Helm — GODDESS OF VICTORY: NIKKE

In Brand New Year, Helm hosts an event aboard the Admire before accompanying the Commander, Sugar, and Julia on a surface errand. She initially insists that completing the official mission matters more than indulging her wish to see the ocean. Their route nevertheless brings them to the coast, where Helm finally looks upon real open water. The emotional moment strengthens her resolve to take the Admire to sea one day.

During the Sea, You, Again storyline, a mysterious ocean signal offers Helm a chance to join a reconnaissance mission. Burningum refuses to release the Admire because fundraising obligations take precedence, so Mast and Anchor stay behind while Helm goes to the coast without the ship. There she helps investigate the sea and encounters the threat of Kraken, a gigantic aquatic Rapture.

When the situation becomes desperate, Mast and Anchor bring the Admire to the sea. Helm takes command in the fight against Kraken. Its main cannon initially fails to settle the battle, prompting her to order a dangerous ramming attack; the ship’s cannon unexpectedly charges again, and the crew lands the decisive blow. Helm weeps after their victory, overcome not just by survival but by finally standing alongside her squad and ship in a real naval battle.

In main campaign Chapter 37, Aegis and the Admire join a surface exploration operation. Helm explains how an Elysion-developed wave disruptor breaks down the nanomachine structure of the liquid metal called Dark Matter, allowing the ship to navigate it. Her presence also has a practical, less glamorous reason: the Admire is transporting equipment needed to upgrade Matis. In return for the transport and support, Missilis agrees to cover the warship’s maintenance costs for a time.

In Chapter 38, Helm urges Maxwell not to sacrifice a squad’s principles for the sake of recovering its reputation. She knows from Aegis’s own experience how painful it is to have one’s work dismissed. When the airborne Ziz threatens the operation, Helm commits the Admire’s antiaircraft guns to support the others, though the target is too small and fast for them to bring down reliably.

Later, when silver liquid pours from a strange tree, Helm orders the Aegis cannon to fire alongside Matis’s weapons. Their bombardment brings down the tree and exposes Gluttony, a monstrous maw capable of swallowing energy attacks. The ensuing blast leaves the Admire’s outer armor badly damaged and its weapons unusable. Helm reports that the crew is safe but the voyage must end. It is a severe setback, not evidence that the vessel has been permanently destroyed.

The separately branded SECOND QUEST crossover event involves a D-WAVE disturbance over the sea, an advance force, and the Admire’s deployment into a sea turned red. This Evangelion collaboration is identifiable as event-specific material, not a reason to fold crossover visitors into Helm’s ordinary main-campaign history.

Helm’s optional favorite-item storyline begins with her and the Commander spending time together as a couple. She finds it difficult to set aside maintenance reports and training schedules even on a date, and admits that she does not always know how informally to speak in this unfamiliar relationship. An old compass she has kept since joining Aegis becomes a focus of the story: its needle wanders inside the Ark because of magnetic interference, while Mast and the Commander each offer a different way to think about choosing a direction.

Helm gradually acknowledges that personal wishes deserve attention alongside duty. Under the open sky, she speaks about choosing a destination for herself rather than always relying on a rigid rule. In the closing scenes, she explicitly tells the Commander that she has someone she loves and asks that person to remain beside her. These intimate scenes belong to an optional personal story, not an unavoidable romantic outcome of every main-campaign interaction.