Basic Profile

Age : Unknown

Affiliation : Beaumont Family

Status : Deceased / supernatural presence

Role : Former Beaumont family member, investigator of the curse's origin, ancestor whose presence remains connected to the family

Personality

Traits

• Independent: Raker refused to conform completely to Beaumont expectations.
• Curious: Unlike many family members who simply accepted the curse, Raker wanted to understand where it came from.
• Defiant: He refused to change his name to fit the Beaumont family's B-name tradition.
• Intelligent: His investigation into the curse suggests an ability to question the explanations accepted by previous generations.
• Determined: Raker continued investigating the curse despite the dangers associated with it.
• Rebellious: His refusal to follow family traditions made him unusual within the Beaumont bloodline.
• Fearless: He was willing to investigate something that the rest of the family had learned to survive rather than confront.
• Secretive: Whatever Raker discovered was important enough that its details remain hidden.
• Persistent: His attempt to understand the curse appears to have continued beyond what most Beaumonts were willing to do.
• Unconventional: His refusal to accept the family's naming tradition demonstrates that he was unwilling to let tradition completely determine his identity.

Flaws

• Defiant: His refusal to follow certain family rules may have put himself and others at risk.
• Obsessive: His search for the origin of the curse appears to have become a significant part of his life.
• Secretive: Whatever he discovered was not openly passed down to the entire family.
• Questioned dangerous forces: Investigating the curse's origin potentially brought him closer to the supernatural danger surrounding the Beaumonts.
• Rejected tradition: His resistance to the family system may have created conflict with other Beaumonts.
• Possibly underestimated what he found: The fact that his discovery remains mysterious suggests that understanding the curse may have consequences of its own.

Motivations

• Discover the origin of the Beaumont curse.
• Understand why the curse exists.
• Challenge the family's assumption that obedience is the only way to survive.
• Discover whether the curse could actually be understood or defeated.
• Establish his own identity outside the family's naming traditions.
• Leave knowledge behind for future Beaumont generations.

Hates

• Raker's specific personal dislikes are not established. His actions clearly show a rejection of:
• Blind obedience to Beaumont traditions.
• Accepting the curse without questioning it.
• Having his identity controlled by family conventions.
• Remaining ignorant about the family's origins.

Strengths

• Strong independent thinking.
• Courage to investigate the curse.
• Intellectual curiosity.
• Determination.
• Willingness to challenge established family beliefs.
• Strong sense of personal identity.
• Possessed knowledge that later generations still consider important.

Fears

• Raker's specific fears are not established. However, his actions suggest that he was concerned about:
• The Beaumont family remaining trapped by the curse forever.
• The family never discovering where the curse originated.
• Future generations being forced to repeat the same traditions without understanding them.
• Whatever deeper truth lies behind the curse.

Relationships

• Bianca Beaumont — Bianca refers to Raker as “Grandpa Raker.”
  
  This establishes a direct family connection between them and shows that Raker belongs to an older generation of the Beaumont bloodline.
  
  Bianca also recognizes his supernatural presence when a shadow appears during the failed ritual. When the shadow approaches, Bianca identifies it as Raker and says: “It’s me.” The shadow pauses and pulls away.
  
  This suggests that Raker's relationship with Bianca continues in some form even after his death.
• Bella Beaumont — Raker is one of Bella's ancestors and therefore part of the inherited history behind her curse.
  
  His attempts to understand the curse are particularly relevant to Bella because she is destined to inherit the same system.
  
  Raker's refusal to simply accept the family's traditions provides a contrast to Bella's own struggle with the life she has inherited.
• Becca Beaumont — Becca knows about Raker's investigation.
  
  She tells Bella that Raker refused to follow the traditional naming system and attempted to discover the origin of the Beaumont curse.
  
  According to Becca, Raker found something. However, Becca does not reveal what he found. This makes Raker one of the most important sources of unanswered information in the family's history.
• Beatrice Beaumont — Beatrice is also aware of Raker's history and place within the Beaumont family.
  
  As one of the family's keepers of historical knowledge, she belongs to the generation that preserves information about what Raker attempted to discover.
• Benjamin Beaumont — Benjamin belongs to the Beaumont line that inherited the consequences of Raker's actions and discoveries.
  
  His direct relationship with Raker is not extensively explored.
• Beth Beaumont — Beth is part of the later Beaumont generation living under the same curse Raker investigated.
  
  Her exact relationship with Raker is not established beyond their shared family bloodline.
• Bennett Beaumont — Bennett is another descendant of the Beaumont family affected by the traditions and curse that Raker questioned.
  
