Name: Beatrice Giles.
Aliases: The Red Knight.
Age: Thirty-seven years old.
Gender: Female.
Race: Blessed human.

Height: 5’8”.
Weight: 155lbs.

Weapons: In her youth Beatrice used two holy swords, The Saint and Crossfade. She has since passed The Saint down to her apprentice, Matt Rosencruex. Crossade is about three pounds, with a three foot blade and a cruciform handle. It is very durable, and the holy energy infused within it causes searing burns to dark and demonic beings upon contact.

Armor: If she is traveling through a region in which she believes she will be recognized, or is moving through a dangerous region, Beatrice will wear light armor on her legs, chest, and lower back, as well as gauntlets.

Strengths: While she isn’t as powerful as she used to be, Beatrice can still be a formidable foe. She can move unbelievably fast for short periods of time, and displays strength many times greater than that of a normal human. Her reflexes are also incredibly keen, and her sword skills are virtually unmatched.

Beatrice’s mental strengths are almost as great as her physical ones. All of her combat experience has left her with quite a bit of battle savvy. Techniques that may seem new and innovative to younger warriors sometimes seem dull and uninspired to her. She can easily spot flaws in her opponent’s fighting technique, and take full advantage of them.

Along with her combat-related strengths are her general wisdom and earthly knowledge. She’s traveled through large portions of the world, and has picked up information from them. Sometimes this information presents itself as useless trivia, though it occasionally proves to be useful.

Weaknesses: Despite her tremendous physical abilities and fighting skills, there is one enormous weakness on her part. Because of a disease which affects her muscles and organs, Beatrice cannot physically strain herself for extended periods of time. So much as running across the length of a room is enough to get her heart pounding and make her sweat.

Fighting for more than a few minutes will cause labored breathing and a lack of energy. Further fighting will result in lightheadedness and an overall impairment of her senses. If she continues to push herself, she will eventually vomit and lose consciousness.

Beatrice’s pride is also a major weakness. She refuses to be consistently aided by another individual, no matter what the circumstances are. The Red Knight would rather bleed to death than accept aid from somebody else, if said person has helped her before.

Her disease also weakens her immune system, leaving her susceptible to sickness at any time. It’s not uncommon for her to be fine one day, and be struck with a horrible flu the next.

~Skills/Abilities~

While Beatrice used to have a massive array of abilities, the progression of the disease has limited her to a handful of abilities…

Righteous Blaze- By focusing on Crossfade, Beatrice can use the holy energy within the sword to cover the blade in flames. While this is usually just used for intimidating foes, she can keep the flames going whilst fighting, albeit at the cost of further sapping her energy.

Touch of Faith- Via direct physical contact Beatrice can focus her energy on healing another person’s wounds. She can only heal mild to moderate wounds, and this ability uses so much energy that she must take a nap afterwards, but it’s still a useful ability nonetheless.

True Sight- Holding eye contact allows her to tell whether another person is lying or not. If she focuses, she can force the other person to tell the truth in response to whatever question she may ask.

Mystic Sight- By remaining completely relaxed and borderline immobile Beatrice can send out her spirit in the form of a white hawk. She is able to see through the hawk’s eyes, which is useful for surveying far-off events. If the bird is harmed however, she feels its pain. Furthermore, she will die if the hawk is slain.

The Last Gift- Through sacrificing her own life Beatrice can revive another person from the dead, by taking their cause of death and suffering through it in their place. Obviously, she has yet to use this ability.

Personality: Beatrice is smart, proud, and caring. She adheres to a strong sense of morals. Murderers, rapists, and thieves are all scum in her eyes, and she treats them as such. The Red Knight refuses to associate herself with such people.

Beatrice dislikes any situation that makes her appear weak. Her pride requires that she remain strong, respectful, and looking fine. She is incredibly embarrassed if any of her allies catches her in a moment of sickness.

Though she is proud, she is also a very generous person. Beatrice lives to make the world a better place through whatever means necessary. Nothing pleases her more than to make somebody else’s life happier, and she would gladly suffer in the place of another person.

The Red Knight is a woman of passion. She viciously hates her enemies, and deeply loves her friends. Her friends mean everything in the world to her, and she would be devastated if any of them were harmed.

One of the few things that can depress Beatrice is her past. She’d rather not talk about it, though she will if whoever she is talking to has sufficiently gained her trust.

-Likes-
Seeing other people reach their potential, relaxing under trees, taking mid-afternoon naps in odd places, reading, exploring, meeting new people, learning new things, and eating apples and grapes.

-Dislikes-
Cooking, cleaning, being in DAM meetings, people who don’t value life, vegetables, people waking her up from her naps, extreme heat/cold, and the majority of the members of DAM.

~Appearance~

Beatrice has a pretty, if somewhat tired looking face. Her eyes are a beautifully light shade of green, and she has flaming red hair that reaches down just past her shoulders. A few loose strands of hair sometimes find themselves draping across her face.

