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Name: Beatrice Walthers
Age: 19

World setting: Apocalyptic future; the world is controlled by a race of entities known as the Readership, and war is on the brink of breaking out due to the infighting among the Readership's enforcers known as the patrons.

Her place in the war: Bea is a chosen physical vessel of Hebaron, the closest translation of his title being "prince of hell".

Brief history: Bea grew up normal, if a little off-kilter; she considers her cousin Margaret as a role model, something that disturbs her parents as Margaret's chosen line of work is amateur porn star. Unsure of what career she wants in life but determined to finish college in an attempt to make her parents proud, she enrolls at the Barrett College of Sciences, where she meets and develops a relationship with Kerry Jordan. Halfway through the semester one of the college buildings catches fire, with Bea's class trapped inside; she is the sole survivor.

She discovers not long after that no amount of injury is capable of killing her, and that she is being watched by several patrons of varying allegiances. Becoming more and more frantic and desperate as patrons invade her daily life, Bea attempts to run away, but doesn't succeed. Not long after, she starts hearing voices, and attempts self-harm repeatedly in hopes of making it go away. She is institutionalized when her father finds out; she gets better, then gets worse, and is repeatedly hospitalized with alarming frequency.

Kerry disappears after her fourth trip to the psych ward, during which the war starts to break surface tension.

Current playing point is after her first court-ordered institutionalization; she's out under conditional release as orchestrated by Peter Vodyanev, who needs her help in finding Kerry.