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Name: Gweneth Popplestone
Age: 28
Occupation: Metal charmer. She specializes in Dark Arts detectors like a Probity Probe (which looks like a metal wand). She did finish her specialized clock for tracking the movements of herd/flocks, and patented it. She licensed out the instructions to a company in North Carolina that makes them to order for wizarding farms. As promised, she gifted Ulysses Quayle with the first item she created as a master metal charmer: a Lost Things compact. It's a silver disk the same size as a small handheld mirror. When told what lost item the owner is looking for, it shows a picture of where the item is. Gwen works freelance from her home, which is just north of NYC, and takes commissions for unusual pieces. She does primarily utilitarian items, and doesn't do much jewelry unless it's for a protective charm.

Residence: As much as Norway grew on her, Gwen wanted to get back to places more familiar. When she first came back after achieving the rank of master, she crashed at Wilde's NYC apartment for a few weeks while she did some house hunting. She ended up finding an old and incredibly ramshackle 1880s house in Bridgeport, Connecticut, with a carriage house she immediately turned into her own workshop. She'd always liked woodworking and she uses that now to remodel parts of her house. In two years, she's practically gutted and rebuilt the old Victorian to be thoroughly updated inside.

Personal life: Gwen and Webster dated through the first several years of her apprenticeship, before the long hours and distance (and time zones!) made it all but impossible for them to see each other. That, coupled with Webster's burgeoning music career, meant they rarely had time to connect, and their romance started to look a lot more like a good friendship. They decided it would be best if they separated, so they could each pursue their chosen fields without being held back. Gwen had been dividing her free time between Norway and Webster's place, and after that, she didn't date for the next two years, concentrating solely on her metalwork. Near the end of her apprenticeship, she dated another apprentice, and then a friend she'd made in Norway, but by the time her training was over, she was single again and packed up to return to the States. The two years after her training concluded, she has been single and happily working on remodeling her home and her workshop. She and Webster correspond via owl or Internet (whichever is easiest at the time) but she hasn't seen him, or many of her classmates, in a few years.

After Gooseberry closed: Gwen graduated along with the last class of Gooseberry. She has never been back, even though she has contributed to the researchers there, via owl. She constantly finds specimens to send back to Wilde for his work, and she lets Ennis know that the ghosts in her place are perfectly content.

After graduation: Gwen had successfully negotiated an internship with a well-known metal charmer, Professor Sven Kallestad, in Tromso, Norway. She finished her apprenticeship in eight (cold) years. She will work as a master for another few decades and perhaps take on an apprentice of her own. Master metalcharmers are in demand for many items used by MACUSA and the Ministry, so she never lacks for work.

Now as an adult: Since Gwen's patented clock generates most of her income, she gets to only take commissions for really interesting pieces, and spends most of her time inventing. She likes traveling to visit her friends, especially Calvin and Micah and their daughter. She goes into the city regularly when Wilde is in town, and connects with any Gooseberry alums who live in NYC. She tends to haunt old shops and antique places for items to work with and add to her house, and pretty much knows the whole of Greenwich Village's antique shops and everyone in it. She goes camping at least twice a year with Wilde, and they try and go to as many remote and uncharted places as they can. This tradition started when he came to Norway and they explored deep into the forests there.

Are they happy?: You betcha.

Plot Here: Bring it
Anything else?: I finally got to this!
A cute gif:

My darling got a haircut!

Edited (its dooone, until I see a typo and come running back) 2018-07-12 23:38 (UTC)

Name: Sofia Bones nee Delgado
Age: 28
Occupation: Owns Sun & Moon bar in Wizarding London with Phin and teaches mixed dancing a couple times a week.
Residence: Somewhere in London.
Personal life: She and Phin stayed engaged for a while, traveling and enjoying life before settling down in London.
After Gooseberry closed: Whenever they had their graduation ceremony, Sofia went. She hasn't done anymore school since.
After graduation: Sofia and Phin got married on a whim in Paris when they were like 22. Then they finally had a "proper wedding" for friends and family sometime after settling down in London. They have been running the bar for four years now and she's invented some rad mixed drinks, some that may affect people certain ways if they ask for it. She also likes to dance on the bar randomly. Outside of bartending, she teaches people a mix of different dancing a few times a week at a friend's studio. Then more recently, she got knocked up and had an oops baby named her Gemma. She's currently like 6 months old and they have no idea what they're doing. Sofia's thinking about switching to teaching dance to littler kids so Gemma can learn with them, too.
Are they happy?: Duh.
Plot Here: LINK
Anything else?: This could get edited a hundred times.
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Edited 2018-07-11 00:01 (UTC)

