#i'd also have to nail down genders for some of said OCs

[inklingofadream]

less of a specifically jon thought but re: little archive youve said that cecile's gf is a teacher and that could be how they learn jons alive

but after the events of two(?) chapters ago ive been obsessed with the concept of jon going to the school she works at but its large enough that she just sees him very occasionally in the hallways and thinks hes haunting the school/her

A bunch of people have suggested Nika's school as the way they get back in touch with Jon!

...I'll be honest that hadn't occurred to me 🤣 My original plan for them reconnecting was different, but the details of that were scrapped when I decided to introduce Gerry instead of having Elias bring Jon to the Institute every day. Maybe they will meet at Nika's school! I just didn't think of that bc Nika's from the same original cast of OCs as Cecile (...wait i JUST realized I think i have some truly ancient art of that oc cast in my blog archive...) but doesn't get copied across as many settings and projects and hasn't been around as long.

That original project has them all as Terrible Teens, and her main goal is to survive to adulthood, so making her a teacher was a spur of the moment thing i didn't expect people to pick up on the way they have. I wanna keep the focus on the TMA characters, obviously, but since I have an endpoint for the Cecile and Nika arc and the in between stuff is up in the air maybe some of the other OCs from there will pop up to fill out their background casts of friends and family and coworkers as needed. Meaning random research into the state of queer rights in the UK in the 90s, because most of said supporting cast is queer, including in ways that are harder to stay closeted about than our two Certified Gal Pals