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Your name: Eri
Your journal: erithegreat
Contact info: AIM: thegreateri, email: thejrslayer @ gmail
CHARACTER INFO
Character name: Bela Talbot
Fandom: Supernatural
Point in canon taken from: Before the hellhounds get to her
Appearance: Bela is 5’8” tall brunette, dressed in expensive layered clothing, usually slacks, a dressy blouse, a jacket and high-heeled boots. She always is presentable, hair is usually down and makeup lightly applied in a businesslike manner. She cleans up easily, able to throw on a formal dress and fit in with the upper class. Bela has a smirk almost permanently attached to her face and a mean glare when it serves her.
Personality: Bela is an opportunistic, manipulative, judgmental, opinionated woman. Once she sets her sights on a goal, she is ruthless in pursuing it. She’s self sufficient and a loner, using money to move ahead in life. Cash is the only language she speaks - even when her life is threatened, she’ll stand her ground and demand payment. Threats aren’t effective, and she doesn’t believe in doing anything out of the goodness of her heart. She has no qualms about lying, cheating and especially stealing and her lack of friends enables her to use her techniques on everyone she knows. She shares a love-hate relationship with hunters, probably because they handle the items she sells to her highest bidders, but she can also obtain things they might need, for a price of course.
Bela trusts no one. When the Winchesters save her life from a spirit that targets people who have killed a family member, she doesn’t thank them, she pays them $10,000, saying she doesn’t like to be in anyone’s debt. She can’t even ask them for help later in saving her own soul; instead she chooses to steal the Colt from them in an attempt to bargain for her life. She is incapable of divulging any details about her life, except the ones that are purely superficial. Even when confronted about her past, killing her parents, she maintains her persona of cold-blooded bitch; the girl who killed her parents to get their money. That having been said, Bela isn’t socially retarded. She’s able to put on a sweet, friendly demeanor when it’s serving her best interest. Once she is revealed, though, she’ll revert to a cold hearted bitch.
History: Bela is a fake name. Her real name’s been revealed to be Abbie. She was raised in a posh upper-class British family, likely to have attended private schools. Bela was probably a sullen, reserved child, showing her own sociopathic tendencies early on, possibly even having trouble with authority figures. She’d be able to stay in schools based on her parents’ connections, giving her a false sense of entitlement and superiority. Her parents were likely unsentimental and strict, her mother turning the other way while Bela was abused, sexually, by her father. This lead to Bela making a deal when she was just 14 years old, to have her parents’ souls dragged to hell and get their millions of dollars in inheritance.
Between then and her introduction to canon, she developed a business obtaining and selling occult items to wealthy individuals. In this time, she learned to use an Ouija board in order to get inside information from spirits on the location and probably existence of these items. She developed skills with weapons, and probably a rudimentary ability to fight hand-to-hand. Mostly, though, she’d rather not use these devices, choosing instead to use her money and wit to get what she wants. She even went so far as to burn her own fingerprints off; probably a young and rash decision.
Bela encounters the Winchesters when she hires two men to steal an enchanted rabbit’s foot from their father’s storage facility in New York. The foot switches hands twice, when she steals it back from them, and then Dean travels to her Queens apartment to steal it from her, beginning their antagonistic relationship. Bela seems to enjoy the challenge, catching up with the brothers just before they’re about to burn the foot in a ritual to remove the curse it put on Sam for touching it - to prove her seriousness, she shoots Sam in the arm. Dean outsmarts her however, and she’s forced to let them destroy it, but she doesn’t leave empty-handed; stealing the lottery tickets they won big on before leaving.
Their next encounter, she treads the line between helpful and antagonistic; she has their car towed, helps them get into an exclusive dinner, and then tells them where to obtain the Hand of Glory. In a predictable turn, she steals it from them and sells it immediately. Unfortunately, she witnesses the ghost ship that brought the Winchesters to the town in the first place, signaling her nearing demise and is forced to get help from them. She pays them $10,000 afterward in thanks.
Later, Gordon Walker threatens her to learn the whereabouts of Sam and Dean, holding her at gunpoint. She all but laughs and demands money, and when she’s told that he can’t pay, she accepts the priceless artifact hanging from his belt. She gives up the information, and when Dean calls her to threaten her she’s genuinely surprised at how serious he is, for the first time, showing a little guilt for hurting someone else - enough to prompt her to find Gordon and warn Dean and Sam.
Under pretenses of helping Bobby in turn for having been helped years ago, Bela answers Dean’s call to supply them with an occult drug called dream root. In actuality, her visit is a pretense to get her close enough to the Colt to steal it from them. They don’t even realize it until she’s long gone. She baits them into showing up at her motel room, leading them on to think that she’s there and then calls while they’re raiding her room to distract them while the police arrive to arrest them, driving away with the colt. When Dean finally catches up to her after she leaves a trail allowing him to, she convinces him that she’s sold it already. She actually traded the colt to save her life, but the deal was simply changed, to include her having to kill Sam to spare her own life. She’s baited to their motel room, where they set up blow-ups dolls in the beds, which she shoots without hesitation. Once she realizes what’s happened, it’s close to midnight. Dean reveals that he knows the truth about her deal, and she admits finally, what had happened. She also admits that she knew if she’d just asked them for help, they would have found a way to save her and she reveals that Lilith holds her deal, Dean’s deal and all deals made with the crossroads demon, hoping that Dean will be able to kill Lilith even after Bela dies. Her death isn’t shown, but as the clock hits midnight, hell hounds can be heard approaching.
Example tag: Bela’s fairly certain this isn’t going to work. It isn’t that she doesn’t believe in the spirit world, or that they do tend to be quite chatty every now and again; the fact of the matter is she just feels plain silly sitting in her living room smelling incense and asking a bloody Ouija board for assistance. Especially one as old and powerful (and bloody expensive) as this one. The old bag that sold it to her had claimed it was very old, and Bela’s research corroborated the claims. A coffin nail serves as the pointer for the planchette, a silver coin placed on the corner - she’s ready to go.
Right. Any minute now, she’d be on her way to easy money. Bela stills herself, staring down at the board, unable to use it for the first time. She is very aware of what tampering with the unknown can result in, and at the moment, her fears are getting the best of her. She finds it effective to clench her eyes shut and bear through this first step. After all; she’s going to be rolling in cash if she can convince the spirits to help her.
Example journal: I can’t be sure of anything now. The deal, Lilith, the Winchesters; it’s all up in the air in this place. It seems that I’m free of the deal for the time being. The nightmares still come, though, as if I’m one step away from being dragged to hell. Not that I don’t exactly deserve it. It’s not as though I’m going to waltz around, asking “I wonder if there’s a gift shop,” and trying to make happy friends with the other pathetic souls trapped here, but it would probably be wise to play nice for awhile. At least until we all start dying off.