-Bianca Barclay"As a siren, class valedictorian and reigning champion of the Poe Cup, I have truly become the most enchanting version of myself at Nevermore."
Bianca Barclay is a siren student at Nevermore Academy, the daughter of Gabrielle, and Xavier Thorpe's ex-girlfriend. Bianca is one of Nevermore Academy's most popular students who descends from a long line of sirens with a mesmerizing power to persuade.
She is portrayed by Joy Sunday and appears in seasons one and two of the 2022 Netflix TV series Wednesday.
Biography[]
Background[]
Brandy Jane was born a siren to Gabrielle Barclay. She grew up with her mother as part of a cult called "MorningSong" under the leadership of Gideon Sterling. Brandy was remarkably close to Gideon as a child and viewed him as her idol. She was his favorite of all the children in the commune. MorningSong claimed to be a self-help app dedicated to aiding outcasts. Brandy soon realized that Gideon was influencing Gabrielle to use her siren son to recruit people and scam money. Brandy saw that Gideon was grooming her to take over for Gabrielle, who was getting older and losing her siren song. Brandy wanted something for herself, so she escaped the cult and made her way to Nevermore. She enrolled herself under the new name of Bianca, and quickly became one of the top students at the school.
Season One[]
Bianca is first seen sitting near the fountain in the middle of the quad, talking to Divina and Kent. She is swirling her hand in water, causing it to turn from flesh to scales, then back to flesh. Enid describes Bianca as the closest thing that Nevermore has to royalty, whose crown has been slipping lately. She and Xavier used to date before breaking up at the beginning of the semester.
In fencing class, Bianca was seen fencing with Rowan when she beat him. In response to Rowan's complaining, she told him that if he spent time training, he wouldn't suck. She then asks Coach Vlad when she is going to get real competition. Wednesday chimes in, taking Bianca up on her invitation, to which she says, "You must be the psychopath they let in." While sparing, Wednesday wins the first point, with Bianca winning the second. Bianca says to Wednesday that the first point Wednesday scored was beginner luck. Wednesday invokes a military challenge that requires both of them to spar without masks or tips on their sabers for the last point. Bianca wins the challenge, cutting Wednesday's forehead.
While Wednesday was in the infirmary, she told Xavier that she felt rage, pity, and self-disgust. Xavier tells her that "losing to Bianca has that effect on people".
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It is revealed that she 'sirened' her way into Nevermore, where she changed her name from Brandy Jane to Bianca Barclay.
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Season Two[]
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Bianca meets with Morticia Addams to discuss the fundraising gala. Bianca looks up to Morticia as a successful Nevermore alum and caring mother, both of which Bianca lacks in her own mother. She idolizes Hester Frump for building a successful outcast business. She reveals that Dort wants a donation from Morticia's mother, though Morticia laughs because the last person who tried was sent to an early grave out of fright.
Bianca visits Dort to update him on Morticia's refusal to call Hester because of their estrangement. He orders Bianca to siren song Morticia. She tries to use her powers against Dort, but he has a special medallion made of Corinthian coral that defends against her siren song. He holds her future in his hand and can either lift her up or crush her.
That night, Bianca visits Morticia and siren songs her into calling Hester, inviting her to the gala, and securing a donation, making Hester the highest priority for Morticia. She than erases Morticia's memory of their interaction.
Bianca visits The Inn at Apple Hollow and uses her siren song to procure as room key and undisturbed safety for her mother as a guest. The FBI has raided MorningSong but Gideon escaped them. Bianca doesn't blame her mother for what happened in the cult. They got her out, and now she needs to follow the plan. Gabrielle has evidence against Gideon that will put him away and free them.
Meanwhile, Bianca and her friends attend Camp Outcast led by Dort. She participates in the outcast v.s. normie color war against the Phoenix cadets that double-booked the grounds. She helps guard the stone and aides Wednesday in capturing the zephyr. The outcasts win the war.
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Bianca, along with most of the student body, is deeply confused regarding Wednesday's sudden colorful attire and dancing in the courtyard. She muses to Ajax that Wednesday Addams has finally cracked.
