#and also charlotte n taylor tho I’d have to think about those a bit more lmao

[doodlebeeberry]

bee , could you talk about your stella / hansen family in general head canons... i saw it in your tags once on ao3 and now im curious

It’s like 3 am so apologies if this isn’t coherent or is just a scattered mess. Also most of these are not very happy sorry

- Stella n Bryce’s relationship with their mom was. Rocky for a long while. She was kinda one of those folks who just wasn’t really cut out to be a parent. She didn’t dislike em, not by a long shot, but it took her a long time to deal w her issues enough to really be a proper parent to them, in a meaningful way.

- the three of them did eventually reach an ok place though. There was still a definitive distance, but when bryce was like a sophomore in high school or so they started reconciling a bit

- I maintain my old headcannons that the extended hansen family is Big. He has like a billion cousins but he hasn’t seen the majority of them in years. I do think he tries to reconnect with some of them at least like wayyy after one is over tho.

- bradley is like. A family friend on stellas side. She was closest with him but eventually he grew into almost a second sibling to bryce after a while

- they lived in the suburbs outside hartford. Can’t be bothered to look up where specifically so just pick the absolute most middle ground neighborhood possible

- stella absolutely taught him how to drive and she did so approximately fifteen minutes before his drivers test

- at some point bryce became the one in the house who cooked, mostly cause he was the only one who was particularly good at it. For a brief period of time, probably when he was like a senior, the three of them would sorta bond over it as he tried to teach stella n his mom how to not suck at it.

- at one point in that process, not long before stella died, his mom gave him a couple of old family recipes, scribbled on napkins and receipt backs and the like. This was the most solid ground they’d ever had up to that point. He still has them. He refuses to make any of them.

- stella died like three days after he graduated high school, give or take. If I wanna get really specific, and also kinda mean, she died durning a graduation party someone was throwing for him and a couple other kids on the block who’d also graduated. Total freak accident

- To say it put a damper on his relationship with his mom is putting it mildly. About a week after stellas death, Bryce and his mom has a really really nasty fight, both about her death and just about eachother. Lot of poorly-aired grievances and not-so-nice things were said, resulting in both bryce storming out of his own volition and his mom in effect kicking him out. He went south to crash with Bradley for a while, who was (and still is) living around bridgeport. He and his mom haven’t spoken since.

- he was thinking of going to community college. That didn’t happen.

- probably should’ve mentioned this up too but there’s no dad in the picture really. He vanished for one reason or another before bryce was even born rip

- his mom. Is aware of what happen on the smokestack. And she feels. Some sorta way about it I’m sure.

#these are most of the ones that are relevant to losing and finding I think? which is the only fic where I mentioned having hcs about this #I think #skimmed over stellas exact cause of death but it was a car accident. as is the popular interpretation #some guy was going a bit too fast and had to swerve not to hit a critter or somethin. lost control and there you go #maybe it’s just because of how I tend to approach bryces family dynamic but I don’t think his mom was like. an intentionally shitty person #when he was growing up. in the sense that like. she did care about them both genuinely but she wasn’t a caretaker by nature and wasn’t good #with her own limits. #combined with very suddenly becoming a single mother and falling back on a few old vices and things went a bit topsy turvey #I don’t know if that’s how you write out that expression but still #it took time for her to learn how to really. be there. how to be a proper parent to them. and when she did she never really owned up to the #mess so much as she just tried to build over it. she kinda denied it for a while (which is at least in part where bryce gets his denialism #from) #and while eventually she got a bit better at owning up to being a bad parent and such it was never really enough. it was never gonna be #enough #I don’t know if any of that made sense. I’m very sleepy and in my head their relationship is Very Complicated #to say nothing of his moms relationship with stella oh man #we know this woman Exists and that’s it but I’ll be dammed if I don’t hammer together some sorta messy character out of her #I have hyper-specific family headcannons for the whole scentdapack trio #and also charlotte n taylor tho I’d have to think about those a bit more lmao #ask #ask to tag