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( PLAYER ★ INFORMATION )

NAME: Tomato
AGE: 26
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( CHARACTER ★ INFORMATION )

DOES THIS CHARACTER MEET SKELETAL BASICS?
NAME & AGE: Bellamy Blake, 23
CANON & CANON POINT: The 100, post 2x5
CANON INFORMATION: Bellamy at the 100 wiki

PERSONALITY:

“Your sister… your responsibility.” – Aurora Blake

Since he was six years old, Bellamy has shouldered a responsibility no others on the Ark had – a little sister. The Ark is strict on its one-child policy. When Octavia was born, Bellamy’s life largely focused on her, and it is to her that he is most loyal. His desire to protect his sister motivated him on the Ark, and it continues to motivate him on the ground. He would do just about anything to keep her safe – including the attempted assassination on the Ark’s Chancellor, just to give him a chance to sneak aboard the dropship of teenagers being sent to the Earth. When later she goes missing on the earth, he is ruthless in his search to get her back, threatening to kill the Grounder he thinks has kidnapped her.

“You see… it’s okay. I won’t let anything bad happen to you, Octavia. I promise.”

Despite apparent motivations wrapped in decency, Bellamy Blake is an asshole. He speaks his mind and believes what he’s doing is for the right reasons – even if it involves stringing up a member of his crew on a tree after the guy breaks the initial ‘hands off my sister’ rule. He is harsh and commanding as he sees fit, but he’s very careful to distance himself from the authority of the Ark. He gets in people’s faces. He lectures, he yells, but never without reason – and he is usually obeyed. He is sarcastic and often cynical, though he would probably call it being a realist, faced with the literal life-threatening situation on the ground. He believes in equality for the 100, but he pushes himself in charge for selfish reasons too. He’s just shot the Chancellor, after all, and he is worried for his own life should the rest of the Ark follow them all down.

“Leaders do what they think is right.”

He is a natural leader though, brimming with charm. He wins people over with words and actions, even threats if necessary. Because he practically raised Octavia himself, having to keep her hidden and secret, her bedspace under the floorboards, Bellamy is no stranger to responsibility. Responsibility has shaped his life, has been heavy on his shoulders since he was a child, and he easily takes up the mantle of it on the ground, even when he bites off more than he can chew. He is arrogant and stubborn – he is so determined to keep the Ark and the Chancellor from coming down to Earth that he demolishes a radio in which they can communicate with the Ark in space. The problem with this? The Ark is dying, running low on oxygen – by stubbornly destroying the radio and making the Ark think Earth is unlivable, Bellamy inadvertedly condemns over 300 people to death on the Ark. The deaths of these people weigh him down to the point where he starts to think of himself as a monster and thinks he himself needs to die. We see his distress over it as he breaks down with this knowledge. He makes mistakes, and he is haunted by them – but when crippled by them, he decides it’s time to do better. He opens up for cooperation with Clarke and tries to make amends, shifting him from less of an antagonist into more of an anti-hero.

Why would people choose to follow such a dick? Well, the teenagers themselves are all juvenile delinquents. Bellamy offers them a chance to escape the authority of the Ark. In space, breaking the law is an automatic death through what’s called “Floating,” essentially throwing people out to die in space. Anyone under the age of eighteen is locked up till they’re legal, then tried as an adult for their crimes. Bellamy’s own mother was floated when Octavia’s existence was revealed, and the little sister he fought for over a decade to hide was thrown into prison, leaving him utterly alone. Though his reasoning is initially more focused on himself and his sister, Bellamy grows to care about those who become his people, and he returns their loyalty. He is also a member of the working class – which is the very same class most of the teenagers seem to hail from themselves. When he offers them freedom from the authorities on the Ark – from those who arrested them and sent them down to die on earth – it is unsurprising that so many jump aboard. He speaks up for the anger they’ve all had with the authorities that have condemned them to die twice over. Bellamy usually knows exactly the words to say as a rallying point, and it’s instinctual – he doesn’t have the time to calculate speeches, which makes it all the more apparent that it comes from the heart. He is angry and aggressive and furious with the authorities for risking their lives, but he sees the Earth as a chance to start anew, and he is a ferocious protector of that chance. Anyone who gets in their way is just an obstacle to be overcome, whether it’s Grounders or the Ark that eventually follows them down.

“You expect us to trust a Grounder? This is our home now. We built this from nothing with our bare hands! Our dead are buried behind that wall in this ground! Our ground! The Grounders think they can take that away. They think that because we came from the sky, we don't belong here. But they've yet to realize one very important fact: We are on the ground now, and that means we are Grounders!”

