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CHARACTER
Character Name: Bellamy Blake
Character Age: 23
Canon: The 100
Canon Point: Post-S2
History: Wiki link!
Personality:
Bellamy grew up on the Ark, a makeshift combination of space stations struggling to keep the last of the human race alive. The Ark was never meant to sustain such huge numbers longterm, and so it was run with an iron fist, with strict laws and constant rationing. The population was always on the precipice of outgrowing what the Ark could provide, so as a way of keeping numbers down, every crime on the Ark was punishable by death.
Bellamy’s mother, solidly in the lower classes, raised him to distrust the authority of the Ark and view it as cruel and despotic. When Bellamy was six, his sister Octavia was born, and because second children weren’t allowed on the Ark, they were forced to keep Octavia a secret. Bellamy’s mother, with few options, told Bellamy that his sister was his responsibility. From that point onward, Bellamy’s childhood was essentially over as he took on the task of both helping to raise his sister and protecting his family.
This left Bellamy with massive trust issues, constantly keeping people at arm’s length. He splits the world into two categories: “his people” and everyone else. For most of Bellamy’s life, the only people he trusted and confided in were his mother and sister, which left him emotionally closed off to most. Letting anyone in risked his sister being discovered, which would lead to her imprisonment and his mother’s death. Because of this, Bellamy’s idea of love has always been inextricably tied up with fear and protectiveness. To Bellamy, protecting the people he cares about is all that matters. Over the course of the series, this starts with Octavia and grows to include the 100, then the rest of Skaikru. Bellamy bases his self-worth on his ability to protect, and so he takes each and every failure to save someone he cares for as proof of a deep, personal flaw, even if there was nothing he could do. He’s terrified of losing the people he cares about, and this is only magnified as he begins to lose more and more people as the series goes on.
Octavia, of course, is one of his strongest and closest relationships. The easiest way to get to Bellamy is to hurt Octavia, and he is constantly hyperaware of her safety. At first, their relationship started out relatively unhealthy and codependent—Bellamy was overprotective of Octavia to the point of being a massive jerk, and Octavia was constantly struggling to redefine herself as someone other than “Bellamy’s little sister”. By his current canon point, though, they're still trying to figure out how to relate to each other without the rules of the Ark. Bellamy is overprotective of Octavia, and though he trusts her to take care of herself to a certain extent, in many ways he's still terrified of something happening to her to the point of being nearly irrational about it.
He’s always had a big heart, and this is both one of Bellamy’s biggest strengths and weaknesses. Bellamy’s ability to understand people and connect with them, when he allows himself to, inspires those around him and makes him a good leader. He seems to inherently understand the strengths and skills of those he's leading, and can motivate them and keep them going even when they’re ready to give up. People trust him and are willing to follow him, and when he loves people, he loves them deeply. He’s willing to put his life on the line for those he considers his responsibility, and often does so without much question. Still, because Bellamy feels things so deeply, he often struggles to keep a cool head. He makes rash, dangerous decisions when he’s angry, afraid or guilt-ridden, and once someone breaks his trust, they’ll have a hell of a time winning it back. Bellamy has trouble expressing his darker emotions in anything other than violence and anger, and this is a flaw he tends to fall back to repeatedly.
Of course, like with any of his other emotions, Bellamy gets mired up in his guilt. He’s made a huge number of mistakes in his life, many of those ending in death, and he remembers all of them and carries them with him. Part of his insistence to do so much for others is out of a desperate attempt to make up for what he’s done. Multiple characters call him out on this, asking him how much he’ll have to do to forgive himself. Bellamy is not pragmatic at heart. At the end of the day, his focus is on saving the people he cares for, and he is nearly obsessive about doing so. Any failure to do this cuts him deeply. The fact that he was forced to irradiate Mount Weather, killing hundreds of people, weighs on him heavily, despite the fact that he did it to save his people. He thinks about it often, and doesn't seem to think he's really worthy of understanding or happiness due to the things he's done. His focus is often purely on survival for himself and the people around him. This means that Bellamy often doesn't value his own well-being, and pushes himself far too hard because of it.
