Bean
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| Julian Delphiki, Jr. | |
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| Status | |
| Nicknames | Bean |
| Occupation | Strategos |
| Known relatives | Grand-Father: Nikolai Delphiki Sr. Father: Julian Delphiki, Sr. |
| Characteristics | |
| Height | Age Four: about 2'5" (looks like a two-year-old) Age Twenty-Two: 14'8.5" |
| Weight | Unknown |
| Eye color | Brown |
| Hair color | Black |
| Skin color | Tan |
| Unusual features | Abnormally small in childhood,
abnormally large in adulthood |
| Born | c. 2194 |
| Died | 2216 |
| Appearances | |
| Ender's Game Ender's Shadow Shadow of the Hegemon Shadow Puppets Shadow of the Giant Shadows in Flight Ender's Game (Short Story) | |
Julian Delphiki, Jr., more commonly known as Bean, was one of the genius children that attended Battle School and helped defeat the Formics. He became Ender's right hand man, strategist and friend. He is also the biological son of Julian and Elena Delphiki, and twin brother to Nikolai Delphiki. After Battle School, Bean later marries Petra Arkanian and they have nine children.
Biography
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Pre Battle SchoolEdit
Bean was born in Rotterdam as the result of an illegal experiment in genetic engineering conducted by a scientist named Volescu. Volescu stole 23 frozen fertilized eggs from his half-brother (or double cousin) Julian Delphiki Sr. and activated "Anton's Key" in each of them. (Anton's key was a genetic switch which removed all limits on the growth of the subject's mind and body, making them extremely smart and tall, but as a result, they would die young.) When Bean was only about a year old, Volescu evidently learned that a discovery of his illegal experiment was imminent, and "discarded" all of the babies except Bean, who escaped his purge by crawling into a toilet tank and hiding there for several days. Later, a janitor discovered him there and took him home. After a short time living with the janitor, who was not authorized to have children, Bean perceived that he was not welcome there and wandered out to live on the streets of Rotterdam.
Later, when he was approximately four years old, Bean joined Poke's street crew. He did this by offering her a plan he had devised to get more food by recruiting a bully to get them into the soup kitchen. Poke was very merciful to Bean, and probably saved his life by feeding him. To his consternation, Poke targeted Achilles de Flandres, who was one of the lowest individuals in the bully hierarchy due to his bad foot. When they attacked Achilles Bean saw that he was dangerous, and he advised Poke to kill Achilles, but she chose instead to show him the same mercy she'd showed Bean, sparing his life.
After that, Achilles appointed himself the crew's "papa" and successfully carried out their plan, winning them a steady supply of food and himself a higher social status among the older street children. Later, when Achilles began contemplating killing Poke in revenge for his humiliation at her hands, Poke thought she needed to intervene, thinking that it was bean who Achilles de Flandres was angry about, and met with Achilles late one night to plead with him for Bean's life. Bean witnessed this meeting, and though he was not present for its fatal conclusion, found Poke floating in the river shortly thereafter. This caused Bean incredible guilt, and became a defining incident in his life that would return to haunt him repeatedly throughout the events depicted in Ender's Shadow and its sequels.
At the end of war, Bean learns from Graff of his true biological family. His brother is named Nikolai, after his grandfather. Julian is Bean's real name, he first met his brother in battle school, (said in the book Ender's Shadow) though he was an orphan in Rotterdam when he was younger.
Shadow of the HegemonEdit
With events on Eros behind them, Bean and the other Battle School children are returned to earth to their families. Bean, reunited with the Delphiki's, is vacationing when all the members of Ender's jeesh from the final battle are kidnapped. When an attempt is made on his life, Bean separates from his family and decides to go into hiding with Sister Carlotta in order to rescue the kidnapped members. He realizes that the person behind the kidnappings is none other than Achilles, who escaped the mental hospital with aid from the Russians, and that the only person who has the power to stop Achilles is Locke, Peter Wiggin. After convincing Peter Wiggin to 'come out' as Locke and expose Achilles as the mastermind behind the kidnappings. All the kidnapped members of Ender's jeesh are rescued except Petra, who is taken by Achilles. In order to obtain resources to save Petra from Achilles, Bean escapes to Thailand, where he aids Suriyawong, a member of Ender's Dragon Army, and thwarts another attempt on both Suriyawong and his life, but Bean is unable to save Sister Carlotta from Achilles. Finally, with the help of Suriyawong and Virlomi, Bean rescues Petra from Achilles, but in exchange must surrender Achilles to China. After Petra's extraction, Peter appoints Bean as Strategos.
Shadow PuppetsEdit
As Strategos, Bean and Suriyawong serve under the Hegemon, helping Peter Wiggin. Bean is given a simple extraction assignment but is replaced by Suriyawong at the last minute by Peter. Realizing that Peter is planning to rescue Achilles, Bean and Petra leave the Hegemony immediately and go into hiding together. While in hiding, Bean and Petra marry, but Bean is wary of having children for fear of passing on his genetic condition to his future children. After being convinced by Anton and Petra, Bean agrees to have children with Petra, on the condition that none of the children may bear Anton's Key. Anton reveals that the only person who can help them, is none other than Volescu, the man who turned Anton's Key in Bean. Bean and Petra visit Volescu who falsely promises them of being able to identify which embryos have Anton's Key. Shortly after Petra is implanted with one of the embryos, the embryos are stolen by Achilles, who was working with Volescu. After Achilles attempts to murder the Hegemon and has no options of escape, he contacts Bean for a meeting, with the promise of the stolen embryos if Bean can provide him escape. Bean correctly deduces that Achilles doesn't have the embryos and never intended to give the embryos to Bean, but agrees to the meeting. Having decided that he does love Achilles, having learned from Ender that you can only defeat your enemy when you truly love them and see from their eyes, Bean kills Achilles, knowing that that was the last thing Achilles expected Bean to do, especially without the knowledge of the stolen embryos' existence. Bean promises to Petra that he will find the stolen embryos before he dies.
Shadow of the GiantEdit
With Achilles finally dead, Bean and Petra search desperately for their 8 stolen embryos. All the meanwhile, Bean is dying from his giantism and there is only a limited amount of time he has to spend time with Petra, find their stolen embryos and help Peter Wiggin unite the world together. In the end, with the aid of Graff and the mind game, Bean is able to locate 7 of the stolen embryos, the 9th missing due to Achilles. With three of the babies affected by Anton's Key and no cure in sight, Bean decides to divorce Petra, in order for her to re-marry and provide a father figure for her children, so that he can prolong his life in space and find a cure for their children.
Shadows in FlightEdit
Bean died in a formic ship in 2631, too late to be saved by a process that might save him from his giantism but at peace knowing his children will survive. Bean was a brilliant mastermind, great strategist, and general.
NotesEdit
TriviaEdit
- Bean is considered more intelligent than Ender, but Ender shows more empathy and charisma. Where people are more likely to want to follow someone like Ender, Bean is more intelligent with a faster more agile mind capable of deeper and more complete thought.
- Portrayed by Aramis Knight
QuotesEdit
- "Remember [...] the enemy's gate is down." (said ironically in Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow)
- "Go suck on it." (to Ender, in Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow)
