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WHERE ARE THEY GOING?
...in the spirit of the previous post.
THE 'WHAT'S NEXT?' MEME
So, R3s! And maybe R2s/R1s/R0s, now that Certain Revelations Have Been Made. What are your character's current plans for the future, how do they impact everyone else? Are you looking at PSLing down the line? Maybe you don't have any and want to see how you can tag along with another's - well, there's where you can do it!
As a reminder,theaftershow exists for all your Curtains-related PSL needs!
(Unless you have somewhere you're already planning to do it, I'm not your [parental figure of choice])
CHARACTER: The character you played!
PLAYER: Who you are, + any contact info you want to share!
SUMMARY; A few quick notes on what plans - if any - your character has for the future. If they don't have any and/or will just be milling about in Denny's for a While, you can note that, too!
LOOKING FOR; Are you looking to get involved in anything? Maybe you want an excuse for some further growth?
THE 'WHAT'S NEXT?' MEME
So, R3s! And maybe R2s/R1s/R0s, now that Certain Revelations Have Been Made. What are your character's current plans for the future, how do they impact everyone else? Are you looking at PSLing down the line? Maybe you don't have any and want to see how you can tag along with another's - well, there's where you can do it!
As a reminder,
theaftershow exists for all your Curtains-related PSL needs!(Unless you have somewhere you're already planning to do it, I'm not your [parental figure of choice])
CHARACTER: The character you played!
PLAYER: Who you are, + any contact info you want to share!
SUMMARY; A few quick notes on what plans - if any - your character has for the future. If they don't have any and/or will just be milling about in Denny's for a While, you can note that, too!
LOOKING FOR; Are you looking to get involved in anything? Maybe you want an excuse for some further growth?
...it goes on, and on, and on, and on...
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PLAYER: Toni - feel free to add me on discord as artoni#1824, or
SUMMARY; Eszmet has taken it upon itself to not only try and help save the multiverse from crashing, but also save its fellow SQUIPs in the process! As such, somniatores will become a thing. TL;DR it's going to serve as a multiversal dispatcher for 'yo, we got a problem over in [x] dimension, can someone go fix it'. It will also, somehow, someway, have social media accounts in every dimension where social media exists, so you're welcome to add it on whatever platform you choose. While it's hard for a SQUIP to take breaks, it recognizes that as a human-hybrid such can be productive, and it will have periods where it can visit people in person!
...so, yes, Spongebob, it'll come over and hang out.
LOOKING FOR; safjasgfasgf if anyone really wants to play out fixing the multiverse, sure??? otherwise i'm fine with it just sending memes to people and/or fix-it-fic recs. It likes comfort fic, ok.
Also, PSA; Somniatores is not meant to overrule everything and make it all shiny-happy-perfect. It can't/won't guarantee Happy Endings For Everyone; it's ICly meant to just prevent to collapse of the multiverse. And because of how infinity is...infinite, there will always be More To Fix, and always be Things Breaking Down. That's just how it be! Tragedies have their place alongside comedies, and all that.
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PLAYER: Kat, Blankblankity#7335 and
SUMMARY; Spongebob is going to go back home for a few weeks to a month so he can reconnect with all his friends from home and make sure they know he's okay! (and maybe cry a little bit from the trauma. it's fine) After that he's going to go traveling around visiting all his other friends and helping Eszmet as much as he can with the anomolies!
He's also going to live at the Salieri-Discord estate for a good chunk of his time after the first month (maybe around 25-75 between the estate and Bikini Bottom). Look he loves his home but
What person would pass up living in a castle with their two dads?
LOOKING FOR; Let's all murder Mr. Krabs together
Otherwise I would like to expand on Spongebob's character growth and his whole anxiety deal! While he has... sorta started to recognize it's an issue I would like for him to try to grow out of it more.
But if you don't want anything that heavy for fucking Spongebob I am frankly 100% here for general adventures and hang outs! Since Spongebob's going to be helping with the ASS thing and visiting other worlds he'll have plenty of time for that!
