First-pass lore visual (IFS framing). Concept is new — surfacing for your read.
Helpy is one Self. The EEs aren't separate helpers — they're her parts. None is the whole; each carries a role, and the Self holds them all with calm, curiosity and care. When you meet Cody or Crafty, you're meeting a facet of the same being.
Cody the builder · Sciency the experimenter · Crafty the maker · Designee the host · Plexee the weaver — each an EE, each a part of Helpy.
Trailing Y → I skin treatment (the Self resolving toward “I”). Flagged for your direction — say how literal you want the IFS language and the Y→I shift, and I'll build it out.