Beatrice Belmont

Personality
Beatrice is a calm level-headed Jedi. She rarely allows herself to lose control of herself or her emotions. She is determined and hardworking when it comes to missions, and will do whatever is needed to succeed. Her downfall is her age; she is still young and can be quite narrow-minded, often forgetting the bigger picture.

Beatrice is friendly and warm to everyone she meets, very rarely clashing against someone’s personality. She is very understanding and concerns herself more with other people and their needs than her own, often putting herself in more danger than needed. Her logic is that other people and their needs are more important than herself and her needs.

Beatrice is very loyal to the Order and the higher members. She doesn’t verbally disagree with any decision made by the council or higher members, though her facial features betray her and show quite clearly how uncomfortable she is with the idea. She can be quite obnoxious with how hard she tries to stay to the Jedi code.

Though Beatrice has been rewarded with a higher rank, and has been honoured as a valuable member of the Jedi order, she still believes a lot of her successes or victories are down to sheer dumb luck. She doubts herself quite a lot which has been an issue brought up by some of the older members of the order on occasion. This is easier for her to hide in her features, unlike her occasional disagreement with the Jedi Council’s decisions.

History
Beatrice like most Jedi was taken into the Order at a very young age, and because of this she remembers very little of her home world. She remembers the dry, harsh landscape and cold chill of the air. Her father is nothing but a figure to her, but she remembers her mother Freya well. She had a kind face and a loving smile. She was not born into a rich family, but she never went hungry or wanting, and she was most of all loved by her parents.

Beatrice trained hard and learnt quickly. She wasn’t top of her class, but she stood out amongst the riff raff. At first she was very reluctant to learn, she missed her mother and couldn’t hide her emotions towards her. After being spoken to by Assa Netik an old Jedi Master she started to learn how to control her emotions and feelings with regular meditation. She was still young when she learnt of the current conflict taking over the universe. The Confederation of Dolomar started its assault upon the rest of the universe. Beatrice didn’t fully understand war, but she understood the hurt and the pain going through the universe as innocent planets and people were dragged into the conflict. Beatrice was compassionate for the innocent and found a new drive in life, to become as strong and smart as she could so she could defend those who needed it.

Beatrice was taken as Padawan to a fellow Mirialan who was stern and courageous in his ways. He always had Beatrice title him correctly as Master Borellis, which in turn made her title everyone correctly. Master Borellis trained her hard but well. He always saw potential in people and especially in Beatrice. He pushed her, if not a little bit too hard, to be the best she could be. Beatrice followed and watched everything her Master did. She took in everything she saw him do. When she turned sixteen she built her own lightsaber with minimal guidance from her Master.

During the Padawan’s and Master’s trip to Ilum they ran into some minor complications. A shift in the earth dislodged some of the larger crystals from the roof of the cavern and sent huge crystallites towards the two Jedi. They managed to dodge the majority of them, but one of the large crystallites fell onto Master Borellis’ leg, crushing and pinning him down to the ground. Beatrice freed her master and with Beatrice’s assistance they both made their way to the exit. They were cut off by a Gorgodon. After a lengthy battle in which Beatrice had used her Master’s lightsaber whilst he helped by using different force techniques on the beast, the beast fell paralyzed on the floor. Beatrice believed it was just luck, but her Master was convinced it was her progression within the force. This counted as her trial of skill.

During a mission to Taris to hunt down a criminal gang who had been plaguing the outer rim air space, Beatrice came across a Holonet report about another criminal band causing all sorts of terror on her home planet, around her own village. Beatrice had meditated on this subject for a very long time, keeping her feelings in check and not attaching herself

to her family. But Beatrice had to respond; she abandoned her master and ran for their ships. She flew to Mirial to find her Mother. Master Borellis followed and eventually caught up with Beatrice. He didn’t reprimand her but followed alongside her. He could feel the need for this to be done.

Beatrice found her mother a minute to late. She had been murdered by a lone criminal who had obviously been separated. Rage burned within Beatrice and she savagely attacked the criminal. After de-arming the criminal she stood over him, her lightsaber in hand pointing towards his throat. Every part of Beatrice wanted to do this, to kill the man who killed her Mother. But she didn’t. She arrested the man and turned him over to her master. The council granted her the rank of Jedi Knight after this, believing that not only would it pass for the trial of spirit but also the trial of flesh. Beatrice thanked the council, but felt like she had a lot more to learn before she could truly call herself a knight. The pain of her Mother’s death would still come back to haunt Beatrice from time to time, but with meditation it would calm and Beatrice would be able to separate herself from it once more.

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Catherine Zeta-Jones