Haven't done one of these in a while. Some infobox of some new (and one returning) characters:
Cast
Sterling K. Brown as Bobby Tyler
Francis Jue as Shi Xinling (new casting)
Nat Faxon as Mark Gilmore (new casting)
Jorja Fox as Gina Toscano
Cast
Sterling K. Brown as Bobby Tyler
Francis Jue as Shi Xinling (new casting)
Nat Faxon as Mark Gilmore (new casting)
Jorja Fox as Gina Toscano
Most of this is just from Tyler's biography. His predecessor as Richmond mayor was a person established in the old thread.
Tyler is the highest-ranking African-American in US history ITTL and the second vice president with non-white ancestry after Charles Curtis. He's also continuign the trend of every Democratic president since D. Wire Newman having two vice presidents (Bartlet had Hoynes & Russell, Santos had Baker & Tripplehorn, Seaborn of course had Hunter before Tyler).
An interesting fact is that since the last election where all major party candidates were OTL politicians (1976), TTL has seen four current and former governors become vice president (George P. Bush, Roland Pierce, Eric Baker & Bobby Tyler) while IOTL Mike Pence was the only vice president in the past 46 years to have gubernatorial experience.
Tyler is the highest-ranking African-American in US history ITTL and the second vice president with non-white ancestry after Charles Curtis. He's also continuign the trend of every Democratic president since D. Wire Newman having two vice presidents (Bartlet had Hoynes & Russell, Santos had Baker & Tripplehorn, Seaborn of course had Hunter before Tyler).
An interesting fact is that since the last election where all major party candidates were OTL politicians (1976), TTL has seen four current and former governors become vice president (George P. Bush, Roland Pierce, Eric Baker & Bobby Tyler) while IOTL Mike Pence was the only vice president in the past 46 years to have gubernatorial experience.
Shi is the new leader of China, so probably the second or third most powerful person in the world. He has already assumed the Chinese Communist Party roles that every paramount leader has and will take over the official state roles (including becoming president) from Qian Min, the man he replaced.
Gilmore is the new RNC chair who is tasked with picking up the pieces after 2022 and re-taking Congress from the Democrats. His backstory as a Walken WH staffer & former Florida GOP chair were previously established.
His position of WH Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations is a slight retcon to explain why there were multiple deputy COS in the (especially early) Walken White House when the show seemed to imply it was normal for the White House Chief of Staff to have only one deputy at a time, with no ones tasked with specific functions. This way there aren't any major retcons of the Walken White House's stable of "main characters" during the Walken era. As you can tell, this position wasn't retained in the current administration.
His position of WH Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations is a slight retcon to explain why there were multiple deputy COS in the (especially early) Walken White House when the show seemed to imply it was normal for the White House Chief of Staff to have only one deputy at a time, with no ones tasked with specific functions. This way there aren't any major retcons of the Walken White House's stable of "main characters" during the Walken era. As you can tell, this position wasn't retained in the current administration.
After a 21 year absence (her last show appearance was in October 2000), Jorja Fox returns to TWWverse. Her infobox doesn't give away what she's been up to since Rosslyn (I covered this briefly in the article announcing her return), but does show the fact (unmentioned in the article) that she married a few years into the Santos era. Her introduction scene (link) established some details about her biography, including her age (27 as of early 2000) alma mater and having become an Army officer thanks to the ROTC.
I chose to have her be a native-born Virginian because of her attendance at UVA and also given her actor's name is a homonym for "Georgia", her being a southerner just felt right. Officers commissioned via ROTC are required to serve eight years, so Gina still had her commission while working in the Secret Service until 2003, although given her statement that she prepared for her Secret Service assignment for "a year and a half" before early 2000, she probably only spent about three years on active duty before being moved to the reserves. While she was confirmed to be a second lieutenant (the rank all Army officers start out at upon commission), I figured that eight years plus her being one of the agents that came out of Rosslyn as an undisputed hero (noticing the spotter & shooters giving her colleagues a split-second warning before the gunmen opened fire, saving Zoey's life & possibly Charlie's by pushing past him to cover Zoey as the gunmen opened fire), I figure that she would get at least one promotion above lieutenant by the time she left the service.
I chose to have her be a native-born Virginian because of her attendance at UVA and also given her actor's name is a homonym for "Georgia", her being a southerner just felt right. Officers commissioned via ROTC are required to serve eight years, so Gina still had her commission while working in the Secret Service until 2003, although given her statement that she prepared for her Secret Service assignment for "a year and a half" before early 2000, she probably only spent about three years on active duty before being moved to the reserves. While she was confirmed to be a second lieutenant (the rank all Army officers start out at upon commission), I figured that eight years plus her being one of the agents that came out of Rosslyn as an undisputed hero (noticing the spotter & shooters giving her colleagues a split-second warning before the gunmen opened fire, saving Zoey's life & possibly Charlie's by pushing past him to cover Zoey as the gunmen opened fire), I figure that she would get at least one promotion above lieutenant by the time she left the service.