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lovestrvck · 4 years

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introducing the lover . . . beatrice anderson-yamada

handwritten letters, reciting poetry in front of the class, the japanese art of kintsugi.

hey friends !! i’m ash, i’m 23, in the est and i use she / her pronouns !! i’m so excited to rp with you all, your intros are amazing. i’m writing beatrice “bea” anderson-yamada, aka the lover skeleton. i’m really excited to introduce you all to her ! if you want to read her into bio / app, you can find that here

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full name: beatrice georgina anderson-yamada

nicknames: bea, tris ( for one terrible month after divergent became big...a lot of regrets there trust me), yamada

gender & pronouns: cis female & she / her

sexuality: bisexual / biromantic

major: first year grad student in creative writing with a concentration in poetry

zodiac: cancer sun

myers-briggs: enfp

hogwarts house: hufflepuff ( but fuck jk )

alignment: lawful good

favorite food: banana pancakes

favorite drink: sweet tea or margaritas

favorite movie: titanic

favorite book: pride and prejudice by jane austen

hometown: kitty hawk, north carolina

current residence: new york, new york ( when not at school ), harcourt institute

character inspo: anne shirley ( anne of green gables ), jess day ( new girl ), guinevere beck ( you ), jo march ( little women ), juliet & romeo ( romeo & juliet )

history

tw: parental death, car accident, death, alcohol

alright i’m gonna try to keep this brief because her app was on the longer end asljdasdj

beatrice was born in kitty hawk, north carolina. it’s on the coast, so she is a lil beach babe. also still has a slight accent that becomes more prominent when she’s mad or drunk

her parents were star-crossed lovers who met in college. they had SUCH a meet-cute, and fell in love pretty quickly ( although they definitely had their flaws that bea doesn’t know about or acknowledge )

her mom was a rich kid from nyc who’s parents disowned her when she married bea’s dad. they moved to north carolina to be near his mom, but she died when bea was three.

anyway, jackie ( bea’s mom ) and alex ( her dad ) loved each other a lot, and they loved her to pieces. they were like the world’s best parents, and were such a close family growing up. bea’s childhood was such a happy one honestly

but then when she was seven, her father died in a car accident. it was obviously very unexpected, and hit both bea and her mother very hard. but bea’s mom was amazing and stepped up and raised her to the best of her ability. bea still felt loved and safe, even though she was of course sad and could see how sad her mother was.

she fell in love with fairytales and romance novels growing up. at some point she just...began to idolize her parents’ love and love in general. her parents’ love is untouchable in her mind - it was perfect. she’s always dreamed of a love like that.

in high school, bea sort of went chasing after love. she dated a lot, giving her heart to anyone who seemed like they might want it. beatrice also realized just how much she loved writing and reading poetry.

when she was seventeen, her estranged grandmother ( jackie’s rich mom ) called them and basically begged them to move in with her. her husband, jackie’s dad and bea’s grandfather, had died of a heart attack in the middle of the night and bea’s grandmother just couldn’t handle being alone. so they packed up and moved to nyc.

bea’s grandmother paid for her college. bea chose harcourt purely based on the romantic factor - it was very gloomy and beautiful when she toured. it didn’t take long to decide on english due to her love of writing.

joining the society was like, the best thing to ever happen to her. she loves it so much. she takes it very seriously, and loves reading the old texts. she was initiated during junior year of undergrad, and decided to come back for grad school specifically because of that. now she’s a grad student getting a masters in creative writing with a concentration in poetry.

head canons & personality

bea’s all time literary crushes are gilbert blythe, mr. darcy, elizabeth bennet, jo march, and sydney carton from a tale of two cities. but honestly, she would throw it all away for gilbert blythe. did i mention she has big anne shirley energy ??

bea is immature in a lot of ways because she just sees the world through this rose-colored lens. she idealizes love and thinks that it must be so magical, but real love is messy and it can hurt sometimes. she thinks the love her parents had was just incredible, but honestly? they fought. they got angry at one another. there was a good portion towards the beginning of their relationship where jackie didn’t even want to acknowledge that she was dating alex because her parents wouldn’t approve. things weren’t simple or perfect, but i didn’t include that because that’s not how bea sees it. i would love for her to realize that the idea of love she has is a fantasy, and maybe even start to see her parents as real people and not just the perfect example of true love.

