This is in reference to a comment by @ryanthedemiguy on my fic forever at a price.
So, the timeline for FMA is kinda fucked. Especially coming from a 2003 background long before I watched Brotherhood.
In FMA03, there are several years between Hohenheim leaving and Trisha's death where we see Ed'n'Al grow bigger and their little family thrive without him. Then Trisha dies and about a million things are supposed to happen in the single year that follows.
The 03 anime would have us believe that in the single year after Trisha's death, the boys 1) live alone for a while, 2) meet Izumi, become her apprentices, and complete their apprenticeship, 3) research and design a fuck-off complicated array for human transmutation, 4) Ed has automail surgery and recovery, 5) they live with the Tuckers for at least a few months before Ed turns 12/becomes a state alchemist.
Ain't no way. There's just not enough TIME for all that!
Brotherhood has a more reasonable timeline wherein Trisha dies when Ed is five and points 1 and 2 happen before he turns eleven, 3 and 4 happens when he is eleven, and 5 doesn't happen at all because the Nina Tucker arc happens differently in that anime. But even then, there's too much going on when Ed is eleven for all that to fit. Especially considering he's supposed to recover from automail for at least a year.
So! In forever at a price, I've reworked the timeline a bit. For Ed, personally:
5 y/o - Hohenheim leaves
6 y/o - Trisha dies, Ed becomes defacto head of household
6-9 y/o - Drops out of school to work and raise Al
9 y/o - 14 months as Izumi's apprentice
10 y/o - Spends 4 months secretly researching/designing his human transmutation array, desperately trying to finish it before they are evicted
10 y/o - Fucks up with the human transmutation array
10-11 y/o - Automail surgery + recovery for almost exactly 1 year
11 y/o - Goes to live with the Tuckers for a few months before the exams
12 y/o - Turns 12 a month before the exams (I use 03's date of Feb 3 as Ed's birthday)
(My actual timeline is more detailed in that I have actual dates set for all of that so its more X-years and Y-months when Z happens but this will do for now.)
Given the shit I put Ed through, I needed him to have several years as a child-adult trying to keep his and Al's heads above water. Trisha dies half way through the Ishval war so they have a year and a half without her where Resembool is targeted by the Ishvali during the war and everyone is half-starved because of war shortages. But that never gets better for Ed even after the war because my Trisha didn't have a nest egg tucked away for them to live off of. He's having to try to make money as a little kid the old fashioned way.
I put their apprenticeship where I did because I wanted living with butchers to have reversed some of the damage Ed suffered due to food insecurity before he has to have automail surgery. I doubt he'd survive the surgery if he were still half-starved.
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Thinking about this and this again (I think Iâm going to start referring to it as my Lost Archipelago AU, since the fic Iâm currently planning out is going to be titled The Lost Archipelago, I think) and I have decided to make a timeline for it loosely based on when the historical viking age is said to have happened because why not lol
Walk with me. While often when you look it up you get that the viking age happened from around 800â1050 CE, according to what I found on Wikipedia it can arguably be said to have started around 750 CE.
In my Lost Archipelago AU I have decided to use 750 as my sort of base year for figuring out the rest of my general timeline for the fic. So Iâm saying around 750 CE is when the Barbaric Archipelago became more widely known to people and places outside the archipelago, and that vikings had been living there before 750.
I chose a random year and said the Barbaric Archipelago and all the tribes and villages within it were established around the early 5th century (so like. 400â450 CE time), and Berk specifically was established in 419 CE.
And because we see in RttE (Midnight Scrum episode specifically if I recall correctly) that Berk celebrates the 400 year anniversary of vikings being there, and in RttE Hiccup is 18/19 (Iâve decided to assume 18 for timeline math reasons), then that means in accordance with the rest of the timeline for my Lost Archipelago AU that Iâve decided on, Berkâs 400th anniversary happens in 819 CE.
