Beckham Dreyfuss

**Beckham "Beck" Dreyfuss (née Naibhnó)** is a Selkie from the Western Isles who works as a silversmith in Purilin Village. He is an exceptionally skilled healer and regards everyone with kindness despite the many hardships he has faced. While he has been described as "scrawny" and "uncoordinated", Beck is an experienced fighter, but only exhibits this skill in times of absolute necessity, often opting for the peaceful solution

## Beckham "Beck" Dreyfuss

### Relatives

Dómhleòsdéall † (father)
Brímhnua † (mother)
Sóighnur † (sister)
Marion Dreyfuss † (husband)
Bina Dreyfuss † (daughter)
Hugo Dreyfuss † (stillborn son)
Hermione Dreyfuss † (daughter)
Eugenia Dreyfuss † (stillborn daughter)

## History

### Early Life

Beck was born to a selkie family in the northern Western Isles. Along with his older sister, Viola, he was taught medicine and how to fight. Beck befriended Eugenia, a shy mermaid, whom he eventually developed a romantic relationship with. He still regards her as his first love. When he was sixteen-years-old, he accidentally led poachers to his family's home which resulted in the deaths of his parents and sister. Beck escaped the initial slaying with a deep wound to his cheek, but was captured several days later. His skin was stolen by the poachers and he was sent to The Underground where he was put up for auction. Beck was bought by and married to a silversmith from Purilin Village, Marion Dreyfuss on the third day of the auction and returned with him to the seaside village.

### Marriage to Marion

Beck and Marion were married in Fenne where they established a silversmithing shop and living quarters above it in the center of town. While Beck had expected to be treated with cruelty by his new husband, Marion showed surprising kindness and let Beck do as he wished so long as he promised to remain loyal to him. Marion, being thirteen years Beck's senior, taught him about human customs and allowed him to explore his own hobbies including silversmithing which he mastered quickly. After a few years, Beck started to fall in love with Marion and vice versa. The two maintained a healthy marriage despite it being distant at times when Marion left for work trips in the mining caves.

### Meeting Whitney and Hazel

Beck first encountered Whitney Blackbird and his younger brother, Hazel Blackbird, two travellers from Daizollo who were attempting to flee their war-torn country, near a river by his house. Whitney, having broken his leg and Hazel, close to death with fever, were taken in by Beck who convinced Marion to let them stay as they healed. While initially apprehensive of Beck, Whitney grew to like him and was touched by his kindness for two strangers. Both Whitney and Hazel made a full recovery and the Dreyfusses offered for them to stay with them until they were stable which they gladly accepted. While Whitney believed they would only be staying for a few months, he and Hazel were embraced into the family and ended up staying for years instead.

### Bina

After the loss of three children, Beck was nineteen-years-old when he fell pregnant with his daughter, Bina. While his husband and friends were ecstatic for him, Beck was riddled with anxiety, doubting that he was cut out to be a parent. Beck faced a long period of depression and illness during the last few months which led to a reckless attempt to return to the sea. Whitney intervened just in time, potentially saving Beck's life and marks a milestone in their relationship which brought them closer. His daughter, Sabina Kinglassie Dreyfuss, was born on September 2, 1796, but died four days later due to traumatic birth complications. Beck blames himself for her death, believing that his careless lifestyle was at fault. A week or so later, an illness began spreading in town which carried a high mortality rate, causing both Marion and Hazel to perish. After burying his husband, daughter and surrogate brother, Beck packed up everything in the house, closed down the shop and was ready to leave by the time Whitney returned.

### Life in Purilin

After the tragedy in Fenne, Beck moved to Purilin Village with the help of Whitney. He swallowed his grief and moved on, setting up his own silversmithing business in the fishing quarter of town. The first piece of jewelry Beck created was a silver-chain necklace which carried his and Marion's wedding bands on it. He wore it every day until it was destroyed in Gordon's Cradle. Beck quickly built a reputation for being an eccentric, outgoing and generous life in the small village. His easy-going manner and kind heart earned him the title of the "Village Angel" and despite having to hide his Selkie identity, found himself fitting in with the human community of Purilin.

