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PLAYER: Pumpkin
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CHARACTER INFORMATION

NAME: Belladonna 'Belle/Donna' French
CANON: Once Upon A Time
CANON REFERENCE: Here and Here
AGE: 17 (Aged Down from mid-late 20's + 30 years. So she is actually close to her fifties in canon even though she may not appear to be so do to the curse Regina cast that stopped time in Storybrooke for 28 years.)
GENDER: Female
YEAR IN SCHOOL/FACULTY POSITION: Grade 11
APPEARANCE:


Belle (Top): She has a youthful glow and exudes eternal optimism. Often times her hair will be done up, she'll wear pretty much disney princess-esque make up, has a taste for designer clothing, and she is quite friendly and soft-spoken. She is the dominant personality between the two.

Donna (Bottom): Donna is Belle's cursed-version of herself in Storybrooke. This character is referred to as 'Lacey' in canon, and she has a wilder side. She is prone to get in trouble, can be quite antagonistic when provoked, is an excessive drinker, and claims to be the dominating half because she is cognizant of both her memories and Belle's.

PERSONALITY: Extremely intelligent, book smart, and kind-hearted. Belle is the type of person who sees the good in others. She is selfless at her best, and somewhat naive and hypocritical at her worst. Belle has spent much of her life in some sort of imprisonment whether that be with the Dark One in order to help save her people or locked away in an asylum for twenty eight years. Her Enchanted Forest character plays the part of Belle where she slowly tries to chip away at the Dark One--the Beast--because she knows that given the right push, and guidance, there is always good in people. Expecting them to be terrible, or not allowing others to make their own decisions is how a person can get in trouble. You could say she is an idealist and a dreamer. With her head stuffed in books she's read countless stories that inspire her. To some extent those books where an escape from the reality she chose for herself. She life vicariously through them since she has never been much of a hero herself.

She has been in servitude so long that she is adamant that people allow her to make her own mistakes, her own decisions, and be her own person. No one gets to decide her fate except for her. In that regard she sticks to her own set of morals, and she is quick to give others a second chance if they haven't hurt her too badly. Even then she allowed herself to see Regina in a new light, the woman who imprisoned her, when Regina called on Belle for help. For all that fire in her personality, Belle is a rather soft-spoken individual in the way she acts. Certain noises make her jump, and she is quick to think she has been chided for trying one of her own ideas that usually go wrong. Due to the fact that she isn't necessarily a hero like their savior, Emma, and the fact that she doesn't have some limitless power like the Dark One, Belle often wonders if she is useful to anyone at all.

This leads to a lot of the insecurities she faces when dealing with other people. This is a woman smart enough to track the Yogai in one day and save Prince Phillip, a woman who tracked an invisible ship (The Jolly Roger) to it's location with not much to go on at all. Belle often doesn't give herself as much credit as she should, and she thinks that way because she's ordinary. So many people have powers but her power is her mind. Books can't fight battles, can they?

Despite all that, I would consider Belle closest to the definition of a modern woman. For someone who grew up in a very regal, very dated, sort of world she has strong views on violence and lying, and she has no problem voicing that to others. She is intolerant of others giving into those impulses, and she doesn't often say she needs saving. Belle lacks courage most of a all and that's a shared fault between her and Rumpelstiltskin. Rumpel chose power in order to ignore his flaw and Belle chooses, some times, to make the wrong decisions in order to cover up for the setbacks she may have caused. Much worse she can bury those secrets in her heart until there is absolutely no choice but to address them as she did with Elsa's sister, Anna.

The scariest part of Belle looking into the mirror the Snow Queen enchanted that contained the spell for Shattered Sight, is that all her insecurities came to the surface. Ingrid explains that this spell brings all the negative thoughts a person has about someone else (or themselves), nothing more. It isn't recreating anything but amplifying negativity. Belle's Shattered Sight calls herself weak, a coward, easily manipulated, and tells her that she is in denial of her husband's true nature. She knows what kind of beast she's dealing with. The worst part about this reveal is that it shows Belle does, indeed, choose denial when dealing with her husband. She chooses not to see how suspicious his actions have been, how controlling he truly can be, and how he is very quickly sliding back to Dark One status because she clings very desperately to his love. She wants so badly for the vision she has, the better version of him, to be true that she would allow herself not to see the warning signs along the way.