Working back from there, if Hiccup is 18 in 819, then that would mean in this AU he was born in 801 CE. And keeping with Atlantis: The Lost Empire canon, my Lost Archipelago AU will happen in 1914 (at least for when Hiccup and Milo meet; weâll get flashbacks to earlier times of course), where Milo will be 32 and born in 1882 (1,081 year age gap, if I did my math correctly. Not quite as much as the gap between Kida and Milo lol).
Ergo, Hiccup will be 1,113 years old in 1914 if I did that math correctly
And that is the timeline I have decided upon for my Lost Archipelago AU!
Most Married Divorced couple timeline and other fun stuff.
This post will be updated as it needs to be updated.
I recently received some feedback that the third chapter of The Most Married Divorced couple caused some minor confusion, and so! a timeline to help make it clear what happens when is now being created! I also included fun facts about the series and my writing quirks because I am desperate for people to talk to meeee.
I have the full version, but this post will reflect the currently released works, or works that I can fit in spoiler free, such as the flashbacks, which are of course all prior to the main fic and can be read as stand alone if you so choose to just ignore their doomed future haha.
Purple titles are linked - let me know if I forget to link any of them!
Five times Robin rescued you and one time he didn't. (no link as not yet out)
This was a confusing one to fit in, as I would say that technically complicated exists somewhere in the middle of the many rescues, but I settled on first as it includes you meeting Jason.
the five as of this stage of development are:
the first time
the creation of your desert arrangement
the first time he drops you off at home
Complicated would occur loosely here
followed by the remaining rescues which I am keeping close to my chest.
Complicated
This could be read as a stand alone, but it is intended as the first kiss of this particular reader and Jason. It takes place shortly before Jason's death, maybe a year or two prior. While I never set an age in stone for the reader, I would imagine them to be mid to early teens.
We then experience a time-skip of several years.
Chapter one of The most married divorced couple
Till death do us part.
This fic occurs with no set age in mind for the reader or Jason, but you are settled into a apartment, and your daughter Mary is three years old, so I had imagined her as mid to late twenties or so, but you do not have to of course!
Chapter two of The most married divorced couple
Four years later
We skip forward four years into your divorce. Those of you with your smartie pants on will know this puts Mary as around seven years of age. This, for the majority of the time, is considered the 'main' time period, with anything before being a flashback. While I tried to make this clear, I will say it more plainly here because I am talking as me and it is easier to communicate this more bluntly out of the story:
Jason had zero contact post divorce with the reader or Mary until the events of chapter three; two years of utter silence. After the events of chapter three, while officially no changes in the custody arrangement were made, during the two years between three and two, Jason has come over as we see him do in 'four years later', or been present at places he could plausibly ran into you.
Chapter three of The Most married divorced couple
Jason comes home.
Despite what I just said about the main timeline, chapter three is an immediate flashback to the first time Jason returned after two years of total silence. Simply put this is two years AFTER till death do us part and two years BEFORE four years later. Or, for those of us keeping track by Mary's age, when she is five.
Chapter four of The Most married divorced couple
Churros, Coffee, hard Conversations, and Custody. (no link at this time because it isn't out yet)
a sneak peak of the unreleased chapter? in this economy? more likely then you think.
Jason wakes up on your couch, the morning after the events of Four Years Later, and after spending the morning as close as your heart can take to as a proper family would, with Mary, (once again aged seven for those keeping up that way) off to school, a very important, very sad, rather heated discussion must be had.
FUN FACTS
I, when writing x readers, try to avoid having the reader described as walking or running anywhere as I am a wheelchair user irl, and it often breaks immersion for me. No hate to writers who don't, its not a failing on your part, but I hope my fellow wheelchair girlies feel seen! I don't have her explicitly in a wheelchair, because I feel that it wouldn't represent most of my readers, but I have made a conscious effort that it could be read that way.
Jason's hoodie in chapter two, while never canonically described and therefore whatever you imagine it to be, in my own heart, is the 'I am kenough' hoodie. I had it as that in a draft, but I felt it changed the vibe too much to make it canon.
works I am considering writing for this series in addition to the main timeline:
meeting the resurrected Jason as Red Hood
The proposal
A series of dabbles or at least short, short, segments on what it's like to be pregnant in a family of the worlds greatest detectives
a short story about how Damian was impacted by the divorce
A far into the future mainly crack fic with the many bat uncles and aunts, Jason, and Grandpa Bruce all trying to convince a teen Mary to come join THEIR super team / to be their sidekick.
