Beau Swan

Beaufort "Beau" Swan was born to Charlie Swan and Renée Dwyer on September 13, 1987, and is the main protagonist of the Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined. He is a 17-year-old boy who transfers schools from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington to live with his father Charlie, where he meets and falls in love with a vampire, Edythe Cullen.

He is transformed into a vampire after almost getting killed by the tracker Joss, who bit him. Beau is the adoptive newest son of Carine and Earnest Cullen. He is the adoptive brother of Archie and Eleanor Cullen, and of Jasper and Royal Hale.

As a human, Beau possessed a natural immunity to the mental powers of vampires. After his transformation into a vampire, he develops it into the ability to project a mental shield that protects others from the psychic powers of other vampires. His Twilight Saga counterpart is Bella Swan.

Early life
Beaufort Swan was born on September 13, 1987, to Renée and Charlie Swan, a young couple living in the small town of Forks, Washington. His parents divorced when he was only three months old.

During most of his childhood, he would visit his father in Forks for one month every summer, and got acquainted with Aaron, Adam and Julie Black, the children of Charlie's best friend, Bonnie Black, though they never became real friends. Beau found the climate in Forks unpleasant, though, and from 2002 onward, Charlie vacationed with him in California instead.

Beau never fit in with his peers in California or Arizona. He had always had the feeling of being a little out of sync with everyone—including his mother, who was his best friend. While his mother was impractical, absentminded and liked to shift from one interest to the next, Beau grew up as the more responsible and independent individual. At an early age, he took over most of the household responsibilities. Sometimes, he would feel like she was the adult and Renée was the child.

During free time, he preferred to sit home and read, in part because he was extraordinarily clumsy. His naturally responsible nature carried over into her schoolwork.

Eventually, Renée fell in love with and married a minor league baseball player named Phil Dwyer. While Phil traveled around for his job, Renée stayed home with Beau; however, Beau, noticing his mother's unhappiness with this arrangement, chose to move in with his father in Forks so Renée could go on the road with Phil during baseball season, leading to the beginning of Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined.

Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined
At the beginning of Life and Death, Beau moves back to his birth town of Forks, Washington, to live with his father, Charlie Swan, to let his mother, Renée Dwyer, travel with her new husband, Phil. He enrolls at Forks High School in the middle of his junior year. He does not notice the physical attraction he holds for the female students at the school, and makes a few new friends, including Jeremy Stanley, Allen Weber, and McKayla Newton, the latter of whom he later discovers is very interested in him.

The one group of people at Forks High School that truly intrigues Beau are the Cullens, a mysterious family consisting of five adopted children. Edythe Cullen, in particular, captures his attention, along with her adopted siblings, namely: Archie, who has the ability to see the future; Jessamine, his wife, who has the hardest time in the family abstaining from human blood; Eleanor, a broad, extremely muscular vampire; finally, Royal, her husband, who is an extremely handsome, self-absorbed man. Due to Beau's uncanny ability to attract accidents, Edythe finds herself often protecting him from various unlikely calamities, and finds herself growing extremely protective of him—to the point where even she admits she sometimes goes too far.

When Taylor Crowley's car almost hits Beau, Edythe knocks him out of the way and shields him from the collision. Beau realizes that it would have been physically impossible for an ordinary human being to cross the distance to him in time—as Edythe was four cars away from him a split-second before the truck would have crushed him—or hold back, much less push away, a pick-up truck with her bare hands, especially someone as petite as she. He confronts her in the hospital, but she dismisses his accusations in an unsuccessful attempt to throw him off the scent, instead leaving him more suspicious than ever.

During a trip down to La Push with his classmates, Beau encounters a family friend, Julie Black, who informs him that the Cullens are supposedly vampires according to her tribe's legend. However, they are different from other vampires in that they are "vegetarians", meaning they drink the blood of animals rather than of humans. Later, Edythe rescues Beau from a dangerous gang in Port Angeles. During and after dinner, he and Edythe converse about her abilities, namely her ability to read minds and his immunity to it. He also tells him about his theories on her true nature in an attempt to get her to divulge more information about herself. She merely finds these amusing, though she does all but admit to her mind-reading abilities and his immunity to them.

Edythe and Beau get to know each other better, and she reveals that she has great difficulty being near him due to the unusually appetizing smell of his blood; she must constantly control her thirst, lest her vampiric instincts take over and drive her to slaughter him.

