Basic Profile

Age : 41

Affiliation : Beaumont Family

Status : Alive

Role : Beaumont family mother; participant in the family's curse and traditions; guardian of the family's secrets; participant in the ritual performed on Lucas

Personality

Traits

• Controlling.
• Secretive.
• Highly protective of the Beaumont family's traditions.
• Emotionally restrained.
• Intelligent and observant.
• Comfortable withholding information from others.
• Capable of appearing warm and welcoming when necessary.
• Manipulative when she believes circumstances require it.
• Authoritative within the household.
• Highly conscious of the family's hierarchy and expectations.
• Comfortable dealing with supernatural events that would terrify an ordinary person.
• Willing to make difficult decisions without openly displaying guilt.
• Possesses a strong understanding of the Beaumont family's darker traditions.
• Pragmatic rather than sentimental when dealing with family matters.
• Capable of maintaining an ordinary domestic atmosphere while something disturbing is happening underneath it.
• Particularly hostile toward people she believes threaten the family's established order.

Flaws

• Controlling.
• Manipulative.
• Secretive to the point of deception.
• Willing to involve other people in dangerous supernatural events without their informed consent.
• Can be emotionally cold.
• Places family traditions above individual choice.
• Has difficulty accepting people who challenge the Beaumont system.
• Can become hostile toward family members who reveal information she wants kept hidden.
• Treats obedience as more important than understanding.
• Her desire to control outcomes can cause her to underestimate forces she does not fully understand.
• Has previously treated a child as part of a ritual rather than simply as a child.
• Can maintain a false sense of normality even while participating in disturbing events.

Motivations

• Protecting the Beaumont family.
• Preserving the Beaumont bloodline.
• Maintaining the family's traditions.
• Keeping Bella within the structure of the Beaumont curse.
• Preventing outsiders from interfering with the family's affairs.
• Controlling who teaches Bella about the curse.
• Protecting the secrets surrounding the family's supernatural history.
• Ensuring that the Beaumont traditions continue into the next generation.
• Understanding or controlling supernatural forces connected to the family.
• Preventing people such as Becca from influencing Bella in ways Bianca considers dangerous.
• Maintaining her position within the family.

Hates

• Becca.
• People interfering with the Beaumont family.
• Having family secrets exposed.
• Disobedience.
• Losing control of a situation.
• People questioning established family traditions.
• Bella being influenced by outsiders.
• The possibility of the family losing control over its bloodline.
• Being reminded of previous failures.
• Anyone threatening the continuation of the Beaumont family's system.

Strengths

• Highly knowledgeable about Beaumont traditions.
• Strong-willed.
• Decisive.
• Manipulative when necessary.
• Able to remain calm during supernatural events.
• Capable of organizing other family members.
• Understands the importance of secrecy.
• Comfortable taking responsibility during dangerous situations.
• Able to maintain composure under extreme pressure.
• Skilled at presenting different personalities depending on who she is speaking to.
• Has significant influence within the Beaumont household.
• Willing to act rather than simply discuss a problem.

Fears

• The Beaumont bloodline failing.
• Losing control over Bella's future.
• The curse becoming stronger.
• Family traditions being abandoned.
• Outsiders discovering the family's secrets.
• Becca gaining too much influence over Bella.
• The supernatural forces surrounding the family becoming uncontrollable.
• Another failure similar to what happened with Blair.
• The possibility that the family does not actually understand the curse as well as it believes.
• Losing her position within the Beaumont family.

Relationships

• Bella Beaumont — Bella is Bianca's daughter.
  
  Bianca's relationship with Bella is one of the most complicated relationships in the story because Bianca is simultaneously her mother and one of the people helping prepare her for the Beaumont curse.
  
  Bianca does care about Bella in the sense that she considers Bella part of the family and therefore part of something that must be protected and preserved.
  
  However, Bianca's idea of protection is fundamentally different from Bella's.
  
  Bella wants freedom, understanding, and the ability to choose who she trusts.
  
  Bianca believes in maintaining the family structure.
  
  She therefore attempts to control the circumstances surrounding Bella's introduction to the curse.
  
  Her hostility toward Becca is partly connected to this. Bianca does not want someone she distrusts shaping Bella's understanding of the family.
  
  The conflict between them becomes increasingly important as Bella begins questioning her family's behavior.
• Benjamin Beaumont — Benjamin is Bianca's husband and Bella's father.
  
  Their relationship appears outwardly functional, but Bianca frequently takes the more controlling role.
  
  She can persuade Benjamin to stay home when she believes she needs his help.
  
  She also communicates information to him about family matters and expects him to participate when the family requires it.
  
  During the events surrounding Lucas, Benjamin follows Bianca's instructions and helps carry out the family's plan.
  
  Their relationship therefore operates as a partnership within the Beaumont family structure.
• Beatrice Beaumont — Beatrice represents an older generation of Beaumont knowledge.
  
  Bianca respects the family's established traditions but strongly disagrees with some of the people chosen to pass those traditions down.
  
