Beauty

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

Basia, Belle, Bellindia, Nastenka, Nettchen, Rose, Rozina, Zelinda Zémire (Aliases)

### Status

True Identity Believed to be Fictional by Most Persons

### Relatives

Janvier, Février, and Mars Schöne (Brothers, Deceased)
Mai and Juin Schöne (Sisters, Deceased)
Bliss Leonblanc (Daughter)

## Biographical Information

### Education

Multiple Doctorates
(Too Many to List)

### Residence

Apartment 425
The Woodlands Building
Fabletown
Danny the Street

## Physical Description

### Once Upon a Time...

A widower had six children. His three daughters were pretty, but the oldest Avril was also kind, well-read, and pure of heart. Avril's father and brothers put undue stress on Avril and her sisters to marry well to rescue them from financial ruin - of course, marriage did not interest Avril.

When they lost their home, Avril's family set out to seek husbands for Avril and her sisters to marry. In order to gain Avril's agreement to marry, Avril's father promised to give her any one thing she could imagine. Whenever asked, Avril asked for the impossible to stall the deal for a later time. One day, she asked for a rose as red as blood. As it was the middle of winter, Avril trusted that her father could never find such a flower.

However, Avril's father had heard of a cursed castle with a magical garden. Just as they found the garden and Avril plucked the rose, the family was captured by a monster. Avril's father was able to negotiate a release for the cost of the monster's choice of the man's three daughters. Once the three daughters were before him, the monster chose Avril.

Avril's family were given their freedom and plenty of jewels and gold to restore their family fortune and then some, but were forbidden to return to the castle. Once her family was gone, Avril was told by the monster that the rose was a token of their engagement and they would be married in a year's time. Avril told the creature that she would never marry him and so in its rage, the monster locked her in a tower for the night.

The next night and every night following, the monster prepared her a bountiful meal on the condition they dined together. The two had refused to give each other their names and so he called her "Beauty" and she called him "Beast." At the end of the meal, Beast would ask her if she had need of anything. Avril often asked for her freedom to leave, but Beast told her many times that was the one thing he could not grant her. Eventually, she settled for freedom to explore the castle. To her surprise, the beast granted that without pause.

As time went on, Avril's rose began to wilt - its magical effect clearly failing. She noticed that the castle itself also began to rapidly fall apart. Out of curiosity, she explored the grounds and found wonderful rooms and magical relics. In the castle's endless library, she found a book that described the history of the castle's previous family. As she read, Avril noticed Beast watching her from the shadows. Avril asked him if he had eaten the former occupants, but he scoffed and let her be. That night, at dinner, when asked her question, Avril dared to ask the monster's name. "Beast" was his reply. When he asked hers, she replied "Beauty."

Following that, the two warmed up to one another. As they did, the castle brightened and her rose blossomed again with an unnatural glow. Avril began to see the Beast taking on more human-like qualities, walking upright, laughing, and even attempting to dance with her to pass time.

When there was a month left before their wedding, Avril received word her father had died. The Beast comforted her but she still needed to grieve. Avril resigned to agree to the marriage but asked if she could visit her father's grave and invite her family to the wedding. Beast agreed. When Avril returned with her family, her brothers hatched a plan to kill Beast to take its wealth for themselves rather than be satisfied with their split inheritance. In the ensuing battle, Beast was mortally wounded...

### Supplemental Reports

* (*Submitted by Herald*) Here are things I learned after spending a day with Beauty:
	+ Contrary to the belief of most Mundies, Beauty is quick to correct that she didn't have any magical furniture in her and Beast's castle during their year-long engagement. As she puts it "The dishes did not wash themselves. I did! I washed the dishes! Who else was going to do it? My fiancé had clumsy paws and claws. He'd ruin the good plates!"
	+ Avon Valley, the realm she and Beast ruled for a thousand years, was a small but important trading hub as the valley shared borders with the kingdoms of Seppantyre, Gascogne, Aquitaine, Bourgogne, and Lotharin. Due to its strategic value, the Sheeda have made it their capital.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Fable Physiology**
	+ ***Immortality:*** Beauty lives without aging.
	+ ***Resurrection:*** Like other Fables, Beauty is able to return to life after suffering a violent death.
* **The Scarlet Flower:** Beauty and Beast's relationship is tied to the magic of a rose plucked from a magical garden.
	+ ***Animal Empathy:*** Beauty has the psychic power to calm the savage nature of beasts.
	+ ***Mythic Beauty:*** As her nickname suggests, Beauty is considered to be attractive by most persons. It is hard for her to not make a good first impression.
	+ ***Peculiarity:*** Beauty masters new skills quickly, recalls details easily, and is all-around talented at most things.
* **The Silver Mirror:** Among the few relics that the couple escaped the Homelands with is a magical scrying mirror.

### Weaknesses

* **Curiosity:** Beauty is known to be snoopy and gossipy. She cannot help but be nosey when things interest her enough. She often suffers from a fear of missing out. She is often caught stalking people on social media.
* **Heartache:** Even True Love must be maintained. When the relationship between Beauty and Beast suffers, the magic falters. When the magic is weakened, Beauty's memory fails her and she becomes clumsy.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Occult:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Weaponry:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Expertise:** 7 — Legendary
* **Range:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Strategy:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
	+ **TOTAL:** 75
	+ **RANKING:** Moderate Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

#### General

* She was wounded in the fray, trying to wrestle one brother, Beast became distracted and was run through by another brother's spear. As he lay dying, Beauty cradled him in her arms and begged him not to die. When Beast, on the verge of death, asked her why she was so sad, she simply said that she loved him. Beast questioned this and to proved it, Beauty gave him what she thought would be their first and last kiss. With this confession of love, he released his own doubts and let himself love her in return. With the curse's magic overcome by love, his wounded body quickly reverted to human form, mending his injuries in the process. Beast's first act as a human prince was to wipe the tears from his Beauty's cheek and give her their second kiss.
* She's a pillar of the Fabletown community, Snow White's unofficial assistant and the manager of the Woodlands Building.
* She is Snow White's best friend and she's also friends with Briar Rose.

#### Bliss

* For centuries, Beauty and Beast tried to have children and were met with no success. Incredibly low birth rates was common among all Fables who had come to Earth, at least when reproducing with their own kind (humans and Fable relationships seemed to have a higher success rate). But for Beauty and Beast, they also did not have any luck in the Homelands for centuries, so they had suspected sterility as being a side-effect of Beast's curse. After the Manhattaning they found themselves in Canada. While living on their own for years Beauty wound up with a morning sickness, swollen feet, and an intense craving for red meat. The couple suspected that their resurrection following the intrinsic explosions must have done something to their biology and were incredibly happy to welcome the baby to their home. Born on the eve of a new millennium, this child became a manifestation of the "happily ever after" that the couple had been hoping for. It seemed fitting to name her after such. They tried to give their daughter a sibling, but their attempts were again met with no success.
* Bliss seemed to be a perfectly normal and healthy child, but as she grew older she began to exhibit curious developments. When Bliss was three, her mother woke up in the middle of the night to hear roars in their quaint home. Beauty assumed Beast had stubbed his toe and got out of bed to go tell him to keep it down, but just as she was getting dressed, she noticed the big lug sound asleep in their bed. When she heard the noise again, she realized the sound was coming from Bliss' nursery. With the haste only a concerned parent could muster, Beauty barged into the room and found an anthropomorphic lion cub gnawing on Bliss' toys. Beauty cautiously entered the room, picked up the creature by its scruff and looked it in the eye. With a startled gasp, Beauty realized her husband's curse was hereditary. The couple and child soon moved to the Farm where a temporary Fabletown had been built. There they could find sorcerers to examine their daughter and Beast could tap into his savage side to show his daughter how to control her transformations. After a year of living on the farm, the family was uprooted again due to an incident with Briar Rose which would result in the mass exodus of the Fables to Danny the Street.

### Notes

* Beauty is a character from *Fables*.
* Her portrait is based on her appearance in the *Wolf Among Us* video game.
* Her aliases are different versions of Beauty from other countries:
	+ Basia - Polish
	+ Belle, Rose, and Zémire - French
	+ Bellinda and Zelinda - Italian
	+ Nastenka - Russian
	+ Nettchen - German
	+ Rozina - Dutch
	+ Schöne - German

## Network Files

Network Files Beauty.pngNetwork Files: Beauty

## Links and References

* Appearances of Beauty

1. ↑ Network Files: Beauty
2. ↑ Network Files: Beast
3. ↑ Roy Reimagines... Fables
4. ↑ Network Files: Bliss Leonblanc