#maybe we will see more of his parents in tftop? I hope so. Bc his parents might recognize him. Kell is famous in their world
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I realized something when I reread A Life Erased. That Kell's mother as we've "seen" her in the short story, somehow is hinted at in bits and pieces in Lila. It's like Lila was giving hints about Kell's mother all along and his past before he was given up.
His mom gave him a knife with his real initials on it. Lila is fond of knives, and even though Lila is not her birth name, the name she tells Kell to call her after they introduce each other starts with L, just like his real surname. Those two initials on the knife make me think about the initials lovers carve on tree trunks. I've already said multiple times that knives are symbolic of their relationship, and this object is also symbolic of Kell's identity intertwining with Lila's and viceversa.
His mom was a fire magician. The first magic Lila tries to call on is fire. His mom and dad likely did illegal things like thieving and traveled on ships, because the text specifies her arms are tanned. Kell's mom has fair skin and red hair just like him, so I assume she must've been a lot under the sun to be described as tanned. Lila used to be a thief, and now she's the captain of a ship. Moreover, one of the ships Lila raids in AGOS is called the Copper Thief. Who has copper hair? Kell, but also his mom.
Perhaps we will see Kell's parents again in future tftop books.
#this was in my drafts from the time I wrote the fic where Kell dreams about his childhood life as a little thief and I still think about it#shades of magic#adsom#kell maresh#lila bard#kellila#delilah bard#the fragile threads of power#a darker shade of magic#tftop#also I've realized that Kell has a mother and father wound bc I think both of his parents were dear to him but they still abandoned him :|#I just want to think that they gave him up bc they hoped for a better future for him. But a part of me thinks they were selfish#maybe we will see more of his parents in tftop? I hope so. Bc his parents might recognize him. Kell is famous in their world#writing meta helps me with fic writing a lot and I love doing it and I hope my thoughts aren't all over the place. ty for reading!#adsom deep dive#Kell totally sees the KL on the knife as his and Lila's initials btw. I wanted to write a fic about this
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