Chapter 7: Bavithri "Beatrix" Jha
Trigger Warning: mentions of sexual abuse and pedophilia
"Bloom Petras, that was a nice name and a powerful individual from a dessert realm that was frozen."
An androgynous girl with dark shin and half waist-length blue-black hair tied in a ponytail with the cyborg appearance admired outside Bloom and Flora's room.
"By the way, I am Beatrix."
"I'm Stella."
"I heard about you and the accident that get your deferred by a semester."
Stella clutches the part of the left side of the ponytail.
"Don't nudge that to my father."
"Oww, please stop. Your hand sticking, SOMEONE PLEASE GIVE ME SCISSORS or something!!"
This is her first time she had emotions, Bloom got a scissors to cut Beatrix's hairtie and the left part of her hair. Flora mentions that no wonder she has a strong hatred of fairies.
"My condolences."
"You do not have to."
Bavithri Jha came from Calcutta, her parents met in an arranged marriage in Varan. But her money-obsessed father forced her mother to give money to him, leading to a life-saving divorce which changed her life when she was in puberty because her father is a helicopter parent and a pedophile, who is possessive of her.
After the divorce, she and her mother settled in a small apartment. Her mum indoctrinated her that she must focus on academics, wear modestly and not to show emotions. She sometimes blamed her for stealing her husband, but she became apologetic afterwards. She never stopped her from wearing men's clothes because they are not revealing, which encourages Beatrix to freely experimented and expressed her gender fluidity. Her enthusiastic passion of math, technology and computers came from her mother, who is a Chief Technology Officer of a multinational company. She participates and won prizes in technology contests. Alfea had known her and her mother for their technological reputation that Alfea University accepted her admission to study Computer Science and Mathematics.