Name: Rosemary Astrea Stoker
Age: 27 years old
Occupation: Pediatric Healer
Residence: Somewhere in New York, that's all I've got.
Personal life: Married to Daniel Notoriano. When Rosy was just a couple months from finishing Healer school, she got pregnant with some absolutely terrible twin boys, and her absolutely terrible boyfriend proposed in an incredibly obnoxious fashion. They had a courthouse wedding where Rosy pretty much only invited her brothers for her side, sorry everyone. Rosy's vows were the salutatorian speech she never got to give.
The Stokeriano family ends up having three kids: identical twin boys, Ricardo and Antonio, who take after the men in their families way too much, and then, a few years later, a perfect angel baby girl, Liviana, or Livvy. Her very existence is the only proof that I love Rosy and want her to be happy.
After graduation: Rosy took a gap year, because after last year’s trauma, she tried to bury herself in school and tying her self-esteem in with her GPA and she pretty much just fell apart. Pretty immediately realized she was bored as hell and probably learned how to cook or bake while scrubbing her apartment and also stealing Danny’s homework so she could be ahead of the ball next year. She did go to Healer school the next year, because Rosy was never going to be the type to not go back to school, and she graduated summa cum laude. My girl is very smart and I’m proud of her.
Now as an adult: Healer stuff??? I think she worked in an emergency room for a little bit (with Quinn!!!), but eventually worked her way around to doing pediatric medicine, because Rosy loves babies and kids :(((
Are they happy?: You all probably expected me to say no but she actually is. Having three kids before 30 sounds exhausting to me but Rosy thrives in hell.
Plot Here: LINK
Anything else?: If the Stokers don’t live on like the same street as each other I quit.
A cute gif: Finally, Amy Santiago Rosy can become canon.

Edited 2018-07-11 00:34 (UTC)

Name: Archimedes Rose
Age: Weeks away from 26
Occupation: Potioneer and research professor at the Merrill Institute
Residence: Witchlyn, Michigan, in the same manor he grew up in, although it's changed drastically since he moved in last year.
Personal life: Married to Nisha by now, I'm guessing! They have no kids, but tons of flowers and birds.
After Gooseberry closed: Archie attended Ilvermorny, where he continued to be a handful. His mother gained custody of him, and it took a lot of family counselling for that relationship to mend.
After graduation: Archie was accepted into a university to continue studying potions and chemistry. He was the top of his class, and with age and more of a stable homelife came maturity. Which is all to say he's finally stopped poisoning people. Or so he says, anyway. When Archie was about 22, he and his father seemed to be making some effort to build bridges, but that came to a tragic end when just a year later, Abraham Rose died under mysterious circumstances. Archimedes was investigated for a possible murder, but no arrest was made. Archimedes ended up inheriting everything.
Now as an adult: Archimedes finally achieved his magnum opus: Amortentia that doesn't make you fall in love. With Hieronymus helping him to market it, the two made a fortune. Archimedes is a generous investor in the Merrill Institute and several child welfare charities.
Are they happy?: Yes. Archie never paid for any of his crimes.
Plot Here: LINK
Anything else?: He got contacts.
A cute gif:

Edited 2018-07-10 18:15 (UTC)

Name: Cassius Holcomb
Age: 26
Occupation: Wizard lawyer. I was going to have him work in magical patents because boring boys deserve boring jobs, but after endgame, I think I'm gonna give him his dream job, which is scouring dry ass legal texts to find legal loopholes that spare his TERRIBLE FRIENDS from GOING TO PRISON. Helping the bad juniors skip their senior year of high school gave him a taste of power, lol.
Residence: Los Angeles, CA. He never left the desert.
Personal life: Single and still afraid of boys. He cohabitates with Todd and will be completely lost when Todd and Austin finally move past the hand-holding in public stage and just like, live together. For now, he and Todd share a studio apartment and eat a lot of ramen noodles because neither of them have adjusted to having a salary. He spends an inappropriate amount of his free time as a crow, but also hasn't told any of his new friends/coworkers that he's an Animagus, so that's probably weird for them.
After Gooseberry closed: He co-founded the Ashford & Holcomb Accelerated School for bad kids who don't want to do shit. Cash looked up Ilvermorny's graduation requirements and drafted individualised education plans for all his friends that allowed the minimum amount of work possible via substitution of similarly named, but academically bullshit, wizard CC summer classes. His Ilvermorny diploma was mailed to him two weeks before his senior year was scheduled to start.
After graduation: I'm assuming wizard college is kind of like college in the UK & Ireland, in that professional degrees take 6 years but you start straight out of high school instead of doing an unrelated bachelor's first. Anyway. Cash studied wizard law and graduated maxima cum laude. He was ineligible for a summa cum laude degree despite being at the top of his class because he got a B+ in his mandatory ethics course. It will enrage him until the day he dies.
Now as an adult: Still actively bootstrapping himself up the ranks. Cash quickly gained a reputation for working late hours and knowing immediately when there's blood in the water. He'll be a junior partner by 30 and everyone hates him. His clientele are overwhelmingly ex-Gooseberry students and his record in court is very, very good.
Are they happy?: Unfortunately, yes.
Plot Here: LINK
Anything else?: Archie, please call him.
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Edited (idk where he went to school/where he lived while todd was in area 51 tho) 2018-07-10 19:08 (UTC)

