Helmut Fullbear

Helmut Fullbear is a supporting character in Psychonauts 2. He is a musician famous for his Psychodyssey stage show, as well as a founding member of the Psychonauts. Assumed dead after the Battle of Grulovia, his brain lived on, and his mind was explored in the level PSI King's Sensorium.

Personality
As the amnesiac "Ball of Light," Helmut was inquisitive, introspective, and energetic, though anxious and apprehensive as he delved into his memories and regained his senses.

Notable Psi-Powers and Skills
Time Bubble

Figment Projection

Major Relationships
Robert Zanotto

Ford Cruller

Razputin Aquato

The Psychic 7

Backstory
Helmut was a struggling stage artist, performing his psychically-enhanced Psychodyssey show for empty theaters, when Ford Cruller found him and invited him to join his psychic research team in Green Needle Gulch. Helmut became the seventh and final member of the Psychic 7, becoming close friends with inventor Otto Mentallis, hydrokinesis specialist Lucrecia Mux, author Cassie O'Pia, herbophony specialist Robert Zanotto, and zoolepathy specialist Compton Boole.

While performing for the group, Helmut instantly won the heart of Bob Zanotto. They fell in love and were married, with their Green Needle Gulch colleagues in attendance. During his days in this community, Helmut built an amphitheater where he workshopped the Psychodyssey and parked his van, the Feel Mobile. Emboldened the age of psychic exploration, as well as each other, the Psychic 7 experimented on their minds using Otto’s invention, the Astralathe, capable of permanently altering one’s psyche. One such experiment on Lucrecia released a dark, primal construct called Maligula from her subconscious, which thrived when Lucy returned to aid the war effort in her home country of Grulovia.

World leaders called upon the nascent Psychonauts to vanquish Maligula, after she broke a damn and drowned hundreds of peaceful protesters. In the ensuing Battle of Grulovia, Helmut attempted to calm Lucy with a monologue about their friendship, after Cassie's first line of defense failed. He briefly contacted Lucy's old self before Maligula took over again, distracting her long enough for Compton to recruit local animals to the fight.

As the battle raged on and each of Helmut's friends were defeated, Maligula set her sights on Bob. Helmut threw himself in front of an attack to save his husband's life, and was plunged deep into the lake. Otto deployed his Hyperhyglaciator to freeze Maligula, only to accidentally freeze the lake and seal Helmut's body deep beneath it. While Ford restrained Lucy, Helmut expelled his brain from his body using sneezing powder, landing at Cruller’s feet.

Ford brought the subdued Lucy and Helmut's brain back to Green Needle Gulch. Helmut's brain sat idle in the Heptadome as Ford turned the Astralathe on Lucy, young Augustus Aquato, and finally himself, shattering his own mind and memories, leaving Helmut's brain abandoned.