For John and Eden's Ninth Birthday, the Liner Notes for Part One of "Gemini Rising" . I'll put up some more tomorrow (or at least that's the plan right now)
GEMINI RISING, PART ONE
Part 1, of course, was centered around Janine's pregnancy. After a prelude, where Nodus's sample of the Gemini force reacts to the actual conception of the Twins, we flash to Janine actually telling Egon about her suspicions. At first I was going to write it as Egon's birthday (November 21), but later decided Janine's (October 28) would work out better. Either way, the mention of Egon's brithday the previous year ("Back In The Saddle") provided a note of resonance.
Ray and the EGBs battle some ghost penguins. There's a game Ogre has called
Disgaea featuring creatures called "Prinnies", spirits that look an awful lot like penguins and say "Dood" a lot. Thus the ghost penguins who said "Dude" a lot.
Eduardo and Kylie are now an item; Rosey had decided to connect them getting over their issues with the Spengler nuptuals in a story called "Heads or Tails"; they are fated, of course, to have two daughters in 2001 and 2004, and finally get married in 2006.
"But what if they're really from Hoboken?" Gag reference to an old Bugs Bunny cartoon. Bugs goes through hell and high water to get a penguin back to the South Pole, only to discover that it was from a circus in Hoboken.
Kaila McMillan Zeddemore is Winston's wife; Brian Reilly developed her from the bare bone references to Winston's girlfriend in RGB: Winston had a canonical girlfriend mentioned, but not named, in "The Devil To Pay". She appears (but is again, not named) in "The Strength To Dream" (RGB#23), which also establishes her as a museum curator. Kaila mentions her and Winston's daughter Charlene, born in late 1992 (a character Ogre and I created years ago, though Rosey has developed her quite a bit in some of her stories)
Dana Barrett Venkman. Well, yeah, you know who that is. We showed her finally tying the knot with Venkman in "For Worse Or For Better".
Oscar Wallance. Dana's son, the one menaced by Vigo in GB2. His surname comes from the GB1 novelization by Richard Mueller, which gave the name of The Stiff as Andre Wallance. The idea that The Stiff is his father is only a conjecture in the canon, but is one shared by Sigourney Weaver and Joe Medjuck. A lot of his character was defined by fan fic writer Rosey Collins, aka EGB Fan.
Eric Stantz is of course Ray's son, and is seen as an adult in "Future Shocks." Rays' wife's exact identity has not been revealed; but keep your eyes open for "Chronicles of Gozer Book Six: Exaltation"
Edward Zeddemore is from the RGB episode "The Brooklyn Triangle". His wife Lucille is named in the GB1 novelization (an alternate name, Evangelean, is in "The Return", but we've regarded it as apocryphal. In
The Spirited Drizzlepuss I gave that name to Winston's sister, mentioned but unnamed in EGB). Lois Stantz is from "The Spirit of Aunt Lois"
The EGB episode "Nothing To Fear" establishes steamed broccholi as the one thing Slimer can't stand.
Janine's birthday, by the way, is derived from three sources: "The Brooklyn Triangle" (Janine shows Egon a yearbook dated 1977); "The Crawler", where Janine mentions she's a Scorpio; and the birthdate of actress Annie Potts, October 28, 1952 (which fits the Scorpio criteria)
Janine is given a due date of June 13, which of course turns out to be the exact day. It just struck me as very Spenglerish to be born on your exact due date.
Liz Hawthorne is a wizard of the Order of Hermes, and previously appeared in both "Zodiac Imperative" and "Shadow of the Inquisitors". She seemed quite interested in Ray Stantz, and we know Eric will also be a wizard, but Liz has NOT yet been established as Eric's Mom.
Fritz Melnitz appeared in the TV episode "Janine's Day Off", but wasn't named. And yeah, I admit, when I wrote the Timeline I gave him my penname as an in-joke. I hadn't forseen, at the time, appearing as "myself" in the GBWC fan fictions, or having my name out there (I was known as "Veedramon" when I first made the Timeline public, after all)
Denise Melnitz--like her husband, appeared and unnamed in "Janine's Day Off". Yeah, she's named after an ex love interest of mine c.1998, when I first started creating the Timeline.
Katharine Melton Spengler. Appeared in "Til Death Do Us Part" (ironically enough) and "Ghost World. Her first name I decided to keep from stories of fan fiction legend Shiela Paulson; her maiden name is my own invention. She ruminates on her dead husband's previous marriage, and mentions at the end of Part 7 about Eden being a "granddaughter that is OURS". Edison Spengler had a child before he met Katharine, Ellis, but when Ellis's mother died Ellis was raised by her family. Ellis is the father of Nightsquad's Jen Spengler. This was a solution Jen agreed to to both respect the canon that strongly implies Egon is an only child (he's raised as one, and he is still Katharine's only child), while allowing him to have a niece.
Cyrus Spengler, Egon's uncle, appeared in "Cry Uncle"
All of the breast jokes Janine mentions were taken from
Ghostbusters: Legion #3Venkman mentions director Jon Dennison; he comes to a tragic end in 2003 in the Ghostbusters West Coast origin story,
Opening NightThe "Two thousand zero zero" lyrics are from Prince's "1999".
Janine drives a Volkswagon Beetle in various shades over the course of RGB; I standardize it to yellow because of the Highway Haunter toy. We always used it as Janine's car.
The Northern Virginia Ghostbusters (NOVAGB) are one of the oldest of all GBI Franchises, the creation of prop guru Norm Gagnon. Current canon suggests they were the only one to survive the "first implosion" of GBI back in 1986.
I also mention "This great site some guy named Emkow put together", which is a reference to the legendary original Ghostbusters site founded in 1996 by Bill Emkow. It's basically the grandfather site of GBN.
Back in "Future Shocks" there was a throwaway line by the Twins about Ray renovating the firehouse in the 1990's. Here, it's finally written into the story and "explained"
Janine is talking on the phone with someone named "Shirl" in "The Bird of Kildarby". I just decided that I didn't like "Shirl Melnitz" as a name for Janine's sister, so I spun it off into a friend. Shirl Johnson appeared at the Spengler wedding.
Doris Irwin--appeared but unnamed in "Janine's Day Off." Janine specifically mentions a sister in another episode (I forget which one), and in the EGB episode "Fallout" Egon says "Say hello to your sister Doris for me". Prior to Febraury 2008, I had referred to her by the name Deann after a former coworker (though not a Love Interest)
Victor Irwin. Appears in "Janine's Day Off", but isn't actually named. However, Janine mentions having a nephew named Victor in "Victor the Happy Ghost." Following Ockham's Razor, I made them the same guy and Janine's sister his Mom.
Egon and Janine mention several tranformations they had each made--Janine's in "Janine, You've Changed"; Egon's in "Egon's Ghost", "Stay Tooned", and "Poultrygeist". And Egon hints at Dana's transformation into a Terror Dog in GB1.
Marie Cavendish Rosenfeld. Janine mentions a friend named Marie who was dating an orthodontist in one episode (the note I have from Labidolemur doesn't say which one), which by 1998 she's married and had two kids with. I used her previously in "Fateful Opportunity", and is actually both integral to the story of Egon and Janine getting together (she used to date Venkman, and recommended Janine to them). As mentioned, Janine finally fulfills her promise to Marie by giving Eden that middle name.
I pretty much made up Christopher Melton and Johnathan Brandenburg on the spot.
The motif of Egon looking at his own arm shifting out of focus would be referenced in Part 6.
In classic "Zero Hour" fashion, the world fades into white nothingness as the Timeline is torn to pieces.