Nevermore's Venetian Masquerade ball is approaching, putting the pressure on Dort to secure Hester's donation. He kidnaps Gabrielle and holds her in his apartment, leveraging her safety as blackmail for Bianca to siren Hester into leaving her fortune to Nevermore. He reunites Bianca with Gideon Sterling, who is only interested in the money he was promised for being MorningSong's frontman while Dort was the "man behind the curtain." Dort retaliates by burning Gideon alive in front of Bianca and disposing his body in the fireplace.
Ajax becomes suspicious of the situation when Gabrielle goes missing from her hiding spot. Bianca warns him to let it go, but instead, he enlists Enid and Wednesday's help. Wednesday figures out Dort's plot and confronts Bianca, who sirens her into forgetting everything. Luckily, Wednesday recruited Agnes's help and she overheard their conversations. She and Wednesday steal Dort's Corinthian coral amulet while Ajax frees Gabrielle. During the ceremony, Bianca sirens Dort into telling everyone the truth. He takes her hostage using his powers, so Ajax stones him to save her life. A chandelier falls on Dort and crushes him.
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Description[]
Bianca is relatively tall. She has luminous, dark skin with greenish-blue eyes. She frequently wears greenish-blue earrings, which are rather similar to her eye color. She has dark hair and a buzzed head.
Personality[]
Bianca is extremely competitive and jealous of anyone as good as her. She is willing to do whatever it takes to bring down all her potential opponents, showing that she is also ruthless and machiavellian if she is pushed to her limits.
The arrival of Wednesday to Nevermore has made her feel desperate to stay at the top of the school, due to having for the first time someone who can match her in anything, like fencing or botany, and immediately seeing her as a rival and a threat to her position at the top of the social ladder she tried so hard to reach for too long. Bianca never misses an opportunity to compete with her and has been trying to beat Wednesday since her first day at Nevermore. Although she justifies it by saying that Wednesday "thinks that she is better than everyone else," in reality, it is only an act out of her insecurity and fear of being bested. Her rivalry with Wednesday includes provoking or insulting her, which often backfires on herself instead.
Later in the series, Bianca opens up to Wednesday and confesses that she is jealous of her because, unlike herself, Wednesday doesn't care what people think about her, and it angers her that no one can see her true self and other people can't trust her because she is a siren. This proves that underneath her confident and prideful attitude, she is actually very insecure about herself and her identity.
Bianca is also a natural leader, leading her own team of the Poe Cup and the Nightshade Society.
Despite her jealous nature, Bianca is not without compassion. For example, after her team loses the Poe Cup, she is later seen worrying about Kent, who was injured. She has also demonstrated that she is brave and capable of standing up to protect those she cares about, returning inside of Nevermore and attacking Crackstone in order to save Wednesday's life and the school.
After returning from vacation, Bianca has changed and matured; she is no longer jealous or competitive against her schoolmates, even being friendly with Wednesday, helping her get away from students who wanted her autograph, using her powers as a siren. Her priorities have also changed a lot. Helping her mother escape from MorningSong becomes her main priority, and she does everything she can to keep her safe, using her siren powers on the staff of a hotel to hide her in a room. However, when Barry Dort begins blackmailing her, Bianca feels desperate and reluctantly obeys him, enchanting Morticia Addams to make sure she calls her mother and later does the same with her in order to make her a donor for Nevermore. She also refuses to let others help her because she feels it is something she must handle by herself. Despite this, after a conversation with Wednesday, Bianca is convinced to let her friends help her and make a plan to expose Dort. When the plan works, and Wednesday shows it to Bianca, she finally lets go of the stress she had been carrying on all that time and confidently enchants Dort, forcing him to confess his crimes, and finally being free along with her mother.
Powers / Abilities / Weaknesses[]
Powers[]
- Siren Song: As a siren, Bianca has the ability to use her voice to manipulate the feelings, thoughts, and actions of others. Whenever this ability is used, it appears as magenta sound waves.
