Basic Profile

Age : 18

Affiliation : Beaumont Family

Status : Alive

Role : Beaumont family daughter; heir to the family curse; central character in the continuation of the Beaumont bloodline and its traditions

Personality

Traits

• Social and conversational, especially when she feels comfortable with someone.
• Curious about people, particularly when something doesn't make sense to her.
• Emotionally expressive and relatively open about how she feels.
• Affectionate toward people she becomes attached to.
• Playful and capable of teasing others.
• Family-oriented, despite increasingly recognizing that something about her family is deeply wrong.
• Observant enough to notice unusual behavior within the Beaumont household.
• Willing to question situations that feel suspicious.
• Strongly influenced by her emotional relationships.
• More courageous than she initially appears.
• Capable of maintaining ordinary behavior even when surrounded by supernatural circumstances.
• Has a tendency to become emotionally attached to people who make her feel understood.
• Possesses an unusual tolerance for supernatural events because they have gradually become part of her normal life.
• Her connection to the mysterious voice in her mind makes her unusually receptive to communication that other people cannot perceive.
• Despite being raised within the Beaumont family, she does not appear to completely understand the traditions and curse surrounding her.

Flaws

• Can be too trusting of people she becomes emotionally close to.
• Her desire for connection can override caution.
• Sometimes allows curiosity to take her into situations she doesn't fully understand.
• Can become emotionally overwhelmed when dealing with family conflict.
• Has difficulty separating what she wants to believe from what may actually be happening.
• Her attachment to people can make her vulnerable to manipulation.
• Often attempts to maintain normality even when circumstances are clearly abnormal.
• Has limited understanding of the Beaumont curse despite being one of the people most affected by it.
• Can become frightened without immediately knowing what action to take.
• Her instinct to protect people she cares about can place her in danger.
• She sometimes relies on the mysterious voice for guidance rather than trusting her own judgment.

Motivations

• Understanding the Beaumont family curse.
• Understanding the strange voice that communicates with her.
• Protecting the people she cares about.
• Maintaining her relationships with the people she loves.
• Finding someone she can genuinely trust.
• Understanding why her family behaves so strangely.
• Discovering what happened to Eljin and why the teddy bear became significant.
• Learning the truth about the Beaumont family's history.
• Staying connected to Lucas.
• Escaping situations where she feels controlled by her family.
• Ultimately understanding what it means for her to inherit the Beaumont curse.

Hates

• Being lied to.
• Feeling excluded from important information.
• Family arguments.
• Being treated as though she cannot understand what is happening.
• Losing people she cares about.
• Being manipulated.
• Feeling alone.
• Having decisions made for her.
• The uncertainty surrounding her family.
• Being unable to understand what is happening around her.
• Situations where something feels wrong but nobody will explain why.

Strengths

• Emotionally expressive.
• Affectionate and capable of forming strong connections.
• Curious and observant.
• Willing to ask questions.
• Capable of recognizing when something feels suspicious.
• Brave enough to remain involved despite frightening circumstances.
• Strong attachment to the people she cares about.
• Adaptable to strange situations.
• Able to communicate honestly with people she trusts.
• Possesses considerable emotional resilience.
• Willing to act when someone she cares about is threatened.
• Her connection to the mysterious voice gives her access to information that other members of her family do not possess.

Fears

• Losing the people she loves.
• Losing Lucas.
• Being abandoned.
• Discovering that her family has been hiding something from her.
• The Beaumont curse.
• Losing control over her own life.
• The possibility that the voice in her mind may not be what she believes it is.
• Becoming trapped by her family's traditions.
• Something happening to the people she cares about because of the curse.
• Discovering the true meaning behind the Beaumont family's rituals.
• The possibility that her future has already been decided by her family.

Relationships

• Lucas Asterisk — Lucas becomes Bella's most important relationship outside her family.
  
  Their relationship begins through the mysterious telepathic connection between them, with Bella initially knowing Lucas only as the voice inside her head. She becomes comfortable talking to him because he gives her someone to communicate with when she feels alone.
  
