Beck Dreyfuss

**Beckham "Beck" Clark Dreyfuss** *(née Anora Camille Dreyfuss)* is the son of Monté and Elsa Dreyfuss. He is the younger brother of Viola Dreyfuss and the father of Bina Caillat Dreyfuss. He is a professional cellist and Professor of Music at Olkland College.

## Appearance

Beck is an average-height Ashkenazi Jewish man with shaggy medium dark brown hair and light brown eyes. He has a welcoming demeanor and is often wearing brightly patterned buttown-downs, cargo pants and Converse shoes. Beck has fair to medium skin with a distinctive mole in the middle of his left cheek. Beck went on T shortly after the birth of his daughter, but has yet to have gender affirming surgery.

## Early Life

Beck was born as the second and last child of Elsa, a Welsh-born architect and Monté, a French-Jewish, medical researcher. He and his sister, Viola, shared a close but playfully antagonizing relationship growing up and remain close as adults. Beck grew up in the suburbs of Guyancourt, but often spent summers with his paternal grandparents in Giv'atayam, Israel.

The Dreyfusses moved just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when Beck was beginning high school. There, he met and befriended Vida Masood, another new student. Beck participated in the school's orchestra playing cello and decided that he wanted to teach music someday. He graduated with high honors and enrolled in Berklee College of Music.

## Personality

Beck is a kind-hearted, easy-going and enthusiastic person, but has been compared to a "clumsy puppy". He is open-minded, a good conversationalist and honest. While he is prone to accidents and other compromising situations, he has an optimistic outlook. While he may have childish reactions at times and be completely oblivious at others, he is a professional in his field and acts with authority, grace and confidence when he needs to. Beck is highly sensitive and self-identifies as an "empath", but it makes him all the more caring and attentive to others' needs.

## Relationships

### Viola Dreyfuss

Beck and his sister, Viola, have an extremely close relationship. With a 3-year age difference, Beck looked up to Viola growing up and thinks of her as his hero. He enjoys talking to, playing pranks on and spending time with Viola. While Beck lives in Connecticut and Viola, New Jersey, they find time to get together at least twice a year to catch up and reminisce on their childhood.

### Vida Masood

Beck and Vida are best friends and former roommates. They met in high school and have been close ever since, bonding over the fact that they were both new students from different countries. Despite Beck being Jewish and Vida being Muslim, they lived quite well together when sharing an apartment in Olkland.

### Marion Caillat

Marion is Beck's ex-husband with whom he has a strained relationship with since their divorce in 2018. They met on a plane going to France in 2013 where both were visiting relatives and quickly started a relationship before marrying within a year. The pair moved to New York City where Marion was working in the fashion industry and Beck was working on his Masters degree. While Beck is more laid-back and care-free, Marion is more rigid, particular and organized. The marriage worked out alright until Beck's unexpected cryptic pregnancy which caused stress between the two as they were unprepared to become parents. After it was deemed that Beck would not be able to care for their daughter as he was in debt and struggling with mental health issues, Marion received full custody. Eventually, Beck regained 30% of custody and sees their daughter every other weekend. They have a polite, but distant relationship now.

### Bina Caillat-Dreyfuss

Bina is Beck's daughter and the light of his life. Although she was unexpected, she was loved unconditionally as soon as she was born. Her birth story is interesting as Beck went into labor when he was performing with his string quartet and for the sake of the concert, continued for another hour and a half. He waited too long and ended up giving birth backstage of Rockwood Music Hall. Bina takes after her father as being inquisitive, gentle and a bit uncoordinated. She calls him "Papa".

### Monté and Elsa Dreyfuss

Beck has a closer relationship with his mother than his father. Monté, who holds more Conservative views, took a while to accept his son's queer identity, but Elsa was instantly supportive.

## Trivia

* His Hebrew name is Saadia.
* He is fluent in English and French and knows a little bit of Hebrew.
* He holds dual citizenship in France and the United States.
* He has an extremely low alcohol tolerance.