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Age: 25
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Character Basics:

Character Name: Bela Talbot
Journal: enjoythe_ride
Age: 27 (24 + almost 3 years in beyondtherift)
Fandom: Supernatural
Canon Point: 315: Time is on My Side, just before her death + CR AU
Debt:

Class A: 11 years

Class B: 276 years, 6 months

Class C: 1 year, 6 months

Violence against rats 1

Strong dislike for Johnny Depp 1

Threatening to set people on fire 1

Getting the Impala towed 1

Car jacking 1

Disregard for innocent life 1

Pimping Sam Winchester out to little old ladies 1

Theft for hire 1

Attempted Murder 2

Bribery 5

Carrying a concealed weapon 1

Making deals with demons 2

GRAND TOTAL: 289 years

Canon Character Section:

History: The History of Bela.

Personality:

Bela Talbot is the poster child for bad life choices.

No really.

Every decision she’s made throughout her life, she’s made the wrong one. As a result, she comes off as a selfish, self-centered thieving bitch, and at her core, she is. From the outside, she looks as though she’s someone that had it all—she’s beautiful, intelligent, from a well off family. It was the perfect recipe for success, and somehow, she came out the other side as a shady dealer of the occult with no family, no friends, and dead at the age of 24. It’s actually a fairly tragic story, when you think about it, but most people don’t.

Born Abby, Bela’s life of promise started out just like that—a lot of promise. She was born to a wealthy upper class British family, the only child of what probably looked like two outwardly doting parents. The problem is, however, that her father was a little too doting. He sexually abused her from a young age, something she couldn’t find her own way out from under. Her childhood was one of isolation, where odds are she tried to tell people what was going on (most likely her mother), and no one believed her. She exhausted every option until the day she met her first demon.

She didn’t know the girl was a demon at the time. She just knew that the girl was offering her a way out of her problems, and she had tried everything else. The demon offered her a solution with no repercussions for ten years, and when you’re fourteen, ten years can seem like forever, and her problem could be solved today, as oppose to a few years from now when she would be able to get out on her own. So with that, she made the first of her Bad Life Choices, the one which opened the floodgates and lead to every other bad decision she would make. She sold her soul in exchange for getting away from her father, which resulted in her father’s death, and her own life on the line for the next ten years.

Eventually she comes to the realization that ten years is not as long as she thought, and that she’s running out of time. She then uses the money she inherited to become the most self-reliant person on the planet. Or she tried, at least. No one can truly be self-reliant, and Bela learns that lesson the hard way for the rest of her life, but she never really learns it. She makes decisions, things backfire, and occasionally she gets bailed out, but most of the time she’s doing it on her own. She doesn’t like the idea of being in anyone’s debt, and tries to clear them as soon as possible, or do it herself. She doesn’t trust other people to have her best interests at heart. She believes that she can only rely on herself, and because of that, she doesn’t know how to ask people for help, at least not until it’s too late, and she’s desperate.

You’re starting to see a pattern, right? Bela is in trouble. Bela tries to solve it on her own and fails. Bela awkwardly asks other people for help and expects it because they have consciences and souls. Lather, rinse, repeat.

On the outside, Bela projects complete confidence and assurance. She knows exactly what she’s doing, and even when things don’t go her way, she always manages to come out ahead. She’s always out for herself, and is willing to let people think the worse of her, because not only is it easier than having actual feelings, it means she doesn’t show weakness. She doesn’t want other people’s pity, because pity isn’t going to save her life. In the end, all she wants to do is live.

Bela’s feeling on the family unit is complicated. She thinks less of it than she does people in general—if anything she sees it as a weakness, especially where Sam and Dean are concerned. Regardless of the fact that her own family life was terrible, being attached to people is a weakness she can’t afford, but she always knows how to exploit it. In fact, she shoots Sam, because she knows it will get Dean to pay attention. She plays with relationships the way she plays chess pieces—they’re weaknesses in other people to help her get what she wants. She hasn’t been afforded the time to care about people, and she didn’t want any more weaknesses than she already had.

The thing that Bela loves about parallel universes is that at this point is that her deal is null and void. She doesn’t have her death hanging over her head anymore, and it offers her a lot of freedom she didn’t have before. Once she determines that this isn’t Hell (because with her luck that’s possible) and that it’s not some new form of torture, she’s going to have a choice to make—reach out or close up. Given that in her last universe she tried reaching out for friends, and now most of them will be gone, she may be reluctant to try and branch out and make friends, which as far as she’s concerned is a much scarier prospect. She’ll be faced with the opportunity to be an actual person as oppose to just a human who’s living in the world. Odds are, she isn’t going to take it at first, but if enough people get under her skin, she could prove that she actually does have a heart and can look out for people other than herself.

Powers/Abilties: Bela is the humaniest human to ever human. She is, however, a skilled thief, medium and fan of fine wine. She does have a rift power however, which is detailed in the CR AU section below.

Appearance: Lauren Cohan = also too pretty for this world

CR AU

Game You’re Transferring CR from: beyondtherift Posts

How has your character changed from their canon self?
Bela actually went through quite a bit of growth over her time in Chicago. Falling through the rift on the heels of her deal coming through, she was suddenly given a second opportunity to start over, with no one after her and no demons coming to call. Dean Winchester hadn’t even met her yet before he arrived there. With that startling amount of second chances, it’s hard to know what a girl who never had them would do, but she makes friends quickly with one Josef Stolini, and builds herself a place in what she already knows—procuring unique items for a select clientele.

So yes, she’s still a thief. But as a thief without a horrible death hanging over her head, she was less inclined to take risks with her own life. This only increased tenfold when she wound up with a guardian angel – literally – bound to her life in the form of John Callahan. John and Bela had been friends prior to the bond happening, so she was less reluctant than she would have been if it had happened right off the bat, but aside from forcing her to open up and address the fact that she actually has feelings, if anything were to happen to her, John’s sanity at best and life at worst would be forfeit for it. While Bela is occasionally willing to throw her own life away, she isn’t so cavalier with other people’s when they’re not in her way and she certainly isn’t going to put her best friend at risk.

John wasn’t Bela’s only friend in Chicago. She also became quite close with Damon Salvatore, who became her boss after Josef Stolini was murdered in a drive by shooting. While John and Bela became friends by more mundane means, Damon and Bela bonded over revenge, work and a mutual need to flirt with every attractive thing they come across. He became the second most important person to Bela in Chicago, even trusting him enough to indulge in a friends-with-benefits relationship. That being said, beyond these two people Bela didn’t really have many significant relationships in Chicago, but … baby steps. For a person who spent a large chunk of her adult life being cut off from people, these are huge steps.

However, without the stabilizing forces that helped her become a real girl in Chicago, it’s hard to say whether or not she’ll keep moving forward with her own growth, or backslide into what she was. One significant piece of her CR won’t be there, the other won’t remember her and while she does have acquaintances who remember her as she was, they won’t have the influence on her that John and Damon did. How she will come to treat this will be anyone’s guess but the girl does have feelings now. It will be interesting to see how she handles them.

Are they gaining any abilities from their time in game? Did the game setting take something from them?
Bela became a fire elemental after falling through the rift, usually tied in with her temper, which became increasingly worse when she realized she started randomly lighting things on fire. Fire elementals usually involve manipulating flames currently around them and making them bigger or smaller as they see fit. Bela, being the control freak that she is, managed moderate control of her ability over time, but it will still flare up in highly emotional situations.

Samples:

Actionspam Sample: Bela touches base with her guardian.

Prose Sample: Bela trolls her guardian and attempts to make drunken peace with Cassie.