a glimpse at the future of the muses, when they don’t meet outside muses.
Hunter graduates from college a little earlier, goes to grad school, keeps going to grad school, eventually gets a PHD. The kid, who’s no longer a kid at this point-- although his unending optimism seems to indicate otherwise-- loves robotics. He loves them like some people love art or movies or video games. He loves them as a hobby that he turns into a career. And he revolutionizes the industry. He becomes the industry. He wins an award or two while he’s still alive. He wins several more posthumously. People talk about how he died too young. He’s 35 and his heart fails one night while he’s working late in his lab. But he always knew his heart would fail earlier than most and even death can’t banish that optimism. He’s lived a good life and he’s happy with all he accomplished before he went.
Kai and Vivian go into business together, because neither of them can handle having a boss and both of them want to do something other than steal for the rest of their lives. It’s the first thing he’s worked on in ages that he can tell his parents about and he’s so proud of it. Vivian has the artistic skill and Kai has the technical know-how. They go into animation together. It starts with a webseries, becomes a cartoon, becomes a couple of video games and keeps going. It’s just the two of them for ages, before they finally start expanding and somehow they’re in charge of a company and it’s doing well and they’re making money. They offer jobs to all of their old roommates, but none of them accept. They’re not surprised, but the offer was sincere.
Chase dies young, like his brother. Because not everyone gets a happy ending. Viv is devastated, even if the development isn’t shocking. He’s out on a hunt and things go wrong. He’s in his 40s, 41 to be exact, and at this point, he’s honestly tired, though he doesn’t know what else to do with his life. There’s no one there to help him, because he’s never been good at teamwork, and the wendigo gets the best of him. He meets his brother in the afterlife, learns he even had a brother to begin with, dislikes his parents a little more with this information. He sees Abby for the first time in nearly 25 years. She’s a little angry, but not quite what he expected. But grudges never were her thing. She’s gone after that, her soul finally able to go wherever it was meant to go. They both needed closure, apparently. He and Hunter both reincarnate, eventually, into happier families and better lives, so maybe there is a happy ending somewhere.
Dana loves cars more than some parents love their own children and she can’t imagine doing anything that doesn’t involve them. So when she’s had her fill of crime, she opens up a shop. She hires more women than men, because there aren’t enough female mechanics out in the world. She pays for it all with money she’s saved over the years, so it’s a little questionable, but Kai covers her tracks for her and she settles in happily. She loves restoring old cars. She does it in her spare time and she’s helped a few regular clients out with it. It’s not an exciting life, but it feels right and she can’t complain.
Robin sorts his shit out, which involves finding another seer who knows how to control the ability and learning from them. It takes time, but he’s willing to do it. This is all he’s ever wanted out of life. The first thing he does once he’s gained control is go to a bar, have a few drinks, and make out with a stranger, because he’s never been able to touch anyone else in his life. The second thing he does, the next day, is check into rehab. It’s rough and unpleasant, but as soon as he’s allowed visitors, his friends are there for him, and he gets clean. He goes back to school, gets a degree in history, starts teaching high school. He knew when he was a kid that this was what he wanted to do if he could ever be around people without risking his powers acting up. He never expected that day to come, but here he is and he’s amazed.
Things don’t go so smoothly for Kit. But things have never gone smoothly for Kit. His powers develop further and telepathy is hard to deal with. He can barely handle his own brain. How the fuck is he supposed to deal with everyone else’s? Answer: he isn’t. He doesn’t try to, anyway. He relapses. And it’s awful. But one of his friends is psychic and now that Robin can control it, he checks in on his friends every so often. So there’s a warehouse reunion and Kit goes to rehab and… they call Jamie. Jamie, who doesn’t believe them when they say his brother is alive. Jamie, who takes some convincing to get to the rehab center. Jamie, who cries when he sees Kit. And Kit cries when he sees Jamie for the first time in years. He almost doesn’t recognize his little brother anymore. Jamie is taller than him now. Who the fuck let that happen? Kit’s not exactly happy that Kai-- because who else could have done it?-- dug around enough to find his brother, but… he is happy to see him again. So Kit gets clean all over again and it feels even harder than it did the first time, but now he can’t fuck up for Jamie’s sake. And Jamie teaches him how to control the telepathy, because that little shit develops it first and has always handled things better than Kit ever could. He gets out of rehab and then it comes time for him to get his shit together, except that he still doesn’t want to be a functioning member of society with a 9-5 job. That sounds fucking awful. So he stays in the warehouse and it becomes a halfway house for the supernatural and Kit ends up in charge of another group of 20-somethings who are figuring life out and another after that and so on and so forth. He’s harboring fugitives, but he doesn’t care most of the time. Jamie uses his inheritance to keep the lights on and to handle expenses the residents can’t manage and it’s weird but it works. It’s good to have his brother back in his life and things are… good. He doesn’t know if they’ve ever been good before. He spends a few years waiting for the other shoe to drop, but it doesn’t. Things are good and they stay good for a long, long time.