Name: Juniper Crane
Age: 26
Occupation: Private detective
Residence: In the city that Quentin attends college (TBD?)
Personal life: She's been living in sin with Quentin Youngblood for a couple of years, probably against his wishes. Her mother had apoplexy when she found out that Junie is dating a wizard who is currently attending a Muggle college. For the time being, Junie and Quentin seem happy pranking their friends, dodging judgement from their collective parents, and showing up unannounced at Miguel's house. It's a very satisfying relationship. They did have to work through some things, namely that Quentin killed her mimic during the last day at Gooseberry and it might have messed him up a little.
After Gooseberry closed: Junie moved to Hogwarts for her last two years and surprised exactly no one by being sorted into Slytherin. She didn't like being away from her friends, though, and immediately moved back to the States after graduation.
After graduation: Junie took on junior partnership with another detective, which is to say she got coffee for three years until she finally got to start solving cases with him.
Now as an adult: Saying Juniper is an adult is a bit of a stretch. She loves Quentin, her friends, talking about conspiracy theories, college partying with Muggles, and she tries to keep in contact with everyone as much as possible.
Are they happy?: Of course!
Plot Here: Let's talk
Anything else?: Give her another ten and maybe she and Quentin will resemble Actual Adult people. Also, I told Roz this was happening whether she liked it or not.
A cute gif:

She definitely has a 'case wall' like in this photo, with lines around thumbtacks and everything.

Edited 2018-07-10 19:24 (UTC)

Name: Thaddeus Butterfield
Age: 27
Occupation: Cursebreaker!
Residence: Butterfield estate, near Boston, Massachusetts (unless Jordan makes me change it)
Personal life: Teddy and Issy married young, mostly because they are Driven People, and there's just nothing you can do. They have two children, Eleanor and Alexander. They have decided to stop at two, to keep the stress to a minimum.
After Gooseberry closed: Teddy went to Ilvermorny, since it was close to home. His parents didn't want to let him even go there, and tried to arrange for private tutors to get him to graduation. Teddy threatened to go to Cash and get out of it altogether. Ilvermorny was the compromise.
After graduation: Teddy took on an internship with another cursebreaker who worked for MACUSA. Since then, Teddy has applied to MACUSA full-time and is awaiting a response. He hasn't lost any limbs yet, but he does have a couple scars (scars are sexy, right?).
Now as an adult: Teddy spends most of his time tinkering at home, but he looooooves visiting with his old Ebonhide boys. He attended every birthday and wedding, period. He still knits socks and mittens for Max. He's never gotten anywhere with his art but he makes origami animals for his kids and he tries to learn one new animal to surprise Issy with every anniversary.
Are they happy?: He's got everything he wants.
Plot Here: LINK
Anything else?:
A cute gif:

Still has the baby face.

Edited 2018-07-10 19:59 (UTC)

Name: Dinah Dayo Dixon-Winterbottom
Age: 26 years old
Occupation: Self-published comic artist and owner of DANGER DIVES, where she leads scuba diving trips and whatever.
Residence: San Jose, CA, or somewhere thereabouts.
Personal life: Married to Clayton Winterbottom. Sorry Chad’s current stepmom, Dinah’s been working on this one for a while, and they got married when she was 23. No kids, Dinah just has one beautiful stepson, who she once got trapped in a burning building and has very special blood. If Chad ever has a problem with a boss or something I hope Dinah puts curlers in her hair and storms in there to go yell at them for messing with her boy.
After Gooseberry closed: Dinah went to Ilvermorny! It was actually really hard for Dinah to decide because she missed being close to home, but she didn’t make friends in her schools in BC so she trailed after her best buddies to Ilvermorny. It’s very possible she also burned something down while she was there, and there’s a reason my girl is supposed to stay on the water, she is flammable.
After graduation: She had a veritable fuckton of DINAH DANGER comics that were just collecting dust in her bags, so she probably started to find a way to publish them. Maybe did some webcomic stuff, or worked with some of those magic tech bros in Silicon Valley to get her Fun Night at Gooseberry turned into a magic video game. The world is my baby child’s oyster.
Now as an adult: Does whatever the fuck she wants. Skateboards everywhere, probably shaved her head at some point, it’s a good life.
Are they happy?: There was never any other option.
Plot Here: LINK
Anything else?: Chad deserves better than this.
A cute gif:

Edited 2018-07-11 00:36 (UTC)

