Category:Beatrix

Beatrix (ベアトリクス Beatorikusu) was the second wife of Karlheinz and the mother of Shu and Reiji.

Appearance
Beatrix is described as a woman who resembled Shu in appearance. She wore her hair in a bun but had two long strands in the front with her bangs parted to the left. She wore a red and black gown. The top part consisted of black shoulders with a gold border and long red capped sleeves with a black border and black ruffles at the end of the sleeves. The middle was a fitted bodice with red sides featuring gold borders and embellishment and a black middle section which is part of the neckline. The bottom of the dress was a red skirt with black ruffle borders opened in the front to reveal a dark red petticoat. She also wore a red jewel necklace.

Personality
She was similar to Reiji in terms of personality,being strict and perfectionist. She was described as a serious person who was incapable of expressing properly emotions even towards her own children. This,combined with her cold ambition of pursuing Karlheinz’s attention,and trying to find for herself any worth in the family (being the second wife without any great heritage), caused her to  put her two children against each other and ruin their relationship and childhood.

History
In neither of the Diabolik Lovers game Universes,there isn’t much info about Beatrix and her background story ,nor about her marriage as a second wife to Karlheinz.However most likely Karlheinz took her in order to try push Cordelia to give him sons faster,which were the most important ones for his experiments,so his second marriage was most likely a part of his cruel games towards his first wife.

Beatrix was the first to give birth to a son - Shu, who she ended up focusing all of her attention on while neglecting her second born Reiji, because she desperately wanted to prove a wroth to Karlheinz,seeking his attention and acknowledgement,and not wanting to lose not only as heritage but also as a mother to his first wife Cordelia. Beatrix’s cold and blind ambitions to become something above Cordelia was what ruined her sons’ childhood ,oppressing one of them with the burden to become the perfect heir while depriving him completely from normal childhood,and the other one neglecting and treating like a second rate person just because he wasn’t the first born ,made Shu grow up detached and Reiji psychotic,capable of burning down an entire village to try to please her and then to endlessly hate his older brother,feeling inferiority complexes.

However Beatrix died at peace, and proud of Reiji despite the fact that he had hired the heroine’s father, a vampire hunter, to kill her.Because in her eyes he have finally proved himself to her and also freed her from her endless cold ambitions and competition for a man who didn’t really cared for her (Karlheinz).

Relationships
Cordelia

Stepping in a family between a married man and a woman,Beatrix knew very well what she is getting into ,but still did her best to try steal Cordelia’s place. Giving birth of Karlheinz’s first sons made the things more difficult between the two ,and helped in Karlheinz’s twisted plot to completely abuse mentally Cordelia until he breaks her. Even though viewed as a “true lady” Beatrix having reminded constantly of her place by the first wife Cordelia The Demon King’s Daughter ,made her too bitter and showed she wasn’t really that perfect of a lady,paying the price for trying to steal a man from another woman. Cordelia on the other hand knew this is simply her husband’s way to show his cruel affection games towards her,or so she wanted to believe.However she couldn’t forgive Beatrix easily and would often call her an “old hag”. Stressed by Beatrix’s pushy and overambitious existence and her sons,Cordelia became crueler mother for her own.While Beatrix continued pouring her endless ambitions to Shu and neglecting Reiji until he took her life.

Shu Sakamaki 

Shu is Beatrix’s eldest son and because of that, he’s the son she seemed to favor,seeing in him the one that will make Karlheinz recognize her worth. Shu might have seemed distant towards her because he hates his responsibilities and doesn’t appreciate the strict restrictions his mother placed upon him to groom him into his father’s heir,which deprived him completely from any childhood, but it seems that he does still care for her.

Reiji Sakamaki

Reiji deeply admires his mother,viewing her as the “perfect lady ”,he loves and seeks her approval and affection.However what he gets in return is either complete neglect,either her telling him to study hard so one day to serve well to his older brother. Beatrix’s obvious preferences to Shu as a first born,and putting all of her hopes and energy into him to get Karlheinz’s acknowledgment in her competition with Cordelia for his favor.While completely neglecting Reiji, leaves in him inferiority complexes and also a deep envy towards his older brother. Reiji being ambitious like his mother and trying to endlessly prove himself pushes him not only to hate and envy Shu in similar ways his mother views Cordelia, but also to go as far as to burn down an entire village for Shu getting a human friend and “shaming” their vampire family.

However as Reiji grows more and sees that his mother is far from perfect, and she can act frustrated towards her rival Cordelia, Reiji begins to lose respect for her(even though in his mind,he still tries to find an excuse for her behavior and blame it on the pressure she gets from her competition with Cordelia,or rather to blame Cordelia) ,until the moment he decides to kill her hiring a vampire hunter.

However Beatrix embraces the death as a blessing for the immortal,realizing that she have been fighting pointlessly for a man (Karlheinz) who will never give her attention ,while neglecting her son who needed it the most,and feels proud of Reiji for giving her the kindest gesture of mercy through death for the immortals.

Which deeply frustrates Reiji,because he dreams to make his mother suffer ,which makes him dedicate his life research to create a resurrection potion with which some day to bring her back and this time make her die in agony.

Karlheinz

Karlheinz is the father of Beatrix’s sons and her husband.However he doesn’t give her love nor affection,being incapable of such feelings,and uses her in his games towards his first wife .Beatrix still loves him and seeks his acknowledgment to the point of putting her entire efforts towards her first born Shu in order to gain any worth for her husband.