#thefriendlyfour

Physical Description: Usual form is that of a red-chested cuckoo bird with dark grey head feathers and similarly colored longer ones that flow down in wavy locks to her hips, lighter grey feathers on the lower half of her face below her black-tipped yellow beak. Her arms have a very subtle shade of brown to them with white stripes across her fingertips, while her long tail feathers are the same color as her head feathers with white spots. Her torso is covered in black and white stripes, though it’s usually muted by the black mesh of her outfit, and her rather large chest has a distinctive upside-down heart-shaped swath of red feathers (the top of the heart covers her cleavage and reaches her collarbone) that’s a deeper, more striking red than a normal cuckoo’s- similar to how her eyes are a more gleaming gold around the edges with abnormally black pupils that contrast their surroundings.

Outfit: Helena knows she’s beautiful and is not afraid to show it. Her typical outfit is a set featuring a black strapless bustier-style tube top with shimmering heart-shaped sequins and a set of gleaming golden chains with heart shaped fasteners connected to a matching mid-thigh length skirt with a golden waistband via a fine black mesh. She accessorizes with plenty of gold bangles, golden gladiator-style stiletto heels, gaudy heart-themed cocktail rings, and a black-ribbon choker necklace with a red ruby-like heart-shaped gemstone with a golden back.

Gender: Female usually, but can change to nonbinary.

Sexual Orientation: Pansexual greyromantic

Age: Unknown, but she claims to have been around long enough to influence quite a few ancient Greek poets and philosophers with her beauty...

Nicknames: Helen, Hela, Hell Queen, Golden Goddess, Agent Sweetheart.

Last one is the alias she uses when sneaking into SHUSH.

Real Name: Helena Spyros

Not her real name (says it takes more than one tongue to say properly), but it’s the one that she’s gone by for the longest.

Background:

Helena, like many of her kind, took up residence in the mortal realm for easier access to her food and to gain more power.

Across the thousands of years she’s lived in the mortal realm, she has wormed her way into various royal courts, governments, and organizations- playing all sides, taking what she wanted, and leaving a trail of war and destruction with little care for the lives lost or ruined in the process.

A few years ago, she was surprised that a rookie FOWL agent named Bokor Baron approached her knowing she was a succubus. He was very forward, charming, and powerful for a mortal, so she gave him a chance and started a relationship with him.

The relationship lasted for almost a full year. The hawk was kind and thoughtful, making her feel like she was valued for more than her beauty. For the first time in a millenia, Helena thought she’d found someone worthwhile.

Sadly, it turned out to be a ploy by Bokor to lower her guard so he could steal her blood for a charm he was crafting. The betrayal broke Helena’s heart and she swore vengeance on him- no matter the cost.

Current Status: Stays close to Saint Canard, plotting ways to get revenge on Bokor and occasionally either terrorizing the town to get what she wants for her plans or sneaking into SHUSH to tip them off to locations he might be to try getting him killed or captured.

Personality:

Above all else, Helena is vain, apathetic to the plights of mortals, manipulative, and vindictive towards those who make the mistake of crossing her.

Beneath that, though, she is lonely and still suffering the frustrations of her broken heart and bruised ego in solitary silence, refusing to let anyone see how badly Bokor’s actions affected her.

While disguising herself as a golden parakeet under the alias of Agent Gilded Heart, she puts on a bubbly, ditzy, helpful facade of an eager-to-please young agent who works hard to get in the good graces of the higher-ups.

This is of course just so she can get close enough to enthrall and charm them, gaining more pawns in the long-run.

Abilities:

As a succubus, Helena has the power to enthrall and charm others into adoring and obeying her- it’s an easy way to get food.

She can also drastically increase the pleasure someone feels, to the point of a makeout session being intense enough to finish someone off and making them pass out- another easy way to feed and handy if she needs to knock someone out.

If the above methods don’t work, Helena also has the ability to shapeshift to earn someone’s favor, deceive others, and generally cause chaos by stealing peoples’ identities.

Her most devastating ability, though, is her hypnotic speech and kiss.

Speaking long enough to a crowd will charm them into becoming a protective, frenzied mob that will hang on her every word.

Physical Description: A tall but svelt black velvet scoter duck (tall for a duck- around Morgana or Launchpad’s height) with a yellow beak, and long black head feathers that go down to his lower back and are typically kept in a loose dutch braid. While most of his feathers are black, the palms of his hands are white and he has one thin white stripe down the back of each arm and a curve of white feathers under each eye that looks almost like winged eyeliner.

As a werewolf, he also has two extra forms:

Partial transformation: Grows taller and buffer (a little larger than Steelbeak), eyes turn yellow, gains wolf ears, feathered tail turns into a fluffy black wolf one, and grows fangs & claws.

Full transformation: Becomes MUCH larger (close to Stegmutt in size), beak turns into classic wolf muzzle and turns black with sharp teeth, claws grow longer, webbed feet turn into clawed wolf feet, feathers change into thick fur, and eyes turn a more intense shade of golden yellow.

