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yeehaw, catch belle @/brutalwillds for the foreseeable future !

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moving everyone from nolaraised and lizzie to a new multi so hopefully will some time here for belle soon!

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Hope wanted to make this choice before others yanked it from her hands. This wasn't something that Hope was thinking of doing on a whim. But everyone in the family thinks she isn't being rational. Her heart and brain have never been more in line with one another. One day, a threat was going to knock on their door that required them to access her full potential. When Hope told everyone it was during a family meeting, Her voice was even and steady. The dining room table was filled with pastries, alcohol, and fruit. It was almost as if Hope thought a celebration of life was in order. Valkyrie had been sitting on Hope's lap under the table. Her fingers brushed through the soft fur of her beloved animal when no one could notice. The overhand fan buzzed with each twirl, but it was cooling everyone that needed it. Hope was thankful, given that she was sweating thanks to the Louisiana heat.

BELLE : I CAN'T LOSE YOU AGAIN.

Everything turns on a dim. The calmness in her body twists. Fingers shaking in her cat's fur that only grinds down into her body. It was 15 pounds of pure animal that nuzzled into her stomach to try and center her. A deep breath is taken before Hope responds without thinking. ❝ I'm not leaving you! ❞ Hope's voice wasn't calm, and it wasn't even anymore. It became more high-pitched and full of stress. ❝ Even if some, I'd love to not be here. I can't seem to escape this earth. ❞ The sad thing was Hope had tried. She jumped off a ledge into a literal pit of doom to try and get rid of her pain. But even hell adjacent didn't want her. It spat her back to the same twisted fate she had been running from for years.

HOW IS SHE SUPPOSED TO TAKE IT ANY OTHER WAY? Hope is taking her fate in her own hands, having her say before the choice is RIPPED away from her and yet, Belle can't stop her hands from shaking at the thought. (Their mom had chosen to die to save them and never came back. Hope's a tribrid, her come back is practically written in the stars but that doesn't stop the fear that she's losing what's left of her family.)

"Just because you'll come back, doesn't mean I won't still have to watch you die!" Like Henry, like mom. Belle's the youngest in a family that's been dwindling since she was born, lost to murder and treachery, self-sacrifice in the face of those that DESPISED them for something none of them could help.

(She's still choosing to leave her, even if only temporarily.)

Being there for it isn't even a choice, How else will she know it works? That her stupidly brave older sister hasn't just killed herself for nothing, left Belle to truly fend for herself with family that feels like they only truly care about her as Hope's sister, Hayley's daughter, not Belle.

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IN A HEARTBEAT. It's a combination of morbid curiousity and a desire to help. If the ghosts are chill with their way of life, who's she to come swinging in and ruin things? But if they're trapped with unfinished business and a need a hand or two? Who would she be if she didn't at least try.

"It could be fun! Nola's had it's fair share of ghost stories. Cab dribvers gotta be careful they're picking up a real person and not, like, a spirit, you know?" Granted, not so much a problem any more with the Other Side gone. Must've been an interesting time for tourism when that went kaput.

"I am! Hope's more in-charge on a higher level? Leader of the factions and all that, but our parents were Co-Alpha's, so." Belle had been the one to step-up and take over the mantle when their mom was dead, Lisina murdered, and Hope sent back to school to grieve. The Pack had needed stability and she had needed their support, their comfort for all that had been stolen from them.

"Sure does. Maybe adding Crazy Fun Park on top of that is not the best idea." A beat, and then: "Would you go visit if there was one in the States?"

There isn't, as far as Floribeth knows, but it's an interesting question to ask, regardless. Just a little thought experiment.

And speaking of interesting questions: "Wait, wait, wait, hold up. I thought you were going to be the Alpha?"

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SOMETIMES BELLE MANAGES TO FORGET JUST HOW WEIRD NOLA IS TO OUTSIDERS. A melting pot of cultures and supernaturals where the music never stops and they drink to their dead. (Though the Ancestral Well of, essentially, hell and torment is always a fun fact to discover!)

"Are you kidding? That school of yours always has some sort of monster problem nowadays, I'd never get Hope to Alpha long enough." Not that she doesn't trust her Pack, she does! But leaving them undefended for that long leaves her skin crawling at just the thought. They've hadn't clawed their hard-earned peace in the Quarter by getting complacent and taking breaks.

"Besides, Nola's home, you know? Not sure if i'm ready to move that far from my roots just yet." She'd had enough moving for a life time.

"Wow," Floribeth breathes. "That's... intense." She runs her hand through her hair before she beams at Belle, preening at the praise. "Thank you so much!" High praise, indeed. Between one (undead) heartbeat and the next, Floribeth has pulled up everything she can find about Crazy Fun Park.

"Will you be paying the place a visit yourself?" If so, Floribeth wants to come along; she's never the one to pass up a chance to learn new things.

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SHE'S NOT REALLY WHERE THE INTEREST CAME FROM EITHER. Just a naggling thought in her brain and whispers now and again throughout the Quarter. Places marked by death are always an interest to witches, especially if the few rumors of dead not moving on are true. (Contact with the dead has been entirely cut off since the Other Side's destruction, she can't blame them for being curious.)

"Yeah. Some of the covens are whispering about ghosts, and talking to their ancestors outside of the weird hell well they used to be in, a NOLA speciality! And i figured you'd be the best person to ask." High praise and well deserved. (And if she's interested for more, selfish, reasons? Henry had mentioned the Park once upon a time.)

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"---i can look it up for you, if you want. crazy fun park, right?" vaguely floribeth recalls something like that: a theme park in australia, shut down after grievous accidents and horrid deaths. "why the sudden interest, if it's okay for me to ask?"

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floripire (noun): a gamer, a hacker, a friend //  ©

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What changes do you think would be made between your muse as they exist in your head vs how they would be treated as part of canon?

she would get nerfed so fucking much its unreal, if they're not making her a yes-man to Hope's every bad impulse then they're making her out to be the worst person imaginable because she abandoned Hope to the school.

canon barely cares about werewolves in general, let alone the Crescent wolves, they'd either make her a shit alpha or just straight Not acknowledge her role in the Pack, Period.

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Send 📐 + your character's height to compare with one or more of mine! 5'3

sorry belle Will be lording that one inch over Hope till the end of time thank you very much

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What controversies/drama would your character incite in fandom?

Well she ruins canon by not making hope isolated and depressed as hell so that's controversy number one. Her existence is unconventional and bends the rules of nature a lil bit re how her own werewolf curse works vs everyone else's because she never had to kill anyone to trigger it.

Shes not kissing the mikaelsons feet, if they fuck up theyre gonna hear about it, and on a good day she very much prefers klaus to elijah, like its not even a competition; vampire who's first sireling brutally murdered her dad infront of her mom and then Actively hindered any attempts at saving her mom vs vampire who actually tried to save her even with the amount of blood on his hands? Literal no brainer babeyyy!

Honestly they'd probably find her annoying because she's emotional and hate her for being conflicted about becoming a hybrid when she dies because she Loves being a wolf! She's actively been a wolf longer than she can remember and she's already watched that stolen from her mom, she's already seen how Wary people were when Henry became a hybrid, she doesn't want to lose what family and community she has with her pack !

Also she knows exactly what kind of vampires emotional people make and that Terrifies her !

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star light, star bright / @kennheir

belle is such a good character. but she's also a very good character study. she ends up almost, like, mirroring h.ope in a way because belle takes up leading the bayou wolves like her mom did (iirc) and hope has her work cut out for her if/when she brings peace to the factions of nola. i'm probably not explaining this well but i really like belle as a character. she's an exercise in what would happen if you give h.ope someone to help her shoulder the burdens; she's what would happen if you give h.ayley and j.ackson's love story a chance to bloom (before they both die). i like how things are complicated with certain m.ikaelsons, too. tl;dr: your oc is wonderful, i'm having a blast, and i hope you're very proud of what you've created!

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Obsessed with the characters who stay light hearted and joyous but who have stolen it from the darkness. There is blood under their fingernails — there is pain under their eyes — there is hurt in their timeline and they have felt every blow. But they have refused to let it take their joy, their sun, their kindness, their heart. This. This is mine. This is the thing no one gets to touch. The people who are unbeatable simply because they will always look up from the ground with blood on their lip and a light in their eyes. And nothing can ever cut out the light in their chest. Nothing can touch their rebellious, boundless belief that the universe has a sense of humor. I stay silly, I stay open, I stay alive and alive and I lived when the whole world said otherwise. the dandelion in the pavement. The vine on the wall. I lived and I loved the inherent brokenness of a once whole thing and it was me, I was the thing that is whole no longer. I gave flowers to the darkness. I gave my soul to the light. 

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❝ I have a surprise for you! ❞ a pause given on the other end of the phone before a gush of wind is heard. ❝ Turn around. ❞ Hope had came been planning this for weeks. To surprise Belle for her birthday by coming to NOLA again from boarding school. There, the tribrid stood with a broad smile on her face.

HEELS ARE TURNING BEFORE SHE EVEN REGISTERS THE MOVEMENT, senses firmly locked on to that familiar scent of home/family/safety drawing her in, a constant and comfort of her life, before hybrid and tribrid collide, arms holding on tight with a strength, not suitable for humans, but just right for her sister.

"Thought you still had things to wrap up at school?" Though, really, she can't say she's surprised. Since things have finally settled, Hope's been visiting more and more, less trapped by expectations, blue eyes bright and unburdened, spending time in the Bayou with their fellow Crescents. (They'd missed her. Belle had missed her.)

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writing fucked up lil klaus daughters is good for the soul actually

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AS MUCH AS SHE HATES IT, BELLE'S NO STRANGER TO MIKAELSON TEMPER TANTRUMS. The brief parts of her life where the Mikaelsons actually gathered in one room and showcased Klaus' trademark rage were enough to pinpoint exactly where Hope, and by extension Adaline, get it from. Granted, she's no stranger to the feelling of rage or the world spinning out of control either. (There've been too many impromptu shifts when the world got too much for her to wash her hands of it.)

"Not looking to be the wolf in the middle here." Hands are raised placatingly, less familiar with the younger tribrid's moods and ticks than their shared sister's, but wary of the mikaelson tradition of making examples of messengers all the same. "Thought you could use some comforts from home?"

"Will you just leave me the hell alone-" Adaline starts to call out the lifhghts flickering as her voice is raised. She spins her head around looking about ready to kill someone. When she realizes who it is her face seems to relax some her hands unballing from fistsa nd the lights stop flickering. She takes a careful breath in and out before giving a sheepish little smile. "Sorry I thought you were- nevermind." She starts to pick things up that she had knocked over. "Don't tell me Hope sent you as some sort of buffer to make sure I won't kill her? That seems like the lame sort of thing she would do."

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