Claudio Kilgannon

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## Claudio Kilgannon

Claudio in The Amory Wars: Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV

### Relatives

Cambria Kilgannon (mother)
Coheed Kilgannon (father)
Jesse Kilgannon (uncle)
Josephine Kilgannon (sister)
Matthew & Maria Kilgannon (fraternal twins)

## Biographical information

### Date of birth

Shortly after The Black Rainbow disappears.

## Appearances

### Appears in

*The Amory Wars: The Second Stage Turbine Blade*
*The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3*
*The Amory Wars: Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV*

### Debut

*The Bag.On.Line. Adventures: The Second Stage Turbine Blade* (2004)

**Claudio Kilgannon** is the eldest son of Cambria and Coheed Kilgannon. A seemingly ordinary boy, his life changed drastically with the murder and capture of his family, including his eldest sister Josephine, and his fraternal twin siblings Matthew & Maria. He fled the scene and, believing someone was out to get him too, hides away, subsequently discovering he had abilities. He was in hiding for nearly 10 years, during which he discovered that he was being hunted by Supreme Tri-Mage Wilhelm Ryan, leader of Heaven's Fence. He reluctantly teamed up with fallen Prise Ambellina and his uncle Jesse Kilgannon, where he learned that Ryan believes him to be The Crowing, a mythical figure destined to be God's judgement, which Ryan fears will dethrone him.

## Appearance

Kilgannon is a scrawny but tall teenager with short dark brown hair and eyes. He has light skin and a clean-shaven face. As he aged, he became a bit more muscular, his hair grew out significantly and he developed a full beard. Due an encounter with an Onstantine Priest when he was younger, he sports a scar right below his right eye approximately two inches in length down his cheek.

## History

### Early Life

Kilgannon was born a few years after the disappearance of The Black Rainbow in Sector 11, planet 1: Hetricus. His elder sister, Josephine, was only about 3. He lived a relatively uneventful childhood. His parents were loving and caring, if a bit quirky. Kilgannon had a vibrant imagination and often drew, but didn't share this talent with others. He was extremely shy and a bit recluse, and was often teased, or even bullied as a result. When he was 15, he met outgoing and personable Newo Ikkin at his high school, Rye Cooper in Valley's Hills. The two began dating shortly after. Kilgannon even felt comfortable showing her his drawings.

One evening while he was 17 and out with Ikkin, he got home rather late (around 1 am). Fearing punishment for breaking curfew, he went around to the backdoor of the house to find it had been completely broken in; the house totally dark. He tried the light which failed and he smelled something odd. Fearing the worst, he called out as he ran in, but slipped on the floor. Once inside, he could make out his sister's form nearby in the kitchen. He made the connection that he slipped on her blood, and embracing her, foolishly attempted to revive her. Only, at his touch, she *did*, just for a moment, and was able to warn him of an attack by an Onstantine Priest ordered to kill him, before she once again, was lifeless. Kilgannon fought the Priest, bashing it with a nearby hammer, but not before the Priest ran a sharp claw down his cheek under his right eye—a scar that would follow him the rest of his life. The Priest was only briefly incapacitated before coming back even stronger. It was then that Kilgannon was able to phase through the kitchen wall and landed outside in the grass. With the Priest not being able to see him, he ran away to Ikkin's house. By this time, it was around 5 am, and she was asleep. He stayed invisible but became tangible to move her sheet higher. Taking a picture of them both from her nightstand table, he left her a note, and left her home.

### Camp Si-Revody

Wandering around, avoiding police, Kilgannon came upon Hershel's Firearms store, and made himself tangible enough to steal a gun. He went to the nearest off-world ship port—a garbage hauling facility—where an interplanetary garbage transport ship known as *The Guile Greaver* was getting ready to take off. He sneaked aboard, staying hidden as the ship made various stops to pick up more trash. Kilgannon used his phasing ability to explore the ship, finding hundreds of isolation tubes containing Stars. It was here that he learned the garbage ship was headed for Shylos X, and that each Star's energy output was being monitored. He went to one of the tubes, attempting to communicate with one of the prisoners, but was attacked by them instead, the prisoner easily breaking out of the glass container upon irritation. An alarm immediately rang out and United Red Army soldiers quickly came to take care of the prison break. In order to avoid detection by the guards, Kilgannon once again became invisible, as the guards killed the loose prisoner and dragged them off.

