Been doing a Bridgerton rewatch with the intent of recontextualizing myself for Benedict, and here's how I would summarize his experience in each season:
Making friends with someone via insulting their art
Hanging out on a swing-set with Eloise and bonding over not enjoying societal norms
Going to the best party he's ever been to (gets to hang out with people who just want to do art and don't mind nudity) and then being accosted by his brother who's like, "We gotta go kill my bestie to defend our sister's honour." To which Benedict says, "What," and then Anthony's like, "If I die, you're head of the family. If I don't die, you're also head of the family. Good luck being Viscount!" And narrowly avoiding one or multiple of his siblings being shot in a duel that same morning
Seeing two men have sex and then immediately having to sleep with two women so as to not have this interaction awaken anything within him
Getting into a situationship with everyone's favourite modiste
Discovering the concept of a lavender marriage
Getting dumped by his situationship in front of his family
Discovering at a bar that he, a second son, can in fact follow his dreams as an artist and applying to the Royal Academy Schools
Sharing a poem he wrote so his brother can plagiarize it for clout
Getting so anxious about his application that he shows up to a dinner party with his brother's future-in-laws high as a kite
Attending art school and immediately hooking up with the figure model on his first day
Being the Best Man in a wedding that get cancelled at the altar
Going to his mother's ball where only 4 people outside his family show up and finding out his sister's honour is under threat (notably, different sister than the last time)
Going out with his valet and seeing Anthony carry his lover Kate's unconscious body through a thunderstorm, and then popping up to her bedside to ask Anthony what's up, to which he just says, "It's all my fault," and then walks away
Quitting art school because he found out Anthony bought his spot and he'll never know if he had the merit to get in on his own outside of being a nepo baby
Hanging out on a swing-set with Eloise and bonding over feeling like misfits and imposters
Asking a debutante to dance one (1) time and spending every subsequent event avoiding her gaze
Befriending a hot widow through hot air balloon feats and then immediately starting another situationship
Finding out his brother is engaged from the local gossip rag cause he was too busy philandering
Coming home periodically to bond with his new brother-in-law (as his sister is also engaged) and fight over macarons and cards with his youngest siblings
Feeling like a #boyfailure about the whole art school debacle
Being invited to a dinner party by his situationship, flirting with a man for the first time, and being invited to a threesome with her situationship shortly thereafter and then, running away as fast as he can
Taking three (3) business days to figure out he is bisexual and leaving his brother's wedding party to go sleep with man and a woman
Being so busy with sex that he misses his family being blackmailed
Breaking up with his situationship because he's too likable and husband-worthy to remain in a casual throuple
Hanging out on a swing-set with Eloise and bonding over plans for self-discovery whilst coming out to her in the vaguest way possible
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