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Deceased character and alsoâŠItâs spooky season
[name_u]Beck[/name_u] [name_m]Cassian[/name_m] [name_m]Upton[/name_m] (1 [name_u]June[/name_u] 1983 â 30 [name_u]October[/name_u] 2012, aged 29) was a family friend of the Andersons and if he was alive today, heâd be their step-uncle. He dated Knoxâs stepsister, a now-retired famous swimmer, for two years until it ended with his untimely death. [name_u]Beck[/name_u] was a stand-up comedian and loved telling jokes and stories, having one for everything. He had a guilty pleasure love for the movie a then-19-year-old [name_m]Knox[/name_m] was in and even parodied Knoxâs character in a comedy skit. [name_u]Beck[/name_u] isnât actually cocky, just mocky. He didnât like Knoxâs ex-girlfriend and said, âImagine not parenting your daughters because youâd rather pursue a B-movie career. At one point she probably Google searched âhow to be successfulâ way back when she wasâŠokay she still does.â Heâs never discussed Knoxâs then-toddler daughters publicly in comedy but heâs privately told [name_m]Knox[/name_m], âYouâve gone from petty [name_m]Knox[/name_m], to mean [name_m]Knox[/name_m], to nice [name_m]Knox[/name_m], to full-on dad [name_m]Knox[/name_m]. And your children are toddlers but thanks to you, they already have the maturity of a kindergartener.â
[name_u]Beck[/name_u] loves Halloween, it was his second-favourite holiday after [name_f]April[/name_f] Foolâs [name_u]Day[/name_u]. He liked to see the thrill in people. While he did like to mock people, he was a teddy bear on the inside and his girlfriend knew it. At the time they first dated, he was 27 and she was 24 and they appeared on a celebrity dance competition. They started falling for each other and she ended up winning the show. [name_u]Beck[/name_u] placed 4th, just barely missing out on the finale at the final 3 but cheered on his girlfriend the entire time. He didnât pursue dancing after his appearance but would occasionally dance for fun and also enjoyed dancing with his girlfriend. [name_u]Beck[/name_u] always loved surprising his girlfriend with a box of chocolates. She asked [name_u]Beck[/name_u], âThis is so sweet! But I must ask, what should I give you? What does a woman give a man as a gift?â [name_u]Beck[/name_u] responded, âProbably a box of chocolates too. I donât know why chocolatiers think just because weâre men, that we donât like chocolate and only women like it. Maybe itâs all because Hersheyâs has her and she in it?â [name_u]Beck[/name_u] was a light-hearted individual and deathly humour was something he never did. But he would joke about scary situations heâd been in such as being stung by a jellyfish, being trapped in an elevator, being around a [name_f]Karen[/name_f] but not calling her âKarenâ until right before leaving, and encountering a mouse in his bedroom. Heâs been known during stand-up routines to always work stuff in, usually hecklers, but also stuff he screwed up, like tripping up the stairs to the stage before starting his performance. One thing [name_u]Beck[/name_u] hated was when amateur comedians misused the dramatic pause. Dramatic pauses are supposed to be made after the audience laughs, not before. Heâs seen comedians tell unfunny jokes, make the pause hoping for a laughter after that joke, then get an awkward silence waiting for a laugh that was never going to happen. [name_u]Beck[/name_u] doesnât do that, but made a good comedy routine mocking comedians who do.
The day before Beckâs death, he told [name_m]Knox[/name_m] that he wished he could be a great father one day the way [name_m]Knox[/name_m] was, and then thanked him for having âthe best stepsister everâ. He also âpersonally requestedâ that if [name_m]Knox[/name_m] has any chocolate left over, that he spare a few pieces to [name_u]Beck[/name_u] and his girlfriend. [name_u]Beck[/name_u] also took good care of his shelter puppy, a male chocolate lab named [name_m]Skip[/name_m], and pampered him most of the day âto make sure he feels loved because he sadly canât have chocolate.â He then went to a haunted house that night and was spooked but hey, he enjoyed the thrill and had a good nightâs sleep. On his death day, hours before his death, he posted online a cryptic post, âDonât let this happen to you.â That evening, he was part of a stand-up comedy act at an old theatre thatâs been around for decades and was the last comedian of the night. He was quite loved as a comedian and they were expecting a good âfinale showâ out of his appearance. Of course, he tripped up the stairs before starting his act but again, made a joke and acted it in although mocking himself since he hadnât tripped on stage in a very long time prior to this. He continued his act and told some creative jokes and stories, making loud laughter and applause from the audience. However in a scary turn of events, a ceiling stage light lost its grip, swinging over and hitting him in the chest. Eerily, they still continued to cheer and laugh, thinking that accident was part of the act. [name_u]Beck[/name_u] was still conscious but his face had turned into fear and shock. They still just kept laughing and his expression then turned to anger. He knew no one would save him because they werenât taking it seriously and that he was truly dying and the last thing he would hear was laughter from this. He murmured in rage, âNone of you deserve to be my fans, not one person here. [name_m]Say[/name_m] you love me all you want, but I despise all of you,â before dying during his performance. Someone who worked in the theatre realised [name_u]Beck[/name_u] wasnât acting and stopped the show, then called for emergency services but he was dead on arrival due to blunt force trauma to the chest. After the media reported on his death, the theatre [name_u]Beck[/name_u] performed at tried to promote the employee who stopped the show and called medical help. Yet that employee quit without taking the promotion, citing that the technical workers at the theatre were negligent by not securing the stage lights properly and could have prevented the whole thing. During reports on his death, it was questioned a lot as to why nobody in the entire audience bothered to save him and made people question the types of fans who are only there for entertainment and donât truly care about the famous people they say theyâre fans of. His friends and relatives felt awful he would miss Halloween and never celebrate it again and his girlfriend was in so much shock, she initially refused to believe he was dead. However, she did end up taking his dog [name_m]Skip[/name_m] in with her and [name_m]Skip[/name_m] is still alive today.
Itâs been nearly a decade since he died and the theatre has since been taken over by new ownership. Some performers have been fearful that they could die while performing there, as it has proven that this was an older theatre that had been remodeled several times and while rare, people have died performing there before, although the last death before Beckâs was of a much elderly person and happened in the â70s. Nobody knows what Beckâs last post was about but it sure spooks people now. Whatâs ironic is that minutes after the post, which happened before he died, people commented âHaha good one,â and âI donât know what youâre talking about but you crack me up Beck,â which people find an eerie foreshadow to the laughing audience that fatal evening. Once the theatre was under new management which had been doing a much better job, Beckâs girlfriend had learned to live better but never forgot her loss. [name_f]Bloom[/name_f] and [name_u]Cove[/name_u] were only 4 and 2 when [name_u]Beck[/name_u] died and arenât sure if they want to perform at the theatre yet, if ever, but they like the new atmosphere. Theyâve even watched a performance there. What still haunts them is the sound of two people theyâve known from school mumbling behind them in the audience. One of them asks, âIâd love to perform up there someday but what if I die up there like the unlucky few who have in the past?â The other oneâs response: âDonât let this happen to you.â