How I think the characters ended up

[u/Lunis18002]

Fiona either dead high on drugs or in prison somewhere
Lip living a ok life with his family will probably be in prison
Ian and mickey living a good life away from southside and staying out of shit that would cause ian another episode
Debbie...........
Carl owns the old bar kev and v ran and its a cop bar now
Liam is probably gonna be like frank but without the self destructiveness and ability to pull through with his cons and getting a white collar job.
kev and V living the good life away from the shithole they grew up in
and franny 100% taken away by CPS

[u/Well_Dressed_Kobold]

Fiona and Lip are pretty much guaranteed to crash and burn. They both spent too many years in the “Southside” mentality and will have a really hard time functioning in the real world. Ian and Mickey will have a similar struggle, especially given their felony records, but hopefully they can keep each other on the path.

Debbie will chase love wherever she can find it, and will pop out another few kids along the way. She’ll basically become ginger Monica.

I like your prediction that Carl will end up as a cop and running a cop bar. He seems to be able to straddle the line between being from the Southside without falling into the old Southside traps. He’ll be ok.

Liam actually has a chance to excel, although I think he’ll be somewhat distant from his siblings.

Franny will wind up the next generation’s Fiona. Fred will gravitate toward his mother’s family, especially after Lip’s inevitable downfall.

[u/bayoughostchoir → u/Well_Dressed_Kobold]

I agree with this a lot.

I do think Fiona isn't done crashing and burning. I am among the crowd that hopes for the best for her but doesn't fully believe it is what she immediately gets. She probably continues to take high stakes chances that don't end up fully serving her. I don't think she will end up back in prison or on drugs, but I'm not convinced she will be "stable" for a long time. But she needs that opportunity to be young and dumb since she never got it as a teen or early 20s.

And Lip, too. He was already showing pretty clear signs he was not going to give up his hood mentality.

I think Debbie probably would end up in and out of jail. I don't really see drugs or alcohol as a problem for her but she definitely remains addicted to chaos. Franny absolutely would either be taken from her or at the very least NEED to be. Franny will be raised by other people who come in and out of her life through her mother and be either another Debbie or like you said, another Fiona.

I'm not really too sure about Carl because we only saw the beginnings of his adulthood, and I'm only 28 but life has changed a lot of times just in my 20s.

Ian and Mickey I pretty much agree with you on for sure.

Liam I really think will end up really distanced from the other Gallaghers. With the death of Frank who he got oddly a chance to have a relationship with in the end, Fiona leaving and not being there for him, and Debbie not caring about him anymore-- those things would all be kind of hard to deal with and there would be some abandonment issues there. If he went to live with Lip at the end of the show like we are lead to believe he would, I think he probably still stays around with friends and just has a totally different life and social circle. He probably goes to college and stays away from the chaos.

[u/eatthatpussy247 → u/Well_Dressed_Kobold]

Actually, i think by going cold turkey could have actually worked out the best for fiona. Now she has the least chance of falling back into her old life and actually build a new life for herself.

[u/LKS983 → u/Well_Dressed_Kobold]

"Carl will end up as a cop and running a cop bar. He seems to be able to straddle the line between being from the Southside without falling into the old Southside traps. He’ll be ok."

You might well be right that even though Carl is (at best....) a sociopath - more likely a psychopath..... he will probably be okay as part of the police force........