  Beatrice's decision to involve Becca in Bella's education becomes a major source of Bianca's hostility.
  
  Bianca believes she could teach Bella better herself.
  
  This reveals Bianca's possessive attitude toward Bella's development.
• Becca Beaumont — Becca is one of Bianca's strongest points of conflict.
  
  Bianca openly dislikes her.
  
  She believes Becca's involvement in teaching Bella threatens Bianca's influence over her daughter.
  
  Bianca also believes Becca has intentions that could damage the family.
  
  Their conflict is therefore larger than a simple personal disagreement.
  
  It represents two different approaches to the Beaumont curse:
  
  Bianca wants control. Becca appears more interested in understanding and teaching.
• Beth Beaumont — Beth is another member of the Beaumont household.
  
  Bianca gives Beth direct instructions during the events surrounding Lucas and Bella.
  
  When Bella and Lucas collapse after dinner, Bianca immediately tells Beth to prepare for the trip to the Beaumont family house.
  
  Beth follows her instructions.
  
  Their relationship demonstrates Bianca's authority within the family.
• Bennett Beaumont — Bennett is part of Bianca's immediate family circle.
  
  He participates in the Beaumont household and appears to understand at least some of the family's strange circumstances.
  
  Bianca's relationship with him is not explored as deeply as her relationship with Bella or Benjamin, but he remains part of the family structure Bianca helps maintain.
• Raker Beaumont — Raker is one of the Beaumont ancestors connected to the deeper history of the curse.
  
  Bianca's relationship with his legacy is particularly important because Raker represents someone who attempted to understand the curse rather than simply accept its traditions.
  
  His refusal to follow certain Beaumont customs makes him an unusual figure in the family's history.
  
  During the ritual in Chapter 10, Bianca recognizes the supernatural shadow as Grandpa Raker.
  
  Her immediate response is not confusion about who he is.
  
  She speaks to him directly:
  
  "It's me."
  
  This suggests that Raker's presence and history are known intimately within the family.
• Baldwin Beaumont — Baldwin is another Beaumont ancestor mentioned during the failed ritual.
  
  According to Becca, Baldwin had already set his eyes on Lucas and was somehow protecting him.
  
  This is particularly significant because it means Bianca's ritual may have been opposed by something within the Beaumont family's own supernatural history.
• Lucas Asterisk — Lucas becomes the target of Bianca's most significant action in the first ten chapters.
  
  At first, she treats him as Bella's guest.
  
  She participates in creating a seemingly normal family dinner.
  
  But the dinner is part of a plan.
  
  Lucas collapses after drinking and is taken to the Beaumont family house.
  
  Bianca participates in the ritual intended to affect him.
  
  The ritual fails.
  
  Lucas remains himself.
  
  Bianca is visibly disturbed by this because the result contradicts what the family expected.
  
  Her reaction reveals that she understands enough about the ritual to recognize that something has gone seriously wrong.
  
  Lucas therefore becomes more than Bella's friend.
  
  He becomes an unexplained variable in the Beaumont curse.
• Blair — Blair is one of the darkest pieces of Bianca's history.
  
  While speaking with the supernatural entity in the isolated house, Bianca is confronted about Blair.
  
  Bianca describes Blair as a mistake and says that the child was meant to be a sacrifice.
  
  This reveals something extremely important about Bianca.
  
  Her willingness to sacrifice an individual for the purposes of the family or its supernatural system is not merely theoretical.
  
  She has already been involved in something like this before.
  
  The reference to Blair also suggests that Bianca's actions surrounding Lucas are part of a much longer history of attempting to manipulate supernatural forces.

Hobbies

• Bianca's personal hobbies are not established in the first ten chapters. However, her behavior shows that she spends considerable time:
• Maintaining the household.
• Managing family affairs.
• Studying or participating in Beaumont traditions.
• Preparing for family gatherings.
• Maintaining the family's secrets.
• Participating in rituals.
• Communicating with supernatural entities.
• Managing situations involving Bella.
• Preparing food and maintaining an appearance of normal family life.

Backstory

Bianca Beaumont is introduced as a member of the Beaumont family and Bella's mother.

At first, her role could easily be mistaken for that of a conventional mother.

She lives with Benjamin and Bella.

She participates in household routines.

She interacts with her family.

She prepares meals.

She maintains the appearance of an ordinary home.

But Bianca has a second life beneath that ordinary appearance.

She knows about the Beaumont curse.

She understands the family's traditions.

She knows that Bella is approaching the point where she must learn the truth about the family.

And she does not want that process to happen without her influence.

Bianca's hostility becomes particularly obvious when Beatrice explains that Becca has been chosen to teach Bella about the Beaumont family.

Bianca strongly dislikes Becca.

She believes she would be a better teacher.

This conflict reveals how seriously Bianca takes her influence over Bella.

She does not simply want Bella to learn the family history.

She wants to control how Bella understands it.

Bianca's darker side becomes even clearer when she is seen alone in an isolated house in Cliffland Woods.

