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

• Sethfire’s molestation comes to an end when he’s able to start college classes (Columbia); his tutor 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

• Sethfire gets his BA and starts on a Masters

2005:

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

  • Subsequently attempts suicide but fails when the rope breaks

2006:

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

• Sethfire gets his Masters and continues putting off medical school by working as a CNA

2007:

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

• [autumn] Kato begins self-harming due to trauma and stresses at school & home

• Sethfire begins working towards a PhD 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

  • Anarchy then meets Chey at a railyard & they become fast friends | Take Me Where I’ve Never Been 「🔗」

• [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:

• [spring] Unspoken Words, Untaken Chances「🔗」

• [spring] Athena’s ED gets bad & she moves in with Sethfire | Your Coffin Would Be Far Too Light「🔗」

• Sethfire completes his PhD and starts working towards his counselling license

• [midsummer] Kato gets his Uzi through a private sale off the internet

• [late summer] Kato gets his Glock 19 and shotgun through private sales at a gun show

• [September] Kato’s “incident” | Blood In Your Mouth vs Blood On My Hands「🔗」

  • Kato drops out of school; moves in with Sethfire & Athena

• [December 8] Anarchy rescued | Every Breath Is Mine To Take「🔗」

  • Subsequently starts therapy & methadone treatment | Withdrawal Days「🔗」

• [December 13] Haircuts and Histories「🔗」

• 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

• 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

• [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

• Athena and Gabriel reconnect; introduction to Nightshrike | Birds of a Feather 「🔗」

• EoI starts playing at Eocene Nightclub 「🔗」

• Anarchy gets his wing tattoo at Cinnabar Ink, leading to EoI’s introduction to Fawkes | Brothers in Arms 「🔗」

• [March] EoI puts out their second album, "Broken Glass Just Tastes Like Blood" 「🔗」

• [early April➝late May] Anarchy/Angela relationship | Don’t Trust A Matchmaker With A Zippo In His Pocket 「🔗」

• [April] Kato meets Leucosia; they quickly fall into a relationship | Siren, Siren 「🔗」| Red Sky Morning 「🔗」

• They Go Together Like Butcherbirds and Barbed Wire「🔗」

• Athena starts working as a personal trainer

• Anarchy is able to get off methadone

  
  

• [Marchish, after getting out of jail] Chey finds the youth outreach program, recovery begins

  • Also gets his HIV diagnosis & begins antiretroviral therapy

  • At this stage, even after starting methadone he continues self-medicating with other drugs; primarily MDMA and codeine, though he dabbles in almost anything he comes across

• Chey meets/befriends Sylvie & Jett while employed as a dancer

• Chey relapses, his “first strike”

• Chey manages to get his GED with guidance from his program but feels it’s essentially useless and keeps dancing rather than seeking other work

• [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「🔗」

• 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

• Aetos gets his high school diploma

• Aetos gets top surgery

• Aetos gets his own apartment to avoid “crowding” Seth

• Aetos starts college for a degree in education at CUNY Queens

• [April➝October] Fawkes/Kato relationship; Kato moves in with her in June

  • [April] Things become exclusive; Ready To Fall「🔗」

  • [October] Break up; Clairvoyance, Unsound「🔗」

• [late October] The Waterfront「🔗」

• [late October / early November] Rift opens up between EoI and Nightshrike after Bryluen & Kato’s confrontation drives a wedge between the two bands; they end up parting ways | We’ve Built Bridges Just For Burning「🔗」

• [November] Sethfire tries to slit his own throat while extremely drunk; gets to the hospital thanks to Jazz

• [late November] Kato & Anarchy start hooking up again, but there’s an unspoken air of things being more emotionally inclined this time around

• [winter] Athena and Teagan start dating; Athena gets her own apartment and Beatrice, her fireleg tarantula | A Sleepless Winter 「🔗」

• [December] EoI releases their EP "Concrete As A Painkiller" 「🔗」

[January] Kato meets Storm | Looking For a Tornado「🔗」

• [January] Athena gets Bread, her ball python

• [late January] Anarchy/Kato “relationship” falls apart | Us Against The Almost 「🔗」

