Beauty

## Background

### 1321 - 1340: Bellinda Favre

A widower merchant has six children, three sons & three daughters. The family formerly lived in a grand mansion but after the merchant was robbed by pirates, they were forced to move & work on a barn. The merchant & his sons put pressure on his daughters to marry wealthy to help the family out of their hardships. Bellinda decides to adjust to their new life with no complaints while her sisters do not. They forced her into doing household work so they could stay clean for the bachelors.

Bellinda Barbot was the youngest of the daughters but all the prettiest. She was also kind, well-read & pure of heart while her elder sisters were cruel, selfish, vain & spoiled. After a year at the barn, the merchant decided to make a travel to the ports to meet with a trade ship. He asked his children what they wished for him to bring back for them. The sons asked for weaponry, the daughters asked for jewels but Bellinda asked for nothing but her father's return. When he persisted, she asked for rose as red as blood.

On his way back, the merchant was caught in a terrible storm & had to leave behind the gifts he got for his children. Seeking shelter, he comes upon a mysterious palace & finds nobody home. Deciding to make the palace his own, he leaves to get his family when he comes across a rose garden. Just as he plucks the bloodiest rose he can find, a hideous monster confronts. He tells them he has committed theft, which is punishable by death. The merchant begs for forgiveness. In exchange for letting him leave, the merchant will give his daughter to the monster to keep in the palace. The monster agrees & so the merchant brings Bellinda, believing she will last the longest with the monster's dark personality.

After retuning home with wealth, jewels & fine clothes from the monster, the merchant then brought Bellinda back to the palace under the premise that she could visit the rose garden. Her father immediately leaves her with the monster, who throws a welcome ceremony by treating her to an amazing cabaret. He began calling her Beauty because of her good looks but she says that he is nothing but a Beast.

Every night, Beast would ask Beauty to eat dinner with him & she refused, secretly going into the kitchen in the middle of the night. As she was not allowed to leave the castle, Beauty begins roaming the castle & discovers many enchanted rooms ranging from libraries to enchanted windows.

For months, Beauty lives a life of luxury at the Beast's palace while also learning everything she can from the library. But still it is not enough. She begs the Beast to allow her to go see her family again. He allows it on the condition that she returns by dawn. When she arrives home, the rest of her family is surprised to find her dressed in finery. Her sisters became envious when they hear of her life at the castle & tried to persuade her to steer clear of the Beast. Her brothers then decide to go after Beast themselves to steal his riches & his palace for themselves.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Fable Physiology**
	+ ***Immortality*:** Like most other Fables, she is immortal, eternally young & very hard to kill.
	+ ***Invulnerability*:** Due to Belle being a famous among the mundys, she is hard to kill.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** Unknown
* **Strength:** Unknown
* **Speed:** Unknown
* **Occult:** Unknown
* **Weapons:** Unknown
* **Range:** Unknown
* **Strategy:** Unknown
* **Combat:** Unknown
* **TOTAL:** Unknown