(big shout out to @swift-kwikster for helping me coming up with her name and background!)
more info below the cut!
Meet Bebe! Her title is ‘The Blissful Baker’ and she is OBSESSED with baking! Cookies, cupcakes, you name it- she is an artist in the kitchen. Bebe is 18 years old, a transgender woman, Papua New Guinean and a lesbian.
She has a collection of baking tools and aprons, some of which she wears all the time (she forgets to take them off but she’s always in the kitchen so why bother not wearing one?).
Bebe is a kind and naive girl who loves to bake sweets. She is always found in the kitchen, cooking up a storm with lots of flour, sugar and icing!
She often annoys Chef Hatchet in the kitchen but he soon learns to tolerate her, even forming a friendship. Baking is her life and she hopes to become a famous baker! Maybe she needs to pay attention to the world around her first.
Could we get some Bebe and/or Jabari headcanons? Ooh or their relationships to the rest of the reboot cast?
omg yes, of course! thank you so much for asking! bare with me cus this may be longggg
ill start with bebe first!
i also wanna clarify… the first post i ever made with bebe, i mentioned she was 18. initially, i created her character separate from an actual total drama season and she was just a random oc from a made up cast of mine. however, now headcanon her as having been in the actual 2023 season, she is 17!
sorry about the previous mistake in my initial post!
bebe, competing in total drama island 2023, was constantly focused on the kitchen. she’d always try to sneak into the kitchen in the mess hall, only to find chef there who’d try and kick her out. eventually, he got tired and warmed up to her, both of them having a father and daughter relationship.
she doesn’t think much of chef’s cooking, since it’s canonically gross, but she doesn’t wanna tell him that 😭 when they’re not doing challenges, with whatever ingredients are around, she loves to bake snacks for the contestants!
haven’t mentioned it yet but i ship bebe with emma c: as we know, in season 1 of the reboot, she’s going back and forth with chase but this would be an AU! basically, the season would start like normal with emma being mad at chase but once she meets bebe, they form a close friendship and eventually become girlfriends c: i know i know, that means a lot of emma’s plot wouldn’t happen butttt in the end, it means it’d lead to bowie and emma still being friends so im happy with that c:
bebe is pretty liked by most of the contestants but not at first! but she often tries to appease emma, always asking her what her favourite sweets are and once she knows, she bakes specifically her favourites 🥰 (emma loves strawberry flavoured anything, but her favs are strawberry cheesecake and pavlova)
bebe is very easily distracted and naive. when she first arrived, ripper tried to make fun of her but bebe didn’t really get it leaving ripper confused himself 😭 then, they kinda ended up becoming friends and having a bit of an odd friendship!
she is Papua New Guinean (inspired by my boyfriend, who also came up with her name! tysm babe 🥰) but has been living in canada, her parents moving there before she was born.
she often arrives late to challenges, accidentally, which annoys chris to no ends, because she gets distracted by her baking and never notices the time. at first, it made her teammates annoyed (like MK, julia, bowie) but they all eventually warmed up to her. emma was always quick to her defense 🥰
i have more butttt im rambling on now 😅 time to talk about jabari!
when jabari first arrived on the island, it was love at first sight; as soon as he saw zee, he couldn’t stop thinking about them. zee was constantly on jabari’s mind.
jabari would bring along his cutesy teen romance novels and in his spare time, would read and imagine it was him and zee in the characters place.
not trying to be insensitive but chase once asked about jabari’s binder and he was too shy and nervous to say anything. zee cut in, distracting chase and leading to another conversation. later that day, zee and jabari were chilling and he thanked zee for changing the conversation.
jabari is openly transgender but on the island, since they were all new people, he wasn’t comfortable talking about it yet. he told zee he was a trans man and zee was so chill about it, straight up telling him ‘that’s cool, im non binary' and since then, their bond got stronger.
jabari is weird, and i mean weird weird. he rarely ever takes off his skates and he’s a natural, even on rough terrain. yes, he competes in challenges with them on; he’s so used to it and prefers to wear them than normal shoes where he’s really clumsy.
he writes poetry in his spare time. throughout his stay on the island, he kept writing poems about zee. they didn’t directly say ‘zee’s’ name but similar to the episode ‘x-treme torture’, bowie found one of the pages and tried to find out who wrote it. bowie was able to easily identify that it was zee in the poem and approached zee, saying they had a secret admirer.
zee was flattered and so chill about the whole thing, saying it was ‘super cool’ bowie approached jabari, who immediately spilled the beans. while bowie was using certain things to his advantage in the competition, here he was just curious and wanted to know who else was crushing hard on each other this season (besides him and raj, as well as eventually bebe and emma).
jabari was relieved and this eventually led up to him wanting to confess to zee.
jabari was terrified of anything water related in the season and would often panic. zee noticed this and was like ‘don’t worry, dude, i’ll protect you haha,’ and carried him on his back. each time this happened, jabari would instantly have hearts in his eyes and would think to himself ‘oh, my hero!’
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whoaaaa, sorry this was a lot.
i know a lot of these probably doesn’t make sense, story wise with total drama 2023. again, this is a super different AU. like, yeah, emma and chase storyline doesn’t rly happen (except for chase constantly bugging emma and her getting mad over what he did to her before the competition).
but thank youuuu so much for asking!! i have more thoughts and headcanons butttt this is long as it is and i gotta get some sleep 😅
tysm again, this was a lot of fun! i keep forgetting to share my headcanons and ideas and stuff with my oc’s, whoops.
