20 Year Reunion Brainstorming!

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For your coordination of backstory needs!

We've got a form for you to fill out here:

<b>Character Name:</b> <b>Age at the Reunion:</b> <b>Backstory I've Worked Out So Far:</b> <b>How Your Character Can Fit In:</b>

...but feel free to brainstorm any way you'd like! And check here for event details!

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Character Name: Travis Montgomery
Age at the Reunion: 57
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: Travis will have eventually headed back to Seattle, especially after hearing about the worst person he's ever worked under running for mayor. He really cannot deal with Chief Dixon being in charge of even more than his corrupt-as-hell police department, and at the enabling encouragement of his fire family, decides to run against him.

And then he wins. And is the mayor of Seattle. He does a pretty decent job at it for awhile! He even considered running for a seat on the state congress! Until the sex scandal. Which was not his fault, but sometimes you just have to resign in disgrace to keep from hurting the people you love, okay?
How Your Character Can Fit In: Travis won't actually be attending the reunion (I'm moving this weekend, and I know my brain and how much it will want to actually play anything), but you're welcome to have heard of his very public exploits and all have heard/believe a different version of events with regard to that sex scandal. (It definitely involved his mayoral candidate adversary's gay son and broke the hearts of Tremmet shippers everywhere, but the rumors that a bear was involved were entirely incorrect. Koalas aren't actually bears and he and Emmet definitely didn't steal any from the Seattle Zoo are you kidding me.)

Character Name: Duke Crocker
Age at the Reunion: 54
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: Duke never went back to Haven after getting dragged back to Fandom the last time. He tried on occasion over the years, but he's always been locked out, and his worry about his friends back there has worn itself down into a gentle sort of nostalgic thing. He's accepted that the town itself probably blew up and if he'd gone back he only would have blown up with it.

He and his partners retired to the Bahamas many years ago and life has been damn good, so he really doesn't regret much.
How Your Character Can Fit In: He would have kept in touch with folks over the years, and even wandered back for the occasional visit.

Character Name: Eliot Waugh
Age at the Reunion: 47
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: Much like Margo, Eliot will have spent a lot of time wandering in and out of Fandom as he went on his various canon adventures. And like Margo, he just. Stopped really coming back in 2026. Unlike Margo, he hasn't been totally radio silent, but he doesn't know where she is either and it bothers the hell out of him. He's been searching for her for more than a decade now, and while Julia and Penny and others back home have all mostly given up on eventually finding her, he hasn't. He lives and teaches at Brakebills to pay the bills and maintain his access to their body of magical scholarship, and he's in and out of recovery for alcoholism and various drug addictions, and is generally just as much of a wreck of a human being as all his fellow professors at Brakebills.

Henry keeps making noises about him becoming the next dean.
How Your Character Can Fit In: Eliot hasn't been totally incommunicado, but after coming back to Fandom shortly after Margo went missing to try to use Portalocity or the Special Collections to locate her, he hasn't bothered returning. He's bitter as hell that his favorite person in the universe is missing, along with all his other remaining close-and-not-dead-yet friends, and burned the hell out of most of his bridges anywhere but Brakebills itself.

Seriously. If you want to have an established beef with older Eliot I am so down with that.

Character Name: Rosa Ortecho
Age at the Reunion: 42
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: After graduating from MICA, Rosa gave another go at the big city art scene, but fell off the recovery wagon hard and nearly ODed. After being revived by Max Evans again, she decided she was better off sticking around New Mexico and its way more low-key art scene, and in the last 15 years has managed to make a name for herself as a large format installation artist in the southwest.
How Your Character Can Fit In: Like Travis, Rosa won't be attending the reunion. But folks are welcome to have awareness of her work and fame as an artist. Photographs of her elaborate, 40-acre painted rock mosaic of crop circles in the deserts around her home town have been circulating on the internet for ages, after all!