Where Bellamy is the heart of the hundred, Clarke Griffin is the head. Clarke was of the privileged class – a fact Bellamy absolutely did not hesitate to use when he was aiming to take everyone’s loyalty. He knows exactly the cards to play and when to play them. The two of them clashed over rules and plans and leadership, with Clarke preferring a much more orderly and proactive path to Bellamy’s chaotic freedom. What ends up working best was a combination of the two. The first moment Bellamy starts to see value in Clarke’s opinions comes when she mercy kills one of his allies, Atom. Atom had been poisoned by radioactive fog, begging for death – and Bellamy couldn’t bring himself to do it. Clarke, however, sang to Atom for comfort and stabbed his neck, putting him out of his misery. Their relationship continued to grow from there, and they learned to work together: Clarke as brains, Bellamy as heart. They coordinated, and Bellamy enforced. For however much Bellamy wanted to stick to his idea of “Whatever the hell we want,” he realized a middle ground by working with Clarke, by laying down ground rules that wouldn’t hinder what he was trying to create on the Ground for himself and the rest of the delinquents.

His middle ground ruling doesn’t change his sense of freedom. Though he adheres to Clarke’s logic, Bellamy still rules himself with his heart. He jumps to protect. Octavia is still his core, but as he begins to realize how capable she is of taking care of herself, he’s able to extend that protection into the rest of the 100 to a greater extent. When Murphy comes back to the camp after being violently exiled, he takes Jasper as a hostage, among others, but it is Jasper who is the target of attack. Bellamy offers himself up as a trade – he is the real target, and if he can do something to save Jasper’s life, he will. He walks into what is his own probable death, because he knows it will save one of his people. Jerk with a heart of gold has never been so apt.

He wants to do the dirty work so other people don’t have to. He tortures a Grounder in hopes of getting a poison antidote to save Finn’s life, another of the 100. It wrecks him utterly, but he does it – and not without Clarke’s approval. Even in torture, they are a team, as she nods to him to keep at it. Despite wanting to be that person, wanting to keep the blood solely on his own hands, it’s not always possible. Like the situation with Atom and his inability to kill his friend, his heart sometimes gets in the way of his projected ruthlessness, but when it comes to offering his own life, he barely hesitates.

He still does what he believes is right, but his actual actions have shifted from the person he was when they first landed on the ground, no longer as stupidly brutal – while once upon a time, he allowed mob-mentality to string up Murphy for a public hanging, now he has become the kind of man to volunteer himself for the dangerous missions – like when he decides to buck the rules of the landed Ark to go searching for the missing Clarke, or later, when he offers himself as a candidate to sneak into Mount Weather as the 100’s inside man in a rescue mission. He’s grown to be more reckless with his own safety above others, a far shot from the man who would throw a radio into a river to save his own skin at the potential expense of others.

Octavia is his priority. Clarke is his priority. The 100 are his priority. He is willing to do a lot, whether at his own expense or someone else’s expense, to keep them safe. He is loyal to them above all else. They are the ones who accepted him when the Ark floated his mother and let him down. Clarke in particular has influenced him strongly – though he was once determined to cut off her hand if he needed to in order to remove the wristband that transmitted her vitals to the Ark, she has grown into one of his most trusted allies, a partner, and someone he would defend to his own death now. The 100 teenagers had no one else to look after them, and through both Bellamy and Clarke’s guidance, they created a community for themselves, despite the trauma of a hostile, violent world around them.

COURT ALLIANCE & REASONING: Unseelie.
Bellamy literally starts off the series under a mantra of “Whatever the hell we want.” He is sour on authority and the law that kept his sister under the floorboards and killed his mother. Coming down to the Earth for him was to protect his sister, but it was also a chance for freedom. While he steps into a leadership role, his focus has always been to keep his people safe, through terrible decisions and good ones. He wants to keep himself free and keep everyone else alive. If the rules are in the way, he bends them, breaks them, rewrites them, throws them out the window; if rules need to exist, he will make his own and make sure they aren’t oppressive.

If we’re going the old classic DND classifications, Bellamy is the epitome of Chaotic Good. He believes what he’s doing is the right thing, but his methods are unorthodox without much planning, with a mix of successes and failures. He is a proponent of the masses.

ABILITIES:
✪ inspirational speeches.
✪ baseline human: knows how to use a gun and various other weapons (knives, javelins, etc), and has rough, basic combat skills without any particular style

INVENTORY:
✪ clothes on his back (1 jacket, pants, shirt, shoes)
✪ 1 gun
✪ 2 extra sets of ammunition
✪ 2 knives on his person

( WRITING ★ SAMPLES )

NETWORK SAMPLE:

[When the lock flips on, Bellamy’s face is in the screen – gruff, annoyed, pretty much every antonym for the word ‘happy’ you can think of. Maybe with a side of disbelieving.]

I don’t care what court sees any of this. If you know what a Grounder is, or the Ark, then you probably know who I am anyway – but given the apparent court intrigue, I guess I shouldn’t make note of where I am? [He says it ripe with sarcasm. It’s pretty clear though that he honestly doesn’t care who he’s broadcasting to at the moment – he has his people to track down.] But don’t leave me hanging. Let’s get coffee.

[He hesitates for a second, but only a second.] And – if anyone knows Octavia Blake, tell me. Immediately. [Despite how harsh it sounds, there’s a small trace of worry in it too. If his sister is here, he’s going to find her. And if she’s in the other court, he’s ready to hightail it over.] Whether she’s gone off the grid or not, if she’s here, I need to find her.

[It’s revealing a little more than he cares for, but maybe it’ll help lure people into helping.]

LOG SAMPLE: test drive!