  Their relationship gradually develops from an unusual supernatural connection into genuine affection.
  
  When Bella finally meets Lucas physically at Oakwood Public Library, there is an awkward realization that the person whose voice she already knows now has a face.
  
  They quickly become comfortable together.
  
  Bella enjoys Lucas's company, his strange sense of humor, his way of discussing life, and the fact that he does not immediately try to "fix" her emotions. She eventually admits that she likes looking at him and becomes comfortable enough to tell him that she wants to stay with him.
  
  By Chapter 10, Lucas has become someone Bella actively trusts over her own family.
  
  This becomes particularly important during the Beaumont ritual.
  
  When Bella realizes that her family is planning something suspicious, she warns Lucas telepathically and attempts to get him out of the house.
  
  After the ritual fails, Bella immediately tells Lucas they should leave.
  
  Their relationship therefore represents something important to Bella:
  
  Lucas is one of the few people she chooses for herself rather than someone chosen for her by the Beaumont family.
• Benjamin Beaumont — Benjamin is Bella's father.
  
  Their relationship appears to be part of an ordinary family structure on the surface, but Benjamin's involvement in the Beaumont traditions means that he possesses information about Bella's future that she does not.
  
  He participates in the family events surrounding the curse and ultimately helps transport Lucas to the Beaumont family house after Lucas collapses.
  
  Benjamin therefore occupies an uncomfortable position in Bella's life:
  
  he is both her father and a member of the system controlling her.
• Bianca Beaumont — Bianca is Bella's mother.
  
  Their relationship is complicated by Bianca's attitude toward Bella and her involvement with the Beaumont curse.
  
  Bianca appears affectionate enough to function as Bella's mother within the household, yet she is simultaneously involved in plans that Bella does not understand.
  
  By Chapter 10, Bianca is directly involved in the ritual performed on Lucas.
  
  This creates a major conflict between Bella's identity as Bianca's daughter and her growing realization that her family may be capable of doing things she cannot accept.
• Beth Beaumont — Beth is one of the family members closest to Bella.
  
  Beth participates in the family's supernatural traditions and eventually warns Bella about the ritual.
  
  She specifically tells Bella not to open her eyes during the ceremony because she may see things humans were never supposed to see.
  
  Beth's warning shows that she knows more about the supernatural side of the Beaumont family than Bella does.
  
  At the same time, she tells Bella to behave normally and not cause a scene when they arrive at the family house.
  
  Beth therefore becomes both a source of protection and another person enforcing the family's rules.
• Beatrice Beaumont — Beatrice is an older member of the Beaumont family who understands the family's history and traditions.
  
  She explains the significance of the Beaumont family's naming traditions and the role Bella is approaching as she comes of age.
  
  Beatrice's involvement makes her one of the people responsible for preparing Bella for the curse.
  
  She represents the older generation of the family and the continuation of knowledge that has been passed down through generations.
• Becca Beaumont — Becca is connected to Bella's initiation into the deeper Beaumont traditions.
  
  She is selected to teach Bella about the family and its curse.
  
  Becca therefore represents the transition between Bella's relatively normal childhood and the knowledge she is expected to inherit as a Beaumont.
  
  Her relationship with Bella is complicated by the fact that Bella is being taught about something she did not choose to inherit.
• Bennett Beaumont — Bennett is another member of Bella's immediate family.
  
  He participates in the Beaumont household and is involved in the family's strange supernatural history.
  
  Bella encounters him during the events surrounding Eljin and later sees him behaving normally despite the increasingly disturbing circumstances surrounding the family.
  
  His presence contributes to Bella's growing realization that the Beaumont household contains secrets that ordinary family life cannot explain.
• Eljin — Eljin is connected to Bella through the Beaumont family's supernatural events.
  
  Although Eljin is associated with the teddy bear, Bella encounters circumstances suggesting that something much stranger is happening around him.
  
  The teddy bear becomes an important recurring object within the family.
  
  Bella's experiences with Eljin contribute to her understanding that the supernatural is not simply something happening somewhere else.
  
