Timeline

 

Sethfire born in London, England on September 9, 1989 [Virgo]

Anarchy born in Fresno, CA on May 7, 1994 [Taurus]

Chey born in Poughkeepsie, NY on October 10, 1994 [Libra]

Kato born in Great Falls, MT on July 7, 1995 [Cancer]

Athena born in Great Neck, NY on December 17, 1995 [Sagittarius]

Aetos born in Rasayani, India on May 11, 1999 [Taurus]


 

1989:

  • [June 19] Hunter, Anarchy’s brother, is born in Fresno, CA

  • [September 9] Sethfire born in London, England

1994:

  • [May 7] Anarchy born in Fresno, CA

  • [October 10] Chey born in Poughkeepsie, NY

1995:

  • [summer] Sethfire & his parents move to Great Neck Estates, NY

  • [July 7] Kato born in Great Falls, MT

  • [December 17] Athena born in Great Neck, NY

1997:

  • Anarchy’s dad starts beating him

  • [early autumn] CPS is called on Chey’s parents; they’re arrested and he’s put into foster care

1998:

  • [autumn] Sethfire begins getting molested by his babysitter

1999:

  • [May 11] Aetos born in Rasayani, India

    • Sent to a center in Mumbai

  • [late May/early June] Aetos adopted by missionaries, taken back to live in Ridgefield, NJ

  • [late autumn] Sethfire’s molestation comes to an end when his babysitter is caught abusing a different child

2000:

  • [late spring] Anarchy’s dad bodily throws him onto the front stoop stairs, causing a broken rib that punctures his lung; requires surgery

2001:

  • [spring] Kato and his family move to Queens, NY (specifically Douglaston)

  • Kato begins getting intermittently sexually abused by a teacher at his elementary school

2002:

  • [June] Kato’s sexual abuse ends; he represses all memories of it

2003:

  • Anarchy is pulled out of public school to hide the abuse at home

2005:

  • [late autumn/early winter] Chey saves his foster brother, Landon, from being drowned—and is badly beaten by his foster mother for it

2006:

  • [late winter/early spring] Chey runs away from his foster home

2007:

  • [early spring] Sethfire attempts suicide | Severance 「🔗」

  • [autumn] Kato is sexually assaulted by a fellow student

    • He begins self-harming soon afterward

  • Sethfire begins working towards a Bachelor’s degree in psychology at NYU

2008:

  • [mid-May] Hunter, Anarchy’s brother, is killed by an IED

  • [early August] Anarchy runs away from home after his father slashes him across the face with a broken bottle

  • [late August] Chey & Anarchy make it to NYC; Anarchy gets employed as a drug courier

2009:

  • [late summer] Chey & Anarchy get paid in oxy; start using opiates

  • [autumn] Chey & Anarchy stop running drugs, start selling their bodies

  • [autumn] Kato and Athena become friends 「🔗」

2010:

  • [late summer, autumn] Kato makes a couple “small scale” suicide attempts; takes a handful or so of aspirin or ibuprofen, gets sick but doesn’t die or get medical attention—he once again fails to register on his parents’ radar. Only tells Athena about it a day or so after each attempt. 「🔗」

  • [late autumn/ early winter] Athena begins slipping into disordered eating behaviors

  • [December] Chey gets picked up by cops; Anarchy is left alone

2011:

  • Chey bounces from foster home to foster home as he gets kicked out for misbehavior; during this time he gets hospitalized on multiple occasions for quasi-attempted suicide

2012:

  • Gabriel and Athena strike up a casual friendship/acquaintanceship at school

  • Kato starts camming casually

  • Sethfire starts drinking, not super heavily, but definitely self-medicating

  • Anarchy starts working “odd jobs,” mostly physical labour; has trouble finding steady/long-term employment because of his appearance + history

  • Kato hooks up with a local cam-viewer; finds the experience somehow compelling

  • [summer] Kato takes up going to bars & sleeping around

  • [July] Reflection, Reconciliation 「🔗」

  • Kato starts occasionally using cocaine after one of his bar hook-ups introduces him to it

  • Chey “graduates” out of the foster care system, slips right back into prostitution and heroin use

