Editing Seth Belanger (section)

==Personality==
He is mean, lazy and selfish, he has repeatedly failed tasks and been bailed out due to his family connections.<ref name=":0" />

After his [[Forsworn|forswearing]] was repealed he was described as a man who was broken and put back together again.<ref name=":2" /> He also became more ambitious.<ref>“He didn’t seem super ambitious before,” Lucy said.

“He is now,” the Turtle Queen replied.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/09/10/let-slip-20-8/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.8]]</ref>
===Relationships===
When he was younger Seth mother struggled to take care of him so his grandmother took over, after his grandmother was taken to the hospital his mother asked [[Alexander Belanger]] to take him as his apprentice.<ref name=":1">“Do you remember when your grandmother was in the hospital, Seth?” Alexander asked.<br><br>“Of course.  But using my dead grandmom here is pretty low.”<br><br>“Your mother couldn’t take care of you, you were too much a wild youth, too recalcitrant, aggressive, prone to running away.  Your mother couldn’t work and care for you at the same time.  Your grandmother took over.  When she went to the hospital, you threw a party.  Trashed her house.”<br><br>Seth’s fingernails scraped against the painted surface where the door should be.  His hand dropped.  “I was a kid.  And you’re keeping me prisoner, in violation of the spirit of your demesne.”<br><br>“I know you were a kid, Seth.  I do.  Your mother was distraught.  She called me, I came, I took over.  I talked to your grandmother, I had Wye help clean the house.  I sat at her bedside when you wouldn’t.”<br><br>“And?  Karma?” Seth asked.<br><br>“I know the promises you made her, as she lay there dying.  To be better.  To meet your potential.  To ''try''.  I am prepared to name you forsworn, Seth Luke Belanger.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/28 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.z]]</ref>

Alexander asked Wye's mother if she would look after him for a few weeks but she refused.<ref>I have talked to the family about Seth on many occasions. I have talked with your mom, Wye, at least three times. Asking her if she would take a hand in helping with him, take him in for a few weeks to give him a change of scenery, or have a word with him. She could never spare the time.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/10/7-3-spoilers-borrowed-eyes-comic/ Excerpt] from [[Borrowed Eyes Comic]]</ref> She was angry after learning that he had been made forsworn.<ref>Wye: You know, laughs aside, my mom was apoplectic, the last time I talked with her.<br><br>Alexander: A good word, apoplectic. Over Seth?- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/10/7-3-spoilers-borrowed-eyes-comic/ Excerpt] from [[Borrowed Eyes Comic]]</ref>

Him and [[Tanner Gilpin|Tanner]] smoked cannabis together.<ref>Chase and Seth jeered, laughing.  They were the ones smoking joints.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/11/stolen-away-2-z/ Excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.z]]</ref>

Seth attempted to chat up [[America Tedd]].<ref>Verona looked the other way, and spotted the eighteen-ish Seth talking up America Tedd, who was… about as old as students got without being senior students.  Verona couldn’t recall her exact age.  She wasn’t sure if she was uncomfortable seeing it because Seth was a bit older and in a position here, or if she was uncomfortable because America Tedd seemed like the kind of girl who’d bite a boy’s tongue off mid-kiss.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/03/cutting-class-6-3/ Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.3]]</ref>

