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IN CHARACTER
Name: Bellamy Blake
Canon: the 100
Canon Point: post season 2, episode 16.
Age: 23

History: here!

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 was strict on its one-child policy. When Octavia was illegally 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. Bellamy makes a lot of mistakes, but he learns from them and tries to fix them.

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, for what they have personally done to him and his family, 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.

His anger is deep seated and nearly always there, and this resonates with the anger of the other delinquents. When the delinquents come to be his own, his people, he fights tooth and nail for them no matter the cost. While Bellamy might hesitate to let people inside towards his own emotions, he can read others’ better than a book. He picks up on just what someone needs to hear, like when Raven was feeling down on herself and her place in the camp, Bellamy highlighted her strengths and praised how smart she was, without being obvious. He sees the best in people, and the worst in himself; he’s empathetic towards others, often at the cost of his own feelings. He’s terrible at hiding his emotions and he’s terrible at analyzing them. He speaks his mind without thinking, impulsive to a fault and occasionally hurting people with his words (sometimes using his words to hurt on purpose too). He challenges people he thinks are wrong without hesitation, because he is tired of being yanked around by authorities. If he doesn’t like someone, he will absolutely let them know.

Bellamy is perceptive and adaptive. He can read a situation for what it is and fix the plan as necessary, easy to make snap decisions. It doesn’t mean he is full of spontaneity so much as he’s more than willing to change direction; he is unafraid to deviate, unafraid of change. His vision is better suited to the immediate, because his reflexes are quick and he’s reactionary, too focused on the present because it was all he could ever do, especially with his sister under the floorboards. The delinquents follow him because he proves himself smart and strategic, angry like they are, and willing to fight for and alongside them. Responsibility has been on his shoulders since he was seven, and it is second nature to wear it like a cape on the ground.

“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. It showed he was unafraid to adapt.

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 and instincts. 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 fellow delinquent Jasper as a hostage. 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 even out of mercy, his heart sometimes gets in the way of his projected ruthlessness, but when it comes to offering his own life, he barely hesitates. His sense of self worth is very poor, and his actions are reckless to the point of self endangerment. Everyone else’s lives are worth more than his.

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 his people are captured by Mount Weather, he volunteers himself as the inside man, a dangerous task to sneak inside with high chance of death, but Bellamy is more than willing to risk his own life for the people he cares about. He’s grown to be more reckless with his own safety above others, thinking them far more valuable than himself, and it’s 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, but he wants to grow beyond that man. He puts more value in the lives around him and tries to be selfless above selfish. He’s still impulsively reckless, but now it’s in the name of those he cares about more than himself.

His actions don’t come without consequences, and his guilt complex is enormous. Each life he takes eats at him and his perception of himself, making it hard (if not impossible) to see himself as a good person. It doesn’t stop him from reacting or being prone to violence; despite the guilt in his chest, Bellamy has long accepted the violence in him too, knowing it’s a tool that is sometimes necessary. What helps him through most of the murdering and fighting is knowing he has a purpose, that this fight is for the 100 and his people. To survive is to live, and Bellamy will do just about anything in the name of survival – including the irradiation of the entire Mt Weather population, when it becomes clear that the remaining 48, his sister included, are going to be killed after the alliance with the Grounders falls apart and the only option to save them is to destroy the mountain, he makes that choice with Clarke and Monty to save his people and his sister. Despite the mountain men he knew and trusted inside too, he chose to pull that lever because his people always come first. When the lives of people he cares about are at stake, it never feels like a choice so much as a duty, a responsibility he’s accustomed to holding.

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 (his people) 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. Bellamy is a natural leader, drawing on charisma and his own strengths, his lack of fear about being in the middle of the fray alongside the very people he leads. Despite his gruff and hostile demeanor, there is something in him that calls to people. He is raw and open and willing to get his hands dirty, self-deprecating in one breath while he encourages people in another. He proves over and over how far he’s willing to go and proves his loyalty with each move he makes.


Abilities/Skills:

Bellamy was trained as a guard on the Ark, and thus came to the ground with more combat skills than the teenagers around him. He’s an excellent marksman and gunner, having taught numerous delinquents to use a gun and organized his own militia. He’s decent with close quarter combat and knows how to throw a punch. His time on the ground has turned him into a sneaky fighter and a ruthless one, capable of turning most anything into a weapon, and it built up his tolerance more to pain. His reflexes have been sharpened and his stamina has gotten used to living on adrenaline. His time both in the war against the grounders and serving as a spy in Mount Weather have honed his ability to stay low and subtle when necessary, an improvement in sneaking around. Other than war and murder experience, Bellamy is just a baseline human.

Strengths/Weaknesses:
strengths:
Weapons proficiency
Passionate speeches to rile up crowds, hella charismatic
Empathy
Observant with excellent leadership skills

weaknesses:
Bad temper, prone to rash and stupid choices
Guilt complex the size of Jupiter
Nightmares / Suffers from PTSD
Blunt to the point of rudeness

Items:
-clothes on his back (a dirtied guard’s uniform from Mount Weather)
-two guns, with extra ammunition
-three knives

SAMPLES
Network Sample:

[Bellamy chooses audio, not particularly interested in showing his face for a few reasons, the least of which is he’s still too jumpy. He’s too tired and not interested in putting on some tough hardass façade, when he can just use his voice to be stern and let his eyes be as exhausted as he pleases.]

I need to know if Octavia Blake is here. [It’s always, always the most important. He’s not particularly sure about his luck though, already preparing himself for the worst news.] If she’s not answering, there’s a good chance she got herself locked up for beating some idiot up. [He almost sounds like he’s proud of that possibility.]

[He hesitates, feeling like it might give too much away, but he needs to be armed.] What’s the weapons stock like? If I have a gun, can I get more bullets? Arrows for a bow? Whatever’s there. I’m no stranger to space, but I’d like to know if I’m gonna be working with lasers or bullets here. Save your remarks about being trigger happy.

[It’s weird to find himself back in space, and normally he’d try to avoid thinking about that – but he’d rather avoid thinking about the bodies in the mountain instead. So space it is! The air is tighter, more artificial like he was born into, and it’s strange to think about how he misses the fresh air on the ground.] Okay, just – if not Octavia, if anyone knows the Earth with the Ark, let me know. And not some biblical bullshit, the space station kind.

[He should ask about the Grounders. But he finds he doesn’t care. If he's back in space, it's fucking better for them to be back on Earth away from him anyway.]

Prose/Action Sample:

bonding with smoll son, Hiro Hamada in the fantasy game Eachdraidh.