Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-26151936-20150311162054

Somone asked if Colette (Belles mother) was still alive. I couldnt find the post  but I started thinking about her. Right after they were attacked by the Ogres  we see Bell waking up  and asking where her mother is, her father says  "You don't know?". Then we see the casket. So the assumpation is she is deceased. Maybe.

What I also remember about that episode is, just before the Ogres came, Colette was very very concerned about gathering as many books as she could before they got there. Mind you, their life was in danger but what was most important to her were the books. Belle then ran in holding some book which clearly had the word "Her" on it twice. (You know this show is always dropping hints and  nothing in it really happens  by chance).

Then there was another scene which took place just a few days later where Belle was reading. I think,  in an effort to see if she could find some kind of magic to get her memorys back and when her father saw her he was really really upset about her reading books, and then he said "I dont want to happen to you what happened to your mother". As if the books caused her fate.

So Im wondering, could it be she was so attached because she wrote most of them?

Just a thought. Belle and her mother are more attached  to books more so  than anyone on the show and its intersting that her fasinatuon with books is one of the most consistant things shown througout this show. Plus there is a lot of talk about the upcoming episode called "Mother".

Wouldnt that be a twist that no one epxected? Maybe the orgers took her and the assumption is that she is deceased, so they were just honoring her life with the casket. I dont remember anybody actually saying she died and Belle was insistant on trying to remember what actually happened. Her father only said that she stood in the way while the soldires were able to get Belle away from the Ogers. They never said she was dead, and while Belle found something to restore memory's I dont think she even had a chance to use it to get them rstored.

So Colette COULD still be alive and there is no reason to beleive that she couldnt be author as Belle has helped them find the answers to many things. May be her mother is a mother Goose, and she guiding because she is actually the author. 