TIMELINE - SYD RIPLEY
Below is an in-depth timeline of Syd Ripley's life from birth (April 30, 1992) until now (beginning of August 2023).
Please be aware of trigger warnings under the cut.
TW // Transphobia, Crime, Drugs
BORN: April 30, 1992
Born in New Jersey to Carlos and Alice Jiminez. Assigned female at birth. (older brother Maverick Jiminez born 1990)
Played in little-league soccer teams and loved participating in team sports as a kid.
2007 - Made it onto his high school field hockey team, but was often made fun of for being a 'tomboy'.
February 2008 - Syd realizes he's trans, and comes out to a very close friend from English class.
August 2008 - Comes out to his parents. They refuse to understand it and encourage him not to go talking about it to people.
September 2008 - Junior year, Syd's grades suffer. He begins to come out to other friends and even trusted teachers at school.
Syd lives what feels like a double life, being comfortably Syd at school (with some teasing and bullying that he handles with his fists usually) and coming home to a family who refuse to acknowledge his new name and pronouns.
May 2010 - Syd graduates from high school and immediately packs up his old car and leaves home. He moves to NYC where some cousins lived, to start a new life. He lives out of his car until he finds a roommate. Changes his last name to 'Ripley'.
Early 2012 - Syd begins freelance camboy work to help pay bills.
2014 - Syd drives back home to see if his parents have had a change of heart. They haven't. The meeting is bittersweet and Syd goes back to NYC.
June 2018 - In and out of jobs, Syd begins a new job as a server at a seedy diner. He ends up sleeping with a customer (a Cartel member) who hires him as extra muscle for a 'gig'. No questions asked, $300 to carry some stuff. Less than an hour's work. He takes it. He starts taking other muscle jobs from them after this.
September 2018 - Syd starts testosterone!
January 2019 - Syd gets fired from his diner job after punching out a customer for being gross. The Cartel hires him to help run the laundromat.
March 2020 - Syd gets top surgery!
November 2021 - Syd tries fighting in The Arène. He does well, but is unsettled by it (mostly the wealthy men screaming and jeering around him). But he's paid handsomely.
Early 2022 - Syd goes back to fight in The Arène. This time he's beaten, and suffers pretty bad injuries. While nursing his wounds out in an alleyway, he meets someone who takes him home & takes care of him (WC).
Current - Syd still works at the laundromat, debates going back to The Arène, and continues doing muscle work for the Cartel.