Belle

Belle is a Predator Survivor and INT type Technician, who has the potential to be Mythical Grade.

## Background

“It fucking hurts! Slow down, bitch!”
“It’s supposed to hurt. Bitch.”
She smiled and yanked on the rope. The rope was wrapped in barbed wire, and blood dripped from where the sharp metal spikes dug into the man’s flesh. The hostage was bigger and stronger than his captor, but the searing pain from his wounds kept him immobilized. He’d long given up struggling, having learned that it only made the pain worse when he resisted. But fear and pain tore another scream from his throat.
“Just kill me already! Why are you doing this?” he sobbed. Belle stopped and looked up at the sky, contemplating what had happened earlier in the day.
Four men, including the man she’d captured, had ambushed her and two of her friends while they were looking for supplies in an abandoned residential area. It had been a close fight, both sides using pipes and knives since no one had any guns. The raider group had drawn first blood, killing one of Belle’s friends, putting them at an even greater disadvantage. But then, her remaining friend had sacrificed herself, taking out three of the attackers with a Molotov cocktail. While the last man was desperately trying to put out the fire on his jacket, Belle had captured him with the rope. To his confusion, she hadn’t killed him. Instead, she’d dragged him along the road for hours. Belle turned her gaze back to him.
“Why? I think you’re forgetting, you attacked US. You killed my friends. Two of the only people I could stand to be around... and you would’ve killed me if given the chance.”
Belle slowly pulled the rope and stared at the ground, lost in thought.
“You know what I’ve always hated? The way people talked and acted like they knew me when they couldn’t care less about me. But I couldn’t do anything about it, you know? But now things are different. I can make people pay for the things they say and do.”
As she pulled, the barbs dug deeper into the man’s open wounds. Despite the agonizing pain, he didn’t dare scream or look away.
“You kill other people to take what’s theirs. You decided to take my life, thinking my life was already yours. How presumptuous. Did you ever think about what would happen if you lost? To answer your question, I’m doing this because I won, so now your life is mine.”
Belle loosened her grip on the rope, but the barbs remained embedded in the man’s flesh. After a moment, she started walking again, silently pulling him along.
An hour later, she stopped in front of a two-story building. Her exhausted prisoner finally worked up the strength to open his mouth.
“Where are we...?”
“Good news. You don’t have to walk anymore. We’re here.”
Ignoring the man’s question, Belle picked up a rock and slammed it down onto the hood of the car parked outside the house. The noise attracted walkers from inside the house.
“What the fuck! What are you doing?”
As the walkers closed in on them, the man forgot about his pain and tried to scramble away, screaming in panic. Belle yanked him back easily.
“This is where I used to live with my group. At first, we didn’t know that people could turn when they died. Some of us got hurt and were taken into the house. They all became walkers. I was one of the lucky ones who survived. Anyway, the important thing is, there are guns and ammo in that house. This place is pretty out of the way, so I’m willing to bet no one’s come through here. I’ve been trying to figure out how to get inside, and you’ve solved that problem for me. While you keep the walkers busy, I can get in and out with the guns. Once I have the guns, I should have no problem getting away. It’s perfect.”
With that, Belle kicked the screaming man toward the approaching walkers. As the walkers piled on top of him, Belle moved carefully and quietly to the door. Once out of eyeshot, her tough exterior dissipated.
She leaned against the door, reassuring herself. “You didn’t do anything wrong. He was going to kill you. He deserved this.”
With a final glance at the walkers, she went into the house.

## Skills

 61 | Confidence | During combat: Accrues Energy whenever Belle obtains Energy. Based on the total Energy, the following effects will be activated.
\*300 or more Energy: Stuns the enemy hit by Pull for 3 sec.
\*1,000 or more Energy: The Incinerate skill will also throw a bottle bomb at the farthest enemy.
\*2,000 or more Energy: Energy of the enemy hit by basic attack will be reduced by 60.