(Gripping you strongly) i wish i could tell u all about how insane i feel about the ending of yahya and shilohs main story cus ive had it planned since DAY ONE and i have a whole epilogue written thats just (making grabby motions with my hands) RAHHHHHHHHHH they are like. Theyre cosmically meant to be. i will tell u a little about it. Its more bittersweet than happy. After the end of all the canon events (spoilers i guess. Lol. U will not remember any of this by the time i do anything with it and theres always the chance that ill change the details) but ok so. Part of the story revolves around how one can achieve immortality through religious cannibalism. You will still die if youre burned up, crushed or minced up beyond recognition, or if your head or heart is severed from the rest of your body. Long story short Yahyas head gets cut off. And SHILOHHHHHHHHHH MY BOY….my sweetie who has come to finally forgive yahya for everything he did to him and his family, wants forgiveness and peace and for no one else to die. So he takes yahyas head and body and retreats into the mountains, and he sews yahyas head back onto his body, lays him in a coffin, and WAITS for the wound to heal. But it was a bad wound, and the head was separated for a long time, so shiloh has to wait 800 years (or some other long time enough for society to completely change) before finally yahya wakes up, and he doesnt remember anything!!!! But he recognizes shiloh as someone he definitely knew.

The story ends there but my little epilogue is so self indulgent hehehe idk if id ever actually make anything with it but its inspired by my experience with suddenly remembering traumatic repressed memories (which parallels what shilohs sister goes through in the narrative, which is important bc a lot of the worst of what happens to shilohs sister is yahyas fault, though he does it because she is responsible for the terrible shit that happens to him. Its a cycle.). Shiloh wants yahya to never remember anythinggg that happened to him previously, and is afraid of losing him again, so he shelters him and is overprotective and wont even teach him the new language everyone is speaking. And despite all of shilohs efforts, yahya starts remembering things anyway, and is unequipped to handle them and neither is shiloh lol. And shiloh has to learn that though he had good intentions he is just hurting him again because he is afraid that if he lets yahya be his own person hell destroy himself again. So lol this epilogue is like super self indulgent hurt/comfort yaoi. Which is so COMPLETELY different tonally from the main story that i think itll probably just live in my head forever.