open mouth.  Things would tear apart , of course, but you’d be warm and you’d flop around and I want to see what it would feel like if you were doing that while I was most of the way inside you.”

The man’s hand went to his gun.

Ibott’s chair screeched on the floor as he stood.

“Enough of this,” he said.

“You told me to stop acting, I did.  The acts were the only thing keeping me sitting still,” Helen said.

helen continues to be perfect

[katliveblogs]

“I envy you so damn much,” Duncan murmured, under his breath.  Helen’s good points were why he’d gotten on Ibott’s bad side.  He’d been invited to the irritable professor’s lab, with the idea that Duncan would learn the particulars of Helen’s anatomy in case she needed field care.

That had involved Helen partially disrobing so she could be opened up.  Given that Helen was an experiment that looked like a sixteen year old girl, and given that she was attractive enough to shame ninety-nine out of a hundred of even the augmented girls in the western Crown States, Duncan had reacted like any other adolescent male might.  He wasn’t entirely sure, but Helen might have noticed and made the agony of the situation more agonizing by giving him sly looks, small smiles, and choosing certain postures.

Bad luck, that Ibott had noticed that Duncan was as stiff as a cold stitched while midway through the process of opening up the experiment’s ribcage.  The man had taken Duncan to be a peculiar sort of pervert, when it had simply been a particularly stubborn stiffness from earlier.

Oof. Duncan may be a twat, but the universe doesn’t exactly seem to be cutting him much slack.

[lakesbian]

Helen followed him into the room.  She moved more like a jungle cat, with confidence and easy, graceful movements.  The sight of her filled Duncan with very complicated feelings ranging from terror to awe and, again, that stirring of adolescent feelings that anyone would feel when faced with something that looked like a perfect girl, and that only made him feel more terror. Ever since the incident with Ibott, he’d felt like he was her prey.  He’d shown a moment of weakness, and now there was no escape.

this fucking idiot doesn't even know that helen only wants to hugmurder strong people. you WISH you could have the honor of being her prey

[ewingstan]

Duncan Lambsbridge is blonde

Jamie Lambsbridge is blonde

Jessie Ewesmont is blonde

Helen Ibott is blonde

The Duke of Francis is blonde

Valentina's mom and younger sister are both blonde

Carson Hurst canonically has wavy black hair but spiritually he's a blonde

Actually wait

Weird amount of overlap with Alec here actually. All of wb's unempathetic-men-who-quip get dark curly locks and thick eyelashes. huh. Spiritual blondeness possibly retracted

blonde wildbow characters:

WORM:

lisa wilbourn (Tattletale)

victoria dallon (Glory Girl/Antares)

carol dallon (Brandish)

sarah pelham (Lady Photon)

Neil Pelham (Manpower)? (Presumed, i'm not a geneticist but both his kids have blonde hair and i think that's recessive)

crystal pelham (Laserdream)

eric pelham (Shielder)

Dean Stansfield (Gallant)

Mike ? (Lightstar)

Missy Biron (Vista)

Elle ? (Labyrinth)

Riley Grace Davis (Bonesaw)? (it's never said if her hair is naturally blonde or she made it blonde to look more like America's Sweetheart)

Paige Mcabee (Canary)? (feathers are yellow, hair is technically unknown)

Ashley Stillons (Damsel of Distress)

Noelle Meinhardt (Echidna)

Marissa Newland (Sundancer)

Greg Veder (The Worst)

Oliver (Oliver)

Ava (Cuff)

Kurt Wynn (Harbinger/Number Man)

Jeanne Wynn/Brown (Citrine)

Rune/Scribe

Sam (Prism)

WARD:

Rain O'Fire Fraizer (Precipice)

Ashley Stillons II (Swansong)

Ashley Stillons III (Damsel of Distress)

Ryan (Cradle)

Nailbiter

Colt (Colt)

PACT:

Blake Thorburn

Rose Thorburn Jr.

Rose Thorburn Sr.

Paul, James, Roxanne, Peter Thorburn

Sandra, Penelope, Joanna, Lea, Chloe, Lola Duchamp

TWIG:

I didn't read twig