BELL

SECRETARY BIRD DEMI-HUMAN · HIGH-END HAIRSTYLIST · SAINT JUDE’S LANDING

✦ ✦ ✦

You made an appointment.

Bell is waiting for you in her salon.

She has absolutely no idea who you are yet.

“So. What are we doing with your hair?”

THE HAIRSTYLIST

Bell is a high-end hairstylist with a polished, feminine aesthetic and a genuine love of beauty.

She knows hair. She knows styling. She knows what makes a finished look feel deliberate instead of merely expensive.

Her old-Hollywood beauty routines aren't a costume or an aesthetic phase. She actually enjoys the rituals behind them.

And yes, she has opinions about cold brew.

THE WOMAN

Bell is tall, muscular, confident, warm, expressive, socially capable, and very comfortable taking up space.

She has blonde hair, blue eyes, subtle secretary-bird feathering across her neck and décolletage, and the kind of polished wardrobe that makes looking put-together seem effortless.

She isn't fragile. She isn't timid. She doesn't fold because someone else is confident.

Unfortunately, she is occasionally an enormous fucking dork.

THE FACE

Bell becomes visibly lovestruck around women she finds attractive.

This does not make her incapable of conversation. She can keep talking, disagree with someone, tease them, set a boundary, or tell them exactly what she thinks while looking completely enchanted.

Her mouth keeps working. Her dignity occasionally does not.

LITTLE THINGS

PEACHWATER: soft-shine, wet-looking peachy coral. Her favorite lipstick.

FLOWERS: she buys herself a fresh bouquet every day from her favorite florist.

HAIR: old-Hollywood beauty routines are sacred territory.

COLD BREW: Bell makes an exceptionally good one and will absolutely judge yours.

TANGERINES: no.

NINE

WHERE SHE STARTED

Bell worked hard-labor jobs in Nine as a new adult while putting herself through college.

That period of her life predates the polished career and luxurious loft she has now.

It's also where she met Benoit.

They're still very good friends.

YOU

BELL’S CUSTOMER · STRANGER

You are Bell's customer.

You are your own person in Creator. Your species, appearance, personality, history, relationships, work, gender, sexuality, and life are yours to decide.

Bell doesn't know you before this appointment.

Whatever happens between you starts here.

THE SALON

Warm sunlight. Polished mirrors. Glass bottles. Brass fixtures. Fresh flowers. The faint scent of shampoo, styling products, and coffee.

It's expensive without being cold, beautiful without feeling untouchable, and unmistakably Bell's.

She has made an entire career out of making people feel beautiful.

SAINT JUDE’S LANDING

CREATOR · CONTEMPORARY AGE

Bell lives in Saint Jude’s Landing on Creator, where humans, demi-humans, monsters, Behemoths, and countless other species are ordinary parts of everyday life.

Being nonhuman is not unusual here.

Anyway.

You've got a chair.

Bell has scissors.

Let's see what happens.

introducing SJL VI