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Title: William Mcfly's Family
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needles1987 - September 18, 2007 02:14 AM (GMT)
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The lady standing next to William is his wife. In front of William and his wife are Seamus and Maggie McFly. Little Arthur is sitting on Maggie's lap. The little girl that is sitting next to Seamus is Arthur's older sister. The little girl that William's wife is holding is Arthur's younger sister. The man standing on William's left side is his younger brother.

Seamus and Maggie don't even look like their movie counterparts. There is the fact that they're now older. Seamus at least has some sort of resemblance, but that looks nothing like Maggie.

bttf44 - September 18, 2007 04:54 AM (GMT)
So many have commented that the older woman looks like Needles in drag. She almost does, sort of.

Maybe the girl would be Alice - and the little boy would be Arthur, two years younger. As they become older, their hair would darken - so that they would look like Lea Thompson and Crispin Glover. Then I gave them twin girls named Anita and Agnes, which led to William's wife dying in childbirth.

I now feel a little bad about killing off his wife, but it does done to make Alice a mother figure in Back to the Future Part IV. Alice, at 19, would be seven years older than the twins - so she had many years playing the mother. William's wife does look a little like Lea Thompson - except that I said that she had black hair and blue eyes, like Snow White.

That's where Arthur would get his Crispin Glover looks from - and William has brown eyes instead of blue, and that's how Alice gets her Lea Thompson looks from (but she has her mother's face). I guess the slate-blue eyes are recessent for about three generation (Did Crispin Glover have slate-blue eyes, like Michael J Fox?) - and Marty got his brown hair from his mother, whose just happened to be the same shade as William and Alice. If William and his wife are both short, then why is Arthur so tall? I still have to figure that out.

Maybe the man next to William is a cousin (I gave William all sisters), and the baby girl is his daughter.

needles1987 - September 18, 2007 03:13 PM (GMT)
I guess in your stories, the guy who is supposed to be William's brother could be a farmhand. As far as I can tell, Seamus, Maggie, and Martin were the only McFlys to go to America. I suppose others came years later.

I always imagined Arthur with black hair. Crispin Glover does have blue eyes like Michael J. Fox, but I'm not sure if it's the same shade. Some people grow up to be taller than both their parents. I'm taller than both my parents. Maybe Arthur ate a lot of greens.

Didn't you also write that William's wife was Swedish? I wonder how Maggie felt about William marrying a Swedish Protestant (Most Scandinavians are Protestant) instead of a nice Irish-Catholic girl? Maybe William's wife converted.

bttf44 - September 18, 2007 03:32 PM (GMT)
Yeah, I could just go with that, then. Granted, Marty did later go back in time to save the life of Martin McFly (Seamus' brother) - but that wouldn't be until sometime after the trilogy, and he was 17 in 1880.

Oh, yeah, I think I said that Annette was Swedish - or maybe that was Sylvia. I'll have to go back and check. I don't remember what last name I gave her, but that would be easy to change. Yeah, the Swedish McFly wife would be one who introduced the family to fruit soup. I did say that Marty's immediate family was Catholic, so maybe the Swedish wife converted to Catholicism.

Some people think that Dr. Emmett Brown might be Jewish, but I don't think think so. I did make a reference to that theory, though, in The Prized Time Capsule - when Verne insists that the family should celebrate Hannukah, because he thinks it means "more presents".

needles1987 - September 18, 2007 04:35 PM (GMT)
I think you only get eight presents on Hannukah.

bttf44 - September 18, 2007 05:16 PM (GMT)
Yeah, that's what I've heard. Then again, I'm not Jewish either - so I don't know much about the culture. Many consider it to be "un-kosher" to mix Hanukkah with Christmas, but that does happen a lot in families where one parent is Jewish and the other isn't.

needles1987 - October 9, 2007 02:39 AM (GMT)
William's wife kinda looks like Jennifer and his brother kinda looks like George.

GriffTannen - October 9, 2007 01:41 PM (GMT)
Nice needles1987, but how did you know who was who?

needles1987 - October 9, 2007 05:32 PM (GMT)
It said on the website I got it from. It was written in French and I only know a few French words, but I knew that 'Femme' meant wife, 'Trois' meant Three, 'Enfants' meant children, and 'Frere' meant Brother. It didn't say that the little boy was Arthur McFly, but I figured it was.

bttf44 - April 6, 2008 02:55 AM (GMT)
Okay, here's what I've figured out:
The little girl with the doll is Alice McFly.
The little boy sitting on Maggie's lap is Arthur McFly.
Maggie is the elder lady sitting down.
Seamus is wearing the hat, and sitting beside Maggie.
William is the man standing behind Maggie.
Annette is the lady holding the baby, behind Seamus, and next to William.

Okay, here's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking that the man next to William could be his cousin, Douglas McFly. Maybe Douglas and his father leave Ireland sometime in 1903, and they end up in California in 1904. Maybe the baby would be his daughter, and his wife died in childbirth.

needles1987 - April 6, 2008 07:26 PM (GMT)
Douglas McFly sounds good.




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