The Wilson Family Tree (SYOTOS AU)
Headcanon notes: LONG POST AHEAD**
disclaimer: this has no basis in canon and I have a no historical expertise/cannot verify accuracy of the period specific headcanons and is for entertainment only not to be taken too seriously
*key change, changed Sam birth year from 1978 to 1985 (for my own timeline reasons)
The Wilsons of Delacroix, Louisiana
Darlene Peller was born to a Nigerian-British father, Isaac, and Black American/Louisiana Creole mother, Edmonia, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Darlene was raised speaking English and Louisiana Creole, only know a few Èdè Yorùbá phrases. Grandpa Isaac was a plumber who was born in the Manhattan, New York, and Ma Eddy was a homemaker born in New Orleans, taking the majority responsibility of taking care of the children and grandchildren.
Paul Wilson was born in a Delacroix, Louisiana home to Black Louisianans, speaking English and Creole. The Wilsons were a fishing family and operated a seafood restaurant outside Delacroix.
Paul and Darlene married in a New Orleans Catholic Church after graduating from high school together.
Together they had 3 children, Gideon, Sam and Sarah.
When Paul was drafted into the American War in Vietnam, Darlene took over the and was became a co-owner of Wilson Family Seafood.
After returning home, he passed away years later from chronic lung illness when Sam was 18 years old as he went to join the Air Force. Gideon was 23 and Sarah was 15 and the family lost a pillar of their family and community and putting the business in a precarious position.
When Sam was 24, both Ronald Riley and Darlene passed and he could not bring it to himself to keep visiting home as the business began swimming in debt.
The Wilson Siblings:
Gideon Isaac Solomon/“G” (b. 1980): The first born, the apple of his father’s eye. Former star high school linebacker, popular and well liked in Delacroix. He was traditional, conservative even. Gideon or “G” most likely to be famous in his yearbook. He attended university and earned a law degree from LSU. He was the ideal man in to many in the community. He wanted his little brother to follow in his footsteps, but they couldn't be any more different. Sam was a bookish social butterfly, creative and sensitive. Too sensitive. Much too soft for the cruel world, particularly cruel to men like them. After their father passed and hearing Sam was interested in joining the military to pay for college, Gideon saw this as an opportunity to ‘toughen him up’ and pushed him to do it. After meeting again at their mother’s funeral, they had a falling out and stop communicating with each other.
Sarah Teresa/ “Sar” (b. 1988): The youngest and only daughter of the Wilsons. She felt she had a lot to prove having to successful older brothers. Sarah excelled in school, a dancer and had dreams of going to nursing school. She was very attached to her parents and felt lost when they were gone and tried to cling to her brothers for support. Gideon, a New York lawyer, and Sam, a pararescue overseas, left her alone to keep the business afloat. Nursing school was a dream that could bot come true.
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