Beatrice Knox

Beatrice is the twin of Zephora Knox, daughter of Millicent Rodin and surrogate Glenn East. Through her childhood, Odysseus Knox was her father. As the murderer of Glenn East, Beatrice is keeping a low profile with her sister's assistance and is part of Zara's Barbed Quills. 
==Biography==
Beatrice was born after her twin Zephora in 1064, both painful births to their mother Millicent. From as early as the twins could remember, they knew the circumstances of their existence: Their biological father was a surrogate named Glenn East who provided what their mother's husband, Odysseus Knox, couldn't.
Beatrice had an issue through her childhood where she tended to do odd, malicious things. The Knox household wasn't able to keep pets for more than a few weeks before they mysteriously disappeared or were discovered in various states of... unravel.
She didn't find it particularly disturbing at how much pleasure she felt doing these terrible things.
In 1074, when the twins were 10 years old, Belladonna Knox was born to Cassandra (Odysseus' sister) who unfortunately died in childbirth. Odysseus and Millicent adopted Belladonna as their own, but both the twins and their mother noticed Odysseus clearly cared for her more than the twins.
Beatrice never understood this clear favoritism. It was only a matter of time before she decided to remove the problem.
Beatrice took a candle and set light to little Belladonna's cradle in Lover's Moon 1075. Thankfully Milly was able to lift the baby from the flames before she was badly burned, but Zephora ran to Odysseus to tell him what had happened. So distressed was Odysseus that he fell into a fit of seizures, and Zephora started screaming for help. It was the one and only time she told on her sister.
Belladonna was all right, but when Odysseus had recovered, he insisted Beatrice be sent to Untergrad. Milly begged him not to send Beatrice away, that they could work through this - but Odysseus' decision was final. Beatrice was sent away, leaving Zephora and Milly devastated.
==== Untergrad (1075-1079) ====
Beatrice experienced horrors that would destroy a lesser soul in Untergrad. When the Red Death struck in 1075, many inmates at Untergrad were struck with the illness while many more went further insane with fear. At the peak of the pandemic, a riot broke out in Untergrad and many staff and inmates were killed or injured in the ensuing conflict. Terrible crimes were committed and some of the more dangerous inmates used the riot as a way to enact their sick fantasies. 
For the first time in her life, Beatrice was surrounded by like-minded people. But due to her age and size, she was immediately set upon as one of their intended victims. A male inmate had his way with her - she couldn't fight him off and lost her virginity in a cold, dark cell. The memory of his face was seared into her mind and she determined he would die by her hand before the riot was over. Little eleven-year-old Beatrice quickly learned what she had to do to survive, and to take back her life. 
She was sought out by the same predator within less than a day, but this time she was ready with a shiv procured from another dead inmate. She brutalized and mutilated him, both alive and long after he had died. Eviscerating him, she 'decorated' his cell and left a crossed-out note in his blood on the wall: "FORGIVE. FORGET." - a crude take on the popular Knox motto "a Knox never forgives, and a Knox never forgets." 
During the riot, Beatrice was witness to Numuri Martal taking her own pleasure in killing those she clearly felt deserved it. Beatrice remembered the moment as she had heard stories about the Butcher's Lance Campaign. 
After the riot was wrestled back under control by the Bastion City Blackjackets, Beatrice was placed in solitude for a time, as were most violent inmates. The riot lasted 19th-24th of Fool's Moon, 1075. 
Although Beatrice could be fingered as the rapist's killer just by her association with the Knox motto, the connection wasn't concrete enough for it to be added to her file. But many inmates and staff alike had a hunch about the little eleven-year-old. 
Back in the control of asylum staff, she was drugged most of the time, out of her mind and often hallucinating. For months, she fought tooth and nail against her 'captors'. She took pleasure in hurting them or finding ways to disturb them. Any experienced nurse or tender was a personal challenge for her - she would break them. 
She was a regular candidate for electric therapy, but the asylum staff found that it rarely did any good to stifle her violent or psychopathic tendencies - at first. 
Beatrice found ways to entertain herself by torturing the staff, other inmates, or even the rats that sometimes climbed through the walls. But three years took their toll and she knew she had to get out of this place before she went too far and was deemed 'incurable'. 
In early 1079, Beatrice began faking docility whenever electric therapy was conducted on her. She pretended it calmed her, that they must have shocked her 'just right' to bring her back to some semblance of a 'normal' person. It was decreed she could go home. 
==== Back Home (1079) ====
Beatrice came back in 1079 a quiet 15-year-old girl. She rarely spoke and her eyes were kept downcast. Zephora became exceedingly protective of the girl in an attempt to make up for ratting her out to Odysseus. Milly tried to tell Zephora it wasn't her fault Beatrice had been sent away, but it was clear Zeph didn't believe her. For any small misdeed Beatrice committed, Zephora would take the fall.
In truth, Beatrice only appeared to be the docile little creature she had come back as. Her malicious streak was stronger than ever, but Untergrad had honed her skills for keeping it hidden. 
==== The Murder of Glenn East (1080) ====
Since her first murder of 1075, Beatrice's bloodthirst had grown. She blamed people around her for the way things had gone in her relatively short life, but she viewed justice and revenge differently than most people would. She decided the first 'rapist' of her life would be the man that brought her into the world as she certainly didn't ask to exist. She didn't really need the rationale to make sense. She just needed to kill someone that wouldn't upset her twin too terribly.
She was wrong about Zephora not being upset, but she figured the response was better than if Ody or Milly had died. 
Beatrice invited Glenn East, her and Zephora's biological father, to the Knox estate. When he arrived, she asked to speak with him in private. Once alone, she stabbed him.
Glenn East's body was found in the Knox estate, with over seventy stab wounds all across his torso. His genitals had been removed, his eyes taken, and his heart hacked from his chest and left in a bloody mulch on the floor. An investigation was launched, but it was short-lived. The missing genitals would be found in Odysseus' bed, and the eyes eventually discovered stitched onto a painting in his chambers. Also missing were the twins, and a letter of apology was left on Zephora's pillow.
Zephora apologized for the murder she and Beatrice had committed. She claimed they were given no choice, but did not expand upon the statement. She apologized to their mother for being terrible children. She finally stated they would not return.
What had really happened, however...
==== The Barbed Quills ====
Triss East