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Addendum
So it's probably super safe to say that they aren't going to murder Mr. Krabs as shitty as he is; it would traumatize this poor sponge. However, Elle's plan to sue Mr. Krabs is a lot more acceptable to Spongebob, even if he's still hesitant at first.
Even though Bikini Bottom is... /gestures/... I like to believe that they manage to sue Mr. Krabs due to the constant blatant violation of workers right (really hard to justify "instead of hiring new employees when we moved to 24 hours, I made my current employees work constantly without breaks or rest"). This makes Mr. Krabs lose most of his money and forced to renounce ownership of the Krusty Krab. Both Squidward and Spongebob were probably offered ownership but Spongebob was the only one who took the offer.
There would be a Lot of growing pains in suddenly becoming an owner, but with his good heart and his friends he's able to make the Krusty Krab flourish into both a great restaurant to eat at but also work there. (he def pays his employees at minimum 20 bucks an hour and a solid month paid vacation). With traveling to different dimensions, he gains the reputation of creating the best burgers in the multiverse and while I can't see him building separate restaurant, I like the idea of him setting something up for multidimensional delivery.
Eventually, Spongebob proposes to Patrick and they have a wonderfully grand wedding, inviting literally everyone from every round (... except maybe Will) to come. They both move into Spongebob's pineapple home and eventually adopt a squid daughter named Octavia. She is painfully shy but Spongebob and Patrick try their best to make her comfortable with such a large extended family.
I know Patrick has a bad track record for raising children but he's much more valid in the musical and I wanna believe this Patrick would try (he will probably call for Spongebob constantly because he's terrified of breaking her, however)
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PLAYER: QV ( please feel absolutely free to add me over at quodVide#2951 on Discord |
SUMMARY; wall of text incoming I'm so sorry
ALRIGHT SO. After some discussion with Floral, immediate future plans are for Orpheus and Eurydice to go traveling between worlds together while Persephone puts the seasons back in order back where they came from. If you want to assume they stopped by, that's A-OK by me! They'll probably be spending a lot of time in Salieri's Vienna, but it'll take a while for their world to start to recover from the combined dustbowl/yearly blizzard-drought cycle apocalypse that was going on back there, so they're happy to take as many detours on their way back home as their friends will put up with.
LOOKING FOR; Man what am I not down for. I fully expect PSL stuff from any of you who are willing - Orpheus will happily help out with the Somniatores project with his budding future sight as well as just visit people whenever he can find an excuse to. Continuations of close CR are great!! Filling in CR that didn't get visited on much in game would also be great! I'm here for all of it.After that, they'll be settling down in a little cottage on a cliff by the sea, though Salieri will be maintaining a place for them at his estate for when some of the gods responsible for the weather or the harvest or whatever (looking at you Poseidon and Amphitrite) inevitably start having Problems again and they want to get the fuck out of there. Eventually, probably in a few years once they get over that intense dustbowl/millennial solidarity fear of the failing environment and economy and can both be sure that it's safe, they'll have a daughter named Phoebe, who I'm sure you're all eager to spoil rotten. Drawings of her are probably incoming once my hand is okay again because I'm trash and will not stop crying about them getting a happy ending and a family.
Anyway, Orpheus will also start coming into his own as an oracle as he gets older. He does this in mythic canon after Eurydice dies, but I figured here it might be fun to play with the fact that he now exists in a highly meta-aware narrative-driven multiverse and his mother is the goddess of epic poetry/longform storytelling, and have his Sight manifest as being able to sense tone and narrative threads as they're forming. He's not a Narrator, but he can hear the background music, so to speak. People will come to him with offerings in exchange for advice as they do with oracles and he'll tell them weird cryptic bullshit and Eurydice will sigh and translate for him or offer more practical advice.
Also, someday his mom is actually going to come back for him, and when she does he'll call in the massive favor she owes him for wandering off on him for most of his life and ask her to take his immortality away. Can muses do that? Fuck if I know, maybe she calls in a favor from Zeus for him being a terrible dad in turn. Chain parental guilt. Either way, it means he and Eurydice get to grow old together, and when their time comes they go peacefully to the Underworld together, hand in hand.
(This may be a low key invitation for those capable to break into Hadestown and visit them in Elysium or Apshodel or wherever they wind up.)
