Personality: Stern, authoritative, iron fisted, but makes an effort to be fair. She speaks calmly, with a strong voice and considers her words carefully.
She has a short temper which she does her best to moderate, but despite her best efforts, she's prone to angry eruptions, her voice roaring loud enough to be heard entire city blocks away.

Back story: Healey has spent nearly thirty years as the Head Matriarch of the Checkered Court in Never's Inner City.
The Checkered Court began as any other political clan within the Inner City had, running on a meritocracy, and funded by unlawful means. However, the Healey clan was far from a top ranking power, and faced the threat of forceful assimilation into any one of the other neighboring clans.
The moment Helena took her position as Head Matriarch, she started moving for a very dramatic change. She was in tune with the concern of Inner City residents, and knew that they were tired of Inner City politics being referred to as 'gang activity' by the local and ignorant news outlets.
The people demanded a different system, something less run on the fear of a single powerful individual. There was a vacant niche for a more diplomatic, democratic structure, and Healey seized it. She coined a new name for the clan she presided over; "The Checkered Court". A council was elected by the people under her small jurisdiction, and decisions were voted on by elected representatives from there on out.
Healey had struck gold with her decision to spread the power over more people. Her method of governing the small territory piqued the desire of residents living under the jurisdiction of other M/Patriarchs, and a series of small revolts took place within numerous clans across the Inner City. Loyalty to the Checkered Court grew like a rampant infection, and the Checkered Court assimilated more than half the clans that had existed.
Those who did not favor Healey's system were forced to band together out of necessity, and the Patriarch they all defaulted to was none other than Richard Banyay. Effectively, the politics of the Inner City had become polarized. Any other clans that still remained had diminished in size considerably, and were forced to at least pledge allegiance to either Healey or Banyay.

Ongoing story: Kicking ass and taking names from her cushy throne. (there's really not much else to be said here).

Healey now works to nibble away at the corners of the Banyay clan, with hopes to devour it entirely in due time.