• Loose Threads & In-betweens「🔗」

• [February] Sethfire finally introduces Jazz to the rest of the band | Answers Without Questions 「🔗」

• [February]Call The Ships To Port「🔗」

• [February] Kato starts hooking up with Isaac | Kahlua, Contrition; In Lieu of Love「🔗」

• [February] Symphonies In Thunderstorms「🔗」

• Chey earns his Associates in Information Technology

• [March] Sethfire saves Jazz from a suicide attempt

• [March 28] Chey reconnects with Anarchy/meets the others | Never Meant To Be Gone So Long「🔗」

• [March 29] Black Coffee, Unbroken Bonds「🔗」

• [March 31] Running Parallels「🔗」

• [April 1] I’m Sorry I Made You Wait「🔗」

• [April 2] I’m Watching You Breathing In「🔗」

• [April 3] What Did They Do To You?「🔗」

• [April] Still Sunlight「🔗」

• [April 14] He’s A Drowning Man「🔗」

• [April]Be Who You Are「🔗」

• [April]The Heartbreak Blood That’s Spilt 「🔗」

• [late April] Kato and Isaac part ways | We’re Nothing But Blood「🔗」

• [late April]To Be Earned「🔗」

• [late April] Mutually Assured Destruction「🔗」

• [late April]Chey gets JayyVon (“Jayy”) and Eve Libertine (“Libertine” / “Libby”), his sugar gliders

• [May] Audrianna reaches out; EoI starts reconnecting to Nightshrike + crew (sans Bryluen) | Flock Together 「🔗」

• [summer]Breaking In and Healing Things 「🔗」

• [August]Of Love and Epitaphs 「🔗」

• [late August] Anarchy and Chey start dating | The Time Is Here At Last 「🔗」

• [September]Love As Meant 「🔗」

• [October] Sethfire opens up to Aetos about having been sexually abused | A Truth Too Bitter To Bear Alone 「🔗」

• All The Ways We Never Lost Each Other「🔗」

• Chey starts trying to taper off of methadone

  
  
  

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

• [January/February] Anarchy reconnects with his mother | Like A Boy Needs His Mother’s Side「🔗」

• Chey reconnects with Sylvie & Jett | Neon Eyes「🔗」

  • He starts intermittently DJing at their club, Neonize

  • EoI starts occasionally playing at Neonize

• [spring] Teagan teaches Chey to swim | The Waters Where I Learned To Swim「🔗」

• [late spring] Athena reconnects with HS friends Savannah & Devon | Nous Sommes Nos Choix「🔗」

• Chey and Jordan reconnect

• [September] EoI publishes fourth album, "B⬛RN D⬛WN Y⬛⬛R SCH⬛⬛L" 「🔗」

• [September] Introspection, Ink-stained Skin 「🔗」

• [December] Nothing Stops At Skin Deep 「🔗」

• [March] A Past, Unburied 「🔗」

• [spring] Kato ceases camming & his use of sex as self-harm | The Complications of Camwork and Quarantine「🔗」

• Chey stops going to his clinic during COVID-19 quarantine and is able to get off of methadone

• Kato fully uncovers his memories of being sexually abused as a child | After Nineteen Years of Nothing 「🔗」

• [late spring] Chey & Anarchy get engaged | Not Time’s Fool「🔗」

• [October] Aetos confronts Sethfire about his alcoholism | Who Saves The Saviour? 「🔗」

  • Sethfire goes into rehab; stops drinking

• [early December] Sethfire and Aetos start ‘going on dates’

• 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

• [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

• 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

  • Think They’ll Call Us Guns n’ Roses「🔗」

• [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

  • Despite his relative recovery, Kato isn’t able to dodge PPND/PPNOCD (Paternal Postnatal Depression/OCD) & he resolutely hides the resurgence in his intrusive thoughts—and therefore doesn’t seek treatment

• [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:

• [spring] July & Olivia start dating

• [spring] Roscoe & Slick start dating

• [mid-spring] Slick moves into the Winters household

  • For All The Flowers Watered By Storms「🔗」

2045:

• [September] Flowerbombers start senior year of high school

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

  • Subsequently attempts suicide but fails when the rope breaks

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

  • Anarchy then meets Chey at a railyard & they become fast friends | Take Me Where I’ve Never Been 「🔗」

• [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:

• [spring] Unspoken Words, Untaken Chances「🔗」

• [spring] Athena’s ED gets bad & she moves in with Sethfire | Your Coffin Would Be Far Too Light「🔗」

• Sethfire completes that year of traditional college & gets his Bachelor’s, but decides to pursue a Master’s degree in Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness; mostly online, to ensure he’s available to Athena

• [midsummer] Kato gets his Uzi through a private sale off the internet

• [late summer] Kato gets his Glock 19 and shotgun through private sales at a gun show

• [September] Kato’s “incident” | Blood In Your Mouth vs Blood On My Hands「🔗」

  • Kato drops out of school; moves in with Sethfire & Athena

• [December 8] Anarchy rescued | Every Breath Is Mine To Take「🔗」

  • Subsequently starts therapy & methadone treatment | Withdrawal Days「🔗」

• [December 13] Haircuts and Histories「🔗」

• 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:

• Athena and Gabriel reconnect; introduction to Nightshrike | Birds of a Feather 「🔗」

• EoI starts playing at Eocene Nightclub 「🔗」

• Anarchy gets his wing tattoo at Cinnabar Ink, leading to EoI’s introduction to Fawkes | Brothers in Arms 「🔗」

• [March] EoI puts out their second album, "Broken Glass Just Tastes Like Blood" 「🔗」

• [early April➝late May] Anarchy/Angela relationship | Don’t Trust A Matchmaker With A Zippo In His Pocket 「🔗」

• [April] Kato meets Leucosia; they quickly fall into a relationship

• They Go Together Like Butcherbirds and Barbed Wire「🔗」

• Athena starts working as a personal trainer

• Anarchy is able to get off methadone

  
  

• [Marchish, after getting out of jail] Chey finds the youth outreach program, recovery begins

  • Also gets his HIV diagnosis & begins antiretroviral therapy

  • At this stage, even after starting methadone he continues self-medicating with other drugs; primarily MDMA and codeine, though he dabbles in almost anything he comes across

• Chey meets/befriends Sylvie & Jett while employed as a dancer

• Chey relapses, his “first strike”

• Chey manages to get his GED with guidance from his program but feels it’s essentially useless and keeps dancing rather than seeking other work

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:

• Aetos gets his high school diploma

• Aetos gets top surgery

• Aetos gets his own apartment to avoid “crowding” Seth

• Aetos starts college for a degree in education at CUNY Queens

• [April➝October] Fawkes/Kato relationship; Kato moves in with her in June

  • [April] Things become exclusive; Ready To Fall「🔗」

  • [October] Break up; Clairvoyance, Unsound「🔗」

• [late October] The Waterfront「🔗」

• [late October / early November] Rift opens up between EoI and Nightshrike after Bryluen & Kato’s confrontation drives a wedge between the two bands; they end up parting ways | We’ve Built Bridges Just For Burning「🔗」

• [November] Sethfire tries to slit his own throat while extremely drunk; gets to the hospital thanks to Jazz

• [late November] Kato & Anarchy start hooking up again, but there’s an unspoken air of things being more emotionally inclined this time around

• [winter] Athena and Teagan start dating; Athena gets her own apartment and Beatrice, her fireleg tarantula | A Sleepless Winter 「🔗」

• [December] EoI releases their EP "Concrete As A Painkiller" 「🔗」

2018:

• [January] Kato meets Storm | Looking For a Tornado「🔗」

• [January] Athena gets Bread, her ball python

• [late January] Anarchy/Kato “relationship” falls apart | Us Against The Almost 「🔗」