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but yeah Eszmet could/would ABSOLUTELY tap Orpheus from time to time; it's definitely not a Narrator, itself; if anything, it's a Reader. So it'll definitely need assistance with the actual fixing of things, and/or a better understanding of where things are going!
...if Orpheus gets cryptic at it though it's just going to lineface until he explains it properly.
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also once mr. krabs is sued for all his money, spongebob won't exactly want/need much of it so he'd honestly give most of his money to orpheus and eurydice to make sure they have a comfortable life! he really mean it when he said he never wants them to worry about food ever again
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PLAYER: Nara#9651 and
SUMMARY; Angus is heading back to Fife to check up on what happened while he was missing, and often visits his friends at the penthouse in between keeping an eye out for weird universe stuff that he needs Eszmett to work on. While Elle is still studying, Angus hops by Harvard during break for a visit and meeting her parents. Eventually they'll learn about the multiverse and learn that their daughter is going to be queen of an alternate Scotland.
He's going back to hunting monsters and working on diplomatic ties with all these other kingdoms, so if you're royalty, he's going to hang out at court with you! Otherwise, he's always open to visitors that want to go to space, meet unicorns, or learn how to use a weapon. Angus is still worried that when he's not around his friends, something bad might happen to them - an accident or they made a bad decision, thus everyone gets frequent check-up calls from him.
After a year, his lizards are going to multiply so you better have space in your house for a bunch of pets.
After a few years, he and Elle get married in Malibu with all the Delta Nu girls, and then get married again in Fife with wizards. Everyone is invited to both ceremonies and the coronation that comes after. The two mainly live in the castle, but both travel for work: Angus around the world and Elle back in her home universe. Despite being a very lonely king while she's gone, Angus still has other people to distract himself with.
After they've setting into the rhythm of living together, Angus and Elle have twins: Fergus Mumble and Elisabeth Lumina Woods-McFife. Everyone is invited to see the royal babies. Later on, the two adopt a baby (one Elle's insistence when Angus wants more kids) and name him Benjamin Richard
LOOKING FOR; Mostly with the "saving the multiverse" stuff, Angus can't turn down an opportunity for adventure! Also therapy and learning to trust that his friends won't die or betray everyone again.
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PLAYER: Sabra Disco: sabrasaber#9649
SUMMARY: Elle goes back to Harvard to finish her law degree, now with the focus of helping abused and exploited youth (no idea where she got that interest from...) She gets an apartment with Vivian and eventually tells her everything about Gershwin. It takes some convincing, the Angus is able to help with that. Her parents love Angus to pieces and are so happy when they get engaged at her graduation ceremony. Eventually she tells them everything that happened and how she's kinda royalty now. After the shock wears off, they are very supportive and proud of her.
Along with working through school, she helps finish Connor's case against his parents to get his college fund, with the help of Eszmet. They win, obviously. Seriously, Connor's dad left WAY too much of a paper trail.
After graduation, Angus and Elle have their wedding in Malibu, then a bit later in Fife. Elle invites EVERYONE and she will be very sad if you don't come (unless you had, like, a good reason. You were all at Denny's and we know that was the real wedding anyways.) She primarily lives in Fife, working remotely with the help of some cross-universe wifi, but frequently travels to her home Earth to meet with clients and go to court. All her work is 100% probono because between marrying a prince and her family's money, she literally has no need for an income.
After getting established she and Angus have a set of beautiful twins Fergus Mumble and Elisabeth Lumina Woods-McFife. There is a huge party, the babies are adorable. Elle is very over the pregnancy thing after her first one is TWINS, but a few years down the line they adopt a baby and name him Benjamin Richard.
LOOKING FOR; Legal/ court drama shit, maybe a baby shower? She probably gets to know a lot of the r2's through Angus, so that could be fun! Elle's not going to be invovled too much with the 'save the multiverse' shenanigans, but she's around.
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Also: playdates with the Woods-McFife kids and Phoebe though
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...Like honestly even if Elle tells her there's no actual need there's a good chance she'd be like "Right, right, I understand, wink" and then a week later there's a news story about Callahan's house burning down.
