occupation: aspiring beam of light

Quick Facts:

#smol - claims to be 5 foot. Is clearly not. Overcompensates for it with her attitude.

Constantly fidgeting.

Always carries a little bottle of green glitter in her pocket, in case of emergencies.

Is a cosmetology student, but put off her final year because of shitty circumstances.

Will fight you if given the chance.

Receptionist at the Neverland Hotel. Has worked there since she was 19.

Collects and mends old teapots and weird mugs.

Her Aunt runs pottery classes from their big shed.

Is absolutely always 100% up for causing trouble and mischief and having fun.

Has a written tier list of people she likes, in order of importance, which you can read [here].

Generally doesn’t get on with other women very well, but has gotten better at it in recent years.

Be careful what you say because you don’t know how she’ll react.

Feels her feelings very, very, very intensly.

A Summary:

If I could only choose three words to describe Tina Bell they would probably be “A Fucking Mess”. Where do we even start? The first thing I should say is that she has been through so much emotional turmoil and some significant trauma since 2019, and it very much informs how she is today. I know not everyone was around to see it all play out, but dammit guys, if you only knew, you might all feel just that little bit sorry for her. With the amount of bullshit she’s been through, idk how she’s still standing. (If you want a more in-depth summary so you, like, know, you can DM me.) I’ve broken up the quick facts section a bit more because I got carried away.

General Information:

Has serious attachment issues, and even worse emotional regulation skills.

Tina has a short fuse, is quick to jealousy, can be extremely manipulative, and can swing between emotions at a moment’s notice. She means well, most of the time, but her feelings get the best of her more often than not. A lot of it stems from a fear that her friends and family are going to forget about her, or choose someone else, so she digs her claws into the people she’s attached to and won’t let go.

On the flip side, she can also be a lot of fun! When she’s on the other end of the spectrum, Tina is so full of love that she could burst, and her enthusiasm for stupid shit is off the charts. When she’s on your side, you better believe you’ll know it!

Tina was raised by her Aunt Mary, and knows nothing about her parents. She didn’t get nearly enough attention as a kid, and on top of being bad at handling her emotions, she became a rather typical “bad kid”, getting in trouble in school constantly, arguing with authority and getting into fights with anyone who even looked at her the wrong way. To this day, Tina has trouble with authority and people telling her what to do.

She is most closely linked with Peter Pan and the Lost Boys; she considers them her family, and will do anything for them. They all looked out for each other growing up, and she feels strongly about them remaining a family by Peter’s side.

You can tell when her emotions are really all over the place when she ups the attention seeking behaviour.

Tina hates talking about her feelings. They’re so overwhelming for her that once she has felt them, she’d rather just forget about it and can’t really articulate what she’s feeling in the moment. She especially hates crying in front of people and lashes out in anger in order to avoid doing that. If it’s really bad, she’ll just shut down all together. It’s best to stay out of her way when she’s mid-meltdown.

Tina finds great joy in winding people up, and a lot of her motivation comes from finding things funny, whether she is genuinely having a laugh or acting on her more mean spirited tendencies. Tina also has a terrible habit of speaking before she thinks and then regretting opening her mouth. Good luck deciphering if she meant to hurt your feelings or if it just slipped out.

Since 2019 she has dealt with ruining her most important relationships, the near-death of her now fiance, witnessing abuse, sleeping with her boss, keeping a serious relationship secret for well over a year, being spiked triggering a major panic/ depressive episode, becoming an involuntary “guardian” to 2 toddlers, ongoing anxiety and mood swings, and being seen as the apparent cause of other folk’s mental health struggles. And no, she hasn’t talked about any of this. Wonder why she’s so moody.

Current State of Affairs:

At present, Tina’s emotions are worse than they’ve ever been.

Tina is engaged to James Hook, Peter banished her for it, and she has been heartbroken ever since. Tina is married to James. Peter has only unbanished her because she almost died ✨ She’s currently dealing with the world-crushing fear that James is going to leave her again at any moment and trying super hard to pretend she’s fine!

