Bree

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Character Name: Brianna Randall
Series: Outlander
Timeline: Right as Brianna goes through the stones in 1970. Instead of going 200 years into the past she’ll wind up in Wonderland.
Canon Resource Link: link

Character History: Brianna Ellen Randall was born November 23, 1948. This wouldn’t be all that notable except that she was conceived 200 years in the past. Her mother, Claire Fraser and her father, Jamie Fraser, made the decision while Brianna (Bree) was still in the womb to be born in the 20th century, safe from the dangerous life of living in Scotland with two traitors to the Crown as parents. The father waiting for her in 1948 was Frank Randall, and for Bree’s entire life, she never knew any differently. Claire was technically still married to Frank and so for Bree’s entire life, her father was always Frank Randall. The fact that there was no one in the family with red hair was explained away by ancestry and it going back very deep in their family tree.

As Brianna grew in a lovely home in Boston, her bond with her father only strengthened while she and her mother drifted apart. Bree never understood why; she never felt a lack of love, but always felt that her mother spent more time focusing on medical school, then being a doctor and tending to patients, than really being invested in mothering her. It wasn’t always like that, there are fond memories of school costumes being sewn, going to the library and reading together for hours on end. But it all changed as Bree got taller, more stubborn, more confident and as her red hair turned firey. Why it sometimes felt as if it hurt her mother to spend time with her or why she seemed to be on another planet was lost on Brianna.

With exceptional grades in school, Bree went on to attend Harvard, where her father was also a history professor. She had every intention of following in his footsteps until the night he was killed in a drunk driving accident; he, the drunk. It broke Brianna, and while she was still determined to finish school, there was still such a rift between her and her mother that it was hard to reach out, hard to talk about Frank. They take a trip together to London for Claire’s work and a chance for Bree to leave the country. While overseas, Claire gets word that a dear friend in Scotland has passed away, so they make the drive to Inverness to pay their respects. While there, Bree catches the eye of Roger Wakefield, son of the recently deceased friend. He’s taken with her too, and when Claire explains they aren’t planning to stay, he insists and Bree adds that it would be nice to explore Scotland in the daylight and make the drive back to their hotel later in the week. The next day, Brianna accompanies Roger to a historical site called Wentworth Prison. As she walks the grounds she shivers and finds herself looking up at the gallows. She isn’t sure why it fills her with such unease, unaware that once, the man who fathered her received a hundred lashings in the very spot she’s now standing. She tells Roger she feels uncomfortable and he leaves with her so that they can talk over lunch.

It’s then that Brianna confides in him that she knows her father corresponded with Roger’s often, and that the letters were odd, referencing her mother and something tense that happened just before Bree was born. Roger says he has some things of his fathers in storage, so together they go to look. After braving a shed full of mice and spiders they find a box labeled ‘Randall.’ Inside is an article from March 1948 with Claire’s photo - ‘RETURNED BY THE FAIRIES’ the headline reads, and it’s then that Bree realizes (or rather, assumes) that her mother ran away in 1945, had an affair, and returned, pregnant, to her father. Armed with this damning evidence, Bree confronts her mother and that’s when a story comes pouring out of Claire, that she traveled back in time, that she had no choice but to marry a six-foot Scottish Highlander. Of course, it’s impossible and Brianna doesn’t believe her, even with faced with proof, a document with Claire’s signature on it dated 200 years in the past. Even with that, Brianna asks her mother, point blank, why she can’t admit she ‘fucked another man’ like a million other bored housewives. And then, to rub salt in the wound, she adds that only two people know the truth, and one of them is dead, referring to Frank. Coldly, she adds: “too bad it wasn’t you.”

Roger, in the wake of all this, takes Brianna to a pub to try and talk things out with her. He tells her that maybe it wouldn’t be such a bad thing to listen to the entire story, everything Claire has to say and Bree finally relents. Back at Roger’s Bree listens to all of it, including that soon she can see it work for herself because a woman Claire new, Geillis Duncan, is going through the stones. Still, Bree sees no point in feeding into this delusion her mother has until once again, Roger is the voice of reason. He tells her that either someone will disappear through the stones because Claire’s right or they’ll watch a woman run headfirst into a giant rock. Either way, she’d know the truth. Again, Brianna relents and she goes with her mother and Roger to the stones her mother says transport people to a different time. Before seeing anything they smell burning flesh and as they approach the stones, Bree’s horrified to see a burning body, and then as her mother shouts at a woman running, Brianna looks up just in time to see that same woman disappear, like the blink of an eye. Stunned, Brianna spins to face her mother, eyes wide and realizing it’s true. It’s all true. Right then they tell each other that there can’t be any more secrets between them, that Claire can’t hide anything else from her. Claire agrees, and it’s then that Roger decides to drop a bombshell: Claire always thought Jamie died when she left him to his fate during a war, but he didn’t. He lived, and Brianna says out loud what this means: her mother can go back.