Her skin is lightly tanned, and her body is fairly muscled. There are numerous scars around her torso, thighs, and upper arms from battles in her youth. As she’s gotten less active, she’s gained a small bit of fat, mostly along her stomach, and in her rear end and bosom. This is a cause of amusement to her, as she’s spent countless hours keeping in shape, and yet is considered by some to be more attractive now that she’s getting out of shape.

As far as clothing goes, Beatrice usually wears brown pants and a red t-shirt, with a black jacket for outdoor ventures. If she is heading to a region in which she may have to defend herself, she’ll wear a lightweight red tunic underneath some armor, as stated in the armor section.

~History~

Beatrice was the younger of two children. Her father was a knight renowned in his home region for once single-handedly slaying seventy foes in one day. While The Red Knight’s achievements in her glory days would greatly outshine her father’s feat, it still impressed the young girl.

Her father never paid attention to her as a child. Instead, he focused on her brother Lance. He was obsessed with raising Lance to be a great knight, despite the child’s wish to become a cleric.

James, her father, never gave Beatrice any attention. He denied his children any kind of affection in the belief that it would make them grow up soft. Craving her father’s acceptance, The Red Knight began taking her brother’s place at training sessions in disguise. She spent several years doing so, and hoped to surprise her father with her fighting skills when she was old enough.

By the time she was fifteen Beatrice could easily defeat most of the grown men in her town in combat. Her father began to lighten up a bit around the house. The apparent success of his son greatly pleased James, and it showed in his behavior towards his children.

Beatrice challenged her father to a sparring match on her sixteenth birthday. He initially refused, but persistent pestering forced him to accept. James was defeated after a long battle, and Beatrice told him of how she’d been taking Lance’s place all this time.

Contrary to what she had expected, her father was furious. James refused to be anywhere near Lance or Beatrice in public, and made continual attempts to have another child. Later that year he was crippled in combat, and became a diplomat.

Beatrice continued to train in the hope that she would be able to carry on her family’s reputation for grand warriors. She hoped that she’d earn her father’s love by becoming the greatest warrior in the world. Of course, by now she was a beautiful young lady, and she began to receive love from another source.

She began a romance with a young knight, out of which a child was produced. The father left a short while before the baby was born. Beatrice gave birth to a baby girl shortly after her seventeenth birthday. It was at this point that The Red Knight was torn between two options.

Beatrice could either raise the child, and give up her dream, or she could leave the child in her brother’s care and travel the world in search of further training. She chose the latter, and it was a choice that she still regrets. With all of the traveling the ensuing years involved, Beatrice was only able to see her baby once every few years or so. It’s because of this that her daughter, Malorie, despises her.

From the age of seventeen until the age of twenty-seven Beatrice traveled around the world. She picked up tidbits of fighting styles everywhere she went, and spent countless hours honing her skills as a knight for hire. Through her job as a knight for hire she fought in several wars, where she gained a reputation as a brilliant tactician.

From twenty-seven until thirty-two she solidified her reputation as a great warrior by seeking out opponents with impressive reputations. The challenges she made and the battles she fought made many believe that she was one of the top female warriors in all of history. Some even considered her to be better than quite a few legendary male warriors. Likely because she challenged and defeated several of them.

However, if was at the age of thirty-three that the virus first struck. At first it was barely noticeable. Beatrice would become slightly lightheaded after battles, and found herself catching colds every once in a while, but nothing too bad. As time went on the virus grew in strength.

No doctor that Beatrice went to could determine what the virus was, or how she obtained it. All that they knew was that it wasn’t infectious to others. They alerted her to the weakening of the connections between her organs as a result of the virus, and theorized that she would be lucky to survive until the age of forty.

Depression struck The Red Knight, and it took her quite some time to get over it. Just as she was coming to terms with the disease she was approached by representatives of DAM. They wished for her to become a member of DAM’s 12 Seats, the ruling body of the organization. With no other line of work Beatrice accepted, despite disagreeing with the group’s morals.

At the age of thirty-five, shortly after joining DAM, Beatrice was introduced to a teenage Matt Rosencruex. Matt was a skilled warrior, and was brought into DAM to act as an assassin. Rosencruex’s fear of death caused him to develop an urge to become a legend, so that his name would live on long after his death. It was for that reason that he accepted DAM’s offer of employment, as it offered him many opportunities to add to the list of legends he’d slain in his attempt to become famed as the Legend Killer.

It was around that time The Red Knight learned that Malorie had had a child of her own. Her attempts to reconcile with her daughter were rejected, and Matt was there to fill in her shoes. Over time Matt has become akin to a son to Beatrice.

Currently she only has a few simple desires in life. The first is to take care of Matt, and live long enough to see her apprentice overcome his fear of death. She also wishes to travel around the world one more time, and see as many new places as possible.

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~BA Characters~

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quark My confidence just had an erection.

~RIP Ceesco~
Big bro will always love you.