After 3 years, Beat would be 18, but as he is a Reaper and his state of life is questionable (and more importantly, because I'm a terrible person), the amount he has aged is directly linked to how many "points" he's gained i.e. enemy bastards he's killed off!! ...So he's only aged about a year, which should tell you that Beat is willing to do what he has to but not much more than that. Anyway, he's slightly taller than he was before, his hair has grown out a little more too, it's now shoulder length. .....And his eyes stayed red, because yeah I'm super mean and enjoy scarring my characters for life.
He also got back all his canon powers, which means he can use his player pin to read surface thoughts of everyone in an area and imprint small mental suggestions onto individuals. He can also summon noise, so he's never without a pink flying squirrel on his shoulder (it's his sister Rhyme, long story.) And he can summon a Kooma Panda from his kingdom hearts iteration which has him incredibly confused, but it's cute and eats nightmares so ???? ok
At about the 1 year point he went through a MAJOR depression where all his guilt over Rhyme and feeling helpless and useless just kind of imploded, and he probably did some reckless things on the level of like. Almost deliberately trying to get himself killed again. So someone or multiple someones would have had to pull him out and snap him out of it and help him get his confidence and hope for going home and saving Rhyme back.
AFTER THAT, though, Beat would cheer up and throw his whole heart into their missions and whatever he was pointed at with gusto. Obviously he'll still be the best at things that need brute-forcing, but he'd have become a lot more cautious and stealthy from having to be on the run. Protecting himself and the other members of the group is extremely important to him. I think the group would probably want to teach him how to ACTUALLY be sneaky though, so they could optimize the use of his player pin for espionage. Because it is in the hands of the person who was least suited for spywork, wow, but he'd be a surprisingly fast learner considering well... everything. Future Beat now knows all the best way to manipulate people's reactions with memes like "Come get some hot stuff." Amazing. TO BE HONEST he'd probably enjoy this approach a lot more than cutting people up with Giant Shuriken, not just because he's a softy, but also because these are all Reaper powers and he still kind of hates being a Reaper though at this point it's pretty far from his mind.
As he is apparently the godfather of the secret passage, he also kept up his knack for finding things, so Beat probably got them a lot of good hiding places, entrances to places they weren't supposed to be in, and rare supplies. He's smartened up quite a bit since becoming more confident too, not letting his dumbness get in his way anymore yeah!!!! but it still sometimes does because wow did he have a disadvantage starting out. There are still plenty of times when people just shake their head and go "BEAT..."
So speaking of the others, Beat has a good relationship with Stiles, Gundam and May, but really he gets along pretty well with everyone (except one guess who) and his closest relationships would be with whoever helped him out of his funk. And also whoever else wants to come teach him stuff because he had a lot to learn. He'd probably have bonded pretty well with them too. And in exchange he can teach them.... how.... to skateboard...????? well ok he'll probably be a student in most every regard. He's still pretty antagonistic with Kaoru but at this point the actual hatred has petered out. Probably. For the most part. I think at the very least he understands what the DKs went through at this point and Kaoru could... appeal to his sister complex?!?! man who even knows.
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He also got back all his canon powers, which means he can use his player pin to read surface thoughts of everyone in an area and imprint small mental suggestions onto individuals. He can also summon noise, so he's never without a pink flying squirrel on his shoulder (it's his sister Rhyme, long story.) And he can summon a Kooma Panda from his kingdom hearts iteration which has him incredibly confused, but it's cute and eats nightmares so ???? ok
At about the 1 year point he went through a MAJOR depression where all his guilt over Rhyme and feeling helpless and useless just kind of imploded, and he probably did some reckless things on the level of like. Almost deliberately trying to get himself killed again. So someone or multiple someones would have had to pull him out and snap him out of it and help him get his confidence and hope for going home and saving Rhyme back.
AFTER THAT, though, Beat would cheer up and throw his whole heart into their missions and whatever he was pointed at with gusto. Obviously he'll still be the best at things that need brute-forcing, but he'd have become a lot more cautious and stealthy from having to be on the run. Protecting himself and the other members of the group is extremely important to him. I think the group would probably want to teach him how to ACTUALLY be sneaky though, so they could optimize the use of his player pin for espionage. Because it is in the hands of the person who was least suited for spywork, wow, but he'd be a surprisingly fast learner considering well... everything. Future Beat now knows all the best way to manipulate people's reactions with memes like "Come get some hot stuff." Amazing. TO BE HONEST he'd probably enjoy this approach a lot more than cutting people up with Giant Shuriken, not just because he's a softy, but also because these are all Reaper powers and he still kind of hates being a Reaper though at this point it's pretty far from his mind.
As he is apparently the godfather of the secret passage, he also kept up his knack for finding things, so Beat probably got them a lot of good hiding places, entrances to places they weren't supposed to be in, and rare supplies. He's smartened up quite a bit since becoming more confident too, not letting his dumbness get in his way anymore yeah!!!! but it still sometimes does because wow did he have a disadvantage starting out. There are still plenty of times when people just shake their head and go "BEAT..."
So speaking of the others, Beat has a good relationship with Stiles, Gundam and May, but really he gets along pretty well with everyone (except one guess who) and his closest relationships would be with whoever helped him out of his funk. And also whoever else wants to come teach him stuff because he had a lot to learn. He'd probably have bonded pretty well with them too. And in exchange he can teach them.... how.... to skateboard...????? well ok he'll probably be a student in most every regard. He's still pretty antagonistic with Kaoru but at this point the actual hatred has petered out. Probably. For the most part. I think at the very least he understands what the DKs went through at this point and Kaoru could... appeal to his sister complex?!?! man who even knows.