Belle LaDonna LeFleur is the youngest daughter of the LeFleur family's five children. When she was younger, Belle was trained as a handmaid in the Queen's court, where the nickname the “Blueberry of Love” was lovingly bestowed upon her due to her petite stature, her strong preference for anything blue, and her sweet nature. As the young girl grew into a graceful young woman, the King began paying too marked attention to our little Blueberry, and the Queen summarily arranged a marriage between Belle and Marius Gaucher, a carpenter in the village of Lyon, France, and dowered the couple with a small farmstead. Although it was an arranged marriage, Belle was in love and very happy. She worked hard to make her French farmhouse into a haven of tranquility. Unfortunately, after two years, Marius felt the calling to become a monk and he sold the farmstead to finance his pilgrimage to a small monastery hundreds of miles from Lyon and his mother's passage to a convent. Abandoned and left homeless by her husband, but unwilling to break her own vows and remarry, Belle returned to her father's home. There she learned that her older sister, Angelique, had fallen in love with a Scottish pirate. Knowing that her sister would follow her heart and the man in the kilt, Belle decided to tag along to make sure her sister stayed out of trouble. Wherever the handsome Scotsman and his kilt were, there was the lovesick Angelique, followed by the Blueberry, who managed to keep all three out of trouble and out of jail...most of the time.

Much to Belle's chagrin, the sisters often had to don boys' clothing and portray their "cousins" Toulouse and Lautrec in order to be allowed aboard ship. They spent several years aboard The Bloody Scavenger as unsuccessful navigators until they were tossed off Captain Caspian Jack Oceanus' ship for having landlocked it one too many times. So, Angelique and Belle forcibly acquired their own ship by tossing the tipsy guards overboard. With Belle as the Captain (by popular vote of our audiences) and Angelique as the self-proclaimed First Mate, they've continued their pursuit of Angelique's Scotsman and more piratical hijinx on the high seas.

Upon their last return to Lyon two summers ago, their cabin boy brought word that Marius met an untimely demise in a vat of wine. Could it be that Belle is free to find new love? And now, recently rumors have it that Captain Belle has been kidnapped by the Commodore Richard Moneybags of The Wandering Wallaby. Perhaps the handsome Commodore will capture her heart as well, but will he persuade her to give up a life of piracy to sail for the fleet?

Belle is portrayed by Susan (Romine) Tan. Like Belle, Susan is very content with pursuits of the hearth and home. She is the happy wife of Marcus. She loves to cook, sew, and decorate the house. Marcus' hobby of running is slowly rubbing off on her. The two have participated in several races to raising funds for organizations such as Easter Seals and Race to Cure Lymphoma.

Susan is a former elementary school teacher and a NASA-trained aerospace educator. After teaching for 7 years, she became a Reading Specialist Consultant with Missouri's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. In addition to providing continuing education for teachers in the St. Louis area, she is pursing a third certification as a teacher for English Language Learners.

In her spare time, Susan is involved in variety of creative and artistic pursuits. She has put her talent as a seamstress to use as the costume mistress for Swords and Roses®. A talented soprano, she has studied voice privately for over 15 years and her repertoire includes opera, Broadway, and romantic standards. Like her sister Maria and her brother-in-law, James, she is a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism's (SCA) Barony of the Shattered Crystal. It was there that she got her first taste of fencing, and where she surprised a veteran combatant with her technique ("and there she was, up my nose with a dagger!") She then pursued training in stage combat with the Society of American Fight Directors. This of course led to her favorite creative outlet: Swords and Roses®!