fhplotterywheel | 20 Years Reunion Brainstorming

For all the planning, ideas, and coordination you have!

For anything that is OOC!

I'll start off with my easier kid before trying to coordinate Ben :)

Name: Rilla ~~Blythe~~ Ford

Age at the Reunion: 34 (so she's coming from 1936, three years before World War II begins)

Backstory I've worked out so far: Rilla never graduated from Fandom High. When her brother Walter was killed in action in World War I during Rilla's junior year, she returned home to Canada to take care of her mother and reconnected with Kenneth Ford, an old family friend. They were married after the war was over, moved to Toronto, and had three children. Ken is a journalist and Rilla keeps house, is a member of the Ladies Aid, the Presbyterian choir, and writes very constantly to her brothers and sisters back in PEI.

How she could fit into your character's backstory: Rilla would have tried to keep writing letters to her friends from Fandom when she went back to Canada and probably invited them to her wedding. After she got married, correspondence would have gotten more sporadic. Please poke me here if you'd like your character to have been at the (very Edwardian) wedding/on Rilla's list of people she wrote to!

Heck I don't even know how many of Billy's friends are still in game for him to have kept in touch with. Where you at kids?

Kidnapping

rilla_myrilla's little form because I'm hip like that...

Name: Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin, though he'll have dropped the nickname by the reunion.

Age at the Reunion: 35. And 3000-something-he-loses-track. We'll get to that in a mo.

Backstory: Shortly after graduation, Ender embarked on his trip to Shakespeare Colony. It's a 50-year-trip on the outside, two years on the inside. To his horror, he found out the Admiral captaining the ship was planning to usurp his governorship by the time they got to the planet - and was monitoring him pretty closely. As a result, for two years he never got the chance to write, or get, anything from anyone from Fandom. By the time he got to the colony, he'd figured most of them were gone or would have forgotten him. He settled in for his life there, nearly killed himself shortly after his governorship, then basically spent twenty years 'skipping like a stone on the ocean of time' as Jane put it, as per Speaker for the Dead canon.

He's just another Speaker for the Dead now (the pseudo-religion he might have accidentally started, though no one knows it was him that did it) speaking the truth about the dead for those left behind, everyone else thinks of Ender the Xenocide as the worst war criminal ever, blah blah blah. He'll be showing up in Fandom halfway into his trip to the planet Lusitania, after leaving Valentine behind. *breathes*

How she could fit into your character's backstory: ...Not. He'll have vanished right after graduation. He won't have written, phoned, or visited anyone, figuring them dead, or at least too old to care anymore. He isn't even supposed to be here this weekend, but Jane undercut him. Bless. (He also looks somewhat like an older, scruffier, longer-haired version of

izzyalienqueen's brother Max; it's cleared with her, but if that's an issue for anyone else, let me know too.)

And if you think Ben has forgiven Ender for NOT WRITING IN THREE THOUSAND YEARS, you'd be so very wrong.

HE MEANT WELL, GOD.

... And yes, the 3000-years-thing is because of the relativity effect where they can cross lightyears by hitting near-lightspeed, but it slows down time on the inside considerably. Ender did a lot of travelling. Hence racking up a lot of ~~airmiles~~ objective years on his 'age' card, even if physically/subjectively he's 35.

He was also PRETTY DAMN SUCCESFUL at upholding that thing where he didn't make emotional connections with anyone but his sister. At least until one of his students started getting attached to him. DAMN IT, PLIKT, WHY.

/unnecessary information.

Edited 2011-03-20 19:11 (UTC)

Starting with the woeful-but-easier one.

Name: Tara Maclay

Age at the Reunion: N/A

Backstory I've worked out so far: She went to college in Sunnydale -- hey, tuition is cheap there, and she figured with the Hellmouth it might be almost as interesting as Fandom -- and canon pretty much played itself out from there. By which we mean: Fell in love with Willow, got her brain sucked out, got better, became a surrogate parent to Dawn, broke up with Willow, got back together with Willow, and was shot by a stray bullet at age 22.

How she could fit into your character's backstory: Well, obviously, she won't be at the reunion, but she would have kept in touch with everyone right up to her death. If your character would know what happened or would still miss her 15 years later, feel free to refer to that.

Edited 2011-03-20 18:29 (UTC)

Name: Quinn Fabray

Age at the Reunion: 36, a few weeks shy of 37. But she'll say 35.

Backstory I've worked out so far: After Fandom, she went back to Ohio and enrolled at Ohio State, where she was social chair of her sorority, cheered on the varsity squad until she blew out an ankle, and got a degree in business. She kept dating the FH version of Puck, and they eventually got married and settled in the suburbs of Cleveland. She's a successful realtor there (because random canon ambitions are the best) and she and Puck have a daughter, Beth. Because the idea made me laugh a lot, Quinn will be about seven months pregnant with their second child.

