#honestly one of my favorite helia saladin family headcanons is that one of saladin's enemies gradually becoming one of helia's enemies

[floralovebot]

How do you think Helia feels about other people’s perception about him?

Namely Saladin, Flora and his friends but also the public in general. For example in the movies, the Winx seem to get a lot of media attention and that includes their relationships as well. How do you think Helia reacts to that and what he feels about it? Since he’s a very private guy, he probably doesn’t appreciate anyone poking their nose in his business.

Do you think he also ever worried how Flora would handle being associated with him considering his familial status and Saladin having many enemies,,, He knows she can handle herself but did he ever worry about putting her in a position where she has to deal with these things in the first place..

Honestly, it depends! Helia doesn't care at all about what people think about him, but he does care a lot if that opinion will also affect a person close to him.

Saladin is a great example of this! Helia doesn't care that the other specialists initially think he's a weak, sensitive pacifist who "doesn't like to get his hands dirty". He ignores them completely and it genuinely doesn't seem to affect his mental health in the slightest. He certainly doesn't like it, but it doesn't affect him either. Compare that to him being hyperaware of how his actions could reflect badly on Red Fountain and specifically Saladin. If Helia, the headmaster's grandson, is acting out, what does that say about how Saladin is running the school?

Because of this, Helia is very conscious about what he says and does, and how that would reflect on the people close to him. He even uses that to his advantage during the Shaab Stone arc in the comics where he intentionally gets into a physical fight with another RF student to fake an expulsion. Helia (and Saladin) is very aware of people looking at him and using his actions as evidence for their bad opinions of Saladin.

As for Flora and the others, we honestly don't get much on his opinions of the Winx's spotlight, other than he's happy for them. We briefly see Florelia in the news during Magical Adventure but that's really the only time the in-universe media has paid attention to the specialists (excluding Sky). That being said, I do think he would take a similar approach with the Winx and specialists - aka he would acknowledge that his actions could reflect badly on them and end up retroactively caring about what other people think of him.

Considering that Saladin's enemies never directly attack Flora, or anyone else for that matter, I feel like it's a bit,, yes and no. Past enemies of the company of light have showed up to fight the Winx so like, yes. But also no, because Saladin's enemies haven't. Plus, I think, regardless of his worries, Helia is still aware that Flora isn't being attacked because she's in a relationship with him, she's being attacked because she's in the Winx Club. So far, he hasn't been a factor (in canon). Now in headcanons and fanfics on the other hand, mwehehehe... Saladin's past enemies going after Helia and then going after Flora is definitely a florelia fan favorite so like yes he would absolutely be worried about her aldhg