Serenity is a hippie friend of Helen and Jake in C.E. Forman's The Lost Seasons series, making her first appearance in "Fireworks." Incredibly shrill and paranoid, Serenity sees "the Man's" conspiracies in everything.

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In "The Age of Cynicism," Kara Wild indicated that by 1980, Serenity was going by her given name, Vanessa. Although Helen criticizes her for having "sold out," it is clear that Vanessa has not lost her touch, worrying about the "nuclear winter" that Reagan will unleash and imagining that her son is drawing bombs instead of clouds.

In Brother Grimace's The Winters of Those Gone Before, Serenity has a somewhat different life-path. Helen recalls how Serenity (in this reality, her real name is Paige Turner, and pre-law like Helen) met Forbes Carlyle, an art history major, and overnight, all but fell away from the fiery, outspoken persona she had as she began a relationship with Forbes. It is also mentioned how Paige and Forbes are still a couple and living in a ultra-wealthy suburb of Denver, Colorado; Forbes is a wealthy international antiques broker while Paige was appointed to the bench as a Federal appellate judge.

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  • The 'red onionskin' lingerie that Helen wears in 'It's All About Respect was picked out for Helen by Serenity (Paige) as a gift when they, along with Forbes, were in Amsterdam as part of a summer vacation trip across Europe.