Sebastian "Bash" Lacroix is a former trimmer who befriends Gilbert Blythe and later comes to Avonlea to start a new life together with GIlbert at the farm. He is a main character in Anne with An E portrayed by Dalmar Abuzeid.
CBC Biography[]
- To be released
Appearance and Personality[]
He has short, curly, black hair and a dark complexion. He also sports a big beard, also made up of curly, black hair. He has an average height for a man and frequently flashes his perfectly straight, white teeth when he smiles. As shown in a scene where he is speaking with Gilbert aboard the steamship, he has fairly muscular arms from his time working demanding physical labor on the ship.
Despite his hard work on the steamship and Anne's awkward comments about her fascination with individuals of his skin tone, he is a generally happy person full of resilience and easygoingness, as demonstrated by the number of times he smiles. He is also cheeky, often making jokes and teasing Gilbert about his fondness for Anne. He is also a true friend, especially to Gilbert, and honest.
Story[]
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Sebastian was born in Trinidad to Hazel Lacroix who worked for a wealthy, white family raising all of their children. He left home during his teenage years and worked on a steamboat as a trimmer for over a decade.
He met Gilbert on a steamship headed to Trinidad and they became friends. He often teases Gilbert about his relationship with Anne. After a bit of relationship issues, with Gilbert going back on their original plan, Gilbert apologizes for his actions and asks for Bash to sign the deed to his farm, promising to go back to the original plan.
He is desperate to visit the Bog, where he hears there are other Black people. In the Bog, he meets Mary, and immediately takes a liking to her. They later marry.
Mary and Bash settle down in the Gilbert-Lacroix residence. Later on, Mary gives birth to Delphine, often referred to as Delly, who is their only child. Sadly, Mary gets an infection from the cut on her hand, when she is using a knife, around Easter 1899. By the time a doctor examines her, she has developed a deadly case of sepsis, and her prognosis is only one week. Everyone is affected by this news, particularly Bash. They assist one another at this harrowing moment while they fight to accept the news. Mary later dies and Bash falls into depression, often giving his daughter to the Cuthberts to take care of her.
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Episode Appearances[]
- Season 2
- Ep. 1: "Youth is the Season of Hope"
- Ep. 2: "Signs are Small Measurable Things, but Interpretations are Illimitable"
- Ep. 3: "The True Seeing is Within"
- Ep. 4: "The Painful Eagerness of Unfed Hope"
- Ep. 5: "The Determining Acts of Her Life"
- Ep. 6: "I Protest Against Any Absolute Conclusion"
- Ep. 7: "Memory Has as Many Moods as The Temper"
- Ep. 8: "Struggling Against the Perception of Facts"
- Ep. 9: "What We Have Been Makes Us What We Are"
- Ep. 10: "The Growing Good of the World"
- Season 3
- Ep. 1: "A Secret Which I Desired to Divine"
- Ep. 2: "There is Something at Work in My Soul Which I Do Not Understand"
- Ep. 3: "What Can Stop the Determined Heart"
- Ep. 4: "A Hope of Meeting You in Another World"
- Ep. 5: "I Am Fearless and Therefore Powerful"
- Ep. 6: "The Summit of My Desires"
- Ep. 7: "A Strong Effort of the Spirit of Good"
- Ep. 8: "Great and Sudden Change"
- Ep. 9: "A Dense and Frightful Darkness"
- Ep. 10: "The Better Feeling of My Heart"
Notes[]
- Sebastian is an original character and one of the first black characters ever in any “Anne of Green Gables” adaptation.
“I’ve had a master plan since I embarked upon this adaptation, because I’ve always been super uncomfortable with the fact that this is a very, very white world, and it doesn’t reflect the reality of Canada’s diversity then and now,” said Walley-Beckett. “I knew that I wanted to send Gilbert on an epic journey [...] to some sort of exotic port of call where he could see a much more colorful world and a fresh and bigger perspective of the world. [...] I want him to have a friend, I want the friend to be a person of color, and I want them to travel together, and ultimately I want this friend to return to Avonlea. And so we conceived of Bash from Trinidad.” [1]
- According to Moira Walley-Beckett, "Bash is the vehicle to explore intolerance and inequality, even more when he goes to The Bog, when he learns that other black people live there." [1]
“The Bog is the community that’s just outside of Charlottetown, where people of color were marginalized and had their own community there,” said Walley-Beckett. “That was a thrilling and devastating discovery. I’m Canadian, and I didn’t know about that, so we were very excited to bring that to everybody’s attention, and incorporate it seamlessly into the themes that we were exploring this season.” [1]