How she could fit into your character's backstory: I doubt she was the best correspondent in the world, but I'm sure she friended people on Facebook and probably invited anybody she trusted to behave themselves to her wedding. Let me know if you want to work out anything more detailed!

TELL THAT TO THE PEOPLE WHO HAD TO LISTEN TO HIM FOR THAT WHOLE TIME.

Name: Ben Skywalker

Age at Reunion: 36...ish. He travels fairly frequently through the multiverse, so it's possible he's missed count on a birthday here or there.

Backstory I've worked out so far: After writing to Ender weekly for five years with no reply (DAMN YOU, ENDER), Ben finally got the hint and moved on (ish) with his life. He became a member of Karla's Court in Glacia, is something of a wingman for Tony Stark (though he fails miserably at chatting up hot Russian models) and still has time to head home for various Jedi adventures. He works closely at home with his cousin Allana, doesn't like to talk about the thing he almost had with a Sith named Vestara and generally uses his jumping between universes as an excuse to have not had a meaningful relationship in about twenty years.

So he's still an expert at repressing.

He's kept in touch with the various versions of his family members (and Tahiri) and is currently trying to grow an Obi-Wan-esque beard. It looks fairly stupid, not gonna lie.

How he could fit into your character's backstory: If you've spent time in Karla's or Tony's universe in the last twenty years, you'd have run into Ben. You'd also know that Ender is a sore spot.

Edited 2011-03-20 18:45 (UTC)

NOBODY MADE YOU INVITE HIM TO ALL THE KEGGARS, STARK.

In fact, if Ben turns out to be an alcoholic now, ANDREW WILL FROWN AT YOU.

Tony is gonna mock that beard like nobody's business. Just putting it out there.

Grizzly Adams.

I WAS NOT THAT BAD OKAY.

*steals form as well*

Name: Faramir, Prince of Ithilien, Steward of Gondor, Lord of Emyn Arnen

Age at the Reunion: 37

Backstory I've worked out so far: Faramir will have gone through canon. The war of the ring was won. Boromir and his father are dead. Aragorn is king and Faramir was appointed as his Steward and received Ithilien as his princedom. He's married to Éowyn now and they have started rebuilding Emyn Arnen. There's still some fighting going on in Ithilien as Sauron's troops dispersed and the Haradrim are still at odds with Gondor.

How he could fit into your character's backstory: Faramir would have sent invitations for his marriage to his old friends, so let me know if you think they'd have attended. He'd also leave invitations to visit Ithilien. He'd be good at keeping in touch for the most part, but I assume there was a gap of a few years prior and during the war.

If someone is interested to have spent some time in Gondor as well, I'm cool with that. So far I know that Maladicta will play her role there, but they could have used all help to defend Gondor.

Edited 2011-03-20 19:34 (UTC)

Name: Rudolf Wega

Age at the Reunion: 35

Backstory I've worked out so far: At some point during his time at Fandom, he broke up with Cally - or she left, we haven't ironed that out yet. He managed to get back in contact with his parents. After graduation, he pretty much argued his way back into Dr. Simiak's lab back in Amstelveen. Nowadays, he's a chief researcher on several temporal science projects - his experience in Fandom meant he was plenty qualified. He's also still pretty pointedly left-wing, though he's gotten a little savvier about it. AKA he's joined a political party.

He's been a serial monogamist for most of those twenty years, but currently single, la. Possibly because he keeps vanishing for mysterious 'trips'.

How he could fit into your character's backstory: Dolf would have tried to keep writing the people he knew, partly to keep up contact with friends, partly to see if their experiences in Fandom can help him with his research.

Edited 2011-03-20 18:52 (UTC)

Faramir would attend if he'd received an invitation and it wasn't right in the middle of his own war.

He would extend an invitation to visit the library he's building in Emyn Arnen, but then she'd have to learn Quenya so that might not work.

Name: Tony Stark

Age at the Reunion: 36

Backstory: After graduation Tony returned home for his triumphant retaking of Stark International to become that sassy billionaire genius playboy we all know and tolerate. After an amicable break up with the lovely Stephanie Brown, of course.

He'll have gone on to form the Avengers, deal with meeting a second version of Steve Rogers, nearly getting killed by hot Russian spies and repressing any and all chances at a normal, non-super hero life. But no goddamn Civil War. I refuse.

How He can fit into your character's backstory: While probably pretty flakey about remembering to respond to any attempts at keeping in touch, Tony is very... clingy to friends. Because someone has issues with family dying on him. So, you can probably expect him to try. Lemme know if you want in on aaaany Marvel wacky too!

AND TONY WILL DRINK IN HIS GENERAL DIRECTION.

MODELS, BEN. THERE WERE MODELS.

And Rilla would be dying to meet Eowyn.

MY RUSSIAN WAS RUSTY.

...SHUT UP THEY TOTALLY JUST WANTED TO TALK.

Not all of us can work the stupid goatee look, Tony. God.

Faramir is certain that can be arranged now. He made certain there are plenty of comfortable guest rooms at his new home.

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