Beatrix Heller

Speaker Beatrix Reagan Heller

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

She knows how to keep up with a fight and exercises quite often, which gives her athletic figure.  However while her normal stats as strength, agility and speed are fine her endurance is diminished by her decease. Which is mostly kept under control but if she experiments sharp changes of weather she will loose a lot of her battle potential and might even be in a difficult situation to defend herself.
This has made her evaluate her limits and she will try to stop before any of this causes a problem for her health.

Body Features

Beatrix has an athletic complexion, with marked muscles and broad shoulders and hips. She has toned legs and her abs are visible, a patch of lighter skin makes a symbol on her collarbone, which is her Bonding Mark. Her hair is long and curly, never loosing its shine and smoothness. 
Always wearing long earrings she has pierced her ears in different heights. She likes to have her hair down and it sometimes covers her shoulders. Her face is pretty but thanks to her harsh expression Tamers don't tend to hold her glance too long on her, her eyebrows are almost always frowned.
She moves with confidence and her way of walking tells her determination and that she knows what she is doing. Lastly she looks bigger than she is thanks to her image.

Facial Features

Diamond shaped jaw, with striking, harsh, and red eyes. Her eyebrows and black and long, always frowning; her skin has a nice glow to it and looks healthy. Some curls are always covering her forehead and her ears have more than one earring most of the time. Beatrix posses a long yet slim nose and her cheeks have a slight blush to them all the time.
Quite different to usual Shadow Tamer features her cheekbones are slightly visible and her ears are round, her eyelashes are thick and she has a small scar on her chin. She has an attractive yet weird appeal that can sometimes be confusing.

Identifying Characteristics

Her bonding mark makes her quite easy to recognize, but the scar on her chin also stands out. Due to her appearance others tend to think that she has blood from different types of Tamers, which was proven to be wrong but is still a first impression.

Physical quirks

Beatrix keeps her reactions in control but whenever she is focused and relaxed she sticks out her tongues without realizing.

Special abilities

Beatrix knows many spells on Shadow Magic, however she always loved the thruthspeak charm, even if she won't use it that much. She knows how to canalize the highest potential of most of her attack spells and uses shadowtraveling easily. Still she always felt limited as Bloodlinks can never be explored, so she searched for other ways to make her powers more impressive.
This lead to her learning many spells that are completed by her Familiar and even some others that are potentiated by other kinds of magic. Finally she has been working to start the battle fusing process with Sunny.

Apparel & Accessories

Beatrix's wardrobe is mixes and while she likes to wear black the colors complementing it will vary. She likes to wear light dresses but usually chooses pants to be comfortable to fight or react quickly. She doesn't like leather that much and will prefer soft cloth. Outside of this she is given to wear jewelry from all over Myridiam, even if it is slightly extravagant.
She wears various earrings at a time and its not weird to see her wearing bracelets, necklaces or rings to go with them, she also liked to wear tall but comfortable shoes, even if she doesn't have another option than to take those made out of leather. Sometimes she wears hair pins to keep her hair out of her face when training.

Specialized Equipment

Beatrix has a bag with all kind of strange artifact that turn out to be far more useful than one would usually believe. Going from what might mix a compass with a dagger to food that either she or Sunny will enjoy eating. Being prepared for anything but slowly her down thanks to its weight.
Fortunately, the fact that the bag can also be attached to Sunsnout helps her most of the time they choose to carry it.

Mental characteristics

Gender Identity

Cisgender female who absolutely hates gender roles.

Sexuality

Beatrix is a lesbian, and realized it at a young age.

Education

Beatrix had a governess looking after her and giving her lessons since a young age, when she left Krait islets she had her Bonding Ceremony so she was assigned to a boarding school. Once she started her years of training Beatrix decided to do the best of it, and she complemented her studies by receiving a war refugee at her house. This experience made her realize many things that she didn't thought wee possible, while helping her parents who worked as diplomats at the time.
When she finished her school years she got out as the second most promising student, and when mentors were going to be selected she met Anari and Mahina, they were chosen quickly and got excellent mentor. When she finished her training she decided to take a year off but she never stopped practicing her magic, enjoying to spend time with Sunsnout and exercising in general.

