BASICS
Name: Belle Bernette Age: 24 (24) Neighborhood: Ever After Job: Librarian, Fableton Public Library Story: Beauty and the Beast Character: Belle Faceclaim: Alicia Vikander Status: Taken
PERSONALITY
+ open, loving, adventurous
- gullible, sheltered, reserved
BIOGRAPHY
Belle always wanted to be something more. She wanted to see the world, she wanted to discover how things worked. Go to school. But all of those things cost money and with a father that gambled away all of their money, none of it was really an option. Belle spent most of her time trying to earn enough money to pay off her father’s gambling debts and nurse him back to sobriety. Still, she was slowly managing to put away small amounts of money, tucking it away where her father would never find it.
She was making plans to leave and finally see the world. Then her father came home one night, slobbering drunk and crying about a huge mistake he’d made. It took a while for her to drag it out of him; he had lost big. He had gambled Belle away in a game to Gaston. The man had been trying to marry her for years and now he would have her without even being tied down. The money she had stashed away didn’t even come close to buying her freedom, so she ran before he could come to the house.
She took a path into the darkest part of the woods, a place where old and terrifying fables kept anyone from entering for years. She ran until she found a castle overrun with vines and falling apart. Assuming that it was abandoned, she sought refuge inside. She quickly found that it was far from abandoned, when the master of the castle found her and had a fit of rage. Still, she asked that he would allow her to stay, offering the pittance of money she had left. He told her she could only stay if she promised to never leave. Reluctantly, she accepted the deal.
Life in the castle was volatile to say the least. She was often involved in screaming matches with the man she referred to mostly as the beast, but had plenty of quiet, intellectual conversations with him as well. She still wished for the chance to see new places, but grew comfortable. Then the world went dark and they found themselves somewhere entirely new. Belle was excited for the chance to learn so many new things about so many different worlds. She knows that Adam has more difficulty adjusting, but she does her best to make it easier for him.
BIO UPDATE
Soon after arriving in Fableton, Belle was blackmailed into marrying Gaston. The marriage was a disaster, with Gaston treating her more like a slave than a wife and inevitably cheating on her when she refused to sleep with him. Belle hit a very low point after her husband’s affair, believing she was trapped in such a nightmare of a marriage. The only real bright spot in her life was Eric Moyer and his son Lukas, who helped her as she struggled and then stood by her when she decided to divorce Gaston (something that was unheard of back home). Finding herself single again, Belle dated Hercules Alcides for a while, until her relationship with Eric unexpectedly turned romantic. The two have been together ever since, with the only hiccup being a time when trust was broken as Belle was under a spell causing her to act completely opposite her normal self. While she is not ready to admit it, Belle has fallen in love with Eric, and she considers him and his son to be her family.
CONNECTIONS
Gaston Roche: As much as it disgusts her that she was nearly sold to him, like some sort of animal or property, they’ve maintained a wary friendship since their divorce.
Eric Moyer: A longtime friend, their relationship turned romantic once she was free of her obligations to Gaston.
ALTERNATIVE FACECLAIMS: Emilie de Ravin, Rachel Bilson