## Appearance

In his human form, Beck is an average-height person with dark brown mousy hair and eyes. His skin is medium to fair in color and his hair is just above shoulder-length, medium bangs framing his face. Beck has a rather distinctive hooked nose and a large, uneven scar on his right cheek which he received from his initial capture. He is scrawny with very little muscle mass, but is surprisingly strong. Whitney has described him as always having cold skin.

In his partial-Selkie form, Beck's ears become pointed, his eyes become an icy blue surrounded by black sclerae and his canines become elongated. A grey dappled pattern also appears across his back, shoulders, arms and legs and webs appear between his clawed fingers.

As a Selkie, Beck appears to be a medium-sized Spotted Seal.

## Personality

Beck is a kind-hearted yet anxious Selkie with a high sense of empathy. He tries to see the best in everyone and is often the voice of both reason and comfort in group settings. Despite his young age, he is quite wise and uses compassion in his advice to others. Due to having to hide his true identity, Beck learned to rely on his wits as well as his heightened senses like being able to see in the dark. He is also very selfless, having regularly risked his life for others and tending to the wounded and ill without judgement. Though a bit bumbling in his attempts to help others, Beck will go to extreme measures to protect his friends, including having to kill the naga that attempted to assassinate Prince Murdock in The Pit.

While Beck not to let it bother him, he holds an immense sense of grief and survivors' guilt for his entire family. On the rare occasion that he cannot hold his turmoil in, he shifts back to his partial Selkie form. Only Whitney has been able to successfully talk him down from his feral state.

## Relationships

### Whitney Blackbird

Beck and Whitney are close friends and platonic soulmates. After Beck saved Whitney's life when most others wouldn't have batted an eye, Whitney expressed his gratefulness via a promise that he would always protect Beck as best he could. Despite Beck blaming himself for not being able to save Hazel's life, Whitney does not blame him. As their relationship grew closer, Whitney developed a soft spot for Beck and is the most open with him. After the ocean incident, Whitney learned that Beck was a Selkie, but regarded him in the same manner, appreciating that Beck trusted him with that secret. While both can be annoyed with each other at times, they remain extremely loyal. It is later revealed that Whitney is the biological father of Beck's daughter following a drunken one-night stand.

### Marion Dreyfuss

Marion was Beck's husband whom he met after being sold to him. Marion, the son of wealthy Codurran investors, had heard of a young Selkie that had been caught off the Western Isles and made haste from Fenne to see him at the auction, knowing anyone else who won that bid wouldn't be nearly as kind. Beck was initially distrustful of Marion and still traumatized from witnessing his family's violent murders, but with time, came to like his husband. Marion was a steady presence and always provided for Beck, teaching him how to smith silver and read. Until the day he died, Marion was a quiet but gentle giant who genuinely loved Beck after getting to know him. After his death, Beck kept their wedding rings in a sentimental jewelry piece.

### Sabina Dreyfuss

Bina was Beck's daughter who only lived for a few days. Even before she was born, Beck felt a deep sense of unconditional love for her and sang her lullabies, many of which were passed down by his own mother. Her birth took a grueling sixty hours, but she was born with a full head of dark hair resembling Beck's. Beck was silently devastated for her premature death and swore that he would never have any other children because he feared he would lose them too. Edelweiss, which surrounded their home in Fenne, reminds him of her and the other children he lost.

## Trivia

* Beck is left-handed.
* He is accident-prone and has broken his arm three different times.
* Beck speaks with a thick Glaswegian accent.
* Beck and Whitney have an off-and-on again friends-with-benefit relationship.
* Beck had three children before Bina: Hugo and Hermione (twins) and Eugenia.
	+ Hugo was a stillbirth.
	+ Hermione died at 5-months-old.