The Cut-Up Timeline

Key: Story titles are in small brackets. Published stories are linked to the source. Unlinked stories with an asterisk (*) are stories I intend to write someday. Unlinked stories with no asterisk I won't be actually writing as a story, for various reasons. The small o links after names lead to profiles.


Individual Hero Timelines
Decorum USAce Headlong Cut-Up Kid Decorum
Deportment Mytheria The Mighty Thunor The Knight-Watchman Nuclear-Warhead
The Starguard Singularity X-1 LX II Scarlet Will Dragyn
King Lionidas Virtual Lad Samuel Flagg Complete Timeline  
Individual Villain Timelines
The Masque of Red Death Lola de Ville Discourtesy Hermione Brinkman
Individual Time-Lost Timelines
Trace The Black Bullseye Parashu Leonardo di Piero
Green Jack Praxia Lamentation Payne Sergeant Shatter
Individual Supporting Character Timelines
Hermonius Brinkman Jennifer Janes Thunderfist Count Camus The Grand Chronarch Anachronus Caesar


TIMELINE


14th Century


1310
November 4 Kaifeng, Cathay - Birth of Tāo-Cáoo.

1340
May 11 Kaifeng, Cathay - Tāo-Cáoo begins his final search for Xanadu.

November 19 Siberia - Tāo-Cáoo discovers Xanadu. He enters the ice dome and is captured. {"The Milk of Paradise"} He is placed into suspended animation while alien nanobots reconfigure his physical form.

15th Century


1470
April 23 Siberia - Tāo-Cáoo awakens and flees into the wilderness to the northwest. Xanadu self-destructs. {"The Milk of Paradise"}

16th Century


1502
March 15 Volgada, Russia - After many adventures and detours across northern Asia, Tāo-Cáoo returns to more civilized lands in western Russia. Here he first adopts the name Vladimir Niktoyavich ("Son of No One"). {"Shadows in Volgada"*}

1512
November-December Afghanistan - Abandoning a diplomatic mission given him by Basil III in favor of wandering freedom, Vladimiro travels south. He discovers a mountain bandit stronghold and rescues an Indian princess. {"The Rogue and the Rani"*} He spends the next century roaming widely throughout southern, then western Europe.

1596
September 4 Nottinghamshire, England - Birth of Lamentation Payneo.

17th Century


1632
October 24 Northern Saxony - Vladimiro seeks out and meets Thunoro. After a showing of battle prowess for manners' sake, they become traveling companions. {"The Milk of Paradise"}

1633
May 26 Saxony - Thunoro and Vladimiro investigate some strange local rumors. {"The Cave of Baalshazar"*}

1665
June 30 Lisboa, Portugal - Thunoro and Vladimiro sail aboard the Sea Queen bound for Naples, Italy.

July 2 Straits of Gibraltar - The Sea Queen's slave crew revolts and takes control of the ship. A new heading is taken toward western Africa.

August 14 Africa - The Sea Queen wrecks on the shoals off what will later be Nigeria. Vladimiro and Thunoro become separated.

September 28 Africa - Thunoro becomes war-chief of a primitive tribe.

1669
June 19 Africa - After years of search, Vladimiro finally locates Thunoro in his village. Both are forced to flee due to a dispute with the local shaman. {"A Short Life and a Merry One!*"}

June 20 Africa - Vladimiro and Thunoro come upon a beached pirate vessel, the Crimson Gull. They help repair the ship in exchange for passage. Vladimir takes the name Jacob Grinn. {"A Short Life and a Merry One!*"}

June 23 Africa - The Crimson Gull sails for the Caribbean. {"A Short Life and a Merry One!*"}

July 30 Port Royal, Jamaica - Trip shortened by Thunor'so wind powers, the Crimson Gull docks in Port Royal. {"A Short Life and a Merry One!*"}

November 11 Hispaniola - Captain Bill Barkswell is killed by grape-shot in a raid on Spanish merchant ships. Jacobo is elected leader of the Crimson Gull as Captain Black Jack Grinn. {"A Short Life and a Merry One!*"}

December 25 Port Royal, Jamaica - Captain Black Jack Grinno meets with Jamaican Governor Thomas Modyford and acquires privateering credentials. {"A Short Life and a Merry One!*"}

1671
January The Isthmus of Panama - The Crimson Gull joins Henry Morgan's assault on Panama. They become lost in the jungle on the way. The crew of the Gull perishes. {"A Short Life and a Merry One!*"} Afterward, disheartened, Jacobo assumes the identity of merchant Edward Fynch. He and Thunoro book passage for London.

18th Century


1707
July 17 London, England - Thunoro and Edwardo part ways for the last time. Thunor returns to the northern European countryside and Edward moves operations to Rome.

1745
April 9 Paris, France - After investigating leads throughout southern Europe, Edwardo establishes a base of operations in Paris and constructs dozens of different identities and bolt holes.

1780
March 15 Paris, France - Edwardo moves operations to London, foreseeing trouble ahead for France. He changes identities to Etienne Bernaux.

1797
September 30 London, England - Etienneo meets and befriends Samuel Coleridge.

19th Century


1816
November 14 London, England - Samuel Coleridge publishes "Kubla Khan".

1823
May 3 Kythira, Greece - Etienneo confronts the Furies and is made their stalking horse. Etienne blacks out for decades. {"The Milk of Paradise"}

1853
March 9 Egypt - Etienneo wakens in the Sahara in terror. {"The Milk of Paradise"} He spends the next year traveling to San Francisco, mostly by sea.

