#Killian lore

[theaudiofiend]

Two Truths and a Lie

Thanks to @ceph-the-ghost-writer for tagging me. I guessed Dorian being afraid of bugs was the lie. Just cause I think it’s funny.

Tagging @noircosmicawrites @uraniumwriting @kaiusvnoir to do this for one of their characters. And whoever else wants to.

For this one, I decided to talk about Killian, an old pureblooded vampire from my series Written in Blood.

1 - Despite being a powerful pureblooded vampire and having fought thousands of horrific creatures of every shape and size, Killian has a phobia of horses. 

2 - Killian loved writing poetry and has written hundreds of flowery sonnets for his love, but has not done so for a long time after they passed away.

3 - Killian has never turned someone into a vampire or a ghoul. 

[koboldfactory]

I’m currently refining Killian’s design and also redesigning his traveling “buddy” who wants him dead and is constantly trying to kill him to no avail. Killian grew up during and experienced multiple wars and he thinks that nobody should repeat the mistakes of the past or experience what he experienced. As a result, he believes strongly in ending conflicts non-lethally whenever possible, even though he very easily could defeat most foes with his abilities, in hopes of making people reform their ways.

[warlocx]

"Fool... It was your purpose all along."

[t1r3dr3pt1l3z]

Okay,, I usually don’t post my art on this account (shameless art acct plug: @l1z4rdm34t ), but I have more followers here who enjoy some of the same things as me. I’m tagging this stuff with all the fandoms I’m apart of to attract my people.

I’m making this an advertisement because I don’t know how to do this

I’m also really high right now, please forgive all spelling mistakes and shit

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He’s a man… in the eighties. Living in a town in the middle-of-nowhere Nevada. And he knows there’s something wrong with the town. So obviously he uses his 14-year-old son (who is more of a tool than a son, anyway) to get information about it. And when he doesn’t do it well, he gets mad at him. Like you do at an underdeveloped teenage boy.

*holds him up proudly like a middle schooler’s scenmo fursona*

Um.. so.. yeah. He’s my baby. He’s my baby and I love him.

[awritingcaitlin]

Semi-abbreviated History of Tyrysius

Most everyone believes that the high gods created the planet, brought about different peoples in various images, and then left. There are a few competing ideas, however.

Those particular entrenched in the faith of the cat lords recognize that they are not native to this planet, but they can still conquer it. The cats are actually closer to being right.

There was a Creator who made the planet and gave it someone to look after it. She was the first high goddess. She had other gods and goddesses in her pantheon.

This went on for centuries, if not millennia. However, when the planet started failing, she opened her gates to allow others to come and breathe new life into the world.

These are those "high gods" who "created" people. Except really they were just shepherds basically. Of both people and lower gods. None of them have the power to create from nothing.

After the Schism War and the end of the Age of Intervention, it wasn't so much that the high gods left, it was that gods were literally attacking one another and absorbing each other's power.

It gets way more complicated than that and most people alive today have no idea what all happened. They're just stuck on the very simplistic idea of creators who left.

But let's get more into the weeds. How long have people existed on Tyrysius? Did they just appear at some point? How did they appear? Who, if any, were first? What does this have to do with the gods?

Riela’s formal education had been cut prematurely short for a plethora of reasons and she hadn’t ever gone back. However, she’d become a voracious reader since. She knew that the gods had placed each race of people onto Tyrysius and had encouraged them to thrive.

Prevalent beliefs include people were created by the gods, or arrived on a fertile planet with the gods' help. Everyone would have gotten there around the same time, and if anything, the elves were first.

However, ruins outside Timernis revealed bodies dating back before any previously recorded history (that they know of). That's now a subject of significant debate in academic circles.

Nathaniel's doctoral thesis is about this topic. And, like many doctorate students, you get him talking about it, and he won't shut up. He wants to explain his findings.

“It’s about how the sitah might have been the original inhabitants of Tyrysius,” Adler said. He got several raised eyebrows and he repeated what he’d told Riela the other night, which felt like such a long time ago now. He mentioned the sitah bones dating back before the Age of Intervention and what that may suggest since there were multiple sets of sitah bones and a suspicious lack of anything else. He got a lot of intrigued looks.

It's making archaeologists question their dating practices. Are they wrong? Or are they right? Everyone is up in arms about who may have been the original people.