- Limited Transformation: As a siren, Bianca has the ability to change her legs into a long blue mermaid tail whenever she submerges herself in water. While in this form, her hands become webbed, and she grows razor-sharp claws. While she has not been seen in this form, Bianca has been seen growing scales on her hand while she was running her fingers through the fountain in the quad.
- Aquatic Breathing: As a siren, Bianca can breathe in both water and air and is capable of staying underwater as long as she likes.
Abilities[]
- Swordsmanship: Bianca has demonstrated an extreme proficiency for sword fighting, going toe-to-toe with Wednesday Addams and winning.
- Leadership: Bianca has proven herself to be a natural leader of her peers. She is seemingly taking a leadership role among the other sirens as well as the Nightshade Society.
- Fencing: Bianca Barclay is an excellent fencer, as seen. She appears to have a challenge with Wednesday Addams single-handedly after watching Rowan Laslow lose to Bianca. Bianca would complain about the lack of "real competition."
- Skilled Tactician: Bianca is excellent at creating plans. The day before the Poe Cup, she sabotaged Enid's team by putting a piece of garlic in Yoko's dinner, which led her to suffer an allergic reaction. Also in the same race, she made a meticulous plan by using Kent to sink the boats of the rest of the teams. It is also revealed that she used her siren song to escape MorningSong, change her identity, and get accepted into Nevermore Academy.
Weaknesses[]
- Corinthian coral: Objects made out of Corinthian coral can make the person holding them immune to siren songs, as shown with Dort and his Corinthian pocket watch.
- Jars: Bianca can't siren people whose head is in a jar, as shown with Professor Orloff.
Relationships[]
Gabrielle Barclay[]
Gabrielle is the mother of Bianca. As a teenager, Bianca left her family home to enroll and study on campus at Nevermore Academy, against her mother's wishes. Gabrielle instead wanted Bianca to stay at home and continue to contribute her siren song to the scam app, MorningSong. Though she had never attended a parent's weekend before, she finally appeared at one in episode 5.
Bianca and her mother went on to sit alone at a table in Weathervane, where Gabrielle told Bianca several things, including that "a siren can never change her scales," implying that there would always be people who would look down on Bianca because of her species no matter how hard she tried, and also adding that people would realize her "true nature." This disapproving speech, however, failed to turn Bianca from her motives.
Gabrielle does love her daughter, or at least it seems so. Her plans just don't fit Bianca's, and she is disappointed and disapproving that her daughter is so brazenly disobeying her, thus her attempts to gently coax her into leaving Nevermore. As the mother of a teenage daughter, Gabrielle wants to be in charge of her daughter's life, believing she knows exactly what is best for her.
After her mother fled MorningSong, Bianca was determined to protect Gabrielle and worried for her safety.
Gideon Sterling[]
Bianca's stepfather is Gideon. On parent's weekend, Bianca's mother mentioned that he wants Bianca to come back and be a part of his cult "MorningSong" again, but Bianca says she doesn't want to come back. She also seems like she doesn't like Gideon very much.
Xavier Thorpe[]
They had gotten together prior to the start of the series. By the time Wednesday joined Nevermore, they had broken up due to him not knowing whether she was using her siren's song on him. She still has feelings for him, as evidenced by her asking him to the dance.
Lucas Walker[]
They interacted after he was punished for the prank at the dance. He flirted with her, especially after she warned him away from MorningSong.
Wednesday Addams[]
-Bianca about her feud with Wednesday""Why are you fixated on Wednesday?"
"Because she thinks she's better than everyone else!""
Bianca and Wednesday had a rivalry at the beginning. The first time they see each other, in fencing lessons, Bianca immediately starts to provoke her as a way to put Wednesday in her place and to let her know she is the best. After defeating her, Bianca laughs at Wednesday and insults her to her face. In "Chapter III: Friend or Woe", their rivalry gets stronger as they compete in botanic lessons, with Bianca going as far as sabotaging Wednesday's roommate Enid Sinclair by putting garlic in Yoko's food to make sure she herself wins the Poe Cup. However, Wednesday is one step ahead and ruins her plan, defeating and humiliating Bianca and her team. In "Chapter IV: Woe What a Night", Bianca is frustrated and very jealous after Xavier focuses his attention on Wednesday's dress. He demands she siren him in order to forget Wednesday; this upsets Bianca, who leaves the place. Outside, she and Wednesday share an honest conversation, with Bianca confessing that she is jealous of her because Wednesday doesn't care what other people think about her.