Let me know in the replies if any of these particularly excite you! I make no promises of writing them but they are rattling around in my mind.
I thought of literally everything then forgot I did this and surprised myself with what Iâd done đ
Pre-ficÂ
1983 â Charles estranged Rodger from the familyÂ
1983-1988 â Thomas Baskerville (Henryâs father) meets Abigail Morris-Hollick after seeing Cats The Musical (she was stage manager & he was a big theatre-lover). In '85, he goes to Canada with her & they settle in Toronto (her home city). In July of â88, Henry is bornÂ
1993 â Abigail Baskerville (nee Morris-Hollick) dies in a car crash. This starts Henry's strong belief in the supernatural, reinforced by the story of the hound from his father. He is 5Â
1999 â reports appear that Rodger Baskerville died in South Africa, cause of death unknownÂ
2001 â Josie & Ivy meet at a protest for gay marriage rights. They're in their late teens at this time, Josie having skipped uni & Ivy came up from Devon. Ivy goes to do something VERY stupid and reckless, but Josie pulls her backÂ
2004 â Christopher Selden breaks into a London finance office.Â
Somewhere in November 2006 â 3 students die at Yorkshire boarding school. Counsellor Mr. Vandeleur resigns shortly afterwards.Â
Note: Jack Stapleton was employed by a boarding school in the east of Yorkshire, where he was a counsellor in 2000 (aged 24 but claimed he was 35 and faked credentials) under the name Rodger Vandeleur. There, he convinced 3 students with poor mental health to take the same poison in 2006. The deaths of those students shook the school, and although he himself was never suspected, he resigned on the terms of being also shaken by the ordeal. Nobody questioned anything on his end bc to them he seemed legitÂ
Late 2006/early 2007 â the Stapletons move to GrimpenÂ
April 2007 â Josie resigns from Charing Cross Hospital, going from her current position as neurologist to become a travelling GP in the Grimpen/Dartmoor areaÂ
Somewhere in 2007â Moriarty takes an interest in Stapletonâs affair just for shits & giggles. The legend of the hound & recreating/bring it to life tickled him. He supplies Jack with the dog & tells him to keep him posted bc he as nothing better to occupy himself with (heâs a bored 29yo Consulting Criminal, what else is he going to do with his time?)Â
2008 â a then 19-year-old Henry starts up PhantomWorks with his friend Blake DoustÂ
October 12, 2009 â Jeff Hope (cabbie) starts poisonings his passenger victim (poison supplied by Moriarty). More follow, all in similar circumstances as poisonings at Yorkshire school 3 years ago. Police donât pick up on the connection and neither does Sherlock. Yet.Â
January 29, 2010 â Sherlock & John meet. Events of Study in Pink followÂ
2010 â Thomas Baskerville dies while battling cancerÂ
2011 - Laura Lyons receives help from Sir Charles, this continuing up until his deathÂ
2012 (still pre-fic):
April â Christopher Selden is released from jail, going to Grimpen to restart his lifeÂ
Friday, August 3 - Sir Charles kicks the bucketÂ
Monday, August 20 â an inquest is heldÂ
Thursday, August 23 â a conclusion is drawn, Sir Charlesâ death put to cardiac arrest from diagnosed cardiovascular diseaseÂ
Early September â Joel Barrymore contacts Henry Baskerville. Discussions begin surrounding the inheritance of the Baskerville estateÂ
Chapters 1-3Â
Tuesday, September 25 â Henry flies over to London from Toronto. Josie goes to 221b & presents Sherlie with caseÂ
Wednesday, September 26 - Henry Baskerville is brought in by Josie, his position made clear. Plans are made to go to Devon on SaturdayÂ
Chapter 4 & 5Â
Saturday, September 29 - Sherlock, John, Josie and Henry go to Devon, taking train from Paddington Station. Sherlock disappears during the train journey bc heâs got ideas of his ownÂ
Sunday, September 30 - Frankland invites himself over & Stapleton introduces himself to JohnÂ
Chapter 6Â
