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» HANDLE: Jenny
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» AGE: 27
» CHARACTER(S) IN-GAME: Bobbie Draper, Mako Mori
CHARACTER
» NAME: Bellamy Blake
» CANON: The 100
» CANON POINT: About a week after the events of 2.16
» AGE: 23
» SETTING: Here!
» SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Emotional, stubborn, loyal, empathetic, resilient, guilt-ridden
» INFLUENTIAL EVENTS:
Life on the Ark
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. He developed an incredibly overprotective and codependent relationship with Octavia, as well as an "us vs. them" mentality. Bellamy organizes the world into "my people" and "everyone else". It takes work for someone to find themselves in the first category, but once they are, Bellamy will do anything for them, up to and including risking his own life.
A year before getting to the ground, Octavia was discovered, which led to her being imprisoned, their mother executed, and Bellamy stripped of his job in the guard and put on indefinite half-rations. He spends the next year stewing in anger and guilt, isolating himself.
Life on the Ground
Bellamy is approached by his former commanding officer, Shumway, and told that the hundred underaged prisoners being held on the station are being sent to Earth to test its survivability as a last ditch effort because the Ark has nearly irreparable air recycling issues. Shumway offers Bellamy a deal—if Bellamy assassinates the Chancellor, Shumway will get him a spot on the dropship with Octavia. Bellamy, believing that the mission to Earth means certain death but not wanting Octavia to die alone, agrees.
Of course, all of them survive, and Bellamy quickly finds himself in an impossible position. He never planned on surviving, but he has, and on top of that, he discovers that the Chancellor survived, too. He knows that once the Chancellor gets to the ground, he'll be executed, so he panics and does everything in his power to trick the people still on the Ark into thinking that the kids on the ground are dying one by one. This brings him into direct opposition with Clarke, who is doing everything possible to get the rest of the people on the Ark to Earth, but who Bellamy views as selfish, bossy, and utterly spoiled. She's the daughter of a council member, and in Bellamy's mind, she's the symbol of the system that got his mother killed. During this period, Bellamy makes a lot of really terrible, horrific choices, including but not limited to: Forcing some of the kids to take their tracking bracelets off by threat of force or in exchange for food, nearly letting Clarke die to get her out of the way, refusing to let Octavia out of camp, letting the group attempt to stage their own execution, and torturing a Grounder for intel.
Slowly, though, Bellamy starts to become incredibly attached to the rest of the kids on the ground, and (for lack of a better phrase), gets his head out of his ass. Over the course of the first month or so, he starts to work with Clarke to defend the rest of the group against the Grounders, and quickly becomes a leader in his own right. While Clarke tends to look at the bigger picture and focus on strategy, Bellamy is more of an "on the ground" guy. He's good at understanding people and what motivates them, and incredibly good at convincing people to follow him with utter loyalty. As Clarke says, the hundred are willing to "fight and die" for him.
This comes to a head when Bellamy and Clarke hallucinate due to some sketchy plants and are nearly killed by another kid on the ground who's working for Shumway. Bellamy, unsurprisingly, has terrible nightmarish hallucinations about all the people he's hurt through action or inaction, and is forced to kill their would be assassin to save Clarke's life. He has a complete breakdown, telling Clarke that he's a monster and his mother would be ashamed of him, and the two finally come to an understanding after Clarke says that she'll offer him forgiveness if that's what he needs, but that the group won't survive without him. She also convinces the Chancellor to spare his life, making a case for him based off of all the people he's saved.
His desperate actions leave him with a lot of guilt, though, and from around mid-season one, he's on the path he'll follow for the rest of the show: Trying to make up for his mistakes and figure out a way to deserve surviving. Bellamy's general viewpoint is summed up pretty well after the hundred finally fights off the first wave of Grounders. Clarke tells him he did a good job, and Bellamy can only respond with, "Eighteen dead." "Eighty-two alive," she counters, but it doesn't seem to do much to comfort him.
Aftermath/Finn Screws Everything Up
After the hundred survive the final attack from the Grounders, a small group of them is kidnapped by another faction—survivors living in a mountain bunker, who the Grounders call "mountain men". The rest of the population from the Ark has reached the ground, and Bellamy finds himself fighting to convince them to go after the kids trapped in the bunker. He's finally (secretly) given permission from Abby, Clarke's mother, and he heads out with Murphy and Finn. They eventually capture a Grounder, who Finn argues they should torture, with Bellamy refusing and trying to talk him down. Finn goes a little nuts, holds a gun to the Grounder's head, and is told that Clarke and the others are being held hostage in a small Grounder village. Bellamy argues the accuracy of this, considering that the man is definitely making these claims under duress, but Finn insists it must be true and then also insists that they should kill the Grounder so he doesn't tell anyone else about them. Bellamy once again tries to get Finn to back down—a complete 180 from his outlook in season one—and fails.
While searching, they find another Ark survivor hanging off of a cliff face. Murphy and Finn argue that they should leave her, but Bellamy convinces them to try to save her, desperate to make up for the friends he's already lost and the mistakes he's made. They manage to save the girl and are attacked by Grounders, then saved themselves by Octavia, who Bellamy is beside himself at seeing safe.
Eventually, the group decides to split, with Bellamy and Octavia bringing the girl back to camp while Murphy and Finn continue looking for Clarke and the others. To their surprise, they find Clarke back at the camp. She's managed to escape by herself, and tells everyone that the rest of the kids are in trouble. The three set out to find Finn and Murphy, but show up just as Finn massacres an entire innocent Grounder village, because he's convinced that the villagers are hiding Clarke somewhere. Thanks, Finn.
Clarke tells everyone that the kids being held in the bunker are being experimented on, because the Arkers (or Skaikru), have a high resistance to radiation, which the mountain men don't. This plotline doesn't really make any scientific sense, but we're going to pretend it does and roll with it. It turns out the mountain men have been kidnapping Grounders for generations for similar reasons, so Clarke figures that maybe they can make a deal with the Grounder's commander, Lexa, so that both groups can get their people out of the mountain safely. Unfortunately, the Grounders are super pissed that Finn killed a bunch of their people, and Lexa says the only way she'll agree to that plan is if they hand over Finn so he can be executed in retribution.
Bellamy, who is now wildly and almost blindly loyal to the original hundred, instantly argues against it. Clarke agrees, because she's totally in love with Finn, and the two of them along with Raven and Murphy sneak Finn out of the camp for fear that the council will hand him over to the Grounders. Bellamy spends most of this outing trying to keep the group together—Raven wants to hand Murphy over to the Grounders instead, but eventually Finn makes the whole argument moot when he sneaks away from them and surrenders himself, and is executed.
Mount Weather
So Lexa finally agrees to team up with Skaikru to save everyone in the mountain. Bellamy, who is still determined to make up for his prior mistakes, and who is willing to do anything to save the kids, volunteers to let himself be captured so he can infiltrate the bunker and feed inside information to the army stationed outside. He's essentially tortured before Maya, one of the women living inside the mountain, rescues him with the help of a Grounder prisoner named Echo. Bellamy starts out his time in Mount Weather claiming he's planning on killing everyone inside, but soon enough, he grows incredibly attached to Maya, who quickly shows herself to be brave and selfless. She's just as determined to free the Skaikru kids as Bellamy is, and though she benefits from the experiments Mount Weather is performing on them, she can't live with herself knowing that her health is coming at the expense of innocent lives.
Bellamy also comes to know a few other members of the resistance living inside the mountain, including Maya's father, all of whom help him hide the kids. Soon enough, Bellamy is begging Clarke to figure out a way to save the prisoners without killing everyone inside the mountain.
At the last second, though, Lexa makes a deal with the mountain men, takes her people, and retreats, leaving Skaikru trapped and without options. Bellamy and Clarke, trapped inside the mountain, have two choices—they can irradiate the bunker, killing the 300 or so people living inside, but allowing their people to escape, or they can abandon them. Bellamy struggles with this greatly, but soon enough the stand off's stakes are upped when the president of the bunker begins torturing Raven, and their guards capture Maya and Octavia. Octavia's safety is what finally pushes Bellamy over the edge, and his desire to do better is ultimately overcome by his lifelong conditioning that Octavia's life eclipses everything else, and he and Clarke decide to irradiate the bunker after all.
This, of course, leaves Bellamy with an extra heaping helping of guilt. When Skaikru returns to their camp, Bellamy hopes that he and Clarke can figure out a way to live with what they've done together, but Clarke claims she can't handle staying. She leaves, asking Bellamy to take care of what remains of the hundred, and leaving Bellamy feeling alone and adrift. He's left warring with the fact that he understands Clarke's need to disappear, but feels that no one else can understand what he's going through, and he struggles to fit back into Skaikru with a murky sense of who he is and what he deserves.
» FIT: Bellamy grew up in space, and is very very used to difficult survival situations from both his time on the Ark and the ground. He's (generally) good at working with others, and is kind of a cockroach when it comes to surviving awful things.
» POWERS: None!