Name: Nisha Rose
Age: A few weeks over 26.
Occupation: Pro Quidditch Player (IDK WHAT TEAM??), Celebrity Athlete, Internet Personality, may or may not be a part time trapeze artist at the Circus Nox during the quidditch off season.
Residence: Witchlyn, MI, with Archie, she is hard at work adding her own personal touches to the manor house.
Personal life: Nisha is married to Archie, they have no children, but many birds and flowers. She wavers in and out of no contact with her mother and father, but is close with her older brother Xavier and considers much of the Circus Nox her family. Much to her great disappointment, she was quickly disallowed from babysitting Euclid and Ada unsupervised.
After Gooseberry closed: Went back to Ilvermorny, where she immediately got reinstated on the Wampus quidditch team and was made captain her senior year because my girl deserves everything she wants.
After graduation: Nisha was being scouted by the end of her junior year of high school and had a team locked down before she had graduated her senior year. A potent combination of talent, showmanship and zingy charisma made her an automatic magnet for interviews and sponsorships, meaning she was an almost instantaneous celebrity.
Controversy has sort of dogged her: disappearing to "gymnastics camp" (which turned out to be the Circus) during election season 2016, and a messy attempt at emancipation from her mother during her senior year are only the start of it. Her relationship with Archie got a great deal of attention after his father's mysterious death. There's a lot of fuss in the media over whether she's an airhead or incredibly intelligent.
Now as an adult: At the height of her career and looking like she might make the national team soon. I don't feel even a little bad saying that Nisha is going to be one of those Sports Legends. Nisha handles celebrity about as well as you might expect - not hugely - and doesn't really enjoy the scrutiny of the spotlight, so the relative isolation of Witchlyn is a huge blessing to her. She probably has an Instagram account specifically for Giant Adult, which is nothing but pictures of her and Dinah being stupid and bad at adulthood but it has a huge following.
Are they happy?: Oh my god I would never allow Nisha to be anything other than utterly satisfied with her life.
Plot Here: LINK
Anything else?: I hope she and Archie re-enact dramatic period romance novel scenes in their weird wizard mansion for fun.
A cute gif: she looks the same

Edited 2018-07-10 21:10 (UTC)

Name: Jonathan Wilde
Age: 28
Occupation: Medicinal Research Herbologist & adjunct faculty at King's College Healers' Institute in NYC. He's been there for about two years. Before that, he slaved away at multiple degrees in San Francisco (BS in Herbology, dual MAs in Medicinal Herbology and Hermetical Arts or the wizarding equivalent w/e) aaannnnd I'm gonna say maybe completed an internship at Merrill Memorial! He's been really busy, basically. And very academic. Slightly more academic than he planned to be, to be honest (he was eyeing that magical private sector caaaash) but this is how it all unfolded.
Residence: NYC.
Personal life: Wilde dated Saira until the end of the summer before freshman year of undergrad. They've stayed in contact off-and-on since then and he considers her one of his closest friends. Wilde's been mostly a serial dater/monogamist since then, with one failed engagement of about six weeks before he and his betrothed, someone I haven't come up with a name for yet, realized they were making a mistake. He's been single for about two years now.
After Gooseberry closed: Wilde had a dreamy summer, then went to college and repressed that shit like a pro.
After graduation: See above!! Wilde took his full-ride at State Normal and rode it as far as he could, basically. Sometimes he feels kinda lame about doing EXACTLY what he said he was going to do at seventeen/eighteen years old, but he's good at what he does.
Now as an adult: Wilde has studied and published a lot and broken his back over his career. He's now in a place where he just gets to mess around in research all day, like he's always wanted. It's rad. Except for the couple of classes he has to pick up and teach every quarter -- he actually likes teaching, but it distracts him a lot. He also really likes New York, though he also does a lot of solo traveling when he can fit it in -- either to visit friends in other cities, orrrr just to adventure around wherever. He actually disappears semi-frequently on a lot of "extreme" camping trips and does some rock-climbing/mountaineering shit and herbology adventures in nature. It's whatever. And yes, he definitely still skateboards. Future career goals are a PhD (starting this fall) and maybe a cushy teaching or groundskeeping job somewhere one day. Write a book that changes the world. Y'know, whatever.
Are they happy?: 80%. You can't expect Jonny to ever be fully happy.
Plot Here: LINK
Anything else?: ♥
A cute gif:

Edited 2018-07-10 21:47 (UTC)

Name: Phineas Bones
Age: 28
Occupation: Owner of a bar called Sun & Moon, graphic novelist. He also does some political cartoons and random commission work. When his mum retires in a few years, too, Phin'll be inheriting her jewelry business. There's a lot going on.
Residence: London.
Personal life: Surprise! Phin and Sofia actually got married and stayed married. Like, they're happy?? What? Their First Wedding was on a whim in a random place when they were like... 22 or 23? or something...? And then they had a Proper Wedding for friends and family sometime later, after settling down in London. Phin and Sofia also have a six month old surprise bb, Gemma, who is extremely cute. Phin is PRETTY SURE she's a genius who will never do anything wrong in her entire life.
After Gooseberry closed: Peace out!
After graduation: Phin and Sofia took their time traveling around and doing whatever they wanted. Lots of adventuring and partying. It probably looked for a while like they were never going to get their shit together? Phin had had ideas about teaching or writing or doing all these things that simply seemed... rather stupid, after everything. So. Idk. It was a good time that yielded many, many tattoos and weird stories. Then they had the actually brilliant idea to start up Sun & Moon, and things have been rosy since then. Not that it's easy, of course, what with having ZERO EXPERIENCE, but they're actually well-suited for it and have gotten quite a bit of buzz. Phin's very much Industry now and has made a lot of friends in the London scene.
Now as an adult: Phin tends bar and keeps things running most days. He's mildly famous in the UK for his political cartoons, which got picked up by the Daily Prophet. They aren't amazing, but he's got a name that people know. Other than that, Phin's crowning achievement has been publishing a graphic novel. Gone to Pot is an autobiographical account of his time at Gooseberry, sort of, except he's changed a lot of people's names and the setting shifts between the school, an alternate reality in which Phineas never left Hogwarts, and a weekend he spent alone in his mum's apartment as a child. It's somewhat abstract but was well-received. He's working on another about adventuring with Sofia, and also starting to think about children's books. For baby.
Are they happy?: Yes!! My simple boy.
Plot Here: LINK
Anything else?:
A cute gif:

