#Bellona's Doctor Who headcanons

[thetempleofthemasaigoddess]

DOCTOR WHO HEADCANON

Had the Doctor observed the pictures on Carla's wall closely, he would have noticed a familiar face...

Bill Potts was one of the foster children Carla kept in contact with; she visited her former foster mother every year for her birthday.

[starlit-lion]

2, 8, 11, 14 for the D&D asks?

I’m gonna do Bellona for this one and she’s impossible to talk about without spoilers so friends that play in the game with her and are by an off chance here: Don’t look!! 2. When you were creating this character, what was their original draft? Are they the same character you intended to make? So Bellona has changed dramatically from my original idea for her! I knew I wanted to make her as soon as I read the UA for Swarmkeeper Ranger and had an intense need to play it. But originally she was going to be a Kenku that looked like a bee eater or a honeyguide and learned to talk at a farmer’s market while selling honey. And I was tossing around putting a lot of humming/buzzing noises into their speech bc they hear everything filtered through their beehives buzzing around them. This version was also going to go a lot more insect-like with morality and mannerisms as they copied from their hive. But then... Her concept changed dramatically when I saw a picture of medieval beekeepers and knew I had to make her look like that instead. Especially when I talked about it with dnd friends and one of them joked ‘Haha the party might never know what your character’s face looks like in that outfit’. I didn’t want to let go of being a Kenku right away, but it was a little much to hide the specific bird design under the cloak and the beak wouldn’t hide under the mask well without everyone going ‘well that’s either a weird plague doctor or an actual bird’ so I decided to go back to a more human-ish race, especially after drawing a design for her that would look best as that. And then I came up with the name ‘Bellona Bumblefoot’ which sounded like a Halfling name to me! But I still sort of wanted to do an unusual race so there would be a surprise to reveal... So I ended up with a Goblin being taken in by Halfling beekeepers, but using their gear as a disguise when she leaves home to become an adventurer! 8. What’s one weird personal headcanon you have for the character that’s not addressed or that you haven’t found a way to share yet? I have revealed she wears glasses under her mask with some offhand comments in character! Partially, I just think it’s funny for a ranger that spends at least half of her time using a longbow to be nearsighted. But also... My headcanon that ties this trait into her character is that Goblins (from her clan at least) are very commonly nearsighted. It’s not typically a problem since they live in tunnels where they don’t have to see far into the horizon. But being taken into a landscape of flat, open farm fields, Bellona and her brother both ended up needing glasses to help them see.

11. Who or what was your inspiration when creating this character? How does it show? This can be visual, backstory, personality, anything.

As stated above, the Swarmkeeper class UA and images of medieval beekeepers!  Mothman is also an inspiration for her design, in adding two crow feathers as antennae in her hood, tails to her cloak to look like folded insect wings, and the fact that her eyes glow red in dim light.

14. Have you made any aus for this character? If so, what? Which is your favorite? Which is most developed? Which deserves more development and attention?