“See,” Adler explained. “The generally accepted doctrine is that everyone came to the planet at the same time. The larger sitah were there as protectors of the smaller races. Elves were the bridge across generations. Gnomes were known for their technology and dwarves their architecture. Halflings were the connection to nature. Humans were a balance between them all. No one asked for the orcs, but they showed up too. And then the cat-species had their own separate deals under their own pantheon.”

What they haven't quite pegged out the specifics of yet, is that civilizations have rose and fell many times on Tyrysius. The world also looked a lot different before the Cataclysm.

“The belief that we all got here at relatively the same time is the most prevalent one, but the finding of these bones in an archeological dig in Eastern Schmiedland several hundred miles north of Berthingtonn with no other sets of bones comparable implies that maybe the belief is wrong. What if the sitah have been around longer than anyone else? What if, perhaps, the sitah were here first, and the others came later?”

Religious doctrine allows (and honestly encourages) the argument between different theories because it distracts from the truth the Temples aren't even sure of anymore.

“The first belief,” Rinnie continued. “Is that the High Gods all got together and created us for a certain purpose, or that each of the High Gods designed a type of person in their image. The exceptions being the dwarves, who maintain they originated from the Stone. These first Stone-born were the original Ancestors who birthed the dwarven race.”

History became very fractured (intentionally) after the Age of Intervention. It became even more fractured after the Cataclysm (unintentionally.)

“The other exception is the varying cat races, who believe that their separate pantheon of Cat Lords created the tigrins, tirins, and pumins each to their own purpose. This theory does not, however, explain where the orcs came from, unless a particularly powerful demon or less than well-intentioned god made them and is not owning up to it. As we haven’t seen any orcs since the Cataclysm really, we can’t exactly ask any current opinions.”

This begs the question: what if no one originated on the planet at all? And does not answer: how did people come to Tyrysius? Where is the proof for any of this?

“The second basic belief is that all of the races were traveling without a home anymore and came upon Tyrysius which was empty of sentient life but otherwise habitable. This one explains where the orcs came from better, but there are no life-ships to back this up—though I know that at one point we colonized the moon. This one also doesn’t really explain our relationship to dragons, but that’s splitting hairs.”

So, why argue about it at all? Well, some of it has to do with ownership and who might have more rights to the planet. It's easiest to think that the older, more steadfast, peoples were around first.

“Ownership,” Adler said, answering the same way he’d answered to Riela when she’d asked. “The elves and dwarves both want to believe they’re the first even within generally accepted doctrine. The humans know they can’t claim that they were here first, so they’re certainly not going to complain when something suggests they were placed on the planet around the same time as others.”

Many people think it's terrifying that the sitah, a bigger race, might own it. Especially because the larger people could feasibly take over if they wanted to.

“What would happen if the sitah suddenly got ideas about being the first on the planet?” Killian suggested in the hypothetical. “Not that there are really any full-sitah left. But Timernis exists with a very large partial-sitah population. We’re bigger, stronger, and tougher to kill. What if they decided they owned the place and tried to conquer it? Of course, this doesn’t take into account that they’re outnumbered and the bigger you are, the more you are at risk if the world goes famine again.”

What if religious doctrine is only trying to keep the planet's population from fighting amongst themselves? (More than they already are.) What if it's something else entirely?

“No one really wants the sitah to start acting like they own the planet,” Kanjo said, leaning back in his seat. “They also don’t want other people fighting against the Timernans in a knee-jerk plan to preemptively eliminate the supposed sitah problem.”  

Yet, regardless of religious fears, scientists and historians plunge forward for the sake of knowledge. There are sitah bones dating back 17,000 years while the oldest elf bones only date back 12,000.

“Well,” he said. “Why sitah and no one else? But also because the aura dating of those skeletons found in Lorbush have undoubtable anatomically unique features that place them as sitah. And the aura dating goes back twelve-thousand years. And the ones found in Macrait are close to seventeen-thousand.”

Seventeen thousand years goes back before the Age of Intervention is believed to have started. Current theories put that at about 8000 years ago. This is also how old the oldest elf bones date back to.

“Yeah but that’s back before the Age of Intervention even started, right?” Mica asked. “Theoretically,” Adler said. “We estimate that the Age of Intervention lasted about five thousand years and like Rinnie said, there are little-to-no records before then.”

The oldest dwarf bones date back 7300 years. But, older architecture is larger, as if built for bigger people by bigger people. So what is anyone to think?

“Regardless of how long the Age of Intervention lasted, the oldest elf bones we have dates back to roughly eight-thousand years and the oldest dwarf seven-thousand-three-hundred. Both well within the range of when the Age of Intervention spanned. That doesn’t even get into the fact that there is architecture in the older cities like the lower levels of Berthingtonn and other places in Schmiedland that were obviously built by for larger-framed people.”