Thursday, October 4 â Bianca starts forging a relationship with Henry & they quickly become close. Joel Barrymore finds the emails from Laura Lyons. Meanwhile in Toronto: shit goes wrong at PhantomWorksÂ
Sunday, October 7 - Later that night, Eliza crosses the moor & is seen by John. Henry & John hear the houndÂ
Friday, October 12 â John goes to Josie for help bc Henryâs spirallingÂ
Chapters 7-9Â
Wednesday, October 17â Sherlock reappears (was gone for 18 days). Henry & his mates go ghost huntingÂ
Thursday, October 18 - Selden is seen on the moor but dies before Sherlock & John get to him. Eliza comes clean about who Selden is & Joel tells them about the email from L.L. Connection between Stapleton & the Baskervilles is revealedÂ
Friday, October 19 â Jawn & Sherlie are off to Coombe-Tracey to see Laura LyonsÂ
Chapter 10Â
Friday, October 19 â the hound is set after Sir HenryÂ
Saturday, October 20 â aftermath. Going out onto the quarryÂ
Sunday, October 21 â the return to baker street
Major differences between Deicide universe and One Piece canon that happen prior to Deicide: Onigashima Aftermath
Mihawk is Crocodile's first mate in their early days of piracy. Crocodile is Whitebeard's son. Galdino is a cabin boy and later crewmate on their ship.
Crocodile, Mihawk, Buggy, Doflamingo, Vergo, and Daz have an accidental misadventure together on a lost island in the aftermath of Roger's execution.
Donquixote Rosinante is the victim of a precursor to the experiments performed on Kuma.
Caesar Clown is involved in the experiments on the Vinsmoke Siblings, and is the one who assists Sora with her attempt to thwart part of them.
Marianne/Miss Goldenweek's abilities are due to a devil fruit.
Vivi is 20 during the events of Alabasta rather than 16.
Enel is killed during the Skypeia arc.
Carrot is the crew member who the Straw Hats acquire at Thriller Bark, rather than Brook, and she remains with them throughout.
Gecko Moria is ejected from the Warlords due to his failure against Straw Hat Luffy. He slinks off from his miserable defeat to get drunk on a resort island, having lost all his drive. He remains there for two years.
After hearing news of Marineford, Vivi becomes determined to rejoin the Straw Hat crew and runs away from her kingdom. She runs straight into Crocodile, adventures with him and the remnants of Baroque Works during the timeskip, and gets a devil fruit for herself.Â
Bon Clay, with the encouragement of his fellow prisoners, sneaks out of Impel Down with the intention to join up with the Straw Hats. He ends up with Crocodile and the former Baroque Works members.
Koala and Sabo discover that Ace's soul is sharing Sabo's body. They reconnect with Ace's former first mate Deuce.
Luffy spends more personal alone time with Hancock during the timeskip, training on the outskirts of Amazon Lily rather than another island.
Vergo survives the events of Punk Hazard, his body found in pieces by Doflamingo and reassembled. He is resting/healing outside the city during the events of Dressrosa, but rushes in at the end when he discovers there's trouble. He's in time to save the Donquixote family from captivity by marines, but is unable to get to Doflamingo who is being kept separately.
Rebecca, (who is 18, not 16)Â wanting to determine her own path, and not wanting to be forced into a peaceful life after her experience as a gladiator, flees Dressrosa with the Straw Hat crew.Â
The Straw Hats are not separated in Dressrosa, and travel to Zou together.Â
Crocodile's ship catches up to the Straw Hats as they're leaving Dressrosa. He has a short reunion with Robin, and delivers Vivi to the Straw Hat crew as promised. He then goes after the marine ship carrying Doflamingo, and successfully frees him from custody.
Viola has a change of heart and rejoins the Donquixote pirates as Violet.
Events of One Piece Stampede and Film Gold happen.
Crocodile forms Cross Guild with Mihawk, Buggy, Doflamingo and Hancock.
