At the request of my beloved Valentine, it’s time for my second yapsesh: this time about SeBee!!!🥰 there will be MANY more about them- so this is the first of many!!😋💕
Yapping begins below the cut!⬇️
The main reason I ship them is because they’re the last people you’d expect to end up together💖
Bee’s preferences are covered in more detail here, but basically, for guys, she tends to lean more toward the quieter, gentler, more reserved ones (like Neville🙈)
This is because she faced a lot of misogyny as a young girl growing up in the 19th century, and she’s grown to be wary around more outspoken and assertive guys
Which is why she is so surprised by her attraction to Sebastian. Because he’s exactly the kind’ve guy she’s trained herself to avoid: confident, flirty, rebellious; a ‘bad influence’ and ‘bad idea’ in her mind🤭
So she tries to keep an emotional distance at first, even though she gets a crush on him pretty much as soon as they meet in DADA. She’s willing to be his friend, but nothing more.
…..until the restricted section. After he didn’t bail her out and risked a detention for her, despite the two barely even knowing each other at the time, that pretty much turned everything around for her.
Bee is the kind’ve girl who’s attracted to personality and actions; not so much looks. His real loyalty in this instance is what ultimately made her initial defensive stance start to crumble (and made her crush grow even more).☺️💗
After that, she allowed herself to be more open with him, though the opening up process was still slow and gradual with her, and took place over years.
On Sebastian’s end, falling for Bee was also unexpected. Mostly bc in my story, he actually wasn’t that interested in many girls.
He flirts with them all the time, yes, but as far as genuine attraction goes, that’s a rare thing for him. So getting a crush alone (and so soon within meeting her) is already a surprise for him.
There’s also the fact that she’s not the kind’ve girl he’d expected himself to fall for. She’s quiet, shy, timid, and much more of a rule follower than him, so at first he’s confused by his own attraction.
However, this confusion quickly turns to infatuation as he gets to know her more. It doesn’t take long for her to (accidentally) endear herself to him, and he actually finds himself enjoying their many differences, rather than fighting against them.
He also loves how slow she is to open up. For him, it’s like uncovering a puzzle: the most intriguing puzzle in the world. She has so many contradictions that just fascinate him:
She’s quiet, but opinionated. She’s kind, but she’s not a pushover. She’s respects authority, but she also always follows her heart. She’s gentle and mild, but she’s also got a hidden temper.
All of these nuances to her just excite and delight him in the best of ways, and he loves talking with her and spending time with her to learn more.
Another thing I love about their relationship is how they challenge each other. Usually, when people think of Seb’s storyline, there’s really only 2 options: support him, or don’t. But Bee doesn’t choose either of those: she chooses both.
She’s always there for him when he needs her, and provides a listening ear and shoulder to cry on. However, she doesn’t support his involvement in the dark arts, and actively tries to steer him away from this toward other alternatives to curing Anne.
She, like him, wants to heal Anne; she just refuses to do it through the dark arts as she doesn’t want him to suffer, get hurt, or hurt anyone else. In other words: she guides, supports, and heals, rather than enables💖
….I’ll end the yapping there for now, but I could go on about them for ages😂 I’ll save those for future yap posts though :3 thanks for reading 🥰💕 (and Jominis yapsesh is next😉)
Tagging my peeps who said they were interested in my yaps🙈:
