Years From Now...

[Irish]

Here's where you can post what will happen to your character ten years, twenty years, even fifty years from now (1899)! Are the married? Do they have kids? Are they dead? Post it here.

The best way to do it would to put it as a little biography, where you tell about them!

[Street]

Street continues to be homeless for many years-mainly by choice. In 1911, she finally makes contact with her grandmother, with the help of Ophelia. In January of 1912, Street sails to Scotland, to meet the grandmother she never knew. She learns to read and write enough to send postcards to Ophelia and her now found brothers, Othello and Tybalt. In March, she becomes homesick and wishes to return to her New York. Lady Lexeme provides her with the promise of money to come. She books Street passage on the Titanic. Street is a first-class passenger, but she befriends the servants and lower class (even though she doesn't speak their language). She even makes friends with the upper class (mainly the men-she isn't very pretty, but she's lively, they said). They play poker with her and lose a small fortune. She survives the sinking but loses many new friends. She pledges to never set foot on a boat again, and she never did. Lady Lexeme continued to send her youngest grandchild a lot of money and when she died, Street inherited most of it. She continued to live in a comfortable house and she managed to overcome her fear of crowded places (somewhat). Never having much liking for men or marriage, she adopted many children and took care of even more. She died in 1990, at the ripe old age of 106. She didn't leave behind a lot of money, but she left behind a lot of love.

Broadway struggled for many years with his homosexuality. He was extremely devoted to Buttercup (Tyler) and his sister (Brooke). He was also dedicated to his country. When World War One began in 1914, he joined up immediately, but did not see action until 1917. He was a brave soldier, with a terrible secret. He regretted killing, but he was honored to serve his country. He wrote to Tyler every week, practically everyday. In 1904, he had taken in an orphaned baby girl and named her Lucy, and he wrote to her now, for she was under the care of Brooke. On July 18th, 1918, Asher was shot in a scouting mission. He was in the hospital for four more days and wrote hundreds of letters, and he died on July 22nd, 1918, of his injuries. All his letters were sent out after his death. To Tyler, to Lucy, to Brooke, to his good friends, Levi, Ace, and Mush. He was buried in France and when the war ended, his body was returned to the United States and he was buried in Woodmill Cemetary in the Bronx. Lucy-only seventeen-was placed under the joint custody of Brooke and Tyler.

Irish continued to work anywhere he could. Eventually, he got a steady, good-paying job as a mill foreman. When a great illness hit his family again, only him, his sisters, his cousin Sean, and his new cousin Aislin, were left alive. He began to work three or four jobs again, allowing Niamh to remain at home with the baby Aislin. Moira and Sean worked two jobs each. Sean died in the Triangle Shirt Waist Company fire in 1911. Irish now took care of three young girls. Moira got married in 1912, but lost her husband in World War One, leaving her a widow at 32 with two young twins. Niamh and Irish helped the best the could with Irish's wife (whom may or may not be Poet) and their children, they were married in the spring of 1900 and their first child was born in 1902. His family died in 1904, luckily Poet? and the twins survived along with Niamh, Moira, Sean, Aislin, and Irish. He did not join during WWI, seeing as he was 32 at the time and slightly too old. Plus, the enlistment man didn't want an Irishman in the army. Irish died in 1959 at the age of 89. His children and grandchildren all had his green eyes.

Goldie went to college and graduated at the top of her class. She opened her own school for colored children in the North and then moved back to Georgia in 1905 to open a small college there. Her first school in Georgia was burnt down in 1907 by the KKK. She nonetheless rebuilt it and continued to teach. In 1911, she was chased from the town and half-way to South Carolina. She moved to a different region and opened another school. She returned to New York in 1917, to help children orphaned by the Great War. In 1919, she nearly died when she fell down the stairs. She was saved by the man she later married. They had twelve children, of which ten survived to adulthood. She died in 1960 at the age of 90.

Eli stopped shining shoes when he was fifteen. He entered the workforce, while still going to school. In 1909, he went down to Georgia to see his family, like he did every year when he could afford it. He had married his sixteen-year old wife at the age of seventeen in 1908. She was pregnant when they went South. He helped fix Goldie's school and then angered the KKK. They dragged him into the street and lynched him in front of his wife-whom was ninth months pregnant. She and the child survived, but she never went south again. Eli died on August 30th, 1910 at the age of ninteen. He was cremated and some on his ashes were scattered on the family plantation and the rest went with his wife, Otelia, north. She never married again.

Levi Akecheta remained in New York until his grandfather's death in 1904. He then returned to his reservation in Dakota and was shocked to find that his grandfather had specifically asked for him to be the next chief. He accpeted and was named Chief of his Lakota Sioux tribe in late 1904. He was twenty, and in 1905, at the age of 21, he married the girl his mother had hand-picked for him. Her name was Mela, they had their first child, Geskana, in 1906. In 1907, Levi finally located his father and half-sisters. He corresponded with them until 1910 when they went to Dakota and visited him and his now large family of five. His father and youngest sister remained with him until 1915. They visited each other often. Levi's life remained the same as always. He taught his children their heritage and things he'd learned in New York. When Indians were more intergrated into society, his family had little trouble. He fought to keep his tribe alive and healthy until his death in 1984 at the age of 100.

Ophelia Lexeme located her sister Rosalind (Street) in 1899. They helped each other locate Tybalt and Othello. She then helped Lady Lexeme contact her other grandchildren. In 1902, she met and married a very wealthy, very influential man. She never forgot her friends on the streets and she continued to help the Progressive movement by creating organizations and charites and donating a lot of money. She had three children, a boy and two girls. She was, however, a strong rejector of the women's vote. She continued to love and donate to all people. She took in a couple of streets orphans, she always felt guilt for what ahd happened to Rosalind. She died in 1979 at the age of 97, leaving her vast fortune of 2.5 million to Street, who then turned around and divided it evenly with Ophelia's children, and her children.

Killer disappeared in 1907 after being charged with a murder of a young boy. No one knows his whereabouts until 1917 when he joined the army and was convicted of treason-he shoot one of his own men. He was convicted of shooting Asher Cromwell while they were on a scouting mission, because Killer had found out Asher was gay, on January 19th, 1919. After getting paroled from jail for 'good behavior' in 1923, he joined the anti-prohibition and later, the mafia. He was killed, execution style on February 14, 1929, in the Valentine's Day Massacre. He had been in the "Bugsy" Moran gang and was one of the top ranking members. He was 49. No kids, no wife. He had died alone and violently, like Poet had predicted thiry years before.

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So sad. T.T