Edited 2018-07-10 22:57 (UTC)

Name: Georgiana Daydream Mills
Age: 28
Occupation: Free spirit. Possibly has another job, or maybe she's just an alfalfa farmer in rural Montana, who knows.
Residence: Newhome, MT, unless she's bored and doesn't feel like staying in one place today.
Personal life: Wild and free.
After Gooseberry closed: Told everyone they were welcome to come learn in the barn they turned into a school at Newhome. No one took her up on this probably.
After graduation: She probably sold her first vegan potion recipes to Zaddy, then just fucked off for at least a year, if not more. Fell asleep on a boat and wound up in Alaska. Got in a van and lived wherever she wound up for about six months. Just let life take her.
Now as an adult: She created those vegan potion prototypes and probably comes up with exactly one (1) new workable potion every year or couple years or so. She wanted to maintain a level of control over her ethically sourced potion ingredients passion project so maybe she just flits around and inspects potion ingredient farms on behalf of some potions company. Or maybe she just shows up and protests people trying to claim they've got like free range newts and she's not there in any official capacity whatsoever but fuck it?
Are they happy?: Always.
Plot Here: LINK
Anything else?: Georgie's life is basically the dream.
A cute gif:

Edited 2018-07-10 23:18 (UTC)

Name: Mackenzie Quayle
Age: 27
Occupation: Wandmaker, wandrepairer, currently being prepared on how to take over the Prince family business. Her dad wants to retire early and perhaps teach wandcraft basics at Tally's new school.
Residence: Olympus, Tennessee
Personal life: Happily married to Ulysses Quayle. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, they have one daughter, Augusta, and Kenzie's currently pregnant with their second (a boy named Cressidus).
After graduation: Mackenzie went to live in London for a two year internship at Ollivander's. She was roommates with Iliya in a very nice flat over Diagon Alley. The two of them worked hard during the week, and on weekends got drunk off flavored vodka, watched Netflix, and went to a bunch of pubs. The real early 20's dream.
Now as an adult: When Mackenzie came back, her father gave her the reigns for the new wandmaking branch of his business to test her savvy and her skills. Mackenzie's hired a small unit of wandmakers, operating out of a shop in Olympus. Her creations are well-received, with occasional sparks of real genius.
Are they happy?: Oh, yes, terribly.
Plot Here: LINK
Anything else?: Ugh finally someone made a ton of Kenzie gifs and I'm about to retire her???? Anyway please look at my beautiful daughter.
A cute gif:

Edited 2018-07-10 23:38 (UTC)

Name: Casper Jay Kim
Age: 29
Occupation: Auror (Field Agent)
Residence: San Diego, California
Personal life: Asher Guthrie has been Casper's partner for the last decade and they live together in a modest, modern beach house in San Diego. While the two saw no reason to get married for years, Casper occasionally ended up in the hospital because being an Auror is risky business and their unofficial arrangements made things difficult. Because of this, they decided to tie the knot a few months ago. And didn't tell anyone. Or have a ceremony. Because they're idiots. They have no children and likely never will because of Casper's emotional hangups about having a family when he has such a dangerous job. They do, however, still have Bridgette (Asher's cat) and Nell (Casper's snake).
After Gooseberry closed: Casper was part of Gooseberry's last graduating class (and never had to give his bad valedictorian speech).
After graduation: Casper went immediately from Gooseberry to Grimsditch to complete his training to become an Auror. While being a surly loner didn't always make a good impression there, being focused, intensely hardworking, and adept with both Defense Against the Dark Arts and Occlumency did and he was at the top of his year. While he attended Grimsditch, Asher was living in an apartment not far away that they shared on the weekends and the two eventually went from refusing to take on a label to being an official couple to the surprise of absolutely no one. After finishing up at Grimsditch, he became an Auror and hasn't deviated from that path since.
Now as an adult: Casper is good at what he does and has an impressive reputation among other Aurors despite still being relatively young. That he's a legacy (the son of a talented Auror that died mysteriously), that he graduated from Gooseberry, and that he's a Parselmouth has earned him a fair amount of attention too, with mixed results. He spends most of his time in the field tracking down and capturing (or, when necessary, killing) dark wizards but he's also been recruited to teach a class now and then at the Auror academies. He's never uncovered anything related to his mother's death through his work and he knows it's unrealistic to hope...but he still does.

While his work is his life, he maintains a good relationship with Asher (he knows this is because he's married to a fucking saint, you don't have to tell him) and remains close to most of his friends from Gooseberry even if he doesn't see them as often as he'd like to. The former-ESBs are still his family. He spends his rare moments of spare time swimming in the ocean and playing music (the drums are still his primary focus but if one of his music friends would've pushed him into trying something else, I'd find that real sweet).
Are they happy?: Yes.
Plot Here: LINK
Anything else?: He's got a lot more scars than he used to but his hair is still ~perfect~.
A cute gif:

Edited 2018-07-10 23:36 (UTC)

Name: Riley Mae Stamper
Age: 27
Occupation: She definitely did makeup for the circus for a little bit, but she kind of just wandered off and forgot to tell them not that long ago.
Residence: Good Question.
Personal life: She and January James ran off together about a month ago. They didn't get married, January was just engaged and Riley caused a scene at their rehearsal dinner and took one of the brides with her. They're claiming to be on their honeymoon but just stealing the marriage certificate doesn't make you married, girls.
After Gooseberry closed: Thank god no other school had to put up with my little monster.
After graduation: She went back to Alaska and complained a lot. The next summer she went to Chile with her mom. They fought the whole time, but that's just how Stampers communicate. Then she came back and refused to go back to Alaska so she ran off to the circus where she used her skills to paint pretty and ridiculous things on faces and cover everyone in glitter. Was probably in a poly relationship with Casey for a couple months because they've basically been in one for years.
Now as an adult: Riley almost definitely wandered off from the circus and doesn't have a job now. Might run an Etsy shop where she makes trashy jewelry and makeup and bedazzled glasses and just uses it as an excuse to take pictures of herself. It's called Riley Mae'd.
Are they happy?: Loving life.
Plot Here: LINK
Anything else?: Also living the dream??
A cute gif: adult gifs do not exist apparently so let's pick a cute one to go out on

Edited 2018-07-11 00:30 (UTC)

Name: Hazel Temperance Moss, nèe Keating
Age: 27
Occupation: Auror
Residence: Austin, TX ????? this is.. subject to change
Personal life: Very happily married to Nate Moss, Cole's older brother, for about 2 years now (they've been dating for a while, though). They have a one year old girl, Poppy, that Hazel constantly dresses in fox things. Unsurprisingly, she continues to try to mother Cole despite the fact that he's an "adult" now, and will continue to do so for the rest of their lives. They're family now.
After Gooseberry closed: Finished high school in an accelerated program over the summer + partway through what would have been her first semester (did... these kids actually get away with Ashcomb School? She found a real way to do this if necessary.)
After graduation: Spent the rest of what would have been her senior year trying to decide what to do with her life. Her uncle begged her to consider something other than being an Auror, so she went with her original plan of potions school for a semester during what would have been second semester senior year; this didn't stick (though she did get herself a boyfriend, Nate, out of it), and she started the next academic year at Auror academy. She put her all into catching up to some others since she had no real experience in dueling or Occlumency, and was incredibly busy while at the academy because of this and her own side studies around improving her healing abilities. She was probably cranky a lot.
Now as an adult: Hazel looooves being an Auror, and has remained chipper and friendly despite her intense job. She's been trying desperately to convince her coworkers to start a fantasy football league with her, but only two of them seem vaguely interested, and one other is clearly just humoring her. She's retained her protective streak and sometimes can take on more than her share of work because of it, though she tries to be as cautious as she can because she's married and has a kid. Viewed as a very competent Auror with particularly helpful healing skills, but a lot of people think she's maybe a little too smiley. Keeps in contact with a lot of the juniors, especially her closest friends, and visits her family frequently.
Are they happy?: Absolutely - she's gotten pretty much everything she's wanted out of life.
Plot Here: LINK
Anything else?: It took a tiny bit for her to recover from all the trauma of Gooseberry, but she's fit as a fiddle now, but doesn't just pretend like none of it happened. She stitches a little 'Y' inside of all of her uniforms for Yaeger, and she and Fern have a Fern's First Death Anniversary Party every year (I'm making this canon Cheryl sorry).
A cute gif:

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Name: Lucas Kowalski-Lacroix
Age: 27
Occupation: Auror
Residence: A shoebox apartment in NYC. They're scraping to save for a home in the Azurcrest cul-de-sac now that Bash is out of grad school.
Personal life: Married to Bash. Aside from assistant parenting the nieces, they (totally legally) acquired a pair of twin ghosts haunting a teacup a couple of years ago, now. Otillie and Enoch are in the realm of 5 - 6 and are definitely their kids. They also have two extremely fluffy cats that occupy opposite ends of the alignment spectrum. And Jade and Ari are also Kowalskis now, and no one is quite clear on whether or not they are all siblings or swingers or maybe just ghosts.
After Gooseberry closed: Lucas went to Ilvermorny where he was sorted into (Thunderbird or Pukwudgie idk). He probably tried to talk the Charms or DADA professor there into letting him be a TA, stayed glued to his friends and absolutely got up to some mad shenanigans before graduating.
After graduation: Right into auror training after graduating Ilvermorny, assumedly in New York or thereabouts. Got involved in activism in his twenties, too, and basically distinguished himself as being both an extremely obnoxious change-the-world idealist and a hyper-competent junior auror, typical pain in the ass. After completing training, he went into field work and spent nights taking college courses in Charms and Defense Against the Dark Arts. Mostly from there it's been a lot of work and supporting Bash through grad school.
Now as an adult: Lucas has been working as an auror for a while now. He retains his "I'm Going To Change Things!" idealism and is a major advocate for revising or repealing the statute of secrecy, which regularly gets him in trouble with his superiors. But he does exceptional work, and he knows when to walk it back to avoid getting shitcanned. Bash like JUST finished up graduate school and they started looking at buying a home but then HOLY SHIT STUDENT DEBT so they're benching that idea for now. Lucas visits home often and continually threatens Dale with hiring an exorcist.
Are they happy?: Never happier.
Plot Here: LINK
Anything else?: He's gonna get his arm blown off and then retire and become a Charms or DADA teacher and writer someday.
A cute gif: This gif cracks me the fuck up and IDK why

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Name: Calvin St. Clair
Age: 26
Occupation: Spell Damage Healer, budding Muggle rights activist
Residence: Proooobably in the same city all the Junior Jays do. Lived in Bath, England until a year or so ago.
Personal life: Calvin married Micah when he got his Healer certification. Although children hadn't been on the radar for them, Calvin's younger brother got a girl pregnant. They were going to put the baby up for adoption, but Calvin stepped in and took her instead. So now he has a toddler. He and Micah named her Caleb, after Micah's brother.
After Gooseberry closed: Calvin did indeed return to Hogwarts for his senior year. It wasn't as bad as it could have been, but he certainly wasn't thrilled. He didn't manage to usurp Slytherin's existing Beaters, but did make friends he didn't hate. He kept up writing to all his friends, and his letters were all 75% complaining. Over the summer and during breaks he lived with his older brother Dimi.
After graduation: Calvin was easily accepted to train at St. Mungos, where spite and pride propelled him to excellence. He was know for being exceedingly bright, and a bit of a soft touch with patients underneath his abrasive exterior. Continued to live with Dimi while going through school.
Now as an adult: Early into his career, Calvin's mild curiosity with Muggle medicine vs. magical healing grew into a serious investment. He started getting involved with fringe political movements calling for the end of the Statute of Secrecy, and became passionate about the ethical question of denying magical healing to Muggles. Unfortunately, this made him fairly unpopular at St. Mungo's, resulting in several heated arguments that led to Calvin being reprimanded. At the same time, Micah was coming into his own as a filmmaker, and Cay was getting old enough to wonder about where she came from. They decided to move to the states where Micah could be closer to L.A. and Calvin could start fresh and maybe find more like-minded Healers.
Are they happy?: Despite how much he complains, yes.
Plot Here: LINK
Anything else?: He's much more at ease about the whole nonbinary thing but considers it his own private business and prefers to go by he/him regardless.
A cute gif:

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Name: Fern Mufferaw
Age: 27
Occupation: Magizoologist specializing in dragons, particularly dragon rehabilitation
Residence: I’m not sure? Somewhere kinda remote, but still within apparating distance of a decently sized city.
Personal life: Still dating Heathcliff. He asks her to marry him once a year and eventually she’ll say yes. May have said yes already? Not sure how long she strings the poor boy along. Eventually, they have a kid who spends the first few years of her life roaring and trying to blow smoke because she thinks she’s a baby dragon.
After Gooseberry closed: Fern did the summer classes thing, if that happened, but still went to Ilvermorny in the fall. She said it was so she could coast while she got a few more credits in to make her school applications more competitive, but she for sure just wanted to follow her friends around for another year. She was sorted into Wampus.
After graduation: She went straight to like, magical veterinary school or whatever you call that. That probably took several years, and after, she traveled the globe working at different dragon reserves for like a year, getting specialized training with dragons.
Now as an adult: She now works on a dragon reserve within commuting distance of wherever is is that she settled down with Heathcliff. Sometimes she travels to consult at other reserves. At home, she rehabilitates baby & adolescent small breed dragons (which is why they live in the boonies). Heathcliff has an extensive garden, which baby dragons like to singe for fun.
Are they happy?: She’d probably shrug and smirk and say “eh” but the answer is yes.
Plot Here: Worst girl, all grown up.
Anything else?:
A cute gif:

Edited 2018-07-11 00:35 (UTC)