While there were once extensive historical records, the Thadan-Yurel War and the subsequent Cataclysm destroyed or destroyed access to a large percentage of them. Now there are holes.

Records from 1000+ years ago are hard to come by and what's available is fractured. Additionally, getting records from more than 3000 years ago is nearly impossible.

Academics try to patch those holes, but it's not easy. And, as is the case with any historical writings, they're written by the winners. Someone is always trying to hide something.

Anyone can find the existing historical records in libraries, museums, temples, etc. However, they'll run into the problem that the records only go back so far.

This era is the common era. Before that was the Age of Intervention which lasted about 5000 years. Before the AOI, there's conflicting thoughts as to what it was.

Common questions include: Did the world even exist? Did people? What kind of people? Who were the first people? Was magic different? There's not much literature one way or another.

It's clear if you look closely that someone is trying to hide major parts of Tyrysian history. The question is, who? No one has answered this question yet.

Everyone is taught history in school, though it varies by area. Different countries place emphasis on different things and bias is highly prevalent.

For example, Berthingtonn considers the war won 300 years ago a fight for their independence. Schmiedland considers the same war a mixed bag because they gained land, but not all of Berthingtonn.

There are museums and exhibits in all of the big cities and some smaller ones. Several gods have temples that are museums because they are gods of history and knowledge.

Some museums are free to attend, others require a small fee. The biggest cost is usually getting to one unless you are already in a bigger city.

For Berthingtonn in specific, the Inner City has way more museums than say, South Town. South Town has a couple of exhibits but nothing large.

And while people who live in South Town can go to the Inner City, and many schools do fieldtrips as part of the regular education. There's commonly deals between museums and schools.

There's lots of ancient ruins, some are still being discovered! Ancient Esternia is pretty much just archeological digs. Though there is an important library there that will become relevant.

Berthingtonn has tunnels that go well below sea level and people can only reasonably get so deep in that mountain before it becomes impossible to traverse.

The oldest city still standing is in fact, Berthingtonn, which had its Wall and Shield completed in the Age of Intervention several thousand years ago.

Berthingtonn's shield was meant to stop all major natural disasters as well as oncoming invasions. However, it was not prepared for some extra-terrestrial object to come plummeting down.

Said extra-terrestrial object damaged Berthingtonn's shield, took out part of their legendary wall, and created the Crater Sea all in one go. (Also it killed a dragon and caused a worldwide ice age.)

This is what's now known as The Cataclysm. Tyrysius still hasn't recovered from it. Since that point, magic has been less prevalent, weather less predictable, and lifespans shorter.

Berthingtonn has existed seemingly as long as time itself. (That isn't quite true but the only people who remember otherwise are not your average mortals and most are deities of some form.)

Current society dates back about a thousand years. Most current traditions and beliefs came about post-Cataclysm, which was about 1200 years ago.

Note: Tyrysius is always at war.

The Grainbelt War in the early 3000s was massive and horrific, the worst years being 05-06. That was only 9 years ago.

Essentially, Schmiedland and Perinathia are always going at it over the Grainbelt.

There was the Berthan-Eswaili Conflict in the 2950s. South Efrium Civil War in the 2930s. That resulted in South Efrium ceasing to exist and becoming Eswaisil.

Since then, Eswaisil wants to conquer Berthingtonn but has thus far been unable to.

The Yurel-Edansa War in the early 2700s, which is largely still relevant because Edan elves live that long. They're frequently going at it over ideology.

The big Berthington-Schmiedland War also happened around that time.

Schmiedland and Perinathia are constantly fighting over the Grain Belt, the border constantly shifting. They recently signed a new peace treaty. We'll see how long that lasts.

Edansa and the Yurels fight frequently. An old blood war over ideology. Currently, however, the Yurels are experiencing a Civil War. So there's no warring between them and Edansa presently.

Over the years, the Great Efrium Empire (with Berthingtonn as it's center) split into North and South Efrium. South Efrium eventually became Eswaisil - whose border with Perinathia is stagnant.

North Efrium then lost a lot of ground to Schmiedland and now Berthingtonn is a large city-state with an Inner Town and surrounding towns outside the Wall.

Eswaisil tried really hard to go after Berthingtonn a few decades ago, but it's been a cold war since. That tension is only going to get thicker as the years go on.

