Adora Belle Dearheart

Adora Belle Dearheart

Background

Adora Belle Dearheart is the head of the Golem Trust in Ankh-Morpork, on Discworld. Her brother is John Dearheart. Adora's father was the inventor of the Clacks, but lost it when the bank called in his loan early. She is a member of a Clacks hacker group called the Smoking Gnu

During the events of Terry Pratchett's Going Postal (2010) played by Claire Foy

Moist Von Lipwig goes to the Golem Trust and meets Adora, who initially fires an arrow at him and tells him someone threw a rock through the window due to some people's dislike for golems. Moist buys a pamphlet on golems and Adora tells him golems cannot be manipulated. He asks her out on a date, but she refuses and as he is leaving, she warns him to stay close to Mr Pump for protection. After he reopens the post office, Moist goes to the Golem trust and offers to hire all twelve available golems from Adora, and she tells him she will think about it. Adora arrives with the golems who are given giant stamp post office badges on their chests. Adora offers to help Moist challenge the Clacks and tells him how Reacher Gilt and his lawyers stole the Clacks system from her father. Hobson arrives with his fastest horse, Boris. Moist gets on Boris with a bag of mail and he and Adora ride together to deliver the mail. They stop at the remnants of the Clacks where John died and she tells Moist, John was murdered. Moist delivers the mail at Sto Lat and tells the locals if they want to mail anything to form a line behind Boris. Moist once again asks Adora on a date and she tells him maybe. The next day, Adora goes to the post office and tells Moist she will go out with him, but he tells her she needs to stay away from him. Adora arrives at the best restaurant in town to met with Moist after Mr Pump begged her to and Moist gives her a letter he wrote with his confession. Adora finishes the letter as Reacher arrives and Reacher acts like he and Moist are friends. Someone screams the post office is burning and as the post office burns down, Moist tells Adora, Reacher had John killed, but she doesn't trust him. Adora calls over Mr Pump and accuses him of being exploited. She goes inside and starts working on a miniature Clacks system. Moist returns to the post office as Adora is trying to get the golems to strike, but she fails. Moist tells Adora that her brother was a spy and tries to get her to join him against Reacher. As Adora is systematically testing her mock Clacks tower, she figures out how to jam the Clacks towers. Moist again offers to work with Adora when he sees she shut down the Clacks tower. She gives him a hint and he goes to the tower of the post office and finds Mad Al, Sane Alex and Adrian on the roof with a sort of hacking machine. They lie and and come up with excuses for why they are on the roof and Adora steps out on the roof. They admit they are part of a hacker group called the Smoking Gnu and they show Moist how they hack the Clacks system. Mr Pony goes to speak with Adora and leaves her Horsefry's ledgers which he saved from being burned. Adora reads the ledgers and finds the entry ordering the death of John. She shows Moist the ledgers and he comes up with a plan to block out the Clacks message with a sail and send their own message. As they are trying to sabotage the Clacks system with their own message, Moist saves Adora from falling to her death and then asks her to marry him and she reminds him he still has to win the race. Sergeant Angua and the Town Watch arrest Moist for trying to run away. Ridcully uses the Omniscope to read the Clacks message and Reacher declares himself the winner. Moist continues to stall his hanging until the Clacks message changes to list the murders committed by Reacher as annotated in the ledgers. Reacher throws his cane at the Omniscope, which causes it to explode and Trooper falls back onto the lever, dropping the floor under Moist, who begins to hang until he is grabbed and lifted up by Mr Pump. The Clacks are given to Adora, but Lord Vetinari warns her that if his game of Fud is interrupted, he will go after either her or Moist. As Moist and Andora start to kiss, she jokes that now they are competitors, perhaps their relationship would be inappropriate.