First CC Yapsesh: Bee’s Childhood
Yapsesh 1: Bee’s Childhood
It’s my first yap post, and what better way to start it off than with my baby angel sweetheart Bumblebee?🐝💜💕
Omg there’s so much where do I even begin haha-😂
⬇️Yapping begins below the cut :3 ⬇️
(Also once again small CW as misogyny is discussed here😞)
Expansion on previous info
Bee was born to Mayari and Finlay Bluelake on March 16, 1875. both her parents died due to unknown causes only two months after her birth.
She was then sent to live with her paternal grandparents, Nora and Edward Bluelake. She had no known family on her mother’s side.
Growing up, she’d always had a fascination with magic despite being unaware of the wizarding world’s existence.
Every Halloween, she dressed up as something magical: a fairy, a unicorn, a princess; but a witch was always her favorite costume.
She often dressed up as a witch outside of Halloween as well. If she wasn’t in PJs, she was likely in a witch getup🪄
She loved to spend time out in nature, finding and collecting things like…
cool-looking sticks and twigs
Pretty rocks and stones
Leaves of all kinds
Flowers
Acorns and pinecones
She loved to used some of the ingredients she found as ‘potion ingredients’.
She also loved to use the flowers she found to make flower crowns🌸🌺🌷🌻
She loved searching for animals (particularly frogs and cats, who she hoped to make her familiars).
She was surprisingly good at connecting with them, and gets along with animals better than most people
She eventually got her pet cat, Frog, for her seventh birthday. They’ve been inseparable ever since💕
New facts!!💖
She spent a lot of time with her grandparents growing up, and they often passed on their skills to her
Gardening with her Grampa (though she was never very good at it😂)
Cooking & baking at her gramma (she grew quite proficient!!💕🍪👩🍳)
She has HORRIBLE luck😂 always have and always will. Besides the comedic (and angst👀) purposes for this, there is actually a reason for this that I will yap about in more depth someday💖 (Lore! Lore! Lore!)
Her hair grows unusually LONG unusually FAST due to her ancient magic; in my story, her ancient magic abilities also include strong healing and regenerative abilities, so if she cuts off her hair, it’s quick to grow back. Her grandparents had to trim it pretty much every month so it didn’t grow too long and she doesn’t turn into Rapunzel😂
Also remember how I said I’d draw short haired Bee someday? Well I’m planning on drawing long haired Bee as well….
Besides spellbooks and fantasy stories, Bee also grew to really love books about women, written by women. That was still fairly new in the time period, and as she too wanted to write a book someday, reading these were very comforting and inspiring for her 📖
Some of her favorites include Little Women, Pride and Prejuduce, and Jane Eyre
These books also helped shape her feminist beliefs and stance growing up
As a child, she loved to wear pretty dresses (still does) but was also much more of a tomboy in terms of the kind’ve activities she did. Yes, she did bake and draw, and did love having tea parties with her many dolls; but she also loved rolling down hills, splashing through streams, and getting her dress dirty to look at cool bugs🐞🐛🐜
Angst facts
She was rather ostracized by her peers growing up. For one thing, she was quiet: too shy to really reach out and talk to many people. And those she did try to talk to were turned off by her odd mannerisms and interests.
She wasn’t outright bullied for this as much as she was ignored…though she was sadly bullied for other reasons which I’ll explain below…💔
Growing up in 1890, it was already pretty much set in stone she’d have a hard time being a girl.
She was really small for most of her life until she got a growth spurt in the later half of middle school, which made her an even bigger target for…
Misogyny. She…faced a lot of this, sadly😞 Nothing traumatic, I will say, but it was as definitely bad enough to have a lasting impact on her as she’s now…
Even more anxious and timid than she likely would’ve been otherwise
Very defensive when it comes to relationships with boys (I will cover this in more detail in another yapsesh so I don’t go off-topic)
she was also somewhat picked on for her neurodivergence, though this was more backhand gossip and whispering rather than outright bullying
…I think that’s all for now!! I might add more if I get any other ideas, but there are SOOOOO many topics for me to yap about so I think I’ll end it here <3 thx for reading 💖
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