Basic Profile

Age : 17

Affiliation : Beaumont Family

Status : Alive

Role : Beaumont family member, Bella's relative, participant in Beaumont family affairs

Personality

Traits

• Secretive: Bennett keeps aspects of his personal life hidden from the family, particularly his relationship with Chelsea.
• Rebellious: His behavior suggests that he does not always follow the expectations placed on Beaumont family members.
• Casual: Bennett often approaches situations with a relaxed attitude, even when the surrounding circumstances are strange or serious.
• Social: His involvement with Chelsea and his interactions around the Beaumont household show that he is not particularly isolated.
• Confident: He appears comfortable doing things that could cause problems if discovered.
• Humorous: His interactions with the family occasionally have a casual or comedic quality despite the darker environment.
• Family-aware: Although he may behave independently, Bennett is still aware of the family's secrets and expectations.
• Unpredictable: His behavior can shift between ordinary family activity and involvement with increasingly strange Beaumont events.

Flaws

• Careless: Bennett's relationship with Chelsea is discovered by Benjamin, creating conflict within the family.
• Secretive: He hides important parts of his life rather than confronting the family directly.
• Reckless: His actions sometimes create unnecessary problems for himself and others.
• Defiant: He does not always appear willing to behave according to the family's expectations.
• Poor judgment: His decisions can place him in situations where he has little control over the consequences.
• Immature at times: His behavior can resemble that of someone more interested in immediate desires than long-term consequences.

Motivations

• Maintain his own personal freedom.
• Pursue relationships outside the strict expectations of the family.
• Avoid unnecessary family conflict.
• Maintain his position within the Beaumont family.
• Protect his personal secrets.
• Continue living his own life despite the family's traditions.

Hates

• Bennett's specific dislikes are not established. However, his actions suggest that he dislikes:
• Excessive interference in his personal life.
• Being caught doing something the family disapproves of.
• Restrictions placed on his personal choices.
• Family members controlling his relationships.

Strengths

• Confident in social situations.
• Able to maintain personal relationships outside the family.
• Comfortable operating within the complicated Beaumont household.
• Physically capable of handling himself within the family environment.
• Adaptable to the unusual circumstances surrounding the Beaumonts.
• Able to maintain a relatively ordinary demeanor despite the family's supernatural history.

Fears

• Bennett's specific fears are not established. Possible pressures suggested by the story include:
• Losing his freedom because of Beaumont traditions.
• Family rejection.
• Having his personal choices controlled by older family members.
• The consequences of breaking Beaumont rules.

Relationships

• Bella Beaumont — Bennett is one of Bella's relatives and lives within the Beaumont family environment.
  
  Their relationship appears relatively ordinary on the surface, although Bennett is part of the family system that Bella gradually discovers is much darker than she initially understood.
  
  Bella is aware of Bennett's presence in the house and notices when he is absent.
• Benjamin Beaumont — Benjamin has a more authoritative relationship with Bennett.
  
  Benjamin catches Bennett with Chelsea and confronts him about it. This establishes that Bennett's personal relationships can become a source of conflict within the family.
  
  Benjamin's reaction also demonstrates the generational expectations placed on younger Beaumont family members.
• Bianca Beaumont — Bennett is part of Bianca's household and therefore operates under the family structure she helps maintain.
  
  His personal behavior exists alongside Bianca's much more secretive and controlling activities, creating a contrast between Bennett's relatively ordinary problems and the family's supernatural ones.
• Beth Beaumont — Beth and Bennett are part of the same Beaumont household.
  
  Their relationship is not explored in significant detail, but both are involved in the strange family environment surrounding Bella.
• Beatrice Beaumont — Beatrice belongs to the older generation of Beaumonts responsible for maintaining the family's traditions. Bennett belongs to the generation affected by those traditions.
• Becca Beaumont — Becca's relationship with Bennett is not directly explored.
  
  However, her role as a teacher of Beaumont history and curse traditions would place her within the larger family structure that Bennett is expected to understand.
• Chelsea — Chelsea is Bennett's romantic relationship outside the family's expectations.
  
  Benjamin discovers Bennett with Chelsea, turning what may have seemed like a private relationship into a family conflict.
  
  The story does not establish the full nature or future of their relationship.
• Eljin — Bennett is indirectly connected to Eljin through the Beaumont household.
  
  When Bella hears a second laugh while Bennett is watching a horror movie, Bennett identifies the sound as coming from Eljin. This suggests that Bennett is familiar with the strange teddy bear and does not necessarily find its presence unusual.
• Raker Beaumont — Bennett is connected to the wider Beaumont family history surrounding Raker, although their direct relationship is not explored in detail.

Hobbies

• Bennett's hobbies are not extensively established. Known activities include:
• Spending time with Chelsea.
• Watching horror movies.
• Spending time around the Beaumont house.
• Socializing with others.
• Participating in family life.
• His interest in horror movies is particularly notable given that the Beaumont family itself contains supernatural elements.

Backstory

Bennett's childhood and early life are not established in detail.

He was born into the Beaumont family and therefore grew up within the same inherited system of traditions and supernatural rules affecting the rest of the family.

Unlike Bella, whose understanding of the curse develops during the story, Bennett appears to already exist within the family's established environment.

His early appearances make the Beaumont household look relatively ordinary. He has relationships, watches movies, interacts with family members, and gets into the kinds of trouble that might occur in any family.

One of the clearest examples is his relationship with Chelsea.

Bennett is caught with Chelsea by Benjamin, creating a confrontation inside the Beaumont household. The incident establishes Bennett as someone who is willing to make personal choices even when those choices may conflict with family expectations.

His appearance also changes dramatically later in the story.

Bella sees Bennett after he has become bald, with tattoos and scriptures covering his head. The tattoos are connected to the Black Templars, adding another unexplained element to Bennett's character and suggesting that his life may involve forces outside the Beaumont family.

Despite these strange developments, Bennett continues to exist within the family household.

Later, when Bella returns home, Bennett is absent. When he eventually returns, he casually discovers that Bella has a male friend, Lucas. His reaction shows that he had previously thought of Bella as something of a loner.

This interaction becomes important because Lucas's presence eventually brings the Beaumont family's supernatural plans into motion.

Bennett is therefore positioned in an interesting place within the family: he is not the person explaining the curse, nor is he the primary person controlling Bella. Instead, he is one of the younger family members living inside the same strange system while maintaining pieces of an apparently ordinary life.

His relationship with Chelsea, interest in horror, unusual tattoos, and connection to the Black Templars suggest that there is considerably more to Bennett's story than the chapters have currently revealed.

Trivia

• Bennett is one of the Beaumont family members who initially helps make the family appear relatively ordinary.
• He is caught with Chelsea by Benjamin.
• His relationship with Chelsea creates conflict inside the family.
• Bennett watches horror movies.
• Bella hears another laugh while Bennett is watching a horror movie, and he identifies it as Eljin.
• Bennett later appears bald with tattoos and scriptures covering his head.
• The tattoos are connected to the Black Templars.
• His appearance change is one of the more visually dramatic changes among the Beaumont family.
• Bennett initially seems to view Bella as a loner and is surprised when he learns that she has a male friend.
• He is one of the people living inside the Beaumont household while much of the family's supernatural activity remains hidden from Bella.
• His personal life appears considerably more ordinary than the activities of Bianca and some of the older Beaumonts.
• His exact age is not established.
• His relationship to the deeper Beaumont curse is not fully explained.
• The reason for his connection to the Black Templars is not established.
• His tattoos may be significant, but their exact purpose is currently unknown.
• Bennett represents the younger-generation Beaumont who lives inside the family system without necessarily being defined entirely by it.