  • Chey gets his first possession charge (CPCS in the 7th degree), gets fined & and spends 12 days in jail

  • Aetos realizes he’s gay and begins self-harming

2013:

  • [March] Sethfire meets Jazz for the first time | Overcast Eyes Like English Skies「🔗」

  • [June] Athena graduates HS

  • Sethfire completes his Master’s degree (M.S. Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness) and starts working towards his 3000 hour requirement for supervised experience

  • [July] EoI releases first album, “We Are Not Our Scars” 「🔗」

  • Sethfire meets Jazz

  • [November] Sunlight’s Still Just Radiation「🔗」

  • [December] Chey, after spending the year in and out of jail for various things, manages to get his third CPCS 7 conviction along with CPSP in the 5th degree; he dodges getting charged with intent to distribute and they can’t prove a larceny charge either, but he still gets a hefty fine and 3 months in prison

2014:

2015:

  • [January] Athena, Kato, and Anarchy get their own apartment; this triggers Leu and Kato’s first break-up

  • [April] Sethfire relapses hard after an evening of stress-drinking and nicks his radial artery near his inner elbow; Jazz gets him to the hospital「🔗」

  • [April] Leucosia and Kato get back together

  • [spring] Anarchy starts dating Anjali | Running Straight「🔗」

  • [June] Anarchy gets a job as a bartender at The Aspen

  • [July] Athena meets Wendy at the gym; they go out for drinks and strike up a relationship

  • Leucosia and Kato break up again

  • [August] How The Hunter Becomes The Haunted 「🔗」

  • [late summer] Anarchy & Anjali break up but stay on good terms; Afterwards, Anarchy and Kato drunkenly hook up + start a friends-with-benefits relationship | Redirection 「🔗」

  • [October] Sethfire gives up on fulfilling his hour requirement, at least as far as direct contact with clients goes, as his mental health deteriorates + alcoholism progresses

    • Shortly after that decision, one night he gets very drunk again and attempts to gut himself. Ends up calling Jazz, who gets him medical attention.

  • Falling In The Ocean「🔗」

  • [December] Aetos is thrown out of the house by his parents over his gender and is subsequently rescued by the others before he can jump off the George Washington Bridge | All the Risk of Faith and Free-fall「🔗」


2016:

  • Aetos enrolls in a public school and manages to get things sorted due to the help of an exceedingly kind + sympathetic school counselor and McKinney-Vento liaison

    • Inspired by it, Aetos starts trying to persuade Seth to pursue his licensing requirements again; in investigating the possibilities, he finds that Seth does have enough direct hours to combine with his indirect that he can, in fact, be licensed

  • Leucosia and Kato get back together again

  • Aetos is able to start HRT

  • Athena and Wendy’s “relationship” fizzles out

  • Aetos gets a job as a busboy or barista

  • Leucosia and Kato break up for the final time

  • "Suburban Casualties", EoI's third album, comes out

  • Kato and Fawkes start “seeing each other,” not labelling it as an official relationship yet

  • Chey reconnects with Alaska by chance while they’re both at a food stamps office

  • [May] Anarchism and Absolution「🔗」

  • Chey relapses again, his “second strike”

    • Alaska subsequently asks him to stay with her, Reggie, and Nathaniel for a bit to try and stabilize himself

    • With Alaska’s encouragement, Chey dedicates himself to recovery more intensely and actually starts working towards an accelerated online associate’s degree, supported by his program


2017:


2018:

  • [August 26] Jaime (then James) is born


2019:


2020:

2021:

  • Sethfire and Aetos start officially dating

  • Athena moves in with Teagan to her apartment in Woodhaven, NY

  • [June] Chey & Anarchy get married

    • Venue: Brooklyn Botanical Garden

  • [June] EoI puts out album #5, “With A Hope-Lit Lighthouse and Honest Storms”「🔗」

  • [July] 20/21 Vision「🔗」

  • [August] Before The Storm 「🔗」

  • [September] Hook Echo 「🔗」

  • [September] Kato’s friends confront him after he’s hit by some particularly bad chest pains post-show; he caves and agrees to start therapy | When The Sky Breaks「🔗」

    • First therapist he sees essentially immediately recommends hospitalization and he reluctantly agrees (with pressure from the others)

    • Begins recovery both in general & from his ED, and starts trying to get clean from cocaine use. Alcoholism comes to light, but he doesn’t pursue sobriety so much as attempting to normalize his relationship with alcohol

  • [Late December] Kato graduates from inpatient treatment to PHP

2022:

  • [1st of March] Kato graduates from PHP to an IOP program

  • [June] Kato graduates out of IOP

  • Aetos gets his teaching certification and begins teaching fourth grade

2023:

  • Sethfire & Aetos get ‘engaged’

  • [May] Sethfire and Aetos get married

  • [late October] Teagan & Athena get engaged

    • During a fall foliage road trip to Niagara Falls through the Catskills and the Finger Lakes

  • [late October] Kato and Willow meet while he’s buying flowers to congratulate Athena and Teagan on their engagement

  • [November] Kato & Willow relationship begins 

  • Major Arcana「🔗」

2024:

  • [September] Teagan & Athena get married

2025:

  • Kato moves with Willow to a townhouse in Oceanside

  • Chey & Anarchy move out to West Hempstead, NY


2026:

  • Kato & Willow get engaged

  • Kaya & Kimber born


2027:

  • [April] Willow & Kato get married

    • Venue: Queens Botanical Gardens

  • Sethfire & Aetos move out to Lakeview, NY

  • Aetos begins teaching 6th grade

  • [November 27] Logan (“Slick”) born in Boston, MA

  • [December 13] Caelum born in Seaside, California


2028:

  • [January 5] Roscoe born in East Rockaway, NY

  • [February 14] Cameron born in Rochester, NY

  • [July 11] July born

  • [September 17] Olivia born

  • [November] Chey and Anarchy start fostering kids

  • [December] Jaime (then James) gets put into Chey & Anarchy’s care


2029:

  • Athena and Teagan move out to Rockville Center, NY

  • [late summer] Plagued by varying intrusive thoughts and in a spiral, Kato goes out with the intent to kill himself and calls Athena, who stops him. He finally admits to her that he nearly murdered Seth when he was 16

    • He allows her to take him to the hospital; stays in the psych ward for ~a week(?) and gets a retroactive paternal postpartum OCD diagnosis


2030:

  • July gets put into Chey & Anarchy’s care

  • Chey & Anarchy legally adopt Jaime


2031:

  • [February] Athena offers to be a surrogate for Anarchy and Chey so that they can have another child

    • [April] Medical conception

  • Alaska legally adopts July

  • [November 4] Kipland, Peregrine, and Tycho born


2033:

  • [September] July and Olivia start kindergarten together

2035:

  • [June] Jaime graduates high school

  • Rosalie born

2037:

  • [September] Cooper and the McKoy triplets start kindergarten

2038:

  • [March] Cameron’s parents are killed in a car accident; he moves in with his paternal grandparents in Lynbrook, NY

    • Subsequently becomes friends with Roscoe

  • Two-year-old Rosalie gets put into Chey & Anarchy’s care

2039:

  • [spring] Slick’s mom leaves his dad and moves across the country, emphasizes that she has no intention of “having anything to do with” either of them ever again

  • [September] July and Olivia start middle school, become friends with Roscoe and Cameron

  • Chey and Anarchy legally adopt Rosalie

2040:

  • Jaime completes their Bachelor of Science, decides on aiming for a Master’s

  • [late summer] Slick and his dad move to Rockville Centre, NY

    • He becomes friends with July, Olivia, Roscoe, and Cameron

2041:

  • 15-year old Kaya and Kimber get put into Chey and Anarchy’s care

  • [September] Rosalie starts kindergarten


2042:

  • Jaime gets their Master’s degree


2043:

  • [mid January] Caelum & Laika and their mother move to Oceanside, NY

    • He becomes friends with July, Olivia, Roscoe, Slick, and Cameron

    • Laika starts middle school in September and becomes friends with Cooper, Kipland, Tycho, and Peregrine

  • Chey and Anarchy legally adopt Kaya & Kimber

  • Jaime gets hired for a position as a Research Space Scientist for NASA, specializing in Planetary Studies


2044:

2045: