Beta Senpai

## Overall

* Main Outfit
* Midstory
* Wedding

Beta "Benji" Senpai is the main protagonist of the "In Bloom" series. He is a 19-year-old college dropout who lives and used to attend higher education in West Virginia; Beta is disliked and frowned upon by his peers for his behavior.

Beta is based on the scraped concept art of the character Senpai from the game Friday Night Funkin.

## Appearance

Beta has an average build with wider hips. His messy hair is a natural burnt orange, he dyes the ends of it black. One of his most notable features is his eyes. He has heterochromia, his left eye is blue and his right eye is green. Beta has facial hair that he grows out rugged. Beta has multiple piercings, this includes a nose ring and and both of his ears pierced.

### Main

Throughout the majority of the story Beta is very lazy with his outfits. He is most known for wear an oversized plaid green jacket with baggy jeans. Under his jacket he wears an off white shirt that is stained.

### Mid-Story

While on the run Beta changes his clothing to a more darker tone. He wears a black ripped sleeve with darker jeans. On his feet he wears sneakers.

### Thanksgiving

During the Thanksgiving scene Beta has grown to blend in with his family again. Instead of wearing his green attire he matches with his brothers by wearing blues and reds. The outfit he has on is a navy button up with a pink plaid tie. On his bottoms he wear black jeans along with a pink belt. He wear pink sneakers on his feet.

### Wedding

At the wedding Beta almost become unrecognizable. Along with tidy cloths Beta has cut his hair shorter and has cleanly shaven his face.

The attire he wear for the wedding is set to match Senpai. He wears a dark red button up

## Personality

Beta like his brothers has a very outgoing personality. He loves to be around people but because of his recent depressive attitude and bad hygiene habits, it has caused people to push him away. Being pushed away has caused Beta to close himself off to others and lash out. This has become the biggest issues when it comes to his family. Beta had grown to resent them and is jealous of all of his brother looks and success. Beta is also a very crude and is humorous person. Beta is also the smartest, leading him to struggle with school.

Beta throughout the fanfic is shown to be a very emotional person, he cries very easily.

## Relationships

### Fred

Fred is the most explored relationships that Beta has. The majority of the story is spent with these characters interacting.

Fred and Beta at first hate each other. Beta is fearful of Fred and their powers. He also is not happy to be stuck with him for the rest of his life. Fred also seems to criticize Beta about his looks and wild actions. As they get to know each other Fred starts to become very protective of Beta. He finds him funny.

### Senpai

Beta resents Senpai a lot for abandoning him in high school and college. Beta and Senpai used to be extremely close but growing up with different lifestyles has caused them to drift apart. Beta having this anger has caused him to lash out at Senpai and avoid talking to him. Senpai still very much cares about Beta and worries about him.

### Alpha

Beta does not like Alpha in any way whatsoever at first. Beta views him as an egoistical man who does not care at all about the family. Beta especially has resentment for Alpha for coming out to their family before him. Because of this Beta feels like he cannot come out for fear that he is disappointing people further with nothing to show for it. It is hinted that Beta also likes Alpha's husband Charlie a lot and that he feels like Alpha does not deserve him.

Alpha and Beta's relationship is so bad that Alpha did not invitee him to his wedding and refuses to speak to him. Senpai has admitted that the both of them talk behind Beta's back in a negative way.

### Charlie

Charlie is at first very unsure of Beta. Still, it is shown that at the beginning that Charlie has sympathy for him relating to his mental health and family issues.

## Background

Beta was born February 14, 2002 along with his brother Senpai. Beta even when he was a young boy, always felt like he was different from his brothers. Unlike his brothers he wild, rowdy, and liked playing in the mud. This lead for his father to like him a lot. Throughout his life Beta grew up not preforming best in school and feeling the least attractive towards his brothers. This did not bother him unlike he was a teenager.

In the year Beta noticed that his father started showing signs of being sick. When going to the doctors Dalton found out he had late term cancer. Beta did not handle his passing well at all. The other members of his family cared but not as much as Beta. It did not help that Dalton told Beta he just had to move on without crying. This caused Beta to also suppress these feelings.

Beta's mental health only got worse when Alpha decided to move away from home for college and Senpai avoiding him at his school. Alpha and Beta never got along throughout their childhood but Beta always secretly looked up to him as another father figure. Beta already was mad with Alpha with his lack of emotion from their dad passing this, him moving away only made that tension worst. Though in the prequal, Shanty it is important to not that Beta gave him advice on online messaging app for his long distance relationship.

With Senpai, Beta was unsure on why he was avoiding him. At this point they did not even share a room anymore because Senpai took over Alphas.

Even though Beta started to give up on his high school work his mother was still able to push him to get it done and also apply to school. He was able to graduate and get accepted to a university out of state. Phi agreed that moving away from the house could be a push for him to approve his habits. This did not work out. Beta barely studied to pass his classes and made no effort to clean himself or his room. His hygiene got so bad that it caught the attention of the other college student. This made many rumors and Beta's name became well know. After this Beta was able to get hookups but never any real meaningful relationships. Beta was somehow able to survive his freshman year

## In Bloom

Beta is introduced in the first chapter titled "How I met your Plant" living at college in his dorm. He suffers from a lot of mental health issues. It is hard for him to get out of bed, he is not hygienic, and is failing almost all of his classes. He has a lack of friends and family support. One day when he decided to go to his Biology class his professor offers him an opportunity for extra credit to avoid failing his class. For this extra credit, he has to take care of a plant and document its growth. Beta does not want to go back home to face his mother so he takes this chance.

Beta goes to a plant nursey and finds a weird looking cactus to take to his dorm. He named the plant Fred. The next day while analyzing the plant, pricks his finger on the thorns causing his blood to bleed out on it. This action awakens the plant and scowled Beta on his choice of words. Beta becomes terrified at the sound of this plant talking to him and backs away. He avoids yelling out to his roommate out of fear that he would be seen as crazy.

The two of them have clear tension and Beta wants nothing to do with this new creature that is in his life. Over the next few days though Beta is able to bound with Fred. Instead of pricking his finger he comes up with the idea to go to a hospital and steal blood by presenting to donate blood. Beta announces that he could probably flirt with one the nurses there because of his old Senpai family charm. Beta goes into the hosipal while Fred stays outside. It does not go as plan at the hospital because the nurse helping him out turn out to be a male nurse named Zach. Beta is lucky and is still able to flirt with Zach asking if he could take some blood home. Zach denies him but Beta is still somehow able to convince him to lead him to the back where the blood is stored. While in the back before Beta could react Zach starts kissing him. Beta enjoys it but remembers why he is there so he assaults him to knock him down. While Zach is down Beta is able to grab some pints of blood.

## Trivia

* Beta has the biggest hips out of his brothers and he is very proud of it. This is the case even if he is usually self-conscious about his boy type.
* Despite a lot of people finding Beta very ugly a number of people also find him very attractive. Beta never has had an actual relationship but has had a number of hookups. They all make him feel empty inside.
* Beta likes to collect women's bras and men's boxers.
* Beta states that he likes men but he is unsure about how he feels about women. Beta overall find women very attractive but prefers the emotional company of men.
* He likes kids but never wants to have a kid of his own.
* He loves Garfield.
* He cannot sing but is able to play guitar amazingly.
* He is a gamer and plays a variety of different kinds of games.
* Despite not working out Beta is extremely strong.
* Beta likes feet.

## Gallery

* *View full gallery here.*Beta by @graverstoneOrginal Concept art by @PhantomArcadeBeta and Fred by @Oogie\_woogle