#winx politcal au

[folkloristico]

In an AU scenario where Domino is destroyed but Bloom doesn’t get sent to Earth she and Helia would have totally been childhood friends. I don’t remember Helia’s parents ever being mentioned, so I’m totally going with the headcanon that Saladin would have to raise Helia on his own and he would do so because he can’t see it any other way. He loves his nephew more than anything else. Saladin is a scholar who travels a lot and Helia would go with him anywhere. Faragonda and Griffin, for their part, would have taken it upon themselves to raise Bloom, and she would be hanging out with Helia all the time. Faragonda, Griffin, and Saladin would be busy with the Council and the political aspect of having survived the genocide on Domino while simultaneously having saved the whole Magic Dimension. They would be spending a lot of time together and so would Helia and Bloom. They would get bored of sticking around the adults and would go on adventures on their own. 

They share a deep fascination for history and folktales and are both artistic souls. Bloom definitely got it from Marion. Saladin isn’t much of an artist himself but he’s glad his nephew has found a way to express himself even after the trauma of having lost both of his parents. Helia looks so much like his mother, Saladin’s sister, to the point where he sometimes mistakes him for her. (Just like they see so much of Marion in Bloom.)

Bloom goes to Alfea like in canon and she introduces Helia to the friend group. Something clicks with Flora for him because she’s also a history nerd and an artist (she paints in the comics, so I think this one canon-ish) and he would totally ask Bloom for help when he realises he has a huge crush on her.