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Character Name: Fiona Belli
Character Series: Haunting Ground
Age: 18
Background: Fiona, born the sole daughter to Ugo and Ayla Belli, was initially raised as a sheltered and well cared for child. She only ever really knew her parents, and the odd relative on her mother's side, as her father was extremely protective and, for some reason, would never speak of his own family. As a result, Fiona never had a great number of friends, and spent more time studying than other girls her age. When she was eighteen she went straight off to University to study.
On vacation from school, one day, though, driving home with her parents, there was a car accident. It happened far too quickly for her to have noticed much, and she quickly lost consciousness. And when she awoke, it was in a cage in a strange basement, with only a sheet to cover her body. By some chance, the lock was undone, and she fumbled with it to escape, holding the sheet close to her as she stepped out. She heard a noise and, upon investigating, something rushed past her, outside - thus showing the way to the door, as well - and leaving behind a collar with the name 'Hewie' on it. She followed that way, looking around and trying to figure out where she was, until she eventually came to what appeared to be a guest bedroom, when she was about to open the door on the opposite side of the room, there was suddenly the feeling of being watched and she turned around, slowly, to see a strange and beautiful woman - who seemed to be the maid - standing there, who had gotten out some clothes for her - strange, almost medieval in style, but a great improvement from the bed sheet. The maid seemed only to address the painting of an older man on the wall, though, and when Fiona turned to get a better look at it she was overcome with sudden disorientation and dizziness as she saw brief flashes of the car crash from earlier. When she recovered, the maid was gone, and Fiona got dressed in the clothes left for her - which seemed to be a perfect fit, oddly enough - as she tried to remember what exactly had happened. The only thing she could recall, though, was that she had been in the car with her parents...
Fiona continued on her way through the strange building, until she ended up coming face to face with a large, somewhat deformed man, who looked at an old, broken doll he carried, then to Fiona, before promptly discarding his doll and beginning to pursue the poor, terrified girl. She ran as fast as she could away, until she returned to the bedroom and, in a panic, dove under the bed to hide. He ended up passing her by, unable to find her there, and once she was certain the coast was clear, she got out and saved her game continued the way she had been chased from - luckily the opposite direction the large, almost infantile man had gone looking for her in.
It was from here that the real explorations and puzzle solving began. First she had to get a proper plate key to get past a golem, then she had to search out the music room to find the key to get further. When she entered the music room, however, the piano playing from above suddenly - violently - ceased, and a man's voice spoke to her. He addressed her by name, and made promises that she would be his, and even showed her a life sized, wooden model of a - very familiar - pregnant girl, saying that she would become that one day. Thoroughly unsettled, Fiona got the key and got out of there as quickly as possible.
Her next encounter with a pursuer was when she finally found a map, as the large, deformed man came after her again. She tripped as she was running from him, however, and another man came out of seemingly nowhere. He scolded the one chasing her - Debilitas, it seemed - in what seemed to be Latin, before tending to her. He introduced himself as Riccardo, keeper of the Belli castle, and explained to her that her parents had both died in the car crash, and that she was the sole surviving heir of this castle. He noticed her distress and offered her her room, and she fainted from the shock.
After a brief nightmare about the car crash, she awoke in her room, only to hear whimpering outside. Looking out the window, she saw a dog - a white German shepherd - tied to a tree outside, whimpering loud enough that she could hear him from there. She immediately went down to free the poor dog, calming him and removing the wire from his neck before letting him go on his way, and returning to her room.
When she returned to her room, though, Debilitas was waiting for her, sitting on the bed. She stumbled back in shock, and he began to pursue her before she heard barking. The dog had apparently followed her up to her room, and he then attacked the man, driving him off and away, effectively returning the favour of saving his life. She praised him and pet him and hugged him, relieved, recalling the collar from the basement, and decided that this dog must have, in fact, been 'Hewie'. With his help she proceeded in the castle, solving puzzles, discovering keys and items, etcetera. In the meantime she was receiving phone calls and notes from a strange man, who offered her help and hints, explaining to her where she should go, and even making a brief mention of something called "Azoth". That she should beware Riccardo - who, it seemed, had locked the castle gates - and that she should go to the cathedral, and get the key to the mansion, an alternate way out of the castle grounds. Upon making it to the cathedral, however, she was locked in and attacked by Debilitas. This time there was no running away, and so she was forced to face against him. She managed to successfully break the chandelier, however, and crashed it down upon him. When he awoke, he bowed down to her, seeming to have finally gotten the point, and left her and her dog in peace at long last.
