#but if it did i missed it so here's my take lfkskfd

[becasbelt]

okay I know different headcanons get thrown around all the time about beca and chloe's respective family dynamics and relationships, but have we yet considered:

beca coming from a broken home, dad having walked out on them when she was just a kid, leaving her and her mother to become two sarcastic and emotionally unavailable women who throw themselves into seperate fixations- beca with her music and her mother with her job.

yet despite this, beca's parents know everything about beca; there are no secrets. they know exactly what she wants to do with her life (even if her father doesn't approve initially), what kind of shit she got up to in high school, that she's gay. beca feels absolutely no need to lie to her parents, and for the most part they accept her for as she is.

chloe, on the other hand, having a fantastic relationship with her family and essentially having everything that someone like beca has never known: happy and stable parents, siblings that chloe talks to frequently, a support system that she could fall back onto if she ever had to move back home.

it seems that way on the outside, but that's only because chloe has had years of ignoring her reality.

chloe's parents love having their perfect family, the family that everyone looks at and thinks, "that's the kind of family that I want to have." as a result, chloe's family isn't the most... genuine one.

there are so many secrets between chloe and her parents that it gives her anxiety having any kind of conversation with them, lest she let information slip by accident. they don't know that she went to school halfway across the country so that she could be her own person, they don't know the real reason why she stayed in school so long (she earned a second degree as her explanation for that), and they definitely don't know that she was attracted to women because heaven forbid they find out she isn't the picturesque daughter they had always envisioned her to be.

to chloe it's amazing how casually beca's family act with one another, even if it's sometimes strained. because even if beca's family doesn't function like a normal family, it still feels more authentic than what she's grown up with all her life.