Yes! You can join me with loving Belle's alter ego Lacey. My new title for my website is "The Lacey fan club", so the Rumbellers who like Lacey will have a safe place to talk about Lacey with me, and won't get their heads chewed off for liking her.
:)  I really do like what I’ve seen so far.  I feel like she’s supposed to be kind of shallow.  She’s Belle’s opposite, and Belle is naturally a deep person.  She thinks things over, she reflects and watches everything carefully.  I didn’t expect Lacey to be anything like that.  She’s like a magpie; she sees sparkly surface beauty and doesn’t think beyond that.  Belle wants a complex man with shadows and light.  Lacey wants a thug who doesn’t think much.  So I think that the character development so far (and we’ve only seen one episode with her) is about what I imagined. Â
I love all the fanfiction writers on here, and I adore some of the portrayals of Dark Belle and such.  But, I really feel sometimes that the writers get mad when their characterizations don’t match up with the creators.  Sometimes people have completely separate ideas of where they want a character to go and since they own the show, their ideas win out.