Arthur Pettibone and Sara Stanley

Wow! You've got amazing ideas there! I don't remember much of Roger in the series. In 'Story Girl' the book, he's quite sweet and indulgent with the kids. I quite liked him. He is indeed likely to have the kind of relationship with Alec as you have imagined. I can imagine Hetty being sandwiched between the two, not entirely sure whose side to take without offending the other! I'm not very sold on the idea of Olivia being like Cecily. If we go by Olivia's character in the books, then yes perhaps, she's likely to have been quite a sweet docile child (like Cecily). But somehow when I imagine Mag Ruffman as a little girl, I always imagine Olivia to be a little firecracker right from childhood! But of course, we have to go by the book :)

I love how you have imagined Olivia and Jasper's story - it's very realistic, plausible and touching! I love the idea of Montgomery being more of a King than a Dale but his son being more of Dale than a King! I can imagine Jasper jokingly saying to himself, "Ah, revenge is sweet!" Don't Olivia and Jasper have a daughter too? I saw one in 'An Avonlea Christmas'!

Your future for Felix is rather bleak I must say! I wouldn't like to think of his future being mostly full of self-destruction and frustration. Perhaps when he comes back to PEI after his (mis)adventures in NY, he's completely broken down and probably at the lowest point in his life (since Izzy's also married now) but then he goes back to the White Sands Hotel. Perhaps Hetty, in her will, passes part-ownership of the hotel to Felix. It would seem plausible since she partly owned the hotel and of all the Kings, it was only Felix and she that actually worked at the White Sands. Besides, Hetty knows that Felix always loved working at TWS, that's where he first started his professional life and the Hotel kind of taught him how to be a man. So after returning to PEI, Felix initially goes through a long self-pitying, self-loathing phase but with the help of Alec, Janet, Felicity, Daniel and the others, he slowly recovers. His recovery starts on the King Farm itself were he starts helping Daniel on the farm just so that he can contribute in some way and to distract his mind. Being on the farm, with the animals and having that communion with nature and the Island again helps Felix overcome his depression and that's when he decides that he's going to continue to stay in PEI and go back to the White Sands and become a "Hotel-man" all over again. Later - perhaps in his early 30s - he also meets a nice girl and gets married!

The Pettibones are alright I guess. I'm sure even Arthur himself would not have imagined that one day he would be the one closest to his father! Izzy probably gets married and leaves PEI to settle somewhere else in Canada. Morgan as you said keeps gallivanting all over Europe. Arthur has a successful practice in Halifax, gets married and has children and comes often to Avonlea to see his father and Muriel!

About Hetty... hmmmm... Romney's son's angle is nice. Perhaps Romney's son falls for Dora! How about that? A bit silly I know! But perhaps... Rachel Lynde passes away (sob!), Davy and Dora grow up. Davy is itching to explore the world. Perhaps he becomes a professional baseball player and represents the Island (initially) and then Canada at several international tournaments... He keeps falling in and out of love but eventually marries a real beauty and settles in Toronto or something. Dora, always the sincere student, does well in school. She isn't particularly ambitious and continues higher studies in Halifax because she just sees it as the next logical thing to do. On one of her visits home to Rose Cottage, she meets Romney Penhallow and his son. Romney's son falls head over heels in love with Dora and... eventually they get married. Hetty and Romney initially find the whole thing quite strange and awkward but they finally accept their relationship. Hetty's happy that things have sort of come full circle and yes, she passes away peacefully...

Gus and Felicity... I do agree that the idea of Gus being landlocked (never heard the term being used for people but I like it!) is indeed unbelievable. The fact that he actually goes back to the seas and dies in a ship-wreck or something is quite tough though... But perhaps Felicity doesn't think it right to deprive Gus from doing what his heart really desires. So perhaps Gus becomes a Captain of a ship and after a couple of successful voyages succumbs to the sea. Very sad indeed... Gus Pike's violin theme was my favorite piece of music from the show! Just so haunting and beautiful!

I'm not sure whether bringing in Peter Craig is going to work... I don't remember how often Peter appears in the series but it's not much. I don't even remember whether he was there in Season 2. But in the books, Peter worships the ground Felicity walks on. So perhaps yes, he could come back in Felicity's life. But I can't somehow imagine her hooking up with him... I dunno... At the end of An Avonlea Christmas, Felicity tells Cecily she's pregnant and she decides to take up the program for communicating with deaf children through correspondence. Perhaps she opens a school for the deaf or a clinic... something like that... and after Gus's death, remarries a doctor or teacher or someone... Dunno... I'm not entirely sure about this!

I think having Cecily die of TB is perhaps making it a bit too much like L M Alcott's Little Women. You know when Felicity opens the orphanage in Avonlea, I couldn't help thinking that the inspiration had been Jo March! And making Cecily like Beth... I'm not quite sold on the idea. Perhaps Cecily becomes a skilled horseback rider and opens a ranch that houses lots of horses which she buys and sells. She instructs students in horseback riding and her opinion in valued by all. She moves out of Avonlea but only because the ranch needs a larger space. Probably she moves to the Island's Kings County and settles there. Alec helps her out a lot on her ranch often getting Felicity and Daniel's kids along with him so that they can spend some time with their aunt and play with the horses!

I like how you have imagined Daniel's story unraveling. And same goes for Sarah and Andrew as well. Sarah choosing to stay single is indeed very "her". But just the way she keeps in touch with Andrew, I want her to stay in the life of all the other characters as well. She corresponds with Felix and the others. She acts as Felix's sounding board when he returns to PEI. Her opinion is frank, perhaps even harsh at times but it's always in Felix's best interests and her tough love helps him stand on his own two feet again. She comforts Felicity too and shows her that being a single woman is not that bad. Perhaps she visits Avonlea when Hetty's on her deathbed and is there in Rose Cottage for a good month or so, taking care of Hetty till Hetty passes away. A trip back to Avonlea proves to be very inspiring for Sarah - a fact that surprises even her. Being back on the Island proves to be very stimulating and she does a lot of writing while there. After Hetty's death, Sarah leaves and goes back to Europe or wherever else she's staying.

So that's my take on our dear Villagers! Hope you don't mind me giving my opinion on your plans for the characters! I agree with you about RTA being mostly unseen and unknown. At least you are in the US where people know about Anne of Green Gables and Montgomery! I'm from India and very few people know about AOGG here. Road to Avonlea is a long shot! I haven't met a single other RTA fan in India! What a pity! I'm just glad that I stumbled upon AOGG on Hallmark ALL those years ago and instantly got hooked to it! Truly "providential" as Rachel Lynde would say! I read the novel after watching the movie! Then Hallmark started showing RTA and oh gosh... at the risk of sounding corny, I have to say that it was love at first sight! I've loved many TV shows over the years - Gilmore Girls, Blossom, Picket Fences, Monarch of the Glen etc - but RTA is my absolute favorite! I keep coming back to it and I feel I'm gonna grow old with it! I do wanna return to PEI again for sure! But I also wanna go on a RTA-shooting-location scouting expedition to Ontario! I really wanna see where they shot everything! I hope you're able to have your house on the cliff next to the lighthouse! And for my sake, I hope you aren't averse to taking in house-guests who're fellow RTA-maniacs ;)