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PLAYER NAME: Helena
OVER 18?: Yes
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CHARACTER INFORMATION
CHARACTER NAME: Elizabeth, Beth, Harmon
CANON: The Queen's Gambit, Netflix series
TIMELINE: End of the series
AGE: 22/23 (orphanage lied to her adoptive parents, making her 13 instead of 15)
REFERENCE: Wiki
PERSONALITY:
Ever since she became an orphan, Elizabeth had a problem with addiction. It is mostly the fault of the orphanage she grew in, as they had delivered to her a daily dose of Librium- tranquilizer. After learning about chess and rules, she started collecting them to enhance the hallucinations she would get during the night, enabling her, in Beth’s words, to play entire chess matches in her head and unlocking her potential for it. It becomes quite a problem for her when the pills become banned at the orphanage, pushing her through withdrawal. She overdoses on them when she breaks into the orphanage’s pharmacy.
This addiction persists throughout the majority of her life, influencing a lot of her decisions for a very long time. She steals them from her mother until she’s able to buy them later herself. Without them, she becomes irritated and impatient, and the usually quiet and timid girl becomes snappy and prone to anger.
It is not specifically stated, but it is implied that she also had a problem with alcohol- drinking unreasonable amounts of wine, or any drink that she could get her hands on, especially after her adoptive mother’s death. When her friend Jolene visits her, Beth admits she’d be drinking another bottle of wine if she weren’t there. She manages to power through the pull towards the alcohol and stops hiding, showing that she has a lot of determination in her. That she's able to reach her goals when she puts her mind to it.
She still holds a lot of resentment towards the orphanage and how she was treated there. “The burning anger” she turned into a passion towards chess. In her games, Beth is always on the assault, her moves and strategies always going for the enemy’s “throat”, using the aggression to corner them and demoralize them before they enter the end game.
Combined with the fact that she's prideful, ambitious, determined and a very sore loser, her addictions and losses form a very vicious circle that it's tough to break out of. Losing a match would usually read to a night of drinking, studying, drinking some more, and reaching for the massive amount of pills to visualize/hallucinate the chessboard on the ceiling of her room, as she pushes onward with her relentless stubbornness.
Sometimes this tactic would work. Some other times it truly doesn't. When meeting Vasily Borgov for the second time in her chess career, she was hungover from drinking heavily the previous night, late to the match. That was her second loss to him and it had hit her pretty hard. Losing her adoptive mother had sent her into depression too, and she tried to "fix" her sadness by drinking into oblivion. She harbors extreme anger towards her adoptive father that he abandoned his wife and Beth and stubbornly buys out the house she was brought in after the adoption from him. She admits it might've not been the smartest move, but she doesn't regret it.
She has big difficulties forming lasting relationships. She never had any friends, aside from Jolene, at the orphanage. When she was adopted, people at school bullied her for her looks, for how awkward she is. She does manage to make friends later, all of which are chess players, as the game connects them. Townes, Benny, Baltik- all help her go through the finals at the Moscow Invitational.
The chess world sees her as an "intruder", an "anomaly" and a girl prodigy, focusing more on the fact that she is a woman playing chess instead of just an extremely talented chess player. She openly rages at 'Chess Review' for writing about how she is a girl instead of writing about her play and her teacher Mr. Shaibel.
She is an ambitious and hard-working woman that made her living playing chess. It is her hard work and love for the game that she always puts forward, beating any 'traditional' expectations from the public and calling out men's skewed views towards her during interviews. She was never interested in politics and refuses to side with the "Christian Crusade" because she is a chess player first.
Elizbeth Harmon finally wins against Vasili Borgov in Moscow, at 'Moscow Invitational', after two days of gameplay and earning herself the title of World Champion. She stops hiding behind the alcohol, and ditches the green pills, throwing them into the toilet a day before the match. Her love for chess is, for one last time, shown as she exits the car in the middle of Moscow and, instead of going to the interviews, she finds her way to the park with chess tables and takes a seat for a game.
"Let's play."
ABILITIES: Beth doesn't have supernatural abilities. She is, however, extraordinarily gifted in chess, a prodigy, getting the title of World champion after playing Borgov in Russia.
PERSONAL EFFECTS: A shoulder bag, decent size, containing books on chess and her personal chess set (foldable cloth and case with pieces). She also has a mini-chess board with pin-in chess pieces.
PRIZED POSSESSION: Very old book, with red covers, "Modern Chess Openings", gifted to her by Mr. Shaibel, the man that taught her how to play chess.