For reference, Heist is set 5 years before TBW. So the end of the Grainbelt war is fresher, and Eswaisil isn't about ready to declare war on Berthingtonn... Yet.

Holidays include:

Berthingtonn has Independence Week which is largely for Berthans but really anyone can celebrate.

Similarly, Schmiedland has Schmiedland Day.

The Yurels do a lot of ancestral worship so those are more private and reserved events.

Religiously speaking, most deities will allow for non-worshippers to join in celebrations because it nets them worship. However, only known followers and clergy can participate in the more sacred parts.

When you have gods that walk around on the planet, the line between history, legend, and myth, gets really fuzzy. Sometimes, the more people try to define it, the fuzzier it gets.

The language of Bûrdæn started declining at the end of the Age of Intervention. In part because other languages were more widespread, in part because of the stigma against it.

It's impossible to learn it now because any books written in it are long forgotten or already destroyed. However, there are more and more people around who seem to know it lately.

The term "frozen wastes" is an expletive interjection at the beginning of a sentence, usually said in surprise. It stems from the fact that much of the world is in fact a frozen waste as a result of the Cataclysm.

Historical fiction exists as a genre on Tyrysius. Nathaniel and Riela both love reading it. Killian too, but he's more critical of creative liberties.

[killiancormac]

i gotta talk about killian here more often

[sanityshorror]

since I couldn't get a straight answer from Julius, what is the reason for him being so distant from his kids? what happened that made him that way?

{Part 1} A Summary of Why Julius Hates Babies and Children:

Due to how long this is I'm going to answer in two parts because I have another ask regarding this, and because the answer is so long I decided to answer both asks as multiple parts. Part 2 linked below.

There are multiple reasons that led to his hatred all of which are rooted in PTSD, though this clearly is no justification for his behavior let alone his treatment towards his own children when they were young. Being around them is actually very triggering for Julius.

The reasons are incredibly complex and deep that I can only fully justify the explanation in my upcoming novels about Julius. However it boils down as one or more of the following three depending on the scenario and/or situation and/or age – note these are in no specific order:

Confusion that results in him becoming extremely upset, leading him to lash out then send self destruction.

An intense jealousy that quickly escalates into rage.

Flashbacks from PTSD which lead him to shut down completely.

Additionally, I need to specify a few things:

These are elaborated on in Part 2

A.) Julius doesn't hate teenagers; therefore this does not reflect how he feels about teenagers. He mainly just finds teenagers annoying and avoids them because of this.

B.) Julius doesn't target children or teenagers as victims. He avoids even being near children (as I'm about to explain) and avoids teens as I mentioned above. Additionally, they just are utterly irrelevant to his MO as a serial killer.

C.) This doesn't mean he cares about them at all.

D.) During his time as a human, he was psychologically and physically abusive towards his own children – though he was absent and negligent more than anything. He has not intentionally and/or directly harmed any other minors (excluding when he was a minor himself).

[androids-insides]

Thank you for the support, people. It means a lot, really. Without further ado, I give you:

LITTLE DEAD THINGS

A bit of plot, and some character notes (with pictures, because I’m cool like that)!

Little dead things is, ideally, a silent-film show animated to indie songs! It features artists such as Will Wood, Mindless Self Indulgence, and a good handful of other artists! (Which is why I’m certain that I won’t have the licence for it, and that it’s just a cool idea for now) There is very little talking, and the show is mostly told through the music.

There are three main characters, as of now. Killian Kline, Mallory ��Mal” Logan-Ledger and Damien Alder. They are dead, yes, and they are trying to fulfill this dumb quest they got after they died. (I probably won’t go into more detail for a while :])

Mal is a very kind soul. She would give herself up for anything and everything, if the time arose. She didn’t have too many friends until she met the other two, and has kept her title since. She’s got a mom (who I may have accidentally made a Milf?), her step-dad, and two siblings, in a sort of a mansion on top of a hill. One likely couldn’t guess that she lived in a mansion by looking at her, but one would be surprised. She doesn’t entirely like it there, and finds herself to be undeservingly sad. She doesn’t know why. She wishes it would stop.

If Damien could be compared to an animal, it would likely be a Chihuahua. Small and angry for no reason. Well, Damien has one hell of a reason, but that’s not important, is it? Underneath that, he is loyal, and though a bit aggressive with his methods of affection, he really does care. His mom passed away ages ago, but his dad is still kicking, unfortunately. He has way too many siblings to count, and happens to be the eldest, as far as he’s aware. He has never met the rest of his family, and has never really thought about it, but there ought to be someone out there, right? He’s done his best to keep to himself, until that idiot Killian got them all into this mess. At least Mal has some common sense!