Name: Ulysses August Quayle
Age: 27-28, depending on when the reunion is? His endgame bday is probably my favourite thing about him, tbqh.
Occupation: Technically a MACUSA state rep, but within a few years of embracing his dream job of house husband/stay-at-home dad. He put in a hard max of 10 years running for/in office and wasn't even pretending to work outside the home by his mid 30s. The fact that he was even elected to the position at all really speaks to how deeply-rooted the family ties go, because he's insanely young and also, bad. Just had to give the job to someone named Quayle, huh, TN? Woof.
Residence: Olympus, TN.
Personal life: Married to Mackenzie, and unfortunately, they had kids. Their daughter (5) is very much the apple of her daddy's eye and is well on her way to being a giant brat. If y'all thought the situation with Rex was bad, just look at how he is with his actual, human child. There's another baby on the way and Ulysses was kind of hoping for another girl, but he'll survive.
After graduation: Ulysses took a gap yah to bum around Olympus doing absolutely nothing. He travelled a little, crashing with his friends around the globe while they tried to do real work and persuading Cricket to go backpacking with him, before landing some internship at the capital via personal connections. NYC is lonely and he doesn't care for it one bit.
Now as an adult: Unsurprisingly and also lazily, ended up following in the family footsteps. Getting elected isn't that hard for him b/c he loves giving speeches and shaking hands and kissing babies. The trouble is... his interest in actually governing hovers right around... zero. Turns out, he's a people person, but not a The People person. Ulysses exclusively hires his friends, does very little lawmaking, and plans on retiring as soon as humanly possible.
Are they happy?: Oh, "terribly" is right. It's very bad.
Plot Here: LINK
Anything else?: Never released the ESBs from the bondage of his friendship. Sorry, but he's not sorry.
A cute gif: Eternal baby face.

Edited (i just had to make it clear how ridiculous this future was) 2018-07-12 23:22 (UTC)

Name: Essie Morales-Tran
Age: 27
Occupation: Essie goes wherever her heart takes her.
Residence: Future resident of the Junior Jay Codependency Cul de Sac
Personal life: She's been with Jeffy for years but has continued to be a complete dip about getting married. At least, she was, up until very recently and now they're planning to surprise their 40 best friends with a LARP wedding at the reunion.
After Gooseberry closed: Essie finished her schooling at Ilvermorny, but fell back to not taking her studies particularly seriously since Artificing wasn't an offered subject and she'd already mastered her animagus transformation. She mostly hung out with friends, hunted down mysteries even when they didn't exist, and played some Quodpot.
After graduation: Essie dropped out of college after changing her major every semester. She is a horrible spoiled human being with Old Pureblood Money to support her though, so she was able to get an apartment in the same city that Jeffy was attending school and begin chasing her various whims, which was frankly less expensive than another year of college.
Now as an adult: She was Jade's SUPERRIVAL when they both did GLOD, spent a summer performing an acrobatic flying squirrel act for a muggle circus, was going to be Jeffy's classroom pet one year, but that only lasted a month before she got bored so then she just taught the kids how to blow things up, teaches afterschool programs at Jeffy's school sometimes, coached a Quidditch youth league team, recorded a series of videos of herself eating piles of candy as a flying squirrel for Youtube with mixed reactions, and tried very hard to convince Diego that he needed more TRUMPET in his music..just to name a few things.
Are they happy?: She's on a lifetime adventure with her favorite varmint.
Plot Here: LINK
Anything else?: Forever a Dumb Sweet Baby.
A cute gif:

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Name: Daniel Notoriano
Age: 28
Occupation: Whatever the Healer version of a trauma surgeon is.
Residence: New Yorkish?
Personal life: This piece of shit knocked Rosy Stoker up while they were still in healer school, then proposed to her in the most obnoxious way possible. They had a courthouse wedding shortly thereafter. I hope January threw his bachelor party. Then he spent two full years trying to keep anyone from throwing them a gigantic reception because good god people. Danny is a good dad who pretends to be a bad dad and frequently complains about Ricardo and Antonio but Liviana can do no wrong.
After Gooseberry closed: Pissed around at home all summer. Healer school in New York, after. He bounced around on specialty a LOT and it wasn't until pretty late in the game that he settled on wtfever the magical equivalent of trauma surgery is. He hated his roommate but not enough to actually get a different roommate at all ever and mostly just crashed at the Stokers' place and did things like left his toothbrush there to let Sy know that he was a permanent fixture.
After graduation: After finishing healer school, Danny went right into and stuck with his Healer specialty. It's pretty intense work, and he's kind of always thinking about switching specialties or going into research instead, especially so he can have more time with his family (tell no one).
Now as an adult: What are they up to? How did they get here?
Are they happy?: Oh he absolutely doesn't deserve it but he's having the time of his life.
Plot Here: LINK
Anything else?: Lasts a month before dragging Rosy and Sy to a verizon store to get them some cell phones.
A cute gif: TOOT TOOT GOOD MORNING HONEY

YEAAAAH MY SHIPS

Edited (hi) 2018-07-10 16:13 (UTC)

RESPONSES

Gwen

Sofia

Rosy

Archimedes

Cash

Juniper

Teddy

Dinah

Nisha

Wilde

Phin

Georgie

Mackenzie

Casper

Riley Mae

Hazel

Lucas

Calvin

Fern

Ulysses

Essie

Danny

PLOTTING

Plotting: Gwen