» NOTES: n/a
» SAMPLES:
TDM toplevel
With Lara Jean
» HANDLE: Jenny
» CONTACT:
» AGE: 27
» CHARACTER(S) IN-GAME: Bobbie Draper, Mako Mori
CHARACTER
» NAME: Bellamy Blake
» CANON: The 100
» CANON POINT: About a week after the events of 2.16
» AGE: 23
» SETTING: Here!
» SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Emotional, stubborn, loyal, empathetic, resilient, guilt-ridden
» INFLUENTIAL EVENTS:
Life on the Ark
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. He developed an incredibly overprotective and codependent relationship with Octavia, as well as an "us vs. them" mentality. Bellamy organizes the world into "my people" and "everyone else". It takes work for someone to find themselves in the first category, but once they are, Bellamy will do anything for them, up to and including risking his own life.
A year before getting to the ground, Octavia was discovered, which led to her being imprisoned, their mother executed, and Bellamy stripped of his job in the guard and put on indefinite half-rations. He spends the next year stewing in anger and guilt, isolating himself.
Life on the Ground
Bellamy is approached by his former commanding officer, Shumway, and told that the hundred underaged prisoners being held on the station are being sent to Earth to test its survivability as a last ditch effort because the Ark has nearly irreparable air recycling issues. Shumway offers Bellamy a deal—if Bellamy assassinates the Chancellor, Shumway will get him a spot on the dropship with Octavia. Bellamy, believing that the mission to Earth means certain death but not wanting Octavia to die alone, agrees.
Of course, all of them survive, and Bellamy quickly finds himself in an impossible position. He never planned on surviving, but he has, and on top of that, he discovers that the Chancellor survived, too. He knows that once the Chancellor gets to the ground, he'll be executed, so he panics and does everything in his power to trick the people still on the Ark into thinking that the kids on the ground are dying one by one. This brings him into direct opposition with Clarke, who is doing everything possible to get the rest of the people on the Ark to Earth, but who Bellamy views as selfish, bossy, and utterly spoiled. She's the daughter of a council member, and in Bellamy's mind, she's the symbol of the system that got his mother killed. During this period, Bellamy makes a lot of really terrible, horrific choices, including but not limited to: Forcing some of the kids to take their tracking bracelets off by threat of force or in exchange for food, nearly letting Clarke die to get her out of the way, refusing to let Octavia out of camp, letting the group attempt to stage their own execution, and torturing a Grounder for intel.
Slowly, though, Bellamy starts to become incredibly attached to the rest of the kids on the ground, and (for lack of a better phrase), gets his head out of his ass. Over the course of the first month or so, he starts to work with Clarke to defend the rest of the group against the Grounders, and quickly becomes a leader in his own right. While Clarke tends to look at the bigger picture and focus on strategy, Bellamy is more of an "on the ground" guy. He's good at understanding people and what motivates them, and incredibly good at convincing people to follow him with utter loyalty. As Clarke says, the hundred are willing to "fight and die" for him.
This comes to a head when Bellamy and Clarke hallucinate due to some sketchy plants and are nearly killed by another kid on the ground who's working for Shumway. Bellamy, unsurprisingly, has terrible nightmarish hallucinations about all the people he's hurt through action or inaction, and is forced to kill their would be assassin to save Clarke's life. He has a complete breakdown, telling Clarke that he's a monster and his mother would be ashamed of him, and the two finally come to an understanding after Clarke says that she'll offer him forgiveness if that's what he needs, but that the group won't survive without him. She also convinces the Chancellor to spare his life, making a case for him based off of all the people he's saved.
His desperate actions leave him with a lot of guilt, though, and from around mid-season one, he's on the path he'll follow for the rest of the show: Trying to make up for his mistakes and figure out a way to deserve surviving. Bellamy's general viewpoint is summed up pretty well after the hundred finally fights off the first wave of Grounders. Clarke tells him he did a good job, and Bellamy can only respond with, "Eighteen dead." "Eighty-two alive," she counters, but it doesn't seem to do much to comfort him.
Aftermath/Finn Screws Everything Up
After the hundred survive the final attack from the Grounders, a small group of them is kidnapped by another faction—survivors living in a mountain bunker, who the Grounders call "mountain men". The rest of the population from the Ark has reached the ground, and Bellamy finds himself fighting to convince them to go after the kids trapped in the bunker. He's finally (secretly) given permission from Abby, Clarke's mother, and he heads out with Murphy and Finn. They eventually capture a Grounder, who Finn argues they should torture, with Bellamy refusing and trying to talk him down. Finn goes a little nuts, holds a gun to the Grounder's head, and is told that Clarke and the others are being held hostage in a small Grounder village. Bellamy argues the accuracy of this, considering that the man is definitely making these claims under duress, but Finn insists it must be true and then also insists that they should kill the Grounder so he doesn't tell anyone else about them. Bellamy once again tries to get Finn to back down—a complete 180 from his outlook in season one—and fails.