  It is inside her home.
• Raker Beaumont — Raker is one of the most mysterious figures connected to Bella's family history.
  
  He is an ancestor who refused to follow certain Beaumont traditions and instead attempted to understand the origin of the curse.
  
  According to Becca, Raker discovered something significant.
  
  His actions distinguish him from the rest of the family because he appears to have attempted to understand the system rather than simply obey it.
  
  Bella's eventual inheritance of the curse makes Raker's discoveries potentially important to her future.
• The Mysterious Voice — The voice is one of Bella's strangest and most intimate relationships.
  
  It communicates directly inside her mind.
  
  At first, Bella is frightened and confused by the experience, but she eventually becomes comfortable enough with it that she prefers having the voice around because otherwise she feels she has nobody to talk to.
  
  The voice listens to her, responds to her emotional problems, gives her advice, and helps her calm herself.
  
  Their relationship is therefore unusual because Bella experiences the supernatural entity not simply as something frightening, but as companionship.
  
  The identity and true nature of the voice remain unresolved.

Hobbies

• Talking with people she trusts.
• Spending time with friends.
• Exploring Ravenport.
• Going to university.
• Walking around the city.
• Spending time with Lucas.
• Watching movies.
• Casual conversations and teasing.
• Spending time at home.
• Exploring unfamiliar places.
• Learning about people.
• Listening to the mysterious voice in her mind.
• Spending time with her family, despite the increasingly complicated relationship she has with them.

Backstory

Bella Beaumont initially appears to be a relatively ordinary young woman living with her family.

She attends university, spends time with friends, argues with family members, worries about ordinary things, and attempts to navigate her life like anyone else her age.

But Bella was born into the Beaumont family, a bloodline governed by an ancient curse.

The curse is not simply a supernatural punishment.

It is a system.

The Beaumont bloodline has rules concerning names, traditions, marriage, family continuation, death, and inheritance. The family believes that maintaining the bloodline is essential because if the bloodline fails to continue, the curse becomes stronger.

Bella is eventually told that she will inherit this curse.

This makes her future fundamentally different from that of an ordinary young woman.

At the same time, Bella begins experiencing something that has nothing to do with normal family life.

A mysterious voice begins speaking to her inside her mind.

Rather than immediately rejecting the voice, Bella gradually becomes attached to it.

She talks to it about her problems.

She tells it about arguments.

She tells it when she is angry.

She tells it when she is frightened.

Eventually, she admits that she actually prefers the voice being there because otherwise she feels as though she has nobody to talk to.

This relationship becomes one of the defining aspects of Bella's life.

While her family gives her a predetermined identity, the voice gives her companionship.

Then Bella's family begins revealing more of the Beaumont traditions.

She learns about the importance of the family's B-name tradition.

She learns that members of the family are taught their history at particular ages.

She learns that marriage can make an outsider part of the curse.

She learns that the curse does not necessarily punish the Beaumont directly.

Instead, it can punish the people they love.

This makes Bella's relationships increasingly dangerous.

Her connection with Lucas becomes particularly significant.

Lucas begins as a voice in her mind, but eventually Bella meets him physically at Oakwood Public Library.

For the first time, the person she has been speaking to has a face.

Their relationship develops naturally.

They spend time together, joke, eat, walk around Ravenport, discuss university, and talk about emotional struggles.

Lucas tells Bella that when he is not feeling well emotionally, he doesn't always want someone to immediately try to fix him.

Sometimes he prefers strange questions and dark topics because they redirect his attention.

Bella listens.

She begins understanding him.

Their connection becomes something Bella genuinely chooses for herself.

This becomes increasingly important as her family situation deteriorates.

The Beaumont household continues behaving strangely.

There are unexplained events involving Eljin, strange supernatural phenomena, secret conversations, and family members who clearly know more than Bella is being told.

Bella eventually realizes that her family is hiding something.

The realization becomes unavoidable when Lucas visits the Beaumont house.

