#kieran (tch)

[gaiuskamilah]

kieran & jack

for @choicescommunityevents international fairy day event

[storyofmychoices]

SpreadJoy #909 spreading positivity with quotes and @playchoices characters.

Quote by Richard Carlson

For @choicescommunityevents /@ladylamrian

[mvalentine]

lots of complicated feelings towards this book but genuinely my main gripe with it is the mc. they’re so mellow and mary sue-esque it drives me insane. the mc should have been mad and angry and resentful for way longer. also the mc not telling kieran about the heart piece should have been more about them fearing for their own life (and that kieran would k**l them for it) rather than oh no! i can’t betray the trust of the person who literally kidnapped me like???

also kinda like the idea that their love story would end as a tragedy. that they wouldn’t end up together. kieran not being able to get that final heart piece back and not having the heart (ha) to hurt them…. the mc being too fearful to be with them. idk! once again pb has so much potential. this story could work so well as an anti-hero tragedy doomed by the narrative romance but no…..

[violentinecrl]

♡ Choices Playlists ♡

@itlivesproject - Jocelyn and Mc from It Lives Within

Lancelot and Mc from Guinevere

Kieran and Mc from The Cursed Heart

Kamilah and Mc from Bloodbound

Trystan and Mc from Crimes of Passion

[a-cloud-for-dreams]

also it would be a crime not to share these tags like-

I would love to hear more about your thoughts on Radiance as a lover 🥰🤲

(And mother if you’re comfortable, the idea’s just making my heart burst)

Aw yeah! I get to jabber on about pixelated women! My favorite past time lol.

Radiance as a lover hc:

♤ Catching her eye, meeting her for the first time and for awhile afterwards while you're mere acquaintances, she comes across as a very intense person. When you catch her eye, she immediately knows she wants you. At first she thinks she just wants you in her bed but as time goes by she realizes it's something more.

♤ She gives you her undivided attention when you speak which is part of the reason why she comes across as intense. If the other fae try to interrupt you or speak over you, Radiance will interrupt them and smoothly bring the conversation back to you in a way that makes the one who interrupted you, embarrassed.

♤ Radience is soooo charming. Smooth and witty, she'll make you laugh easily. She will shower you with compliments and gifts to the extreme. It will make you uncomfortable at first but if you ask her to slow down on all the gift giving, she'll pout and tell you that's just her love language. Very sugar mommy vibes lol.

♤ I do feel like even in an AU world where Radiance isn't power hungry like she is in canon, she has to still have a dark side that she was predisposed to. In canon both Gleam/Longclaw and Radiance grew up in the Sun court but Longclaw is nothing like Radiance, their uncles saw something dark in Radiance and they nurtured it until she became the woman she is. In an AU, the uncles don't exist so she didn't grow up to be cruel but that doesn't mean she's perfect.

♤ There are some behaviors and habits she's going to have to unlearn when she gets with you. She's very overprotective and can be possessive. When she realizes the true depths of her feelings for you, she panics. You became her greatest weakness and in the Sun court, any weakness can and will be eagerly exploited by the nobles. At first she wants to hide you away, keep your relationship a secret, not because she's embarrassed by you but she's scared of what "accident" could fall upon you by the fae.

♤ Eventually your relationship becomes public and she refuses to let anyone treat you as inferior, even if you're human. Though Kieran is the Moon Court ruler, she has a fiery temper, the opposite can be said of Radiance. Though Radiance is of the Sun Court, her anger is subtle and icy. Still smiling at the poor unfortunate fool that spoke ill of you, she'll easily tear their entire world apart with just a couple of sentences.

♤ She tries to "forbid" you from leaving the Sun palace, at first. There are fae that want to get their claws on the Sun princess's consort after all, not to mention the one thousand and one dangerous plants and animals out there in the forest. When that doesn't go over well with you she let's it go but you'll always have 2 if not 3 bodyguards when you set foot outside and she dislikes events that take you outside of the palace. And that protectiveness gets worse when you two have children.

