#i hear Lucky returned last night played by a man and so I've smosshed everything into Trans Girl Lucky

[riding-palominos-every-day]

Do you have any backstories for the Brooklyn girls?

Had two requests for these girls! I'm afraid I don't have many on account of there's not a huge amount of info about these girls, but I have a few ideas (although a lot of Mack's is taken direct from Lindsay herself)

Mack

Jeanie MacDonald emigrated from Scotland with her family at a young age, looking for farming opportunities. She grew up eldest of three girls, and took on a lot of the farm work to help her father.

The farm eventually fell through, resulting in the family having to move into the city when Mack was twelve. Mack, believing she was too old to go back to school and not wanting to take up a boring job like lacework, took the initiative to move out and start selling newspapers. She's still close with her family and visits often.

Lucky

Lucky grew up the son of a widowed gambler. Their relationship was strained throughout his childhood, until his father died when Lucky was nine. Lucky spent a year with his uncle until he ran away, taking refuge at Sheepshead Racetrack and reinventing herself to more accurately match how she felt inside.

She advised betters on which horses to back, sometimes being given a share by some of the more generous winners. Eventually she fell in with Spot Conlon's gang after a scuffle with York, claiming Sheepshead as her selling spot.

Pips

Pips was mostly raised by her older brother Bart. With their father in prison and mother emotionally absent, the two siblings grew close. Bart would often join other boys at vaudeville theatres after work, sneaking Pips in too because she loved all the pretty costumes.

Eventually, when Pips was seven and Bart ten, they left home. Pips stayed with her brother at Poplar Street until she was ten, when she then moved to the girl's lodging house. Thanks to negotiations between Bart and Jack, Pips took up dancing lessons with Cora at Medda's theatre in Manhattan.