Upon arriving on Shylos X, Kilgannon discovered that the Red Army was using the makeup of the decomposing planet to hide its operations there. The soldiers herded the Stars out of the transport ship using a conveyor belt like structure that passed an electric-like current through their bodies which caused them paralyzing pain. Their destination was a nearby facility called Camp Si-Revody and made up mostly of one kind of race, but also other, smaller groups of uncatalogued races that were all called "Stars" by the soldiers who had no regard for any of them. Kilgannon stayed to the shadows and tried not to interact with any one, but after a few hours without food, he approached a Star, posing as a fellow uncatalogued race. He explained that he had just come in on the transport that morning, and the Star excitedly told him about the news that a Star had attempted to escape and took on five guards before falling. As no one had ever even tried to escape before, that Star became a hero to the other Stars, posthumously given the title, "Hearshot Kid." This Star gives his name as Cecil and agreed to help Kilgannon.

Life at Si-Revody was not easy. Red Army soldiers treated the collective inhabitants like the trash the planet was built on, which caused Kilgannon to want to do something about it. Cecil was always quick to remind him that this was the way of life at the camp, but for Kilgannon it only reminded him of how he was also bullied and scorned at school. Ultimately, when the time was deemed right, all the inhabitants were destined to be fed to the Keywork. Eventually, Kilgannon could not stand the treatment of the Stars any longer, and being invisible, he took one of the soldier's gun and striked said soldier to stop him. No one seemed to notice anything out of the ordinary, but Cecil warned him to lay low with his powers since he knew if someone found out they *will* kill him, immediately. The pair stumbled upon the dead body of a Star, but it clearly didn't die from a gunshot or beating, as is the usual MO of the soldiers since the stomach was ripped out.

Later, Kilgannon heard about the Ghansgraad for the first time from Cecil, where they discussed the fact that the book didn't even mention Cecil's kind. Cecil told him that the book is ultimately just a collection of words that are subject to alterations and mistranslations, often for selfish reasons. He also warned Kilgannon to not believe everything he reads. It was at this moment that the pair felt the aftershocks of Sector 12 separating from the rest of the Fence and then, just as suddenly, an Onstantine Priest burst through the shabby wall of their lodgings. Though initially knocked down, Kilgannon was able to hold back the Priest's onslaught, but only defensively. When the Priest was just about to kill Cecil and Kilgannon came to have no choice but to surrender, Red Army soldiers began to fire on the Priest, driving it away. Remaining invisible, Kilgannon was still undetected by the soldiers, but Cecil and the other Stars were afraid of what Kilgannon's presence and abilities would bring with them and asked him to leave. Though he protested, ultimately Kilgannon did leave, if only to keep his friend safe and give him peace-of-mind. He wandered around the rest of Shylos X, figuring it was a relatively inconspicuous place to stay.

### Godder Damm

When Kilgannon next surfaced, he had made a new base in the City of Godder Damm. Ten years in hiding his hair had grown out past his shoulders and a beard had formed. Now roughly 27, Kilgannon wore whatever clothes he could steal or win in card games and had no real access to a shower or toothbrush. Godder Damm was a city of filth, just the same as the rest of the planet, but in its case, it applied not just to its architecture and atmosphere, but also to the content and attitudes of the people. Many people would steal, cheat, or panhandle as a means to get by, Kilgannon included. It was during this time that Kilgannon began seeing the figure of his father. It is unclear if this was a true Entity of him, or a simple hallucination. In either case, the figure urged Kilgannon to take up a leadership role in the rebellion against Ryan. Though an adult, Kilgannon was still very much scared of this idea, and would often argue with the figure leading many people nearby to assume he was mentally ill.

