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Name: Jo
Age: 26
Contact Information: lachrymosa

ic information

Character Name: Belle
Age: 17
Canon: Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Canon Point: After running away from the castle for the first time, pre-wolf attack.

History: wiki link

Personality:

Belle has grown up being told for most of her life that she’s a funny girl. Odd. Not like the rest. And it doesn’t come as a surprise, considering that unlike most of the other women—and some of the men— in her little French village of Villeneuve, she’s well-educated and literate. Raised by her father, and artist and inventor, Belle was taught to value ingenuity, knowledge, and kindness. She stands out in a crowd not only for her beauty, but for her unwillingness to fit the mold. She’s altogether disinterested in what a young lady should be interested in—finding a man to settle down with and raising children—and is instead taken by books, and learning, and the idea of adventure. She’s not content to live an ordinary life in Villeneuve, but rather wants to leave someday and see the world. She yearns especially to return to her birthplace of Paris, to see the world she grew up in, the world where her mother and father met.

Belle is also incredibly kind—she takes the time to help the girls in the village learn to read, and is shown greeting all the locals with a cheerful attitude despite the fact that most of them seem to think she’s an oddball. She’s good with animals, and is especially kind and patient with her father, who is good-hearted but absent-minded. However, her good nature doesn’t make a doormat of her; she’s not afraid to stand up for herself, especially when Gaston is involved. She seems to hold a great amount of disdain for his inability to take no for an answer, and his brutish ways. Her encounters with Gaston also reveal that she has a witty sense of humor, which naturally goes over his head, and isn’t afraid to be dry or sarcastic even if it’s unbecoming in a lady.

Although she’s a gentle girl, she shows that she can also defend herself just fine, or at least put forth her best effort. She’s quick to pick up a candelabra with which to defend herself in the castle, or a tray, or…anything she can get her hands on, really. She tries her hardest to defend herself against the wolves in the forest, and even if she’s frightened of the Beast at first, she’s quick to stick up for herself against him, too, even though he could easily rip her to shreds. But she’s not cruel; even though he keeps her as a prisoner and routinely makes her angry, she sacrifices her freedom once again in order to nurse him back to health and tend to his wounds.

In a similar vein, defending the truth and what’s right is very important to Belle. She defends her father’s sanity and confirms his story of the enchanted castle, even though it in turn brings her own sanity into question. She never yields for her own safety; she’s determined to protect the innocence and well-being of her father, the Beast, and all her new friends, at any cost. She has a strong sense of right and wrong, even if it doesn’t always align with what the rest of the crowd sees as right; Belle is very much a follow-your-heart kind of girl.

Powers/Abilities: She can read. Dang.

Suitable Jobs: Librarian, Laboratory assistant, banker, gardener, Imagineer

Card Selection: Wind, Stop, Flying Frying Pan, Grand Entrance, Housecleaning

Third Person Sample:

Belle likes the library. Well, 'likes' would be putting it mildly. She adores every bit of it, every shelf full of books, old and new. Every quiet morning with sunlight streaming through the windows, every busy afternoon with children giggling in the stacks, every evening with hushed voices coming from the study tables in the back. She loves pushing her cart through the shelves, keeping every book in its place with a seriousness most people reserve for religious rites. Being here is like falling in love over and over again every day, and she treasures her breaks, when she can squirrel herself away in the back room with whatever book she's knee-deep in that day and have a thirty-minute adventure. Even though she's found herself in this huge new city with so much to see and do...old habits die hard. Books will always be her favorite escape.

What she doesn't like, or especially love, is being interrupted on her breaks. The magnanimous part of her that wants to help people wars with the selfish part of her that wants to take every moment she can for her own edification, which results in a grumpy Belle emerging from the back room, her novel still clutched in her hands as if clinging to hope that she'll be able to return to it soon.

The dismay on her face only becomes more apparent when the interruption proves to be a patron whose dog has absolutely destroyed one of the books at home. With a sigh, she sets down her own book, carefully bookmarked, and takes the destroyed one in hand. The patron tries to explain and apologize, but Belle is already off in her own thoughts. Surely there's a spell card that could fix this...

She'll need to do some research on this. That she likes.