G020 - Beck, Desiree [DECEASED]

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Name: Desiree Beck
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Grade: 12
School: George Hunter High School
Hobbies and Interests: Video games (specifically Minecraft and Fortnite), classical and orchestral music, mystery novels

Appearance: Desiree stands at 5'6" and weighs 115 lbs with a somewhat small frame. Her features are rather plain. She has a round face with a small, round nose and thin lips. Her monolid eyes are small and brown. Her straight black hair is shoulder-length and is styled into a basic bob. Her skin is clear of most blemishes and is a light hue due to her Chinese ancestry. She normally looks tired and tends to slouch while sitting down or even standing. Her voice, if she even speaks, is monotone and devoid of emotion, and she never makes eye contact with whom she is addressing.

Desiree’s effort for fashion is minimal; she usually just wears whatever is on hand and is approved by her mother, so her style is rather conservative. She wears contact lenses to correct her near-sightedness, though sometimes she also wears a pair of black square glasses. On the day of the abduction she was wearing a white-and-purple plaid long sleeve dress shirt with a chartreuse cross tie underneath a khaki waffle knit sweater, black ankle-cut slacks, and brown boat shoes.

Biography: Desiree was born on June 13th, 2000 to Lemmy and Marisa Beck and is an only child. The Becks are financially well-off with Lemmy as an architect and Marisa as a commercial real estate agent. Lemmy is a second generation Chinese American who met Marisa while studying overseas in Wenzhou in the Zhejiang province of China. The two hit it off and when Lemmy returned to the U.S., Marisa came with him and they settled in his hometown of Chattanooga, TN. Several years later Desiree was born.

Even as a child, Desiree would keep to herself and did solo activities like work on puzzles, both by her own choice and due to her parents never putting in an effort to socialize her with kids her own age. The only social activity that ever interested her was games. This love for games started with stuff such as chess or card games that she played against her father or babysitter. She loved playing games due to the strategies they required along with the satisfaction of winning and beating someone else.

Eventually this love of games turned into an adoration for video games, specifically after being exposed to them by watching her father play. After getting her own computer in the 3rd grade, she first played simulation games such as The Sims 2 and the Anno series. When she discovered Minecraft, though, it was all over for her. She was drawn to the near-limitless building possibilities and fell in love with the game, actively keeping up with updates and following YouTubers devoted to the game religiously. Recently she has also dug deep into Fortnite as it scratches that competitive itch instead of being more open-ended, but Minecraft remains her favorite game of all time and she still devotes many hours afterschool to the game's Creative mode just building whatever suits her fancy.

When she wasn't playing video games, Desiree also enjoyed reading. From a young age she has enjoyed mystery novels most of all, starting with the iconic Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys and moving up to Agatha Christie's novels after those stopped being stimulating. While it never gave her the same rush she got from playing games, the thrill of guessing everyone's role or even how the plot gets solved kept her coming back.

Lemmy was invited to a classical concert by a colleague and took Marisa and Desiree along when she was 10 years old. Desiree never cared much for music or anything playing on the radio, but hearing the complexity of the moving lines mixed with the bombastic horns and strings really affected her. She started to look up recordings on the internet and asking for CDs and to be taken to more concerts. She tried to learn viola for a couple of weeks, but after realizing how much effort it would take to learn it she gave up and was satisfied with just being a listener.

After coming home with her first C-grade ever in the 7th grade, Desiree’s parents began fearing for her future and her apathetic attitude towards education. Marisa especially became even more strict, forcing her to join extracurricular activities like the math club and getting her tutors to get her ahead in all of her subjects. Desiree rebelled and purposefully dragged her feet doing assignments, and it became a nightly battle over her finishing homework. Eventually Marisa would win out, but Desiree always made sure to do the minimal effort possible to get an acceptable grade.

Normally Desiree did well in school without having to study or without the help of tutors, especially in math classes where she particularly excelled. However, her one particular weakness was in the sciences where she just couldn’t understand the concepts and her previous tutors were no help. Believing that studying was futile along with developing slight test anxiety due to pressure from her parents to do well in school, she turned to cheating on assignments and even during tests. She never got caught but after a close call when fellow classmate Cecil Salazar-Loveless called her out and got the school administration involved, she was forced to stop. After this event she began being tutored by classmate Parker Green and with his help has managed to achieve considerably high marks in the sciences.

Desiree has a mixed yet quiet reception in school. She has very few friends or even people she acknowledges to the point of engaging with, and most of those who even know she exists are put off by her negative attitude and behavior. The kids she does engage with tend to be either due to circumstances or have a similar antisocial demeanor to herself. She has an A record with the occasional B once every few grading periods. She is in the math club by force, and she puts in the minimal amount of effort and participation possible to appease her parents. She otherwise doesn't have many goals or any real after school hobbies outside of video games, instead being satisfied with just isolating herself as a form of escapism from societal pressures placed on her by others.

She has been accepted into Middlebury College with a major in mathematics; because of its reputation as one of the top liberal arts schools in the country, she was able to use this leverage on her parents to convince them to let her travel so far away, along with using the DC trip as a sort of trial period. However, she has no clue what she will do after completing her undergrad and just wants to use the opportunity to physically get away from her parents' social and academic pressures.

Advantages: Desiree’s general distrust of others and their intentions may help her avoid being deceived. She has few known enemies and is quiet, which may help her survive the early stages of the game by just staying out of the way of bigger targets.
Disadvantages: Desiree does not have many friends to begin with, and she may struggle to develop alliances in the early game due to her antisocial tendencies. She is stubborn and may lash out at being told what to do or how to think; other participants may see this as a lost cause if she is wrong or a reason to target her should a heated confrontation arise.

Designated Number: Female student No. 020

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Designated Weapon: Water Pistol

Conclusion: A nerd after my own heart... is what I would say, if the fact that you're super into Fortnite wouldn't remind me of just how far removed our generations are. Man, back in my day, the super casual fun shooter was Team Fortress 2. Now you KIDS have your battle royale games. Not so much fun anymore, is it? Maybe we should sue Epic Games, they obviously got the idea from us... - Dennis Lourvey

P.S. You're back in my good graces for playing Minecraft, but Survival > Creative. Though, survive, and you can play on my server for a little while.

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