on the one hand, sometimes i wish that belos wasn't a character in a children's cartoon, so his story could've been explored deeper without getting censored or toned down. on the other hand, I think perhaps part of the fun that I get from his character comes EXACTLY from the fact that THIS absolute horror of a man is somehow a character in a cartoon for KIDS.
like. you have this pretty basic fantasy show formula. girl gets stuck in the magical world, gets powers, a found family, a girlfriend, there's school shenanigans and sports episodes, and all of these you know typical disney cartoon stuff. and then they're like. so there's THIS GUY. he murdered his brother in cold blood over the fact that he dared to have a life beyond their relationships, desecrated his grave, stole his body and then proceeded to, for 300 years straight, casually dissect and dismember him to create children out of his bones, the children that he delusionally believes to be the same person as his brother, but not like the real brother — this one he doesn't want — but the idealized version of his brother that won't have any life beyond him, the version that only ever existed in his head, and so when these children grow up and develop a life of their own, he, again, sees it as a betrayal, and so he murders them and tries again and again and again in hope that someday he will succeed and his ideal nonexistent brother will return and they will go home together and everything will be exactly how it was and how it's supposed to be, all the while the numbers of dead children in his basement grows. and it's like. girl what the FUCK