Outfit: As a lawyer, Wolfduck strives to look professional whenever he leaves the house. His usual suit is dark grey with a silver collar and waistband, as well as circular buttons painted to look like pale yellow crescent moons with black shadows. He usually pairs this with a white button-up shirt, black and silver belt under the suit jacket, and a pale yellow cravat with a special full-moon shaped tie-pin that waxes and wanes to show how much moonlight it has stored up. Also wears black spats instead of shoes (like Scrooge Mcduck) and very large, circular golden glasses.

Gender: Male

Sexual Orientation: Gay

Age: 39

Nicknames: Percy, Wolfy, Fang Face, Fangs Dog Breath, Puppy

Percy is his preferred nickname, but will tolerate Wolfy.

Others are all used by Steelbeak to annoy him.

Hates being called Puppy.

Real Name: Percival Dubois

Background:

Percival grew up as part of a werewolf pack with several littermates and elders, essentially being raised as part of a small, traveling communal family. They didn’t have much growing up due to their nomadic way of living, but they got by easily enough by taking what they needed through brute force.

He traveled across Europe with his pack as a child, making his way to America with them in his teen years by stowing away in a cargo ship.

Unfortunately, they all got busted when they came ashore and some of the pack’s elders got arrested so Percival and the others could escape. He was upset by this and asked the remaining elders when they’d get the others back, but they told him that they wouldn’t be able to- the legal system was frustrating and hard to navigate when you didn’t have enough money to pay for someone to help you through it and no lawyer would want to help a pack of werewolves with hardly any money to their names.

Feeling both spiteful against the system that took part of his family away and determined not to lose anyone else, Wolfduck dedicated the rest of his teen and young adult years to learning as much as he could about the legal system and criminal law.

He tried going to law school by getting a poorly paying part time job that allowed him to take one class at a time using his wages, but was frustrated by how long the process took.

Luckily for him, FOWL was always looking for promising new recruits, and a bright, studious, hard working student frustrated with his financial situation who also had the power to turn into a large, nearly-feral beast was an ideal candidate.

Percival- choosing the name Agent Wolfduck- took the recruiter up on his offer and joined FOWL under the agreement that they’d pay for his education in exchange for both his current physical skills and his future representation as part of their legal team.

Shortly after establishing himself as a lawyer for FOWL, he was partnered up with the organization’s chief officer, Steelbeak. The two had a brief partnership that didn’t pan out due to their conflicting ways of completing missions, but stayed friends afterwards (with Wolfduck developing a bit of a one-sided crush on the other man) and Wolfduck still represents Steelbeak in court on the odd occasion he gets caught by the police.

Current Status: Part of FOWL’s legal team with an exceptionally high ratio of successes- both in court and as an agent.

Personality:

Most of the time, Wolfduck is polite, calm, and relatively mild mannered. He can keep his cool under pressure and isn’t one to fall for taunts or baiting easily.

Note- this does not apply to Steelbeak’s teasing. That man knows how to rile him up and get on his nerves instantly.

You’d better hope you’re never able to beat him in court, however, or you’ll be exposed to his more petty and vindictive side- he has a habit of vandalizing the homes, cars, and other property of anyone (un)fortunate enough to best him in the courtroom and mess up his success ratio.

When he transforms, either partially or fully, his more emotional and feral side comes out.

He’s much quicker to anger like this, not hesitating to literally bite someone’s head off if they do something to piss him off.

With people he’s on good terms with, he becomes less reserved and more physically affectionate- lots of nuzzling, wrapping an arm around their shoulders, wanting head pats, licking them, curling around them, etc.

He’s also more prone to animalistic behavior including scratching things and having an urge to chew on anything he can get his teeth on.

Interesting Bonus Facts:

His eyesight is TERRIBLE. The glasses he wears are an extremely high prescription that he needs to see properly or everything looks like colorful blobs to him.

When he goes full-werewolf, his glasses won’t stay on properly, so he ends up squinting to try seeing better. This makes him look like he’s constantly glaring or scowling, so people get scared.

The tie-pin he wears is a type of charm all werewolves use to store moonlight that can be used to trigger their partial transformations in case of emergencies when there’s no full moon out.

As it fills with energy, the dark side of the moon-pendant decreases and vice versa when the energy is used.

A full charge will give him eight hours of partial transformation time, but it takes at least three nights of sitting in moonlight from a moon that’s at least half full to fully restore it, so he uses this sparingly.

His relationship with Steelbeak differs depending on the universe they’re in, but he always ends up developing some sort of feelings for him that ultimately ends in them just being friends.

In universes where Steelbeak doesn’t figure out his sexuality until after their partnership, Wolfduck’s crush ends up just being something one-sided that Steelbeak was too dense to pick up on.

In universes where Steelbeak does figure himself out by then, the two end up dating for a while, but it never works out because they’re both more focused on their career at the time and mutually decide to end it before they grow to resent each other.

The length of time they're together varies depending on the universe- in a regular one, they’d likely be together for a few months.