Kilgannon frequented the bar "Faint of Hearts" regularly, and would often pose as a complete drunk and then cheat at cards, though how exactly is unclear. It was here that he met Al the Killer, who owned a ship, and played him for a ride off-world. He lost that game, flipped a table, and stormed out. A few days later it was announced that Ryan was captured by the rebels and would stand trail. Kilgannon finally felt some relief; even though he was a coward, he was concerned about the way Ryan treated the citizens of the Fence. But his father's figure continued to appear to him and he continued to rave, even whilst celebrating. It was during one such rave that he was almost attacked by an Onstantine Priest before the fallen Prise Ambellina not only diverted the creature's aim, but also ripped it to shreds to slow it down a bit. She confessed to him that she had been following him in the shadows for exactly ten years, four months, and three days. She also explains that she was chosen to watch over him at the cost of her wings. She also tells him he is the Son of Three (The Crowing) for the first time, though he is flabbergasted as Ryan had just been caught.

Angry with still having to answer a call he felt unprepared and unsuited for, Kilgannon attempted to dissuade Ambellina from this line of thinking, but she only tried harder. She also called him out on his fear and mocked him for being untrained. He showed her the broadcast of Ryan in his detainment, and asked her how he could still have a duty when Ryan was so thoroughly taken care of and she answered that seeing is not necessarily believing. They made their way to Kilgannon's hideaway, which wasn't much more than a hovel underground. Upon hearing a huge cry of joy above ground, Kilgannon left and witnessed Ryan's execution live on the huge, central, main viewscreen. Shortly after, he left and met up with Ambellina, but instead of heading home, they navigated the sewers to where a Red Army Interrogation Unit operated. Kilgannon explained that when the army is done with their interrogations, they often dumped the remains into the sewers, valuables and all. Kilgannon came across remains that were truly mangled but somehow looked like a dummy. Ambellina told him that it was an IRO-bot and revealed that his parents were also IRO-bots, to his complete surprise. Ambellina took the chance-find as a sign that Kilgannon couldn't run from his past, but he resisted; physically turning insubstantial for a brief moment to get away, only to accidentally phase back with part of his arm still in contact with her body—her heart specifically. She was instantly knocked out. Kilgannon panicked—only made worse by his father's figure appearing to chastise him. He tried to shake her awake, expelling some of his power in the process. It is not entirely clear whether this power is what brought her back, or if the time frame he had phased into her heart hadn't been enough to be fatal, but either way she revived. She gathered the pieces of the IRO-bot they found and carried it all the way back to his hovel. This was also when Kilgannon agreed to stop running, on the condition he was allowed to call Ambellina "Bell," to which she also reluctantly agreed.

Ryan was revived and due to the encounters with the Priests, Ambellina was fairly certainly that he targeted Shylos X with that knowledge and urged Kilgannon to think of a way for them to get off-world. Kilgannon took some time to rebuild the IRO-bot, trying to work quickly, as the pair heard the roar of what they initially thought was the Red Army. It turned out to be Narrows which quickly overwhelmed Ambellina who was still trying to defend him as he worked. Luckily, he finished just in the nick of time. The IRO-bot, who told him his name was Sizer, transformed and barreled through the crowd with Kilgannon close behind, using his insubstantial abilities to take out various people in a similar manner as he'd done accidentally to Ambellina. Once he joined her, he put up a forcefield shield, and found she was with Al. Still not sure of Sizer's identity but with the understanding he was innocently on their side, the four of them agree to get off planet in Al's ship with a heading to Si-Revody.

### Returning to Si-Revody

On the *Camper Velourium* (Al's ship), Ambellina sensed something weird about the ship, something to do with torment, to which Al dismissed the concerns, telling them that ship was acquired very cheaply since it used to be a slaver ship. They quickly made the journey across the planet to the Camp only to see it was emptied. Going higher up, they found that all the inhabitants in the camp had been lined up to be sacrificed to the nearby Keywork generator. Red Army sensors picked up the ship's presence and fired on it. To buy time, Sizer (who had reverted back to a more human form) jumped out of the cargo hold, transforming back into his monstrous form and landed on the other, Red Army attacking ship. Kilgannon phased out of the ship and onto nearby scaffolding to climb up to the platform. He engaged soldiers, mainly using his phase ability and various blasts of energy. Ambellina joined him on the platform, and the two took on the soldiers, but in the process, Kilgannon accidently pushed his friend, Cecil, into the Keywork generator. Kilgannon, shocked and panicked, dove after him into the generator. This created a reaction between The Crowing and the Keywork which blew up the generator. Cecil could not be recovered, and the blast burned all of Sizer's skin, hair, and clothes, but Ambellina and Al (who was still in his ship) were able to get away without issue. It was here that Kilgannon finally declared he would exact judgement from Ryan.

