Kellan Xalvador

## Relationships

### Family

Aerith Xalvador (grandmother, deceased), Kent Xalvador (father, deceased), Emelaigne Xalvador (mother, deceased), Gwyneth Melendez (biological aunt), Evreux Melendez (biological uncle), Everlee Melendez (biological younger cousin)

### Friend(s)

Xylon Lozano, Indirah Alnazar, Sapphire Chauvera, Izaiah Alnazar, Lucio Damaris, Artemus Blackquill

### Enemies

The Warlocks, Artemus Blackquill, and Lucio Damaris (all formerly), Gwyneth and Evreux Melendez, The Devil

## Arcana Information

### Keywords

Beginnings, leap of faith, innocence, originality, spontaneity (upright), chaos, folly, lack of direction, naivety, poor judgement, stupidity (reversed)

## Production Information

### Inspiration(s)

Oh Chanwoo, Stefen Sanchez

**Kellan Melendez Xalvador** is one of The Arcana's main protagonists, and he's born to Emelaigne and Kent Xalvador who are both mages in Astraea. The late Aerith Xalvador, Astraea's "goddess figure", is Kellan's grandmother. As a first-year student of the magical arts, he attends Belvoire Academia of the Arcane along with his love interest, Xylon Lozano, his familiar Indirah, and his close friends Sapphire Chauvera, Izaiah Alnazar, and Lucio Damaris. Since he has no official birthdate, he doesn't belong to any of the Elemental Houses and is appointed as the houses' Mystics' Mythic. Kellan's patron arcana is **the Fool**.

Kellan's main inspiration is revealed to be **Stefen Sanchez**.

## THE FOOL **Λ**RC

#### **EARLY LIFE**

Kellan was born to his mage parents, Kent and Emelaigne Xalvador- and although his birthdate is unknown, he's conceived a year after his parents got married. His parents are best friends with Torian Lozano II and his wife, making it the reason why their son, Xylon, and Kellan grew up close. When Kellan was around 5 years old, Indirah Alnazar was adopted by his parents and was converted into their familiar to rename her Blanca. Kellan wouldn't know Blanca's existence until years later.

#### **THE CRIMSON PLAGUE**

When the plague hit Astraea, Kellan and his parents were volunteers to help the people infected, but Xylon and his family insists to run away to another part of the world to escape the plague. After an argument between Kellan and Xylon, the Lozanos leave the Xalvadors behind. Kellan's parents soon die from the plague, then eventually, himself, and the three of them were shipped off to the Lazarette to be cremated like the other plague victims. When they get back, Xylon learns about Kellan's death and plans to bring Kellan back to life. He makes a deal with Death in exchange for a part of Xylon's heart, leaving him with the Arcana insignia.

#### **LOST MEMORIES**

Kellan was briefly looked after Mythos and Corrine dela Vega after finding out he's alive, and along with Blanca, they place Kellan under the care of his relatives, Gwyneth and Evreux Melendez. Since Kellan was brought back to life, he wouldn't know anything about his past life; let alone the actual "accident" that happened to him and his parents. He would only know who the Melendezes are, the lie about how his parents died as well as how he's the only one who "survived", and Blanca, who's now passed down to him as his guardian and familiar to help him.

## PERSON**Λ**LITY

Kellan is calm and intelligent with a good taste; he's an idealists and often pursue a harmonious atmosphere. He possess excellent communication skills, which is included in his friendly nature. Kellan doesn't dive headfirst into situations- instead, he often hesitates; he's not always determined and can be easily affected by the opinions of other people. He sometimes may be hypocritical to not offend others, and what’s more; he will be irresponsible when placed under great pressure.

He's a good consultant, so whenever someone have problems, Kellan gives good advice to help solve them- which what he did to Xylon when he misses his "best friend". However, when things happen to himself, he would hesitate and wouldn't know how to deal with it. Kellan can’t stand disorder and pressure because it will destroy his own pace and balance of life.

## PHYSIC**Λ**L **Λ**PPE**Λ**R**Λ**NCE

Kellan has nape-length black hair that was parted to the middle of his head, and because he's a mage, he has an unnatural eye color, which is jade. He has a fair complexion and somewhat feminine features, especially his face structure and body figure. He's measured to be 5'5" in height.

#### **CASUAL**

His casual outfit consists of a blue corset blazer with silver trims and over a light blue shirt, and his two armbands around his right upper arm is of the same color. The pants are black- there are three lopsided brown belts around his waist. Kellan's pair of boots are dark blue.

