A meme for Time Warp Week
And by the way, can anyone else not abbreviate that with TWW, because they associate the acronym with something else?
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Anyways, moving right along! What with Time Warp Week coming up, I thought I'd dust off an old meme in honour of the occasion.
Because as I've said to a couple of people, sometimes you're not quite sure what one of your characters might be doing during a particular time frame - and this is quite a fun way to figure it out :)
(With an additional time period added in by me, just because.)
So, without further ado - Where was your character (or what were they doing) during _______ ?
1) 1920's 2) Victorian Era (1837 - 1901) 3) 1960's 4) Two months before they arrived in NYC.
Here, for your information (and amusement), are what mine were up to:
Litigation 1) 1920's – New York City, attorney of choice to many of the rich industrialists (and a frequent visitor to the Second Circuit Appeal Court).Was also retained for a time by the Ford Motor Company. 2) Victorian Era (1837 - 1901) - corporate attorney based out of New York City. Prominent clients included John D. Rockefeller and Cornelius Vanderbilt. 3) 1960’s – District Court judge for the Southern District of New York (appointed by FDR); encountered his older sibling again during the Watergate case (United States v. Nixon) in 1974. 4) Two months before they arrived in NYC – Assistant US Attorney, District of Columbia (Civil Division), during the 1940s
Legal Services 1) 1920’s – Thomas Blackstone, Appeal Court judge (Second Circuit) 2) Victorian Era (1837 – 1901) – Thomas Blackstone, law lecturer, who managed to work at all eight Ivy League law schools during this period. 3) 1960’s – Oliver Denning, highly placed official/attorney in the Department of Justice (and a close friend and colleague of Robert Kennedy). Would switch fully to Miranda in the 1970s. 4) Two months before they arrived in NYC – Miranda Cabrillo, Assistant US Attorney in the Southern District of Florida.
Uncle Sam 1) 1920's – US Navy officer; still coming down from the ‘power trip’ that was WWI propaganda. 2) Victorian Era (1837 - 1901) – getting used to having an actual physical body, disagreeing with Britannia in his first few months of life. He didn’t really like the Civil War all that much, because he kept getting sick, and disappearing every other day. Travelled through America in an attempt to ‘reconnect’ with his country and his people after the Civil War – all of them – and did various odd jobs during this period. 3) 1960’s – working for the CIA, based out of Washington D.C. 4) Two months before they arrived in NYC – Special Agent In Charge, Counterterrorism Division, Washington D.C Field Office (FBI)
Britannia 1) 1920's – recovering from the after-effects of the Great War. One of the well known ‘socialite set’ in London. 2) Victorian Era (1837 - 1901) – Having a really good time. No really – this was probably the ‘peak’ of her powers, what with the Empire and all. She was married to a prominent Admiral, and was a member of Queen Victoria’s court. Might have actually been one of her Ladies, and held several ‘salons’ for the rich, the powerful and the intellectual. 3) 1960’s – Working at the British Embassy in Washington (as the Ambassador’s secretary), and feeling the effects of the so-called ‘British Invasion’ of music and culture. Was actually working for MI6, and got her best information by flirting with the cultural attaché (aka KGB spy) at the Soviet Embassy - to Sam’s utter disgust. 4) Two months before they arrived in NYC – Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Counterespionage Branch, Washington D.C field office (FBI). On ‘loan’ from MI5.
Forseti 1) 1920's – Chicago; senior prosecutor at the District Attorney’s office, who put many Mafia members behind bars. 2) Victorian Era (1837 - 1901) – On the bench in New Orleans (District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana) 3) 1960’s – clerking for a number of US Supreme Court justices. 4) Two months before they arrived in NYC: In D.C, working for a high profile law firm.
Folk Music 1) 1920’s – played in speakeasies throughout the Prohibition era; did actually run a speakeasy/jazz club in Chicago for a period of time. 2) Victorian Era – travelling around the country as a musician and general ‘odd job’ man. 3) 1960’s – Part of the whole Greenwich Village ‘scene’; enjoying the folk revival (well, that is until his little sister came along…) 4) Two months before they arrived in NYC – on the road, probably in some town in the middle of nowhere.
Folk Rock 3) 1960’s – Just newly created, and enjoying life. Heavily involved in the music scene, following ‘her’ artists on the coffee house circuits, and mainly splitting her time between New York and Los Angeles. 4) Two months before they arrived in NYC – working as a session guitarist in Los Angeles.
Gabriel 1) 1920’s – hansom cab driver (horse drawn) in New York City 2) Victorian Era – literary critic, primarily writing for the New York Times. 3) 1960’s – a jazz trumpeter in a casino band in Las Vegas (Quincy Jefferson was the band’s trombone player) 4) Two months before they arrived in NYC – Still in Vegas, doing the musical gig with Quincy. After Quincy married, they quit their casino jobs and headed to NYC.
Saint Martin of Tours 1) 1920’s – newly arrived in America after the end of the Great War, working for the Archbishop of New York out of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. 2) Victorian Era – in France; chaplain to the French military troops. 3) 1960’s – concierge at the same casino/hotel complex in Las Vegas as Gabriel and Quincy. 4) Two months before they arrived in NYC – in France, keeping an eye on the soldiers fighting in the trenches.
John F. Kennedy 3) 1960’s – President of the United States; assassinated, returned to life on the streets of Dallas the day before his state funeral. Worked for a newspaper in Boston (where he wrote about the Beatles visit to America in '64, and scored an interview with the band) before joining the Washington Post staff in 1968. 4) Two months before they arrived in NYC – political correspondent for the Washington Post, before meeting New York businessman Richard Hoynes in the 1990s, and agreeing to manage and run his Senate campaign.
Frank James 1) 1920’s – Laid off during the Depression; managed to get a job in (of all places) a bank, which ironically enough was robbed by John Dillinger and his gang. 2) Victorian Era – The period when he was actually alive. 3) 1960’s – Owner of a thoroughbred stud farm, ‘Howard’s End’ (which he started in the 1930s, and still owns today). 4) Two months before they arrived in NYC - Security consultant for Pinkerton’s.
Sir Gareth & Sir Gawain 1) 1920’s - Chicago, working under Eliot Ness as one of his so-called ‘Untouchables’. 2) Victorian Era – in the military (they found each other again during Wellington’s Peninsular Campaign); once discharged, they went to work for London’s fledgling police service, aka as ‘peelers’. Once in America, one of their first law enforcement jobs was as Texas Rangers. 3) 1960’s – writing hit songs and forming a successful British rock n’roll group US Secret Service agents, primarily attached to President Kennedy’s detail. 4) Two months before they arrived in NYC – DEA agents; working in the Miami Division.
Valefar 1) 1920’s - Chicago; being the attorney of choice for various bootleggers and mobsters, and then leaving anonymous tips to Ness and his Untouchables. 2) Victorian Era – London; posed as a prostitute and/or high-class ‘girl’ of several criminal types, who then passed on information to the ‘peelers’. 3) 1960’s – Las Vegas, and the attorney of choice for mobsters, casino owners and conmen (and women) alike. Sometimes at the same time. Conflict of interest, you say? What’s this conflict of interest you talk about? 4) Two months before they arrived in NYC – Vegas, baby! Moved to New York City in the 1980s, just in time to catch the full sampling of the ‘Greed is Good’ era - and corporate highflyers who can be persuaded to commit acts of crime and fraud, all in the name of getting more money.
Okeanos 1) 1920’s – Captain of the paddle steamer Delta Queen, cruising the Mississippi River (which played host to President Hoover) 2) Victorian Era – fisherman, based primarily in and around the New England coast. Did do some time as sailing master on the USS Constitution. 3) 1960’s – US Navy officer; worked on several vessels (including Captain of the newly commissioned aircraft carrier, the USS John F. Kennedy), and did a stint at the Pentagon. Captained the USS Enterprise in the 1940s. 4) Two months before they arrived in NYC – Director of Naval Intelligence. Retired (sort of), and was offered a position teaching at the US Merchant Marine Academy on Long Island.
Atlas 1) 1920’s – officer with the newly created US Army Air Corps, predecessor to the Air Force. 2) Victorian Era – ‘gentleman adventurer’ and cartographer 3) 1960’s – US Air Force, primarily working as a test fighter pilot. 4) Two months before they arrived in NYC – Technically not in NYC; is based out of Colorado Springs as head of NORAD.
Asclepius 1) 1920’s – working for the International Committee of the Red Cross 2) Victorian Era – surgeon in London; once in America, travelled to many of the frontier towns. 3) 1960’s – surgeon in the Emergency Department at Roosevelt Hospital, New York City. 4) Two months before they arrived in NYC – working in a VA hospital, helping those newly returned from the Vietnam War.
Charon 1) 1920’s – New York City; working as an attorney and junior associate to Lennon. 2) Victorian Era – Owned a barge and made his way up and down the canal systems in Britain. Hardly ever touched land during that time. 3) 1960’s – bartender at a dockside bar in Boston. One of his fellow employees was an ex-sailor who he became close friends with, and who would eventually own the bar that he left a part share to Charon in his will. 4) Two months before they arrived in NYC – Boston. Ran into Lennon again in the late ‘60s, who persuaded him to work on his legal career again. He didn’t take that offer up until the 1970s.
Harrison 1) 1920’s – stablehand/strapper for several racehorse trainers; became groom to a young colt known as Man O’War, who he followed when the colt was sold to Samuel D. Riddle. 2) Victorian Era – working on the Liverpool docks, practising his skills in picking pockets. 3) 1960’s – part of the Greenwich Village ‘folk scene’ 4) Two months before they arrived in NYC – somewhere on the road with Tom.