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Rían Kelly

he/him · Maggie's husband · first appears in Bytown, episode 1

Contents (4)
  1. Named in
  2. The archive
  3. Alongside them
  4. Using them

A low-paid junior constable for the Bytown magistrate, which puts him in harm’s way more often than Maggie would like. Finds a sliver of civility in an unruly world, mostly in her.

No kit released for Rían Kelly yet — this entry is currently a description only. The text above is already yours to use under the licence below.

Named in

And 11 blog posts — the archive is where most of the talking about these people happens.

What the archive says

Every line below is drawn from Bytown · 2020.

Work

A low-paid junior constable for the Bytown magistrate.

the line it comes from
Her husband, Rían, works as a low-paid junior constable for the Bytown magistrate, which puts him in harm’s way more than she’d like.
His hands

Bare. They turn white in a Bytown January and the gloves stay off anyway.

the line it comes from
Constable Rían Kelly's hands were turning white with cold, but his gloves stayed off.
His old jacket

Kept on a hook by the door, mended by Maggie — she bites the threads off.

the line it comes from
Maggie went to the hooks by the door where Rían had left his old jacket in favour of his constables' furs, and ran her finger down the patched-up sleeve, stray threads hanging loose where she'd bit them off.
How he comes home

Bruised, and laughing about it before she can finish asking.

the line it comes from
Rían laughed, and barely flinched as Maggie touched his bruised face.

Alongside them

Using Rían Kelly

Released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Draw them, write them, animate them, put them in your game. Credit me, don't sell it, and license what you make the same way.

Attribution — copy this:

“Rían Kelly” from Bytown by MCM (2020), https://mcm.1889.ca/commons/rian-kelly — licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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