headcannon headaches (pls help/j)
Context: ok so i have this incessent need to make my story as canon compliant as possible, and this goes for most fandoms im in. I'm flexible with some stuff (for example, i'll always have erasermic be married in my mha writing, i'll always have wolfstar exist in my mauraders stuff), but when it comes to timelines i am pretty strict.
a friend of mine once told me that my story fit so well they forgot it WASN'T canon and it made me so happy that I'm striving to do that even now.
I'm writing fic with Sammy in it and I've always headcannoned him as like, a bible-belt-farm-kid-oldest-son who didn't talk much with most people but MAN could he play that old piano at church like an extension of his own body and he doesnt have many friends but WOW can he make up a song on the spot and get everyone dancing in 2 shakes
i was kind of thinking south carolina. baptist. livestock farm. can you guess what they had? Sheep. :D
and this was all fine and dandy! except that Sammy somehow has to be working in New York as a teenager in 1922 in a cinema ! AwEsome......
I averaged it out so that he was around 15 or 16 in 1922, because thats kind of average teenager age
making him around... born 1907, about 6 years younger than Joey Drew. which is fine, because that fits based on Joey's autobiography.
the PROBLEM is who in their right mind would have their teenage son move STATES all by himself to get a job at the cinema in new york
im so freaking rigid that i don't want to change anything but... yknow, show must go on
OK so ive thought of... some solutions?
Have him be from a more northern bible-belt state. Virginia maybe. Still not great that he's moving states as a teen though
"starving artist wants to pursue his dreams" trope, maybe he could run off to the city with Jack or something? it could fit. downside is he'd never finish highschool. Which i suppose is fine. I personally don't think he had much musical education anyway (thats for a different post)
His father somehow gets a job in the city and sammy goes with him. This way he can finish highschool, but it does kind of take away part of the farm stuff i wanted and thats... not ideal.
i sound dramatic but my brain is not handling this wellllll....