Beckham Shepherd

**Beckham "Becky" Shepherd** is an Englishman who previously resided on a farm as a farmer. He migrated to the United States after his farmhand died. He is a recurring character of Outcasted and Roger's love interest. Beckham is an alcoholic when under stress, a massive foodie, and has a suppressed gag reflex. He is able to easily swallow many things that most would find extremely difficult, if not impossible, to swallow. He is also a very skilled musician, able to play several different types of instruments. His favorites are the piano and the flute. He currently works as a Ranch Manager and Fishery Manager.

## Appearance

Beckham is a male anthropomorphic borzoi who is also mixed with golden retrievers, beagles, and bloodhounds and, as a result, share the golden fur of a golden retriever and the ears of a beagle in both shape and color. His ears are medium brown and floppy and the tip of his snout has various shades of medium grayish brown streaks. He has dark brown eyes with eyelids and lines around his eyes that are the same color as his ears. Beckham stands at 5'6" and weighs 145 lbs. He can be considered of an average male body type but with a small potbelly. When nude, he has various brown spots all over his body that are large and cylindrical in shape. His most prominent ones are the large circular spot on his chest and upper abdomen and the slightly smaller one on his middle back. He has medium-sized spots on his shoulders, forearm, biceps, thighs, calves, shins, and lower abdomen, and a small one between the abdomen and chest.

Before he has children with Roger, he wears a long-sleeved pumpkin orange knit sweater, an open red parka with brown fur, dark grey pants, black military boots, and a brown newsboy cap with dark brown hounds tooth patterns. After he has children, he wears the same orange knitted sweater but with a black trench coat, darker grey pants, black military boots, and the same newsboy cap.

## Biography

Beckham was born to Charles Shepherd and Amelia Shepherd (nee: Bonesworth). He is the youngest of their 4 children. Beckham's parents are conservative and staunchly against the LGBT community which posed difficulties for young Beckham, who happened to be strictly homosexual. Beckham attempted to conceal his attraction toward males and attempted to conceal his explorations with boys his age from them, but eventually, he was caught one day. He attempts to state that they were simply wrestling, but his parents could barely believe him when they saw that they were getting undressed. It wasn't until Beckham was 15 when, over dinner, he told his parents the truth—that he was homosexual. Despite their teachings, Beckham's siblings did not mind this, but his parents were extremely upset about this ordeal. They took to dealing with this behavior with physical abuse, menial tasks, and the withholding of food until he decided he was "ready" to date girls his age instead. Shortly before turning 16, Beckham had revealed that he was in a (surreptitiously falsified) relationship with a nearly 16-year-old saluki girl he had met named Susanna "Susie" Salisbury which caused his parents to feel satisfied with him. He planned to "date" her until he graduated from university and was able to become financially independent from his parents. Unfortunately, his parents would routinely demand evidence that he was, in fact, in love with her by asking him to kiss her, caress her, grope her, and display other forms of physical affection toward her. Shortly before he would graduate from university at the age of 20, he admitted that he was, in fact, a homosexual man and not in love with Susie. His parents feigned acceptance toward their son's confession and sexual orientation, but when Beckham wanted to return home to see his family again, he discovered that all of the locks were modified and that he wasn't provided a new key to open the doors. His parents soon informed him that he was no longer allowed inside of their house as he was disowned by them for being homosexual.

Eventually, however, Beckham inherited the family's farm as his parents were approaching their mid-60s and wished to retire from farm duties and their other children harbored different career choices of their own and declined the inheritance of the family's farm, of which Beckham was the only one who expressed interest in it. His farm duties lasted approximately 1 year as Beckham relocated to the United States after his farmhand died by being trampled on by multiple elephants during a vacation to Africa and his boyfriend, Shelby, severs their relationship due to lack of passion in their relationship and Shelby catching himself experiencing romantic and sexual sentiments for another man. He decided to relocate due to wishing for a new life and to begin anew after all of his negative experiences in his home country and believing that life in the United States would be better.

He eventually meets Roger while moving into Hellvane, Pennsylware while boarding the same bus as him and coincidentally sitting next to him on the bus. Roger ends up experiencing romantic sentiments toward him while conversing with him on the bus ride, despite Roger not wishing to converse with him due his introverted nature earlier on in the conversation. Beckham is not able to grasp Roger's lack of interest and Roger corresponds out of politeness while slowly becoming interested in the conversation. After a lengthy platonic companionship with romantic tension rising, Roger ends up in a relationship with Beckham.

## Personality

Beckham is very empathetic with others. Whenever someone is in peril, emotionally or physically, he tries his best to brainstorm a solution to their problems. He does not like seeing people in pain unless he truly believes they deserve it. That said, he also cares quite an abundance about his own mental health and will not hesitate to prioritize that above that of others. Whenever dealing with someone who attempts to aggravate him, he is quick to utilize his sharp, quick-witted tongue to bring it right back at them. If necessary, he will also respond with whatever physical action he deems proper.

Beckham has a love of being in control of things. He will not stop until he either gets his way or he reaches a proper compromise. Despite this, he is mostly known for his phlegmatic manner of speech, usually speaking somewhat monotonously.

Becky also has a sense of morbidity. He enjoys telling morbid stories, even to little children, frequently plans on murdering and eating people who frustrate him beyond means, enjoys pranking children by telling them that he has murdered other children, and eating bloodied meat that he convinces them are the remains of the children he's murdered (doing similar to parents of children he's babysat, where he convinces them that he's murdered and eaten their children before revealing that their children are still alive), and frequently threatens people to treat them in intensely violent manners if they enrage him enough.

## Relationships

### Roger Grimdark

Though Beckham is initially enthralled with Roger, he soon discovers that a relationship with someone with Bipolar Disorder and Asperger's can be more difficult than he'd imagine. He finds himself having to calm Roger down during a dysphoric hypomanic phase, cheer him up during a major depressive phase, and keep up with his energy during a euphoric manic phase. Roger's peculiarities caused by autism, such as his hyperfixations, social awkwardness, and his sensory overloads can also pose issues for Beck. While he attempts to navigate his relationship, he attempts to suppress his urges to end their relationship because he loves him.

## Gallery

Beckham flips his middle finger while drinking alcohol. By radahre on FurAffinity.By Kansmai on FurAffinity.By Robin Grimmgall.Beckham kisses Roger on the cheek. By grozental on FurAffinity.Beckham and Roger eat a female Afghan Hound by the name of Angelina. By TurdusPhilomelos on FurAffinity.Beckham smokes a pipe. By April\_Ryan on FurAffinity.Beckham enjoys more dinner. By Trava\_aka\_Sanchez on FurAffinity.By NatNow\_Art on Instagram.Beckham and Roger enjoy a milkshake together. By Difftil on FurAffinity.Beckham and Roger eat a corpse at the local cemetery. By booublik.By Robin Grimmgall.By Robin Grimmgall.By Robin Grimmgall.By Robin Grimmgall.By TenMomentsTill.By Robin Grimmgall.By Robin Grimmgall.By Robin Grimmgall.By Robin Grimmgall.By Robin Grimmgall.