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Is it finally over? I must say, at least her last performance had some life. If she'd showed that sort of potential earlier, I might have kept her on longer!
~ Helgenish mocking Yusufa after murdering her.

Helgenish is a minor antagonist in Octopath Traveler, being the first villain and boss Primrose faces. He is a fat and rather ugly man who uses a group of dancers to make money for him, dancing and entertaining people.

Biography[]

A brutish figure, Helgenish oversees a group of dancers, who dance to make money for him. These dancers aren't well-treated, as he often berates and physically abuses them (the latter being at least for Primrose). If any of his dancers fail to meet his standards, they are beaten severely and tossed out into the streets. At least for Primrose, Helgenish idolizes and acts quite perverted to her, calling her "kitten" at times and has her entertain him by herself. He has ties to Rufus, who gives him a regular stream of the enslaved women to use as dancers.

Eight years before the events of the game, Primrose starts working for Helgenish in hope that under him, she could find the men who murdered her father.

For a dance he finds rather inferior to his standards, he has her go out to the streets to find people for her to entertain for money. However, Primrose finds Rufus nearby, and with the help of Yusufa covering for her, she goes out to track him down. However, Helgenish finds out about Primrose's escape, and for it, he tortures Yusufa, and later stabs her in front of Primrose before tossing her down a cliff-face, mocking her last words after her death. Primrose fights Helgenish and wins, and Helgenish meets his end in a failed attempt to attack Primrose when her guard is down, being rewarded with a slit throat.

Appearance[]

Helgenish is a rather fat, balding man with brown hair and a mustache. He wears a Napoleon-era-like jacket, a ruffled collar, white pants, and boots.

Personality[]

Helgenish is a materialistic, selfish and narcissistic hedonist who only cares about his own interests, particularly money and sexual pleasure, and has no empathy for anybody. While capable of acting like a polite man when in a good mood, it's nothing more than a thin-layered façade to further manipulate the women in his employment, as he has no regard for their well-being and even treats them like slaves, forcing them to call him "Master". Despite this, Helgenish is too narcissistic to seriously consider the possibility that his actions are unacceptable, to the point that he often complains about how the women he treats like slaves don't respect him. Disturbingly, Helgenish seems to genuinely believe that he's a good person who deserves unconditional respect and submission from his "slaves" and that there's nothing wrong with the way he treats them.

Helgenish has a violent temper, and it is said that he beats those who thoroughly displease him half to death before tossing them out into the streets to die. He has a perverse attraction to Primrose, who pretends to be his empty-headed pet but in truth despises him for his actions. When Primrose leaves his tavern in pursuit of Rufus, Helgenish shows an even crueller side to him than his usual standards, since Primrose is his favorite dancer (though only because he sees her as useful to him), not only beating Yusufa for information on Primrose's whereabouts but also fatally stabbing her with a knife in front of Primrose.

Helgenish's self-centredness ultimately leads to his own end because he failed to catch on, over the course of eight years, that Primrose's "submissive slave-girl" personality was a fake one, leaving him blindsided when Primrose reveals that she has always hated him before engaging him in battle with the intent to kill. Ultimately, he is an immature and entitled man who believes that the entire world should revolve around him.

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Trivia[]

  • Due to his mean-spirited personality, his lust for Primrose, his abuse of the dancers, and for his murder of Yusufa, Helgenish is easily one of the most loathsome antagonists in the game.
  • Helgenish is one of the toughest starter bosses in the game, with powerful attacks that can easily severely wound or defeat the party members.

External Links[]

Helgenish on the Pure Evil Wiki

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