#beatrixbio

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NAME: Beatrix “Bee” Golan AGE: 18 SPECIES: Mutant. ABILITY: Enhanced Senses GENDER & PRONOUNS: Cis female, She/Her/Hers. OCCUPATION: Archivist for the Arcadia Police Station. FACECLAIM: Kathryn Prescott BACKGROUND:

Whatever made Bee the way she was, it didn’t come from Elsie and Theodore Golan.

They were a normal couple in a perfectly normal suburban town, and all they wanted was a normal future with normal children. Until Bee came along, that dream was achieved word for word. Their first child, Brandon, was ordinary, just like they’d wanted. He frolicked about, riding his bicycle around town and eating ice cream with his schoolmates after baseball practice.

When their second child came along a few years later, a pale, sickly little thing that they named Beatrix, it took a while for them to figure out that something was wrong. The baby didn’t like silly noises being made at them, high-tech toys that lit up brightly, even being laid in her crib. She was hurt easily, cried easily, went almost hysteric when brought into large public areas. Puzzled and worried for their daughter’s health, the Golans clung to the only explanation that seemed logical to them: Beatrix is poorly. She was born with a weak immune system.

Bryan, the Golans’ third (and last) kid was, like their first, nothing short of normal. Which made their middle child stand out all the more.

Bee found herself an outcast from her schoolfellows from a young age. She avoided pupils that were sick with the flu as if it were the Black Death, and refused to touch the cafeteria food (“It tastes like aluminum canning!”). The smallest of collisions gave her severe bruises, and she and insisted on wearing earplugs at all times— even during lessons, claiming that her ears hurt. Being sociable and bright was in her nature, but this other thing— this thing that made her jumpy and breakable, she had no idea what it was. But it forced her to stand back from others her age. From a normal life.

It built up to a point where the girl, aged eight, entered a crowded store with her mother and a severe sensory overload episode took over. The Golans took her to the hospital, where the doctors tried but could find no other explanation than the lie they had told themselves for the past decade: that she was just naturally unwell.

A few years later, when it all seemed to have returned to normal, a government official came to the Golan family’s home. He claimed to be part of a medical regimen seeking to heal people like her, and though it was a difficult decision, Elsie and Theodore finally agreed that sending the girl away for “treatment” was the best thing to do (not that it was their choice, really).

Bee was brought to Arcadia at the young age of ten, a little girl dragging a stuffed rabbit behind her with one hand and a half-packed suitcase in the other. Initially she pined for home, for family, for friends that she’d left behind, but over time, she found herself becoming more and more used to this new environment. The others alongside her looked out for her, treated her kindly, and helped her to deal with her powers (not odd health issues, but powers) and the girl grew up happy. Bee was taught to be proud, to accept who she was— Arcadia being a large part of that.

After taking up several odd jobs, she sought to make herself useful by joining the police force, but after being unable to pass many of the tests, managed to land herself a place as an archivist instead. When not roaming the archive halls, Bee can be found purchasing little bits of this and that in the local stores, working to try her hand at new activities, and wandering through the park.

TRAITS: Determined, Perceptive, Warm-Hearted, Vulnerable, Excitable, Childish

AVAILABILITY: Taken by Soomin