A Question For A Fic...

[missmara13]

Okay, so I'm working on a new fic (A One-Shot) and desperately need a bit of info and don't know where I might find it...

In the 4th season of The OC, Frank told a story about an Atwood family vacation... I can't remember any details though... what I need to know is:

How old was Ryan? (Had to be younger than 8 since I believe that was established as how old he was when Frank got locked up)
Where did they go/were they going to go? (I seem to remember something about it being aborted, but maybe I'm crazy... lol)
Any other little details about that story? lol

The fic is a little short thing chronicling Ryan and Trey's early childhoods, at least up until Frank got locked up, maybe continuing until stealing the car... although if I continue it to that point, with how this story is written so far, it's gonna turn into a backstory for 'Heavily Broken'... lol

Thanks!

Comments

[missmara13]

Well, I think they changed it many times over the course of the series... especially since the Atwoods moved to CHino only after Frank got locked up, and yet suppossedly Ryan was at Theresa's 6th birthday party... so unless Theresa was 11 in Season 1 (4 years younger than Ryan...) they clearly changed his age multiple times... lol

[millstone1005.livejournal.com]

Over at TWoP we came up with a possible scenario which reconciles the multiple conflicting statements that they moved from Fresno to Chino after Frank got arrested, and the other things which said that Ryan lived in Chino his whole life (multiple statements that Ryan and Theresa grew up together, that they knew each other their whole lives, plus the birthday party thing). Plus the statement that Frank did live in Chino (e.g. when Kirsten told Taylor that Chino is inland and Frank was a mechanic, not a fisherman).

The theory is that Ryan and the Atwoods (including Frank) lived in Chino ever since Ryan was born, then maybe a year or a couple of years before he went to prison, Frank moved the family to Fresno, and Dawn moved herself and the boys back to Chino after Frank got arrested.

[missmara13]

That so totally makes sense and works.... lol...