Returning upstairs, she used the key to open the door to the path to the mansion - when suddenly she encountered the maid again. She was brought to dinner, where the maid explained that she was created to be the perfect woman, but that she couldn't taste, feel pleasure or pain...Fiona quickly left, but it seemed that she had gotten food poisoning. Exhausted and sick, she turned to bed, to rest, believing that, now that Debilitas was out of the way, that she was safe...
She awoke to the maid hovering over her, trying to dig her (blood covered) fingers into Fiona, as if trying to tear something out of her. Fiona panicked, and the maid backed off for a moment, before turning to the large window in the room, and commenting that she was not complete - before beginning to slam her head off of the glass repeated, until it broke into many large shards. She grabbed one, and turned to Fiona with the obvious intent of using it as a weapon in pursuit. Fiona and Hewie fled the scene, and made it back to the door that was supposed to lead toward the mansion. The maid followed after them, though, but stopped at a mirror as she began screaming at the sight of her reflection, serving as an ample buyer of time for Fiona to escape with her dog - the passage way then flooded as they got out of there, effectively preventing any thoughts of turning back, and locking Fiona into a new area.
Her time here was not unlike in the main area of the castle. She solved puzzles and evaded the maid (all with Hewie's help, of course), and tried to find her way out. She found another letter (presumably from the man who had been trying to help her, Lorenzo), and she discovered some strange information and other things, including notes about searches for immortality, a corpse that moved despite being such, and a grave yard full of graves (as old as hundreds of years) all bearing the name 'Aureolus Belli'. She eventually found her way to a library, as well, with a hidden film room, that revealed that she had been being filmed since her initial arrival, and at least until recently. After viewing the film, the maid appeared, but cut Fiona off before she could get to the door. She demanded to know what the woman wanted from her, but only got the answer of that mysterious word "Azoth" again, half explained to be the essence of life or woman, before Fiona was forced to flee while the maid was temporarily distracted in a fit.
Eventually Fiona was able to stop the maid, but not without a price. She was forced to (albeit somewhat indirectly) kill the woman, a large glass shard impaling her from above. But she was...smiling.
The two of them continued on, before she encountered the strange, robed man again - Riccardo - and he asked her to go with him. She refused, of course, saying she wanted to go home, and he insisted she was home, at this castle. He seemed displeased that she still was distressed though, and pointed a gun at her. She fled with Hewie, and thus began the third pursuit of her stay. She found notes, while there, implying Hewie (precious dog he was) had stolen something important from this new stalker. She sought it out, getting Hewie to retrieve it, and began to learn to use the machinery around the mansion to refine and alchemize the object into a Godstone - the key to the way out of the mansion.
When she got out to the woods, though, Hewie got agitated and dashed into the bushes, and Fiona heard a gun shot. She ran to find Hewie, terrified for her friend, before she finally found him. She tended to his wounds, trying to stop the bleeding as much as possible, before she heard Riccardo coming after her. Panicked, she knew only that she had to protect Hewie, and so she ran off, leading Riccardo away from her hurt friend. He eventually caught up to her, though, on a cliff top, cornering her, where he explained many things to her. He explained that he was after her because she had inherited her father's "Azoth" and that it belonged to him. He went on to claim that she was his child, and upon her denying it, he claimed to be "knowledge", and that he was Aureolus Belli...he drew back his hood, forcing her to look at his true face - which looked remarkably like her father, Ugo's. He announced that he and her father were clones, and from the shock (as well as flashes of the crash that killed her father - which she now remembered was caused by a second car (driven by none other than Riccardo) ramming intentionally into them) she fainted in the woods.
When she awoke she was locked up again, now wearing a blood stained patient's smock, but Hewie seemed to have recovered and returned to her. The dog managed to get the keys to the cell for her, and she unlocked the doors, and then collected a note (another from Lorenzo, it seemed, attempting to explain the way out of this new location, the water tower) and the map, before leaving. On her way out, though, Hewie began to bark and growl at 'nothing', before Riccardo appeared from seemingly nowhere to attack her and the dog, claiming she was his, and beginning to pursue her again. She fled as quickly as possible, away from him and to the top of the tower (though on the base level she did find another strange room, where she managed to acquire her previous outfit, sans the footwear and hair tie, as well as the object that would serve as her key). Once there, she managed to raise the bridge out of the water tower, before she was attacked by Riccardo again. He demanded she let him into her womb (he had, it seemed, desired to impregnate her, though she was unsure of why that was), before attacking her again. Hewie managed to shove the man off of the tower, though, and to the ground below, breaking several bones and dying on impact with the bridge below.
Fiona left the water tower quickly, making her way across to the House of Truth, where Lorenzo said, in his latest note to her, that he resided, hoping to get assistance and to finally escape from that terrible place. What she found, however, was a great disappointment.
A strange (and creepy) old man in a wheelchair was who she found, introducing himself as Aureolus Lorenzo Belli, and claiming to have created Riccardo and Ugo both, seeming quite bitter about Fiona's mother, as well. He was pleased, however, to mention that fate had brought Fiona to him, and that now she was his. Terrified and upset at having been betrayed, again, and pursued, she quickly fled as quickly as possible away.
When she encountered him again, she managed to set off some explosives, effectively crushing him under rubble, and opening a passageway, but that, of course, was not the last she saw of him. He pursued her further, and she came to a strange room with a conveyor belt in it, that seemed to be crushing the rocks. He locked her in this room and, in a panic, she managed to turn the machine on and, with Hewie's help, force him onto it, crushing him in the machine with sickening noises. She retrieved the key that came out, and quickly fled.
It was not long before she became locked into a room, though, away from Hewie, when a voice - somehow somewhat familiar - taunted her from elsewhere, mocking her, claiming that she was to be his and that he did everything for the Great Truth. When she was finally released, it was into a different room than before, peculiarly enough, and the voice continued to speak to her of the "Great Truth" that people could not grasp, and that their lives must be dedicated to realising this truth. He beckoned her - "no, my Azoth" - to him, again into the room, which had inexplicably changed again. A man who looked a lot like her father waited for her in there, approaching her, and explaining that Azoth was the essence of life (much as the maid had said, before) and that they "alchemists" had the ability to convert it into power and live forever. After proclaiming that her Azoth belonged to him, he began to change right before her eyes, a sight that was as confusing as it was terrifying, and he became a man less than half the age as before, he said that he would extract her Azoth from her.
Fiona ran.
She managed to escape for a time, and Hewie helped her locate the item she needed to unlock the doors outside (his help along with the secret chamber seemingly reacting to the strange and large birthmark on her left shoulder.
When she unlocked the door, though, she was attacked again. Lorenzo locked her into the generator room where the object/key had been placed, and she and Hewie were forced to fight him off again. This time, though, she and Hewie managed to shove him into the lava pit in the centre of the room - though he...laughed as he was shoved in - and they were sure they had gotten rid of him for good.
As she left, however, the tremors began, as did the screaming and shouting for her. A man on fire was now chasing after her, the man she'd thought she'd killed chasing her through the halls of the house until they reached the door, where he finally collapsed, burning out, and leaving her in peace. It was...finally over. She pushed open the doors, and managed to escape, with Hewie close behind, from the castle.
She finished with Ending A and the Dog Lover Play Type.
And that was when she ended up in Memento Eden.
Personality:
Fiona was raised as a sheltered child, but was brought up carefully and well - and well loved, sometimes even to the extent of being somewhat spoilt - by her parents, and it shows in the way that she comes off to others, and carries herself. She is polite and soft spoken, often very reserved (even shy, to an extent) and appearing older than she is. But the downside is that she is a bit naïve, and sometimes too trusting, even going as far as being betrayed numerous times, but always being quite shocked and upset by these events transpiring.
She tends to not show her emotions too excessively, but when she does they are genuine and from her heart. She is an incredibly kind and caring soul, and is more than willing to put herself in harm's way if it is for the sake of someone she cares about and trusts, and it is obviously that she has built a very strong and loving relationship with not only her parents but the dog she met in the castle, as well. Sometimes, however, her emotions can get the better of her, and she is prone to panic attacks, sometimes triggered by the smallest things. When panicking she is almost completely irrational and unpredictable, and the flight or fight instinct will click immediately to the former.
Additionally, Fiona is actually quite smart and witty. Sometimes she will miss things, but in general she is intelligent and has her wits about her, able to solve most puzzles and problems easily, though sometimes needing a bit of help to actually pull off the solutions.
Item Lost: Hewie. ;; They bonded a lot while in the castle, and he became her closest (okay pretty much only) friend that she ever had. She would not have survived without him, as he saved her time and time again, and there were a lot of things she could not have done without him, either. Her is definitely her most important thing to her, now, even if he's not really an 'item'.