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The role Raymond was to be in having a line where he tells Chris that he underestimated him??? Ooooohhhhh the daddy issues machine goes BRRRRRRRRR

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I'm having Chris being the youngest child and having older siblings angsty thoughts thank you Celia Bean for everything wrong with you ♡

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do you think the bbc made chris apologise to his father after the pilot? i'm sure that there were newspaper headlines all about his little fit on-air

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AU where Chris wakes up with temporary amnesia and asks where his mother is but he's been no-contact with her for a few years

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If Chris and Vanessa grew up together…

no matter what, they were in different schools

they didn't meet through theatre or academics or any sort of extracurriculars

they met while skiving off class one day

[important context here is that vanessa went to an all-girls' school and chris was at a boarding school down the road]

they bumped into each other (literally) at a pic'n'mix in a corner shop

[they didn't skive often, but i picture them as students who do well in class because it's expected, however they're not stand-outs by any means really.]

[if we want to get super into it, we could also say that the classes they ditched were the ones where their teachers had no concrete facts about their home lives, but could colour in the picture enough to not say anything when they needed to get air]

i think that vanessa was the first to open up about her parents and her mother especially and her older half-brother

not immediately spouting off about them, but little, carefully crafted comments dropped here and there until she could get a gauge on what chris thought

i think they bonded over overbearing and critical mothers and rather absentee fathers

it was slightly different for vanessa because her mother had been married thrice, and as a result she had an older brother

i think their gap in age is at least six or eight years. enough to really notice a difference in their upbringing

chris didn't speak often about his mother but when vanessa would rant about something and her words hit close to home, there was a certain set to his jaw that she learned to pick up on

i think eventually there was a parents' day and chris and vanessa accidentally bumped into each other again, but their mothers were present

and before they could hide that they knew each other, they were accidentally too familiar with their body language to have just been two teenagers who met on the street

celia immediately was on the defence against vanessa, thinking that she was going to usurp her place as the number one woman in chris' life

that feeling was quickly assuaged by kathryn wilcock-wynn-carroway's presence, which eclipsed vanessa's

celia found her kindred spirit

(of course, this didn't mean that the two women weren't jealous of each other's lives or didn't gossip about them to their friends)

(they were very frenemy coded with a kind of false nicety that would set your teeth on edge)

[they're the worst mothers in the world i love them so much]

as chris and vanessa got older, their interests and life paths shifted

chris ended up moving to cornley to join the polytechnic's drama program

vanessa moved to london to work on a communications and public relations degree at university of east london

(we know how their stories go from here, chris with cpds and the murder at haversham manor. vanessa gets an internship with the bbc where she's required to work as a receptionist once a month over the eight or nine months it is. she is able to get a spot in their fellowship program* and continue to work at the bbc whilst studying)

*i have no idea if the bbc has a fellowship program, but it sure does sound nice eh?

the two of them fell out of touch for the most part, occasionally sending emails and letters around birthdays and holidays

and then a christmas carol happened

chris isn't stupid

he knew that vanessa knew who he was and what he was planning on doing

she grew up with him

and he grew up with her.

he knew that her observational skills were much, much better than what she showed to the rest of the cast

there's no way that she didn't see them sneaking into the studios again, that she didn't see the fire alarm get pulled

especially not with their costumes and the two cameras they were toting with them

the next week he emails her

begs her to join the little acting troupe he's in

partially because he knows her mother would hate it

partially because he knows his parents would find it irritating

but mostly because he misses his friend

sandra has usurped the role of best friend in his life

but vanessa was there first

saw him when he was still figuring out who he was, what he wanted, and maybe most importantly, what he didn't want

and he knows that she didn't want to be behind that desk for the rest of her life

he wasn't sure if she'd like being on stage, but trevor's a good stage manager. she'd do well backstage, too

he just…

he just wants to see his best friend again

(she wants it, too)

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Do you think Chris ever sees a fantasy show and there's a character who has a normal and loving relationship with their parents, and he's just like, "wow, it really is a fantasy land not based in reality at all"

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*shakes you by the shoulders* HOW DO YOU THINK CHRIS' PARENTS REACTED TO SEEING HIM WEARING THE UNION JACK ON HIS PANTS AND FLOUNCING AROUND WITH A "WEH HEH HEUH" LAUGH IN A UNIFORM AT THE END OF ANNIE'S PLAY FOR THIRTY SECONDS???

HOW LONG WAS IT THAT THE SHOW WAS AIRED THAT CELIA AND RAYMOND WERE ON THE PHONE TO TALK TO HIM ABOUT HOW NOT ONLY DID HE DISGRACE THEM BY DOING THAT, BUT HE DISGRACED THE COUNTRY AS WELL?

HOW MANY TIMES DID THEY USE NESSA'S GETTING KNOCKED OUT AND CARRIED OUT AS ANOTHER PART TO THEIR GUILT TRIPS AAAAUUUUGGGHHHH

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Goes Wrong Show (TV 2019) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Chris Bean & Celia Bean & Raymond Bean, Chris Bean & Max Bennett & Sandra Wilkinson (The Play That Goes Wrong), Max Bennett/Sandra Wilkinson (The Play That Goes Wrong), Minor or Background Relationship(s), Jonathan Harris & Jonathan Harris' Ex-Wife & Jonathan Harris' Daughter, Celia Bean/Robert Grove, Chris Bean & Robert Grove & Sandra Wilkinson Characters: Chris Bean (The Play That Goes Wrong), Celia Bean, Raymond Bean, Max Bennett (The Play That Goes Wrong), Sandra Wilkinson (The Play That Goes Wrong), Members of the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society Additional Tags: Whumpril 2025, Chris Bean Needs a Hug (The Play That Goes Wrong), Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Dissociation, Anger, Abusive Parents, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Hugs, Domesticity, Episode: s01e02 The Pilot Not the Pilot, Coda, Canon Compliant, Can Be Read As Chris Bean/Max Bennett/Sandra Wilkinson, POV Third Person Series: Part 1 of Whumpril25 Summary:

Celia Bean has some very strong words for the national embarrassment her son has just put his Father through. Max and Sandra have equally strong feelings about the way that Celia and Raymond treat their son.