Hello there!
I was wondering...What would Griff, Zeph and Cricket be up to these days? Like in the year of 2023 and considering they've entered their thirties?
Both with,- and without MC :D
HI!! love this question :3
(sorry it took so long to answer, you'll see why when you see how massive this post is LOL)
So it's 2023, Griff is 43, Zeph is 42 and Cricket is 40 years old!
TLDR (this post is extremely long so sorry!):
WITH MC -
Griff - Griff left big firm and founded a charity surrounding programming/helping houseless kids get off the street. MC live & work together, married with no kids! (like to home reptiles though!)
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Zeph - Zeph left e-sports as a player instead with the help of MC became an e-sports coach & owns his own games (most TTRP) shop!. Has one kid with MC! (Zeph takes them to LARP camp)
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Cricket - Cricket did a PhD programme after his degree, went to do field work for a few years. Got married to MC in a museum, had three kids together. Cricket decided to be a stay at home dad until kids were older, then he became a professor!
WITHOUT MC -
Cricket - Decided to leave his PhD programme early, tried to be a professer but he works in the museum instead! Adopted twin boys and raises them alone. Not looking for a romantic partner, whatever happens happens.
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Zeph - Zeph worked at gamestop for a while after quitting e-sports, opened his own game (mostly TTRP) shop, had to sell a few of his rare figures since gamestop didn't pay so well and he didn't have many savings left over. Fell in love with a man, a regular in his shop. Together for over 10 years and have 2 kids by 2023!
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Griff - Single bachelor life, designed an app and sold it for a small fortune. Started his charity although didn't really get to be too big, didn't put in the time for it to grow. Fancy apartment, badly decorated. No kids!
[full post below ]
Griff - Griff was working for a big firm in his 20's, he hated it though. MC helped Griff start his own small company, it was all focused on his chartity.
Griff's company was all about teaching vulnerable kids valuable skills, so the kids who were unhoused would come in a few times a week to learn programming and then the company would help the kid get a job/help write their resume.
Griff was happy doing this. In his spare time he even learnt about ethical and non-ethical hacking.
Sometimes, to impress the kids he worked with he'd hack into his shitty old companies that treated him and his co-workers like trash and make a bit of a mess of the place. Griff started the charity after seeing unhouse kids at the metal concerts he went to.
MC and griff had a small destination wedding and moved into a beautiful home, it was big and furnished as if the pair had lived there for years, whilst still maintaining griff's style.
MC and griff decided not to have any children, they instead home snakes and other reptiles. It's enough for them. They live happily together, it's a nice life :)
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Zeph - Zeph eventually realised the e-sports scene was being taken over by younger people, when he was in his early thirties he decided to retire from professional e-sports.
For a while he became a bit stuck and wasn't sure how to progress in life, he went back to his dad's shop for a few years.
MC researched things online and together they both found out Zeph could become an e-sports coach! That seemed like the perfect transition for him.
He coached a few times a week and then eventually opened up a games, primarily TTRPG, shop!
MC and Zeph spend their weekends sitting by Ebay bids waiting for their rare dice sets!
They collected a lot of figures together, MC got more and more into anime and that side of the internet thanks to being with Zeph! And Zeph never really left, if anything he got more into it as well!
MC and Zeph decided to just have the one kid, seemed enough for them :)!
Since their kid was old enough, Zeph has taken their child to LARP camp (it started off as mostly a thing for zeph, but eventually their kid got super into it as well!)
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Cricket - Cricket soon finished his degree after he and MC began a relationship and for a while wasn't sure what to do next. Although it didn't take long for Cricket to find a PhD programme he was interested in!
After his PhD programme was finished he jumped straight into full time work, he began his career as a palaeontologist! Working directly out in the field, which luckily wasn't too far from his and MC's home.
MC and cricket decided to look online to see if they could get married in their local museum, it seemed like the perfect place for the pair.
Thankfully the museum was totally on board!
It was a small wedding, Cricket's family wasn't very large at all, it was cosy, it was perfect.
After a few years doing his field work Cricket decided to step back from that side of palaeontology. Instead since the pair had 3 three kids Cricket decided when they were all quite young to become a stay-at-home dad.
When the kids got a bit older he decided he would become a university professor, specialising in palaeontology of course!
MC and cricket have a wondeful life together, it truly is everything they wanted and more!
Although the pair weren't super inolved with anime anymore they still watched it occasionally with their kids, it is a nostalgic thing mostly nowadays :)!
Cricket - Cricket sped through his degree and managed to graduate a few months early, he immeidiately hopped into a PhD programme without giving himself much of a break between finishing his degree and hopping into his PhD.
Cricket eventually became a bit burnt out about a year into his programme, he took a break, a year off, maybe that would help he thought.
It did help but it made Cricket realise maybe a PhD programme wasn't for him, school was great and all but it was he time to move on.
He decided to see if he could take a job as a professor at the local university, he got a part-time position but eventually that didn't work out for him, it felt too dull for him.
His last stop was his local museum, he did a trial shift and loved it! He began working at the museum and did not think he could love work so much!
Eventually Cricket decided, he wanted a child. After years of waiting and hoping he had finally got the call he'd been wating for, twins! He adopted twin boys and decided that he was happy being a single father to them.
Cricket wasn't super interested in romance, it would happen when it would happen and if that was never that was fine with him too!
Cricket and OrionsTouch stayed in contact and kept being the best of friends. OT helped Cricket keep his love of anime and although it wasn't as big a hobby as it once was, it was nostalgic for the both of them and they loved reminiscing.
It is a lovely life :)
Would things be different if Cricket had stuck out his PhD programme? Maybe? But the life he has now was more than enough :).
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Zeph - For a long while Zeph was feeling sort of burnt out from his e-sports career, it kept feeling like he was just doing it because it was what he was good at not because he wanted to.
In his early 30's he decided to retire.
He worked at a gamestop for a few years before he decided to open his own game store.
He had to put up a few of his own figures at first, he didn't really want to but gamestop didn't make him tons of money so it was his best bet.
He thought he could always find them online again, if his shop did well.
After a few years of working long nights and even some weekends he started seeing the same regular customer popping in.
Zeph couldn't bring up the courage to talk to this attractive person and just hoped they would start the conversation first.
The customer walked up to the counter after weeks of just popping in and looking around. He had decided to purchase a rare comic Zeph had just gotten in, Zeph plucked up the nerve and started talking about how this was from one of his favourite series.
It wasn't long before the pair went on their first date. By 2023 the two guys had been together for just over 10 years :)!
They decided to have two kids together and live happily ever after!
Maybe things would have turned out differently if zeph had made other choices, ah well...best not to dwell
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Griff - Griff went to work in his late 20's for a big firm. Whilst working for this big firm he decided to make an app, maybe it would do well but his corporate life was draining him a bit and he just wanted a personal project. Griff finished the app, sold it and make a massive lump sum and quit working at the firm forever.
He's extremely wealthy, lives in a nice apartment (although he's bad at furnishing so the place looks like he just moved in, even though he's lived there for at least a decade).
He still owns and drives his car he had in 2005, it's pretty broken. It's falling apart but he just won't replace it for some reason.
He has no kids and is still single most of the time. He's happy, he loves his life but maybe there's something missing, he can't quite put his finger on it.
