:-) This meme is just giving me all kinds of awesome warm and fuzzies today! \o/ Thank you especially for #3. *blush*
Background for TTB 'verse? It really started with The Beantown Bailout Job and realizing that Nate grew up as a part of New England mob culture. Being Sicilian and raised on a diet of The Godfather, Prizzi's Honor, Moonstruck and other similar types of movies, I had a pretty good idea of what life would have been like for him as a teenager in South Boston in the 1970's.
The first connection to Faith came when looking up her birth date lead to a round of Wikipedia roulette, which led me to Tim Hutton's Wiki page. Where I was reminded that he was twenty the year Faith was born, and my brain suddenly went "hey...both from South Boston...he was twenty...MY GOD THIS COULD WORK!"
Interestingly enough, Faith's father has been named in canon, but her mother never has. So I created Ellen Maguire - she's a pretty stereotypical neighborhood girl of the time. Popular, street-wise, but coming from a family with no standing she would have been easy prey for the local gangs.
She also would have been nobody Jimmy Ford would have ever allowed his son to marry. Which set up the perfect conflict right there - Jimmy finds out, breaks them up, Nate gets sent away before anyone finds out Ellie's pregnant. Pregnant and unmarried in that kind of culture would never have been tolerated, and her parents in addition to their shame around their neighbors would also be worried Jimmy would think she was still waiting for Nate to make her an honest woman.
So they marry her off to George Lehane and he claims paternity. Two worlds seamlessly merged and the back story for the relationship established.
Then it was just a question of convincing my child that it would be cool for us to write a fic together. *g*
Background for TTB 'verse? It really started with The Beantown Bailout Job and realizing that Nate grew up as a part of New England mob culture. Being Sicilian and raised on a diet of The Godfather, Prizzi's Honor, Moonstruck and other similar types of movies, I had a pretty good idea of what life would have been like for him as a teenager in South Boston in the 1970's.
The first connection to Faith came when looking up her birth date lead to a round of Wikipedia roulette, which led me to Tim Hutton's Wiki page. Where I was reminded that he was twenty the year Faith was born, and my brain suddenly went "hey...both from South Boston...he was twenty...MY GOD THIS COULD WORK!"
Interestingly enough, Faith's father has been named in canon, but her mother never has. So I created Ellen Maguire - she's a pretty stereotypical neighborhood girl of the time. Popular, street-wise, but coming from a family with no standing she would have been easy prey for the local gangs.
She also would have been nobody Jimmy Ford would have ever allowed his son to marry. Which set up the perfect conflict right there - Jimmy finds out, breaks them up, Nate gets sent away before anyone finds out Ellie's pregnant. Pregnant and unmarried in that kind of culture would never have been tolerated, and her parents in addition to their shame around their neighbors would also be worried Jimmy would think she was still waiting for Nate to make her an honest woman.
So they marry her off to George Lehane and he claims paternity. Two worlds seamlessly merged and the back story for the relationship established.
Then it was just a question of convincing my child that it would be cool for us to write a fic together. *g*
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