I haven’t done any AU’s per say, but I have a few slightly different versions of her backstory written out. If I bring her into a campaign more focused on that kind of thing, my plan is to pick whichever one best fits the setting and how the DM wants to handle Goblins in their world. Pretty much the most developed/current version of her story is, her Goblin clan is chased out of the tin mine they peacefully operate by misguided adventurers. In the chaos, they abandon Bellona and her brother Bart as infants in a barn where it seems they’ll be safe. The Halflings that own the barn (the Bumblefoots) find them, but no one ever comes back so they adopt the children as their own. Bart takes to tinkering, crafting, and fixing things around town, while Bellona takes to caring for animals and is the only one of the current Bumblefoot children that is willing/able to bond with the magic Feywild bees the family have been keeping for generations. Being extremely inquisitive, Bart eventually uncovers what happened to his and Bellona’s blood relations, becomes angry and runs away to think about it. Meanwhile, the Bumblefoots ironically try to hire the same adventurers that flushed the Goblin clan out of their mine to help him. The adventurers pretty much laugh at the idea of saving a Goblin and tell them they should get rid of Bellona too. Which of course they are not doing because these are their children and the tiny Halflings shoo these assholes out of their house. But that hasn’t fixed anything, so Bellona dons her beekeeping suit, takes the feywild bees, and finds Bart by herself. She helps some people along the way, and in the end decides she can be a better adventurer than the ones that hurt them. But she soon realizes people like her better when she keeps her mask on. After everything, shyness and fear begin to get the better of her, so she becomes secretive about her identity to everyone but her bees. In an alternate, darker version, the original Goblin clan fell apart or left their mine for other reasons. Bellona doesn’t find Bart when she sets out alone to find him. It gets assumed that other Goblins kidnapped him (actually he’s gone with them willingly but no one knows this). Bellona is much more vengeful in this version and comes to hate other Goblins and Monsters for hurting her family and the other Halflings in the region, which she considers herself more a part of. She keeps her mask on because she doesn’t want others pointing out the contradiction, even as she has nightmares about hurting Goblins that end up being herself or her brother when she looks at them too closely.

[thetempleofthemasaigoddess]

DOCTOR WHO HEADCANON

The Doctor and River were the witnesses at Canton's wedding in 2015.

[thetempleofthemasaigoddess]

DOCTOR WHO HEADCANON

At Sarah Jane's funeral, a grief-stricken Clyde was comforted by a young woman who had met his friend only once, but was very fond of her. Clyde was later shocked to learn the woman was his cousin by marriage, through his and her husband's fathers... and that she and Sarah Jane had spoken about him and his working future.

"My name is Martha." she said, handing him a tissue "Have you ever heard about UNIT?"

[thetempleofthemasaigoddess]

Bellona’s headcanons masterlist

Tolkien Legendarium (All media)

Boromir and Eowyn 

The Sail Master 

The Sail Master(II) 

Adar 

Adar(II) 

Tauriel

Elrond 

Elrond(II) 

Eärien and Valandil 

Bronwyn 

Arondir

Isildur, Anarion and Eärien 

Durin V 

Caranthir 

Gil-Galad 

Isildur 

Médhor and Feren

Éowyn

Éomer Eadig

Théodred

*****

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Odin 

Helmut Zemo 

Helmut Zemo(II) 

Kingo 

Natasha Romanoff 

Sam Wilson 

T’Challa and Okoye 

John Walker

Pietro and Wanda Maximoff

Rocket Raccoon

Tony Stark

*****

Kingsman franchise

JB 

Agent Tequila

Merlin 

Agent Champagne 

Archie Reid 

Orlando Oxford and Polly Wilkins

*****

Willow

Sorsha Tantalos 

Graydon Hastur

Jade Claymore

*****

Father Brown

Isobel Devine 

Sid Carter  

Reverend Mother Adrian and Sister Julienne

*****

Call the Midwife

Jane Sutton 

Reverend Mother Adrian and Sister Julienne

Sister Evangelina

*****

BBC Merlin

Morgana Pendragon 

Sir Elyan 

Mordred

Arthur Pendragon 

Sir Leon

*****

The Orville

Coja 

Locar

*****

Yellowstone

Lee Dutton 

Liquor store cashier

*****

Downton Abbey

Marigold Gregson

Harold Levinson

Lady Rosamund Crawley

Thomas Barrow

Johnny Bates

Sybil Harding (OC)

Patrick Crawley

Mr. Mason

*****

One Piece (All media)

"Red-Haired" Shanks

"Knight of the Sea" Jinbe

Dracule "Hawk Eyes" Mihawk

Monkey D. Garp

Devil Fruit soulmates

Acilia

Lucky Roux

Massacre Soldier Killer

*****

Doctor Who (All media)

Clyde Langer

Bill Potts

Canton Everett Delaware III

*****

Bellona’s masterlist