Helen

Helen (ヘレン) is a character in the anime series Sonic X and its comic series published by Archie Comics. She is one of Christopher Thorndyke's closest friends and love interest. She is one of the few who readily accepts Sonic the Hedgehog and his residential friends from the beginning. Helen was born with a condition that restricts her to a wheelchair and has spent much of her life as a paraplegic.

Appearance
As a child, she wore a short-sleeved white shirt with a pink vest, which is buttoned by a yellow button. She also wears a short pink skirt and white shoes with pink.

New World Saga
Though Helen's role in the series is minimal, she has the most communication with Sonic aside from Chris and becomes quite important to Chris himself.

Chaos Emerald Saga
Sonic eventually abandoned a dinner outing with the President to take Helen to the mountains, fulfilling a promise he had made to her earlier to visit an island filled with beautiful white flowers, all while evading armed troops attempting to retrieve him under the orders of the President's aid, Jerome Wise. In the end, Helen, wanting to protect the flowers, convinces Sonic to lure the troops away from them and take her to the dinner with the President after all. Sonic complies as he commandeers the troops' helicopter, and remembering to grab Helen's wheelchair, the two head for the White House to join the rest of Sonic's friends and meet the President. Helen had a great time, and talked all about it to her parents.

Chaos Saga
When Chaos had become Perfect Chaos and had begun flooding Station Square, Helen was evacuated to safety with the rest of her class by Mister Stewart, not knowing that Mister Stewart was defying orders from his superiors at G.U.N. to return to base in order to keep them safe from Perfect Chaos' attack.

Metarex Saga
Six years after Sonic and his friends, along with Eggman and everything else from Sonic's world, returned to their world, Helen had taken up work alongside Chris to get the portal to Sonic's world working again to go visit him. In that time, she had gotten a car specially designed for her due to her paraplegic condition.

When Chris traveled to Sonic's world alone, Helen worked with Frances and Danny to get the portal working again to either go there themselves or bring Chris home, all the while sending supplies from Nelson and Lindsey to Chris to help him during his and Sonic's fight against the Metarex, having Vanilla and the Chaotix deliver them to him on the Blue Typhoon.

Personality
Helen is a young girl who, despite being confined to a wheelchair, thrives for adventure. She showed very little fear when Sonic pushed her chair faster then anyone else and carried her up high, laughing when she and Sonic nearly fell off a cliff. She is also a very kind and considerate person. She also has a huge love for flowers and enjoys catching lizards, snakes and bugs.

Her personality is a little more outgoing in the scenes shown of her six years later. She acts more sarcastic and is a bit more excitable when speaking with Chris. She turned out to excel in the field of science along with Chris.

Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog and Helen are good friends. They became good friends in Episode 14, where Sonic promised to go on an adventure with Helen.

Christopher Thorndyke
In the Season 3 there are three signs that Helen may have developed feelings for Chris:
 * When Chris wrote a card when he will go to Sonic's world, he wrote "For all the people I love: Mom, Dad, Grandpa, Danny, Frances and you... Helen."
 * In Season 3, when Danny, Frances and Helen tried to bring Chris back, they failed and went to their own homes. When Helen was "walking", she said: "Chris, I hope you're alright. I miss you..."
 * In episode 69 when Lilim asked Chris if he loves someone, Chris said: "No, I don't have anyone in mind..." But he said so nervously that he laughed a lot. Lilim said to Chris: "I can tell by your face that you're lying", Chris laughed but it was true. In the English dub, he does not deny this at all when asked about if he had someone to bring to their romantic spots. He merely says: "I sort of do, but she's back on my planet".

Friends/Allies

 * Sonic the Hedgehog (good friend)
 * Miles "Tails" Prower
 * Knuckles the Echidna
 * Amy Rose
 * Cream the Rabbit
 * Cheese
 * Christopher Thorndyke (love interest)
 * Chuck Thorndyke
 * Nelson Thorndyke
 * Lindsey Thorndyke
 * Danny
 * Frances
 * Emerl
 * Vanilla the Rabbit
 * Mister Tanaka
 * Ella
 * Mister Stewart

Enemies

 * Doctor Eggman
 * Decoe
 * Bocoe
 * Chaos (formely)
 * Bokkun
 * Egg Spider

Trivia

 * Helen was originally depicted on Sonic X trading cards as being a healthy young girl, but when the series was fully developed, she underwent a slight change and was made a paraplegic.
 * It looks very similar to Maria Robotnik, even his personality is like hers.