Basic Profile

Age : 71

Affiliation : Beaumont Family

Status : Alive

Role : Beaumont family elder, keeper and teacher of family traditions, guardian of Beaumont history

Personality

Traits

• Traditional: Beatrice strongly believes in the customs and rules that govern the Beaumont family.
• Knowledgeable: She possesses information about the Beaumont curse, family history, and traditions that younger family members have not yet learned.
• Composed: Unlike Bianca, who can become openly hostile, Beatrice generally presents herself as calm and controlled.
• Authoritative: Her position within the family gives her enough influence to decide who teaches younger Beaumonts about their inheritance.
• Secretive: She does not reveal everything she knows about the curse, particularly concerning what Raker discovered.
• Practical: Beatrice approaches the supernatural aspects of the family as established facts rather than things to be questioned.
• Observant: She seems to understand the importance of timing, age, family roles, and the passing of knowledge between generations.
• Protective of tradition: Her concern appears to be less about individual comfort and more about ensuring that the Beaumont system continues.

Flaws

• Prioritizes tradition over personal choice: Beatrice accepts the Beaumont system even when it restricts younger family members.
• Withholds information: She deliberately keeps parts of the curse's history hidden.
• Accepts dangerous customs: The possibility of death or supernatural consequences does not cause her to reject the family's traditions.
• Controls knowledge: She determines when younger family members should learn about the curse and who should teach them.
• Detached from individual consequences: Her perspective is heavily focused on the family as a whole rather than the feelings of individual members.
• Comfortable with secrecy: She appears to believe that some truths should remain within the family.

Motivations

• Preserve the Beaumont family traditions.
• Ensure the next generation understands the curse.
• Keep the Beaumont bloodline and customs intact.
• Pass family knowledge from one generation to the next.
• Prepare Bella for the role she will eventually inherit.
• Protect information concerning the family's history and supernatural experiences.
• Maintain the structure that has allowed the Beaumonts to survive the curse.

Hates

• People who disregard Beaumont traditions.
• Threats to the continuation of the family.
• Ignorance of Beaumont history.
• People interfering with how younger family members are taught.
• Challenges to the authority of the family system.

Strengths

• Extensive knowledge of Beaumont history and traditions.
• Strong understanding of the curse's rules.
• Calm under supernatural circumstances.
• Able to manage complicated family relationships.
• Influential within the Beaumont family.
• Good at controlling what information is revealed and when.
• Understands the importance of preparation and inheritance.

Fears

• The Beaumont bloodline failing to continue.
• Younger members rejecting the traditions that keep the family together.
• The curse becoming stronger because its rules are broken.
• Important family knowledge being lost.
• The family losing control of its own history.
• The consequences of Bella entering adulthood without understanding what she has inherited.

Relationships

• Bella Beaumont — Beatrice is one of the family members responsible for preparing Bella for adulthood within the Beaumont family. She explains that Bella has reached the age where she must begin learning the family's history and traditions. Beatrice also selected Becca to teach Bella, demonstrating that she sees Bella's education as a family responsibility rather than a personal choice.
• Bianca Beaumont — Beatrice and Bianca have a complicated relationship. Bianca behaves warmly toward Beatrice when they are together but becomes openly hostile toward her decisions when they are alone. Bianca particularly dislikes Becca being chosen to teach Bella. Despite this conflict, Beatrice remains an important authority within the family.
• Benjamin Beaumont — Beatrice is part of the older generation that influences Benjamin's understanding of the Beaumont family system. She represents the family history and traditions that Benjamin is expected to preserve.
• Beth Beaumont — Beatrice gives Beth an old teddy bear and speaks to her in a strangely serious manner, telling her that she should not force her body to do the work of two souls. Their interaction suggests that Beatrice understands things about the family and its supernatural circumstances that Beth may not fully understand herself.
• Becca Beaumont — Beatrice specifically chooses Becca to teach Bella about the Beaumont curse. This decision is significant because Bianca strongly opposes Becca's involvement.
• Bennett Beaumont — Beatrice is part of the extended family system that Bennett belongs to. Her knowledge of family traditions exists above the younger generation's understanding of the Beaumont curse.
• Raker Beaumont — Beatrice knows about Raker's refusal to conform to the family's naming tradition and his attempts to understand the curse. She is aware that Raker discovered something important about its origins, although she does not reveal the full truth.
• Baldwin Beaumont — Beatrice refers to the family's great-great-grandfather Baldwin and his involvement in the history surrounding Lucas. His knowledge and actions remain part of the Beaumont family's inherited history.

Hobbies

• Beatrice's personal hobbies are not established. However, her interests and activities include:
• Studying and preserving Beaumont family history.
• Teaching or arranging the teaching of family traditions.
• Maintaining knowledge of the curse.
• Monitoring the development of younger Beaumont family members.
• Passing information between generations.
• Preserving objects connected to Beaumont history.

Backstory

Beatrice's early life and personal history are not established, but she is clearly an important member of the Beaumont family's older generation.

She grew up within a family where the curse was treated as an inherited reality rather than a superstition. Beaumont children are taught the family's history at specific ages, with sons traditionally beginning their education around thirteen and daughters around eighteen. Beatrice appears to be one of the people responsible for preserving this system.

She understands that the Beaumont curse is more complicated than simply being haunted by a supernatural spirit. The curse is connected to the bloodline, family names, traditions, marriages, burial practices, and the continuation of the family across generations.

Beatrice also knows that the Beaumonts have survived not by defeating the curse, but by learning how to live around its rules.

Her knowledge extends into the family's older history. She knows about Raker Beaumont, who refused to follow the traditional Beaumont naming system and attempted to discover the origin of the curse. She acknowledges that Raker found something, but deliberately refuses to explain what it was.

As Bella approaches the age when she must inherit this knowledge, Beatrice decides that she needs to be taught. She chooses Becca as Bella's teacher, despite knowing that Bianca strongly dislikes Becca.

This creates a conflict between two approaches to the family: Bianca wants control over Bella's education, while Beatrice appears to believe that the established family system should determine who teaches her.

Beatrice's role therefore represents something larger than that of a normal relative. She is part of the mechanism through which the Beaumont curse survives from one generation to another.

Trivia

• Beatrice is one of the characters who knows that the Beaumont curse has rules, rather than simply being a random supernatural phenomenon.
• She explains that Beaumont children receive their family history at different ages depending on gender.
• Bella's approaching adulthood is treated as an important event because it means she must begin learning the family's deeper secrets.
• Beatrice chooses Becca to teach Bella, despite Bianca's objections.
• She knows that Raker attempted to uncover the origin of the curse.
• She confirms that Raker found something, but the nature of his discovery remains unrevealed.
• She gives Beth an old teddy bear, connecting her to one of the story's recurring supernatural objects.
• Her statement about Beth not forcing her body to do the work of two souls suggests that Beatrice understands more about the family's supernatural circumstances than she openly explains.
• Unlike Bianca, Beatrice does not need to demonstrate her authority through aggression. Her authority largely comes from her knowledge and position within the family.
• Beatrice represents the institutional side of the Beaumont curse: the traditions, rules, history, and generational knowledge that allow it to continue.
• Her character demonstrates that the Beaumont family's greatest weapon may not be supernatural power, but its ability to preserve and transmit information across generations.