On top of that, she has never felt so guilty in her entire life as she does right now, with many people reminding her that she’s actually just a horrible person, Peter and Smee included. It feels like everyone and their granny is against her. She’s contending with these feelings and trying to do better, but it seems she’s failing miserably at it.

On top of all that she hasn’t actually dealt with any of the pretty damaging BS she’s been through since 2019, so it’s all piling up and eventually she’ll crumble. Tina is nearly at rock bottom.

That’s not to say that she can’t have fun though!! It’s way easier to pretend everything is totally fine when you’re out causing trouble and having fun, right?

Taken Connections:

The Lost Boys - The people she considers family. Her best friends growing up, The Lost Boys were Peter’s gang. Tootles, Slightly, Nibs, Cubby & The Twins.

Best Friends - Terence Gold @happiestterencegold

Close Friends - Ella Fontaine @ellasweetfontaine, Toulouse Beaumont @beaumont-ague, Iridessa Sol @iridessa-sol, Jessie Pride @jessiejanepride

Number 1 Enemy of All Time!!! - Wendy Darling @wendydxrling

Enemies - William Smee, The Ashleys @ashley-armbruster, Patrick Patterson @patrickpattersxn, Woody Pride @woodwardpride

Collegues - William Smee @itsmee-william, Arthur Rasa @arthurrasa

Important Relationships

Best Friend - Peter Pan @itspeterpxn

Co-Dependancy at it’s finest.

Tina Bell and Peter Pan had been best friends for as long as either of them could remember. As kids, they did absolutely everything together, and vowed that they would be best friends until they day they died. As they grew, they became more and more attached, indulging each other’s impulses, enabling each other, and being all around terrible influences on each other. Neither of them could get by without the other. They were a package deal. They knew everything about each other; every vice, every worry, every trauma.

Of course there were the Lost Boys, but Tina and Peter really were attached at the hip, with Tina becoming the group’s de facto Second in Command. Tina always thought she was doing what was best for Peter, looking after him, making sure he had clothes, or food, or somewhere to stay, and frankly, keeping him out of the wrong kind of harm the older they got.

Turmoil presented in the group when one Wendy Darling appeared. You see, Tina loved Peter. She was totally obsessed with him and had vowed from when she was 5 that she was totally going to marry him, so when Wendy came along and threatened her position in Peter’s life as Best Friend it only made sense that she would try to get rid of Wendy.

It was a point of contention in their friendship for many years and when Wendy was eventually banished by Peter, Tina vowed to never let Peter be hurt by anyone else ever again. She saw how much Wendy’s “betrayal” hurt Peter. For many years after, Tina stuck by Peter’s side no matter what, distracting him from anything that might even remotely upset him.

The problem was, Tina didn’t exact to fall in love with a Pirate and when he eventually found out (thanks to that Pirate) Peter was so betrayed that he banished her forever.

The thing with being so attached though -with knowing each other better than they knew themself- was that they both knew exactly how to hurt each other when the time was right. In this case, they both broke each other’s hearts without even having to try.

Tina is still banished, still heartbroken, and absolutely determined to win back Peter before she gets married. (The question is can they stop being petty toddlers about it?)

Update: Tina “won” the game of banishment by almost dying. While things are not how they used to be, Tina is trying to mend what she had with Peter (and she hopes he’s doing the same). 

Husband / Boss - James Hook @happiestjameshook

James Hook wasn’t ever supposed to be anything more than Tina’s boss. For the longest time she didn’t even like him, thinking he was nothing more than a stupid, old pirate. In fact, according to the Lost Boys, he was Thee Pirate. Always telling her what to do, making her, like, work for her money at the hotel and all around just being a responsible adult which was the worst thing ever.