### Battle at House Atlantic

Back on the *Camper Velourium* and now headed for House Atlantic to join the rebels, Kilgannon searched the ship for Ambellina, only find Al had paralyzed her after she'd found his cache of victims hanging on meat hooks. The two fought briefly before Al was also able to paralyze Kilgannon. Having already used the paralyzing ring once already, it was not at full power when Al used it on him, so he was still able to fight back without the control of his powers. The sloppier fight that ensued led Kilgannon to manipulate Al to strike his ship's control panel, sending the ship into a death-spiral, running completely out of control. They were already over House Atlantic by this time, and fighting again, Kilgannon phased the both of them out the side of the ship. He quickly pulled away and shielded himself with the forcefield. Al crashed against a rocky cliff, seemingly dead.

Having seen the ship come down, Kilgannon was quickly found by his uncle, Jesse Kilgannon, who was known as Inferno (his IRO-bot code name) by his underlings. He had one of his "children" with him: a little girl named Chase, who immediately labeled him The Crowing. Shortly after this, the Prise who had been helping the rebels were sucked into House Atlantic as a power source for it's transformation. Inferno ran off to meet the new threat, leaving Chase with Kilgannon. Chase tried to reassure him he *could* actually defeat the transformed stronghold, but Kilgannon was in shock. It was at this time that Al silently came up behind him and stabbed him with his knife, right through his left shoulder. Going insubstantial to be released from the knife, Chase stepped in to defend him. Al had even managed to pick Chase up off the ground before Kilgannon, having now seen the figure of his mother, was able to right himself and touched Al, taking control of his mind. Somehow, his knife wound was no more.

Chase and Kilgannon then proceeded to walk through the soldier infested streets of Apity Prime, with Chase heralding his coming to fulfill the prophecy in the Ghansgraad. They locked hands, their powers combining and generating a forcefield as the soldiers fired on them, only to be knocked back. Seeing that more and more soldiers were coming and the rebel forces were exhausted and depleting, Inferno called for a retreat. Seeing this, Ryan ordered the mobile stronghold to prevent their escape, and Kilgannon (still untrained, but invigorated with the reunion of what little of his family remained) created a massive forcefield of energy that blew the giant blast sent their way back on it, destroying House Atlantic for the second time in its existence. The rebels successfully escaped on the *Grail Arbor*.

### Making Peace with his Family

Now on the *Grail Arbor*, Kilgannon began training his abilities with the help of Ambellina. They would run battle simulations on the *Arbor*'s holoroom. At first, he was very frustrated. As soon as Ryan was presented in the simulation, he would immediately loose his cool. After a brief exchange with Ambellina in which he expressed his frustration and hopelessness with the training, he went back to his room, attempting to rest, but after a indeterminate time, ended up with a screwdriver lodged in his hand against his bedroom wall, yelling that he would "kill all of you," and his power activated, but seemingly doing nothing in particular. Ambellina and Chase came immediately and found him. They bandaged him up and asked what happened, but Kilgannon had no idea. He said, "I think *I* did [this to myself]... [Like a nightmare]... But I wasn't sleeping." Chase dismissed this idea saying that what he was experiencing was an acceleration of the metamorphosis of his change into The Crowing. Ambellina tried to explain her view of the prophecy: that The Crowing is a sign of hope and that instead of wiping out all life on the Fence, he can change the Fence to be better. Chase disputed this, citing The Ghansgraad saying, "[It] states that The Crowing is God's judge, who will dole out his vengeance." Before more could be said, a ship-wide notice went out to report to the bridge for a debriefing and they left.

