Belle Jingle

## Character Information

### Destined Story

Her story can take one of two turns; Belle isn't very good at being "scary" though, and she can never get the pitch of her voice right for cheery songs, so she's looking to make her own destiny.

### Destined Role

Krampus or to be a Christmas-Carol-Singing Elf like her mother.

### Powerful Qualities

She is very sweet and tries to be as friendly as possible - unfortunately, her strongest qualities are that she can be quite clumsy and unsure of what to do with herself. Aside from that, she is quite good at various artistic endeavors - including music, as long as it isn't something high-pitched or cheery!

### Secret Heart's Desire

To find a way to use her voice that won't break glass; and to make a destiny for herself that won't force her to pick one side of herself over the other.

### My "Magic" Touch

She can use two different kinds of magic that she was born with, both light and cheery or dark and spooky.

### Storybook Romance Status

Single - but with a huge crush on her friend, Coldson Frost.

### Oh "Curses!" Moment

Any time she gets her horns or tail caught on something, or the time she tried to sing a carol and shattered all of the nearest Christmas bulbs instead.

### Best Friends Forever After

Spella, and any other musically-gifted misfits that wanders the halls or campus of EAH.

## Biography

### Personality

She's fairly uncertain of herself. Belle wants to fit in someplace, and is always worried that she's never going to be able to make either of her parents proud, no matter how hard she tries to. Belle is nice to people despite being so awkward, although she doesn't often expect people to like her; she trips over her words a lot when she's trying to make a good impression, but is pretty fun and loyal once she's had the chance to get to know others. There's nothing she won't do for the people she cares about, even if they have hurt her in the past.

### Appearance

She has very, very pale light white-grey colored skin with little darker ash-colored freckles in various place on her body. One of her eyes looks more like her father's, while the other looks more like her mother's - creating an eerie heterochromia effect, that she often tries to hide using her bangs. Other features about her to note, are her horns and tail. Both are dark in color; her horns, however, seem to have a bit of a deep raven-blueish, kind of purple shine to them. Unlike her father, she does not have a lot of fur on her body or goat hooves for feet; these are things she's taken inspiration from for her clothes and shoes, though.

Belle's hair is very long, and has a bit of a curl to it like her mother's does. It looks black most of the time with some bits of purple or deep blue in it, with lighter shades towards the ends, which is much the same how her tail's tuft is.

Some things about her to note, come from both of her parents: her ears are pointy like an elf's, but a bit longer because of her father's long ears. Belle's feet aren't hooves, but they are rather small and require her to get custom-made shoes a lot. Unlike her father, she doesn't have a mouth full of sharp teeth, but she does have a set of four fangs that are all pretty much *"sweet teeth."* Like her mother, she has a small 'button nose,' and a rather short, cute build. *(Making her less scary and more on the "creepy-cute" scale of things.)*

**Belle's typical style incorporates aspects from both halves of who she is:** she wears a lot of dark colors and things with holes or skid marks in them, furs to help keep her warmer as needed or for the homage it pays to her father, bells and ribbons decorate her outfits, her horns, and her tail; she wears a 'crown' of sorts that goes around her horns and is worn sort of like a headband, her nails are often painted lighter colors to mask their natural darkness, chains, Christmas lights, and other various holiday or darkness-related things are also quite often go-to's for Belle. The thing she tends to wear most, are her favorite black boots, part of which resemble the cloven feet her father has and serve to make her look taller so she can not only reach things, but avoid being made fun of for her height.

## Krampus or *Christmas* (Elf) ? – *Belle's Story*

### The Story from Belle Jingle's Point of View

#### Her destiny is to either become the next Krampus, or to grow up and be a Christmas-Carol-Singing Elf.

Belle isn't good at singing higher-up songs like her mother. She isn't good at scaring people or trying to "warn" naughty children because she doesn't want to hurt them or upset anyone if she can help it. Her inability to really fit either of her destinies, is why she wants to create her own. Due to her love of singing (despite the fact that she can't get up high enough or sound as cheery as she supposed to for Carols ), she's hoping to find a way to still use both halves of herself to do something with her life.

### History

*Originally*, Belle was a student in Monster High, where she attended under her original birth name: *Coaline Darkhoof*. She became close friends with Holt Hyde while she went there, which was how she learned that there were a lot more kinds of music than she had thought there was. This helped her a lot with dealing with her feelings, as did her blooming friendships with other misfit monsters at Monster High.

