ONE ... Do not, under any circumstances, rush me for replies. — I am a disabled college student & have a part-time job. If I do not reply to you after a weekend has gone by, then feel free to kindly remind me. I generally will not be replying to literate storylines during midterms/finals, which I will post on the timeline about when the time comes.TWO ... Any lewd is to happen between 18+ muns and muses and strictly in DMs; or, in the case of this account, on @gilliesphilia — a mutuals exclusive nsfw alt account. Lewd storylines must be discussed beforehand. If you come into my DMs trying to initiate smut without discussion, you will be blocked.THREE ... No God-modding — Do not control my character in any way, shape, or form. This includes actions, emotions, et cetera. If you wish for something to happen, we can discuss it in DMs prior to writing.FOUR ... Do Not Interact if you knowingly use a faceclaim who is a bad person, if you use AI (including Grok or character chat bots), if your account is verified, if you are in or interact with the Harry Potter or Stranger Things universes, or if you write incest/fauxcest, pedophilia, or otherwise 'profic/darkship/taboo' subjects and storylines.

FIVE ...If I say or do anything problematic or hurtful, please let me know — kindly and if possible privately. I never intend to cause serious harm, and I will do my best to rectify any mistakes I make.SIX ... My girlfriend (Dahlia) gets priority when it comes to replies, ships, et cetera. This is not a vendetta against anyone else; this is simply because they are the love of my life.SEVEN ... I softblock doubles and those with the same faceclaim. (with the exception of friends, close mutuals, & established connections.) I also generally mute these accounts. This isn't personal, these things simply trigger my rsd.EIGHT ... Topics I will not write include cheating / 'I thought you were cheating' storylines, amnesia or Dementia/Alzheimer's. Contact directly about other potentially triggering storylines. I will hardblock anyone who partakes in incest/fauxcest, pedophilia, zoophilia, aging up of minor characters for lewd purposes, roleplaying of real people, etc. Please tag / censor visual depictions of real or realistic-looking guns and visual or written depictions of domestic violence.

MUN ... Llewellyn. (Loo-Ellen) Nineteen, he/it/xe/thou/bug/bone/ecto/sun. Biracial: black + white. AuDHD + Bipolar II. Phys disabled + Hard of hearing. Bi transmasc. Busy college student & part-time employee. I appreciate tone tags, and rely upon closed captions / transcriptions for videos. writer account.

FULL NAME ... James Gillies
NICKNAME ... James, Jamie, Gillies
AGE... Twenty-nine
DATE OF BIRTH ... July 14, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH ... Toronto, Canada
ZODIAC ... Cancer
GENDER ... Gender Apathetic
PRONOUNS ... He/she/it
ORIENTATION ... Gay
ETHNICITY ... French + English
NATIONALITY ... Canadianread more on his name & pronoun preferences here

MORAL ALIGNMENT ... Chaotic evil
SOCIAL CLASS ... Upper class
LANGUAGES ... Eng, Fr, Nor, ASL, Esp + Some Arabic
RELIGION ... Anglican
LIKES ... Science, reading, trying new things, ragebaiting
DISLIKES... George Crabtree, the word "no"
PHOBIAS ... Ailurophobia (Cats) & Thanatophobia (Death)
DISORDERS ... Autism, ADHD, ASPD, PTSD

FACECLAIM ... Michael Seater
VOICECLAIM ... Michael Seater
HAIR ... Short auburn curls
EYES ... Brown
HEIGHT ... 5'11 / 180.34cm
SCARS ... Multiple, scattered across his body
TATTOOS ... None
PIERCINGS ... Ears
DISABILITIES (PHYS) ... Chronic back pain

FATHER ... Ivan Gillies (Deceased)
MOTHER ... Dahlia Gillies (Living)
SPOUSE ... Annie Jackson (Living)
CHILDREN ... Arabella Gillies (Living)
EXTENDED FAMILY ... Imogen Gillies (Aunt, Living/Estranged)
PETS ... Theodosia (Cat, Deceased)
IMPORTANT PEOPLE ... Robert Perry (Ex-Boyfriend, Deceased), Det. William Murdoch (Object of obsession), Dr. Julia Ogden (Object of envy)