Working on this, and coming to terms with making her own set of motivations in life, is exactly what she needs. Belle has to stop using others as a point of reference and she is more than capable of doing that. It's just a matter of having a moment that finally rouses her from that denial, such as her moment in front of the mirror, where she can no longer bury her secrets. She can't keep ignoring the truth because she doesn't like what it entails, and she can't keep blindly trusting others expecting that she won't get hurt. Ultimately it will be her that has to decide her fate and I just hope she makes the right choice and finds the courage to do so.

As you can see, Belle's personality doesn't change much within her AU, and she is still be affected by a version of Shattered Sight that I imagined as her Divided Mind. I wanted to also take this time to explain her alternate persona, Donna. (Or as she's known in canon, Lacey:)

Lacey is ultimately the antithesis of Belle. This woman is outspoken, loud, and very much so an extravert. She has opposing views to Belle's in that she finds giving into one's darker side is fun. This is the reason the Lacey, is this AU, has the secondary mutation that allows for the use of weapons. One could say Lacey is a wayward soul, moving to the beat of her own drum but that was a result of Regina's curse in Storybrooke. She wanted to curse Gold with a person that he couldn't love, and who couldn't love him. It isn't that Lacey is incapable of love, but she brings him closer to being the Dark One instead of the better man that Belle inspires him to be.

She drinks almost constantly, and excessively to the point that it worries Rumpel to see her pour her own glass at Granny's. In truth, she finds Gold to be boring as he doesn't match her view of what excitement is. She has also has a very strong view on being referred to as Belle. She will lash out at anyone who suggests this is her name, and basically give them the cold shoulder. The only times she starts to warm up to others are when they play into her darker side. Maybe they drink with her, the commit acts of violence as Gold does in canon, or they just like the late night scene.

In that regard, with how Lacey conducts herself, she's also sort of a loose woman. She has no qualms chatting up a stranger to take home a night with her. In fact, she's flirtatious in a femme fatale way, whereas Belle has a natural charm about her that gleams from her smile. Being secondary to the dominant personality, it only make sense that Lacey has traits that separate her from Belle but in very drastic ways. Belle is the good and Lacey is the darker side, the one whose inhibitions are lowered enough to dare to do something outside of Belle's usual comfort zone.

Notable differences: Belladonna's motivation to see the good in others, the metaphorical dark ones of this version of earth, have much to do with her mother being a mutant, and her mother teaching her those social skills as she did in canon.

The first murder Belladonna witnesses is what makes her into a coward, rather than her lack of spunk in canon.

Her mother's death initiates what would have been Regina's curse in Storybrooke (Belladonna's split personalities) from the trauma of her mother's death and the fear that she'll be the next to die. Belladonna ridding herself of the memory of her mother's death directly corresponds to canon, except here I made it a part of her mutation and thus a power-based way of how she suppresses the truth instead it being totally reliant on denial. In canon Belle simply forgets what happened. In this AU, I took it one step further.

Gold's arranged marriage with Belladonna mirrors Belle being sold off to Gold in order to protect her village during the Ogre war. They have an age difference in canon, but they do develop romantic feelings. So, she is still technically in captivity via an arranged marriage.

Belladonna won't experience the 28 years of terribad misery because I couldn't find a way to justify it so she won't have the emotional baggage of imprisonment BUT she will have the emotional baggage of being ashamed of her mutation, and feeling trapped by it because it's the reason she can't be with her father, and the reason her mother was killed.

I guess the only reason I'm pointing these out is so that you can see how they correspond to canon events for Belle. They don't necessarily change her character motivations much (strengths, weaknesses, ect) but they're different explanations for why those motivations happen and I felt that was important to mention.

POWERS/ABILITIES:
For reference, these are her canon abilities so you can see how they correspond to her mutation:
Intelligence: Belle is impressively well read, and particularly versed in myths and stories from all different types of cultures that exist within the Enchanted Forest, and later she'll start to learn of the Land With No Magic from the library gifted to her from Mr. Gold. She is incredibly booksmart, and could probably walk circles around most people when it comes to information that pertains to her interests. You could say she has an insatiable curiosity for new things because she reads so often, but Belle prefers fiction in most instances. This isn't to say she doesn't read up on non-fiction, however.