While searching, they find another Ark survivor hanging off of a cliff face. Murphy and Finn argue that they should leave her, but Bellamy convinces them to try to save her, desperate to make up for the friends he's already lost and the mistakes he's made. They manage to save the girl and are attacked by Grounders, then saved themselves by Octavia, who Bellamy is beside himself at seeing safe.
Eventually, the group decides to split, with Bellamy and Octavia bringing the girl back to camp while Murphy and Finn continue looking for Clarke and the others. To their surprise, they find Clarke back at the camp. She's managed to escape by herself, and tells everyone that the rest of the kids are in trouble. The three set out to find Finn and Murphy, but show up just as Finn massacres an entire innocent Grounder village, because he's convinced that the villagers are hiding Clarke somewhere. Thanks, Finn.
Clarke tells everyone that the kids being held in the bunker are being experimented on, because the Arkers (or Skaikru), have a high resistance to radiation, which the mountain men don't. This plotline doesn't really make any scientific sense, but we're going to pretend it does and roll with it. It turns out the mountain men have been kidnapping Grounders for generations for similar reasons, so Clarke figures that maybe they can make a deal with the Grounder's commander, Lexa, so that both groups can get their people out of the mountain safely. Unfortunately, the Grounders are super pissed that Finn killed a bunch of their people, and Lexa says the only way she'll agree to that plan is if they hand over Finn so he can be executed in retribution.
Bellamy, who is now wildly and almost blindly loyal to the original hundred, instantly argues against it. Clarke agrees, because she's totally in love with Finn, and the two of them along with Raven and Murphy sneak Finn out of the camp for fear that the council will hand him over to the Grounders. Bellamy spends most of this outing trying to keep the group together—Raven wants to hand Murphy over to the Grounders instead, but eventually Finn makes the whole argument moot when he sneaks away from them and surrenders himself, and is executed.
Mount Weather
So Lexa finally agrees to team up with Skaikru to save everyone in the mountain. Bellamy, who is still determined to make up for his prior mistakes, and who is willing to do anything to save the kids, volunteers to let himself be captured so he can infiltrate the bunker and feed inside information to the army stationed outside. He's essentially tortured before Maya, one of the women living inside the mountain, rescues him with the help of a Grounder prisoner named Echo. Bellamy starts out his time in Mount Weather claiming he's planning on killing everyone inside, but soon enough, he grows incredibly attached to Maya, who quickly shows herself to be brave and selfless. She's just as determined to free the Skaikru kids as Bellamy is, and though she benefits from the experiments Mount Weather is performing on them, she can't live with herself knowing that her health is coming at the expense of innocent lives.
Bellamy also comes to know a few other members of the resistance living inside the mountain, including Maya's father, all of whom help him hide the kids. Soon enough, Bellamy is begging Clarke to figure out a way to save the prisoners without killing everyone inside the mountain.
At the last second, though, Lexa makes a deal with the mountain men, takes her people, and retreats, leaving Skaikru trapped and without options. Bellamy and Clarke, trapped inside the mountain, have two choices—they can irradiate the bunker, killing the 300 or so people living inside, but allowing their people to escape, or they can abandon them. Bellamy struggles with this greatly, but soon enough the stand off's stakes are upped when the president of the bunker begins torturing Raven, and their guards capture Maya and Octavia. Octavia's safety is what finally pushes Bellamy over the edge, and his desire to do better is ultimately overcome by his lifelong conditioning that Octavia's life eclipses everything else, and he and Clarke decide to irradiate the bunker after all.
This, of course, leaves Bellamy with an extra heaping helping of guilt. When Skaikru returns to their camp, Bellamy hopes that he and Clarke can figure out a way to live with what they've done together, but Clarke claims she can't handle staying. She leaves, asking Bellamy to take care of what remains of the hundred, and leaving Bellamy feeling alone and adrift. He's left warring with the fact that he understands Clarke's need to disappear, but feels that no one else can understand what he's going through, and he struggles to fit back into Skaikru with a murky sense of who he is and what he deserves.
» FIT: Bellamy grew up in space, and is very very used to difficult survival situations from both his time on the Ark and the ground. He's (generally) good at working with others, and is kind of a cockroach when it comes to surviving awful things.
» POWERS: None!
» NOTES: n/a
» SAMPLES:
TDM toplevel
With Lara Jean