Scorpions Nest: Bellamy, the--erm--Brawn

I said Scorpion's Nest was a Heist Play, right?

And in every Heist, there's a "crew"

In every "crew", there's the Brains, and the Brawn. 

The Brains comes up with the ideas and gives instructions on how those ideas are to be carried out.

The Brawn carries out those ideas. 

The Brains is--usually--the one that everyone listens to. 

The Brawn is--usually--the one who protects everyone, including the Brains, and--sometimes--has the loudest voice or most intimidating stance. 

The Brains of the Gutter Rat Crew is Petra

The Brawn of the Gutter Rat Crew is Bellamy. 

Not because he's bigger or stronger than anyone else in the Gutter Rats (ok, fine, there's only three in the crew but still)

But because this is a man who has Intimidation down to an Art. 

You know those characters in films and tv shows that just stand in a corner and the first time you see them you think "oh, crap, that is so not someone I ever want to screw with"?

Well, that's Bellamy. 

To a T.  

He's one of those people who when they say jump, they expect to hear "how high".

Except the Scorpion's Nest isn't ever among those people, so that's fun!

For someone who's perfected the Art of Intimidation, Bellamy has an interesting animal parallel. It's--a rabbit.

Doesn't look very harmless, does it? But, if anyone has ever read or seen "Watership Down"(both the BBC/Netflix miniseries and the frankly terrifying 1970s animated film) you'll know that rabbits can be downright deadly. They have vicious little claws that can slice their attackers like nobody's business and are certainly animals you don't want to piss off even if they do look all cute a fluffy. 

Rabbits symbolize survival, divination, wit, psychic abilities, abundance and protection, which are all facets to Bellamy's personality. He might look totally harmless, but if you threaten the Gutter Rats, you're dead before you hit the floor(sometimes literally).

Bellamy's model is someone that I adore watching onscreen, whether he's running around in 16th-century leather armor, or disabling bombs in Iraq, or meekly helping a very creepy Ben Barnes carry out his plans to take over the world(I actually felt really bad watching him do this, poor guy).

This is Luke Pasquilino from BBC's "Musketeers", Netflix's "Shadow and Bone", and BBC's "Our Girl"--among other things. Having seen and loved him in all of these roles(including the meek crony of Ben Barnes, see above) I would love to see him lock horns with the Scorpion's Nest.

Also because seeing "D'Artgnan" go head to head with Declan aka "Aladdin", Enzo aka "Benny/Dr. Dre/Eric Carter" and Mai aka Awkwafina would be MAGICAL and make my little fangirl heart so friggin happy.

Bellamy's Soundtrack

Made For The Battle, by UNSECRET & GAITS(originally, this was just part of the soundtrack, but the more I listed to it, the more it sounded like Bellamy, so there you go)

  

Won’t Go Down Easy, by JAXON GAMBLE

 

Bad Boy For Life, by Black Rob, Mark Curry & P. Diddy

 

Battle Scars, by Lupe Fiasco & Guy Sebastian