she’s a poet and she really is good. i think her work is sort of flowery now though, and could be better once she herself gets more depth. to me, she’s just floating above everything now, trapped in her own dream land of love and virtue and kindness. she needs someone or something to ground her back into reality.

when she was fourteen, she found one of her father’s journals and it’s her most prized possession. bea still keeps it with her. she brought it to college; it’s on a shelf in her room right now.

she goes by bea or beatrice pretty evenly, honestly.

bea can be a bit dramatic at times. she’s definitely prone to finding things so romantic and then just going to extremes with it. and honestly, she has very high expectations that are unrealistic but good luck getting through to her.

she’s so full of love honestly. love for others and a love for life. i think she just sees the world as this big romantic adventure, which can be both immature and refreshing at times ? again, she’s so naive but like, she has such a good heart.

honestly at some point catch her getting a book of poetry published. she’s had a few poems published in literary magazines already, but i really think she has the passion and drive to get a whole book published. and honestly, i could see her doing some more work with prose at some point and maybe even writing a romance novel.

overall, just a dramatic, loving queen who rarely gets upset. pretty optimistic in general. she never gives up on people; she’s absolutely someone you could call to come get you in the middle of the night if you were stranded.

i don’t have a connections page yet, but i’m so down to brainstorm some things ! hit me up on discord if you want to plot !

#harcourt:intro #( intro | bea )#parental death tw #death tw #alcohol tw #car accident tw #no proofreading sorry

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whenispeakicrossmyfingers · 4 years

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Omg!!! I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking Jo March was aroace!! Like I read a post saying she was a lesbian and it was like.... no she just want none. Equally for Anne Shirley from Anne with an e!!

OMG YES THANK YOU.

I’ve been listening to the audiobook for the first time (never read the book or say the Winona Ryder version of the movie until a couple of years ago) and I’ve kept hearing everyone say that Jo March is a lesbian and I’m just like.....this is untrue. She’s clearly baffled by the idea of loving anyone like that, and she rejects the idea of even her sisters doing that. That notion, of course, is a different can of worms, but one that is informed by her aromanticism/asexuality. I think there’s also a really interesting intersection of her gender identity/fluidity/genderqueerness, and I’d be so interested to hear more thoughts about it all!

I also agree to a certain extent about Anne Shirley, though I personally think she’s more bi than she is aroace because I think Anne Shirley’s lack of romantic interest is more rooted in her perception that no one would find her lovable; an idea that has been hammered into her for the first 11 (13?) years of her life. But again, who is to say that that trauma does not inform her sexuality. Maybe Anne Shirley is a biromantic asexual! We don’t know! This is why literature and media are so great!

#this ask just made me so happy i need you to know #would personally love to hear/see anyone else's thoughts about it all!#Anonymous

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inbooks · 4 years

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Anne Shirley is bisexual biromantic.

The issue of sexuality is not that big of a deal with her because in an orphanage she was honestly not even exposed to the hatred of homosexuality because there weren’t any possibilities of showing that considering that everyone around her was entirely too young to show ANY romantic attraction toward anyone or they were matrons/maids.

On the houses she helped take care of the children, she was n e v e r really let out of the house other than for errands, & since she knew she’d get in trouble if she took too long ( not that it stopped her from getting distracted as she read while walking, thought that’s an entirely different post ) she never really took the time to socialise with people long enough to even talk about romance in any other way than the HETERONORMATIVE ways of the late 1800′s, so it wasn’t really until she came around Aunt Jo & Cole that the possibility of loving someone of the s a m e sex even came into her mind.

That is not to say that she hadn’t been attracted to women before, because being bi is a thing you’re born with, but she simply never really noticed that it was attraction until someone pointed out that it was possible; all this time she simply thought she admired some women, that she ASPIRED to be as beautiful as them, but the truth was she was simply feeling v e r y much attracted to them.

Of course, except for the hair; literally any hair other than red seemed wonderful to have, so when it comes to hair it WAS admiration. Everything else, it was attraction, & she realised it once Aunt Jo even made her see same-sex attraction was a thing.

#| vi.g: personal headcanon |

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