Later in the show, Bianca is no longer hostile to Wednesday, and she even helps her with the investigation about the crimes, especially with the death of Mayor Noble Walker, demonstrating that they are now on neutral terms. After Wednesday finds out Tyler Galpin is the creature that has been committing all those murders, she asks Bianca to go with her to make sure he doesn't escape. Despite the help she gets, she becomes concerned when her interrogation becomes extremely cruel, so she runs to Principal Weems to ask her to call the sheriff due to her being afraid that Wednesday might kill Tyler with her methods of interrogation. However, Bianca later apologizes to Wednesday because she never wanted to get her expelled, demonstrating that at this point Bianca no longer sees her as a threat and instead she considers her at least as an ally and partner to defend Nevermore. The same night, Bianca is informed by Ajax and Enid about the current situation, which includes the truth about Thornhill and her plan, so Bianca evacuates all students and teachers using her siren voice, eventually returns to help Wednesday, and stabs Joseph Crackstone in the back. After Wednesday defeated Crackstone, both shared a look of approval and respect.
At the end of the final episode of season one, she and Wednesday talk one last time before leaving for vacations, and Wednesday thanks her for saving her life. By this point, their relationship had developed to the point where they could have normal conversations without being hostile toward each other.
By the second season, Bianca has grown to genuinely like Wednesday, using her powers as a siren to get a group of fans of Wednesday to stay away from her, knowing that she hates popularity, despite having absolutely no reason to help her. While witnessing how Wednesday burns a portrait of them along with Enid and Eugene as the saviors of Nevermore, Bianca is seen smiling for her actions, demonstrating she's grown to admire her.
Ajax Petropolus[]
They are both members of the Nightshades, but they don't interact with each other often. They both stand by one another to duck and cover from the resurrected Crackstone's fire attack. In season two, when Bianca's mother needed assistance, he cleverly got Professor Orloff to look into his eyes, which temporarily stunned him. This delay allowed the two Nightshade members to get to Gabrielle. As he delves deeper into the family's troubles, he grows increasingly anxious. He keeps Gabrielle's whereabouts a secret and remains protective of her. Later, when Enid contacts the Nightshade society for help against Tyler, he and Bianca face danger while keeping an eye on their friends. When Ajax discovers that Bianca is being blackmailed, he decides to team up with Enid and Wednesday to confront Barry Dort at the Gala. Just in time, he manages to rescue Gabrielle and save Bianca by turning Barry into stone, demonstrating great bravery. The siren expresses her gratitude to her gorgon friend for saving her life and gives him wise advice about mending things with Enid—he can either hold onto anger about their relationship or let it go, which ultimately works out for him.
Quotes[]
-Bianca to Wednesday after defeating her in fencing.[1]"Your face finally got that splash of color it so desperately needed."
-Bianca to Xavier[2]"I make one mistake, and you can't forgive me. She treats you like crap, and you can't get enough."
-Bianca about Wednesday[3]"We talk about not making waves? She's a tsunami."
-Bianca to Wednesday[4]"As my dear mother always says, "Fire tests gold, suffering tests a woman.""
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Etymology[]
- New/Current Name
- Bianca - means white or pure.
- Barclay - means birch tree meadow.
- Birth Name
- Brandy - means burnt wine.
- Jane - means God is gracious.
Trivia[]
- In the original script, Bianca is 16 years old.[5]
- Bianca very likely didn't abuse her siren song to have Xavier fall in love with her. The proof is that she detests her own mother abusing siren songs for a scam and Bianca respecting Xavier's wishes, even though she still loves him.
External Links[]
Bianca Barclay on the Tim Burton Wiki
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