Bethany Brooks

BETHANY
Portrayed by INDIRA VARMA
Statistics
Fullname	Bethany Dahlia Brooks
Birthday	December 26
Species	Human
Age	29
Height	171 cm
Weight	54 kg
Eyes	Chocolate Brown
Hair	Dark Brown
Occupation	Past Life Regression Therapist

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Claim to Fame

Thanks to my business as a Past Life Regression Therapist, many people know me as a "kook". Once they get to actually know me though, they're generally surprised to find that I'm a soft spoken woman with a sound knowledge of history, as well as being a kind face in the community.

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Biography

Past Life

In my current life, I was born to a loving single mother in Bristol, England. My mother, who only called herself, "Lucinda Deveraux" and believed herself to have been a very wealthy woman from the early days of New Orleans, who had a sordid affair with James Pitot, the second mayor of the city. My mother was a past life regressionist who named me Bethany because she swore it was my past life. A maidservant to Princess Joan, wife of Llywelyn the Great.

As you can probably surmise, my life was pretty strange. Mum always had people in the house, and she always had tales to tell them of their past lives, or worked with them to find out if they would reunite with loved ones in a new life. She wasn't a telepath or psychic who would scam people. She was a trained hypnotherapist, with a penchant for the odd is all.

Mum didn't really like Bristol. She always said it never felt like home. That it felt she should be living where her life used to be. So when I was five, mum packed us up and moved us to New Orleans.

It was a good thing we moved to New Orleans. Mum met a man she said was another of Lucinda's lovers in the past. After a year, she married Mr. Brooks, and he adopted me as his own. He was an extremely nice, extremely generous man who ensured that mum and I were never wanting for anything. He took care of us, and supported us, and never once laughed at mum or her odd choice of occupations. He was also a psychologist, so he and mum set up a practice together.

School was boring. I mean, it wasn't really boring but it was just school. I wasn't ever really bullied, I didn't do anything extraordinary. Though I did find myself with an interest in sociology, history, and psychology. When high school was done, I enrolled at Columbia University in their Psychology department. By twenty four, I was finished my schooling and had my Psy. D.

Mum and Mr. Brooks wanted me to come join their practice. For a year, to get my feet wet, I did. During that time, mum demanded that I get my certificate of hynpotherapy. I stayed on for another six months after that, but then I heard about a new psychology practice opening up in Dallas, and I couldn't pass it up.

In Dallas, I felt at home. I don't know whether it was the city, or the people, or perhaps just the fact that, as mum would say, I was "destined" to be there. It was easy to get involved with the community, easy to join a practice, and easy to eventually morph my position into something more of past life regression therapist that dos hypnotherapy on the side.

Once I started focusing more on this practice, I started to "hear" things. The spirit world. A connection with the past. These guides that are sent to me show me the truth about the lives in the past, and I listen to them without fail.

I've been here for nearly four years now, and I wouldn't trade the city for the world. My purpose is here, and though my profession is just as strange as my mum's, I wouldn't trade it either.

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Character Details

Personality

I'm a quiet woman. Generally meek and mild mannered. I try to help out in the community when I can, and while I don't have any reason to bake cupcakes or attend PTA meetings, I do volunteer at the soup kitchen around the holidays.

I'm also a bit strange. I love history, and the past. I love delving into lives and regressing people to find out who they were. Sometimes it's pretty amazing, and I can tell them they were related to royalty. Sometimes it's less so, but still fun to do.

I'm a bit of an anachronism. I feel at home in Dallas, but at the same time I have days where I feel completely out of time. As though my current life belongs here, but my past life is looking to be somewhere else. It's hard to explain, but I carry it with me all the time.

As for my view on vampires? Well, they're just people that have stopped themselves from experiencing any other life than the one they were in when they died. They're cheating their afterlife, really. I have no ill will toward them though. My general theory is that they've lost someone close to them, and are holding in their current life until they find the reincarnation of the one they lost.

Skills and Abilities

Psychology

I have a Psychology Doctorate, and use it to work as a Psychologist in a private practice, helping assess and treat those with deep-seated psychological issues.

Hypnotherapy

I have an accredited Certificate of Hypnotherapy, and use the techniques to offer Past Life Regression Therapy to those that are interested in such things. I could probably make someone cluck like a chicken whenever they smelled coffee, but I really never saw the point.

Graphology

I can use my psychology knowledge to analyze the differences in handwriting. While I'm not as good as a forensic graphologist in that I can't differentiate between when someone is committing forgery or not, I can read the slants and line pressure.

Dream Interpretation

To a lesser extent I can use my skills as a psychoanalyst to determine the symbolization that happens in dreams of my patient. These are very often inaccurate, but fun to study and work with.

Non-Racial Weaknesses

Human

Don't get me wrong. I don't have a problem with being human. The truth is, that being human means I'm not fast. I'm not strong. I don't have supersonic hearing. I can't run at extreme speeds for great distances. It means I'm easily breakable, easily manipulated when it comes to that glamouring things vampires do, and easily injured in physical combat.

Bolshephobia

It is an odd fear that I've had since childhood, being terrified of Bolsheviks. It started around the time we moved to New Orleans. Mum always said that it likely had something to do with a former life of mine.

Spirit Guides

I'm a psychologist, I know. Yet, when I work with my past life regression therapy, I'm "guided" to certain conclusions by the spirits. I believe them without a doubt. No matter what it is they tell me.

Subservient

This may come from the past which I was named after. I have an underlying need to be the perfect servant and follower. When I join community outreach programs, I never sign on to be the leader. An assistant, yes, but never the commanding officer.

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Relationships

Name	Race	Relation	Notes
Marius	Vampire	Claimant	I am the lamb for this vampire.

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Character Gallery

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Logs

October

• 03 Oct 2010 18:05 — An Understanding Reached (bethany marius)
• 08 Oct 2010 18:50 — Placations and Pleasings (bethany marius)
• 14 Oct 2010 15:06 — Haunts of the Past (bethany isobel marius)
• 14 Oct 2010 19:49 — Hunted (bethany marius)
• 17 Oct 2010 13:29 — Just a Normal Conversation (bethany david)
• 22 Oct 2010 15:56 — Just answer the damned question! (bethany rachel tinyplot)

September

• 08 Sep 2010 05:48 — Dont Fear the Leaper (bethany bones kate)
• 09 Sep 2010 13:55 — Sitting Sentry (bethany marius)
• 26 Sep 2010 14:14 — Horse War (bethany desiree marius)

August

• 06 Aug 2010 03:44 — Sealed Fate (bethany marius)
• 24 Aug 2010 02:59 — That's a Wrap (bethany bones)
• 27 Aug 2010 22:42 — Library Trip (bethany todd)
• 30 Aug 2010 14:49 — Coming Storm (bethany marius)

July

• 01 Jul 2010 13:54 — Discourse at the lake (bethany desiree marius)
• 03 Jul 2010 02:22 — Welcome to the 21st Century (bethany marius)
• 13 Jul 2010 02:28 — Calming Activities (bethany ella)
• 14 Jul 2010 15:00 — Mourning Becomes Her (bethany desiree james)
• 27 Jul 2010 00:58 — A Night in the Life... (bethany marius)

June

• 24 Jun 2010 20:48 — Gentling a beast (bethany marius)
• 25 Jun 2010 17:23 — It's A Horse, Of Course (bethany marius rachel)
• 27 Jun 2010 18:38 — Undercurrents (bethany hugo marius todd)
• 30 Jun 2010 02:41 — Claim submission (bethany marius)

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