Employment

When Beatrix's mentor told her she was ready she decided to take a year to arrange and visit her parents' old merchant routes, there she finally lived a journey she had longed for since she had memory. After returning home she decided to settle down and search for something to dedicate her time to, at first she tried to be a mentor, but after concluding her first experience she decided that it wasn't for her.
Luckily, when she was still debating on what to try next the applications for Speaker were opened, and without a doubt Beatrix started to reunite all the requirements to be chosen. After passing through the trials she was surprised to meet Mahina there, although she didn't seem to remember her that much. 
As a Speaker Beatrix is one of the bests, she knows how to get her points across and will pick her battles. The Council of Whispers respects her opinions and she finally gets to help her Magical Division to try and dissipate the prejudice that is so rooted in Tamer culture. As a war ally Beatrix is a good strategist and knows how to lead a battle, not letting her feelings get in the way and trying to be as practical as possible.

Accomplishments & Achievements

• Beatrix was the second most promising student at her Boarding School
• Her mentor is known to be demanding and considers her his best apprentice.
• She traveled down one of the most dangerous merchant routes in Myridiam.
• She passed the Speaker trials.
• When she had to earn the approval of the Shadow Selector, the General and the Stone Keeper she managed to get them in a short period of time.
• Beatrix was capable of swimming on Midnight Lake and not getting lost on it's waters when she was completing the trials for Speaker of Siskli.
• She convinced both the Sun Selector and the past Soul Stone Keeper to side with them in the Rifting Skirmish.
• The battle that gave the Openers Rift City was planned by her.

Failures & Embarrassments

• When Claire stayed at her place Beatrix feels stupid about letting her get to her head.
• She feels guilty about what happened to Mahina but won't admit it.
• With Anari's death she wouldn't dare to contact or see her daughter.
• Beatrix regrets screaming to Enaiid at the trials since she thinks that she could have been friendlier with Klaus and Mahina.
• When Sielu's hairpin was stolen and the spell was cast she thinks she failed terribly.

Mental Trauma

Her parents absence always weighted on the Tamer when she was young, but she understood it and just wished for an opportunity to join them. When they became diplomats she still felt lonely and when Claire arrived she clung to her even without realizing. This lead up to her resenting her absence and having a hard time letting her feelings disappear.
Years later when she though she had already put the past behind her they met again and while it wasn't as intense as before this emotions resurfaced and Beatrix finally managed to deal with them correctly. Allowing her to grow as a person and focus on that while meeting new people and trying to fix relationships than dwelling on the lost ones.
Alas, she has been going through a hard time since the war started and she lost Mahina and Anari, trying to get over the guilt and mourning to stop something like this to happen ever again.

Intellectual Characteristics

Possessing a quick wit and focusing on solving problems, she will analyze different options but once she chose one there is no way of convincing her otherwise. She keeps her cool in almost any situation and isn't given to react impulsively or aggressively, choosing her movements carefully.
Trying to always be a step ahead she will always separate her life and businesses from her work, trying to be as open minded as she can and relying on her instincts and experiences to guide her on what to do about a situation or a person. She is quick to see hidden intentions and will always be prepared for a potential stab on the back.
With a mostly logical reasoning she will have a harder time to understand why others "overreact" at some situations, however if they dare to take the problems outside of work ambit then they are in for a wild ride. Since she doesn't mind other having a different point of view, but messing with her issues is where she draws the line.

Morality & Philosophy

Siskli's Speaker hates prejudice and will believe that every person is their own case, making her own impression on them with what she has seen. She believes that what happened is important to teach us what should be done and is constantly thinking about the future.
This is reflected when she comments that what matters is trying to solve the issues we have now instead of mourning over the ones we can't fix or the ones that already happened. She also thinks that lives should be places as the higher priority and won't mind unconventional solutions.
Still she likes to follow the rules and considers them important to give everyone the same opportunities and rights, believing that equality is the foundation of respect and that it should always be prioritized.

Taboos

She doesn't mind about what other people do, saying it is each persons business as long as it doesn't get other in the way. The only thing that triggers her would be the racism towards Shadow Tamers, which she has been trying to fix all her life.

