kate pope - high school sweetheart died, former aspiring singer/model. bday: march 18th, 1982. death day: may 23rd, 2006.
janie selwood (nee cobb obvs) - older sister, 35. married to greg selwood and mother to audrey (14 months). something in marketing that oliver genuinely has no idea what she really does. she went to nyu. bday: sept 4th 1979
greg selwood - 36. yeah as if oliver remembers what he does minus that it has something to do with money. accountant? finance? stocks? he wears a lot of suits.
lorna jackson - mom, nurse
victor cobb - dad, left when oliver was 10 and janie 13. made very few appearances since then. was a mechanic, no idea what that fucker does now. oliver hasn't talked to him since he was 16.

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high school - starts getting into trouble and is suspended multiple times. class bores him and people bored him so even when he wasn't in trouble it was very liekly that oliver would just not show up
17 - dropped out of school and ran away with his girlfriend and moved out to los angeles after she turned 18, only a few months before their graduation. living on their own in l.a. has a surprisingly positive affect on oliver as he becomes a waiter and holds the first steady job of his life. their apartment is a studio and shitty but they're genuinely happy despite all lack of movements in their careers
18 - was cast on gilmore girls as jess mariano, his first real acting role. had no desire to be an actor but when he was in l.a. with kate he figured oh, why the hell not. lied about his age at the audition and his cockiness worked well for the part. kate finds some minor success as a model and playing locally at open mic nights but differences in success for them doesn't hurt their relationships. kate has always been, if nothing else, the only person that oliver trusts to love him unconditionally. which sounds stupid at such a young age but it was what it was and she never had time to prove him otherwise.
24 - katie dies in a car accident and oliver goes slightly off the rails. begins to slip into his old ways very easily and with the cancellation of the bedford diaries and an uncertain future ahead of him he doesn't have anything to hold on for. instead he bombs the promo of his first movie, john tucker must die, showing up to events and press drunk and giving no fucks when it came to answering questions. was sort of a p.r. nightmare and with his life as it was, oliver decided to give up instead of to try and fight to salvage his career. when it comes to his future, oliver was never much of a fighter and his self-sabotaging was in a way comforting to him because it came on his terms and allowed some control of what he believed to be his inevitable failure.
24/26 - spends the next two years living off the television money he had saved and earning a small reputation in the tabloids for being drunk and getting into trouble before the small amount of attention tied to his name fizzled out.
26 - ultimately it was his sister that shook some sense into him, flying out to l.a. and reminding him that he had a family, asshole, so he could stop moping about about how alone he was. tough love is what he responds to best and while their relationship remained rocky, she began to call him weekly and helped re-establish routine in his life. with no idea what else to do and ok whatever maybe he missed it, oliver returned to acting with the knowledge that he had to be on his best behavior or, well, you know, try, and had to start from scratch p much but he had burned all the network connection bridges he had. landed small roles here and there.
27 - dated ione james because like what, she wanted to date him and maybe that could be his life. maybe he could be someone who actually takes their girlfriend apple picking upstate and laughs around the dinner table with her and his family. only that's not who oliver is or was or will be so he resented the idea that she might have tricked him into wanting that and he began to do what he always does. pulls away. ignores. finds something else to hold his attention.
31 - CAST AS MOTHER FUCKING PETER QUILL LIKE WHAT. HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN.