Editing Timeline (section)

===1993===
*January 19th
**[[Protectorate]] and [[PRT]] officially formed.<ref name="I15.z">'''January 18th, 1993'''<br><br>“I, Alexandria, do solemnly affirm that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the director appointed over me, according to the regulations of the PRTCJ.”<br><br>Applause swelled around her.  As far as the eye could see, there were crowds and flashing cameras.  President Griffin extended a hand and she shook it.<br><br>He leaned close, “You do us proud.”<br><br>“Thank you, James.  I’ll give my all.”<br><br>He squeezed her hand and moved on.<br><br>“I, Eidolon, do solemnly affirm…” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/11/08 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref>
*June
**[[Brian Laborn]] born.<ref name="4.4">I turn eighteen in June, and when I do, I plan to get my mother and father’s parental rights terminated and apply to become Aisha’s guardian. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/10/04 Excerpt] from [[Shell 4.4]]</ref>
*After June
**[[Aegis|Carlos]] born.<ref name="3.x">“You’re next oldest, after Carlos.  It’s only going to be what, three or four months, before you’re the senior member?”<br><br>“And I’ll hold that position for not even the rest of the summer before I graduate and pass the mantle to you,” Clockblocker smiled self deprecatingly, “No worries.  Take charge.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/09/20 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 3]]</ref>
**[[Clockblocker|Dennis]] born.<ref name="3.x"/>
**[[Dean Stansfield]] born.<ref name="9.5">Vista had to bite her tongue.  Pointing out that people were being condescending had a way of making her look petulant, which only compounded the problem.  Yes.  Because any maturity on my part is something special.  Doesn’t matter that I have nine months of seniority over Kid Win, being thirteen means everyone expects me to be squealing over Justin Beiber or the Maggie Holt books, or dressing in pink or-<br><br>Her train of thought stopped dead when her eye fell on the portraits on the wall above the front desk.<br><br>Three feet high and two feet wide, the two pictures were black and white, bordered by foot-wide black frames.  The pictures themselves were head-and-shoulders shots of Aegis and Gallant, both in costume, masks on.  She knew from her own experience that the pictures would have been taken in their first week on the team.  Gallant looked so young.  He had still been so young when the tidal wave had smashed into him and caved in his chest.  Only seventeen.<br><br>She looked at her own picture.  In contrast to the boys’, it was vibrant, filled with color.  Her eyes, costume and the frame of the picture were a high-saturation blue-green, the background of the image a sunset orange to highlight her blonde hair.  Vista was young in that picture too.  Her photo had a missing fang tooth on the bottom row, which created a small, dark gap in her awkward smile.  She’d been just a month shy of turning eleven, then. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/04/17 Excerpt] from [[Sentinel 9.5]]</ref><ref name="II1.5">I’d been studying it with more interest because Dean was turning eighteen before long, and we were worried he’d get moved to another city, even with his family situation being what it was. - [[Daybreak 1.5]]</ref>
**[[Lily]] born.<ref name="Foil">Foil is 17 and a senior. She triggered 3 years prior to her appearance, as part of a group trigger in New York. One of her old nemeses, March, was another part of that group trigger. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/17584328/ Private conversation with Wildbow, archived on Spacebattles]</ref>
*July 6th
**Behemoth attacks [[Wikipedia: São Paulo|São Paulo]].<ref>São Paulo, July 6th, 1993.  Behemoth. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/interlude-24/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref>
*Between October and December 31th <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%"><div class="mw-collapsible-content"><small>Victoria, in 2011, is in her senior year of high school: she belongs to the age range of 17 to 18.<ref name="SB eVictoriaSenior">'''Wildbow:'''
:Victoria & Amy in College 
Victoria is already taking college classes at the local University. She's studying parahuman sciences part time while still in high school (note her mentioning that she's already taken Parahumans 101 in 9.3). Her grades were good enough she could have skipped a grade, but she decided to stay in High School for mornings only, so she could remain in touch with friends and enjoy her senior year. - Comment by Wildbow [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15204095 on Spacebattles]</ref> According to Victoria, she was seventeen when she arrived at the Asylum.<ref>And, last but not least, Vista.  She had to be seventeen now.  As old as I’d been when I’d been hospitalized. - [[Shadow 5.7]]</ref> Victoria, in October 2015, notes the day after the Navigators Incident<ref>“Yeah,” I said.  “I’m thinking I get three or four hours of sleep, then we wrangle the heroes.  Organize something, see what info we can dig up.” - [[Polarize 10.11]]</ref><ref>Eight hours of intermittent snowfall hadn’t covered up all of the blood. - [[Polarize 10.12]]</ref> that she is twenty-one.<ref>I had to be something more than a twenty-one year old woman, unarmed, against a man five inches taller than me who was armed with an axe. - [[Polarize 10.13]]</ref><br><br>According to Marquis, Amy was six before his incarceration in February 2000.<ref name="II7.9 eBirdcage" /><ref name="15.x eAge">“The motherfucker has a kid?” Lightstar muttered the question, as if to himself.  “And she’s, what,  five?”<br><br>“Six,” Marquis answered.<br><br>''Six.  Vicky’s age, then.  She looks younger.'' - [[Interlude 15.x]]</ref> On June 4, 2011,<ref name="10.5 e1" /> Marquis states that Amy is currently seventeen:<ref>Marquis frowned.  “My daughter, she would be… what year is it?  2010?”<br><br>“2011,” Lung replied.<br><br>“She would be seventeen. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/05/17 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 10.5]]</ref> this is correct if she is six in February 2000 as Amy would be born before March 1994. Both Carol Dallon and Sarah Pelham believed Amy was Victoria's age (6) before Amy's adoption.<ref name="15.x eAge" /><ref>“You should.  Amelia’s Vicky’s age, I think they would be close.” - [[Interlude 15.x]]</ref> According to Amy, she was six when she was adopted and seventeen before she left Carol and Mark Dallon and went to the Birdcage.<ref name="II20.e6 eAmy">“Whenever I’m with Carol and Mark, it’s hard to think,” Crystal said.  “There are dynamics, there’s things left unsaid.  It’s… heavy.  I feel like I’m always waiting for the other shoe to drop.”<br><br>“My life from age six to seventeen, pretty much.”<br><br>“Yeah,” Crystal said.  She wasn’t sure how to sustain this conversation. - [[Last 20.e6]]</ref><br><br>In June 2011, Amy claims to Taylor that she is sixteen now; however, she presumably brings it up in the context of getting a non-government job and avoiding rules and regulations that apply to exploiting minors with powers.<ref name="14.6 e1">“Just- I’m just keeping her complacent.  I’m okay with it if she doesn’t forgive me for it.  Don’t deserve it anyways.  I do this, and then I’ll go somewhere I can be useful.  Only reason I haven’t made more of myself and my power is because of the rules and regulations about exploiting minors with powers.  Either go into government or don’t work at all, and didn’t want to go into government because they would have made me a weapon.  And because I needed to be with my family.”<br><br>She smiled, but it wasn’t a happy expression.  “Burned that bridge.  But I’m sixteen now, I can get a job somewhere, start making a real difference with my power.” - [[Prey 14.6]]</ref> Eric Pelham in 2011 is fifteen before his death:<ref name="age1" /> Amy cannot have turned sixteen in 2011 as Eric is three years younger than Amy.<ref name="II19.9 e1" /><br><br>According to Amy, Victoria and herself are not in middle school after Fleur died.<ref name="II16.y eNotMiddleSchool">“Our aunt Fleur- she wasn’t officially our aunt, there was never a wedding, but I really liked her.  She was kind of an outsider like me.  Her body wasn’t even cold when people were putting microphones in front of us.  We were ''kids''.  Not even in middle school.  That fucks you up.” - [[Interlude 16.y II]]</ref> Her death happened in the latter half of 2007.<sup>[[Timeline#2007|&#91;*&#93;]]</sup> Victoria, in 2007, is not in elementary school as she graduated from middle school in June 2007.<ref name="SB eVictoriaSenior" /> Thus, Amy must have graduated middle school on or before June 2007, as she would otherwise be drastically younger than Victoria to not be in middle school.<ref name="II16.y eNotMiddleSchool" /><ref name="15.x eAge" /> Indeed, Victoria believes she and Amy got to high school at the same time.<ref>Amy had been the odd one in more than I had.  Purely average in appearance, quiet, she hadn’t been passionate about hobbies or about anything in particular.  She’d liked movies from Aleph and when she was twelve she’d break her usual reserved, quiet composure to get ''way'' too excited if she checked the change slot of a vending machine or pay phone and found a quarter.  And yet when we got to high school, she was automatically included in the group of popular students.  The group with Dean, who was supposed to take over his dad’s company, and with the star athletes and the star athletes’ boyfriends and girlfriends. - [[Gleaming 9.2]]</ref><br><br>A short time after Crystal Pelham's trigger event, Victoria had to pick a class in the arts (i.e., art, music, or drama) for her next high school semester,<ref name="II19.9 eArtClass">“And I bet you picked drama.”<br><br>“Art,” I told her.  “At least for the one year.  I’m not very good at it, but there’s emblems and icons, color mechanics, costumes, poses and posture…”<br><br>Amy snorted.  “Of course.  I picked art too, mostly by process of elimination.  So we might be in the same class.”<br><br>“Cool.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/08/infrared-19-9/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.9]]</ref> along with a specialized science class (i.e., chemistry, biology, or physics) for the first time.<ref name="II19.9 eScienceClass">“We’re supposed to take a science class next semester.”<br><br>“Chemistry, biology, or physics,” Amy clarified.  “We got the sheet in homeroom.  Also art, music, or drama.”<br><br>“Same.  What did you pick for science?”<br><br>“Chemistry.  Physics is the advanced kids’ stream and is supposed to be hard, and in biology you might have to dissect frogs.  ''No thank you'',” Amy answered.  “Ick.”<br><br>“I thought there would be some parts of it that are useful for health and fitness, first aid.”<br><br>“You’re thinking about cape stuff,” Amy said.<br><br>“Naturally.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/08/infrared-19-9/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.9]]</ref> Victoria is a freshman and not a sophomore because she would otherwise take a specialized science class in the fall.<ref name="5.4 eSchoolStart" /> As Amy also got these instructions and might be in the same art class as Victoria next semester, Amy must be in the same school and birth year as Victoria.<ref name="II19.9 eScienceClass" /><ref name="II19.9 eArtClass" /> On the same day, Victoria also notes that Amy and herself are three years older than Eric Pelham.<ref name="II19.9 e1" /><br><br>Amy is presumably not much younger than Victoria:<ref>“''Her''?”  Brandish asked.  But Lady Photon was already reaching for the door, pulling it open.<br><br>A girl.  A child, not much younger than Vicky.  The girl was brown hair, freckle-faced, and clutched a silk pillow to her chest.  She wore a silk nightgown with lace at the collar and sleeves.  It looked expensive for something a child would wear. - [[Interlude 15.x]]</ref> when the Brockton Bay Brigade first met Amy, Lightstar guessed she was five, while Carol thought Amy looked younger than Victoria.<ref name="15.x eAge" /></small></div></div>
**[[Victoria Dallon]] born.
**[[Panacea|Amelia Claire Lavere]] born <small>(Presumably not much younger than Victoria)</small>.