INTRO:
⌠ courtney eaton, 21, cis female, she/her ⌡ welcome back to gallagher academy, BEATRICE FITZSIMMONS! according to their records, they’re a SECOND year, specializing in DRIVER’S ED & ADVANCED ENCRYPTION; and they DID go to a spy prep high school. when i see them walking around in the halls, i usually see a flash of bitten fingernails with chipped polish, timid smiles, knees stained with grease, warm hugs, and the sound of pouring rain. when it’s the aquarius’s birthday on 1/29/1999, they always request their CINNAMON ROLLS from the school’s chefs. looks like they’re well on their way to graduation.
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tw: abandonment, depression
(there’s a tl;dr at the bottom because this got a little long)
-the first thing that beatrice haeata ng fitzsimmons will tell you about herself is to please call her bea, because beatrice fitzsimmons sounds like an old white lady, and tbh? she’s not wrong. fitzsimmons comes from her wasp father (and she would love to get rid of it, but when she tried to go by bea ng people started calling her ‘human being’ and that got old real fast). beatrice comes from the fact that her mom watched a lot of golden girls while she was pregnant. so she really was named after an old white lady.
-her dad comes from some upper crusty boston family and idk what her father’s job is yet, but it’s something important and public enough that having a baby out of wedlock with a flight attendant is a big no-no. (update: he’s a massachusetts senator) the fact that she was a woc didn’t endear her to the faux-liberal fitzsimmons either. so they made a deal: if marama (bea’s mom) signed an nda and promised to stay away from richard (bea’s dad), they would send her a ‘generous’ amount of money on a regular basis, pay for the baby’s education, and they even threw in their summer home on nantucket, with the mortgage fully paid off. it wasn’t a deal that marama could say no to, so she moved, and her mother moved back to massachusetts from new zealand to help raise her granddaughter.
-bea had a pretty decent childhood. she got to live in a nice house, and somehow they always had enough money. she was kind of shy, a little awkward, and really just wanted to read and play computer games and draw on her arm with colorful markers. she was nice, and that helped her find a few close friends. she never really felt like she needed more.
-bea asked about her dad a lot. it hadn’t been difficult to figure out that the nice things they had came from him, but she couldn’t figure out why. when she asked, her grandmother would always roll her eyes, say something rude in te reo, and leave the room. her mother always said she’d tell bea when she was ready, when she was a little bit older. when she was thirteen she started to badger her mother about it so often that she gave in, and told bea exactly who her father was and why no one could know. it upset bea, but she’d already spent thirteen years dealing with the fact that he didn’t want her in his life, so the fact that he was an even bigger piece of shit than she realized was disappointing, but not surprising.
-marama decided that if she was finally going to be honest with bea about her father, it was time for her to come clean about something else. she was not a flight attendant. she worked for the government (she couldn’t say which part) and traveled to (she couldn’t say where) where she collected information on (she couldn’t say what). bea idolized her mom, and if she was a spy, bea wanted to be a spy. her mother told her that she knew of some schools bea could attend to help prepare her for the life of a spy, but told her often that she didn’t have to be a spy, and could leave at any time. sometimes bea thought her mother didn’t want that for her, but she never said it outright.
-bea didn’t feel like she fit in at spy prep school. she didn’t have the same drive as other students, the same intensity. she didn’t know who she was in that environment, but she knew that she wasn’t doing much that she was passionate about. the one thing that helped her feel like she had something to offer was learning coding and encryption. she had always been curious about how the games she liked to play were made, so she loved learning not only how they worked, but how to break in and change them. bea’s mother had told her about her alma mater, gallagher, and after getting a letter bea considered it, but ultimately decided that her heart just wasn’t in the world of espionage. it made her sad to think she wasn’t going to have the same career as her mother, but it felt right.
-after graduating from her spy prep high school, bea took a year (and some of her father’s money) to travel the world, mostly around asia and europe. she thought it was the kind of thing that people did to find themselves, but bea still felt totally lost. there didn’t seem to be a career that involved curling up in bed with a good book and some music to drown out the noise in your head, so she figured she would try to work in computer science. (yay for women in stem!). she ended up going to vassar for compsci, and she liked it well enough. but about two months before the spring semester ended, bea got a call from her grandmother who told her that her mother was missing, and that she had been given no more information than that. bea said she was going to defer for a semester so that she could go home and be with her grandmother. she had been a little bit sad and a little numb for a long time, maybe longer than she realized, but she’d never thought much of it. but after her mother disappeared it got a lot worse. thank god for therapy.
-one day bea was going through her mother’s belongings and found some things from her time at gallagher. it occurred to bea that people in the spy world might have information on her mom, and that she could learn skills to find her mother herself. the fact that she would be emulating her mother in the process sweetened the idea as well. she contacted gallagher to ask if there was still a place for her there, and there was.
-ok this is getting way too long but basically she decided to take a driver’s ed class because she likes taking computers apart and putting them back together and she thought a car engine might be like that. it wasn’t the same, but she wasn’t disappointed, and enjoyed it so much that she decided to declare it as her second major. if she needs to be alone (which is relatively often) she can be found getting her hands dirty in the garage. being at gallagher and trying to better herself in order to find out what happened to her mother has made her finally feel she has some sort of purpose, but it is definitely an uphill battle.
-personality: uh she’s kind of just your stereotypical sad girl. she’s a bit shy, but has strong opinions and isn’t afraid to share them. she is generally a very kind person and wants to make the people she cares about happy. she’s a great listener, but she’s not great at talking about her own emotions. she doesn’t have a very good handle on them, and she has a tendency to bottle up her emotions until she can’t anymore and then get mad at someone who probably didn’t do anything wrong. she’s really into pop culture, movies, music, books, art, etc. she’s scared of guns and will avoid taking a class in firearms at all costs. she has a dog named trixie, which is short for beatrix kiddo. (she thought that her name being basically the same as the bride’s was amazing, and if lorelai gilmore can name her daughter after herself, bea can name her dog after herself too.)(i can’t believe i just mentioned lorelai gilmore omg). she loves baking. she’s baby.
-OH one more thing: only her grandmother calls her beatrice. her mom called her beatrice when she was mad, but usually called her little bird or birdy (because of a story she used to tell bea about how mother birds fly away and then always come back to their nests but that is a story for another day). and occasionally people call her fitz, but it’s usually bea or some variant of that.
tl;dr: has a rich important dad who paid her mother to never tell anyone that he was bea’s father, her mother was a spy and went missing a little over a year ago, she likes technology and books and shit. kind of shy and usually nice but sometimes a wee bit rude.
wanted connections:
a best friend and/or squad
good friends
friends from spy prep (she would have graduated in 2017)
someone who is somehow connected to her dad
people whose mothers knew bea’s mom from when they were at gallagher
a good/bad influence, someone who can help her get out of her shell a little
study buddies
exes/hookups/flings
idk i’m so bad at making these lists just give me angst
anything!! come plot with me
if you read this whole thing please know that i love you.
