Bella Von Halen

* Relationships
* Relatives

**Bella Von Halen** is one of the Main Characters & Love Interest in Summer's Gone. A new student at ZPR University, she plays a key role in the game's central story and becomes closer with Nika regardless of whether he chooses to have a relationship with her.

## Appearance

Bella is a very beautiful woman quite tall and in very good physical shape she has beautiful long blond hair with amber green eyes she is well groomed and made up

## Personality

Bella is known to be very rough around the edges and hard to approach. She has a sharp tongue and takes great pleasure in annoying people around her. It's a way for her to assert herself and show her dominance as opposed to her younger and weak self who was bullied by others. She is competitive, like Nadia and Zara and also very strong-headed, but underneath the tough skin she is incredibly vulnerable and delicate, haunted by her past and trauma. She can be very territorial and possessive of the people she befriends and appreciates. And at times, can be very open and direct.

Yet at times, can fail to recognize her own true feelings and emotion. It is implied that she has low emotional intelligence, which Nika had stated that she has "poor conflict resolution skill". Though she is not totally unaware of herself, as she is willing to admit that she is a very flawed and troubled person.

In the face of romance, she can have a very sweet and innocent side of her. As she struggled a lot to come to terms that she loved Nika.

## Background

Amber will say about her daughter Bella that she would have seen really atrocious and cruel things, she has moments of eruptions that made her lose control, she will say that she tried to keep her away from school and her friends, but didn't know what to do anymore, being afraid that one day she would end up doing something really serious

## Notes & Trivia

* Bella wears a perfume with the same scent as Helen which consists of Amber/Iris/Neroli

* She is part of the street racing world with Ayua and is a drag race specialist in the top 3 and 6th in the overall leaderboard

* Bella has two car plates 1965 New York & (1)878

* In the past, an atrocious event that involved her sister has haunted Bella to date

* Bella steal a precious family heirloom from the Holgerson's alone or with Nika depending if the protagonist accompanies her

* Bella's favourite color is yellow as shown how she appreciates the yellow flower Nika gave her

* Bella seems not to like her father as she wished the latter to be dead

* Bella will be the first person that Nika can confide in about Summer

* Bella secretly reads the client files of Amber's patient in order to dig into peoples past and acquired information from said person to better understand their strength and weaknesses

* Bella seems to be a victim of a psychological problem such as an impulsive personality or mood disorder - another hypothesis could be a bipolar disorder

* She will buy an outfit for Nika worth $24,580 and then reduce it to $18,500 with the discount

* Ayua will tell Nika that Bella and her owned several cars in their own workshop where they store them

* Bella regrets ever hurting Brenda as the latter never treated her badly

* Bella kicked Kate in the face when she was in elementary school

* Bella is the first possible person to kiss Nika after Summer if the player decides so

* Nika thinks that Bella would be a good addition to protect Victoria as it could remind her of her sister

* Ayua changed Bella's life when she in high school and has become a person that shouldn't be mess with

* Since the arrival of Ayua's protection, she has started to regain her self-confidence and also seems to have developed an obsession for revenge against the people who mistreated her when she was younger

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 2 after the dispute Nika vs Bella when Amber drives Nika home
2. ↑ In the CH2 when Bella & Nika planned to take revenge to the Holgerson
3. ↑ Amber will advise Nika during their therapy in Chapter 3 to buy her a yellow rose as her favourite flower for their meeting at Relucia
4. ↑ When Nika asks where her father was, Bella will say "I hope he's dead." at the end of Chapter 2