#afterfall

So, for the vows between the king and queen of our roleplay, at the end they say; "We are in this together. Forever and always". And for the record, my king is supposed to be the antagonist who has an amazing relationship with his family and I'm sitting here resisting the urge to make him redeemable.

Then, there's what I did with Afterfall, which is something I did literal months ago in my notes and never have been the same since about it. Their vows end with "I'll love you forever, and the years that follow after that".

But it doesn't end there. See, these boys are so in love with each other that its pretty common to hear them reference their vows, but do it in a specific way thats a nod to their dynamic in the story.

Sometimes this is flipped, but you'll usually hear them go like;

Kelly: "I'll love you forever."

Silver: "And a day after that."

Spoilers for Afterfall ahead, but;

Kelly, who was supposed to die young and met Silver for the first fime when he was dead, knows that death won't take them apart. Silver is the God of Death afterall and genuinely loves and cares about him. So he tells him that he'll love him forever, because he knows there will always be a forever for eachother, either in the living realm, the Isles, or the After.

Silver obviously knows this too and while he acknowledges there's a chance Kelly might leave him for whats beyond the After, he knows he will love him long after that. He was once mortal, had friends, a sister, parents, even a girlfriend he courted after he became a God and while he didn't experience it at the time, he's grieved over the fact that he has lost them permanently. His sister might had reincarnated into Winter, but Destiny no longer exists, and the rest of them disappeared to the beyond. Its been centuries and he still loves them. So, when he says "a day after that" to his husband, its a reference to his fact.

What he doesn't expect after the events of the final arc is for his hopes to come true, that Kelly decides, with no hesitation, that he would rather exist in the After with Silver forever. This is also a parallel to another scene where Silver picks Kelly and their found family over the other Gods, who had become like his pseudo-family over the centuries of them being Gods and outliving everyone. This decision leads to him being exiled from the Isles, something that was made clear to him before he announced his choice.

Silver and Kelly love each other in a way thats gentle, but fierce, and its in a way that always makes me stim from pure joy. I think I speak for everyone who works with me on Afterfall that this ship is the true OTP of the series just because of how well they fit together.

Fun fact about the God wings: All of the God's wings start off as white! Gods can change the wings appearance based on their mood or whatever symbolism they want to hold on to. Clink's wings changed into scarlet macaw wings, which he uses to symbolize how the sun shines through each season.

If anyone is curious, Silver's and Toro's wings take the form of canary wings, both using the same symbolism. Think of the saying, "canary in a coal mine" and what happens tot the canary.