Bellamy is a leader, and the intense responsibility he feels for those he’s in charge of resonates in everything he does. He’s a survivor, pushing himself to keep going even when he’s half starving or severely injured. Giving up isn’t in his wheelhouse—even when things seem hopeless, he’s the one to come up with a plan on the fly. While Clarke thinks big picture, Bellamy thinks about what’s right in front of him, solving problems and switching strategies very easily. His guard training means that he’s disciplined and methodical when he needs to be, although that old distrust for authority is still very much alive and well. He takes very few people at face value, and he’ll disobey direct orders if he doesn’t agree with them. Generally, he reacts poorly to being ordered at all. When things start going south, Bellamy will try to step in and take charge unless someone he trusts or respects is already doing it, and his assertiveness and bluntness can definitely rub people the wrong way. He doesn’t shy away from calling others out or stating his opinions, and he can be mule stubborn when he thinks he’s in the right or when he thinks he has no other choice.
That stubbornness often translates to a tireless drive to survive, whether that means survival for himself or for his people. This determination, along with Bellamy's natural protectiveness, often pushes him to make morally questionable decisions. The entire reason Bellamy was on the ground at all was out of a desire to be with and protect Octavia, and initially, that was all that mattered to Bellamy. The end result of this, and one of the main events that turned Bellamy around was Bellamy's theft of Raven's radio, which left the kids on the ground unable to contact the Ark. This led to 320 people being culled from the Ark to save oxygen and buy time to fix the failing life support systems. While Bellamy is no longer this self-centered, he does kill more directly later for similar reasons—he and Clarke irradiate Mount Weather and kill hundreds of people inside in order to save their own people, and Bellamy never hesitates to kill in self-defense or in defense of someone else. In his darkest moments, he can be pushed to do terrible things, such as torture, mass murder, betrayal, pretty much the gamut.
Inventory: Just the clothes he's wearing as well as a pistol!
Abilities: Bellamy is a normal human! He does have guard training, which means he's proficient with firearms and other weapons like knives, and is good at strategizing and leading in general. He's great at thinking quickly and being innovative on the fly, and he's great at reading people.
Flaws: As mentioned above, Bellamy is a pretty angry, emotional person. He can do terrible things when desperate or when pushed, and he often responds to problems with violence. Bellamy can lash out at the people around him when he's at his lowest, and he's not always the best at stepping back and looking at the bigger picture. In season 3, not long after this canon point, Bellamy nearly causes a war by helping to slaughter an army due to his own distrust and grief, and this action leads to a ton of issues, including one of his friends being executed.
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Player name: Jenny
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Characters currently in-game: Kyna Midha
CHARACTER
Character Name: Bellamy Blake
Character Age: 23
Canon: The 100
Canon Point: Post-S2
History: Wiki link!
Personality:
Bellamy grew up on the Ark, a makeshift combination of space stations struggling to keep the last of the human race alive. The Ark was never meant to sustain such huge numbers longterm, and so it was run with an iron fist, with strict laws and constant rationing. The population was always on the precipice of outgrowing what the Ark could provide, so as a way of keeping numbers down, every crime on the Ark was punishable by death.
Bellamy’s mother, solidly in the lower classes, raised him to distrust the authority of the Ark and view it as cruel and despotic. When Bellamy was six, his sister Octavia was born, and because second children weren’t allowed on the Ark, they were forced to keep Octavia a secret. Bellamy’s mother, with few options, told Bellamy that his sister was his responsibility. From that point onward, Bellamy’s childhood was essentially over as he took on the task of both helping to raise his sister and protecting his family.
This left Bellamy with massive trust issues, constantly keeping people at arm’s length. He splits the world into two categories: “his people” and everyone else. For most of Bellamy’s life, the only people he trusted and confided in were his mother and sister, which left him emotionally closed off to most. Letting anyone in risked his sister being discovered, which would lead to her imprisonment and his mother’s death. Because of this, Bellamy’s idea of love has always been inextricably tied up with fear and protectiveness. To Bellamy, protecting the people he cares about is all that matters. Over the course of the series, this starts with Octavia and grows to include the 100, then the rest of Skaikru. Bellamy bases his self-worth on his ability to protect, and so he takes each and every failure to save someone he cares for as proof of a deep, personal flaw, even if there was nothing he could do. He’s terrified of losing the people he cares about, and this is only magnified as he begins to lose more and more people as the series goes on.
Octavia, of course, is one of his strongest and closest relationships. The easiest way to get to Bellamy is to hurt Octavia, and he is constantly hyperaware of her safety. At first, their relationship started out relatively unhealthy and codependent—Bellamy was overprotective of Octavia to the point of being a massive jerk, and Octavia was constantly struggling to redefine herself as someone other than “Bellamy’s little sister”. By his current canon point, though, they're still trying to figure out how to relate to each other without the rules of the Ark. Bellamy is overprotective of Octavia, and though he trusts her to take care of herself to a certain extent, in many ways he's still terrified of something happening to her to the point of being nearly irrational about it.