On the bridge, Jesse told everyone Ryan had a lock-down on interplanetary travel between Omega (the planet House Atlantic resides on) and the rest of the Fence, and that House Atlantic is fully operational even though they destroyed it just a few days prior. Kilgannon started to blame the captain for pulling them out before they could really be sure, but Sizer (who had now regained his memory as Jesse's "son") stepped in to defend him declaring it was he that made the call. Ultimately, Jesse noted that House Atlantic had been collecting massive, unnecessarily large amounts of energy. He used this as justification for going back to the stronghold to attack it again before it did whatever it wanted to do with all that energy. Kilgannon protested as it seemed like a suicide mission; they already expended so much energy before but had to retreat and now, just because he and Ambellina were with them, he thought they could somehow win? He called Jesse a "terrorist—just like his parents." This angered Jesse and he fought back against Kilgannon, to which Kilgannon noted that even Jesse's "children" are afraid of him. This led Jesse to order everyone off the *Arbor*'s bridge. Helping him up, Jesse told him he would tell him the truth.

Alone on the bridge now, the two sat down. Jesse asked Kilgannon to recount what he knew about his family. He tells Jesse about how his parents were depicted as terrorists on the viewscreen in Godder Damm, even though the details were vague. Before this revelation, Kilgannon thought they were normal; his dad worked overtime at the factory and his mom stayed home and made dinner. Jesse then told him about KBI, Leonard Hohenberger, and how he had implanted false memories in his parents to let them live as normal a life as possible. He also told him of how Josephine was meant to be the cure to the Monstar Virus when she turned 23, and how Mayo lied to Coheed leading him to do the only thing he thought was the right thing. Kilgannon couldn't believe his father was that gullible, but Jesse explained how it could've easily been him that made the same mistake. They didn't have memories that could explain anything. The two reconciled their feelings and agreed to work together. Kilgannon requested to stop by Hetricus on their way to their next destination, which Jesse granted him. This pit stop was so Kilgannon could visit his childhood home. Ambellina following him, he further reconciled his past with Ambellina helping him to realize and accept his feelings.

It is after this home visit, when it had just become dark out, that he went to his ex-girlfriend, Newo Ikkin's home and sees her old dog, Apollo outside. He called Ikkin, but hung up almost as soon as she picked up. Apollo initially growled at Kilgannon, but recognized him after sniffing his hand and he sits for a long time outside recounting all that happened to him in Godder Damm. He also occasionally still spoke to the figure of his father throughout his recount. He talked to Apollo all night long, and as dawn approached, he considered Ikkin's position: she's alone, perhaps she never moved on, perhaps she has, but sworn off relationships. Either way, he confessed that he felt very apprehensive about actually approaching her. As the sun rose, he decided two things he would let go: of Ikkin, and of the hatred he was harboring for his father, at which the figure of his father disappeared, and doesn't seem to have come back for him. Finally feeling some real catharsis, he got up both literally and figuratively and departing from Apollo, declared that he would be burning Star IV. Right as he said that, his power flared, again seemingly against his will, and he accidently destroyed a part of Ikkin's fence. Ambellina was just coming to get him, and quickly removed him from the scene as Apollo darted to the house, barking.

### Invasion of Hilmgore

Back on the *Grail Arbor*, Jesse held another briefing regarding their strategy for attacking House Atlantic again, hopefully for the last time. He showed them a hologram of a planet he claimed was Hilmgore, the artic home planet of the Narrows. He then told the crew that the Narrows possessed an item called The Terrene of Anonymity, an orb capable of making its user invisible (how the planet has remained hidden). Jesse's plan is to land on Hilmgore, take the Terrene, cloak the *Arbor*, and bypass the blockade on Omega to land right at House Atlantic undetected. Using Narrow data from Sizer's encounter with them on Godder Damm via his memory banks, he was able to create a homing device to find the planet. With a little encouragement from Kilgannon, everyone agrees to the plan. Kilgannon went back to training in the holoroom with Ambellina and this time, exceeded her expectations. The *Arbor* found and successfully landed on Hilmgore, and breaking into three teams, began to make their way to the Narrows' citadel where they believed the Terrene to be kept. They were quickly outnumbered and overwhelmed, and ultimately surrendered. Not a people with honor, the Narrows absentmindedly knocked Kilgannon out, before their leader told them to cut it out.

The leader, Gibney, ordered Kilgannon's body to be brought with Jesse's men to the citadel and ultimately ended up in a cell with Ambelina. Upon the blaring alarm that there had been a security breach (the Terrene had been stolen), Kilgannon finally woke back up. Shortly after this alarm, the guards posted outside their cell were disintegrated, leading Kilgannon to assume that it was Chase who had the orb. He was right of course, and she revealed herself, putting the orb down a minute to free the pair, but more Narrows appeared. She called on Kilgannon to help, and with a burst of his power, he easily broke the door and selectively targeted just the Narrows, destroying them. Meeting back up with Jesse and Sizer, who had restrained Gibney, Kilgannon witnessed Jesse apologize to Gibney for their creation during the separation of Sector XII. Gibney spit on this apology and vowed he would hunt them down to get back the Terrene. The rebels apprehended a Narrow-modified motorbike and roadster to get the *Arbor*. Gibney and his men, though briefly trapped by Kilgannon's team's escape, were close behind on horseback and in other vehicles. Worried that Many's team wouldn't be able to handle all the Narrows, Kilgannon jumped off the roadster and used his power to create spikes of earth that jutted out of the ground to throw back the closer Narrows and halt their progress. Just as the *Arbor* was taking off, Kilgannon managed to get on the bay of the ship and it took off immediately straight for House Atlantic.

### First Battle Against Ryan

Resting a bit from the action, Kilgannon found an observation window and gazed out at Heaven's Fence. Ambellina found him and while making observations about their situation, Kilgannon told her that he was glad to have her by his side, babysitting oath aside. He declared he would do anything for her. We do not know what her reaction was, but the pair went to the bridge upon the announcement that they had begun their descent on Omega into the nearby city of Kalline. They noticed the city looked strange, but before they could really look, Narrow ships closed in on them and they went into battle mode. The occupying Red Army in Kalline saw the Narrow ships and sent Jackhammers to engage them, inadvertently hitting the invisible *Arbor* in the process. Upset with the situation, Sizer worked out that Jesse had allowed this situation to happen, as he ordered Sizer to retreat rather than kill Gibney knowing that Gibney would come after them. Jesse argued that they needed more men and this was a two-birds-one-stone solution. With a portion of the *Arbor* damaged, the invisibility stopped working which left the ship open to target. Sure enough, the Jackhammers attacked the ship enough to where the cloaking completely failed and the ship came down. Jesse made Kilgannon and Ambellina get into the *Arbor*'s shuttlecraft known as the *LEO*. Not wanting to leave the rest of the team, Jesse told Kilgannon that the rebel's fight was with Mayo while he needed to make his way to Ryan. The paired hugged genuinely before departing.

Landing at House Atlantic's front door, Kilgannon and Ambellina immediately engaged Red Army soldiers in battle before Ryan himself appeared with a small guard of a dozen or so soldiers. Attempting to taunt the pair, Ryan signaled for his latest creation to come forward: The remains of Admiral Vielar Crom were now hooked up to a pair of mobile legs that were at least a story tall. Ryan presented Kilgannon with a riddle, asking, "Tell me Crowing... Should all good boys die with God at their side?" Kilgannon dismissed this, declaring that their battle would end here. Ryan pressed further, calling Ambellina a "pet angel" and telling them they couldn't write the "Destiny of a God," where God referred to himself. Ryan released some more dragonflies and mentioned their use in the Afterlife, to which Kilgannon replied with confusion. Ryan condescendingly said, "Don't tell me The Crowing isn't familiar with what happens after death! The purgatory your parents are no doubt floating in even as we speak?" Invoking his parents pissed Kilgannon off, and he fired back before declaring that this battle was now personal. Putting his hand, full of power, to the ground, Kilgannon explained that since House Atlantic was built on the corpses of people Ryan threw away for his personal gain, Kilgannon would raise them up for a second chance to give it right back to him. Ryan did seem a bit surprised at the display.

