Temperance Brennan's Stats | Occupation: | Forensic Anthropologist at the Jeffersonian Institute, Best-Selling Author
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| | Specialties: | Identifying decomposed human remains | | Hobbies: | Traveling, Writing Books, Occasional Speaking Engagements
| | Nickname(s): | Bones, Tempe, Bren, Dr. B, Brennan, Sweetie
| Working style:
| She does not like jumping to conclusions and goes on the evidence. She is hyper-rational and able to rationalize any situation and relate it to the anthropological reasons that drive human behavior. Works for the truth.
| | Personality type: | Hyper-Rational, Genius-IQ
| Quirks:
| Little to no knowledge of events not related to her interests, misquotes common phrases
| | Weakness(es): | Limited social skills, unable to read body language or identify sarcasm and most other forms of humor (literalist), doesn't like snakes
| | Strength(s): | Intelligent, Skilled martial artist | |  | WANT MORE DR. BRENNAN? | | | Click EasyEdit to add to this character profile!
| | | Dr. Brennan's Backstory
Early Life - Dr. Temperance Brennan (born Joy Keenan), called "Bones", "Dr. Brennan", or "Bren" was born to Max and Ruth Keenan in 1976. Max and Ruth are federal offenders, career criminals who specialize in safety deposit box robberies. A botched robbery leave Max and Ruth with no alternative but to change their identities hoping to protect themselves and their children. It is after this time, that the Keenan family assumes the name Brennan.
When Temperance is 15, her parent's criminal associates finally track the family down. At Ruth's urging, she and Max abandon their children in an attempt to protect them. They walk out on their son and daughter a few weeks before Christmas 1991. Temperance is devastated and lashes out at Russ who, at only 19 years old himself, leaves before the New Year is in. She ends up in foster care working her way through numerous homes before making it out of the system.
In the first season finale,Brennan discovers her mother's remains, which had been held at the Jeffersonian ever since she arrived, and finally solves her murder. She also reunites and reconciles with her older brother Russ (formerly Kyle Keenan). After solving the case, Brennan, Russ, and Booth are sharing beers in her kitchen when Max calls her and tells her to stop looking for him and that the problem is bigger and more than she can handle.
In "Mayhem on the Cross", a specific instance about Dr. Brennan's turbulent time in the Foster Care system is revealed in which she was locked in a trunk for two days for breaking a dish. According to Brennan, she was warned of the consequences in advance, however the water was simply too hot to safely use and the dish was dropped. When Brennan reveals this information to Dr. Sweets and Booth, she becomes extremely emotional.
Early Adulthood- As an adult Temperance regards herself as an orphan, believing her mother and father would have had to have died to have fallen out of her life so quickly and completely. Socially inept with little popular cultural knowledge she throws herself completely into studying. Emotionally withdrawn, she has trouble connecting with people and in an effort to prevent herself getting hurt again she often distances herself from people, including the victims that lay before her in her lab. However, a few romantic interests come and go through her life and at one point she is involved with her Professor at Northwestern University.
Life at the Jeffersonian Institute- Major Crimes Special Agent Seeley Booth pursues her to consult for him on cases following an initial job for him where he recognized her genius through the difficulties caused by her personality. Temperance, wanting to experience more of life outside her lab, blackmails Booth, insisting she will only work with him if he fully involves her in the cases. Booth reluctantly agrees.
| | Bones' Character Connections |  | Name: Seeley Booth | Occupation: FBI Agent
| | Relationship: Partners, Best friends, Likely in love with him. | |  | Name: Camille Saroyan | | Occupation: Coroner, Pathologist, Former cop, Head of the Forensic Division | Relationship: Brennan's boss, Co-worker, Friends
| |  | Name: Angela Montenegro
| | Occupation: Artist, forensic facial reconstruction specialist | Relationship: Best friendsfriend and co-worker
| |  | Name: Jack Hodgins | | Occupation: Forensic Entomologist (Bug and Slime Guy) | | Relationship: Co-worker, friend, Buried alive together by the Gravedigger in episode 2x09, Aliens in a Spaceship | |  | Name: Lance Sweets | | Occupation: Psychiatrist, FBI pro-filerprofiler | | Relationship: Therapist, Friend and Co-worker | |  | Name: Zack Addy | | Occupation: Institutionalized | Relationship: Friend, Former Co-Worker, Former student
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Friend | | | | Name: --- | | Occupation: --- | | Relationship: --- | | | Dr. Brennan Trivia | - Brennan is an Atheist, critical towards religion and believes in the death penalty.
- Bones has trouble understanding jokes and sarcasm.
- Temperance is a very talented singer.
- Brennan lives at 415 Elmsworth NW Washington DC
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| | Dr. Brennan's Defining Episodes | - "The Santa in the Slush"
- "The Verdict in the Story"
- "The Pain in the Heart"
- "Aliens in a Spaceship"
- "The Hero in the Hold"
- "The Critic in the Cabernet"
- "The Man in the Fallout Shelter
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