SAFEHOUSE CREW: DAY 1
Since Father’s Day is coming up, I figured I give some of my Bell’s headcanons growing up with Perseus for Safehouse Week 2025, as my Bell is Perseus’ daughter.
Please note that I probably will not have this be daily, though I’ll try. It depends on wether or not I get energy/inspirationto write
1.) I think it make sense for Bell to be his daughter/granddaughter/father-figure. A child could be conditioned to be unquestioningly loyal. That a authoritative figure is always right. To be groomed into firmly believing in whatever someone wants.
His perfect operative daughter.
2.) Growing up was rough for Bell. While there were moments for her to be a child and memories to look back fondly, more often it was training and studying. She had to be useful, after all. It’s where the language and cryptography skills came from.
Bell did have some friends, but it was mostly other children with trusted parents in the Perseus collective.
3.) With Perseus personally training and guiding her, Bell made her first kill at the age of 10. She can’t remember much about the man she killed. Supposedly he was a threat. Bell unintentionally blocked out that memory. Once her father was done congratulating her, once he was out of sight, she threw up.
It got easier after that, but she never told Perseus about how she felt.
4.) Up until she was 6, her father would often tell her stories about Russian folklore, Soviet history, or something similar before Bell went to sleep.
When Bell can’t fall asleep, sometimes she’ll ask Adler to tell her a story or talk to her until she falls asleep.
5.) While Perseus was never physically abusive towards Bell, he was manipulative and controlling. He did truly love Bell and was protective of her, but it didn’t change how he put his mission before her.
Though if he knew what Volkov did to Bell, he would have killed him himself. Same with Arash.
6.) Bell surprisingly doesn’t have that many scars on her body. Nothing super major, anyway. The few nasty scars she does have mainly came from childhood training and very early missions.
7.) Father’s Day wasn’t a major thing, but Bell would do small things for him as a sort of ‘thank you for everything’ and Perseus would smile and pat her shoulder in appreciation. Those moments when he treated her like his daughter rather than his best right-hand man really made her happy.