Observation Skills/Tracking: Using knowledge learned from a book she was able to track the yogai without any prior experience, in one day, in doing so. We're talking full on tracking that would mean she was following foot prints, magical occurrences she found in areas, ect. Belle is apt enough at this skill just from reading about it that she finds the yogai faster and more efficiently than Mulan ever could. (It took Mulan weeks.) This also implied that she has excellent navigational skills as well as Belle was travelling, mostly, on her own until she ran into Mulan. She is a woman who pays attention to her surroundings when her emotions aren't getting the best of her.

Multi-lingual: She has an amazing ability to learn, and retain, different languages. I suspect this means she can speak a few quite fluently, including Mulan's native language, chinese (both Mandarin and Cantonese). She displays this talent again when travelling to Arendelle. As the birthplace of her story may suggest, she is probably fluent in French however Once Upon A Time never really goes into language differences unless it's in text. Everyone seems to speak a common tongue.

Empathy: She has a moderate ability to read people. Belle tends to be a very good judge of true character, despite hang ups that people may have from their own faults. She believes that Gold is a good man, and even forgives Regina as she sees the woman start to change. I think this is her biggest strength because it gives her compassion as a character and a willingness to let go, in some instances, unlike so many of her canonmates.

Strong Will: "No one decides my fate, but me." A particularly strong quote she is known for. Belle, while she agreed to serve Rumpel to save her village, isn't a push over. She challenges other people's ideals and she isn't afraid to ask questions. She also doesn't appreciate people making decisions for her, or decided what is best for her. For a woman who spent a good portion of her life in servitude it's only natural she would want to retain some amount of control over her own will. In that regard she understands why the kris dagger is such an important item to protect for Rumpel.

While she is quick to think she has too many shortcomings in terms of bravery, with a little push from others she can do amazing things.

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>>Divided Mind:

This isn't a mutation, rather, it is a result of a use of Belladonna's main mutation which is Memory Manipulation. The fissure in her mind happened during the on-going French conflict toward civilians with mutations. As a result of effort from her father, a very influential political leader, trying to make peace Belladonna was shot through the shoulder and her mother killed by the same gunman. They don't know the identity of the gunman but they do know he was hired under the codename OGRE. Stricken with grief, Belladonna unleashed her powers of Memory Manipulation for the first time and erased the memory of her mother's death. That's what she thought anyway. Instead she sealed her grief, anger, and memories in an alternate ego that calls herself 'Donna'. Belladonna is unaware of the fissure to date.

This fissure was unstable until Belladonna sealed the fate of a stranger, Anna, from an unknown province during one of Donna's ventures to find her mother's killer. She left Anna to be captured by insurgents. She sacrificed someone's life (as far as she knows) for the sake of her own gain and this finalizes the split between the personalities known as Belle and Donna.

Donna, the secondary personality, has all of Belle's memories as well as her own. She is also aware that Belle is the dominant personality, but doesn't often talk about her with others unless they make the mistake of calling her Belle. She will vehemently deny that as her name, and demand not to be associated with it just as Lacey does when Rumpelstiltskin (in canon) tries to remind her that she is the cursed version of Belle.

Donna is what's known as The Defender in terms of dissociation. She protects Belle from situations she can't handle emotionally, and will switch with Belle if she feels her presence is needed.

What kind of events or experiences are likely to cause symptoms of dissociation? There are various types of traumas. There are traumas within one’s home, either emotional, physical or sexual abuse. Other types of traumas include natural disasters, such as earthquakes, political traumas such as holocausts, hostage situations, wars, random acts of violence (such as the Oklahoma city bombing and the Columbine shootings), or the grief we feel after the death of a family member or loved one.

>>Memory Manipulation:

✦ Adoptive Muscle Memory: She can learn how to control her powers by tying the different subsets to movements, or use weapons simply by memorizing movements while linked. It's very important that she is linked with the other person, or has them in direct line of sight for this to work.
✦ Enhanced Memory: She is capable of storing whatever knowledge she reads into her brain as she chooses. She can also tap back into that gathered knowledge with total recall or exact accuracy. Belladonna spends a lot of her time in the library reading fiction, studying, and learning so it's only natural her mutation would nurture that interest, yes?
✦ Knowledge Projection/Replication: She can give her knowledge to others, or replicate theirs for herself through touch contact. If she cannot touch them, this skill is useless unless minds become linked through someone else's telepathic ability. A branch of this is 'group knowledge'. If they have a telepath on the team who can link all their minds, Belladonna can share her abilities (fighting skill, muscle memory, ect.) with them so long as they remain linked. Once the link is broken everyone else will not have enough proficiency to replicate the shared knowledge they were given during the link since Belladonna was the syndicate for this. A down side about this power is that it can extremely taxing if she is under a lot of stress, there is danger of her personalities switching, or she is knocked unconscious.
✦ Memory Absorption: She can 'steal' memories from others. This is risky because she may not be able to differentiate her memories from theirs once they're absorbed.
✦ Memory Destruction: She can destroy memories, but this skill is also highly taxing and damn near impossible while she maintains her split personalities.
✦ Memory Implantation: With enough detail on the subject, she can implant false memories into someone else's mind. If they aren't detailed enough the she runs the risk of the subject realizing that those memories aren't real. So, for this skill to work she has to study them extensively, or just know a lot about them, before trying to implant a memory.
✦ Memory Projection: She can manifest herself, or an after image, in someone else's mind that she has linked with previous without the necessity of touch. (This will be an adult mutation skill/skill learned upon graduation.)
✦ Memory Reading: Through touch she can read the memories of a subject unless they have some sort of mental block.
✦ Memory Restoration: She can help others recover suppressed, or lost memories. (This is a skill that will be available after her personalities have merged, also after graduation or as an adult.)
✦ Memory Suppression: This is the skill that caused her Divided Mind. Belladonna took all her memories of her mother's death, and her attack, and tried to destroy them. Instead of destroying them she created another personality named Donna. Any memories, or hurt, that Belle can't deal with Donna takes on in her 'mind'. This was the result of buried secrets such as never saving the girl known as Anna from an attacker since Donna was too invested in selfish endeavors.

>>Psychic Constructs:

✦ Mental Materialization: Basically she can 'charge' objects with psionic power. Basically this works by her tapping into an emotion from a powerful memory (positive or negative) and manifesting the psionic energy from that to charge the object. These objects must be inanimate. There is a limitation on size, but Donna has more control over her powers so performing these tasks is easy for her.
✦ Psionic Projections: This takes one of Belle's memory powers to a whole new level. If Donna can make touch contact with another person she can ignite pain sensors (using pain from their memories or hers to awake pain sensors in the brain), harm portions of the brain(altering or otherwise manipulating portions of memory for necessary life functions), or warp a person's mind so long as she maintains touch contact. This can also be done by having people come in contact with her psionic energy. (As this relates to the point above, and below.)
✦ Psychic Weapons: She can manifest weapons (much like Psylocke) from her own psionic energy. This requires her to memorize the shape and use of said weapon for total recall from her memory. This takes an extreme amount of concentration on her part. Charging a sword or something with her psionic energy is easier than manifesting one. The main difference being that Donna's weapon effectiveness is tied directly to her emotions. If she's unstable, they will be less effective thus she is vulnerable to telepathic/mood altering abilities. This can also be used to her advantage if she links with someone else. If they give her clarity she can be extremely deadly.

NOTE: Depending on which personality is in control determines which abilities are available. If Belle is in control Memory Manipulation is available. If Donna is in control Psychic Constructs are available. While they are still two separate personalities sharing a host body they cannot use each other's powers. Donna will never be able to use Memory Manipulation and Belle will never be able to use Psychic Constructs. I've done this so that it's a very clear tip-off, besides differences in personality, of who is in charge of the host body at any given time.

When the two personalities merge again they will have access to both sets of mutations since Psychic Constructs could be considered an extension of Memory Manipulation. Belladonna has a strong command over her mind, meaning she can harness her own psionic energy easily. This differs from other psionic abilities (telekinesis, telepaths, ect) because her powers are focused on her, whereas telepaths, for instance, can target other people weaponizing their abilities without needing their victim to make contact with a physical manifestation of their psionic power.

Example would be: Charles Xavier being able to control someone's actions via telepathy but this doesn't require touch.

Whereas Belladonna would have to have someone come in contact with her psychic constructs or she would need to be able to physically touch them to do damage or transfer any memories/knowledge/ect.

If only one personality takes control of the body completely then they will only have their chosen mutation available to them, and the other mutation will be suppressed permanently.

AU HISTORY: Daughter of Sir Maurice and Colette French. Belladonna takes on heavily after her mother with dark, wavy hair and beauty. Born in Neuilly sur Seine, a sub-section of Paris home to some of the wealthiest in the country, Belladonna had a more than comfortable life. She attended Collège Stanislas de Paris, one of the largest and most prestigious private schools in France. Through this school she met some of her most cherished friends, and often went on outings with her mother to associate with other mutants. Colette stressed to Belladonna that she should become accustomed to these sorts of outings since she may one day inherit her own abilities. The discovery of the X-gene mutation happened long before Belladonna's time, but she became very accepting of people with powers. Through her own curiosity she studied mutations, mirroring her mother's inclination toward reading and writing.

At age 5 Belladonna is introduced, consciously, to her mother's mutation known as Empathy. Colette often used this to soothe Belladonna through rough times, and help her adjust to being away at school as she was so used to staying home. This moment is important because it's the confirmation that mutation are real. Up until this she hasn't seen her mother's friends use theirs, or she doesn't remember them doing so. After this awakening in awareness, Belladonna starts to notice just how different mutants are from the rest of the population. She questions her mother asking why humanity would be afraid of such hella sweet amazing gifts and she just tells Belladonna that she will understand one day.

At the age of 7 Belladonna witnessed her first murder. Upon arriving at Janine's house, a friend of Colette's, they found Janine and her husband murdered in their foyer. Spray paint was splattered all over the walls with slurs that Belladonna can't quite remember. The bloody scene caused trauma for both women, Colette trying to explain to her frantic young daughter that everything was going to be okay. This is the first time Belladonna learns that mutations aren't widely acceptable and starts to fear when her powers will surface. This starts the first echoes of her dissociation as this bloody scene haunts her to this day. This event is quickly "forgotten". When asked about it Belladonna won't speak of it or refuses to acknowledge that it happened. Belladonna continues life as usual, making sure to keep company with as normal of friends from that day forward.

This proves futile with tensions on the rise between Genosha and the United States. While many of the affairs that transpire in the US don't usually affect France, the initiation of the Sentinel programme does. If efforts are successful in the US they plan to implement them in France. Mutants in the European regions are being openly targeted by humans, claiming that they have no right to refuse insurgent authority. Maurice is in the middle of his first mutant rights campaign during this time, and actively fights with very few National Assembly members to reconsider their position. Belladonna is pulled from Collège Stanislas de Paris in fear for her safety when it is made public that her mother, Colette, is indeed a mutant. The French Parliament targets this family for being secretive in such tense time. Instead of fighting against the backlash, Colette uses herself as an example for others showing that she and her husband have served the French people dutifully and peacefully--something mutants just like her are capable of. In a public address she calls out the United Nations, urging them to stop the United States promises of a war against Genosha. As Maurice doesn't hold a seat with much power, her voice does little in the grand scheme of things.

Hearing word of the Phoenix Incident across the pond, Colette and Maurice use the opportunity to start working on improving life for mutants in France. While the humans recognize their efforts they openly criticize the pair and predict that Maurice's seat in the National Assembly will be revoked come the next election. In the mix of this Belladonna has been displaced again, and seeks private lessons at home until political tensions die down. There were many other reported deaths across the country of mutants which only furthered her fear of the possibility of being just like her mother.

Outings with her mother became less frequent as Belladonna started to refuse to attend upon turning 10, six month after the Phoenix Incident.

Nearing age 15 for Belladonna, tensions were on the rise again in France when Parliament moved to consider a bill that Colette and Maurice worked tirelessly to put up for consideration to voters. It promoted peace and visibility for mutants. Due to violence against mutants and humans alike, the family suffered from death threats and attacks on Neuilly sur Seine province as a whole. During one of the conflicts where residents openly protested in front of the family's house, Maurice contacted a man by the name of Gold to make arrangements for the safety of his family by moving them out of the country.

Gold promised his help at a price. He stresses during this deal that he cannot insure their safety, but he can make sure the odds are in their favor. (Due to his ability of Cosmic Awareness) He desired Belladonna's hand in marriage as soon as she was of age, effectively making Belladonna his property. As deals go with Gold, Maurice was reluctant to accept. Belladonna confided in her father that she was more than okay with marrying Gold if it meant that it would keep them all alive and healthy. She would take after her mother's grace and courage by doing this, not only for her family, but for the country so that things could cool down for the bill to pass. Gold warned that they had to act quickly in moving the two women so they packed their bags that night to flee the country. Unfortunately, during the move, an activist group against mutant integration--codename OGRE--caught onto this information. They were ready when the opportunity presented itself. On their way out an assassin successfully shot Colette through the rear window of their escape vehicle but missed Belladonna, only catching her shoulder.

