Bea Santello

Name: Beatrice Santello

Nickname: Bea

Species: Crocodile

Age: 20

Personality: Bea has a very gloomy and cold attitude, due to both having gone through numerous unfortunate events in less than two years time, and seeing the slow economic decay of Possum Springs first-hand. She has no patience for jokes or facetiousness and reacts to these with sarcasm or anger depending on her mood. Her heavy smoking habit is likely a coping mechanism for the stresses in her life. She's quite grounded in reality. Her hardships seem to have made her cynical, her fears are of relatively mundane and practical matters. Similarly, her escapism consists mostly of imagining the future she thought she was going to have, but which she has been denied of.

Despite her dour outlook on life, Bea possesses a strong sense of responsibility and duty. When her mother died, Bea shelved her dreams of going to college in order to look after her father, feeling she has no other choice. She often feels guilty whenever she's involved by her friends in any potential criminal activity. She's also trying to quit smoking, using a fake cigarette when indoors. She's straight, and lost her virginity at a math camp the summer before 11th grade.

Bea works at a hardware store called the Ol' Pickaxe, the store was owned and run by her father, but after his breakdown Bea had to step up and run the store by herself to support her family. She does everything in the store, she's the defacto-manager, stocker, cashier, mechanic, advertiser, etc.

In the spare free time she has, she plays in a small band with her friends. She plays the parts of the drums on her PC, having never learned how to play the actual drums, so she uses a software to play her parts. The band doesn't have a name yet, since it's mostly a hobby thing.

Bea lives in a small apartment along with her father. The apartment is on the third floor of a building located at Maple Street, and is a small place with two rooms, a kitchen, living room and a bathroom. Bea's room is small and bare, with most of her stuff still in boxes despite being years since the move. She sleeps on a mattress placed over the plank grid of an unfinished bedframe. She owns an old boxy, red sedan which she usess to drive around.

Bea is agnostic, not being too sure if a god truly exists. Though, she did believe in God when she was younger. Despite her current religious beliefs, she still prays in desperate situations, in hope that the prayer is heard.

Bea has a very small group of friends. Namely: Mae, Angus and Gregg,

Mae - Mae was Bea's best friend when they were younger, but they began growing apart after 7th grade. Bea was resentful towards Mae since she couldn't go to college while Mae did. After Mae returned to the town, the two reformed their friendship and became close friends again. Bea often seems to find Mae childish and annoying, but she's also forgiving and tends to apologize if she feels she's treated Mae too harshly. And while their relationship may appear rocky, Bea thinks Mae is the closest thing she has to a sister. Mae is a dark blue cat, sarcastic and jaded. Mae's is known to be energetic and agile, enjoying to climb things whenever possible.

Angus - Angus is a large, auburn bear with round, thick-rimmed, black glasses. Angus is a quiet and polite individual with an interest in science. Bea and Angus have been friends since 8th grade. She volunteered to join the band after Angus told her how upset Gregg was about Casey's disappearance. She and Angus are close enough that she's comfortable lending him her car whenever he needs to borrow it. She believes that Angus can do better than Gregg and thinks Gregg is not good enough for Angus.

Gregg - Despite being in the band together with him, Bea doesn't really hang out with Gregg, to her she's just Angus' boyfriend. Bea seems to have low opinions towards him, stating that once Angus and Gregg move to Bright Harbor, Angus will realize he has options, and break up with Gregg. She believes that Gregg has bipolar disorder, based on his manic and depressive mood swings, though this is unconfirmed. Gregg's an ochre fox, he is talkative, exuberant, and rebellious.

Appearance: Bea is a tall anthropomorphic crocodile with dark teal scales all over her body. Her long snout is full of very sharp teeth. Her whole body is covered in smooth scales and her palms and fingers have lighter scales that are very soft to the touch. She has a slender figure, with a thin waist, shapely hips, long legs and a firm, supple, peach-shaped butt. Her tail is long and thick, a very long lizard-like tail ending in a tapered tip. Bea's breasts are average in size, but are perky with a nice shape. Her butt is covered in fine, smooth scales that are pleasant to the touch. Her chest is also covered in scales of a lighter shade, and her breasts are firm yet soft. Her arms, legs, thighs, abdomen, midriff, crotch, chest, shoulders and face are covered in scales. Bea has a pair of blue eyes. Bea's head is completely hairless, having smooth scales covering the top of her head. She has black crests running down the middle of her back and tail, and three large crest-like protrusion coming from the back of her head.

Wardrobe: Bea dresses in a goth-like manner, wearing entirely black clothing to match her somber personality. She can usually be found wearing a black sweater dress and tall boots.

Background: Bea worked hard throughout high school, was valedictorian of her graduating class, and aced her college applications. She was on track to go to college, but her mother eventually succumbed to cancer in her senior year of high school. The costs of her mother's medical care and subsequent funeral forced Bea and her father to sell the family home in which Bea grew up in and moving into an apartment building on Maple Street. Mr. Santello ultimately did not take the series of events well and had a complete breakdown, forcing Bea to remain in Possum Springs to help him recover and to take her parent's place at the family business. This caused Bea to shelve her dreams of college, which in her eyes, was the moment when her life had ended. She wanted to be a doctor.

Family: -Mr. Santello - Bea has a strained relationship with her father after her mother's death. While she feels responsible for taking care of her father, she possesses some resentment towards him as she works hard every day, while he mostly stays at home. Mr. Santello's psyche is known to be fragile and unstable.

-Mrs. Santello - Bea lost her mother to cancer during her senior year of High School. Mrs. Santello is buried in the town cemetery and Bea still visits her grave from time to time.