Killian is trying his hardest, he really is. He put the world on his shoulders, and he’s going to carry it! He keeps himself busy, and tries his darnedest to make sure that everyone is happy. He takes almost every extra curricular in school, and almost every sport, but had to drop theatre because it kept getting in the way. He lives fairly happily with his mom, and his dad, even though he doesn’t see them very often, he’s trying to get their approval through all the extra stuff at school: maybe one day, they’ll actually come to an event! Despite having everything he could want or ask for, being surrounded by people at school, and his parents at home, he still feels lonely. Weird. As it does, everything changes when he dies. For starters, someone he’s never met before hates him. Nothing new, but they have to endure such a peculiar event together, and this person is not cooperating. At least the other one thinks he’s okay.

Together they will brave the horrors and peculiarities that await them! What will they decide when this is all over?

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I WILL ANSWER THEM!!

[valentinesparda]

i did spend about 20 minutes yesterday dedicated to infodumping to one of my former coworkers at the game store about my new insert claire because said former coworker would let me talk about self inserts and ships but unfortunately she's not into a lot of the things that I am so it's really just me talking At her about my ship lore. she got the deep lore for claire before anyone else and I know my partner would make serious fun of me if I told them about claire too. not because I'm making another self insert but because I'm sure they're waiting for me to let it slip that I've made a self insert and are dying to know which character I am consumed with thoughts of and I know they will feel so vindicated about it all

[mangavita]

My son here, his name is Killian ✨️

I created him in 2019 to be friends with my friend's oc, and now I want to write about him again📖

About him:

After being left behind by his former master, Killian sets out on a journey in search of a new boss. He is tall (186 cm/ 6.1 ft), strong and a jack of all trades, he doesn't care about the nature of his master, he just wants someone to boss him around, since he is too lazy to think for himself lol

[inevitable-pretty-chaos]

I really really really need to finally eat. I mean meat and blood, our body had enough food, but I didn't. I'm having violent thoughts. They're so lovely and euphoric, but I can't hurt anyone without permission anyway, so they're useless + they're making my instincts worse. I'm currently losing my mind over vivisections. God. Why.

~Nyx

[koboldfactory]

could we learn a bit more of Krillin's "buddy"? Even tiny crumbs of lore would do

Krillin's buddy? you mean Goku?

lol i'm assuming you mean Killian, in which case I'll give a crumb, but I'm currently working on redesigning them so I'll save the substantial info for when I actually show art of them.

He travels with someone he defeated in a decisive battle that put a halt to a large scale war that had been spiraling out of control. This individual was exiled for their failure in combat and as such sought out Killian for revenge. Killian keeps letting them live while keeping a close eye on them so they don't cause harm to others. plus it spices up his incredibly boring life so he doesn't really care that his life is constantly being threatened.

[nerdnag]

Omg. Someone who heard the mtg podcast section where I talked about Killian Lu apparently told my partner that she got the impression that I "am active in fanfic circles"

And now I am absolutely freaking out that this person, who is an actual real physical person of flesh and blood in my near vicinity, has read my MtG fanfic (which happens to be, like, the only KillianXdina fic in existence) and that this was a HINT FOR ME THAT SHE KNOWS

[lmelodie]

Good HECKIN morning if you're still doing the NOTES ASK I have a normal number for you!!

LUCKY NUMBER 7!! GIVE IT UP FOR NUMBER 7!!!

Bro your killing it with these. And by it I mean my spooky boy because that's KILLIAN ANGST BABY. First blood kink now this? My boy is being put on BLAST with these!

Note #7: Killian and Love

Here's the note but I'm gonna elaborate because it's prime blorbo hours!

I don't think this hesitantly towards romantic love is from a purely I Don't Deserve It stand point, but he sees it as an option that is not available to him by virtue of his nature.

Romantic love is a concept that's very outside his comfort zone. I've been debating for MONTHS about whether or not he's on the aromantic spectrum or not and I still haven't decided.

But as a whole he doesn't fall in love often AT ALL and is very okay with arrangement. Is he...scared of it? 👀 Who's to say really

He's kinda tried out the whole relationship thing a few times and they never last too long. But low and behold the one guy that managed to stick around for such a long time eventually left anyway. The ONE GUY who almost put any doubts to rest managed to leave in the worst way possible.

