Beatrix Monroe

Beatrix Monroe
Official art of Beatrix Monroe, by Lizzart.
Type	Player Character
Actor	Marisha Ray
Character Information
Pronouns	she/her
Also known as	Auntie Bee
Class	Slink (Criminal)
Age	55
Place	Newfaire
Connections	Candela Obscura Circle of Needle and Thread
Status
Status	Alive
Appearances
First seen	"Candela Obscura: Eye for an Eye" (CO2x01)
Last seen	"Candela Obscura: Broken Path" (CO2x03)
Television	Candela Obscura, Chapter 2 (3 episodes)

Beatrix Monroe is an older woman in Newfaire. She is played by Marisha Ray.

Description

“

Everyone in this chapter has been affected by the war in some horrible way. I was very intrigued to tell the story of someone who lost everything to the atrocities of mankind all while fighting to maintain her compassion for humanity. Aunt Bee became a very natural product of that idea, and ended up fitting nicely has the maternal figure of the group.[...] As long as there are still people who need her, Beatrix has a purpose. A reason to fight.

”

– 

Marisha describes Beatrix

[!h]

Bee is 55 years old, with straggly, frizzy salt-and-pepper hair and threadbare and worn patchwork clothing probably repurposed from a quilt she once had. Her hat is decorated with sun-faded silk flowers. Bee "cares little" about her physical appearance, but paradoxically tries to hide her windburn and sun spots with way too much blush, trying to hold onto a bit of youth. She wears a few pieces of nice jewelry that seem to have nostalgic sentimental value.

She suffers from lower back pain.

Biography

Background

Beatrix was happily married to a sailor named Blue, and lived in a small cottage in Seasway. However, because she could not have a child of her own despite her seemingly longing for one, she formed a friendship with Margaret Mary Finnerty ("Peggy") and her three sons, building a strong bond and connection with them to the point that Peggy's children felt like her boys, though she admitted in her later years that it was perhaps a bit unhealthy for her to do so. When Sean was still young, shortly after the death of his father, she and Peggy took Sean and his brother Anthony to a ballgame, with Jimmy having to stay home as he had unfortunately fallen sick. Despite Peggy saving up for months to take her boys to the game she and Bee still had borrow some cash from the neighbors to afford the tickets. Years later Beatrix still remembered the flashes of rainbow colors on the boys faces as they stared in awe at the fireworks that were launched after a homerun, and how Sean, who had a little bit of allowance that he saved up and being a sweetheart, chose to buy a baseball cap for his sick brother Jimmy.

On the 12th day of Mid-Summer 1898, Beatrix was woken up in the middle of the night from a nightmare of men and women screaming as the merchant ship they were on sank, along with seeing her husband's final moments, that put her in an off mood all day. During the day she sat on the stoop of her cottage and saw Halen Naval Ships forming blockades very close to and around the areas of the Vastchasm that one would take to enter the harbor, so close that at least one ship almost fell in. She then saw a letter delivered to her mailbox, and despite trying to play off the nightmare she had had the previous night as just a figment of her imagination, she already knew what the contents on the letter were. After spending possibly an hour just sitting on the stoop of her cottage, she finally built up the courage to check the mail, only to collapse to the ground as she read the letter on her way back to her house. It confirmed her husband's ship, the HMS Brilliance, had been attacked and sunk by a Otherwhere vessel, and that he had perished in the event that would start the Last Great War.

She promised Sean's mother that she would keep him safe, and continued to visit her in the Grayslate Sanitorium where Bee got work as a laundress.

Relationships

Blue Monroe - Beatrix's late husband. They had a loving relationship and happy marriage despite the fact that they couldn't have children of their own, a fact that seemed to weigh heavily on Beatrix even years later. She still thought of him often and imagined the happy life she could have had with him.

Nathaniel Trapp - Beatrix has a strong dislike for Nathaniel, not because of his character or personality, but rather what he represents and stands for. Beatrix says that her dislike of Nathaniel stems from the unfair blame she placed on him from the war, as he was the recruitment officer who brought all three of the Finnerty brothers, who she has a strong bond and connection with, into the war and thus she felt that he was responsible for everything that happened to them. However, she knows he's just a victim just as much as the brother's and everybody else was who was part of the war. She also says she always viewed him as a coward, but after saving Marion during assignment #538 Flesh and Blood, and Sean's clear respect for him. Along with his actions during assignment #533 Eye for an Eye, and the events of the unnamed assignment on the train, it has shown her otherwise and she feels she owes him an apology for her view on him, with Nathanel however saying that she doesn't and that he's always been a coward, and that his older brother was the hero, and that he's spent his entire life trying to be him and pretending he is not a coward.

Character information

Abilities

• Saw This Coming

Appearances and mentions

• Candela Obscura
  • "Candela Obscura: Eye for an Eye" (CO2x01) (first appearance)
  • "Candela Obscura: Flesh and Blood" (CO2x02)
  • "Candela Obscura: Broken Path" (CO2x03)

References

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