#happiesttask7

- Carl is married to Ellie (Obvi)

- Carl and Ellie have their original grape soda bottle cap badges framed in their home.

- He made new ones for them as a lil wedding gift to Ellie - he wears his on his doctors coat

- For Ellie’s birthday Carl bought her a golden retriever dog, his name is Dug

- Carl and Ellie met the same way as they do in the film UP

- Deaf in one ear and he wears an invisible hearing aid - Carls parents home blew up thanks to the boiler exploding. They were about to walk into the house after coming back from a shopping trip when it happened. The sound of the explosion ruptured his eardrum and destroyed his hearing in his right ear. (A nod to Carls hearing aid in the film)

- Wears glasses when he’s reading

- Plans to retire at Paradise Falls, where Ellie and him had their honeymoon

- Can be a grump much like his movie counterpart.

- full name is rebecca ellie-mae detweiler but goes by becky to most. she was given the middle name after her mother’s name (ellie) and her grandmothers name (mae). a tradition that carries down to the females in the detweiler family.

- thirty-five years old

- only daughter to ellie and sam detweiler and older (and long-suffering) older sister to tj detweiler

- owns third street restaurant and is a trained chef herself as well as a businesswoman

- gave tj a job at the restaurant after being guilt-tripped by her mother

- becky is a widow. she and her childhood sweetheart boyfriend james (who went by jimmy) had been together since they were seventeen and had every intention of getting married and spending the rest of their days together, but jimmy fell ill and becky married him at his bedside because them being married in this lifetime was something important to them, but jimmy ultimately passed away a mere seven hours later on september 4th, and becky was a widow at the age of twenty-six.

- she’s never quite recovered from the loss of jimmy and never allowed herself the time to properly grieve. after he passed, she went travelling round the world to master her craft in cooking, and then put all the time and energy into opening and running third street.

- regrets teaching tj the tune of "john jacob jingleheimer schmidt" when they were kids, she now sees it as the equivalent of the jaws theme tune as it only sounds when tj is near.

- nani and babette are the besties xo

- only two photos are on display in her home - one of her family & one with nani, babette and herself. only one photo sits on her desk at third street, and it’s one of jimmy and her.

- becky knows that moving on a natural process, but she can’t quite seem to get herself there, and she hasn’t yet met anyone to pull her from that.

One: If you opened any of the cupboards in Tina’s kitchen above hip level, you would see that only the bottom two shelves (of the three) have anything on them. Reason being? She’s too fucking short to reach the top shelf. Within a few weeks of moving into her apartment, she decided that it was too much hassle pulling a chair over or climbing up onto the worktop to get her mugs, so she just moved them all within arm’s reach. Naturally, this is prime fodder for the Lost Boys, who have, on occasion, been known to move all the cups out of reach.

Because there’s only one of her (and she has a terrible habit of smashing things) she doesn’t have many plates, so the space left by that quickly filled up with weird looking mugs and her now eclectic collection of teapots. One specific cupboard is kept for the teapots that she fixed, and one is for the nice ones that she really doesn’t want to break in a temper if she can help it. Hidden away amongst these teapots is her “stash” teapot, an unassuming green teapot with a shiny silver lid. She keeps important things in there, like a small wad of cash, a select few pieces of slightly expensive jewellery, and trinkets she couldn’t bear to lose (including the original ring James gave her for their fake proposal game.)

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Two: Tina’s sleep pattern would be best described as “an incoherent mess”. Really, there isn’t much of a pattern at all. She can often be found wide awake at two in the morning, hyper-fixating on a teapot or sitting on her front step with a cup of tea, or she can be out like a light by nine-thirty. Tina’s problem is that she can’t sleep when she isn’t tired, even if she tries. She’ll go days with only a few hours sleep, sometimes even no sleep at all. Contrariwise, if she’s tired she will fall asleep literally anywhere, with barely a warning. James and Smee have found her plenty of times curled up in the nice warm laundry room amongst the fresh towels and bedsheets. One guaranteed, however, is that she consistently falls asleep shortly after having a meltdown, because she gets herself so worked up (in either anger or from crying) that she’ll completely tire herself out.

