Connections Between Stories

== Disambiguation ==
[Author Notes]:
I have an idea to put a through line through a few books based on the careers and lifestyles of certain characters. It would connect several of the stories. Naturally this goes against the idea of the 16 being chosen at random. Already, in fact, I have Thames Hargood being Rachel's son--that's the longest running connection, which I probably came up with in 2020. There wasn't any rationale behind it, I just wanted to make Hand and Mind connect because it seemed cool. Now I'm doing that again!
Here's the idea: Bailey Sacchs has the last name of a financial company in the US, called Goldman Sacchs. I'm thinking of making Bailey the daughter of a financial family instead of a random poor person, and if I do that I would change her last name to something else because I don't want this to point to real world stuff. From that, the reason that the Sanderson's are trying to kill Bailey or whatever is because maybe they have a debt to their family, or they want to affect the banking system, etc. I'd have to come up with something. Now obviously that makes Bo's thing more dangerous, however it takes away the prince and commoner girl feel I was going for before. However again, maybe Bo grew up with Bailey due to familial connection.
Regardless, now coming to the book about the "light" of God or whatever. Since the main character is an investment banker, I could connect him to Bailey's family somehow. 
Another connection is one to Russian culture: Stacey has a Russian friend named Svena; Commander Cheveyuk's (in Day) mother is Svetlana from the Russian Political Drama book; Sara Selfie and Yana Semenov are Russians in Gems. I could connect these somehow.
Stacey also is going to school for math and accounting, which has to do with money and could connect to the Bailey Sacchs thing.
Other than that the other thing is Ailios and Dina Domme.
The through line for The Face of God at this point is Underground industry, Above ground finance industry, alien/metaphysical superhero, Russian culture, and the destiny of humanity so far as becoming gods.
== Succession of Events Through All Stories ==
[Author Notes]:
Another idea I have is to start all the Face of God events in the twenty first century with the resistance of the Tremain family, and the subsequent attempt to murder Bailey afterward. This is how it might go:
The Tremains deny the debt to the Sandersons, who decide to try plan Bailey's death over the next three years. In response, Bo Sanderson tries to save Bailey and then gets in a pickle situation where he has to work with her to get out. He falls in love with her during this time. This happens in, say, 2016. My idea here is to make this the event that kicks off a succession of events, similar to how Ferdinand's death started world war 1.
Then Bo asks Ray Rodrigo to help him out his family and in return Bo will clear Ray's record. The events of the "Under Dynasty" book happen during this time. 
From here, somehow Ray's organization would be tipped off to the 16. Exactly what happens there is something to figure out. The events of Day, Heart, Hand, and the other 16 stories would come from the government having to push the 16 to coming to existence; their logic here is that the 16 need to manifest to fight the Silent, or perhaps the converse where the 16 need to be destroyed. Either way the plot has to be mended there, because there are variations of the government's plans in several places on this wiki. I don't have a reason why they were involved in Heart or anything else right now.
Regardless, assume the powers that be are involved. With the exception of Thomas and Nat's story, the government may have initiated or helped to initiate the manifestations of the other 16 as they were fighting against the organization that Ray Rodrigo is apart of. Thomas' story might be what tipped the government off. 
In the [possible] plot line that described the god forms of the 16 being orchestrators of the events in the present time, the two main antagonists that butt heads are Thomas and Amos Hemmingway, the Light of God, with a possible third being Thames, although at this point Thames' character is too self centered to have clear goals that would lead him to want to orchestrate something like that. Stacey is also the antagonist of Thomas, but perhaps this ends leading up to the events in Gems, because, again there are several variations of this plot on the wiki, but in the Gem's bust Thomas is the reason that Visenya shoots Yana.
On a side note there is the issue here that, again according to one of several plot variations (UGH!), every human--and I mean every human-- ever born in history is present after the transedence of humanity. Basically, when you die in FOG, you're not gone you just go somewhere until the transendence. This means that it wouldn't be the 16 orchestrating things, but literally all of humanity in a god level war. However that works, I'm not sure yet, but the simple explanation is that there will be a few different sides, maybe three, and they'd have their own goals.
== Current Payoffs ==
[Author Notes]: 
When you take the story as a whole, I have ideas for several pay offs where the books collide.
=== Meeting at Myrtle Beach ===
In the sequel to Heart, Stacey, Syl, and Claudia go on a road trip summer vacation. During this time the events in Gems are taking place, and also the Sanderson dilemma. 
Stacey and crew, Bo, Eagle McGuire, Kaycee and others will happen to meet at the same beach. This is basically the midpoint of the plot leading up to the Gems bust, which is the next payoff.
=== Gems Bust ===
Kaycee, Yana, and Visenya get so powerful that the FBI works with Bo, Ray Rodrigo, etc. to raid there money caches and shut down their business. Visenya informs them about the details of it, as do several of Kaycee's ex exployees. 
Rather than follow her agreed plan she to distract Kaycee, she brings a gun with her and kills Yana. 
=== Meeting at a Church ===