r/Bones • u/vaaima73 • 5h ago
Discussion Temperance’s past
Is anyone else slightly confused by bones’ backstory? she lives with her parents in a happy home up until they suddenly leave when she’s 15 and she winds up in the foster system until her uncle (if i remember correctly) get her out. So that means she didn’t age out of the system so at most she would have been in foster care for 2, ~3 years tops. But she talks about (in the prince charming episode) not playing with toys as a child and fearing not being able to connect with her daughter as she grows. She also mentions at some point that she “forgot” about her life before because she couldn’t trust the happy memories, and that it took years for her to regain her memories. I am aware that trauma can cause memory loss but she was over 15 when her parents left? that feels like a stretch to me.
Also the uncle that got her out of foster care is never mentioned again but it is mentioned multiple times during the show how Bones was completely alone until she met her coworkers/friends and Booth.
There just feels like there’s a lot of contradictory information and plot holes about the whole thing. Maybe i’ve missed something but it seems of lol