The Straw Hats encounter Lim and Adioâ something like the events of "One Piece Odyssey" happen.
When Sanji is forced to leave the Straw Hats for his wedding Rebecca goes along to watch after him. Luffy and the rest of the Straw Hats go after him immediately, despite Sanji's insistence not to.
After the events of Whole Cake Island, Caesar Clown joins the Straw Hat crew on a permanent basis. Luffy insists that his position on the crew is "Chopper's assistant".Â
During the events of Whole Cake Island, Rebecca gets close to the Vinsmoke siblings, and in the aftermath of the event they adopt/kidnap her. The siblings abandon their father to Big Mom's wrath and sail away, after which they convince Rebecca to undergo enhancements similar to their own.
In the aftermath of Whole Cake Island, Pudding flees the Charlotte family trying to find her own way in life. Katakuri discovers her leaving, and follows her as a sort of bodyguard. They eventually end up running into the Vinsmoke Siblings and Rebecca.
Koala, Deuce, and Isuka accompany Sabo (and Ace) on their raid on Mary Geoise during the Revelry.Â
Otama is 18 years old, rather than 8.
On Wano, Luffy finds out about Kaido and King's backstory and is unsettlingly reminded of himself and Zoro. These feelings lead him to resist his urge to kill Kaido during their battle, and to discover that "Gear 5" has some kind of mind of its own.
Big Mom also survives the battle on Wano, but winds up in a coma. She is brought back to Tottoland by her children.
Deicide: Onigashima Aftermath starts, and Deicide and One Piece canon completely part ways so much as to become unrecognizable.
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A Somewhat Approximate Timeline for âThe One to Make It Stayâ
Please note I had to take extreme liberties trying to cram two seasons worth of episodes into the 2015-2016 French school year to even begin figuring out how the passage of time goes for this. Thankfully, it should be easier in the future to place, and I will add on more as need be.
EDIT: Now with more precise dates. Spoilers abound for everything up to the most recent chapters of âRadioâ and âPaper Skyâ.
EDIT 2 (11/18/19): Updated to include Alyaâs POV and the first chapter of âAll the Laughsâ.
EDIT 3 (12/19/19): Will now have spoilers through âAll the Laughsâ and Adrienâs second Interlude.
EDIT 4 (2/16/20): Now contains spoilers for the first three chapters of âBottleâ as well as the second Alya interlude and Lukaâs interlude.
EDIT 5 (4/4/20) Spoilers for the ending of Kagamiâs mini arc (chapters 4 and 5 of âBottle) along with the corresponding interludes.
EDIT 6 (5/16/20) Spoilers for everything up to the end of âBottleâ.
EDIT 7 (12/10/20): Spoilers for the first 15 chapters of âHorror Headâ plus a small spoiler for Ch. 16. There is now a note to keep track of certain breaks during the 2016-2017 school year. Duusuâs interlude has been placed under âunsortedâ since itâs backstory, although should be read during the beginning of âHorror Headâ. Also, fixed an error (Marinette and Luka confront Felix, not Luka lol).
May 30, 2016: ...I Can Get Out of This
May 31, 2016: ...I Can Get Out of Here
June 14, 2016: Kitty Section submits their audition tape to Bob Roth.
June 19, 2016: Luka is akumatized into Silencer
June 25, 2016: Thomas Astruc is akumatized into Animaestro
June 30, 2016: Alya and Nino are akumatized into Oblivio. Ladybug confronts Alya and Chat Noir.
July 1, 2016: Marinette and Luka babysit Manon for Nadja. Marinette and Alya have a fight, which Adrien overhears.
July 2, 2016: Marinette and Luka go on a date to the park. Marinette has another confrontation with Alya. After giving a letter to Marianne, Marinette relaxes at the pool. Meanwhile, Alya tries to set up Lila and Adrien and gets grounded.
July 5, 2016: School lets out. Juleka gets akumatized into Reflekdoll. August gets akumatized into Gigantitan. Luka debuts as Viperion.
July 6, 2016: Luka visits the bakery. Vivica is akumatized into Desperada.