In spite of being closer to Holt, Draculaura, and Frankie than she was anyone else, she still felt like she just didn't belong there - some monsters didn't seem to mind people being afraid of them. Others found ways to help people not be afraid anymore. Belle couldn't figure out how to do that, and found that it hurt her to keep trying and trying to make herself be what she didn't feel like she was. In the end, she became so overwhelmed and sad that she started going to *Ever After* High instead at her mother, Holly's, suggestion. Holly's had high hopes for her daughter, but things still aren't going quite how Belle, or her parents, want for her.

Belle changed her name to sound more cheery sounding and tried dressing differently, too, but never felt right. The feeling of indecision and helplessness in her even after all her changes, is what's lead her to start trying something else in her life: being herself, instead of being who she keeps getting told that she needs to be.

Now, while Belle's kept her new name for herself, she has begun to change how she dresses to incorporate both sides of herself. She has decided to align herself as a rebel, and to find her own path. Something that's been helped along greatly, by her continued friendships with the students she connected to at Monster High, and the fact that her roommate is someone who has as big an interest in music as she does.

## Relationships

### Family

#### ***Krampus***

***Krampus*** is the less nice spirit of Christmastime. He comes out to banish and punish the naughtiest children that Santa hasn't been able to reprimand on his own; various methods are used, some work and some...are more for scaring that for 'corrective teaching,' as he calls it. He has tried to be as supportive of Belle as possible, though he really wants her to succeed in his line of work - they don't always see eye-to-eye, but he still loves her dearly anyway.
#### ***Holly Jolly***

***Holly*** is one of the kindest Caroling Elves in the North Pole. She is known for being good at everything artistic an Elf is supposed to be able to do, and more. Good to others no matter their rank of Elf or their profession, Holly has made friends well across the North Pole and beyond it; her friendship with Jack Frost is how she met her husband, and how her daughter Belle was born. They have what Holly feels is a close relationship, though she worries for Belle's future and can come across as overwhelming to Belle at times without meaning to. *(Although she has been trying to reign this in, for Belle's sake.)*
### Friends

#### ***Holt Hyde***

***Holt*** was one of her friends that she made in Monster High not too long after she got there. Her interest in music and the fact that she was always struggling with her singing, are two of the reasons that they started talking in the first place. He's the one who introduced her to music other than what she had heard all her life up to that point, up in the North Pole.
#### ***Draculaura***

***Draculaura*** is someone that Belle met through Frankie Stein. They bonded over the fact that neither of them was really quite what people expected of them (Draculaura being a vegetarian vampire, and Belle not being either scary *or* cheery enough) and helped each other with their makeup, while also being there as a "shoulder to cry on" when the other one needed it - they both have an understanding, that being different is sometimes very hard.
#### ***Frankie Stein***

***Frankie*** is the first person to reach out to Belle while she was in Monster High. Frankie saw that Belle was struggling with trying to fit in at school; knowing how hard it could be to try to do things on one's own, Frankie reached out to her and tried to help her settle in as much as possible. They both had two different eye colors, and often joked with one another about it. It made Frankie sad to see Belle go, but they are still in contact with one another as much as possible.
### Her Crush

#### ***Coldson Frost***

***Coldson*** is the son of Jack Frost. He met Belle through the fact that their parents were friends, and has basically almost always been there for her. Like her, he has a crush on his childhood friend - and also like her, Coldson is under the impression that his feelings are one-sided; he thinks she only sees him as a friend, and doesn't want to ruin it by telling her how he feels.
### Enemies

#### *Cerise Hood*

***Cerise*** and Belle are technically not "enemies" per-say, but they don't really see eye-to-eye on things or get along very well. This stems from the rather clumsy attempts on Belle's part to try and connect with her, that never really went quite how she was hoping for them to. She's tried to make up for it, but she has only ever really...made it worse.
### Pet

#### ***Aurora***

***Aurora*** is a small, almost all-black Husky puppy. She has big, ice blue eyes, and a small little patch of white on her chest. There's a little bit of white on the underside of her tail, but other than that, she's all dark. Like Belle, she doesn't quite look like what one thinks she should - and it's suspected that she may think she's a reindeer sometimes, because of being raised by them.

## Notes

* She has been inspired by and helped along in creation by more than one person, one of which, being our very own mod **Pixiesera**!
* She was made for the ***2022 Cupid's Arrow*** contest, to be a roommate/friend for **EliteRosie**'s OC, **Spella Fae**!
* The date Belle was first published - 2/12/22
* A large part of why she is how she is, is because I happen to love the idea of students who have gone to both Monster High and Ever After High.
* To give an idea of how she sounds when she sings, this song reminds me of her voice! : https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZJ0WxCCmaNT21AH1irYZQ?si=913fcf8e543c4a7b