John Bellerive

Henry Bellerive - Brother

Charles Bellerive - Brother

Jennifer Bellerive - Step-niece

Samuel Bellerive - Nephew

**"John "Johnny " Lewis Bellerive,"** was the middle child of the Bellerive family. He grew up for the early part of his life on the Bellerive plantation, adopting a kind, patient, and rather bright personality, due to having an affinity for playing the fiddle. However, he was overcome with guilt due to witnessing the abuse of Jennifer, his older brother Henry's adopted daughter whom he had a crush on. He felt he was unable to help her and became irrationally angry when his family was hurt in any way over time. This later led him to beat up another child who had purposefully hurt his younger brother, but went too far, breaking the boy's arm, and was punished for it. When it was revealed to him that Jenny had been murdered, Johnny stood on the side of Meredith in believing Henry had murdered her. When Meredith was lynched, Johnny ran away, cooling his anger but keeping a vow to avenge them when he became able. He eventually grew to let this dream down however, when all his leads on Henry grew colder and he became a well known cowboy who would help others against crime. John then began to settle down with a job with the law and found a wife. Soon after, he met a woman who claimed to be Jenny, but the disturbed Johnny did not take kindly to these claims, as he had already buried Jenny in his mind. When he began to get to know Jennifer however, he warmed up to her, but was ousted once finding out she had a a husband. This did not help with her constant contradictions and lies about her past. Despite this, however, the two remained friends. This peace did not last though, as he caught Jennifer's husband having sex with his wife behind he and Jennifer's back. Seeing this, he stabbed his wife's lover in a rageful self defense, and sat down with a cigarette afterwards as she screamed for help. An already broken Johnny, now wanted by the law, was even more devastated when Jennifer decided to leave to make something of her life. However, she eventually revealed Meredith's locket to him, revealing herself as the real Jenny and told him to destroy Henry as he had truly tried to kill her before leaving. From this point on, Johnny became known for wearing the mask of a skull as he began to do darker and darker deeds, becoming a shadow of himself. But out of all of this, he eventually sought to reconnect with Charles, his younger brother. Charles took a kindly but cautious eye to him as he knew of the crimes Johnny had been accused of. The two began to grow closer again despite this but were again divided when Johnny would spot Henry again at a church service. The vengeance against Henry that Johnny sought continued to break apart the relationship with Charles as he did not agree with killing him due to the consequences that would eventually destroy him, but by this time Johnny had formed a large gang. They began calculated attacks on Henry's men, and at one point slaughtered an entire town after setting it on fire for hiding Henry's whereabouts. Charles was complicit in this attack upon agreeing to help John in his conquest at least once. The action lead Henry to know the location of Charles' home, however, and there Henry murdered him. After taking Henry down by eliminating everyone of his gang members one by one, John tracked him down, hunting him through the forest. Sitting at a table over a drink of whiskey and knowing there was nowhere Henry could run where he couldn't find him, Johnny shot Henry in the head mid sentence, killing him instantly. This would eventually lead to his arrest in 1863 where he was tried and met his fate by being hanged by the law as a show of intimidation, dying both loved and hated. Unsettled, Johnny's spirit walked the afterlife eternally, seeking justification. This form eroded until he was unrecognizable, and he was noticed by a fifteen year old Samuel Bellerive, playing a fiddle and taking off his mask while pondering over a life of sin, until he walked into the distant forest never to be noticed again.