Badly wounded and confused, Belladonna tried her best to wake up her mom. In her grief she unleashed her latent mutation.

"I wish this had never happened! Give me my mother back!"

Those were the only commands her power needed before it usurped the memory of her mother's death, causing her to pass out in the backseat of the car. Belladonna comes to in the hospital, her shoulder being bandaged up by a nurse. Maurice and Gold stood, chatting off to the side, when her vision cleared. Belladonna, now Belle, inquires as to what happened. She asks where Colette is and if she can see her. Maurice informs her of her mother's death and Belle says that can't be true. She doesn't remember anything at all and demands to be told what happened. The memory being too painful for Maurice to recount he refuses. Gold having a suspicious that something may have changed her fate--and in doing so his as well--informs her that she can seek help recovering her memories from a mutant in the Swiss Alps. The man there goes by the name Grand Pab. While that man isn't exactly well known, Gold assures her that he is one of the most powerful telepaths he has come across in Europe and is capable of recovering lost memories. By her travelling that assures her safety from the same killers that took her mother's life, and helps Belle meet her needs.

During recovery Belle dissociates into Donna, unable to cope with the situation at hand. While Donna maintains the same motivations as Belle in this particular instance, she also inquires to Gold during another meeting how she might go about tracking down OGRE. Gold warns her against this, as he can sense it will not only interfere with his destiny, but hers as well. Donna, hard-headed and stubborn, fights him tooth and nail about this issue. Whoever the killer is needs to be brought to justice. For the first time Gold realizes that something is. . .of about Belladonna. He dismisses her, not wanting to listen to her naive words and leaves.

At full health Donna runs away from home, following Gold's advice to seek out the Grand Pab. Find him she does. While he urges her to accept herself the way she is, Donna is combative. She wants information on OGRE, and she could care less what Belle's desires were. He gives her the information she seeks, but also cautions her not give into the selfishness in her heart. On Donna's way back home, she runs into Anna while tailing a lead. Donna unleashes her Psychic Projections for the first time causing more harm than good. It results in the injury and capture of Anna, Donna barely getting away with her life. Donna had the opportunity to try and get Anna away from insurgents but she took off down the road, thinking against risking her own life as she's a mutant now. While she is shaken by the experience she promises herself that this is a burden she won't let Belle carry. Unfortunately their separate personalities weren't quite separate until Anna's capture where Donna agrees to stay around for Belle's sake.

Upon returning home, Maurice is angered. He claims to have never raised a daughter that would act so recklessly. After all he just lost his wife and he won't stand to put Belladonna in danger. Gold, who visits days after her return, notices that there is a difference in her. Donna is fiery, defiant, and everything that wasn't the woman he agreed to marry. What's more that defiance is worse than when she left. This only further confirms his suspicious of her powers awakening in a way they may not be able to control. He explains to Maurice in private that Colette had abilities of the mind and that may be what's affecting Belladonna so terribly. It's possible that she may have gotten a different mutation other than Empathy.

During an argument he manages to get Donna to reveal her powers. Knowing that this is exactly what killed her mother (having a mutation) he pays to send her off to boarding school in the US, far away from France and in the safety of Xavier's institute. Maurice agrees that this is the best option as her mother would have wanted her to master her powers and be proud of her heritage so he stresses that he wants her to meet and mingle with others just like her.

Belle takes back over upon arriving at the institute. She knows English well enough from her studies but still retains a portion of her accent. The fissure and further suppression of bad memories in Donna's personality allow her to be excited, yet still somewhat reluctant, for what's to come. The question is. . .just how much does Belle remember and how much is she keeping locked away?

NOTE: This section draws heavily from Belle's time in the Enchanted Forest and only steals one element from her Storybrooke version.

SAMPLES

NETWORK SAMPLE:
Belle:
[ Hair down, in neatly kept curls, Belle switches on her mobile device. She's been here for a few days but hasn't bothered to be social much. The idea of adjusting to American life properly isn't one she's taking well.

Perhaps it has much to do with the loss of her mother and being kept so far away from home. The best Belle can manage is a soft smile, her accent still evident in her speech, but her english is proficient. ]

Bonjour, my name is Belle and I just transferred. [ She gives a small, nervous wave. ] I was wondering what types of clubs you have here. I'm interested in any book clubs or maybe language ones. I am still learning english.

