yess....they are :3 so the reason they dont have sex in their canon is because it just tonally didnt fit. in the og draft yrs ago they did but the story has evolved many times at this point and now theres just...not really a spot for it to go that would feel appropriate. the very first drafts of it were very romance heavy. if youve ever read mdzs, i wanted it to have a similar vibe of being a slow burn romance in a fun fantasy world. that was a long time ago at this point and now i have other inspirations and other goals for the story, which involves exploring yahya and shilohs relationship in a way that isnt so...Romance! moreso as them as two people who are othered in similar ways, come together, and then have conflict.

their canon (as of rn, hoping to spend some time this winter finishingggg a final outline so i can get feedback on it from my friends and figure out what i want to do with it) is a medieval fantasy story where yahya and shiloh are the children of immigrants from a levant-like region living in a western european-like country. the plot revolves around shilohs younger sister, in the wake of their fathers death, getting sent off to be a child bride for mysterious reasons to a lord who lives out in the boonies, where monsters roam, and shiloh goes along to protect her and figure out what this lord wants with her. yahya lives there as a servant at the church, and because of some birth defects (skin discoloration) the priest believes he was denied entrance to heaven and sent back to earth to serve penance for some horrible sin he inherited. there's of themes of abuse and revenge and death! cool big creatures! yahya and shiloh start out as allies then become enemies. their relationship is still homoerotic lol but its less about their romance. they have time for romance in the epilogue. the only thing about the draft rn that is set in stone is the ending lol, the conflicts are resolved and shiloh spends 800 yrs waiting for yahya to get revived post-death lol.

I guess as a consolation, rn the opening scene is a timeskip sex scene where shiloh fucks a eunuch, cant see the poor guy as himself and instead sees yahya, and freaks out and leaves lol. so i guess thats LIKE theyre fucking. lol.

AND of course, there is the other main canon of them as modern day ppl lol and they fuck a lot in that. this story is once again getting revised tho cus i cant fucking decide what exactly i want it to be about hahaha, so i wont say much about it. this is a much easier thing to tackle than the other one though, so i have a feeling ill probably get to finishing this one before the other.