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≫ WHAT'S UP WITH GATEWAY ROLEPLAY? ≪
We've been radio silent for a long time now. We posted an announcement in our Discord server back in April of 2025, but never updated the forums. So what's up with Gateway Roleplay?
After 5 long years, we've decided to place the development of Ties That Bind on an indefinite hold.
This doesn't mean it's cancelled. We fully intend to run Ties That Bind: What Lies Beneath and Ties That Bind: City of Angels eventually. But to do so, we need to take a step back. In the meantime, we'll be working on smaller, invite-only projects.
Thank you to everyone who has stuck with us this long! MindGate and I (Pika) have been working on this server for over a decade now. It truly is a passion project for us.
Personality
Belle Woodward is curious and attentive. She is not trusting at all, but she is very honest and is loyal to those she does trust. She is modest and can be cold socially. She is also very mentally unstable and suspicious of the things and people around her. She sees what she wants in any event, and half of what she says is gibberish to people. Her morality is Neutral at best, as she doesn't seem to care about people's well being unless she is close to them. She dislikes animals and children, and hates doctors, usually refusing to allow them to treat her wounds.
Character Motivations
Belle believes that some dark evil organization kidnapped her and other people, took out their brains, plugged them into a machine, and are running them through some sort of simulation gauntlet with zombies for an unknown purpose. Everything she sees is just a computer simulation and all zombies and most people she sees are not real. She wants to break the simulation, and free all the brains attached to the machine, but she has no idea how to do it, so she's just trying to survive, and look for more real people.
Physical Appearance
Belle is black with mid-length, wavy black hair, graying at the roots. Her eyes are dark brown with a ring of green around the rim, and they are wide, often flicking side to side. Her lips are thinner that would be expected, which match her thinning face and figure. She is short, only reaching about 5'3", and weighs a meager 109 pounds.
Her "the Killers" band shirt is worn down by time and dirt, and her pants are just as ripped and ratty. Attached to the shirt is a silver tear-dropped shaped pin, with blue and purple gems set in it . It is hard to tell if it is costume jewelry. Her boots look well taken care of, and the dried blood doesn't look old, giving the impression Belle only recently "obtained" them.
In-Character Occupation
Wanderer/farmer
Biography
When people started to get sick, Belle was not worried. She could not imagine that it would lead to so much destruction. When the realization hit, she tried to handle it as best as anyone. She joined a refugee center, spent her time helping how she could. Still, Belle had hope and trust in the people around her, and she self safe. When one group fell, she and the survivors found other groups, and she ended up slowly moving northeast.
It was like that until four months ago, when repairing a roof on their groups makeshift shelter, she slipped, and fell three stories to the ground. She barely survived, and did not wake for three whole days, but it was her dreams within her fevered broken sleep that hurt her the most. Flashes of masses dying, and labs, experiments, and screams haunted her during that time. Belle saw within her nightmares gaunt men sawing into the skulls of men and women, removing their still pulsing brains, and placing them into jars. She saw, in an almost disembodied view, her body still on a table, lifeless and bloody. She watched as her own brain was plugged into a diabolical machine. Then her vision would turn black and the dreams would start all over again.
By the time she awoke, she was exhausted and deranged. Her brain was permanently damaged, affecting her speech and rational thinking. In the end, those that she had once called friends, waited for her health to return, then cast her out. Belle wandered for three months, without purpose, staying away from people and undead alike. She spent much of her time outdoors as well as traveling during dusk and into the night. She ended up resting in a house in Monroe, and finally came to the conclusion to find a more permanent home.
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