Killian about the guy with THE MOST red flags ever: Surely this will be a good idea and long term personal investment and will NOT go wrong in any way!

Killian 1267 years later with fresh new facial scars: The risk I took was calculated...but DAMN am I bad at math...

[hvbris]

𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐎 & 𝐕𝐈𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐓 @multipleoccupancy

Practically family. The words sent a shiver down her spine. She pictured Wiley having Sunday lunch with them every week. One awkward dinner with the Horned One was more than enough in her eyes! She wondered if the Violet who lived here knew Wiley too, if Klaus had met him.

"Yes, it's a surprise," she replied honestly, "I mean, I suppose He came to our house for dinner, once. And there was the time He visited for tea, and brought my dad a teddy bear. But I think He only did these things to mess with my dad." Wiley had saved them that day, but Violet still couldn't see that as an act of kindness, no matter how grateful she felt.

"What I'm trying to say is that I have a very different experience of my time with Him." He had cursed her baby sister to force her father into working for Him! The Horned One was wicked, and his help always felt like a poisoned chalice, an expression which here meant a dishonest ploy to get what He wants.

Theo wondered if he was getting through to her at long last, he was of course just being honest with his own experience and feelings around The Horned One. In his eyes, there were not any complications at all. Theo did as he thought The Horned One would like and appreciate after years under his influence he thought he had a fairly decent grasp of what was expected of him and he always tried to exceed those expectations where he could.

"He's practically family," Theo confirmed, arms folding over his chest as he stood and just watched her for a moment. He believed he was coming from a privileged place for how he felt close to The Horned One but it was clear that he truly did respect him and for sure cared about Him. It was easy though, there was not much that could harm Him and if there were, Theo would be sure to keep it out of the city for him, wanting New York to be practically home for Him if he could make it.

"This is obviously a surprise to you?" The Horned One had been a part of his life for so long that Theo didn't consider it strange at all. In fact it had helped him so much as it was within the city having just been one of the few who had actually met Him and spoken to Him on multiple occasions.

[aerosour]

id like to know more about goth, sport, and gort please

Killian and Reagan!! they’re two of my absolute favorite IVANLAND characters and i’m currently writing a very self-indulgent novel (Most Beloved) about them. idk if i’ll ever release it but i will certainly make it available to read in like 40 years when i finish it

they were made as a pair in 2022, and Killian was originally a sub-sona of mine. of course, he grew into his own person over time (i mean. i’m also a completely different person now anyway), and eventually he became this angsty half-demon with a deliciously broody personality. Reagan is his longtime best friend, a short-tempered baseball player who contrasts Killian very nicely.

though i’m not a very spiritual person, and pre-determined fate is not a canonical part of IVANLAND lore, i think i’d call them soulmates. they would find each other and love each other in every reality, blah blah blah. this applies both in a platonic and romantic way, though their dynamic and love for each other is built on a solid platonic foundation. they become romantically entangled eventually, but it’s all deep friendship and yearning and connection before that.

Killian fell for Reagan first, realizing his feelings in middle school. he’s a trans gay man and has known about his queerness since he was young, having transitioned in elementary school. he assumed that his feelings were unrequited, and kept it to himself for an embarrassingly long time. Reagan on the other hand, has returned Killian’s feelings for ages, but didn’t realize it until late high school. even then, he refused to confront his queerness until they were both adults. Most Beloved is a dual pov between them, and explores their relationship and how it evolves through adversity and major life changes.

in my post about their ship name, i played around with different ways of naming ships, one of which being the more modern tradition of using the motifs of the characters being shipped. i’ve only really seen this in younger fandoms, and honestly i think it’s silly. i’m not in any fandoms that really do this though so i don’t care. since Killian is part of the goth subculture and Reagan is an athlete, a potential ship name for them could be ‘gothsport,’ i was much nicer about this in my original post but to be honest… this ship name is ass and i hate it. it’s so fucking stupid. they just aren’t simple enough characters to pick any one motif for them.

i won’t divulge into my distaste for certain fandoms, particularly ones with very uncreative and honestly shitty canon material, but let it be known that ‘killgan’ is the canonical ship name for Killian and Reagan. if anyone unironically uses ‘gothsport’ for them i will start to ingest my own eyelashes. ‘gort’ is funny as hell though so i’ll allow it

another version of their ship name could be ‘killrea’ (pronounced kill-ray), which i think is kinda cute. it doesn’t have the same ring to it as ‘killgan’ though… 😢

but yeah they’re my beloveds