SM: Bene (Benedict) Belight

 

☆ No: 0052
☆ Name: Bene (Benedict) Belight
☆ Rank: 04
☆ Type: D

☆ Age: 12
☆ Gender: Male
☆ Height: 123  cm
☆ Root: Honey bee (Apis mellifera)
☆ Side:  White

☆ Ability:  [R5; Deva; --]
    Deva; Unlimited amount of invisible arms of almost any strength and shape, yet requires training to learn to properly control them.

☆ Winter Uniform: Default with earwarmers, gloves and scarf. Hides wings underneath it.

☆ Personality:
Cheerful Recently more grumpy | Hardworking workaholic | Pedantic | Neat  | Extremely polite | Stubborn | Innocent | Bossy | Easilly annoyed | Tries to be helpfull
Always look positively at everything happening. There is nothing happening without a reason! However he does not believe in miracles. Only hard work and work all the time. He loves doing house chores, mostly cleaning related duties. Give him a mop or a dust-cloth, show him a room to clean and he will buzz away happily to set on his tasks. He has certain beliefs and it’s very hard to make him think otherwise. However he never really acts on negative thoughts. He will just glare and stay stubbornly silent if something is not like he believes it should be. Bene do love small and menial tasks and will do almost anything gladly. If he’s deprived from any kind of work, he will start to turn restless and be unable to calm down, twindling with his hands and buzzing around, looking for stuff to do. If someone else ‘steals’ Bene’s work, he will get angry, although not violent. Just pouting and not talking to that person. Only times one can catch Bene be lazy is sleep or when he has eaten his fill. Then, at least for hour or two, he will be content with relaxing.
Due to living in rather sheltered environment for almost all his life - is quite innocent of how world works. Would probably not be able to live alone.
Recently has grown more vocal about his thoughts and his cheerfulness faded slightly, letting him become more grumpy. He is still quite pedantic, although can get easily annoyed or be more bossy. Although he tries to be helpful to others, mostly in maters unrelated to cleaning or fixing others messes.

☆ Likes|Dislikes:
+ Flowers and plants
+ Sweets
+ honey and sugar
+ cleaning and cleaning utensils.
+ praises
+ flying (buzzing around)
+ dusty and moldy/trashy places

- Cold
- Outside (except on warm and sunny days)
- being without work
- work being taken away
- having to endure looking at something not clean
- dirty things
- unorganized stuff
- being ignored when asks something or says something
- dusty and moldy/trashy places

☆ Background:

TL;DR: Born as servant at grand mansion with unknown father and cumimi mother. Learned everything he knows so far in there, working as maid/servant. Till not too long ago was gambled away by one of the young masters. Exchanged multiple hands, before being sold to an underground slave market, but had fallen sick due to low cold resistance. In the end was forgotten, when place was cleared due to a police raid coming to clean the market up. Found by police, he was given to church and, after making his recovery, was sent to house near Degate.

Long version:
Born in a wealthy mansion, from the start of his life Bene was set to be a servant. His mother was a maid in the household and he as well was trained to clean and keep order of things from a very young age. Although he wasn’t the only servant kid in the mansion, he still didn’t get to play with others around his age much as they all had various works to do. And even if all the works were done, there always could be found another one by either head maid or their masters.

Mansion itself was quite gigantic, and old rich family in multiple generations lived there most of the time, being taken care off by a large staff of servants. As Bene grew and things he could do grew as well, he was added in the staff as well. So, almost all his life little bee worked alongside his mother and other staff. Most of it was insect based cumimi that were already in lifelong servitude to the family. Some were traded in for other servants sometimes, and some were pure humans as well, although they were minority. Henceforth Bene started to see humans as special existences. Something to serve for. As all the other adults and kids did around him. Mother as well taught him not to go against what masters ordered no matter what it was. They were their benefactors and life in mansion was quite good. You just needed to clean and organize things and follow orders, while food, clothing, beds and even some basic education was given for free to them! Much better than outside world. So Bene never really ventured out of grounds and spent almost all his life indoors.

House master kids had their own teachers coming to them, while servant kids were tutored by senior staff. Manners, work ethics and other such things were handled by them, but once a week special tutor came to children to teach them reading, writing and arithmetics from a young age. Good servant needed to be able to handle these things with ease. Those with some special talents or beautiful voices even received extra lessons in entertainment - music, poetry or similar. So Bene couldn’t complain. Even his mother at some rare free moments red a book to him or sang a pretty song, which he cherished. She never though replied to his questions about his father. And he never asked too directly, although he sometimes heard whispers about having some similarities with Grandmasters second son. He paid it no heed and decided to believe his mother, who said that he was her baby bee.

After Bene turned seven, his mother was sent away. He didn’t knew reason why or where, as no-one could reply to him about this either. In the end he was told not to worry about it and stopped asking. He only occasionally missed her, but he was sure that there must be a reason why masters sent her away. So he didn’t question and just let it be. Although, as time passed, he stared to notice more and more that some of his friends disappeared. Not too often and not too many, but it was never really explained.

