#Kishiar La Orr

[wiltkingart]

ch 299/300

[evethemenace]

Found some unfinsihed sketches of Cat Yuder

[yudrein-aile]

honestly early chapters Nathan deserves more credit considering how much bullshit he has to put up with from Kishiar’s side

being told the just off age commoner is hot

the weird commoner has to be a spy because he’s entirely too good at everything

Kishiar not leaving the suspicious guy alone

Fucking assassination attempt he wasn’t there for and the incredibly fucking weird powerful commoner dealt with on his own

Looking after the cavalry while Kishiar is doing hot girl shot

Kishiar using the powers to fix the commoner’s weird funky wound

Like I’m only praying he never learns about the whole ‘propositioning Yuder to see how he reacts’ thing bc while I think Nathan is too professional to slap Kishiar, I think he would oversteep his tea

[lovefrombegonia]

[kouraissant]

In the examination of a (love poem) name

On a name that was a love poem, On Yudrein Aile, On Eternity (Above) The Vine, Tennessee Williams / Chapter 445, Turning, 쿠유 / Dear [ ], Nick Lantz (2018) / Soft Human, Emery Allen / Handle with Care, Jodi Picoult / Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking, C. T. Salazar / Maria, West Side Story (Below) Letters to Milena, Franz Kafka

[domo-arts]

I love you more than you’ll ever know

[messy-haired-bum]

Yuder: Please fire me if I bring trouble to the Cavalry.

Kanna: Please fire me if I bring trouble to the Cavalry.

Kishiar, watching two of his brightest subordinates fighting to leave: (⊙ ᴗ ⊙💢)

Yuder, now Commander's Assistant: 👁️👄👁️

Kanna, now Deputy Commander: 👁️👄👁️

[kishiar-la-orr]

personally speaking, there are 3 parts of kishiar la orr's character that makes me find him really fascinating.

first is how he is technically a troupe but a subversion of a troupe at the same time? male leads in romances, whether its het romance or a BL romance, are usually like. cold northern duke who is super strong, super smart and opens up to the main character very slowly because of the main character's kindness, blunt and at times rude. instead, we have kishiar — who is also a northern duke and super strong and super smart, but i'd argue between kishiar and yuder, the one who made the first move to further advance their connection is kishiar? as in, he extends his thoughts and feelings genuinely, expresses wanting to be close to yuder, which are all an olive branch yuder can accept, a sign of trust and (to a degree) vulnerability and real intent to form a connection.

yes, part of him plays into the common male lead troupes, but other parts of him honestly reads more like a female lead? he's the one more emotionally in touch, he's the socially savvy one, he's sunny and smiley. which is just fun, in my opinion, when compared to other BLs i've personally found over the years.

the second thing is my unending fascination with kishiar's complicated tango with mortality. being sickly from childhood, there must've been a sense of impending doom — especially when it's practically public secret among nobles that imperial family members usually die young because of vessel issues. kishiar was on super fast track to the same recorded fates those other people had. but then, in the prev. game, he survived! became healthy! only to not long after take two steps backwards as his health arguably got worse. sometimes i think being killed by yudrein in the 1st tl could be considered a mercy to 1st tl kishiar.

and in the 2nd tl, he went from sick to healthy — and that is it. i think with the blooming romance with yuder, it emphasizes the core characteristic of kishiar that is: he does everything for the people he loves, their future and happiness whether it's with or without him in the picture. ideally, of course it's with him. and in the 2nd tl, he's finally granted this. you can really tell when you see the prev. game flashbacks and go back to the present timeline that kishiar is just much more alive and not just in the physical sense — there is a drive and a sense of liveliness that wasn't there in all of their past life sections, in my opinion.

