Bee Boffkin

Bee Boffkin is a tiefling rogue currently residing in the city of Aquara. She is played by 5tacis.

Appearance:
Bee Boffkin is a young tiefling woman, with pink skin and the lithe build of a gymnast. She is typically depicted with pink skin and black eyes.

Background:
Bee was adopted as an infant and raised in a rural mining town along the cliffs of Kraelyn’s western shore. She was always rebellious and sort of got ‘bored’ of life in the village and, as soon as she was old enough, she set off. First, was an acrobat for a travelling circus, but found it boring and the actors involved stale and uninteresting. She wound up pursuing a life of crime out of a desire to live like the nobility-- she was particularly interested in the fine, decadent foods that ladened their tables. Her prolific career in scams and crime began with scamming old rich guys into relationships as, for lack of a better term, sugar daddies, often serving as a short-term mistress for noblemen who found her tiefling appearance exotic and alluring before getting bored and heading to the next town with no small percentage of their money.

She took quickly to thievery itself, finding that her acrobatic competence and small size made her a fantastic thief and high-demand addition to heisting.

Galen Wavefair:
Galen Wavefair is Bee's former lover and close friend. Initially, Bee was attracted to Galen because he represented the danger she’d been craving since she left her hometown, but they soon struck up a fast friendship. Each found the other charming, and their relationship was one built on mutual respect and similar values - Me and Mine first, always. As Galen became more involved in the Brigade, Bee stuck close by, though, never one for commitment, she never fully invested in the gang or its ventures. Rather, her involvement with the Brigade came from her relationship with Galen -- a messy, "friends-with-benefits who also rob unsuspecting citizens" dynamic complicated by Bee’s aversion to commitment and Galen’s not-so-secret soft side. He knew he could count on her to run contraband to the mainland any time she decided to return home (or to pay a short visit to the various nobles who sent her patronage), but also knew that her connection to the Brigade itself was tenuous.

The dynamic between Bee and Galen has always been an odd one. She spends the time they are surrounded by people teasing him, but when no one can hear them, she can take on a softer, more serious side. She knows him less as the emotionless, sardonic ex-leader of the brigade and more as the young man who once took her to his mother’s home and spent the whole evening tidying her house, leaving a bag of gold on the table to make sure she was never left wanting. Bee is the sort of person who has a soft spot for soft people, and that moment’s stuck with her. Much of their relationship was forged on rooftops, looking to the horizon as the sun rose over the ocean. Galen would sip Sundrop (a habit Bee detested, but she was never one to tell someone how to live their life) and tell her that someday he’d leave here-- take all his money and find adventure elsewhere. And she’d respond, teasingly, that it sounds like he’s just trying his best to be exactly like her.

Their relationship means she knows the most of Galen’s past of everyone he knows-- about his father leaving when he was young, about his mother’s vacillating between overprotective and distant, about the way that Sundrop is one of the few things that makes him feel completely alive. About the way that he closes himself off and tries his best to seem hard because on the inside he’s still the ten year old boy standing on the sea shore, desperately calling his father’s name into the ocean breeze.

When he returns to Aquara, she makes it clear that she's missed him -- and seems to hint at deeper feelings, taking care of his mother with fierce tenacity and gentle love. Galen hints at returning these emotions, telling her that by leaving he "hurt the ones that he loved most."