On Antonio Khan-Gill (the Antonio of the 2000's A.D.) and some notes regarding his heritage and surname.

09/21/25:

Antonio Khan-Gill has been a fixture in Antonio Chandrani-Rivera's secret Dream Blog...!

Recently, I dropped a sketch featuring him and his mysterious Alejandro "C." ... This!

Antonio Chandrani-Rivera describes the instant camera selfie: Antonio K. with his boyfriend Alejandro in an 'instant camera' photo. Antonio K. has a nice tan for his brown skin and Alejandro has a lighter bronze skintone! He's wearing a dark teal sweatshirt and looking soppy, lol. Alejandro seems happy with his eyes closed and his head on Antonio's shoulder. He's wearing a dark tanktop and is kinda jacked ngl. :o

Unlike my Alejandro he has short dark hair!!! Antonio says short hair is popular for guys and butches in his era on Earth. Except in the animes. Odd. Antonio's hair is a little badly cut maybe but sort of like mine, dark and falling around his face. He has normal brown eyes that look way too gushy.

The sky is bright blue behind them! At the bottom his Alejandro wrote 'Love you. XOXO' and two sharp hearts, signed 'a.c.' Antonio replies 'Me too! @ you Alejandro!' with a blush sticker like emoticon by 'Me too!' and signs his name in a way that smudges the Kh-- and G---.

They scrawled some pen marks and his Alejandro wrote 'whoops' next to his. Lol.

Text past the selfie. Here's a selfie from when Antonio K. and his Alejandro were chiillin'! He said they tried out 'instant cameras' again. That's why I can see them. :D

They stopped being popular after their '9990's.' Except their decade was right before 'year 2000.' He said he took this after 'the 2010's.' I wonder which year? Can't remember anymore. -_-; Oops...

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I wonder how to protect Alejandro? I gotta protect him. [Intense kaomoji face.]

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(Currently only found here on Neocities, but I'll update in the next few days and fix this link soon. For now you can see it here on Tumblr.)

And remembered our current Alejandro (100k years in the future) in the year 9990's ATF is named "Alejandro Caldera."

So I wanted to note! Antonio K.'s Alejandro C. isn't named Caldera! He has a pretty well-known Latine surname, though.

In regards to Antonio Khan-Gill... He's still Latino!

I actually only learned this recently:

Wiki on surnames in

Guyana

All surnames are of Indian (of both the Hindu and Muslim faiths) or English origin.
Rank[4] Surname
1 Persaud
2 Singh
3 Williams
4 Khan
5 Thomas
6 Joseph
7 Henry
8 James
9 Mohamed
10 Smith

And originally chose the name Khan because I thought it'd be a surname you could find just about anywhere. Not to mention the larger reason! ( Nasir's family. While he's Hadid-Salah, his elder siblings are Khan-Salah. You can find art of them here.)

If you've checked out the novella excerpt, Antonio implies a lot about his family lineage as "Antonio Khan-Gill." It'll be gone into deeper in later novels, but essentially Antonio will often refer to "several countries," lol, and "Bengal" is a feature.

As for "Gill"... While I'm aware of the surname "Gil," I chose Gill on purpose and partly due to a plot point, though the sea-theme-naming is fun.

In contrast, Alejandro C. has a pretty typical Latine surname, like I said above. That's about it!

Extra note at 2 AM lol: I personally prefer Antonio K.-G. to have Caribbean ancestry and it'll be part of canon... I want certain metaphors to come across with Lotus + Citaa (+ Wanderer being close; that map hasn't been shown yet), but mostly draw from growing up in Texas!