  Their direct relationship is not established.
• Elsa Beaumont — Elsa is also part of the Beaumont bloodline, although her existence is deliberately hidden from parts of the family.
  
  Her unusual position makes Raker's history particularly interesting because both characters exist outside the family's normal expectations in different ways.
• The Beaumont Family — Raker's relationship with the Beaumont family is defined by conflict.
  
  The family has survived by following traditions and learning the rules of the curse. Raker wanted to know why those rules existed in the first place.
  
  His refusal to conform makes him one of the family's most important historical dissidents.

Hobbies

• Raker's personal hobbies are not established. His strongest known interests were:
• Investigating the Beaumont Curse: His central and most clearly established pursuit.
• Studying Family History: He looked into the history of the Beaumont family.
• Searching for the Origin of the Curse: He wanted to know where the curse came from.
• Questioning Beaumont Traditions: He challenged the rules the family had accepted.
• Investigating Supernatural Phenomena: He looked into the supernatural forces surrounding the family.
• Pursuing Knowledge: He sought answers that other family members were willing to leave unexplored.

Backstory

Raker Beaumont was born into the Beaumont family and lived under the same curse that has controlled generations of the bloodline.

However, Raker was different from many Beaumonts.

The family has a tradition of giving its children names beginning with the letter B.

Raker refused to follow it.

Rather than changing his identity to fit the family's expectations, he kept the name Raker.

His refusal was more than a naming disagreement. It represented his broader unwillingness to accept Beaumont traditions without questioning them.

At some point in his life, Raker began investigating the Beaumont curse itself.

The family had already developed a method of survival: obey the rules, preserve the bloodline, maintain the traditions, and avoid breaking the conditions imposed upon them.

Raker wanted something different.

He wanted to know where the curse came from.

According to Becca, Raker eventually found something during his investigation.

Exactly what he found remains unknown.

The family has preserved the fact that he discovered something without preserving — or revealing — the complete explanation of what it was.

Raker eventually died, but death did not completely separate him from the Beaumont family.

During the ritual performed on Lucas, something goes wrong.

After the ritual fails, the basement becomes violently supernatural. The candles extinguish, the temperature drops, the lights flicker, and a violent wind moves through the room.

A shadow appears.

Bianca recognizes it immediately.

“Grandpa Raker.”

She tells him that it is her.

The shadow pauses before pulling away, apparently recognizing Bianca.

The supernatural presence then disappears from her immediate vicinity before eventually moving across Benevide and entering him.

This establishes that Raker is not simply a name in Beaumont history.

Something connected to him remains capable of appearing within the family.

His exact relationship to the shadow is not fully explained. It is not established whether the shadow is literally Raker's spirit, an aspect of him, or something using his appearance.

What is established is that Bianca recognizes it as Raker and that the entity responds to her.

Raker's story therefore remains unfinished.

He spent his life attempting to understand the curse, discovered something important, and died without the full truth becoming known.

Yet his presence continues to appear when the Beaumont family's supernatural system begins to break down.

Trivia

• Raker is a member of the Beaumont bloodline.
• Bianca refers to him as “Grandpa Raker.”
• Raker deliberately refused to follow the Beaumont tradition of B-names.
• His name is therefore one of the notable exceptions to the family naming tradition.
• His refusal to change his name reflects his broader resistance to Beaumont traditions.
• Raker attempted to discover the origin of the Beaumont curse.
• Becca states that Raker found something during his investigation.
• The nature of his discovery has not yet been revealed.
• Raker's investigation makes him one of the few Beaumonts known to actively question the curse itself.
• The family generally survives by learning the curse's rules; Raker wanted to understand where those rules came from.
• Raker is deceased by the time of the main events.
• Despite being dead, a supernatural shadow associated with him appears during the failed ritual.
• Bianca immediately identifies the shadow as Raker.
• Bianca says “It’s me” to the shadow.
• The shadow pauses after recognizing Bianca.
• Raker's connection to the shadow is not fully explained.
• It is not established whether the shadow is literally Raker's spirit.
• Raker's discovery may be connected to the deeper origin of the Beaumont curse, but this remains unconfirmed.
• His existence provides a direct contrast to Beatrice and Becca: while they preserve and teach the family's knowledge, Raker attempted to question the system itself.
• Raker's refusal to accept his assigned identity makes his name itself a small act of rebellion against the family.
• His most important unanswered question is: What exactly did Raker find?
• His most important thematic role is that of the Beaumont who refused to accept that “this is simply how things are.”