Radiance as a mother:

I couldn't help but picture Radiance holding a mini you (if you play as a feminine mc, there has to be some type of magic that would enable 2 women or a woman and an enby to have a child together, I don't care about canon at this point, magic is magic dammit lol) ANYWAY back to what I was saying before I so rudely interrupted myself---I pictured Radiance holding a little one year old mini you in her arms, making funny faces and puffing her cheeks to make yours and her daughter/son burst into laughter. And how bright her smile would be.

♤ She'll happily carry all 3 kids if you can't or don't want to (she wanted more but you talked her down to 3). If you carry her child, she'll be extremely doting and overprotective but if she carries your child, she's gonna be a little bit of a brat at times. I'm talking mood swings for days. Her feet and back hurt and her patience with the court's stupidity is very thin. But it's all worth it once your child is born.

♤ She flourishes being a mother. Doesn't want to put her newborn down for a moment. All the court's schemes and machinations disappear when it's just her and her child. Your child will have anything and EVERYTHING they want

Anyway I think I'll stop here, this is getting quite long lol. Thanks for asking me about my hc and letting me go on and on about a pretty woman. 💕

[lilyoffandoms]

Kieran x Elam by @oh-so-youre-a-nerd

Hung on to this art for a bit but I think it’s time its gorgeousness was shared beyond me and my header here. Thank you, Elliott, for always creating the most beautiful art for me ever and being such a pleasure to work with. You are wonderful!!

Art Commission Tag: @storyofmychoices

Event Tags: @choicescommunityevents fairy event (coming in under the wire hope that’s okay @ladylamrian). Also tagging @julychallenge for the prompt happiness (thanks for hosting @peonierose).

[bri1234]

Kieran x MC

I’ve been itching to draw something different from what I normally do so I sketched out these two and colored them in lol

Also a submission for the International Fairy Day event 😊

Tagging @choicesficwriterscreations @choicescommunityevents

[nightprincekieran]

ME WHEN I REMEMBER THERE WILL ONLY BE TWO OF THESE BOOKS AND I WILL NEVER GET LEAF BULLYING KIERAN AGAIN AFTER A COUPLE MORE WEEKS

[choices-life-lessons]

Never getting over The Cursed Heart

I cannot believe I returned to Choices after what it felt like ages only to discover The Cursed Heart, fall in love with the story, the lore, the characters and ofc Kieran and then feel so sad bc of the ending?? This story was god tier, what do you mean there’s only 2 books?? This had the potential to be a trilogy. I’m gonna miss the characters so much. I’m not coping. And Kieran just went up to become one of the best Choices LIs of all time… I can’t believe it’s over.

[puredoesnotmeankind]

TCH!MC is an obvious reference to the typical fairytale heroine (MC can be either gender and this troupe isn’t limited to a specific gender but is traditionally limited to female characters) such as Cinderella, Rapunzel or Snow White. These characters come from a difficult or tumultuous life yet due to remaining true to themselves and being kind no matter what, they are ultimately rewarded their happily ever after.

Yet TCH2 takes it a step further and addresses the criticism and questions around these types of characters, such as their seemingly ‘lack of power’ which has become a prevalent topic of debate especially in the modern age. Characters like Cinderella and Snow White are criticised for being too ‘traditionally feminine’ (with these criticisms more often than not being stemmed from the idea that power means to take on an active role and have physical strength, diminishing other strengths, although it is worth noting that the question itself is not entirely problematic, especially when there’s a trend of female characters rather than allowing them varied roles).

MC has insecurities and fears regarding their lack of traditional power and how this disallows them from being able to protect those they love. Kieran unknowingly feeds into this by putting MC on the sidelines. We see how these insecurities affect MC’s previously open heart, as it is no longer considered pure and true. MC’s must choose between traditional power and strength or their own that stem from their mortality and heart.

And they choose the first option.

And it does them no good. They choose wrong.

They are not able to stop Opulence or do anything to truly sway the battle towards their side. By discarding their kind heart and love, they become an empty shell and only manage to hurt others.

Only when Kieran’s love is able to restore their heart, like they once did for them, is MC able to make a plan to stop Opulence and succeed. Through their mortal ability to lie and their love for others.

[gaiuskamilah]

kieran x elam for @lilyoffandoms for the @choicesfandomappreciation 2024 secret admirer event ❤️

apologies for the delay, i wanted to get this done by valentines but it would not cooperate with me😭 i had so much fun doing this, i hope you like it!! this is actually the third of concepts i tried doing, so more on that + timelapse under the cut for those interested (: (and yes, this is based off of one of the iconic scenes from howl's moving castle.)

i wanted to do something that really captured " warm softness to the cold hard edges" and i thought of maybe drawing a scene where elam realizes the beast is kieran. kieran's monster complex is a big part of their character and mc loving and embracing that part, the warmth to kieran's "monster", loving them despite and maybe even for it, was something i always liked about their dynamic. so that was the first draft but i wasnt feeling it and i couldnt figure out the drawing so i scrapped it HGJDHFKGHD

then i tried a second version where they're in a garden and elam gives kieran flowers, but idk, it just didn't fit?? heres the abandoned wip of it anyway OTL

while drawing and conceptualizing i kept thinking about what TCH reminded me of. the most obvious (and relevant, i think) is acotar, but then i remembered miyazaki's howl's moving castle, which is so much more like TCH than anything. so i wanted to do something with elam's hand over kieran's heart but it just did not work out (as you'll see in the timelapse), so i ended up with something more like a screenshot redraw of one of the iconic scenes in the movie:

and finally, the timelapse:

🎵 the boy who swallowed a star - joe hisaishi

[storyofmychoices]

SpreadJoy #786: spreading positivity with quotes and @playchoices characters.

Quote in edit by Roy T. Bennett

[choices-and-voices]

Okay, but like. The symbolism of Nick being the one who gives shelter to Kieran & MC. The man whom Eisa loved in secret but was too frightened to love in the public, now giving refuge to the child whom Eisa only bore by leaving him & the mortal whom that child openly adores. The fact that Nick has somehow stepped up for both of Eisa’s children, even when they’re fighting each other. The fact that Eisa leaving Nick is both what allowed Kieran to have MC & what orchestrated the current threat between them, and throughout it all Nick has stood steadfast, not on the side of the mortals, or the side of the Fae, but on the side of love. And the fact that he doesn’t even know he is doing it. The fact that Nick looks at Kieran and sees Eisa metaphorically, and he doesn’t even know that he is also seeing her literally. The fact that Kieran is there in Nick’s tavern and they represent everything that Nick fought for long ago, threatened by the person that Nick has been fighting for ever since. The fact that the last of Kieran’s bloodline is trying to kill everything they love, but also the last of Nick’s bloodline is trying to kill everything he could have loved, once, and Nick has stood in the way of that without even knowing what’s going on. The fact that Nick seems almost fated to be a guardian in this story. The fact that Eisa gave him an amulet to keep him alive to protect Jack, and she didn’t even realise she was also keeping him alive to protect Kieran. The fact that Nick has lived the kind of lifespan that Jack & MC both dream of, but Nick has lived it through losing his love, and MC wants it in order to remain with their love, and Jack wants it in order to fight for people like Nick without knowing that Eisa is the reason he’s lived so long in the first place. And the fact that Nick was never meant to live so long, his mind is falling apart, he is fated to protect these people but that also means that he is fated to his doom, and the fact that I don’t know what that means for MC and Jack and Kieran and I just. I just. I just.

I just have feels okay.

[the-unconquered-queen]

First they make my father-in-law a corpse and now my sister-in-law’s a bitch. Is there no reprieve for the Starfury family? 😞

[masked-alien-lesbian]

Cg collage of current LIs for wide release

[lilyoffandoms]

Kieran x Elam by @oh-so-youre-a-nerd

This gorgeous piece is based on Le Sommeil by Gustave Courbet. I’ve countless art pieces and old tv show promos I want to reference for fandom art and I decided it was high time I started getting those.

I debated TCH or CoP for this one. CoP because the other name for this piece is Les Deux Amies and it tickles me to no end how fitting that would be for Trystan x MC. However, I had to go with TCH because of the symbolism of the overall original piece seemed so fitting and I thought it would fit well in a moodier setting.

And honestly I think it was the right decision because look at them!!!!!

Thank you so so much, Thia, for taking this one on and just hitting it out of the damn park ♥️