Scroogabel

Scroogabel is the het ship between Ebenezer Scrooge and Belle/Isabel Fezziwig from the Christmas Carol fandom.

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
The book does not explain how Scrooge met his Belle, as why Belle left him is far more important to the story.

During his excourse with the Ghost of Christmas Past, Scrooge was getting increasingly agitated at being forced to witness his life's biggest regrets after reminiscing about the better parts of his life. During the prime of his life, Scrooge was a fine young lad who managed to enter a relationship with a woman named "Belle". However, he was already on the miserly path, having neglected her love in favor of his monetary gain. Belle was wearing a mourning dress and explicitly tells the young Scrooge that she believes he doesn't care about her feelings in her time of grief. When Belle laments about poverty, young Scrooge tells her that this is why he pursues wealth, to prevent falling into it. Belle tries to tell him that he fears the world too much, trying to remind him that he had nobler aspirations in life besides just gaining more money. Scrooge told her that even gaining wisdom instead would not change how he feels about her. But Belle just shook her head, telling him that she entered their relationship back when both of them were poor and improve each other's life by shared wealth. She tells him that he did change and implies that she fell in love with the man he was back then. Scrooge told her that he was a boy, but to Belle, he acknowledges that he had changed since then, hoping that her realizing that things had changed would've been enough to grant him release from the prison he built for himself. Despite Scrooge protesting that he never asked for her to "release" him, Belle regarded his changed nature as a cry for help, telling him that he would probably never think of courting her now if they weren't already in a relationship. She tells him that it wasn't easy for her to realize this, hoping that he will realize his mistake one day. She nonetheless loudly tells him that she hopes he'll be happy with this life.

Old Scrooge begging for the Spirit to take him home after witnessing this proves that he did come to regret the way things ended between him and Belle. However, the Ghost was relentless and chose to show him what Belle was doing today.

Belle was now a matron, with a daughter just as fair as she used to be and many other children living with her in a small, yet comfortable house. Despite not having much, Scrooge couldn't deny that Belle was happy with her life. When Belle's husband came home, Scrooge regarded him far more intensely than anything else in the room, he was not jealous of him, as much as he was envious of his life as he was sure that he could've had this life with Belle if he only cared enough. Her husband then turns to tell her that he saw an "old friend" of hers recently, making her guess who it was. For a moment, Belle had no idea, but then the two of them shared a laugh and she immediately guessed that it must've been Scrooge. It was the year Marley died, so her husband tells her just how sad it was to see Scrooge sitting alone working in his office window. The current Scrooge still begged to leave the scene, but the Ghost insisted that this is what happened in the past and the Ghost couldn't change these events. Scrooge ended the reflections by extinguishing the Ghost's flame.

Fanon
Though their relationship ended poorly, many fans of the story admire Belle for her ability to reflect on Scrooge and her honest attempts at trying to get through to him.

Considering how rarely the scene with old Belle is adapted, many appreciate adaptations that actually care to show Belle growing old. They supposed add to the message of the past being the past and many fans argue that Scrooge still loving Belle after the lost her looks only humanizes him further.

Fandom

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