Back at Roger’s, for weeks the three of them look for all the evidence they can that Jamie did in fact live, but the timeline ends in a prison for traitors of the crown. All records simply stop, so once again everyone believes Jamie is dead, and reluctantly Claire and Brianna leave Scotland to go back to Boston. Brianna finds it difficult though, to sink back into academic life, especially history. She’s seen now, firsthand, how it can be changed, how it could be altered, how not everything even makes it into history books. She begins failing out, and around Christmas of 1968, it turns into a full-blown argument with her mother when Bree decides to drop out of college altogether and move out of the house. She explains (very loudly) that she can’t just fall back into her old life, not when everything about it was a lie that Claire kept up her entire life. At the height of their argument the doorbell rings and as Brianna throws open the door she yells "WHAT," but it’s none other than Roger, come to experience a true American holiday. The pair only grows closer, and then his real reason for returning is revealed: he never stopped looking for Jamie, and he did live. He wound up in Edinburgh, the owner of a printing press and going by a different name. Brianna and her mother talk, and it’s then that Bree decides to be selfless. She tells Claire to go, that she needs to go back to Jamie because she gave up the love of her life to give Brianna the best life she could. Now, Bree has to give her back. On Christmas Day, she and Roger present her mother with a box of what are, to them, antique coins but for Claire would be perfect currency when she travels back in time.

Brianna wants to go with her mother, but Claire insists if her daughter were there she would never be able to go. But she does give Bree one last Christmas present, a strand of Scottish pearls that were Jamie’s mother’s - Brianna’s grandmother’s. They hug, and after a few more tears, Bree says goodbye to her mother for what she thinks is forever. Disappearing into the kitchen, she cries for a moment before pulling herself together and going to sit with Roger, reading a Christmas Story and sharing a lobster roll and Boston creme pie. With all of the bank accounts, the house deed, and all other household accounts in her name, Bree buckles down after Roger goes back to Scotland and switches her major to math, enrolling at MIT. When she graduates, she reconnects with Roger and their relationship grows, sharing kisses, advancing their relationship to something more than just a simple friendship. When he’s again in Scotland and she’s in Boston he calls her with urgent news, something devastating: her parents, in 1776, will die horribly in a fire when vandals break into their home. If the timeline is right, that’s eight years from now, and Brianna realizes she can warn them, she can travel through the stones and try to save both Jamie and Claire. Without telling Roger her plans, Brianna travels back to the stones. She makes (and buys) clothing to resemble 18th-century fashion and then places her hands on the rock.

Instead of going back in time, she will be in Wonderland.

Abilities/Special Powers: None.

Third-Person Sample:

When she goes through the stones, Brianna expects it to be more traumatic than it is, based on her mother’s description of how it felt. Instead, it’s like she blinks and suddenly she’s in another place. The stones are gone which strikes her as odd, but she’s certainly in a different place altogether, so she must have gone somewhere. Still, it doesn’t look anything like where she’s just come from and she gathers her skirts, walking through the forest.

Finally, she comes to a path and there’s a house in the distance, lights flickering. She wonders whose house it is - it’s quite large - and whether or not she’ll be welcome, but there’s no other choice. Her mother never mentioned anything like this, it was always that she woke in the same spot but in the past. Something isn’t right, she can feel it now, and Brianna’s a little more apprehensive, swallowing heavily. Her steps pause as she considers the house then looks back over her shoulder. Even if she does go back from the direction she came the stones are gone; she can’t travel back now.

Truly, she has no choice, so she keeps going forward and realizes maybe, just maybe, this is Lallybroch. If it is she’s about to meet an entire slew of cousins, her aunt and uncle. She knows from the article about her parent’s death that they were in North Carolina, but still, to meet a family now she never knew about is exhilarating and the idea of it makes her stride forward with more purpose. She can meet her family and save her parents, and from there, well. From there she’ll likely have to beg her mother’s forgiveness for doing something she knows would be met with disapproval. Better to be yelled at than to bury her, Bree thinks.

First-Person Sample:

[ So. She’s not in Scotland, not in 1971 or two-hundred years in the past. But her parents are here, her father only a few years older than she is, her mother the same as when she left Boston. It’s confusing, but now she’s curious about the device and uses it for the first time, a video as she sits in the garden. ]

I’ve been told about this place and where I am now very thoroughly. I wasn’t trying to come here, but then, no one was, right? I had no idea that this is where my mother has been, and she’s been here for so long, I can assure you all who didn’t know it for sure: I really didn’t have any idea.

[ Bree pauses, letting out a soft breath as she looks out into the distance before looking back at the screen. ]

I’m from 1971, so this, a lot of it, is new, though I suppose I don’t have it as bad as some. My name is Brianna. How many of you know my mother, Claire Fraser?

[ For now she ends the video with that question, and doesn’t ask about Jamie. She isn’t sure how to phrase her relationship with him yet. ]

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APPLICATION: Brianna Randall (Outlander)

Sat, 30 Jun 2018 23:48:11 GMT

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THE CHARACTER

Character Name: Brianna Randall
Series: Outlander (TV show canon)
Canon Point: Post season 3 finale, 'Eye of the Storm.' This is to consider that as much time has passed for Brianna as it has for her parents.
Character Age: 20.
Background: Wiki link.

