I Want To Say I've Moved On, Just Like You Have. But I'm Never Going To. I'll Always Take A Bullet For You
Bones is a brilliant anthropologist that lacks social skills. Her social ineptitude is especially apparent when it comes to pop culture jokes and sarcasm, which she often interprets very literally, or else she responds with the phrase "I don't know what that means." An example of this is when she mistakes Will Ferrell for Colin Farrell.
She had a difficult adolescence, and it is implied that her withdrawn social tendencies are a defense mechanism. She also sometimes struggles in identifying and explaining her emotions, and takes comfort in the rationality of her anthropologic discipline.
Bones is a self proclaimed atheist and often points out what she believes to be the irrationality of religious and spiritual beliefs. This has led to more than one argument with Booth, who is a devout Roman Catholic; he becomes particularly irate when she compares less common religions, such as voodoo, to Christianity.
She became a vegetarian after seeing how pigs were slaughtered.
Despite all this, significant changes in her personality have occured, such as her thinking has gradually become less rigid. She is now also able to distinguish the difference between accuracy and truth. She is also able to put aside her rationality to support her friends in sometimes irrational pursuits, such as Angela's quest to raise money to save a pig from slaughter. Her sensitivity and empathy towards others are also much improved, seen quite strongly when she comforts Booth's grandfather, and when she attends a funeral so that the victim's mother won't be alone.
She is trained in three types of martial arts, has hunting licenses in four states, and has a legally-registered gun.
Bones is also a trained amateur highwire performer, and speaks at least seven other languages, including Spanish, French, Latin, Chinese, Japanese, Norwegian , and German. She has also admitted to knowing a bit of Russian and has stated that she can say "skull" in nearly every language.
Temperance "Bones" Brennan is a board-certified forensic anthropologist who works in the Medico-Legal lab at the fictional Jeffersonian Institute in Washington D.C. She received her Ph.D degree from Northwestern University. Although it is implied that most of her work at the lab was related to either long-dead bodies or victims of genocide her occasional contract work for the FBI shifted the focus of her work. She was paired with FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth, and helped to solve two difficult cases; since then, they have worked together almost exclusively on modern-day murder cases. Bones works with a group of other well-qualified colleagues, including the entomologist Jack Hodgins, coroner Camille Saroyan, forensic artist Angela Montenegro, and a host of eager graduate students. Booth refers to her crew of colleagues as "squints", because they come to crime scenes and squint at evidence. He is also responsible for her nickname, "Bones".
Although the character of Temperance "Bones" Brennan seemed to have a relatively normal childhood, her parents disappeared when she was 15 years old. Her older brother, Russ, was unable to care for her, and she was put in the foster care system. Her time in foster care was quite traumatic, and Bones indicated that she was once locked in a truck for two days because she broke a plate.
It is later revealed that her parents, who were bank robbers, changed the family's identity after they testified against some other bank robbers; Bones' birth name was actually Joy Keenan. Her mother (real name Ruth Keenan, known under the assumed identity of Christine Brennan) had hoped to someday return to her children and family, but made a tape for Brennan to watch on her 16th birthday in case that never happened. Bones and her team at the Jeffersonian later discovered that Ruth/Christine was murdered in 1993, two years after she and her husband went on the run. Her father, Max Keenan, re-entered Bones' life when she and her brother were being threatened by an old acquaintance, Deputy Director Kirby. Max evades capture after killing Kirby, and takes Bones' brother Russ into hiding to protect him. Later, Max allows Booth to arrest him in order to improve his relationship with his daughter. At trial, Max is acquitted of murdering Director Kirby, and he begins to rebuild his life. He temporarily works at the Jeffersonian, although Bones is concerned about a convicted felon having access to a lab that investigates crimes.
Key Aspect of Dr. Brennan's life: Agent Seeley Booth
FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth is Brennan's partner, and the principal liaison between the Jeffersonian and law enforcement agencies. Although his working style initially clashed with Brennan's, they have since become full-fledged partners. Many of her associates see their relationship as far more than 'just partners', although they seem to remain oblivious. Booth and Brennan have repeatedly risked their safety to save each other, including when Booth took a bullet meant for Brennan. The relationship between Brennan and Booth has often become strained when either partner has a significant other. For example, Booth was quite irritable when Brennan dated Agent Sully, and their relationship was also strained when Booth's brother Jared was showing an interest in Brennan.
When Brennan decided that she wanted to have a baby, she asked Booth if he would be the sperm donor. He agrees to Brennan's request at first, but subsequently struggles with the thought of not being involved in the life of his prospective child. Eventually he tells Brennan he cannot let her have his child if he is not allowed to be a father to it. Soon thereafter it is discovered that he has a (benign) brain tumour. He has to undergo surgery, and when he awakens, he initially suffers from amnesia, not knowing who Brennan is. Although he does eventually regain his memories, the issue of a child has not been brought up since.
The pair have constantly denied that their relationship was anything more than friendly professionalism, but recently they admitted to Dr. Sweets that they kissed and nearly spent the night together after their very first case together.
After this discussion, Booth attempted to convince Brennan to give a relationship a try. However, she declined, telling him that she, unlike him, is not a gambler, and isn't able to take that kind of a chance. They have subsequently attempted to date other people, although the fact that Booth once comments that he regards Brennan as his 'standard' for other women suggests that he, at least, has not completely moved on. Brennan does admit to her best friend Angela Montenegro that as time has gone on, she is unsure if she wants to keep doing consulting work for the FBI, citing that she is tired of murderers, victims, and is constantly worried that something will happen to Booth and she will be unable to save him.
Brennan and Booth parted ways for a year - he went to Afghanistan while she leaft for the Maluku Islands in Indonesia - but they promised to meet, one year from that day, at the coffee cart by the reflecting pool
A Year On- Brennan has returned, ready for Booth, Only to find he's moved on. There's someone new for him, and Brennan is left in the cold. But he's nowhere near over her