As Douglas Coupland once said "It's embryonic in my head, but it's conceived. I don't want to discuss it for fear of screwing up the zygote." lol.

But I'll discuss it a little.

I want it to focus on Dally and Tim and how they are with each other and what happens with them regarding betrayal and women and their criminal lifestyles.

I'm having an issue because I can already tell my OFC wants a bigger part of the story than she deserves lol. She's integral to the whole "betrayal" part of things, so she needs to be in the story. I wanted to tell it mostly from a 3rd person limited POV from Tim and maybe Dally, but I'm thinking to show them more, her 3rd person POV might work better for the "as others see us" kind of view. I just don't want her to take over the story at all...I'm afraid of it because I've given her a background and everything and it makes me want to use it more lol.

I've decided she's an Aquarius (with a Scorpio moon and Sagittarius rising...yeah, I spend too much time on these things lol). That makes her birthday February 2nd 1948, 3:33am. The story is set in 1966, anywhere from March to August or so...I haven't decided. It's in the same timeframe as Middle Ground took place.

I realized in my research that Tim is a year older than Dally. Dally was 17 (turning 18 in November) but he died before his 18th birthday. Tim was 18 (turning 19 in November). I don't know why, but I always thought of them as the same age until I noticed that.

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I've decided to do astrology charts for each of the characters, based on their ages if the book/movie is set in 1966:

Darry - January 5 1946
Soda - October 8 1949
Ponyboy - July 22 1952
Two-Bit - June 20 1948
Steve - April 15 1949
Johnny - March 1 1950
Dallas - November 9 1948
Tim - November 5 1947

I didn't do astrology for Cherry, Marcia or Randy, because we aren't given their ages, we're only told the girls are 16 or 17. Bob is "about 18", but no age is given for Randy, who could be 17 or 18.

Cherry - March 8
Randy - February 10
Marcia - May 24

I made up my own birthdays for Curly and Angela for my own stories (these are NOT canon):

Curly – April 9 1951
Angela – August 10 1952

( This way for Outsiders Astrology 101 )

There is one sign I left out - the rising sign or ascendant. It is the sign rising on the horizon when you're born and you need your birth time to find it. So the characters could be any rising sign depending on their time of birth. Each sign is rising for about 2 hours a day, so during a 24 hour period, all signs hit the horizon. A rising sign affects how others see you. So we can guess at those ones for each character and make them whatever we want.

Tags: astrology, birthdays, characters' ages, dallas winston, darry curtis, johnny cade, ponyboy curtis, sodapop curtis, steve randle, tim shepard, timeline, two-bit mathews
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