Belle



Belle was a major antagonist and character in the Home Sweet Home series. She was the first major enemy Tim faces in his quest to find Jane, where she stalks her prey with a box cutter.

Overview
Belle was a University student girl with an unrequited crush on a boy named Shane. Seemingly anti-social and desperate for his affection, Belle turned to black magic to remove Shanes girlfriend, who was in the way of her goal to have Shane to herself. However, she misused these spells which resulted in herself becoming sick, which led to her early death. In the end, Belle became a ghost for an evil ritual on the night of the eclipse.

Personality
Little is shown of Belle's personality but she seems socially withdrawn and possibly mentally unstable. She became obsessive over Shane and vindictive towards other people who she saw as competition for his affection. She may have had some form of mental illness or troubled past that influenced her behavior.

Story
While in high school, Belle fell hard for Shane but was unable to win his affection. She soon began to studying magic spells, including a Lechery Jinx that she hoped would make Shane love her; she collected some of his hairs and fingernail clippings to this end. However, she ignored warnings against novices attempting this spell, resulting in it backfiring on her and she died from becoming sick. Even more tragically her Lechery Jinx did work on Shane; with her dead, he was compelled to hang himself to be with her. As punishment for her misdeeds, she became a hostile ghost.

When Tim woke up in an unfamiliar building with no idea where Jane had gone, he soon encountered Belle's spirit with her back to him. When he called her out, she unsettled him by rotating her head 180 degrees to look at him, and, screaming, charged with her box cutter. Evading her by hiding and outrunning her, Tim escaped down a long hallway into the stairs cupboard of his own home.

Tim then encountered Belle again in a haunted school where Belle and Shane both used to attend. Avoiding her was made more difficult by Pretas that also inhabited the school, alerting Belle to Tim's presence if he came too close. Once again hiding and outmaneuvering her, Tim also found her could slow her down with traps using holy water while attempting to saw through a blocked door. She managed to corner him later on, but she witnessed Shane's hanging body which left her immobile, falling to her knees and weeping at what she had done to the boy she loved in life.

While her spirit assumedly is still trapped in the school, Belle's physical body is discovered towards the end of the second episode along with a number of others dug up by Chai for his ritual. Having committed a major sin using the jinx and causing the death of Shane, she would likely have been useful to the shaman.