Benjamin and Bianca initially treat him as a normal guest.

They invite him to dinner.

But Bella senses that something is wrong.

She communicates with Lucas telepathically and tells him that the situation feels suspicious.

She suggests that he pretend to receive a phone call and leave.

Lucas does not have a better plan.

Then he suddenly collapses.

Bella collapses shortly afterward.

When she wakes, she discovers that she has been taken to the Beaumont family house.

The family is gathered.

Everyone behaves as though the situation is normal.

Beth tells Bella to pretend nothing is wrong.

She warns her not to make a scene.

Then Bella learns what the family intends to do.

Lucas is taken into the basement.

Eight members of the Beaumont family form a circle around him.

Candles are placed around the room.

The family begins a ritual.

Bella is warned not to open her eyes.

She eventually does.

And she sees something standing behind Lucas.

A tall shadow moves unnaturally before entering Lucas's body.

Yet Lucas remains Lucas.

The ritual has failed.

The family panics.

They begin discussing an ancestor named Baldwin and the possibility that he had somehow protected Lucas.

Bella notices something even stranger:

Lucas's shadow moves a second later than he does.

Before she can understand what it means, the basement begins changing.

The candles go out.

The temperature drops.

The lights flicker.

Wind tears through the room.

A shadow appears.

Bianca recognizes it as Grandpa Raker.

Then the entity disappears.

When the family regains control of the room, Bella and Lucas are gone.

They have escaped into the woods.

Bella admits that she is scared.

Lucas admits that he is scared too.

He takes her hand.

Bella tells him she wants to stay with him.

Together, they run deeper into the darkness.

For Bella, this is a major turning point.

She has spent her life inside the Beaumont family.

But when given the choice between staying with the family and running into the unknown with Lucas, she chooses Lucas.

Her story has therefore developed from:

ordinary university student → daughter of the Beaumont family → recipient of a mysterious voice → inheritor of a supernatural legacy → friend of Lucas → witness to the family's ritual → fugitive from her own family.

And the most important question surrounding her is no longer simply whether she will inherit the Beaumont curse.

It is:

What happens when the person destined to inherit the curse decides she doesn't want to play by its rules?

Trivia

• Bella's relationship with the mysterious voice is one of the earliest indications that supernatural events in the story do not always appear frightening to the people experiencing them.
• She eventually describes the voice as preferable to having nobody to talk to.
• Her relationship with Lucas begins before she ever sees his face.
• When Bella first physically meets Lucas, she recognizes him primarily through his voice.
• Lucas becomes one of the few people Bella chooses independently rather than receiving through her family.
• Bella is approaching the age at which Beaumont daughters are expected to learn the family's deeper history.
• The Beaumont curse does not simply threaten Bella's life; it threatens the people she becomes attached to.
• Bella's strongest vulnerability may therefore also be her greatest strength: she forms attachments deeply.
• She is unusually adaptable to supernatural events. Things that would probably traumatize an ordinary person gradually become part of her reality.
• Bella's decision to warn Lucas during the dinner demonstrates that her loyalty to him can override obedience to her family.
• She is one of the few people who actually witnesses the shadow entering Lucas.
• She notices Lucas's delayed shadow after the failed ritual, suggesting that Bella is capable of detecting supernatural abnormalities even when she doesn't understand them.
• Her escape with Lucas marks the first major instance of Bella physically separating herself from her family.
• The fact that she chooses to run deeper into the woods rather than return to the family house is symbolically important.
• Bella is caught between two forms of inheritance: the family she was born into and the relationships she chooses for herself.
• Her story is fundamentally connected to the question of whether a person can escape a destiny that was established before they were old enough to understand it.
• The Beaumont family's insistence on bloodline, tradition, and obedience contrasts sharply with Bella's growing desire to choose her own relationships.
• Her future is particularly dangerous because the curse does not need Bella to willingly accept it. She was born inside the system.
• By Chapter 10, Bella has not defeated the curse, understood the curse, or escaped its consequences. She has only taken the first meaningful step toward resisting it: she ran.