20 Years Reunion Brainstorming

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A suggestion was made in the original info post to provide a brainstorming post for everyone to rattle off ideas, plan futures, coordinate relationships and whatever else might be needed for the plot!

And thus, the brainstorming post has been birthed and lo, we present it to you for all the storming of the brains you might need to do! Have fun planning!

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Re: Brainstorming!

[furnaceface]

Name: Jonothon Evan Starsmore

Age at the Reunion: 39

Backstory I've worked out so far: Post-Graduation, Jonothon went right back to Massachusetts, to re-join Generation X because he feels sort of like he's gone and ditched that super-important mutant tolerance mission that they were founded for in the first place. From there, it's a bit of a roller-coaster ride. There was a stint with the X-Men, which ended in him quitting active team duty before ending up sucked into the Weapon X program. After Weapon X (and the unfortunate stint of brainwashing), there was M-Day, where he spent a period of time in a coma with a crater in his chest, and then he was kidnapped by his family's freaky clan and turned into an Apocalypse mini-me, and then there was that thing with the New Warriors before he faded off into obscurity...

Uh. TL:DR version: Lots of super-teams, Jono is pretty much Marvel's buttmonkey right through the 2000s, and now he looks like a psychotic British clown.

How he could fit into your character's backstory: Odds are pretty high that he's going to fall out of touch with people over the next 20 years. He'll make an effort to keep in touch with people that he was close to, at least for a while, but things get pretty insane for him pretty much all at once, he slips into a black gaping vortex of Blue British Clown Depression, and he spends the next few years ashamed of whatever the hell it is he's supposed to be.

If you want to be one of the ones that managed to keep in touch with him through his X-Men years, let me know! After Weapon X, the number of people he'll have kept in touch with will be far lower. And after M-Day? Jono is not exactly a social butterfly, after M-Day.

Re: Brainstorming!

[onapalebicycle.livejournal.com]

I think George would have actually tried to stay in touch with Jono, as in, decided she was going to write, and then just kind of sucked at it? Occasional letters and promises to stay in touch more in the future, that kind of thing?

Re: Brainstorming!

[furnaceface]

Awwwww. I'm totally cool with that. He'll be just as crap at sending letters back, at least once his time with the X-Men is through, but George is definitely on his list of people to attempt to keep in touch with for that first half-decade or so. Maybe after another five years, once he's starting to actually get comfortable in his skin again, he'll attempt to get in touch with her again, too?

... In much the same way. And probably fairly scant on the details about where he's been, between all the brainwashing and coma-ing and so on.

Re: Brainstorming!

[trigons_child]

I thinking I'm going to age up Raven after all, so we must discuss. :)

Re: Brainstorming!

[furnaceface]

Oooooh, yes! Discussion! \o/ Give me a poke when you hit AIM tonight, and we'll yammer.