Despite her desire for his blood, Edythe and Beau fall passionately in love. Edythe introduces him to her family, and soon after he is invited to watch their baseball game. During the game, danger reveals itself in the form of a visiting vampire coven consisting of Lauren, Victor, and Joss. Victor's mate, Joss, is a sadistic tracker vampire who has set her sights on killing Beau for sports; she was fascinated by Edythe's protectiveness of a human. She tricks him into coming to his mom's old ballet studio with the sound of his mother's voice, where she bites his finger and tortures him. The Cullen family rush to Beau's aid, but the venom has already spread to thick that he either dies trying from Edythe's attempt to stop it, or he joins them as a vampire. They destroy Joss, though the other vampires of his coven, Victor and Lauren, run and survive. Beau spends the next two days of his conversion learning about vampires' history and physiology.

One months after Joss's demise, a funeral for Beau is held while Beau and Edward watch from a distance, knowing that he cannot be near his family. At the end of the story, the Uley pack mistakes Beau's transformation to be his doing and meet with Bonnie to tell her what really happened. When Beau smells her scent, he manages to keep himself from attacking, something that newborns aren't able to do, much to everyone's shock.

Physical appearance
Beau is described as having a very pale complexion with dark brown hair, eyes as blue as the sky and approximately 6 ft tall. According to Edythe Cullen, his eyes are extremely attractive. The scent of his O negative blood is incredibly mouthwatering to vampires, though it is a thousand times more intense to Edythe Cullen. He has broad-shoulders and an athletic build that makes him strong enough to defend himself in a fight, with the only complication for such situations being his clumsiness.

After Beau changed into a vampire, he becomes extremely handsome with even paler skin and crimson red eyes that will eventually turn gold after months of drinking animal blood. His features are also heightened and perfected by the transformation.

Beau mostly wears shirts, jeans and sneakers everywhere he goes, since he lacks an interest in fashion.

Personality
Beau is very similar to his Twilight counterpart, Bella, in personality, though he is not as bitter and lacks Bella's way with words. He is also less aggressive and somewhat more obvious with his obsession with Edythe. Bella and Beau are both exceptionally clumsy, dropping and tripping over everything in sight, and so he is easily considered the most fragile human in the world; however this changes once he is transformed into a vampire. Beau is also described as reclusive, quiet, insecure but kind-hearted, compassionate and caring towards others.

Having learned to take care of his mother over the years and being naturally responsible, Beau had developed into a very mature person, especially for his age. Because he lacks any skill in anything noticeable as a human, he mostly prefers to spend his free time reading, especially classics, and listening to music.

He is said to have poor acting skills. Ironically, he demonstrates good acting ability in Life and Death when he makes his father believe that he has dumped Edythe and is leaving Forks. As a human, Beau easily fainted at the sight or smell of blood, which he said smells like rust and salt.

He dislikes cold and wet climates, even snow, which is why he initially hated living in Forks. However, after meeting Edythe, he came to find the town much more comfortable.

Powers and abilities
"I've never seen someone adapt so easily. If I didn't know better, I'd say you were a decade old."

- Carine to Beau

After becoming a vampire, Beau explains that he has a clearer view of the world, and was impressed with his new family's physical appearances.

As a newborn vampire, he demonstrates a very high level of self-control; being able to remain in control and stop himself from attacking as soon as he comes across the scent of human blood; this is unusual for newborn vampires, because their state brings an overwhelming thirst for blood, and thus they usually have a hard time controlling their urges and remain rational.

Mental shield
"You know, I really thought that when your mind was more similar to mine, I'd be able to hear it. I guess that's never going to happen." "Sorry."

- Edythe and Beau

Beau's gift allows him to shield himself from supernatural powers that affect the mind (such as Edythe's telepathy). He had displayed this power since before the beginning of Life and Death.

Relationships
Beau is the fiancé of Edythe Cullen, as well as the son of Charlie Swan and Renée Dwyer, the stepson of Phil Dwyer. He is also the grandson of Geoffrey and Helen Swan.

Edythe Cullen
"I will always want you. I don't deserve you, but I will always love you."

- Edythe to Beau

Edythe Cullen is Beau's true love. She is a vampire, who has chosen to drink animal blood as a substitute like the rest of the Cullen family.

When Edythe and Beau first realize their feelings for each other, Beau loves her unconditionally, believing Edythe to be absolutely perfect, and does not believe or consider himself as being worthy of her love. Edythe first became fascinated with him due to her inability to read his mind, but his blood smells unbearably enticing to her that she finds it hard to be in his presence. Beau subsequently is very fascinated with her beauty, and skills, and the purity of her heart. He describes her as "God-like" in physical appearance. Edythe disapproves of his low self-esteem and always tries to reassure him that he is more than worthy of her love, and that he has her heart forever.

