Hey, Lizzie!

Question Batch #1

Some previously unanswered questions that I was saving for when I actually made this. Sorry about the delay to the people who asked!

#1: (For Becoming Miss Lee) Do we ever get to know anything about Bea's biological extended family?

All in due time. Bea's biological family is relatively out of the picture aside from Reverend Fisher, and I think you would be rather surprised to see where most of them ended up. I can tell you this, aside from her crazy Aunt and Reverend Fisher, she has an Uncle on her mother's side and two aunts on her father's. The uncle has a pretty cool backstory that Ruth wrote that might be a new novella once we finish. there is going to be a section of an upcoming chapter talking about them pretty soon.

#2: (For Becoming Miss Lee) Was there actually a real Bea? 

Sadly, no. We took a couple of different historical figures and mashed them up into Bea when we decided to make her a thing. Take away the spy part and getting adopted by a Congressman and her story is rather typical. Women usually did not get to marry their first loves (Bea and Nathan) and sometimes social differences prohibited them from marrying (Bea and André). Most ended up marrying, but sometimes their husbands would die (Bea and Silas) and it was a 50/50 if they would marry again. So it wasn't uncommon to see a woman with a whole bunch of men throughout her lifetime. Aside from a colonial woman of status, we also placed in the elusive Agent 355 into Bea's character. She was the female spy that relayed information from New York, yet no one knows who she actually was. Needless to say, Ruth and I took the 'friend of Ben Tallmadge approach'.

#3: (For Becoming Miss Lee) Whatever happened to Reverend Fisher? He just sort of disappeared.

He lives and he'll also be making a comeback pretty soon. He fades in and out of the picture because he has some real familial trust issues regarding Bea because of her parents.

#4: (For Becoming Miss Lee) Joseph was in The Sons of Liberty and had a little brother that went missing... Is there any correlation? 

I think you will be pleasantly surprised. Considering that I will never post their unedited origin story I wrote as a high school Senior, here ya go: Joseph and Freddie grew up on a small farm in Pennsylvania. There parents sent Joe off to Philly to get an education when he got mixed up in the Sons of Liberty branch in the city and blew his scholarships. The British found out and ended up killing his whole family except for Freddie, who managed to escape. Joe went on a whole escapade looking for him and ended up in Vermont with Ethan Allen after him and some run down Continentals were ambushed and pursued by a group of Hessians. Joe ended up in New Jersey and saved Lighthorse's life. Freddie, meanwhile, was living with a young widow named Margaret, who had taken him in and given him a place to stay. They took in a beaten up group of Continental Dragoons and ended up having a standoff with the man who killed his parents. They win, and Freddie and two of the dragoons set off to find his brother, who a Hessian says fled into Vermont. The two dragoons kind of adopted Freddie and took him back to New Jersey and made him one of their own. That's how the two got reunited. Since then, Freddie has actually joined the New Jersey militia and has been staying with the dragoons that adopted him. I have Freddie's complete origin story written out, but I may or may not ever post it.

**That's all for this batch! Don't be afraid to drop me questions if you have anything to ask!**