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fhplotterywheel2024-06-22 04:17 pm
weirderthanthou) wrote in fhplotterywheel2024-06-22 04:17 pm
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20 Year Reunion Brainstorming!
Because we all need to coordinate those backstories somehow.
We've got a form for you to fill out here:
...but feel free to brainstorm any way you'd like! And check here for event details!
We've got a form for you to fill out here:
...but feel free to brainstorm any way you'd like! And check here for event details!
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Age at the Reunion: Let's go with 50.
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: After going through a prolonged series of traumatic events, Margo, per the end of The Magicians show canon, became High King Margo the Creator of a reborn Fillory. She is married to Eliot's ex-wife Fen. This is somehow not awkward for anyone. (She is also a werewolf.)
How Your Character Can Fit In: If you think Margo stayed in contact, she probably stayed in contact. If you think your character would've wound up in Fillory somehow? We can talk.
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Age at the Reunion: ... 60
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: Atton - better known as Jack - Rand is not a rockstar, but his band has been succesful enough in his niche - that seventh album is coming any day now! - and he's gotten enough gigs doing scores to live somewhat comfortably. He lives in an apartment about a block away from
He is, surprisingly, somewhat well-adjusted and content with his lot. Though not with the state of the world, as he's turned all that deeply-hidden do-goodery and idealism into becoming an extremely annoyingly persistent figure in local activism - about mental health, poverty and the homeless situation.
How Your Character Can Fit In: He will absolutely not have managed to keep the fact he's not dead yet hidden for the entirety of the past twenty years, sooo.
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Age at the Reunion: 65-ish. This is not at all old for the GFFA, so no icon changes!
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: She is still in contact with folks back home a bit, but did not want her daughter growing up constantly at war, so she moved to NYC as soon as possible without making Atton/Jack *too* smug.
How Your Character Can Fit In: Lana likes to keep in contact. So if you'd like for her to know you, just LMK so I don't accidentally say otherwise!
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Age at the Reunion: 220ish, going on 30
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: Liliana and Ignis have settled on Arcavios, where Liliana started teaching at Witherbloom, but at this point is now Headmistress of all of Strixhaven. She's in her Sexy Professor stage and I love that for her.
How Your Character Can Fit In: They Planeswalk/portal and they still have their house here, so they probably show up fairly regularly about the Multiverse. Also, will aggressively suggest people send their magical children to Strixhaven
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Age at the Reunion: 38
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: Well, as much fun as it is to hang around in a world that wants to exterminate you for being a Primordial Elemental, Arden made the wiser(?) decision to help Cal in the GFFA. For awhile, she was helping fight the Empire, her expanding powers making her able to masquerade as a Jedi pretty well, even without the lightsaber, but eventually she realized that she could best help by going to school to become a therapist because holy shit do Jedi need therapy. As they begin to rebuild the Order, Arden is there with her dual specialties, PTSD and grief, and trying to convince folks that maybe, rather than just tossing all your emotions to the Force, they could try...acknowledging and working through them? Like. As a thought.
How Your Character Can Fit In: So in addition to coming back for schooling and her own therapy (every therapist needs a therapist, especially one barely on the other side of a war), Arden comes back to visit just to, you know, hang out with people who aren't Jedi. (She loves you, baby, she does. But.) Also, any folks around the GFFA in 20 years, they probably hang out!
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Age at the Reunion: Who knows?
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: Lol. "Backstory." Navaan...Navaan never changes. She wanders onto the island, stays for awhile, wanders back off again. Recently, she's been exploring the more "detectiving" side of doctoring, and has wandered back to solve mysteries on the island. (Comic NSFW)
Listen, Navaan experiences no growth or character change. That's a rule.
How Your Character Can Fit In: Heh heh. Fit in.
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Age at the Reunion: 54 (going on 5400)
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: Ignis will have also pursued a shift in his teaching career by joining the faculty at Strixhaven, specializing in combat and strategy and being a general terror on the poor kitchen staff at the mess hall. Oh, and he's a vampire now, too. NBD.
How Your Character Can Fit In: As mentioned in Liliana's post, they are out and about in the Multiverse and Ignis will naturally still have close contact with Gladio and Prompto, and will likely actually be around Fandom more because of them (unless I decide something wildly different for them).