Personality Characteristics

Motivation

Beatrix always considered equality to be her biggest goal alongside achieving the best version of herself. The first one was implemented thanks to all the discrimination that Shadow Tamers live each day, which she wanted to eradicate. But with what she had learned from her history books the way to do it wasn't though violence.
When the chance was given she took without a doubt and she is still trying to clear her Magical Division's name by being a role model and the best Speaker and person she can be. Changing people's point of view before changing the world. Constantly thinking about what future has in store and how to make it happen instead of focusing on past events that can't be dealt with.

Savvies & Ineptitudes

Savvies: Beatrix knows how to get a good deal and is aware of almost everything that happens with Tamer trading or market. She also has good travelling abilities and is quick to adapt to new places; quite good at arguments she knows how to lead it and get her point across. She also has good diplomatic abilities and can tell an object's price and origin, realizing if its a copy or falsification. Good with sports and quite a good memory the Speaker has a lot of knowledge on history and its hidden implication.
Ineptitudes: Always skeptical Beatrix never liked astrology and future prediction, thinking of it an useless. And believing that the only way to dictate our future is by working for it. Thus she never practices this kind of magic and doesn't care about it much either. Beatrix needs to work on her facial expression since she always looks angered or at least annoyed, which might drive people away even when she isn't looking for it.

Likes & Dislikes

Likes:

• Travelling on trading routes.
• Steady relationships.
• Cuddling with Sunsnout
• Exercising and magic practice
• History that is yet to be discovered
• Her jewel and object collection
• Unique items
• Salty food
• Krait islets

Dislikes:

• Cold climates
• Hypocrites or persons with hidden intentions
• Prejudice or discrimination
• Interruptions while she speaks
• Baseless arguments
• Impulsive people
• Cowardice
• Leather

Virtues & Personality perks

With a goal in mind Beatrix will take the hard way if she thinks it is the right decision. Not scared of hard work or difficult times her mind is always focused on progress. She will use her strength to become her better version and achieve what is important to her while helping others in the process. Selfless and keeping her cool she is a great alley whose loyalty will never waver, even if she will express her disagreement. Once she compromised she will follow until the end.

Vices & Personality flaws

Headstrong and stubborn she will express her opinions and sometimes leave room for little to no reply. Always keeping her personal life to herself she is hard to get to know, and trying not to invade other peoples' space she sometimes seem to not care at all. Her inexpression doesn't help in the slightest and while she gives everyone a chance you will never get a second one. Finally she will be severe and even harsh if she notices someone with hidden intentions.

Personality Quirks

Beatrix can sometimes experience shivers if her disease gets to her, and even if she tries to keep them at bay sometimes they are strong enough to make her fall down.

Hygiene

With a soft and shiny appearance Beatrix takes great care of her hair, applying the same treatment to her skin which always seem to have a healthy glow. She always seems to be tidy and while she exercises frequently she takes good care of never attending anywhere with sweat.

Social

Contacts & Relations

Beatrix Heller has an intimidating effect wherever she goes. Which has won her many contacts both in the high and low societies, she has a good hand with merchants and knows most of the Selectors. The Speaker of Sielu also had a good relationship with Anari Streamhart, although the terms of it were not clear to the public.
She keeps close contact with her parents, which give her access to the diplomats and keeps the Shadow General in check. Finally she tries to remain neutral around the alliances in the Council of Whispers; even if she liked some Speakers better than others.

Family Ties

Always traveling her parents tried to make up for their absence by giving her daughter the best life they could. Claiming that she would accompany them as soon as she has the age, unfortunately this never happened, as the diplomat position and Beatrix's Bonding Ceremony pulled her life in another direction.
When the Hellers finally settled down in a new house it was the load of work that kept them apart. But with some help and a new perspective the young Tamer decided not to hold a grudge. Instead she focused on herself and what she wanted to accomplish, both in the Boarding School and as a person.
Years later, when her parents retired and she started to work as a Speaker Beatrix tried to avoid the same mistakes they did by dedicating her free time to her loved ones, getting to know her parents better than all those years ago. Creating a healthy relationship between the three of them.