                                                   “Then tell her,” Wendy begged, “to put out her light.” “She can’t put it out. That is about the only thing fairies can’t do. It just goes out of itself when she falls asleep, same as the stars.“

                                                   “Then tell her to sleep at once,” John almost ordered. “She can’t sleep except when she’s sleepy. It is the only other thing fairies can’t do.”                                                

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Three: Tina has a kiwi allergy. She doesn’t think it’s life-threatening, but she is also lucky enough not to have been the victim of a poisoning yet. Her face turns red and itchy, and her tongue tingles, which isn’t nearly dramatic enough for Tina’s taste.

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Four*: Tina can’t swim. Of course, she will flat out deny that she is afraid of water or swimming, because Tina “isn’t afraid of anything!” James tried to get the story out of her once, when he dunked her in a pool at a party (long before she enjoyed his company) but all that resulted in was a very wet, very angry Tina. Truthfully, she’s terrified that she’ll drown or be swept away by the tide, thanks in part to an incident that happened as a child.

One scorching summer day, Tina, Peter and the Lost Boys went off on an adventure that lead them to the river that runs through the woods and the meadow. Being the rowdy bunch that they were, their fun little game quickly went too far, and one of the Lost Boys (she suspects Slightly) pushed Tina into the river. Now, they weren’t all that old at the time, maybe seven or eight, and had little common sense between them. Tina, being unable to swim, couldn’t get herself out of the quickly flowing river, and barely managed to catch herself on the low-hanging branch of a weeping willow. She cried and cried for the Lost Boys to pull her out, but they were so pre-occupied with their game that they didn’t realise Tina was in genuine distress. They thought she was playing! The boys bickered amongst themselves, deciding who was going to be the brave knight that rescued the damsel in distress from the river, all the while Tina was hanging on for dear life. Eventually, one of them had the sense to hold out a stick for her to grab onto, pulling her safely to the side.

*It goes without saying that this has very much to do with faeries being unable to swim. If their wings get wet, it drags them down and they will drown. In much folklore, it’s also said that the fae have a disdain for water, particularly running water like rivers, as it creates an uncrossable barrier.

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Five: Remember when we said Tina wasn’t afraid of anything? Add dogs to the list. You can blame that one on Nana.

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Six: Tina definitely has an unspoken ranking system for the Lost Boys. Of course, Peter is a the top in his own tier, but that goes without saying. Of all the Lost Boys, Tootles is Tina’s favourite. As children, he was always the one who treated her nicest, but he also happened to be the stupidest (so Tina thought) and the easiest to rope into doing her bidding. Bottom of the rank is Slightly, because he was always fighting to replace her as second in command, and Tina thought he was the bossiest person she ever met. The others tended to change ranks depending on who she liked that day.

                                                   Tootles, the fairy Tink, who is bent on mischief this night is looking for a tool [for doing her mischief], and she thinks you are the most easily tricked of the boys. ‘Ware Tinker Bell.’                          

To add to this, she keeps an ongoing List of People Who I Would Maybe Not Murder and Also Whomst I Love Sometimes in the back of her head, just in case. The rankings, as they stand right now:

1. Would Die For: James, Peter

2. Would Kill For: Iridessa, Tootles, Terence, (And the other Lost Boys; Slightly, Nibs, Curly)

3. Would Get Into A Fist Fight For: Ella, Rosetta, Jessie

4. Would Think About Getting Into A Fist Fight /Jumping Into A Pre-Established Fight For If She REALLY Had To: Zach (because there’s no way he can do that himself), TJ

5. Would Maybe Defend Verbally If Someone Was Being Meaner Than She Was At That Person Because Being Mean To This Person Is Her Territory: Wendy, Smee

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