Not receiving any response in return, Kilgannon was the first to declare his side to attack with Ryan responding. As corpses, Kilgannon's force was easy to knock down, but hard to keep down. They easily climbed over the Red Army guards, which definitely startled Ryan and subsequently caused Crom to order the army to send in the Fields—a type of soldier that generates forcefield shields and carry spears that can bypass the "field" to maintain an offence. During the thick of battle, Kilgannon noticed a strange phenomenon appear just behind where Ambellina was fighting. This odd thing morphed into a door. Calling out to her, he was too late as Chase was thrown from the door, and another figure came partway through just to grab Ambellina and pull her through. The door immediately disappeared after she was pulled through, and Kilgannon, shocked, looked around in utter confusion. He demanded answers from Chase who seemed a little confused as well, but was able to explain that the door was the Creator's doing. Kilgannon, still not on board with that line of thinking, exasperatingly asked her to stop, but she persisted with the proof that he had shown her "the world beyond." They theorized what it could mean, but ultimately Kilgannon begged Chase to try to open The Willing Well again so he could go after Ambellina and make sure she was safe; the battle forgotten. Chase succeeded in doing that, and they went through the door without a second thought.

### Brush with "The Creator"

In the Well was a vast, unclear void, until it wasn't anymore. Calling out, they heard the voice of the one who Chase assumed was The Creator—God, who told him shouting and struggling would get him no where. He still pleaded for Ambellina's release, after which God literally took his voice away. The city that approached them or that they came across revealed a scene: a male and female couple on a bridge, with the woman clearly upset, even though the two held hands. The woman continued walking as the man took out a cigarette and lighter. The woman then disappeared and the man became an older, shirtless version of himself. He had long, curly hair, and was almost too thin. The figure took the lit cigarette out of his mouth and tossed it over the bridge into the river below, which caught fire, and surrounded Kilgannon and Chase. The figure then went on to describe how his relationships (he called them muses) never really worked out so he took all of their positive attributes and put them in Ambellina. He also told Kilgannon that he had tried to "write" away his own weaknesses by creating him. He told him that feeling what he did for Ambellina caused a character flaw, and making peace with his ex, Ikkin, was of his own volition; he questioned and defied his plan and challenged him.

Kilgannon called him out on his fallacies asking him if he truly thought *he* was the victim here. The Writer angrily replied that he knew his creations had grown disobedient after all he'd given them. Kilgannon continued to mock him, calling him spineless. The Writer cut off his tirade, choking him from afar and the scene shifted to a cosmic one. The Writer was adamant about a rewrite and conclusion to Kilgannon and his world. Kilgannon tried to plead for his help in saving the world, but The Writer, now having produced Ambellina who was being taken by mummified figures to a guillotine, stated that he never cared for happy endings. Calling out to her, Kilgannon tried to fight through the skeletal hoard as Ambellina called out for him, and just barely made it to save her. The Writer, in response to this outcome, simply said, "This is no beginning, this is the final cut!" and blasted Kilgannon away. Chase came to his side, and with more insults, Kilgannon began, in earnest with his Crowing powers, to fight The Writer. Chase, calling The Writer a prick, helped Kilgannon break free of the Well and the group found themselves in a cave a decent distance away from House Atlantic. Ambellina, picking up her sword, also joined the fight against the supposed God, but he seemed to have all the same powers as Kilgannon except better.

Finally knocking Kilgannon down, The Writer told Kilgannon he was wasting his time, and pointed to Ambellina, just as a hand burst its way through her chest. Kilgannon immediately rushed to her side, and quickly realized it was too late. With her dying breath, Ambellina encouraged Kilgannon to continuing fighting, saying that she would always be with him, and that if she could, she would have loved him. In his sorrow, Kilgannon expelled power in an attempt to bring her back, but it didn't work. The Writer mocked him for this try, and Kilgannon attempted to kill him again, but The Writer quickly shut it down, again demanding that he "do as he's told" and burn Star IV, before merely walking away. Saying a final goodbye to Ambellina, and retrieving Chase from where she was thrown, Kilgannon walked back towards House Atlantic and overlooked the City of Kalline which had been overrun with flies and people who had been morphed into horrendous monsters.

## Powers & Abilities

Kilgannon was able to briefly revive a dead body only once, that we have seen. He is able to become both invisible *and* intangible, usually at the same time, but often just invisible. He was able to "rewire" someone's mind at least once (a father who beat his child; Kilgannon made him change his attitude to cherish the daughter instead). He was able to use his powers to create a forceful blast and a forcefield-like shield that could be as small as to just cover his body or as large as several stories high. Lastly, he was able to heal his own stab wound completely.