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Age at the Reunion: totes dead
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: Since he's already a senior citizen in pirate years and dead by Treasure Island (or "dead" if you want to be optimistic), Flint eventually went back to Nassau, launched a rebellion against England 30 years too early, and died.
How Your Character Can Fit In: If you knew him, the news of his passing made it back. You're probably not surprised.
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Age at the Reunion: One with the Force!
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: About ten years from the reunion time, he went back to Jaina's version of the GFFA to help with a Dark Jedi attempted takeover (because the GFFA is gonna GFFA) and was killed by a Sith while trying to protect one of Jaina's sons.
How Your Character Can Fit In: Everyone can know!
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Age at the Reunion: N/A
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: Five years from now, Steve got to the end of canon, had his nervous breakdown, left Danny on the beach and just...kept going. No one's seen or heard from him since.
How Your Character Can Fit In: Feel free to agree about what a dick Steve was!
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Age at the Reunion: 77-ish, oy.
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: He hasn't changed much! He's still living on Fandom, occasionally teaching, working his practice, and carrying out his hobbies on other worlds.
How Your Character Can Fit In: If your character has been on Fandom, he probably at least knows *of* them, and they can be any degree of acquainted you like. If they want to have been in therapy, that works, too!
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And also therapist, because so many of the things she has to talk about are, "those fucking space idiots and their stupid fucking space philosophy."
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Age at the Reunion: 50-ish
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: Jon had a bit of a breakdown, tried to quit feeding off fear, had another breakdown, gave up, and went about taking live statements again (from people off the island) and semi-reluctantly embracing his status as an avatar of the Eye. He's a bit harder now, a bit more closed off. Also a bit more likely to blow up someone's brain if they try anything with people he cares about or has responsibility for. He *knows* things more often, and he's mostly stopped (or at least slowed) aging.
How Your Character Can Fit In: If they're on the island, they probably know him. Hit me up for frenemies, friends, enemies, or whatever!
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At least one of those breakdowns had her showing up at his door, kicking it in, and yelling, "Listen up, you blue mana nerd, I'm fuckin' serious here!"
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Age at the Reunion: 38
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: Kamala graduated and eventually went on to become focused on being a superhero. She's affiliated with the Avengers and has gone on many many MCU adventures which varied in scale and complexity because MCU.
How Your Character Can Fit In: Kamala would have kept in touch with any friends with varying degrees.
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Space Maid of Honor!
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With a galactic bachelorette party.
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Age at the Reunion: Still immortal
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: Thor restored Asgard, lost the throne of Asgard and was exiled, was un-exiled, lost his worthiness to lift Mjolnir, and then regained said worthiness. Asgard is now known as 'Asgardia' and is no longer in Oklahoma.
At some point in the next few years, after leaving the island to restore Asgard in Oklahoma, Thor briefly died, which split him and Don into two separate people that can exist at the same time. Unfortunately, Don, now just a mortal man, became jealous of the power of the gods, and between that and some issues about his not being a real boy, had a mental breakdown that Thor's solution (putting him in a sort of magical virtual reality) did NOT fix but rather drove him insane. The traces of the Odinforce baked into his existence later fused with the power of an entity known as 'The Serpent,' which made him a god after all, and Loki dubbed him the 'God of Lies.' He's also now fused with a symbiote (you know, like Venom) and continues to be evil, insane, and A Problem.
Also at one point Don was just a decapitated head with a snake dripping venom into his eyes as punishment.
Thor does not want to talk about it, but is deeply resigned to someone asking him over canapes.
How Your Character Can Fit In: Thor has probably distanced himself from his Fandom friends and associates, especially as the situation with regards to Don got worse and worse and worse, but they can know some of the history and that Thor has been increasingly tough to contact. Even if your character isn't close to Don or Thor, they can have learned at some point about Don and Thor's current situation (seriously, they are not great secret-keepers) and pour salt in the wound by asking how Don's doing these days, etc.
Also I just want to note that everything that happens to Don is canon, because...WTF.
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Age at the Reunion: 38
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: Lydia eventually, to her surprise, found herself to have earned enough credits to graduate, after which she returned to 1815-ish and she and Wickham got married. Again, for real this time. She is back in England these days, splitting her time between Brighton and London on Miss Lambe's business and Derbyshire, where she is teaching her sister Elizabeth's daughter Jane how to be a proper witch. She still visits Fandom regularly for events and shopping.