It just happened that Tina charmed him a bit too well and he fell head over heels for her. Tina warmed up to him very, very slowly, and eventually (after a lot of BS on his part, and cruelty on hers) she realised he wasn’t so bad after all.

James charmed her as much as she charmed him, making a point of being in her life, giving her attention, and actually treating her right. For once in her life, someone was willing to look after her, to treat her with a degree of care that she had never felt before.

When they started sleeping together, Tina kept it a secret for a long time, in case Peter found out, and when they became an actual item her secret keeping got worse. Eventually they became engaged, the secret keeping got worse, and James ended up breaking the news to Peter about it (resulting in her banishment).

You can find a run down of their history [here]. I think a lot of folk only know them as the couple they are now, and don’t actually know just how fucking messy and complicated they actually are as a pair, and how much angst got them to where they are. This actually explains a lot of the BS and trauma I was talking about earlier.

They genuinely cannot keep their hands off each other. Tina is fiercely protective of James and wants nothing more than for him to be happy.

UPDATE: Married in 2025 but have been on rocky waters since. Both poisoned at their wedding, Tina & James (now Bell) fell into a coma and woke up with “memories” of another life. James, in fear, pulled away from Tina, unable to so much as touch her or sleep in the same bed as her for months. At one point, he even took is ring off, leaving without a word for a week (which Tina didn’t take well). They’re working on it. They’ve been getting better since December, and are slowly but surely getting back to normal. 

Other Connections:

Henrik Hera @henrikhera

Chelsea Katz @chelsea-katz

Kronk Cabrera @krxnk-cabrera

Zach Casper @zachzerocasper

Wanted Connections:

Classmates - Either from college or who knew Tina in High School

Aunt Mary’s Friends - Anyone who might know her Aunt Mary, or who goes to her Aunt Mary’s pottery classes. They may be linked to the Yoga Ladies.

Honesty, Tina isn’t shy and she has a reputation, so anything goes. Friends, enemies, you name it. It’s usually easier to figure out how your character will react to Tina, than how Tina will react to them.

Someone send her to a fucking therapist.

Wanted Plots / Plot Ideas

Let’s Get Ready to Rumble! Tina hasn’t been in nearly enough fist fights with the attitude that she has on her. Maybe Tina says something so fucking stupid that someone whacks her and Tina retaliates, or someone pisses Tina off so royally that she starts throwing punches. Either way, take her out. She’s small. She’ll do her damndest, but she’ll probably lose.

Tissue? Some poor soul falls witness to Tina having a complete meltdown, and she’s not prepared for anyone seeing her in such a state. She won’t cry, but you might need to call James to pick her up.

Green Eyes 2.0 - I know I have a similar plot idea on Nani, but with Tina it will be so much worse 😈 Tina is known for her jealousy and whoever falls victim to it won’t know peace for the rest of their days. Knowing James is bisexual, literally anyone could talk to him in a way Tina doesn’t like and make her jealous, but it would be especially bad if it was a pretty woman that Tina sees as a threat. They could literally just look at James for a second too long and it’s over for them. Maybe they’re at the hotel wanting to book something, and Tina is on reception, or she seen them at the grocery store. Anything! It’ll be funny. Or painful.

Stuck - For some reason, Tina and your character end up stuck or stranded somewhere. Maybe they’re up to no good, maybe they were tasked with going somewhere for something. The car could have broken down, they could have gotten stuck in a building or up a tree. Anything that means your character is stuck with Tina for too long for them to remain sane. She’s hungry and whoever is coming to the rescue better hurry up!

Wanted Characters

With Bios: The Lost Boys

Stanley “Slightly” Reynard - Of all the Lost Boys, Tina and Slightly clashed heads the most, as they competed to be Peter’s Second in Command. I personally just love Slightly, but also think it would be really interesting to see them interact after Tina has been banned by Peter. I would imagine of all the Lost Boys, Slightly would have taken Peter’s side against Peter.