Personality:

→ stubbornness ←

Stubbornness isn’t a trait Brianna gets solely from one side of the family - despite what any parent might think. Though, she does have a fiery temper once she’s set on something that she believes is right, almost to the point of not seeing the other side of an argument. To her, when there is overwhelming evidence swaying on her side of the debate, she wins and she has a hard time separating her emotions from the actual point. Never is this more clear than when Claire tries to tell Brianna about Jamie. Claire goes so far as to show Brianna her signature on a document from the 18th century, but it doesn’t matter; she accuses her mother of cheating, goes so far as to tell her mother that she fucked someone else while married (her literal words. Which. Ouch.) before wishing her mother was dead.

It takes seeing to believe in many cases for Bree, not so much a woman of faith as she is a woman of science even if she doesn’t know it yet. It’s only when she sees someone disappear through the stones the way her mother described that she actually believes any stories of time travel and lost loves. Luckily, when she can finally see the truth for what it is, she’ll back down and admit she was wrong, even going so far as to actually apologize. Eventually.

→ compassion ←

It may seem like too opposite of a trait from stubbornness, especially given everything she’s said and done and how she reacts to things, but this one is something she got from her mother, hands down. When she realizes someone is hurting, that they need help, Bree will often do whatever she can to make sure that person is okay. Large case in point: as soon as she realized her mother was telling the truth and actually hurt over the idea that her second husband might be alive out there somewhere, Brianna made up her mind to tell her mother to go back in time to him. She felt like she was grown enough to assure her mother that she could leave and be fairly confident that her daughter would be just fine.

In truth, as soon as Claire left, Brianna broke down in tears. It wasn’t so much that Claire was gone as it was, at age twenty, Bree wasn’t all that ready to let go of her mother. This wasn’t a simple move where a phone could be picked up to hear her mom’s voice again, she couldn’t get on a plane and take a trip to hug her. It hurts when it sinks in but it’s not something Bree would ever regret urging her mother to do. As much as Frank was the father that raised her, Jamie was the father Claire loved, and it was obvious in the way she simply said his name. And so, the right thing to do was make sure her mother could be truly happy again. The only way to do that was by Bree assuring her she could take care of herself.

→ lack of patience ←

This is a trait from both parents as well, the slight edge is given to Jamie. It also goes hand in hand with the first which may be a more telling sign as to who she got that from. When all she can do is sit idly by, Brianna gets frustrated easily, often snapping at someone else, or walking away from whatever she’s working on. It’s not often a moment of truly being angry or blaming anyone else for anything, but having too little to go on or not enough time to work something out. She also has no patience for outdated views that seem archaic, mostly in the vein of things being sexist. That part, she does get from one parent who was ahead of his time by 18th century standards and one parent who became a doctor despite the odds.

Bree’s lack of patience ironically comes with a sort of dogged determination. Once she runs out of patience and she’s running on sheer irritation, she doubles down. Because running out of patience means running out of time for other people’s bullshit. That actually makes this personality a double-header of sorts with the addition of persistence. Right, wrong, or indifferent, once she’s out to prove something she won’t let it go. Basically: exhaust her patience and be ready to have an argument about why you’re wrong. (Which she gets from Claire, hands down.)

→ who am I, inside? ←

This might be the biggest and most consistent thing Bree struggles with as soon as she comes to accept the truth about her parentage. She knows that Claire’s blood runs strongly through her and even says as much, but deep down, there will always be a question to her of whether the things she thought were Frank (her love of reading, history and old things) were really because of his influence in raising her, or if it was a byproduct of a father lost to history. Now she has to wonder; did Jamie love to read? Frank never really enjoyed being outdoors much just for the hell of it, he never really loved fishing and taking care of animals. But did Jamie? She has so many unanswered questions and she only has more the longer she thinks about the differences between her and Frank.

A part of her looks in the mirror now, sees her red hair, and wonders if it ever hurt Frank. If she was just a reminder that her mother didn’t love him at all. It makes her hurt to think, but another part of her sees the red hair and is so deeply curious. Which parts of Jamie made her? If he’d raised her, how different would she be from the woman she is now? Is she more Fraser by sheer default, or is she more Randall because of the man who raised her? She doesn’t know how to get this answer, exactly, but she wonders more often than not.

Powers/Abilities: None.

Power Nerfs (if applicable): N/A

Inventory:

¹. One pair of jeans.
². One pair of white socks.
³. One pair of shoes.
⁴. A pair of matching undergarments.
⁵. A cream colored blouse.
⁶. One page boy hat.
⁷. One photo of her mom.
⁸. One strand of pearls.
⁹. One wrist watch.

Incentives: All that Bree would want is the absolute safety of her mother. She'll do anything anyone wants, if she can just be sure that Claire Fraser is safe.