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Benjamin Macbeth (ベンジャミン・マクベス, Benjamin Makubesu) is the husband of Emma Macbeth, and the father of William "Black" Macbeth and Mary "White" Macbeth. During the Great Collapse, Benjamin and his wife gave their lives and the life of their daughter White to create a barrier around Hellsalem's Lot.
He is voiced by Hidenobu Kiuchi, and by Chris Hury in the English dub. Benjamin is an anime-only character, and does not appear in the manga.
Appearance[]
Benjamin was an Irish man in his thirties or forties, with slicked-back blonde hair and bright blue eyes that match his son's. He wears stylish red glasses and has thin, slightly unkempt eyebrows.
Personality[]
Benjamin took great pride in his children and refused to treat one any differently from the other. He was a loving and protective father to his family, and had a sense of humor.
History[]
Benjamin and his wife Emma both came from families of pureblood psychic Casters, and were investigators for the League of High Order Spirituals. Benjamin also worked at a whiskey factory, and was a shepherd.
They had two children together, fraternal twins William and Mary. While William was born with extremely powerful psychic abilities, Mary was born completely normal. Benjamin didn't let his childrens' difference in ability affect how he cared for them, and he loved both of the children equally. One night, he said that Mary and William were like white and black sake, which led the siblings to christen themselves White and Black, respectively.
During the Great Collapse, the Macbeth family was summoned to help the Casters of the world create a barrier around the city that would become Hellsalem's Lot. White was killed during the event, and her parents used their abilities to revive her. After reviving White, her parents sacrificed themselves to form the barrier around the city, telling Black to take care of his sister before they died.
Plot[]
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Powers and Abilities[]
Unique Abilities[]
- Psychic Abilities: Benjamin came from a family of pureblood psychic Casters,
Relationships[]
Mary "White" Macbeth[]
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William "Black" Macbeth[]
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Quotes[]
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Creation and Development[]
Creation[]
Anime director Rie Matsumoto found issues with adapting the Blood Blockade Battlefront manga due to its narrative lacking an overreaching structure. As a result, she used Leonardo's and Michella's relationship as a basis in the first anime adaptation. This led to the creation of the siblings White and Black, who would meet Leonardo as friends and be involved in a conflict in the adaptation's climax. Yasuhiro Nightow give his approval when heard of this storyline.
White and her family are based on the titular family from William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth, first published in the Folio of 1623 and presumably first performed in 1606. In the play, a brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to violence by his wife, Macbeth murders the king and takes the Scottish throne for himself. Then, racked with guilt and paranoia, he commits more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion, soon becoming a tyrannical ruler. The bloodbath swiftly takes Macbeth and his wife towards madness and death.
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