Nurse Belfast

Nurse Belfast is a minor character seen in the comic "Cinder Isle" as well as its beyond counterpart "Cinder Isle: the Cure". She is the nurse at Cinder Isle High School during the initial outbreak of the T1-G1 Virus, as well as he first individual with a medical background to witness the supernatural effects of it on people. When Zack becomes infected as Patient Zero and begins to transform and get very sick Gavin brings him to her office where she begins to examine him. At first the nurse is in disbelief about Gavin's claims of Zacks body changing but is able to clearly see he is sick as he is coughing, sneezing, and has thrown up multiple times since getting there. A moment later Principal Harpswell enters angry as he assumes Zack is faking being sick so he can go home but Belfast reassures him that he certainly is sick. Gavin then speaks up and says how he thinks that Zack is somehow turning into a woman. At first neither Harpswell not Belfast believe such a thing is possible but after seeing that Zack has begun to grow breasts, she is forced to believe that somehow that is exactly what's happening. Two other students Bruce and Frank then enter her office with Bruce coughing very badly and showing that his hair suddenly grew much longer and turned to blonde highlights. Harpswell then begins to get sick after Zack coughed in his face when he got to close, and Belfast realizes that whatever is causing this seems to spread like a virus and gives Gavin and Frank medical masks to protect them from exposure. She takes charge and orders the infected to stay in the office quarantined and takes the other two otu with her to order and evacuation of the school as well as call a team of paramedics. Gavin questions if Belfast should leave as she was closer to the others and may have been exposed but at this point, she assumes the virus only effects men. 
In the main office Belfast tells the secretary Nancy to order the evacuation but Nancy is in disbelief as they have never evacuated the school before, and Belfast hasn't explained everything in full knowing she wouldn't believe her. She tells her to call a paramedic team while she grabs the paging system and orders the evacuation herself. She is then told by Nancy the paramedics are on their way but she told them it was a bad case of stomach flu and they are not bringing the special protective equipment she requested. Belfast is angered by this but is forced to readdress the situation of the outbreak. 
After the students are evacuated Belfast intercepts the paramedics and tells them what the virus is actually doing but by the time they arrive in her office, Zack has fully transformed into a girl (Zoey) and Bruce and Harpswell are still transforming very slowly. None of the paramedics believe her claims but as Belfast tries to stress the severity of the situation but then she suddenly starts to get sick, and her body quickly transforms showing she too has been infected. Instead of changing genders however her breasts and hips grow much larger, and her sweater suddenly becomes a rather skimpy looking nurses' gown which is quick to convince the paramedics that something very unusual and serious really is happening. 
Belfast is evacuated along with the other and taken to the hospital for quarantine but in route one of the head paramedics questions her further and wonders why she didn't turn into a man instead of just a curvier and younger looking woman. As she tries to explain what she knows however the Paramedic begins to cough and suddenly grows breasts revealing he's been infected. Belfast then mockingly tells him he should have listened to her waring and brought protective equipment. They all arrive at the hospital soon after and Belfast speaks briefly with the head of the hospital Walter Togus about what's happened before he goes to call in the CDC and a special containment team. She is then placed in quarantine like the other infected until it is determined that once they enter Stage 5 or Carrier stage of the virus their chances of infecting others drop to a fraction of a percent. At which point she was let out and returned to her normal life as best she could despite the lock down of the island and her new body. 
Several months later Nurse Belfast was alerted by Natalie about a student fight breaking out in the school's gym. She arrived to find Frank and Bridget (formerly Bruce) fighting Shane and Chase and broke them all up just before Bridget could go too far after pulling a pocketknife. She ordered them all to the Principal's office where she pointed out their situation was foolish but fortunately the only ones injured to the point of bleeding were those uninfected and had it turned out differently, they may have had another outbreak. She treats Shane's wounds as the principal (under influence of The Mistress) orders Frank and Bridget suspended and Chase to serve a month's detention with her. 
Belfast is not seen again but during the islands election that included a question about changing back if a cure was ever found; thanks to the efforts of the Quad, she elected that she would prefer to go back to her old body. She would then be cured, and memory altered soon after by Alistair Huntington along with the rest of the island and no longer have any memory of the virus or the true events of the past year. 
==== Beyond ====
In the non-cannon retelling of Cinder Isle titled "Cinder Isle: The Cure" Belfast is shown once again to be the school nurse and try and help contain and quarantine the initial few victims of the T1-G1 Virus. She leaves the room to issue the evacuation orders but this time around Bruce's transformation to Bridget completes before she returns and Zoey for some reason maintains her original genitalia without fully transforming. She also is not seen transforming herself but when she returns, she is in her altered form and the paramedics seem a bit more willing to believe her claims. She is not seen again after the initial group of infected are taken to the hospital via ambulance(s). 
Category:Females
Category:Cinder Isle characters