The house contains a basement prepared for something unusual.

There are candles.

A table for two.

A normal chair.

And an ancient carved chair.

Bianca speaks to an unseen entity.

Her conversation reveals that she is not merely aware of supernatural forces.

She is comfortable communicating with them.

She discusses Bella.

She expresses her dislike of her own daughter.

The entity reminds Bianca of Blair.

Bianca describes Blair as a mistake.

The child had been intended to be a sacrifice.

This establishes one of the darkest aspects of Bianca's character:

she is willing to view human lives through the logic of ritual and sacrifice.

Later, Bianca returns to the Beaumont household and continues behaving as though everything is normal.

This ability to compartmentalize becomes one of her defining characteristics.

She can discuss supernatural traditions one moment and participate in ordinary family life the next.

When Lucas becomes involved with Bella, Bianca initially accepts his presence.

She allows him to sit at the dinner table.

She participates in the family meal.

Everything appears normal.

But the normality is manufactured.

Lucas and Bella are unaware that the family has another purpose for the evening.

After Lucas drinks, he suddenly becomes ill and collapses.

Bella collapses shortly afterward.

Bianca immediately shifts into action.

She instructs Benjamin to take Bella to the car.

She tells Beth to prepare for the family house.

There is no visible panic.

No confusion.

No attempt to call for help.

Bianca behaves as though the next stage of the plan has already been decided.

The family travels for hours to the Beaumont family house.

Other relatives are already there.

Upstairs, the atmosphere remains strangely ordinary.

People eat.

Children talk.

Family members discuss normal things.

Meanwhile, preparations are being made downstairs.

Lucas is taken into the basement.

Eight Beaumont family members form a circle around him.

Bianca leads the ritual.

She chants in a language Bella does not understand.

The others join her.

The purpose of the ritual is not fully explained, but the family's reaction afterward makes it clear that they expected something to happen to Lucas.

A tall shadow appears behind him.

It enters his body.

But Lucas does not change.

When Bianca asks who he is, Lucas answers simply:

"I'm Lucas Asterisk."

The reaction is immediate.

The family panics.

The ritual has failed.

Becca argues that something was done incorrectly.

The family discusses Baldwin and the possibility that he had already chosen or protected Lucas.

Bianca is confronted with something she cannot control.

Then the supernatural disturbance begins.

The candles extinguish.

The temperature drops.

The lights flicker.

A violent wind tears through the basement.

Benevide is thrown into a wall.

A shadow appears.

Bianca recognizes it.

Grandpa Raker.

She speaks to him as though she knows exactly who she is addressing.

The shadow eventually disappears.

The wind stops.

But Bella and Lucas have already escaped.

Bianca's carefully controlled situation has collapsed.

She brought Lucas into the family house.

She participated in the ritual.

She expected the Beaumont system to produce a particular result.

Instead, something older and less predictable intervened.

And Bella escaped with Lucas.

This makes Bianca's position at the end of Chapter 10 particularly interesting.

She still possesses knowledge.

She still has the family behind her.

She still understands traditions that Bella does not.

But she has lost control of the immediate situation.

Her daughter is gone.

Lucas is still unchanged.

Raker has manifested.

And the ritual has produced more questions than answers.

Trivia

• Bianca is one of the characters who appears capable of switching between an ordinary domestic personality and a much darker supernatural one.
• She can prepare dinner for a guest while simultaneously participating in a plan to use that guest in a ritual.
• Her dislike of Becca is unusually strong compared with her relationships with other family members.
• Bianca believes she would be a better person to teach Bella about the Beaumont family.
• Her history with Blair suggests that her involvement with supernatural sacrifice predates the events involving Lucas.
• Bianca once referred to Blair as a mistake and stated that the child was supposed to be a sacrifice.
• She communicates with an unseen supernatural entity in Cliffland Woods.
• The entity knows about Bianca's past, meaning Bianca cannot completely control the information surrounding her own actions.
• Bianca appears to understand supernatural events that Bella finds confusing.
• She does not react with surprise when Lucas collapses after dinner.
• Instead, she immediately begins giving instructions.
• She is one of the people directly responsible for bringing Lucas to the Beaumont family house.
• Bianca participates in the ritual performed on Lucas.
• She expects the ritual to produce a transformation or other significant change in him.
• When Lucas remains himself, Bianca is among the family members most disturbed by the result.
• She recognizes the shadow of Raker immediately.
• Her words "It's me" suggest a much deeper connection to Raker than has yet been explained.
• Bianca's greatest weakness may be the same thing that makes her powerful: she believes the Beaumont family understands its own rules.
• The failed ritual demonstrates that the supernatural forces surrounding the family may operate according to rules even Bianca does not understand.
• Her relationship with Bella represents one of the story's central conflicts: a mother trying to protect/control her daughter versus a daughter increasingly trying to choose her own path.
• Bianca does not simply represent the Beaumont curse.
• She represents the generation that keeps the curse alive.