i just really get fascinated with character struggles with mortality, man. i think kishiar especially has a lot to offer in this department, there are so many things from canon that you can deconstruct or things not yet answered that you can headcanon — everything to play around and explore further about his character and its deep ties to death. even down to the way that he talks, to me, is due to his isolation because of the very vessel bursting issue that also foresaw his impending doom. like, he talks like a person who's alone a lot while growing up? the eloquence and all. it is so fun. naturally, this also includes his expertise with emotional processing and expression — i also think this can also be tied down to his intricate dance with mortality.

finally, the last layer is that kishiar, by all accounts, should be a gary stu — a male version of a mary sue character — and should maybe be boring to read about. he can do practically everything from magic, swordsmanship and aura, divine power to awakener ability. he is sociable and politically wise, able to play the 5D chess of nobles and high society and extract information from enemies and allies alike easily with his multi-layered words. he is smart, he is emotionally intelligent, he has a lot of strong allies, he is kind. but... he isn't boring to read about? not at all. his struggles may have passed, but they are struggles anyway. they contribute to the way i perceive him as a character and only cause me to be even more fascinated by him. and this very 'perfection' kuyu sets him up with — especially the being super strong and able to wield all the powers in their world like a goddamn avatar — is set up to be a major flaw: the very reason his vessel couldn't hold it for the majority of his life and in the 1st tl. everything just colors a very interesting picture of a character that i ended up beyond obsessed with.

[mintjeru]

it probably wasn't the smartest decision to start an ongoing 1000+ chapter webnovel when i know it'll consume my every waking thought but here we are

open for better quality | no reposts

[jasontoddiefor]

I’m reading Turning and I love how Yuder is getting the babygirl™️ treatment from Kishiar. he just. does whatever and Kishiar backs him up. My subordinate starts a fight with a high ranking Knight? He wants me to ask the Emperor for a favor? He annoys yet another member of nobility? Simply cannot help but stan. I’d pay cash money to read all of these scenes from Kishiar’s perspective. This autistic badass twink just walked into his life, saves him once, and Kishiar is just. I Must Bully Him Into Becoming My Closest Ally. Obsessed.

[wiltkingart]

turning by kuyu has completely overtaken my brain

[evethemenace]

Istg guys these accidental animal turning fanfics are the life of me

[yudrein-aile]

god. i. desperately need a silly devastating little magic AU. kishiar is brought up in magic the way all children with heavy inheritances are, he learns it in circles, in calculations, spun words that keep him breathing as a curse older than his bloodline slowly devours him

Yuder meanwhile has no name for the magic he practices, could not draw you a proper circle to save his life. He’s not been taught that there are calculations to run, mere that he needs to breathe with the wind if he wants to borrow its power, has to heat the fire with his heart and feel every plant beneath his toes if he dares to summon the earth.

“Wild magic, Nathan,” Kishiar breathes, half-delighted, half-terrified the way every properly schooled mage of the Empire would be in the face of magic run without conduit.

(“There is a conduit,” Yuder will say, once taught the words of actions he’s learned by wading through lake waters. “It’s me, it’s my body.”

“This is not what bodies are built for,” says the man dying to a rotting curse.

“Maybe you just use them wrong.”)

[lovefrombegonia]

[kouraissant]

The Sun is dead and love is an unbearable thing (On Yudrein Aile & Grief)

(Above) KOURAISSANT / (Aeschylus: The Oresteia, Aeschylus & The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, Anne Carson) / Things Haunt, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza / Chapter 514, Turning, 쿠유 / Morning in the Burned House, Margaret Atwood / The opposite of a haunting is something very lonely, heavensghost / A Rosario Castellanos Reader:  ‘Memorandum on Tlatelolco’, tr. Maureen Ahern / Sue Zhao / The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller / The Empress Yamato Hime, tr. Kenneth Rexroth / Spring and All, Cathy Park Hong / UNDER A STAR CALLED SUN / there is no absolution for the fallen, only the dying, p.d / Chapter 1, Turning, 쿠유 / Lesbos (From Ariel), Sylvia Plath

(Below) The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), dir. Mike Flanagan / 6CHO1

[domo-arts]

Kishiyu scribbles (this novel has me in a death grip)