July 8, 2016: Marinette and Luka go on a date and encounter Lila.
July 9, 2016: Alya attempts to sneak out and gets caught.
July 16, 2016: Ladybug tells Nino heâs benched for the rest of summer. Nino confronts Alya.
July 28, 2016: Kitty Section and co leave for and arrive at Prado Beach for Summer Sesh.
July 29, 2016: Mirielle is akumatized into Stage Fright. Rose and Juleka debut as Princess Piggy and Tigresse RayÊ. Kitty Section performs for everyone.
July 30, 2016: Ivanâs birthday. The angry vacation-goer is akumatized into Beach Bum. Ivan and Mylene debut as Taureau Furieux and Mouseketeer.Â
August 1, 2016: Marinette goes to talk to Fu about what sheâs learned at Summer Sesh. Ladybug talks to Alya.
August 2, 2016: Kitty Section meeting. Jagged tells Ruby that he wants her to stay on. Meanwhile, Marinette manages to prevent Auroreâs akumatization into Stormy Weather, and then kicks Chloe off the team. Chloe is akumatized into Miracle Queen and steals the Cat miraculous from Chat Noir, revealing his identity to Ladybug, Viperion, Chloe, Hawkmoth and Mayura. Juleka feels guilty over not doing enough to stop Hawkmoth.
August 4, 2016: Gabriel has Nathalie use the Cat miraculous and become Femme Fatale and provoke Adrien into being akumatized. After going through their ritual to gain their Guardian powers, Team Miraculous returns to Paris to stop Space Patrol. Adrien sulks in his room after the fact.
August 5, 2016: Alya works on fixing the Ladyblog and runs into Marianne.
August 31, 2016: Luka meditates. Marinette talks to Alya and watches the Kitty Section livestream.
September 1, 2016: First day of school. Kagami is akumatized into Friend Zone. Felix finishes writing his first set of observations since arriving in Paris. Meanwhile, Kagami and Alya make peace with one another and agree to go out to lunch the next day.
September 2, 2016: Marinette, Alya and Kagami all go out to eat lunch together. However, Lila sets them up to look bad in front of Tomoe, causing her akumatization into Ikari Gozen. Three new heroes debut. Nathalie and Gabriel send Duusu to Darcey Reilâs boutique to recruit a new ally. A new peafowl holder creates a sentimonster - Rue-be. Luka agrees to help Marinette with figuring out Felix.
September 5, 2016: Student elections are coming up, but another sentimonster gets everyoneâs attention. After a successful team-up, Marinette and Luka have a confrontation with Felix, which ends with them unsure of him. Marinette and Luka go and talk with Fu about Felix. Fu encourages Luka to open up to Marinette about how heâs feeling. He does.  Ladybug talks to Alya about the article sheâs about to publish.Â
September 6, 2016: After losing student council elections, Chloe attempts to befriend Lila. Felix invites everyone to Adrienâs birthday party. Jagged briefs everyone on their gig. Rubyâs âdateâ with Vivica.
September 15, 2016: Adrienâs birthday party. Colette warns Marinette about an akuma. Felix forces Nino and Kagami into confrontation with Adrien.Â
October 22, 2016: Sabine takes Marinette to her interview at the Gauguin Institute.  After her audition, Rose writes another letter to Prince Ali.Â
October 30, 2016: Sabrinaâs interlude.
Notes: The 2015-2016 school year ends on July 5, 2016, the start of summer break. The first day of the 2016-2017 school year is September 1, 2016. Fall break is from October 19 - November 3. Christmas holiday is from December 17- January 3, 2017. February 4, 2017- February 20 is another break. Easter holiday is from April 1 - April 18. The 2016-2017 school year ends July 8, 2017.
if you're confused about the order of the fics, don't worry - we are too. there's no exact or linear timeline correlating with the order of the fics we publish, it's just which idea has the most inspiration at that moment. the only fic with a solid moment in the timeline is the fricking meeting episode, and that's because it's the very beginning and we have a rough estimate to when Nymph comes into their lives (late s1)
