Beatrice Ledouf is a high-ranking veteran of the Underside / Paralex war. She has medals for her bravery and abilities, being a fantastic strategist and an expert marksman, never going anywhere without a gun. Something of a larger woman, Beatrice hails from the north of Underside, and her voice carries a faint accent. She’s not so much ugly as she is… off-pretty.
She is often aloof and unapproachable, with an air of culture in both her tastes and mannerisms. She enjoys insulting Professor Canis and refuses to work with him.
As I said in an earlier post, when I was creating the characters of Underside, I was eager to make them as different from those of Spirit Rider as possible. This relates back to Beatrice, who at one time, was a far more attractive, thin woman with dark hair. I soon realised I’d recreated Grim, and had given her a gun. In order to combat this I went entirely in the other direction, in regards to appearances.
Once more, Beatrice is another character at least partially imported from one of the games I planned to make when I was younger. However in that iteration she was the thin woman described above, and came from a cowboy-styled dimension.
I got her name from the same place as I did Professor Benedick Canis’ – Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. I was fascinated by the relationship between Benedick and Beatrice in the play and wanted to parody them to at least some extent in my own work.
At one point I had intended to give her an estranged boyfriend and then kill him off, off-screen, thus throwing her into a harrowing depression. But it felt like it was there for the sake of drama and so I binned off the notion.
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