Beyond that Elle and Angus are definitely getting invited to LSP's coronation post-canon, she probably names them official ambassadors from their dimensions or something.
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PLAYER: Ni/papirini#0423/
SUMMARY; Sissi is going to be going home first to DEATH. It'll take a good amount of convincing, but she does eventually get Death to Let Her Help With Stuff With The Multiverse. His reticence to let her go again is because of what happened with R3, but she's pretty sure won't get kidnapped for a murdergame again, seriously, we both gotta do this Death, not just you. So she gets to work as a dispatcher for Esmet's overall project, and a helper in the Somniatores nursery, and she'll get to hop around the multiverse to visit people and dispatch people to fix what's been broken. Also because she's basically the grandma, she will spoil rotten any and all kids that come out of the situation. That's what's grandmas do after all.
On a more personal note, she's finally taking the initiative to try and help the bulk of her family move on into a better afterlife situation. Even her mother-in-law. It's kind of scary, but there are plenty of therapists willing to help in the afterlife at this point, so yay?
LOOKING FOR; ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING WOOT.
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PLAYER: Lu (
SUMMARY: B will be retreating back to the pocket dimensional house he shares with Hans, but he was already doing a lot of visiting with the r1 folks before so he's certainly just going to expand that to everyone from r3! He (and Hans as welcome) will drop in on folks and hang out for up to a couple weeks at a time, if that works out for everyone. People are also welcome to visit him! As he told Farrah, he made that entire little zone himself, so he can set up whatever people might want there.
Other than that, he's going to be deeply involved with Somniatores as one of the actual agents going out to fix the errors located by the SQUIP network. He's also sort of Will's parole officer, which is probably going to be a long and frustrating experience. He's probably gonna try to shove the guy into whatever therapy resources we might find, and ignore them himself until someone forces him to go. I'm sure eventually, this will reach a point where he considers Will's time done and lets him go...but it's hard to say how long that might take. The guy spent hundreds of years in time loops, after all; it's gonna take a long time more for things to start changing again.
No fankids here, but he'll be a doting uncle or whatever on all the kids that do exist!
LOOKING FOR; Anyone who's involved with Somniatores! The fact that he'll be going out and fixing whatever weird errors crop up in the multiverse could make for a huge variety of wacky adventures, or dramatic ones! He'd be open to bringing non-Somniatores people on these trips just for the experience of seeing different worlds - he wouldn't deliberately bring them anywhere he thought might end up being dangerous, but he can't always predict these things! Also, uh. He's probably gonna drag Will on some of these too, so.
Other people just generally; the Balladeer is pretty good at making himself available, especially since he doesn't have like, a real job? It would be nice for him to get to know some r2 folks better, since he never really did!
Also, while I think it's extremely funny that B has essentially sailed through this entire game without ever discovering the truth about what his eventual fate in Assassins would've been, he's bound to come across that eventually. Could make for some good hurt/comfort!
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But seriously let these two go on Somniatores adventures and get themselves into wacky and dramatic situations! (And make Will's life a living hell when he has to tag along)
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Mid 20's successful restaurant owner Spongebob sneaking off to Farrah's college to make sure she's still eating properly
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PLAYER: Lynsey, merlyn#8542 on disco and
SUMMARY: Rina is going back home to Odaiba to continue her high school education at Nijigasaki. She's going to keep a long distance relationship going with Varian during that time, and in the first few weeks after escaping the school she's going to work on inventing a communication device for the two of them different from a phone that'll fit in at Corona and not be seen as weird to have in your pocket in modern Japan (right now I think it'll look like a compact mirror. A mirror that makes interdimensional zoom calls). Everyone else she'll keep in contact with through multiverse crossing phone networks but like. She wanted something special for them okay, something that they actually made together. She'll be continuing her school idol stuff so while she can visit sometimes and vice versa she's probably not going to have as much time between practice and concerts and SHIORIKO OR LANZHU IS GOING TO SHOW UP EVENTUALLY TO TRY AND SHUT THE CLUB DOWN IN THE ANIME TOO I JUST KNOW IT. She will keep everyone updated on when all her concerts are and everything though but yeah she'll be a biiiiiiiiiiit busy for a while.