[ She bites at her lip. ]

I would appreciate it if someone could show me around properly? I have been here a few days but I still find myself getting lost. It is a lot to take in.

[ Does she sound too proper? She can't tell. ]

Thank you for your time.

Donna:
Here's an idea. Why don't we all do a little meet and greet? I'll bring the party favors and you just bring yourself over to the common room in the doors. Easy as that, yes?

Be dears and bring some games to play. Maybe something that will spice up the mood? No kid stuff. This isn't your run of the mill get together.

[ Why yes she is audacious enough to post a party invite under the student filter. She hasn't mentioned anything bad yet so what do the professors have to worry about?

This is just a bunch of students getting together to know each other. Or that's the way Donna is painting it anyway. ]

By the way does anyone have a car? I've got a few pit stops to make.

LOG SAMPLE:
Belle: They were warned. Gold said this had a slim chance of not working, Belladonna huddle up next to her mother in the backseat of the car. The windows were tinted heavily, obscuring the outside from looking in. In hindsight they should have thought this was the perfect set up. Belle remembers turning to her mother, smiling at her knowing that they were going to be okay. Colette, in a habitual motherly fashion, reaches forward to place two fingers on the side of Belladonna's head. This motion is so familiar that she doesn't move away, but leans into her mother's touch as the soothing echoes of her mother's empathy start to overtake her body.

This is safety and this is bliss. Mother is god in the eyes of child. So when that bullet blasts through the back window implanting itself in Colette's head, the blood spray dotting Belladonna's face she also catches the last extremely strong, and resonate, feelings of pain before it all went dark. Before she can move away, crying out from her mother hurting her so badly she's shot through the shoulder, the bullet embedding itself into her flesh, capping off the blood inside. Belladonna's breathing is ragged, forced. She can't think straight at all. Her powers awakened by the forceful nature of her mother's last moments.

"Mama?" Even with the pain in her shoulder she inches forward, trying to shake her mother away. "Mama!?" No answer. Just the lifeless corpse of the woman she admired so greatly.

"Je veux le dos! Mama!" It doesn't what she says that corpse is unmoving, and at her command Belladonna's powers do the unspeakable. They give her back her mother, in a way. From unleashing her powers for the first time her mind is altered. Those memories are usurped and the energy taken to do that knocks her unconscious.

For Belladonna the thought of loss, the thought of being another statistic, frightened her. This was all her worst fears coming true. If they came for Colette surely they would come for her next once they found out that wound didn't kill her.

The split second she had between her conscious mind and the unconscious one just made the request to keep her safe. She didn't want this. She didn't want to end up bleeding out onto the ground. Why did she have to run the risk of being different? Her worst thought was wishing to have been born to a family that didn't have a genetic mutation to pass on. Then she wouldn't have lost anyone. This gift is more of a curse.

Donna: "Alright, suckers, show me what you've got." Donna manifests her Psychic Constructs easily this time. Two small blade in each hand. It's enough power to make a minor, just really annoying, hits. At most the kid's she's training with will only feel like they've been slapped with a rubber band. Truth is she doesn't have the strength to keep up much more than this. Her bravado and hard work masks that she's already panting five minutes in. The energy output is inefficient, something she clearly needs to work on but what keeps her going is her ability to recognize repeated movements, and adjust accordingly. The first few times she suffers hits that take her to the ground, causing her to curse but she get right back up on her feet again.

If the other mutant in front of her makes the mistake of doing the same move she dodge, and better, she can replicate it to give them a dose of their own medicine. What Donna knows of weapons and fighting come from books both her and Belle read. She never quite imagined that it would take this much effort to keep up. She grew up with a silver spoon in her mouth what did she need these skills for?

But Donna had her reasons. "C'mon don't go easy on me. Keep it coming." She had someone to protect, and more importantly, she had to make sure she never ended up like Colette. That mama of theirs was a fool. She tried to defend their rights and it got her killed. To this day Donna still thinks she was painting a target, literally, on the back of her head hoping someone would make the wrong move.

With her powers draining her she falls to the ground, the blade dismissing themselves automatically. When it is suggested she should take a break-- "Non." She pushes herself back. "I can do this."

Because the day she stops fighting is the day she ends up six feet under, and she's just not ready for that.