Shortly before Bene turned twelve, he was called by one of the young masters to accompany him for an errand. Being the servant he was taught to be, Bene complied and followed. Their destination was a casino. Unknown to him, the family’s younger generation had a severe gambling addiction. They gambled away slowly not just their wealth in cards, but even some of their staff. After all, in some circles certain cumimi’s were quite popular. And they had a perfect upbring for servitude as well. Besides, sometimes they could gain a lot more than they lost! However this was the reason Bene’s friends were starting to go missing. And now Bene himself was brought there as a betting chip in a certain game.

Young master lost and Bene was informed that he will have a new master. Boy was not exactly sure how it would work, although he didn’t complain. After all, he had to listen to masters! And if one of the master said that master has changed, then he will have to follow the new master. His new lenght of servitude was not too long, as man wasn’t really interested in bee cumimi. He just asked him some questions, watched him fly around a bit and what not, before betting him in another game without much thought. So forth Bene exchanged hands quite a few times for the next week or so,almost every night having to sleep somewhere else unknown, before he was sold to underground market. Although interesting and bit exotic, insects weren’t as popular as beasts.

All the moving around with owner change put a lot of stress on the young bee’s body and due to cold weather, he caught a cold very easily. More used to indoor life and not being treated with care, he grew more and more sick in the underground market and his new ‘owner’ complained about not being able to sell him due to him being sick. He tried to get better, but conditions only grew worse. Till, during a hasty running away from an unexpected law force raid, he was left behind. He was found and given into church’s  care. After getting over his cold and reaching his twelvth year - Bene was sent to the house by graveyard…

☆ Time spent in house:  [December]
After arriving in the house, Bene was rather shocked to learn that nobody did almost anything here! Well, he came to understanding about missions and importance of those as well as abilities, as he talked with other kids and learned more about their tasks in the house. However he couldn't stay put and calm, soon enough starting a through-out spring cleaning, after doing some small cleaning related tasks in help to Maria and Olivia. The only times he has gone outside is to go on missions with other kids. Otherwise he has been cleaning or reading something at a rare moment of rest.
Soon after he came here, he started to have an odd dreams about being a young lady with very critical gaze. She didn't clean, but had no calms about ordering others. Well, dreams weren't as bad for Bene till the very last one he saw of himself being turned into an automata and experiencing emotions he had never thought were possible. He still feels uneasy remembering it, but continues to bury himself in work.

Despite making himself busy, Bene still managed to meet other kids, spending more time especially with Bandit, who pulled him into some odd games. He even got pulled along on another mission. Where he spent 3 years in a dream world receiving elite soldier training and gaining wast experience on hand-to-hand combat. Although he is not currently polishing those skills further, he still knows quite a few tricks. Although gray storm left him a bit confused and little disturbed, it wasn't anything a good dose of hard work wouldn't cure. At least till world apart him broke a day later with attack on the house. Asides from graystorm - it was really the first time he had experienced something like that and it made him uneasy. Although Bene continues to put up a strong front and continues to try bury himself in work (with Bandit disturbing him whenever he feels like it). 

However, asides from work - there were other things happening in the house as well. Secret conference let him learn a bit more about teamwork and allowed him to gain a new weapon - mop. Although this mop was not usable for cleaning - it still could pack quite a punch, coupled with Bene's hand-to-hand combat experience. Most of the time mop stays in its other form - as watch around his wrist. 
Although the new addition was no the end of events happening in the house. But Bene had his work to do, making sure everything was clean till he had to head out on a mission. 
Mission was annoying. His teammates were annoying and lazy. And he had no idea if they really finished it or other simply grew too tired half-way through it and decided to go home. So Bene ended returning home rather irritated. 

Although still slightly hung up on the mission, Bene quickly returned back to his usual self, spending first day mostly resting though, but soon enough getting back into cleaning gear. Bandit managed to drag bee out as well, pulling him along to a slumber party, which ended not being exactly to his tastes. 

☆ Trivia:
- Believes the Priest’s being his new masters. Listens to their every word/order.
- Currently employed by church as member of cleaning staff in the house.
- Has low cold resistance and hates going outside much. Only when it’s absolutely necessary.
- Easily gets sick in cold.
- Likes to fly, but tries to avoid bothering others as his wings do make a soft, low buzzing sound (similar to bee’s wings, but bit lower)
- Will try to fix up others to proper outlook, if sees something wrong.
- Has a lot of varied household skills including sewing, gardening, cleaning (of course), fixing things and some others, asides from cooking.
- Introduces himself as Bene to peers and Benedict to ‘masters’ or those he believes are higher up in hierarchy. (mostly humans or adults)

☆ Previous apps
☆ Relationship chart (link to come)

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_Credits:
Character created and drawn by me, WolfsNeverDie
App design by tshuki