Once she graduates though and effectively retires as a school idol she's going to move to Corona to live with Varian. She probably helps him with engineering stuff, since it's her strong suit (even if the tech is not up to her 2020 standards). At this point she'll be visiting others way more often and probably even set up a room at someone's place with all her computer and video game stuff so she can still hop somewhere and play those when she feels like it (at least until... well. At least until some other things take up her time, see next paragraph). Throughout all this (and her school years) she's also been dating Farrah, and post graduating probably spends a lot of weekends with her, definitely more than once a month I think.
After talking about it with Chi I think after a few years of living together they do end up getting married u///u And a while after THAT start having kids - a son
who fullfils the Love Live requirement of clone childrennamed Antonio, and twinhellionsdaughters named Violetta and Rosalia (or just Violet and Rose for short - named for their respective hair streaks). Antonio's a soft boy interested in music like his mom and namesake, where as the twins are feral gremlins. One has Rina's face problem so the other has to compensate by being the loudest she can possibly be you see. Also Rina definitely tried to name the twins Amy and Rose at first, as well as Plusle and Minun. Varian veto'd both of those.LOOKING FOR: God can't wait until I inevitably get bit by the same "rp our murdergame ship's babies as teens" bug that bit several of my other mg friends, and make an account for School Bard Antonio Tennoji with edited icons of Ram from Re:Zero as a PB. When's that mg babies only murdergame coming.
I'm not looking for anything specific but I do enjoy psls and will do my best to be around for shenanigans! Can't wait until season 2 comes and probably puts her through a shitton of drama lmao.
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PLAYER: Ashley | ashriel#6058
SUMMARY:
oh god its longer than orpheus's im so sorry
LOOKING FOR; I am BAD at PSLs but I love this game a lot and would love to try to do some. Gatherings and cute shenanigans, hurt/comfort shit... Just whatever. Members of the polycule absolutely hit me up!! I just accidentally got really invested in the swarm of children they're going to have but also about everything in general.
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PLAYER: Jen!
discord info, please ask first, but otherwise I am happy to add anyone
SUMMARY; Claudine is officially part of the big ol’ teen polycule now. She’s going to go back to Seisho, graduate, and go to university, getting her degree in Performing Arts. She continues acting the entire time she’s in university, then joins the same theatre troupe as Maya does once they graduate. After an extremely dramatic proposal, she and Maya get married in Revue Starlight universe. In liminal space, she’s married to Janis, Peregrine, and Hester as well.
Claudine wants to call dibs on Nana as her maid of honor. After a lot of squabbling, she wins and asks her.
About ten years later, Claudine gets pregnant with what she thinks is a single winter baby. Marie-Annette Yukiko Tendo is the baby they know about. Her twin brother, Junji Louis Tendo is shy, and hid during every sonogram. The surprise twins are opposites in terms of personality, Marie-Annette following in her moms’ footsteps as an outgoing actress and Junji being a more introverted and gifted artist. Janis immediately takes him under her wing.
Marie-Annette goes by the nickname Annie most of the time, because one of her siblings couldn’t pronounce Marie correctly. Maya immediately breaks out a film of Claudine as a child, performing in what’s basically Annie with the serial numbers filed off.
While her poor accountant is frazzled managing a lot of universes’ poly marriages’ taxes, Claudine can’t imagine being any happier than she is.
LOOKING FOR; LITERALLY EVERYTHING. I love all of you and would love to play any of this out!!