Lydia and Wickham have four children: George, Frances, and the twins Maria and Carmen. George takes after his father in that he is a bit demonic, and the girls are all witches, with the twins displaying some unique magical traits that have them living with Miss Lambe and her dear friend *cough* Georgiana Darcy in Brighton. Lydia is currently about six months pregnant with baby #5. Yes, she knows what causes that, but have you seen her husband?
How Your Character Can Fit In: Of course Lydia has stayed in contact with her friends!
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Age at the Reunion: Also still immortal
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: A year or two from now Raiden went through his canon, which ends with him married to a Greek Nephilim named Titan and fully retired from demon-fighting. Instead of moving to the island in Greece Titan comes from, they moved back to Fandom, where Raiden still runs Pizza Planet and his NPC husband Titan, who makes excellent pastry, works at J,GoB. (Titan is like 6'5" with a magical metal arm, btw.)
How Your Character Can Fit In: If they're around the island, they probably know him and Titan, and if they've left the island Raiden would totally at least try to stay in touch with his friends!
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Age at the Reunion: Also also still immortal
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: Like Raiden, Gray went through his canon and is now married and retired from demon-fighting. He still looks exactly the same as he did when he started at FH as a sophomore, with the addition of a gnarly scar across his neck like he got his throat cut and survived (because that's what happened). He and his husband, a human ex-Marine named Mason (who has gained immortality through a magical bond to Gray) traveled around for a while but recently, ironically, settled down on the island Titan comes from.
How Your Character Can Fit In: Gray will have tried to stay in touch with his friends, but, I mean. Sloth. But people can also have heard updates on him, etc., from Raiden.
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Age at the Reunion: Varied
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: ?????
How Your Character Can Fit In:
Basically, this is just me posting that I'm pretty open to a lot of stuff right now but don't have a lot of time to brainstorm, so if anyone wants to throw anything my way, I'll probably be interested in catching it, otherwise we might just get chaos or nothing (work schedule depending) from a lot of my pups this weekend. *thumbs up* XD XD XD
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Age at the Reunion: Due to the vagaries of time and things, Charlie only seems around 31, though given the amount of time she spent time-traveling recently she might be significantly older.
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: Charlie almost has degrees in Sociology, Music, Drama and/or English depending on how 'almost' is defined. She has spent most of the past years as a traveling musician with whomever needed a musician. She also used music, a bunch of musicians, and some selkies to sink a barge and save a seal rookery (and with some help from a dragon prince named Jack, defeat an eldritch horror of an old god.) Most recently she and Jack saved the world from an incipient huge asteroid by moving herself and Jack through time. Which left Jack twenty years older and within the Aunties' required seven year break, so they're now seriously involved. When a Dragon Prince/sorcerer/Wild Gale Boy and a Wild Gale girl get together... watch out world.
How Your Character Can Fit In: Charlie has traveled all over the world playing music, so why not worlds? Plus she can Walk the Woods to anywhere she wants to go and has one of the Aunties' practically magical phones. If anyone wants to have stayed in touch, Charlie would be all for that - particularly Arden and Graham, most likely.
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Age at the Reunion: 50-something
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: In the past twenty years, Octavia has risen to prominence as a high-profile activist and lobbyist in environmental matters, originally through more grassroots means and later also through the Aurora Foundation which she founded as a way to more efficiently funnel funding (a lot of it coming through Lucifer, originally) into various environmental initiatives around the globe. A lot of her work these days involves traveling the world for speaker engagements, meeting with important people behind closed doors, and showing up at various rallies for both local and global issues. A lot of politicians who disagree with her agenda absolutely despise her, but she ran an underground bunker with an iron fist before she was even thirty, so what does she care when the fate and the wellbeing of the planet are at stake again?
(As of yet, there have been no political assassinations with any links to her, but don't think she hasn't thought about it.)
How Your Character Can Fit In: If you've kept up with Fandom's mainland-side news, odds are you've seen or heard about her work, often. She also may have donated siginificant sums from her own personal funds to off-world causes championed by other people from Fandom.