He’s always had a big heart, and this is both one of Bellamy’s biggest strengths and weaknesses. Bellamy’s ability to understand people and connect with them, when he allows himself to, inspires those around him and makes him a good leader. He seems to inherently understand the strengths and skills of those he's leading, and can motivate them and keep them going even when they’re ready to give up. People trust him and are willing to follow him, and when he loves people, he loves them deeply. He’s willing to put his life on the line for those he considers his responsibility, and often does so without much question. Still, because Bellamy feels things so deeply, he often struggles to keep a cool head. He makes rash, dangerous decisions when he’s angry, afraid or guilt-ridden, and once someone breaks his trust, they’ll have a hell of a time winning it back. Bellamy has trouble expressing his darker emotions in anything other than violence and anger, and this is a flaw he tends to fall back to repeatedly.
Of course, like with any of his other emotions, Bellamy gets mired up in his guilt. He’s made a huge number of mistakes in his life, many of those ending in death, and he remembers all of them and carries them with him. Part of his insistence to do so much for others is out of a desperate attempt to make up for what he’s done. Multiple characters call him out on this, asking him how much he’ll have to do to forgive himself. Bellamy is not pragmatic at heart. At the end of the day, his focus is on saving the people he cares for, and he is nearly obsessive about doing so. Any failure to do this cuts him deeply. The fact that he was forced to irradiate Mount Weather, killing hundreds of people, weighs on him heavily, despite the fact that he did it to save his people. He thinks about it often, and doesn't seem to think he's really worthy of understanding or happiness due to the things he's done. His focus is often purely on survival for himself and the people around him. This means that Bellamy often doesn't value his own well-being, and pushes himself far too hard because of it.
Bellamy is a leader, and the intense responsibility he feels for those he’s in charge of resonates in everything he does. He’s a survivor, pushing himself to keep going even when he’s half starving or severely injured. Giving up isn’t in his wheelhouse—even when things seem hopeless, he’s the one to come up with a plan on the fly. While Clarke thinks big picture, Bellamy thinks about what’s right in front of him, solving problems and switching strategies very easily. His guard training means that he’s disciplined and methodical when he needs to be, although that old distrust for authority is still very much alive and well. He takes very few people at face value, and he’ll disobey direct orders if he doesn’t agree with them. Generally, he reacts poorly to being ordered at all. When things start going south, Bellamy will try to step in and take charge unless someone he trusts or respects is already doing it, and his assertiveness and bluntness can definitely rub people the wrong way. He doesn’t shy away from calling others out or stating his opinions, and he can be mule stubborn when he thinks he’s in the right or when he thinks he has no other choice.
That stubbornness often translates to a tireless drive to survive, whether that means survival for himself or for his people. This determination, along with Bellamy's natural protectiveness, often pushes him to make morally questionable decisions. The entire reason Bellamy was on the ground at all was out of a desire to be with and protect Octavia, and initially, that was all that mattered to Bellamy. The end result of this, and one of the main events that turned Bellamy around was Bellamy's theft of Raven's radio, which left the kids on the ground unable to contact the Ark. This led to 320 people being culled from the Ark to save oxygen and buy time to fix the failing life support systems. While Bellamy is no longer this self-centered, he does kill more directly later for similar reasons—he and Clarke irradiate Mount Weather and kill hundreds of people inside in order to save their own people, and Bellamy never hesitates to kill in self-defense or in defense of someone else. In his darkest moments, he can be pushed to do terrible things, such as torture, mass murder, betrayal, pretty much the gamut.
Inventory: Just the clothes he's wearing as well as a pistol!
Abilities: Bellamy is a normal human! He does have guard training, which means he's proficient with firearms and other weapons like knives, and is good at strategizing and leading in general. He's great at thinking quickly and being innovative on the fly, and he's great at reading people.
Flaws: As mentioned above, Bellamy is a pretty angry, emotional person. He can do terrible things when desperate or when pushed, and he often responds to problems with violence. Bellamy can lash out at the people around him when he's at his lowest, and he's not always the best at stepping back and looking at the bigger picture. In season 3, not long after this canon point, Bellamy nearly causes a war by helping to slaughter an army due to his own distrust and grief, and this action leads to a ton of issues, including one of his friends being executed.
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Action Log Sample: Here!