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PLAYER: Nikki! I'm mostly on discord at this point at Nikkernoodle#7047 but also my plurk is
SUMMARY; Salieri is, as discussed, going to set up an Estate (Castle, it's a castle, with extensive grounds and a hedge maze) with more than enough room for everyone. Orpheus and Eurydice have a summer cottage on the grounds for whenever the weather turns south at their cottage by the sea. There’s a wing on the estate so the Polycute can have a big cuddle bed, and a game room because he wanted somewhere for Rina to play her video games when she’s over and there’s lots of soft pillows there to hang out on and lounge on. There’s probably some kind of chem lab for Varian in a wing off to the side somewhere. He's also officially adopted both Farrah and Hester Salieri, and does his best to be supportive of whatever they want to do (within reason.) Aside from that, he'll be doing some traveling through the multiverse with Discord and whoever else from the fam or friends wants to tag along or whomever Farrah invites. He'll obviously be spending some time in Equestria getting to know the ponies there, esp Fluttershy because obvs. Beyond that, he’ll be helping with that Somniatore business and doing his best to spend time with various branches of his friends and family, especially for special occasions, be it a wedding, baby shower, performance, photography show, birthday, etc. He also starts going to therapy when Spongebob explains it to him because boy there is so much to unpack there. So much. He’s working on getting better, and it’s a process, and there’s good days and bad but overall he’s working on it and trying to get better at communicating, though there’s a lot of work to be done there also lmao.
Also I’ll be playing around a bit with Salieri learning how to push and play with the narrator-adjacent thing and conducting reality and the after-effects of that because of Immortality Reasons, it’s a whole thing Rem and I talked abt and I also discussed it with QV as well, so that might def pop up in other threads because uhhhh Salieri is going the opposite way of Orpheus and is signing up for Immortality because he doesn’t want Discord to be alone. It IS something he will want to discuss with close CR for obvious reasons because immortality isn’t exactly a gift, but sometimes you make choices. He's probably going to stop aging around late fourties-early fifties, but I haven't decided what age exactly yet.
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JUST ABOUT ANYTHING I’m SO HERE for PSLs and was considering just putting up a TL in a musebox for the Estate so whomever wants to have threads there can toss them on if they want so lmk if that’s something anyone other than me would be interested in lmao.
Aside from that, some ideas could be:
-Salieri would love to travel to his friends' worlds and visit them, or have them come and visit him.
-I’m always up for domestic shenanigans: sleepovers, parties, holidays, water balloon fights, going to Court, taking the kids to the
malltailor’s, general estate shenanigans-Road Trip to Equestria???? So everyone can showcase their ponysona.
-Somniatore shenanigans
-Future family shenanigans, spoiling the grandchildren/nieces/nephews etc taking them on trips to see real life dinosaurs (because that’s something Discord canonically does with the Cutie Mark Crusaders in a comic so) BUT JUST GENERAL SPOILING AS MANY KIDS AS THEIR PARENTS WILL LET BE SPOILED
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let Sal become a silver fox, at least
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PLAYER: Ri! If you don't have me added everywhere yet, my discord is resplendentri#3940, and my plurk is
SUMMARY; Benjamin has no immediate plans for the first year or so, post-Denny's, nor any idea where he's going to settle. He wants to learn more about the future,
see the world, behold its wonders, learn to embrace second chances and newfound freedom.After around a year, year and a half after the end of Curtains, he ends up tagging along with a group that goes to see R2's reigning queen perform, an event that ends up giving his life a much-needed trajectory by introducing him to Jane Seymour. He settles down in New York, taking up his trade again and spending his free time getting to know and then falling in love with Jane.
After a year or so, he's able to rent a parlor space with a small apartment above it, and once he's established is when he begins to realize that Jane is more than a dear friend and confidant, and agree to take their courtship slow and serious.
And then Jane gets pregnant. And all thoughts of "slow" go right out the window. The result is Antonia "Teeny" Jane Barker, shortly followed by her little brother Thomas "Tommy" Benjamin Barker. And that is where they stop, in part because Tommy is about the same age as Angus and Elle's twins, who call Benji "Grandpa Ben" and he could not, in good conscience, bring more babies into the world who would be younger than the kids who call him GRANDPA.
LOOKING FOR; Anything! Did you put him up for a little while before he got a purpose and settled down? Come visit his new parlor? Need Grandpa to babysit? Have a wedding or a baby shower? He'll be there.
his narrator-adjacent power is being summoned like Beetlejuice (for legal reasons this is a joke)Continuing close CR or developing CR that didn't get the chance to happen during the round are both great with me! Especially since he's the father-in-law to most of the teen polycule (father-in-law once removed, if you're Connor).