#### **COMBAT**

Kellan has an olive green vest with a lighter shade of green for its neckline hem, buttoned close over a light blue long-sleeved shirt with gold cuffs and a gold choker. Like Sapphire, he sports a brown bandage wrapped unevenly around his right forearm. He has a sash tied around his waist, which is the same color as his vest's hem. Kellan's pants are a darker green in color, and his boots are light blue.

## POWERS & **Λ**BILITIES

* **Element Manipulating**- Kellan can manipulate the elements, fire ("Pyro"), water ("Aquam"), air ("Aura"), earth ("Tellus"), ice and snow ("Cryo"), and electricity ("Electro"), with only a wave of his hand, as he's a Pure-Blood mage.
* **Arcana Voices**- He couldn't summon any of the **Major Arcana**, although he could hear their "voices" whenever they're reaching out to them as he's part of them; they create various sounds in order to communicate with him whenever he uses the tarot cards.
* **Divination**- Despite not being a fortune teller like the Alnazar family, Kellan apparently had some innate skill in Divination as he did make at least two accurate predictions with the Arcanas reaching out to his friends. The first time was when he rightfully said that the Hanged Man is calling Izaiah to his realm while he's fighting for his life, and when **the Moon** said Sapphire's virtue is wisdom.
* **Quintessence**- Kellan reached the highest virtue he was assigned to; transcendence, when he, along with the group, in defeating the Devil. He unknowingly gave life to everything around him, and in the story's case, he shed light everywhere to fight the shadows and the Devil off.

## RECCURING/RUNNING G**Λ**GS

* **Recludo**- Kellan couldn't cast any charm but the vanishing and revealing charm is a running gag alone, but the spell that irritates him the most would be the unlocking charm, *Recludo*.
* **"Blanca or Indirah?"**- Kellan forgets Indirah's real name and keeps calling her "Blanca", and it seems to not matter whether he's narrating in his own perspective or in a dialogue. He often says "Bla-- Indirah"; catching himself halfway. He learns to overcome this later on.
* **Stop Das Gay**- Kellan teasing Xylon about the fact that he revived him, saying that he's in love with him so bad.

## TRIVI**Λ**S

* Kellan's name is the spelling variation of the Irish name "Kellen", and it means "bright-headed", "mighty warrior", and "powerful", which all match his traits as his patron arcana is the Fool (0).
* While he has no official birthdate and the writers didn't confirm anything, it's hinted throughout the story that Kellan might be born on October and/or under the star sign Libra:
	+ **Stefen Sanchez** is the main inspiration for Kellan, and Stefen's born on October 21. It's possible that Kellan is born on the same day as him, or somewhere close.
	+ Kellan acts and thinks how a Libra would; friendly, has a sense of humor, a communicator, and could handle relationships well.
	+ Every main character matches the color of their birthstones; Xylon's eyes are natural gray for his birthstone diamond, Sapphire's eyes are gold for topaz, Indirah's eyes are amaranth as her ruby birthstone, and Izaiah's are green for peridot. It's only safe to assume Kellan's eyes are jade or aqua-green to match opal, the birthstone of October.
		- The same goes for their official art stills- the background color for each character corresponds to one of the colors of the rainbow and the color of their birthstones. Indirah's is red (ruby), Sapphire's is yellow going to orange (topaz), Izaiah's is green (peridot), Kellan's is aqua-green or mint (presumably opal), light blue for Lucio (turquoise), ivory for Xylon (diamond), and Everlee's is purple (amethyst).

* He's the only character in the entire franchise to have piercings and an unnatural eye color (as he's the only main character in the story to be a pure-blood mage).
* **Oh Chanwoo** from **Bj Alex** is one of the inspirations of the writers for Kellan:
	+ Both are pansexual.
	+ They both have unnatural eye colors, even if they're natural or not (jade for Kellan and royal fuchsia for Chanwoo).
	+ Both being the only main character to have their ears pierced.

* In the first draft of The Arcana, Kellan was decided that he was going to have a light colored hair (platinum blonde, white, ivory), but the idea was dropped. The writers thought he was going to "stand-out too much" if they do that, because the rest of the main characters have dark hair such as black and brown.
* Kellan's origin about being half a Warlock was foreshadowed everytime he tries to cast a charm but fails. This is shown as early as *Chapter I: The Magician*, when he needed Indirah's help with the unlocking charm since he couldn't do the spell alone, and the next when he's trying the unlocking charm again for Indirah's room in *Chapter IV: The Emperor*.
* Throughout the story, Kellan was assumed he was right-handed, although this changes in *Chapter XI: Justice* when it's mentioned by Kellan himself while narrating that he has Xylon's wand in his left hand.
* Everyone assumed that Kellan and Blackquill would end up together as they thought that **Lucas Hale** was the inspiration for Blackquill when in reality, it's Xylon.