Theme of a Sick Poet Full Name: Beata Alexandra Plath Nickname: Berenice Race: Heartland Ceardian Ailor Brood Age: 26 Gender: Female Eye Color: Red Berenice is a Heartland Ceardian Brood, who wants to become a writer and find a way through her troubled and cursed life. Raised a Unionist, she believes that by maintaining distance from others and faith in the face of her challenging life, she can someday find some peace. Proficiencies Points Left 5 Strength 1 Melee Improvised Constitution 0 Wisdom 6 Alchemy Obstructive Dexterity 2 Magic 0 Charisma 0 Languages Common Brood As a result of being born a brood, she has red eyes. Berenice has blonde-brown hair cut to shoulder length and curving inwards at the ends. She has fairly pale and dull skin. She stands at 5’5” in height and has a fairly weak-looking form. Her fashion inclines towards pastels and a mix of Heartland Ceardian and Wirtem styles. Vampiric Form || In her alternative form, a part of her back opens to unleash a group of flaking tendrils. Some of these tendrils curl around her, creating a purely aesthetic cage around her chest. One tendril curls around her neck while the rest flow behind her. Her head is adorned with ram-like horns on either side of her head. Childhood || Born to Lisbetha Lenore Winston and George Carnegie Plath, Beata lived a reclusive and closed-off life away from her relatives and the outside world. From a young age, she was forced by her father to stay in bed and in her room. He was a doctor and told Beata that she was born with a terrible disease aggravated by going outside. Her two younger siblings Aspen and Marjorie were free to go about their daily lives, but still took the time to visit Beata and encourage her few hobbies— namely writing. It extended to the point that they called her by her pseudonym ‘Berenice’ rather than her real name. From then on, she took to that name and further into her writing. Adolescence || While growing up, Berenice began to hear rumors about her mother from her siblings, who were facing hardship in front of their peers because of it. Rumors told of their mother once being an immoral and sinful being, who seduced their father and fooled all as she feasted on blood. As their older sister, she did her best to comfort them, reassuring them that their mother was no such monster. An incident occured where her siblings saw her condition at its worst as tendrils came out of her. After that, unable to see their sister in a monstrous state, Aspen made his way into an academy while Marjorie was sent to live with their aunt. In her loneliness, Berenice was encouraged in letters from her siblings and by her mothers words to further sink into Unionist prayers and beliefs in hopes that one day she would be cured. She wrote even more fiercely, thinking that through writing she could contain the loneliness and pain that tore at her broken being. Early Adulthood || Eventually, Berenice’s parents sought to move away from their previous town and go to Regalia. Berenice’s father told her they needed to move to find a cure for her condition. Locked up again in a room, she found herself somewhat reinvigorated by the new setting, but only for a short while. She soon realized just how lacking of freedom she was. When the ship dropped by a port, Berenice snuck out of her room and kept herself shrouded with a cloak. She had a little adventure around the ship and briefly saw the deck, before returning to her room without her parents finding out. As she locked the door, she found that there was another presence in her room— A stowaway. She was a Suvial woman named Zoya, who had eyes similar to her own and she asked her if she had the same disease she did. After a fit of laughter, the truth was explained. Berenice was a brood. Her mother and father locked her away to keep the truth hidden from everyone else and to save her siblings from being tarnished and embarrassed, because of her. Soon, the rumors about her mother returned and she realized she was living proof of her mother’s previous life as a vampire and of her father’s fall from grace. Though broken, Berenice allowed her new found friend to stay in her room, fostering the first friendship that she believed could ever last. Regalia || Upon the ship reaching port, Berenice and her newfound companion ran away from her parents and into Regalia. With her trust in her parents gone, she saw them as hypocrites to the faith they told her to carry and thought that by living with her new friend, she would find the true answers to what she needed in life.