Seth and [[Nicolette]] both intensely dislike each other, Seth harassed and insulted her and treated her with disrespect.<ref>“You know you’re not welcome here,” Seth said.  “He says it’s for your privacy, but you get the guest room instead of actual apprentice quarters because you don’t really count.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/11/stolen-away-2-z/ Excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.z]]</ref> Nicolette for her part resented the way he was treated better than her whilst also behaving worse.<ref>Seth came to the school after I did and got more of just about everything, including a spot in the inner circle. He didn’t try, he didn’t work for it.  He’d come here and go off to that little town you were in yesterday, to mess around, steal, and compete with some other guys over this girl that used to live there.  But he was blood, he was invited to Alexander’s study- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/12/gone-ahead-7-4/ Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.4]]</ref> He exhibits predatory behavior.<ref>Verona had the same pictures on her phone.  A glamoured up Anselm, who looked like Seth, and a glamoured up Julette, who looked like Cameron.<br><br>Plus other pictures.  Enough to imply it was Seth’s phone and to paint a picture of who Seth was.  That Cameron was one among ''many'' girls.  That many of the girls were unsavory.  Drinking, smoking, all the things a parent would hate.  They’d had Mal round up some girls from around the undercity with a certain image.<br><br>Verona picked a picture and used the phone Zed had given her to text that phone while Cameron’s mom had it.  A girl with messy mascara, closer to their age than Seth’s, with a sultry pose, arms pushing cleavage up and forward.<br><br>''So we’re making things out like he’s with your daughter and he’s also getting photos from girls like that.  Now ground Cameron into five kinds of oblivion, please''.<br><br>Thing was, none of it was a lie, exactly.  This ''was'' Seth.  Seth had made gross comments to Snowdrop.  He’d messed around with girls in the town a couple kilometers down the road from the Blue Heron.  He’d gone after a girl he was teaching. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/12/27 Excerpt] from [[Hard Pass 22.5]]</ref>

He got annoyed at [[Snowdrop]] due to not understanding her [[Rule of Discourse|rule of discource]], later when she was targeted by the [[Chandling|Brownies]] he refused to help her and said he has glad that someone "took the hit" while being gross.<ref>“I’m going to make a deposit in the men’s washroom, so no.”<br><br>“But-”<br><br>“No.  Maybe if you were, like, sixteen and…” He looked her up and down.  “Actually, could look past the clothes.”<br><br>“Can you help me?” she asked, trying to keep to the question thing.  “What do I do if the kitchen staff are mad at me?”<br><br>He snorted.  “I don’t know, but I’m glad.”<br><br>“Glad?”<br><br>“''Someone’s'' gotta take the hit.  Now, excuse me.  Try not to become too big a mess, because Nicolette’s in class and I’ll probably be the one tasked with cleaning it up before we end up traumatizing a client.”  He fake-coughed.  “I mean student.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/12/leaving-a-mark-4-x/ Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.x]]</ref>

After he was made forsworn [[Wye Belanger]] wondered if Alexander hadn't kept him from improving so that he could later destroy him.<ref>He struggled. And I wonder if you kept him in a place where he struggled so you could stay confident you could utterly destroy him when and if it was convenient.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/10/7-3-spoilers-borrowed-eyes-comic/ Excerpt] from [[Borrowed Eyes Comic]]</ref>

[[Cameron Merson|Cameron]] was immediately attracted to Seth, the two of them bonded over their feelings that the world had betrayed them.<ref name=":2">The Turtle Queen ate more fish, thinking.  “Broken and put back together.  He’s emulating someone.  If I could know that other someone I could get Seth five and a half seconds faster.  He’s teaching a student, close, one-on-one.  The world, they both feel, betrayed them both.  It drew them close to one another very quickly.  If I could get one of them, I could get to the other very easily.”<br><br>“Right,” Lucy said, “Okay.  Close in what sense?  Teamwork?”<br><br>“Teamwork, romance, proximity.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/09/10/let-slip-20-8/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.8]]</ref><ref>And then Cameron had gotten Seth, immediately glomming onto him. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/14/let-slip-20-a/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.a]]</ref> [[Nomi Bearden|Nomi]] was also interested in him.<ref>This would be so much easier if Seth had been part of things earlier and she’d played the dead mom card to get him, instead.  Harder than with necromancy, but… she felt like he’d be easier to communicate with.  Once she got past the initial tongue-tying.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/14/let-slip-20-a/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.a]]</ref>

He's friends with [[Griffon Lyttle]].<ref>“Because I don’t want Griffin either, and they get on like a house on fire.”<br>Nomi looked at Griffin and Seth together.  About the same age.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/14/let-slip-20-a/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.a]]</ref>