HISTORY

TRIGGER WARNINGS: PERIOD-TYPICAL HOMOPHOBIA, CONVERSION THERAPY, MURDER, CHILD ABUSE, DOMESTIC ABUSE, CHILD SEXUAL ASSAULT, DRUGGING, VIOLENT DEATH OF AN ANIMAL. Born July 14th, 1876 at 5:26am to Ivan and Dahlia Gillies, James was born into privilege, a fact of which he was acutely aware. Rich, white, Christian male - two loving parents --- for all of seven years. James and Dahlia weren't sure what exactly had changed, but Ivan quickly became cruel. Blood, spit, and tears stained the wooden floor for years to come. When James was ten, he befriended the boy who moved in across the street - Bobby was his name - and Ivan quickly decided the two of them were becoming "too close." Words like pansy were starting to be thrown around, and James was forbidden from seeing his friend again. However, when beatings weren't enough to deter him, Ivan decided to send him off to a minister in Markham named Jacob. Jacob tried exorcisms, drugging, and hypnosis, but he deemed none of them effective. His next option was the most extreme, to sexually assault James - James vaguely remembers the logic. If he associated "sex" with men with pain, then he wouldn't want to do it. He vividly remembers Jacob yelling in his face, his hot breath and spit against his skin. That night, while Jacob was fast asleep, he took off running and didn't stop until he was knocking at his own front door. James expected Ivan to do something when he had told him what Minister Jacob had done. Or, at the very least, be angry. Instead, he decided perhaps Jacob's ideas had merit, and began assaulting James in the same way when Dahlia was away or asleep. For a couple of years, James became almost completely mute - speaking when spoken to, and only if completely unavoidable. He'd become obedient, if you asked Ivan - internally, Dahlia believed Jacob had somehow broken his spirit. Dahlia wouldn't find out the truth for two years to come. However, when she did, all she'd remember is seeing red as she plunged the sharpened end of a cross repeatedly into her husband's back. Gillies blood would seep into their floors for the last time that day.

James can't be sure how long Ivan's body sat in their spare room, in front of their broken grandfather clock, or how long their cat - 'broken' as Ivan used to call her because she didn't meow - sat in that room with him. All he remembers is passing the door, hearing the strange noise inside. Creaking open the door to find her surviving off of his father's decaying flesh. The memory goes black there, and when it returns, poor Dosia's fur and blood is staining his hands. His vision comes back into focus, and he can feel his mother looming behind him - staring at him, for the first time in horror. fear. It was then that Dahlia decided the two of them needed to move out of that house, paying off the coroner to rule Ivan's death an accident. [...] When James was eighteen, he began at The University of Toronto where he met Robert Perry - friend, roommate, partner in crime, lover. He was slowly settling into comfort with exploring his sexuality again. Meanwhile, his childhood best friend, Annie Jackson had just found herself pregnant with the child's father nowhere to be found. In a desperate attempt to save herself from 19th century scrutiny, she pleaded with James to "marry" her and act as her child's father, to which he agreed. The little girl, Arabella Gillies, was born June 16, 1895. In 1896, James and Robert devised a plan to test their knowledge of applied physics...by rigging a device to kill their physics professor, Samuel Bennett. It was the perfect plan, and they had made a rival Professor Godfrey look good for the crime. However, Detective William Murdoch was closing in on them - he'd convinced Robert that James was out to kill him. Robert was cracking right before James's eyes, and so he did exactly what Detective Murdoch had convinced his partner he was going to do - killed Robert to save his own neck, and framed Professor Godfrey for both murders. Through the rest of his time at the University of Toronto, James interned as an assistant at the morgue alongside Dr. Julia Ogden until Julia left her post at the morgue to go to Buffalo in 1897, leaving James overseeing the morgue mostly alone after he graduated, with the coming and going of Dr. Rebecca James, Emily Grace, and Ms. Violet Hart.

*mains & affiliates.

sawthroughskin... cyrene saint varon . by dahlia
devilsark ... dahlia gillies . by dahlia
partnersurl ... first last . by mun

*exclusives.

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*verse. 01

NAME ... Murdoch Mysteries (1896 - 1905) (Original)
LINKS ... James Gillies , Robert Perry
THE STORY ... Following the canonical James Gillies storyline. James is caught and arrested after Robert Perry confesses in S02E07, and continuously breaks out of prison as an infamous fugitive to continue both his killing spree and his psychological torment of Detective Murdoch & Dr Ogden. James is ultimately executed via hangman in S10E10.

*verse. 03

NAME ... Manslawter (2025)
LINKS ... Manslawter
THE STORY ... An original universe created by Dahlia! In this universe, James takes advantage of the time machine canonified in CBC's Macy Murdoch to escape his manhunt and ends up in mid-2020s Manhattan, New York where the focus is on missing teen Dawn de la Fontaine & not-so-much on the modern-day serial killer taking New York by storm. The Siren, as they're called, becomes a much larger part of James's day-to-day life while he's happy to fly under the radar with a job as as physics professor at NYU.

*verse. 02

NAME ... The Murdoch Effect (2012)
LINKS ... The Murdoch Effect
THE STORY ... An alternate universe in which Detective William Murdoch is transported from the 1800s to the year 2012. In this universe, James works alongside Detectives Murdoch, Crabtree, and Ogden with Toronto's Explosive Disposal Unit as a bomb technician. The kicker? A good amount of the bombs he's diffusing are bombs that he's directly responsible for.

*verse. 04

NAME ... Frankie Drake Mysteries (1920s)
LINKS ... Frankie Drake x Murdoch crossover episode , Frankie Drake x Murdoch crossover episode 2
THE STORY ... A universe in which it is now the 1920s - Llewellyn Watts is not an inspector with the constabulary, and James Gillies has managed to avoid being brought to justice. He now operates in the shadows, essentially as an assassin.