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Headcanons about the Story Thieves characters. Feel free to share your own! (In no way is this blog associated with James Riley himself, this is just for fun.) Links for mobile: About || Tags

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Coming up with a bunch of my own headcanons is hard, so yall feel free to send in headcanon requests or submit your own!! (Just please stick to the rules I state in the About.)

[justarandomidiot1]

Time to vote for the prompts you wanna see for James Riley Appreciation Week 2026!! Vote here for the prompts you’d like to see!

Voting will close March 30, 11:59pm EST

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James Riley Appreciation Week 2025

Day 7: Free Day! A Story Thieves animatic (of sorts): So, who broke Kiel's wand-knife? (Who Broke It? meme)

(If I make another animatic in the future, I'm probably not going to use traditional doodles like for this one 😅)

[justarandomidiot1]

JAMES RILEY APPRECIATION WEEK 2025

Free Day!

I redrew my iconic Half Upon a Time fanart from 2016 (and also redrew back in 2021) for Free Day!! Hopefully this art is even more heartbreaking than my previous versions, which can be found below the cut!!

2021:

2016:

[lanihaluki]

James Riley appreciation week 2025, day 4: favorite scene! I don’t have an exact favorite scene, I def have several, but this is one that stuck with me from revenge of magic

for day 4, i will also be drawing a favorite scene from story thieves + once upon another time. because i decided to overachieve dhjfhfjfj

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James Riley Appreciation Week 2025

Day 6: Happy Birthday @james-riley-author!! Here's a The Dragon's Apprentice inspired birthday card!

Extra scene because I didn't make that magical cake ;)

[justarandomidiot1]

JAMES RILEY APPRECIATION WEEK 2025

Birthday / Celebration

Drew this in honor of @james-riley-author's birthday today!!

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James Riley Appreciation Week 2025

Day 5: Crossover!! I wrote a Story Thieves and Narnia crossover for this prompt! Read it here

[justarandomidiot1]

JAMES RILEY APPRECIATION WEEK 2025

Memes / Crossovers

(Almost) every main character (or characters who had a pov in any of the books) and their dads/dad issues

Based on this meme

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James Riley Appreciation Week 2025

Day 4: I chose both (again!) I drew my favourite scene from The Dragon's Apprentice in comic form:

And a bonus for fun: how I think Ciara showed Scorch's cat form to Meg

[justarandomidiot1]

JAMES RILEY APPRECIATION WEEK 2025

Favorite Quotes and Scenes / Comic

"You should have just gone on without me," Charm told him, holding his hand tightly in hers. "That was really dumb, Owen. I would have been fine." "You would have . . . been eaten," he said, trying to take in a deep breath, but the pain was too intense. "But you didn't leave me," she whispered, staring at him. "Everyone leaves me, but not you. I don't . . . I don't know what to say to that."

Idk this scene from Worlds Apart got to me, man. Charm used to everyone she loves leaving her. Owen being the first who doesn't.

Also below is another favorite scene of mine, what my friends and I dubbed "the iconic aroace scene" from Once Upon Another Time: Tall Tales (dialogue is completely word for word from the book if you haven't read it)

[lanihaluki]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65346691

a lil something I wrote for day 3 of James Riley Appreciation Week for the prompt “Future”

[lanihaluki]

Drew my shaylas for day 2 of James Riley appreciation week <333

Hurt/Comfort + Reunion

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James Riley Appreciation Week 2025

Day 3: Technically this is both prompts - I headcanon that after the events of Story Thieves, Kiel and Charm became the respected leaders of their planets, occasionally working together like they used to and eventually the people of both Magisteria and Quanterium lived in peaceful times.

[justarandomidiot1]

JAMES RILEY APPRECIATION WEEK 2025

Future / Headcanons

OLD WOMEN YURI‼️‼️ This is definitely more geared towards the Future prompt but inevitably some Headcanons are sprinkled into the piece. Ria owns my heart and my soul

I also wrote a Ria fanfic to go with the two prompts!! It definitely caters more to Headcanons but also takes place 10 years after the end of The Chosen One so it also counts for Future

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James Riley Appreciation Week 2025

Day 2 - I chose to do Reunion! The prompt sparked the scene in Worlds Apart where Bethany reunites her two selves: fictional and non-fictional, so I drew it!

[justarandomidiot1]

JAMES RILEY APPRECIATION WEEK 2025

Reunion / Hurt/Comfort

Idk the context of this, I just wanted to draw Ciara and Meg from The Dragon’s Apprentice