#beanfam

I'm rewatching Mr. Bean at the 2012 London Olympics and I NEED to figure out a way to bring this into my Cornleyverse crossover

do you think the bbc made chris apologise to his father after the pilot? i'm sure that there were newspaper headlines all about his little fit on-air

AU where Chris wakes up with temporary amnesia and asks where his mother is but he's been no-contact with her for a few years

Do you think Chris ever sees a fantasy show and there's a character who has a normal and loving relationship with their parents, and he's just like, "wow, it really is a fantasy land not based in reality at all"

One of my favorite AU Celia Bean headcanons is if she were one of those Southern Women who say things like, “Oh, I love him, but Chris doesn't have the good sense that the Lord gave geese.” Like, just really passive-aggressive insults, but wrapped up and presented in a sweet honey Georgia accent.

Chris, one day, gets the courage to cut ties with his parents after encouragement from his family the cast, but when he gets on the phone with his mum, Celia starts doing what she's best at. Aka, making Chris doubt himself and the cast, asking him if he is "sure he knows what he's doing? Are you sure that your... friends aren't going to do the same to you when you get to be too much to handle? We do know how you get when your temper gets the better of you, Chris. Can you swear up and down to me that they won't leave you when it gets difficult? I can. I'm your mother. And mothers never leave their sons."

Celia Bean who was so so so excited to be a mum, who documented things like an archivist while she was pregnant, who had a camera with her when Chris was born and for all of his important Firsts, who loved and adored him until one day she started pulling back ever so slightly without really realising it, who one day looked over at Chris sitting down by the hearth with a notebook in front of him doing homework and wondering why she no longer could stand to see him, why he had to grow up