Beamabeth

> "You're nothing but a name!(...)Without it, you would be nothing! All they love is your name!"
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> --Mosca Mye, *Twilight Robbery/Fly Trap*
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## Beamabeth

### Affiliation

Sir Feldroll's ex-fianceeBrand Appleton's ex-fiancee

Skellow's accomplice

The Luck of Toll (secret, ultimately revoked)

## Physical description

### Eye color

Blue

Beamabeth Marlebourne is an antagonist, arguably the primary villain in the novel *Twilight Robbery/Fly Trap*.

She is the adopted daughter of the mayor of Toll, and is portrayed as the pretty damsel in distress when she is kidnapped, although she is actually the mastermind behind the crime.

## Appearance and Personality

Beamabeth is a pretty young woman with blond hair and blue eyes. She has pale skin with only two small freckles near her eyebrow. She likes to wear beautiful dresses and her hair is usually curled into ringlets.

Although she looks flawlessly pretty, she is cunning and manipulative, unafraid to use her status and looks to get what she wants behind everyone's backs. In truth, she is greedy and cruel.

## Biography

**WARNING: This section has spoilers. Read at your own risk!**

#### **Her Past**

She was born in Toll-by-Night during the hour dedicated to Goodman Boniface, He Who Sends the Sun's Rays to Bless the Earth, who is considered to be among the most auspicious of all Beloved. As a result, she was given the second-best name in Toll, Beamabeth, second only to the Luck's name, Paragon.

Because of her name, she was taken away from her real family and transferred to Toll-by-Day, where she was adopted by Graywing Marlebourne, the mayor of Toll. She grew up to become a beautiful and charming young woman, loved by everyone in Toll.

#### **Her Love Life**

One of her best friends was a physician's apprentice, Brand Appleton, who was born under Goodlady Sparkentress, She Who Helps Burn the Stubble to Ready the Earth for New Growth. As they grew up together, they became lovers. However, their relationship ended after Sparkentress is reclassified into night, when Brand is transferred to Toll-by-Night despite his previously upstanding reputation. Sir Feldroll of Millepoyse, the young governor of Waymakem becomes Beamabeth's new suitor.

#### **The Crime and The 'Rescue'**

After the events in *Fly By Night*, Mandelion is taken over by radicals. In consequence, Toll has banned all forms of trade with the city. However, this has greatly reduced the supply of certain luxury items in Toll, since they are imported goods normally brought from Mandelion. Beamabeth, who has grown attached to enjoying those luxury items, devises a scheme to use her good reputation and name to get as much as she can before she weds Sir Feldroll and leaves Toll for Waymakem.

She enlists the help of a nightling named Rabilan Skellow to approach her ex-lover Brand Appleton. Together, they plan to kidnap Beamabeth so Brand can be reunited with her. Skellow sets off with a group of his allies to a Pawnbroker's Auction to hire a Romantic Facilitator who would arrange the kidnapping. However, due to her meeting with Clent and Mosca, Beamabeth knows that her plan has been tampered with, and she tries to work the situation to her favor. Beamabeth agrees to become the bait in Clent's plan to thwart her own kidnapping. After the plan is relayed to her, she learns about her true identity as the Luck of Toll from a letter by Mistress Leap, the midwife who delivered her. Shaken at the prospect of being locked up forever, she tells nobody about it. In the future, she would arrange multiple attempts to murder Mistress Leap to hide the truth, all of which would fail. Meanwhile, she secretly warns Skellow about Clent's plan.

As a result, Beamabeth is successfully 'kidnapped', and the Soul of Santainette, an emerald, is ordered to be given as ransom. Brand is made to believe that the ransom is their source of money to support their life outside Toll. In truth, Beamabeth has asked Skellow to snatch the ransom first and double-cross Brand, since the money from the emerald is actually for her own use to buy luxury items upon returning to Toll-by-Day after betraying Brand. However, both Skellow's and Brand's attempts to retrieve the ransom fail due to the involvement of Mosca and the Locksmiths.

Being separated from Brand, Beamabeth tries to make up a plan with Skellow but Mosca and her allies appear once again to 'rescue' her. After all of Skellow's friends are dealt with, Skellow tries to escape with Beamabeth by threatening to shoot her. However, she double-crosses Skellow and is ultimately 'rescued'.

#### **Her Fall from Grace**

After being 'rescued', Beamabeth settles back into her charmed lifestyle in Toll-by-Day. However, Mosca inadvertently learns the truth about Beamabeth's involvement in her own kidnapping. In response, Beamabeth threatens to use her reputation and good name against Mosca if she ever reveals the truth.

Meanwhile, Toll-by-Day is in a state of panic due to Sir Feldroll's attacks in order to pass through Toll with his army. In the panic, Brand is found, captured and brought to the mayor because of his involvement in the kidnapping and his claims of murdering the Luck, who is thought to be Paragon. In response, the mayor announces the person with the second-best name in Toll, Beamabeth, to be the next Luck. However, Clent appears and relays the story of Paragon's birth, without stating outright the identity or gender of the baby.

Beamabeth, desperate because she does not want to be locked up, lies and says that the baby in Clent's story is, in fact, her, and that she is not born under Boniface. However, she realizes too late that her confession confirms that she is born under Goodman Palpitattle, making her on equal standing as Mosca herself, a nightling despised by Toll-by-Day. Clent seals her fate by relaying the story of her involvement in the kidnapping, which everyone now believes due to their faith towards the Beloved.

As attention shifts to the eventual fall of Toll, Beamabeth is said to be last seen with the mayor, wearing a veil. It is speculated that her name is replaced with one along the lines of 'Buzzletrice'.