After Beau's transformation, he and Edythe become equals on all levels and can experience a vastly easier life together. At the end of Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined, Beau proposes to Edythe and she immediately accepts.

Charlie Swan
"Just let me go, Charlie. It didn't work out, okay? I really, really hate Forks!"

- Beau's last words to Charlie

Charlie Swan is Beau's father. Beau's relationship with his father is also very odd. After Renée took him away to Phoenix, the only times Beau saw Charlie was in the summer. Even at a young age it became clear that Beau hated Forks, and when he visited Charlie would take him fishing, which Beau also hated. Beau moved to Forks to live with his father in Life and Death to give him mother space with her new husband, Phil. He finds it much easier to live with his father, because he respects his privacy. Even though they hardly talk, the two really care for each other.

After Beau unexpectedly became a vampire, he is forced to make Charlie believe he was dead, something that he will always regret. To lessen his own pain, Beau asks Bonnie to look after Charlie for him.

Renée Dwyer
Renée Dwyer is Beau's mother. Beau is very close to his mother, though he sometimes feels like he is the parent and Renée is the child. In many ways, he doesn't feel fit in with anyone, including his mom. Renée has always put her relationships with men first, although has been very clear that she wants Beau to remain independent. Beau was born in Forks but raised in Phoenix with his mother, as Renée left Charlie soon after Beau was born.

At a young age, Beau took most of the responsibilities around the house.

When Beau moves back to Forks, Renée is the main reason, as he renders her unhappy every time her new husband, Phil Dwyer, is away because of his job, and he decides to move back to Forks so that she wouldn't have to stay home with him.

After becoming a vampire, Beau regrettably fakes his death for his family's protection. Hearing about her son's death is a tremendous blow to Renée. During his funeral, Beau watches from a distance and notices that Renée walks wobbly, her legs barely have enough strength to keep her standing. Though Beau grieves for the pain he has caused her, he is content with the fact that she will have Phil to take care of her.

McKayla Newton
"Jeremy's my friend, and if I went out with you, it would upset him."

- Beau to McKayla

McKayla Newton is Beau's classmate in Gym and Biology. They first meet on Beau's first day at Forks High School. Like many girls, McKayla develops a crush on Beau when he first arrives, and she always struggles to draw his attention. She has tried multiple times to invite him to the spring dance, but he declines every single time. McKayla is also extremely jealous when she sees him together with Edythe Cullen, who is considered one of the most beautiful girls at school due to her being a vampire.

Beau knows that Jeremy Stanley is secretly pining for her, and so hints to her that she should give him a chance, which ultimately happens.

Allen Weber
Allen Weber is one of Beau's classmates at Forks High. Beau finds the boy shy, but also kind and enjoys his company more than Jeremy Stanley's. When Beau faked his death to cover his transformation to vampirism, Allen is one of the kids who attend his funeral, the ceremony held by his father.

Julie Black
Julie Black is Beau's friend. They were acquainted at childhood, but never progressed to friendship. When Beau moves back to Forks, he runs into Julie again.

He finds himself enjoying Julie's company a lot more than the rest of his peers. Julie seemingly has a crush on him, but Beau only sees her as a friend. Julie and her mother attend Beau's funeral after he faked his death. Though Bonnie figures out the truth, she decides to tell Julie when she is initiated into the tribal pack.

Jeremy Stanley
Jeremy Stanley is Beau's classmate at Forks High. He befriends Beau on his first day, though it was solely to share some of the attention he is receiving from the female students, particularly McKayla, whom he dated in sophomore year.

Beau doesn't enjoy his company much, but doesn't stray from him either. After faking his death, Jeremy is one of the people who attend his funeral.

Archie Cullen
Archie Cullen is Beau's adoptive brother after he joined the world of vampires. Archie foresaw his involvement before he began dating his sister, Edythe. Though Archie already sees him as a brother, Edythe is reluctant to let him join their world.

Edythe also continuously keeps Archie and Beau from making acquaintances until her brother finally decides to approach him without her consent.

Carine Cullen
Carine Cullen is the matriarch of the Cullen family, and Beau's adoptive mother when he became a vampire. When Edythe and Beau became romantically involved, Carine welcomes him with open arms and goes out of her way to protect him.

Earnest Cullen
Earnest Cullen is the father figure of the Cullen family and Beau's adoptive father.

Earnest has always loved Edythe like his own daughter and wished for her to find a mate someday, which is why he is happy when Beau became her boyfriend. Earnest welcomes him with open arms and even goes out of his way for his protection, treating him like part of the family.

Etymology
Beau's name was derived from his maternal grandfather, Beaufort, who passed away months before he was born, and Renée decided to name him that in her father's honor.

Appearances

 * Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined