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Eh fuck it. - If we're going for Finnegan being a CIA agent, I imagine he got partnered with Five due to being a loose cannon continuous misconduct and disobeying orders from his higher ups, only for the two of them to cause even more hell for their workplace together. Bit of tomfoolery if you will. Bit of mischief. And no one can stop them cause you would have to be stupid. Keeping Lydia and Orpheus as his siblings of course, just without the supernatural elements from this RP. - Or since some fans say Canon Five willingly being in the CIA doesn't make sense for him after the shit he put up with during his job at Commish, I'd adopt Jump's headcanon of him taking a job in CSI instead. He can still end up investigating the Keepers, maybe be under cover in the CIA with the lead that members of their ranks are hiding within the agency and he somehow ends up roping Finn into it after confirming that he's uninvolved. Either way this would pre-establish a relationship of a sort between the two. Actually make the Keepers more of a threat here, by extension. Maybe make a connection to Abigail if we wanna make her a villain too, or some sort of connection to the Commission? - If we DO go down the route of Finn getting his own powers... Technokinesis, maybe slight technopathy? Keep the bit of him being a tactician, eventually acts as support/navigator/mission control-type beat for the family? Apparently there was plenty of Marigold left after the siblings got their powers back so. - Less time spent in the subway (pre established relationship there's no need to waste 6 goddamn years as an excuse for romance), have them both accidentally stumble upon it, yada yada, use it to delve more into how the subway, and by extension the alternate timelines work, use it to explore Five's probably-repressed-at-this-rate trauma about everything he's been forced to deal through, without a break I may add so that it'd make sense for him to be hesitant (Not hiding it for months, just being hesitant) once he finds the notebook showing how to get back/properly navigate. He's tired, he's done so much to protect everyone and yet no one's ever thanked him or told him he could stop. Of course he's gonna be tempted to just grab Finn and run. Just have them utilize the subway somehow, if you're gonna note to the audience that time flows differently outside subway-limbo then have the characters use that to their advantage to buy everyone more time, for example. - Instead of...whatever the fuck canon does, Have Five slowly open up to Finn about everything during... I'll say a week, that they're there. How he's been fighting tooth and nail for his whole life without being spared a moment to rest just so he can protect his family, his fears, his regrets, maybe that he still sometimes misses Dolores.

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Heh, you and me both. Then again I can't entirely fault myself with some things...