Hello there! ♥ Your work on TLs for TFATWS is a gold mine, especially for someone as obsessed with details as I am. I'm trying to write a husk of something about Lemar: the poor thing needs some happiness. I found a really nice TL of him and John by captainpikeachu, but I'm trying to get to something more focused on him. I have a few notes myself, but I would really welcome your perspective (as in, when do you think he was born? What kind of insight do we have on his life?) Anything would help!
(hey, I tried my best to collect the most information I could about Lemar generally, which is very hard, so bare with me if I didn't make much sense. I couldn't really find the TL you told me about on that blog, so if info were repeated or a few things were opposites, then I'm sorry in advance, these are just what I could collect from my own research)
Lemar Hoskins was born in 1987 — in Chicago, Illinois.
Lemar and John attended Custer's Grove High School together in Georgia, and were the same age.
based on John Walker's interview in Episode 2, he says he was already Two years out of West Point when Steve came back. to graduate West Point you need Four years, this means John and Lemar were both 24 years old in 2011. therfore born in 1987.
now, I assume Lemar's family moved from Chicago to Georgia any time in his childhood. and just settled there.
in the comics, Lemar has a brother called Leon, in TFATWS they chose to give him a nameless sister. you could hc him having both or either tbh.
his parents own a flower shop "Hoskins Family Flowers", it means Lemar has at least a mild knowledge on flowers and probably helped the family before graduating high school.
after graduating high school, Lemar enlisted in the army immediately, and didn't attend West Point with John, based on his uniform. so, he was 18.
he had training in combat, and is a skilled marksman.
as shown in TFATWS he spoke English and German.
now, to move to his ranking in Army. as mentioned in his MCU profile, Lemar is a Sergeant Major.
in the American Law, it takes you Ten years of service to rank a Sergeant Major. it could take more, rarely less, but based on your skill and tour service you could be promoted earlier. this means Lemar took every tour he was assigned and was highly skillful.
based on the information we have that he enlisted when he was 18 and passed away when he was 37. his promotion could have taken a bit longer than Ten years, but that's up to you to hc in your fic.
John hints at them having several tours, since they mentioned Chile and Afghanistan, it's safe to say they were deployed overseas.
an oversea tour takes anything from 24 to 36 months (two years - three years) and he spent 19 years in army (let us at least take out 3 years for vacations, injury rests or whatever) he could have gone on five tours maximum.
Lemar died in 2024 which means he was 37 years old.
in the comics he was married, nothing of that was hinted in TFATWS, but again, if you're giving him a happy ending, you could use this info.
I hope you find this useful and be able to put it to use <3