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PLAYER NAME: Helena
OVER 18?: Yes
PREFERRED CONTACT(S):
OTHER CHARACTERS: None
CHARACTER INFORMATION
CHARACTER NAME: Elizabeth, Beth, Harmon
CANON: The Queen's Gambit, Netflix series
TIMELINE: End of the series
AGE: 22/23 (orphanage lied to her adoptive parents, making her 13 instead of 15)
REFERENCE: Wiki
PERSONALITY:
Ever since she became an orphan, Elizabeth had a problem with addiction. It is mostly the fault of the orphanage she grew in, as they had delivered to her a daily dose of Librium- tranquilizer. After learning about chess and rules, she started collecting them to enhance the hallucinations she would get during the night, enabling her, in Beth’s words, to play entire chess matches in her head and unlocking her potential for it. It becomes quite a problem for her when the pills become banned at the orphanage, pushing her through withdrawal. She overdoses on them when she breaks into the orphanage’s pharmacy.
This addiction persists throughout the majority of her life, influencing a lot of her decisions for a very long time. She steals them from her mother until she’s able to buy them later herself. Without them, she becomes irritated and impatient, and the usually quiet and timid girl becomes snappy and prone to anger.
It is not specifically stated, but it is implied that she also had a problem with alcohol- drinking unreasonable amounts of wine, or any drink that she could get her hands on, especially after her adoptive mother’s death. When her friend Jolene visits her, Beth admits she’d be drinking another bottle of wine if she weren’t there. She manages to power through the pull towards the alcohol and stops hiding, showing that she has a lot of determination in her. That she's able to reach her goals when she puts her mind to it.
She still holds a lot of resentment towards the orphanage and how she was treated there. “The burning anger” she turned into a passion towards chess. In her games, Beth is always on the assault, her moves and strategies always going for the enemy’s “throat”, using the aggression to corner them and demoralize them before they enter the end game.
Combined with the fact that she's prideful, ambitious, determined and a very sore loser, her addictions and losses form a very vicious circle that it's tough to break out of. Losing a match would usually read to a night of drinking, studying, drinking some more, and reaching for the massive amount of pills to visualize/hallucinate the chessboard on the ceiling of her room, as she pushes onward with her relentless stubbornness.
Sometimes this tactic would work. Some other times it truly doesn't. When meeting Vasily Borgov for the second time in her chess career, she was hungover from drinking heavily the previous night, late to the match. That was her second loss to him and it had hit her pretty hard. Losing her adoptive mother had sent her into depression too, and she tried to "fix" her sadness by drinking into oblivion. She harbors extreme anger towards her adoptive father that he abandoned his wife and Beth and stubbornly buys out the house she was brought in after the adoption from him. She admits it might've not been the smartest move, but she doesn't regret it.
She has big difficulties forming lasting relationships. She never had any friends, aside from Jolene, at the orphanage. When she was adopted, people at school bullied her for her looks, for how awkward she is. She does manage to make friends later, all of which are chess players, as the game connects them. Townes, Benny, Baltik- all help her go through the finals at the Moscow Invitational.
The chess world sees her as an "intruder", an "anomaly" and a girl prodigy, focusing more on the fact that she is a woman playing chess instead of just an extremely talented chess player. She openly rages at 'Chess Review' for writing about how she is a girl instead of writing about her play and her teacher Mr. Shaibel.
She is an ambitious and hard-working woman that made her living playing chess. It is her hard work and love for the game that she always puts forward, beating any 'traditional' expectations from the public and calling out men's skewed views towards her during interviews. She was never interested in politics and refuses to side with the "Christian Crusade" because she is a chess player first.
Elizbeth Harmon finally wins against Vasili Borgov in Moscow, at 'Moscow Invitational', after two days of gameplay and earning herself the title of World Champion. She stops hiding behind the alcohol, and ditches the green pills, throwing them into the toilet a day before the match. Her love for chess is, for one last time, shown as she exits the car in the middle of Moscow and, instead of going to the interviews, she finds her way to the park with chess tables and takes a seat for a game.
"Let's play."
ABILITIES: Beth doesn't have supernatural abilities. She is, however, extraordinarily gifted in chess, a prodigy, getting the title of World champion after playing Borgov in Russia.
PERSONAL EFFECTS: A shoulder bag, decent size, containing books on chess and her personal chess set (foldable cloth and case with pieces). She also has a mini-chess board with pin-in chess pieces.
PRIZED POSSESSION: Very old book, with red covers, "Modern Chess Openings", gifted to her by Mr. Shaibel, the man that taught her how to play chess.
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