sidebar: one thing, though, in the Halloween episode do they say Waverly wanted to be a scarecrow in second grade?
Because, uh, Ward was dead at that point.
And for them to mean Wynonna was in second grade, Waverly would’ve been two.
The girls are six years apart.The mirror thing/Jolene happened when Waves was five and Mama burned the barn right after. She was five when Mama left. Both girls have a birthday within days of the massacre. That they were 12/6 close to 13th/7th birthdays is like the one math near-constant on this show. But either they were nearly two full years older at the attack, or Waverley skipped two grades, AFTER Mama Earp left?
I could MAYBE buy it if it started Gus coming around, and Waves trusting her more, pre-invasion? But we’re really given the sense that between Mama leaving and the Seven invading, the girls are on their own, and wynonna is spread too thin trying be everything to both sisters, which is how Waverley ends up vulnerable to Bobo.
Waverly could have started school, with a September birthday, and, being Waverly—and actually, I headcanon that Wynonna DID and is young for her grade— but that still requires a skip. (Possible timelines under the cut, I thought waaaay too much about this, because I’m working on a fic that focuses on this period.)