Belita Gestalt

Belita Gestalt

Belita Gestalt is one of the main characters in Ars Goetia; Legacy.

## History Summary

**Belita** is the younger daughter of the businessman **Theo Gestalt**. Theo is a well-respected entrepeneur and CEO of both **Gestalt Pharmaceutical** and **Galata Automatons**. Both Belita and Theo are electrical engineering experts while her mother, **Carie Gestalt**, and her sister were chemical experts.

She holds the position of vice president for Galata Automatons while her sister is vice president of Gestalt Pharmaceutical.

Her mother died of radioactive exposure due to her research. Theo was absent, immersed on his work while she was on her deathbed, something that Belita has never forgotten nor forgiven. This ignited Belita's rebellious attitude, who eventually started secretly boycotting some of her father's factories despite her vice president status. She developed an irrational love for setting things aflame, which made her realize she is, in fact, a **pyromaniac**. She wields an electrified fork to set things on fire and incapacitate her father's automaton guards.

Despite the fact that she's been attacking factories for a long time, her identity while doing so remains a mystery thanks to the hood and gas mask that she wears. Local people of Galata know her destructive alter-ego as the **Red Spantus** or "*The red fright*". Although she is morally against what his father has done and represents, she still performs her duties as vice president of Galata Automatons and is recognized as a prominent electrical expert and an important figure in Galata.

When **Wymond Selvamorte**'s Reactionary anti-industrial movement arrived in Galata, it was one of their main goals to recruit the Red Spantus.

## Game Mechanics

Belita is an expert on item usage and an excellent physical and magical combatant. She has low **Vitality** and **Health** but compensates with high **Mind** and **MP**.

Most of her skills are item based, such as the ability to **Mix** items, use ailment-recovery items to prevent those ailments or endowing elemental properties to her allies' weapons.

She is one of the three characters who can use **Grenades** in battle and can carry more items than the rest of the party.

## Trivia

* Belita's design inspiration comes from a Catalan tradition called the Correfoc. During this summer celebrations, people wear hoods and masks while carrying forks and igniting fireworks.
* Belita's mother is heavily inspired by Marie Curie.
* Belita was originally named Dailyn Rodmesort but her surname was later changed after the conceptualization of her family history. On a second version, she was named Belit Gestalt but eventually was changed to Gally for three reasons: to keep her name related to important historical physicists (Galileo), for it's resemblance to Galata, her city, and as a tribute to Alita, a battling cyborg.
* Originally, the Gestalt family were going to be prominent chemists only, but a new concept based on the talking machine Euphonia served as inspiration to both Belita and Theo's background stories and their relation to Automatons. This also influenced the heavy Industrial Revolution plot for the game.