He later trained with Ambellina to hone these powers and was able to develop these skills, including using the power to manipulate objects close by, projecting his shield to encompass a person or item far away, and generating a psychic ion cannon similar to his father's. He has also been shown to cause a violent reaction when his power comes in contact with the power of the Keywork.

### The Crowing

According to the Ghansgraad, it was prophesized that a "Son of Three" would come to enact God's judgement on Heaven's Fence. It is said that the coming of The Crowing will be the End of the Worlds. It is also described as God's messenger and "good right arm," in addition to his ultimate judge that will "determine the the fate of Heaven's Fence. The book goes on to say that The Crowing's judgement cannot be undone. Lastly, its power is described in the following way: "His will be the power and the passion, the fire and the ice."

## Trivia

* He is the exact same height and weight as his father when he was 17.
* The Kilgannon Family's address is listed as 2 Camry Drive, Valley’s Hills, NK 10988.
* In 2021, on the S.S. Neverender I, Kilgannon was officially portrayed by cosplayer Chas Nuxoll in the "Faint of Hearts" Bar.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sanchez, Claudio and Gus Vazquez. *The Amory Wars Sketchbook*. Page 16. Evil Ink, 2006.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Sanchez, Claudio and Peter David. *The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3*. Issue 1. Evil Ink, 2012.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Sanchez, Claudio. *The Amory Wars: The Second Stage Turbine Blade*. Issue 3. Evil Ink, 2010.
4. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio. *The Amory Wars: The Second Stage Turbine Blade*. Issue 1. Evil Ink, 2010.
5. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio. *The Amory Wars: The Second Stage Turbine Blade*. Issue 5. Evil Ink, 2010.
6. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio. *The Amory Wars: The Second Stage Turbine Blade*. Issue 6. Evil Ink, 2010.
7. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio. *The Amory Wars: The Second Stage Turbine Blade*. Issue 7. Evil Ink, 2010.
8. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio. *The Amory Wars: The Second Stage Turbine Blade*. Issue 8. Evil Ink, 2010.
9. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio. *The Amory Wars: The Second Stage Turbine Blade*. Issue 9. Evil Ink, 2010.
10. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio. *The Amory Wars: The Second Stage Turbine Blade*. Issue 10. Evil Ink, 2010.
11. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Peter David. *The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3*. Issue 2. Evil Ink, 2012.
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Sanchez, Claudio and Peter David. *The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3*. Issue 4. Evil Ink, 2012.
13. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Peter David. *The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3*. Issue 6. Evil Ink, 2012.
14. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Peter David. *The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3*. Issue 7. Evil Ink, 2012.
15. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Peter David. *The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3*. Issue 8. Evil Ink, 2012.
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Sanchez, Claudio and Peter David. *The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3*. Issue 9. Evil Ink, 2012.
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Sanchez, Claudio and Peter David. *The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3*. Issue 10. Evil Ink, 2012.
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Sanchez, Claudio and Peter David. *The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3*. Issue 11. Evil Ink, 2012.
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Sanchez, Claudio and Peter David. *The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3*. Issue 12. Evil Ink, 2012.
20. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *The Amory Wars: Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV*. Issue 1. Evil Ink, 2019.
21. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *The Amory Wars: Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV*. Issue 2. Evil Ink, 2019.
22. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *The Amory Wars: Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV*. Issue 3. Evil Ink, 2019.
23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *The Amory Wars: Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV*. Issue 4. Evil Ink, 2019.
24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *The Amory Wars: Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV*. Issue 5. Evil Ink, 2019.
25. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *The Amory Wars: Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV*. Issue 6. Evil Ink, 2019.
26. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *The Amory Wars: Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV*. Issue 7. Evil Ink, 2019.
27. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *The Amory Wars: Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV*. Issue 8. Evil Ink, 2019.
28. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *The Amory Wars: Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV*. Issue 9. Evil Ink, 2019.
29. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *The Amory Wars: Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV*. Issue 10. Evil Ink, 2019.
30. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *The Amory Wars: Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV*. Issue 11. Evil Ink, 2019.
31. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *The Amory Wars: Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV*. Issue 12. Evil Ink, 2019.
32. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Gus Vazquez. *The Amory Wars Sketchbook*. Page 15, 17, & 19. Evil Ink, 2006.