I had an idea

Like, Clark Edison is the FIRST intern she has when she has to deal with Zack not being around. Not because he is caught. But due to his deployment. And really, with him we learn he isn't really even the first. He's the one who STAYS. Zack returns during his time but she doesn't get rid of Clark Edison. She keeps him around and he remains an intern.

She even gets some more as well as time goes on. And we see how that goes - she develops close relationships with all of them - throughout the series. We see her dismiss an intern during S11 when they don't do well and the others consider that one a friend within a short period. New interns may get joked and mocked and judged quickly but they are also welcomed rather early in by this point.

And much of this is due to what Clark Edison went through. He dealt with a Brennan not ready to deal with Zack being gone. Not ready to process a new relationship with a new intern. She wasn't ready to welcome a new face into her life and learn about someone new. We see how that grows and changes over time ("I think it's time you call me Temperance, Dr. Edison" is a massive shift in their relationship for example) but I think one of the things that tells us a lot is when we learn of his first internship and his whole murder suspect moment.

The way she writes an entire article defending him. The way he was ready to resign and she was ready to defend. He is one of the interns who is very similar to her after all. And she knows the important of scientific accuracy, which is why he was going to resign. And yet she wrote an entire article talking about mistakes made and how the scientific community needs to acknowledge they've all made mistakes and not judge him for it. (Likely also including in it that he was still a young intern who learned and grew from that error and strives to never do so again)

In fact, her learning this about him is probably what made her see WHY he was very "no personal life at work" and "can we stick to the science" when they first meet. Why they had to break though his barriers to get to know him. Why he was so like her and she could hear Sweets inside her going "it's almost like he went through an experience that shaped him to rely on work in order to"

yeah i dont have proof (except angela) i just Know. call it my lesbian spidey senses. disclaimer that those are MY headcanons, you can have your own opinions on those ofc

main characters:

brennan: bi (preference for ugly men... but i digress). she probably started exploring her sexual orientiation in college and came to the conclusion that she's attracted to every gender to varying degrees. she's probably tongue kissed angela a few times pre season 1

booth: cishet ally! ⭐️ he's a bit confused but he's got the spirit, i'll give him that.. bi wife energy start playing whenever he walks into the room

zack: gayboi with a bad case of hero worship for dr brennan. naomi from paleonthology made him realise this isnt really what he'd like to excavate, if you get the gist... ;) (ew)

angela: imo? bi, but it's up to anyone. canon queer and i'm very happy about it

hodgins: bi. putting my foot down on this one- to me, hodgela is bi4bi. one day early into the series angela goes "why is everyone so hot... being bi is so hard" and hodgins is like "yeah, tell me about it" and they have a Oh, You Too? moment

cam: distinguished (ex-disaster) pan. she's all cool and collected now but in middle school she was probably stuttering whenever she saw a pretty girl

sweets: pan. boykisser. i just KNOW. that man is not heterosexual. probably had a few boyfriends in high school too

aubrey: bi? preference for women but in an alternate universe he and sweets are a thing

goodman: token straightie along with booth except i actually like him even tho even tho he took a 2 month sabbatical and never came back

squinterns:

clark: bi. a bit repressed and only realised it after breaking up with nora but as long as he gets there it's fine

daisy: pan. absolute girlkisser. she has the wlw equivalent of whatever zack felt for dr brennan. swaisy is a disaster pan couple.

fisher: pan- and i wont have it any other way. he was 100% checking sweets out when he came over to b&b's in s8, so i like to think when hodgins asks sweets "what is it with you and interns?" in 9x23 he's including fisher

wendell: bi and in a lab au he's dating vincent thank you

vincent: english twink and i think he and wendell should kiss in the lab lost & found

arastoo: straightie but we still love him. pan wife energy since he and cam are married

finn: god, i have No Idea but i have a feeling he doesn't either

wells: aro, and maybe ace too, but fyi even if he wasn't no one would want him

jessica: ... i used to say lesbian but i kinda let the jaubrey of it all get to me... pan vibes perhaps? i'll have to think it over. in another universe she and daisy are a thing too btw

other characters:

caroline julian:... lesbian. no i will not give an explanation for this one. sham marriage and all.

karen delfs: big pansexual energy coming from this random profiler?? i like her

villains: (do not take those seriously, but also...)

pelant: unlabeled. getting strangled by hodgins awoke something in him but he didnt have the time to figure it out between 8x01 and 9x04

taffet: very VERY mean lesbian

epps: heterosexual incel

broadsky: internalised homophobia over booth, clearly