• Loose Threads & In-betweens「🔗」

• [February] Sethfire finally introduces Jazz to the rest of the band | Answers Without Questions 「🔗」

• [February] Call The Ships To Port「🔗」

• [February] Kato starts hooking up with Isaac | Kahlua, Contrition; In Lieu of Love「🔗」

• [February] Symphonies In Thunderstorms「🔗」

• Chey earns his Associates in Information Technology

• [March] Sethfire saves Jazz from a suicide attempt

• [March 28] Chey reconnects with Anarchy/meets the others | Never Meant To Be Gone So Long「🔗」

• [March 29] Black Coffee, Unbroken Bonds「🔗」

• [March 31] Running Parallels「🔗」

• [April 1] I’m Sorry I Made You Wait「🔗」

• [April 2] I’m Watching You Breathing In「🔗」

• [April 3] What Did They Do To You?「🔗」

• [April] Still Sunlight「🔗」

• [April 14] He’s A Drowning Man「🔗」

• [April] Be Who You Are「🔗」

• [April] The Heartbreak Blood That’s Spilt 「🔗」

• [late April] Kato and Isaac part ways | We’re Nothing But Blood「🔗」

• [late April] To Be Earned「🔗」

• [late April] Mutually Assured Destruction「🔗」

• [late April] Chey gets JayyVon (“Jayy”) and Eve Libertine (“Libertine” / “Libby”), his sugar gliders

• [May] Audrianna reaches out; EoI starts reconnecting to Nightshrike + crew (sans Bryluen) | Flock Together 「🔗」

• [summer] Breaking In and Healing Things 「🔗」

• [August] Of Love and Epitaphs 「🔗」

• [late August] Anarchy and Chey start dating | The Time Is Here At Last 「🔗」

• [September] Love As Meant 「🔗」

• [October] Sethfire opens up to Aetos about having been sexually abused | A Truth Too Bitter To Bear Alone 「🔗」

• All The Ways We Never Lost Each Other「🔗」

• Chey starts trying to taper off of methadone

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

2019:

• [January/February] Anarchy reconnects with his mother | Like A Boy Needs His Mother’s Side「🔗」

• Chey reconnects with Sylvie & Jett | Neon Eyes「🔗」

  • He starts intermittently DJing at their club, Neonize

  • EoI starts occasionally playing at Neonize

• [spring] Teagan teaches Chey to swim | The Waters Where I Learned To Swim「🔗」

• [late spring] Athena reconnects with HS friends Savannah & Devon | Nous Sommes Nos Choix「🔗」

• Chey and Jordan reconnect

• [September] EoI publishes fourth album, "B⬛RN D⬛WN Y⬛⬛R SCH⬛⬛L" 「🔗」

• [September] Introspection, Ink-stained Skin 「🔗」

• [December] Nothing Stops At Skin Deep 「🔗」

2020:

• [March] A Past, Unburied 「🔗」

• [spring] Kato ceases camming & his use of sex as self-harm | The Complications of Camwork and Quarantine「🔗」

• Chey stops going to his clinic during COVID-19 quarantine and is able to get off of methadone

• Kato fully uncovers his memories of being sexually abused as a child | After Nineteen Years of Nothing 「🔗」

• [late spring] Chey & Anarchy get engaged | Not Time’s Fool「🔗」

• [October] Aetos confronts Sethfire about his alcoholism | Who Saves The Saviour? 「🔗」

  • Sethfire goes into rehab; stops drinking

• [early December] Sethfire and Aetos start ‘going on dates’

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

  • Think They’ll Call Us Guns n’ Roses「🔗」

• [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

  • Despite his relative recovery, Kato isn’t able to dodge PPND/PPNOCD (Paternal Postnatal Depression/OCD) & he resolutely hides the resurgence in his intrusive thoughts—and therefore doesn’t seek treatment

• [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:

• [spring] July & Olivia start dating

• [spring] Roscoe & Slick start dating

• [mid-spring] Slick moves into the Winters household

  • For All The Flowers Watered By Storms「🔗」

2045:

• [September] Flowerbombers start senior year of high school