Religious Views

The Speaker believes in the Fallen Witches but she never took the stories too seriously, appreciating the sacrifice they made but believing that people should focus on the future. As soon as she arrived to Boarding School however, she discovered the values that they portrayed and what they defended. Knowledge that inspired her much more than the legends themselves.
After leaving school she investigated the Fallen Witches and began to imagine her own little theories of what wasn't written on the history books.

Social Aptitude

If being a Shadow Tamer and the Speaker of Siskli didn't frighten people enough her stern eyes and frowning gesture most likely will. Always confident and proud Beatrix generates an aura of power every time she enters a room, thing that has lead her to learn how to blend in with the shadows and the crowd.
She has excellent etiquette and can make small talk whenever she needs to, even if she hasn't the slightest interest on it. Beatrix will never give details about herself and isn't uncomfortable by silence, preferring it to useless or just plain ridiculous talk. With cold politeness she will be direct when negotiating and will use any negotiation method she knows and considers appropriate to get what she needs.
This situation drastically changes whenever she is with someone she appreciated or of her personal life, with whom she will appear to be a totally different person. With the same confidence yet a playful smugness and a charming and charismatic talk that is complimented by her quick wit.

Mannerisms

Beatrix speaks as clearly as she cans and only after she has thought carefully how to express exactly what she wants to. Usually thought of as a person of little words people can be startled when they hear the intensity of her voice at certain moments. When she makes a point it is usually to end the discussion and her tone almost always leaves no room for a reply.

Hobbies & Pets

Pets:
Sunsnout is Beatrix's Familiar, and she is almost always on her hibernation state. Because although the Shadow Tamer feels guilty about it, a black bear roaming freely across ballrooms tends to get other Tamers on panic. No matter how sweet her Sunny is, luck is that she loves to sleep.
They have a strong bond and Beatrix still doesn't understand how her Familiar is such a nice spirit, being all the opposite of what you would expect of a bear. But this doesn't get in the way when the battle starts, since if you get on their bad side there is a high chance that you won't be making it out easily.
Hobbies:
As for hobbies Beatrix likes to collect items that she considers pretty or interesting, coming from all Myridiam. A custom that she picked from when her parents would send her gifts from their travels, each containing their own wonderful story.

Speech

Beatrix speaks Raydam properly and still keeps a slight accent from the Krai islets. Her tone is calm but imposing and she can make it sound firm or even aggressive without having the need of screaming. Keeping a medium voice level and never stammering when she comments on something.
A peculiarity of her speaking is that she can be a bit rough when the words are ending; also that if she is about to joke or mock something then she will let out a huff or small snort before making the comment.

Relationships

Beatrix Heller

friend (Important)

Towards Klaus Fisher

3

0

Honest

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Klaus Fisher

friend (Important)

Towards Beatrix Heller

3

3

Honest

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Wealth & Financial state

The Hellers were well known merchants that traveled from Night City to Crystal Coast, with new inventions and exotic products their income allowed them to have a good lifestyle. However when Rue Heller was offered a position as a diplomat by the Shadow Selector their income multiplied.

Alignment

Lawful neutral

Current Status

Taking a stand on the Rifting Skirmish. (Opener)

Current Location

Rift City

Species

Tamer

Conditions

• Itekis disease

Ethnicity

Shadow Tamer

Honorary & Occupational Titles

• Speaker of Siskli
• Opener Lieutenant 
• Lady Beatrix

Age

44

Date of Birth

52nd Shifting Season, 1989 a.C or 333 a.R

Circumstances of Birth

Beatrix was born as an only child to a couple of Shadow Tamer merchants.

Birthplace

Krai islets

Spouses

Siblings

Current Residence

Rift Hollow

Pronouns

she/her

Gender

female

Eyes

Downturned, red and stern

Hair

Long and curly jet black

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Ivory and soft skin

Height

1,84 m

Weight

72kg

Belief/Deity

Fallen Witches

Aligned Organization

Council of Whispers

Other Affiliations

• Openers

Known Languages

Beatrix knows Raydam and a good amount of French, she also masters the idioms used all around Krai islets and Crystal Coast, where she grew up.

Ruled Locations

• Rift Court