1854
February 6 San Francisco, California - Etienneo arrives in San Francisco. He changes his identity to Patrick Clark and retreats to the mountains in northern California to become a fur trader.

1889
March 23 Northern California - Patrick Clarko disappears in the mountains. He changes his identity to William Walker and moves to Billings, Montana. There he buys a small farm and also does some mining, laying the groundwork for the later founding of the Great Sky Mining Company.

20th Century

The '10s


1919
October 8 Billings, Montana - William Walkero moves the offices of the Great Sky Mining Company to Chicago. He assumes the identity of his own nephew, Thomas Walker, and retires, turning the company over to himself.

The '20s


1928
December 8 Chicago, Illinois - Thomas Walkero sells off the Great Sky Mining Company, switches identities to Bill Cooper and takes a job with the city's Records Department.

The '30s


1930
July 5 Chicago, Illinois - The curse of the Furies causes Bill Coopero to absorb some of the energies released from the Fountain of Zeus by Marcus Cole and Stefan Richter. He releases a large amount of this energy into a small meteorite that crashes to Earth. It is found by precocious eight year old Hermonius Brinkmano and will later be used as the basis of many of his scientific breakthroughs. Bill becomes a nameless wanderer for decades to come. {"The Milk of Paradise"}

The '40s


1947
January 5 Washington, D.C. - During the final procedures of his Super-Soldier treatments, "Fox" Browno appears to die as his life-force is stolen and absorbed by a nameless wanderero outside the building. {"The Milk of Paradise"}

The '80s


1981
August 13 Harlem, New York, New York - Affluent young boys Camerono and Thomas Kane, Jr. find themselves in a bad part of town after taking the wrong bus. They are assaulted by an angel-dust crazed gang member who shoots at Cameron, but Thomas steps in front of the bullet and dies. {"The Milk of Paradise"} Cameron is found by EMTs and is "non-responsive", perfectly able to follow directions, but refusing to communicate in any way.

August 22 Spokane, Washington - A nameless wanderero secretly irradiates Sheila Kandinskyo in utero, altering her genetic structure. {"The Milk of Paradise"}

The '90s


1995
January 22 Oconomowoc, Wisconsin - The nameless wanderero assumes a short-term identity as substitute teacher Paul Jennings in order to teach Will Jefferson'so class and instill a super-hero worship in Will that will help define his later career. {"The Milk of Paradise"}

21st Century


2006
June 19 The Hollows, Paragon City, Rhode Island - Decorumo rescues an amnesiac boy with seeming superhuman powers from the Circle of Thorns. The boyo is taken to Chiron Medical Center for treatment.{"The Milk of Paradise"}

Skyway City, Paragon City, Rhode Island - Bart Sampson discovers a strangely glowing broken radiation suit behind a warehouse in Skyway City. He and a friend manage to drag it home without being seen.{"The Milk of Paradise"}

August 18 Paragon City, Rhode Island - The Great Chronal Event of August 2006 AKA The Infinity Crisis begins. Waves of chronal energy sweep the eastern coast of the United States, creating pockets of displaced time. {"The Infinity Crisis"}

August 21 Paragon City, Rhode Island - The final battle between Anachronus Caesar and Future-Mano ends with Future-Man defeated and laying dying. The Grand Chronarcho is mentioned for the first time. Future-Man attempts to use the last of his energy to summon a champion from the time-stream. Latching onto the recently released ambient life-force of Christopher "Fox" Browno, Future-Man imbues the avatar with the last of his energy. The avatar absorbs all of Anachronus Caesar's energy through the crack in his armor, imploding and destroying him. {"The Milk of Paradise"} A nameless wanderero is found in a Steel Canyon alleyway and sent to Steel Canyon Medical Center. {"The Infinity Crisis"}

August 22 Steel Canyon, Paragon City, Rhode Island - The nameless wanderero is diagnosed as catatonic. He is given the name John Doe and transferred to the Polk and Prodd Sanitarium just outside the city.

October 3 Paragon City, Rhode Island - John Doe becomes Cut-Upo.{"The Milk of Paradise"} He physically transforms overnight.

October 5 Paragon City, Rhode Island - Cut-Upo first appears in Paragon City, escaping the Polk and Prodd Sanitarium for the first of many times.

October 8 Perez Park, Paragon City, Rhode Island - After encountering and assisting Legion of Valor members, Cut-Upo is returned to the Polk & Prodd Sanitarium. Legion of Valor leader Cosmic Titan makes an agreement with Alexander Polk to watch over Cut-Up should he escape again. Cut-Up is given restricted access to visit the Legion occasionally at their base.

2007
June 9 Brickstown, Paragon City, Rhode Island - Cut-Upo meets Joy-Buzzer, who becomes his sidekick. {"Ode to Joy: The Story of Joy-Buzzer"}

July 17 - Paragon City, Rhode Island - The Knight-Watchmano, Cut-Upo, Decorumo, Kid Decorumo, Deportmento, USAceo, Nuclear-Warheado, Thunoro, Scarlet Willo and Dragyno battle the Masque of Red Deatho, Count Camuso and Discourtesyo. The Knight-Watchman, Cut-Up, Deportment, Kid Decorum, USAce, Nuclear-Warhead and Dragyn all join the Legion of Valor afterward. {"Destiny's Children"*}









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