methodwriter85

It's pinned in the fan club discussion board. I don't think I updated the character cheat sheet that you wrote up, didn't you?

You're welcome. Pretty sure you never specified Wade's nephew being born, right? I think it was just somewhere around spring/summer 2003 if Mary Ellen was announcing her pregnancy and shotgun wedding at Thanksgiving 2002. I wonder if they already had the spare yet? I feel like Wade would have brought it up if Mary Ellen had a second kid, though. Hell, I could see Wade gleefully announcing that to Jeremy just to annoy him. Lol

Speaking of, I did edits to the timeline. I included Frederick Granger's unspecified 2003 birth, Jackson's December 2005 death, and now Jackson Fletcher's birth.

The update! CAP TIMELINE 1903: Tonto is born. April 1925: Jim Crampton is born. May 27, 1925: Steven Schluter is born. 1936: Billy Schluter is born. June 20, 1936: J.P. Crampton is born, the result of an affair between Marie Crampton and Bill Hendrickson. December 17,1944: Steven Schluter dies in World War II. July 14, 1945: Stefan Schluter, the son of Steven Schluter, is born. November 12, 1945: Jeff Hayes is born. 1962-1963 School Year: J.P. Crampton begins teaching at Northwestern University. October 4, 1962: Brad Schluter is born. He is the adoptive son of Billy Schluter, and the biological son of Kevin Carmicheal. December 1962: Andre, JP's partner, is killed in action in Vietnam. March 6, 1963: Ace is born to Isidore, having been fathered by J.P.'s lover Andre. March 1963: Robbie Hayes is born, the youngest of three children. He is the son of Frank and Brenda Hayes. April 10, 1963: Billy Schulter dies at sea on USS Thresher October 27, 1964: Clare and Billy Crampton are born. Clare is JP's biological daughter, and Billy is Jeff Hayes's biological son. 1968: J.P. Crampton begins teaching at Stanford. July 13, 1968: Jeff Hayes dies of an heroin overdose. March 8, 1969: Marcel is born. He is the biological son of Jeff Hayes, but is raised in France. April 24, 1980: Matt Carrswold is born. He is the biological son of Robbie Hayes, but is adopted by the Carrswolds and grows up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. May 15, 1980: Wade Danfield is born. He becomes Matt Carrswold's boyfriend after meeting him on the hockey team at Stanford during the 1998-1999 school year. October 19, 1980: Billy dies in a car accident on the night of a party at Escorial. January 19, 1982: Darius Schluter is born. He is the son of Bitty Schluter and a random Iranian man, but is raised by Brad, Robbie, and Jeanine. He has one biological half-brother, JJ, and one adopted brother, Will Schluter. July 25, 1982: Gathan Hayes is born. He was raised in Claremont, Ohio by his uncle and aunt, Wally and Clara Hayes. February 1983: Kristin Hendrickson is born. August 26, 1983: Ella Hayes, daughter of Richard Crampton, is born. May 30, 1985: Zach Hayes is born. 1985: J.P.'s lover Roger, and one-time lover Sam, both die of AIDS that year. December 7, 1985: Jeremy Schluter, aka J.J., is born. He is the biological son of Jim Crampton and Bitty Schluter, and has been raised in Malibu, CA with Brad, Robbie, and Jeanine. February 19, 1986: Marie Crampton, aka Maman, dies of natural causes. April 18, 1986: Marie Hobart, daughter of Jack and Clare Hobart, is born. April 20, 1986: Travis Buck is born. September 14, 1986: Will Schluter, son of Brad and Jeanine, is born. July 21, 1987: John Hobart, son of Jack and Clare Hobart, is born. Between 1991 to 1995: Tonto Schluter dies an old woman, warm in her bed surrounded by grandchildren and great-grandchildren. A death we should all hope to have. March 28, 1995: Greg, Stefan's long-time companion, dies of a heart attack. September 4, 1995: Ace's daughter, Courtney, is born. August 7, 1998: Robbie Hayes reunites with his long-lost son, Matt Carrswold. September 13, 2000: Madison Graves is born. September 14, 2000: Riley van den Boss Danfield is born. March 24, 2003: Bobby Carrswold is born. Sometime in 2003: Frederick Granger, son of Alex and Mary Ellen Granger, is born. December 2005: Jackson Hobart dies. June 17, 2006: Jackson Hobart Fletcher is born.

Double check and he's right. The order on the page is Jackson Fletcher Hobart.

Ah, okay. Nice touch. I like that he's not carrying the name. Kind of like Matt Carrswold not being bound by Hayes baggage because he didn't get the name.

Poor Jackson Fletcher. His 8th grade graduation will be on Zoom. Lol (My niece was also born in 2006.) Anyway, looks like I need to add to the CAP timeline.

Chapter 49 -When Travis powers through the worse of his withdrawal symptoms. "Knocking on Heaven's Door" by Bob Dylan -When Will gets into bed with Travis- this time to just comfort him after the worst of his withdrawal. "Wild Horses" by the Rolling Stones

It's wild to think that used to be mockable. Meanwhile I had my first frappe when I was 11 years old in 1997.

Hmm. That explains why you don't see the Millennial characters inhaling ice coffee beverages like they normally would be.

If they are, I think Mark has done a good job of enmeshing Travis into the family so that he doesn't just slink off.

My head cannon for Kendo is that he's from New York/New Jersey from some shady Irish and/or Italian crime family who kicked him out for being gay. He started tricking to survive, and eventually landed into the entertainment field through "connections" (the casting couch) he made through MTV in New York City. He started hosting MTV game shows, maybe made some reality show appearances, and that eventually got him a gig on various teen dramas.

I remember reading about him a couple of years ago. He legitimately had a really gorgeous face before the drugs started wrecking his looks, which I think was ultimately unfortunate for him. I think the boy likely got devoured in the modeling industry. You would think being from a rich family would better help the nepos avoid the predators but I guess not. As a random more superficial note, Kaia Gerber is actually my fancast for young adult Maddy Graves. I pictured her having Jeanine's Italian beauty but Cody's tall height. Poor Kaia. I was watching the Shards recently, too. To bring it back to the story, I think Mark has generally set a pretty clear line that Brad and his line aren't genetically susceptible to drug addiction. (I don't think his biological father was, either?) It's why Will can live the hedonism he lives but manages to avoid a lot of the pitfalls that can come with it. Drug addiction/mental health issues seem more with the Hayes family line, although so far Matt Carrswold has avoided that.

In that alternate universe timeline, Private Tim and Matthew are hipsters in some gentrifying Los Angeles neighborhood who met at a Gore rally and their son Tommy looks like Michael Cimino from Love, Victor.

Eh, the timeline has actually picked up somewhat. It kind of has to, because of how long it takes for a t.v. show to get put together and then aired. I also don't think Mark wanted to dwell too much on Travis's drug use ramping up. I do think at this point we've gotten enough runway that we could skip ahead a few years and Mark would still have plenty of storyline left.

At this point I'm speculating on where Mark's going to send Riley Danfield to college at. I'm hoping it's Duke or UVA. We've never really done a Southern college atmosphere. Of course I realize it's going to be a looooonnnngggg time before we get there, but I figure Mark will probably add in some new young people to serve as bridge characters between the established Millennial characters and the nascent Zoomers (largely Riley, Maddy, Bobby, and Freddie) while we wait for the Zoomers to get old enough.

Gee guys, what will happen if Travis doesn't consent to Will's plans for rehab? I sure do hope that Will manages to respect that and doesn't force Travis into anything he doesn't want to do. Well, we know that this wasn't Ken's first time to the rodeo and we also know that he really doesn't seem to have anyone protecting him. I imagine there's a lot of enemies. He also doesn't seem to have Cathy Ames's shrewd ability to collect blackmail.

Honestly, Austen is probably better off getting a clean break from Will.

You've seriously never heard of 60's icon Lesley Gore? "You Don't Own Me" is like a Baby Boomer anthem.

I was actually saving "My Humps" for Kendo's big reveal. It's just too perfect. Lol

Chapter 44 -When Travis wakes up and realizes that Will knows and he's very, very mad. "Cocaine" by Eric Clapton -When Travis is given some pills and goes back to sleep into sleepyland where everything is just one big fluffy cloud of fluffballs. "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Raindrops" by Lesley Gore -When Kendo thinks to himself what a great job he did at getting Travis hooked to drugs, and what a catch he is. "My Humps" by the Black Eyed Peas I've always thought of this song and video as doing a great job of representing pop culture music during the Dubya era. I guess we could call this Pre-Recession? -When Kendo drags Travis around Inglewood to keep him from withdrawal, and pawns Travis's beloved watch from Will. "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns n Roses

There's this extremely weird disappearance case from "your era", so to speak, of a UCLA freshman boy who walked out of his dorm at 4:00 a.m. in the morning in December of 1999 and was never seen again. His name was Michael Negrete. The main theory in the case is that he went on an acid trip, voluntarily left his dorm, and then got wandered around Los Angeles incapacitated for a bit until someone abducted him. Honestly, I got the impression that he was likely meeting up with some guy for a hook-up and wanted to do it while his roommate was asleep and he met with the wrong dude. Witnesses who lived in Dykstra Hall (where it happened) said they saw a 35-year old guy randomly walking around the dorm at the about the same time Michael disappeared. I mean, this would have been the time where you were making up hookup plans on like bulletin message boards. But yeah, I mean, if a A-honor roll student from a nice family could get swallowed up like that, it's hard to imagine what happens to the boys who aren't from the types of families that can send their kids to UCLA.

It occurred to me that this year's current college freshman class was actually born when Mark started writing CAP in 2008. Damn. This felt like the best thread to point this out in because I really had no idea that CAP would have the longevity of an actual soap opera. Lol Damn, 18 years.

Chapter 43 -When Jackson comforts Maya over her rape. "Run" by Snow Patrol -When Travis cracks. "Hurt" by Johnny Cash -When Will finds Kendo and Travis, gets gutted, but starts formulating a plan. "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers -When Will meets up with Jeff and decides to engage in some party n play in order to understand what he's up against. "Running Up That Hill" by Placebo

Eh, I get it. Dude aged exceptionally well. Reese Junior is getting a push in the gay media lately if you're wondering why I'm referencing him. Bizarrely they're trying to push the narrative that he looks like his dad when dude clearly has his Mommy's face.