Chronology of Kwil Farkos

Jigo met Kwil shortly after the Great Peace Organization was founded. Initially, he was intrigued to find a GPO member at a Need Sanctuary and saw a potential opportunity to obtain insider information. He soon realized that Kwil, like many who frequented the sanctuaries, was deeply troubled. Jigo's interest in him shifted toward helping him.

He learned Kwil was attracted to one of his asexual coworkers, Hako Pital. She also liked him, but he was reluctant to pursue a relationship because he was ashamed of what he was and didn't feel in control of himself. Jigo encouraged him to talk through his feelings and develop healthier habits to treat his sex addiction and negative mindset. Eventually, Kwil felt well enough to admit his feelings to Hako and marry her.

His struggles continued though. Three years into his marriage, Kwil used mind manipulation on Hako in an attempt to demonstrate his feelings for her. After this, Hako insisted that he use the Need Sanctuaries until they were ready to have children, once their duties to the GPO were fulfilled. Jigo was able to convince Kwil to continue his relationship with her, an outcome she wanted as well, but Kwil never forgave himself. It was confirmation that he was unfixable, and his wife's loss of trust in him was well deserved. His desire for her only increasing with her refusal to abide added to his disgust and frustration with himself.

In an attempt to revive Kwil's confidence, Jigo included his story in an anonymous collection of anecdotes and arguments supporting allosexual rights a year later. While Jigo had published several such collections in the past, the public found this latest installment particularly compelling and controversial not only for Kwil's story but for its arguments including comparisons to human sexuality, spirituality, and morality.

The GPO director Draska Bakein was among the many who didn't share these radical sentiments toward allosexuals. Instead, Draska determined to hunt down the allosexual in the GPO. When she caught Kwil at a Need Sanctuary, she promptly outed him publicly and dismissed him from the GPO. While Kwil was initially unwilling to defend himself, he eventually joined Jigo and Hako in arguing his GPO membership before the pajas. Draska was forced to reinstate his position when both the pajas' judgment and a tight public vote held at her own request fell in Kwil's favor.

Baltariks with specialties in law, economics, education, security, and related fields laid the groundwork for long-term researchers to live on Earth. The gods gave them only one connection to Earth, which required them to work around the United States government but also limited the options and research required. Over years and decades, these baltariks forged identities, constructed believable backgrounds, and researched housing and living arrangements.

In the spring of 1992, baltarik researchers began living part- or full-time on Earth in order to apply to the local university in the vicinity of their connection to their home worlds, purchase housing, and establish their identities as incoming college students. Kwil and Hako were among the last to join their fellow long-term researchers in the fall, shortly before the start of the school year.

Traveling to Earth to serve the gods and fulfill their mission was Kwil's dream, but he worried about his ability to leave the sanctuaries. He didn't express it, but he feared his desires would transfer to humans. Of what Jigo knew of Kwil's fears, he reassured him he could return home as he needed, and he would always be listening if Kwil needed to talk. Still, sensing Kwil wasn't telling him everything, Jigo asked Hako to establish and maintain a telepathic connection with him to contact him should Kwil need help and be unwilling to express it.

Despite knowing Jigo's importance in Kwil's life and her relationship with him, Hako's' skepticism of Jigo's intentions had remained. She still suspected he was using Kwil in a long-running plot to infiltrate the GPO. She established a connection with Jigo to satisfy him but didn't intend to use it, let alone maintain it.

Hako and Kwil became the longest-standing researchers on Earth. While other researchers came and went, Hako and Kwil studied various topics in biology and medicine at the local university. They obtained or ordered forged credentials from their colleagues to work various internships and positions in the medical field.

In 1999, Jigo became a pruktau. Kwil's behavior in response to the event told Hako the true source of his distress; he had done something unforgiveable, something that had prompted the gods to create a baltarik condemned never to rest until he fulfilled a holy commandment. She didn't want to consider what Kwil had done. Instead, she dismissed his obsessive yet hopeless attitude as the same anxiousness they all carried. They still hadn't found a way to fulfill the gods' will. What happened if they never found it? What had this pruktau been sent to do in their stead?

Nothing came of Kwil's research until 2009. Amid increased pressure from the public for progress, Kwil proposed a daring experiment. All his research supported the viability of the human body accepting baltarik donated tissues, but he needed a test to prove it. He proposed a relatively common and low risk kidney transplant. Their subject ended up being Logan Cusick.

Hako had always agreed to be the surgeon that would perform the kidney transplant. She didn't expect to operate on Kwil, but blood tests revealed he was the best match for Logan among those in the GPO aware of the experiment. Kwil's operation was performed while his colleagues merely kept him numb and stable with kanti. Hako agreed with Kwil, however, considering Logan was already confused and terrified, it would be most humane to also use mind manipulation throughout Logan's procedure to keep him calm and even asleep. As the only one among them who had used mind manipulation, Kwil agreed to do it. His colleagues, already feeling compromised by their role in this increasingly questionable experiment and unable to comfort Logan any other way, agreed never to speak of it.

In the wake of the experiment's near fatal and devastating consequences, Kwil took responsibility for providing most of Logan's care and companionship to spare his colleagues and his wife from the worst of his mistakes. No one was aware that Kwil continued to use mind manipulation on Logan to try to reduce the trauma of the situation. He also began reading Logan's thoughts, already knowing Logan had to be returned home where he would need to be monitored for the rest of his life. At the end of his recovery, Kwil revealed as much to his colleagues and proposed he be sentenced to exile on Earth as Logan's overseer.

The GPO's strange activities over that year didn't go unnoticed by Jigo. His meddling earned him a temporary ban from Ji. When he returned, Kwil had been exiled to Earth and Hako had returned to her home planet Marti. On a tip, Jigo searched for Hako for the next two years. She allowed herself to be found when she admitted to herself that Jigo was Kwil's, the GPO's, and perhaps their species only hope.

Hako arranged a meeting with Draska to propose the idea of sending Jigo to Earth. Draska saw an opportunity to blame Jigo and Kwil for the failed experiment. If she agreed to let Jigo go to Earth too easily, however, she would take the blame for allowing it when the zarkis inevitably exacerbated their problems. Draska refused Hako's proposal. When Hako threatened to involve the pajas, Darska dared her to. It was the exact outcome Draska hoped Hako would suggest.

Hako and Draska proceeded to Ji to arrange another closed court session with the fanvas. Draska requested Jigo be excluded, so they could speak freely of the Logan Cusick experiment. The fanvas granted her request. After mediating their disagreement, the pajas decreed Jigo Kadas be sent to Earth and agreed to give her blessing publicly, a request Draska made to further distance herself from taking the blame for Jigo's actions.

Dates for the announcement and Jigo's departure were arranged. Retroactively, Hako told Kwil that she was sending Jigo to help. She wouldn't hear his protests. If he didn't escort Jigo to the rental, she would instruct Jigo there. Kwil could resist and remain silent all he wanted. Jigo intended to follow a lead to information about the raksha and his unfinished business in the meantime. That would buy Kwil some time to brace himself. Jigo would uncover it all eventually. They both knew that, and that was the point.

"I can't leave," Kwil begged.

Hako assured him she wouldn't let anyone force him to leave Earth either, but their people must know the truth. Jigo would ensure Kwil didn't have to speak it alone to her or anyone. The more people know, the lighter Kwil's and Hako's burden will be.

Kwil reluctantly agrees to Jigo's company, knowing he doesn't have a choice, but Hako is wrong about the burden he carries. The more people know of what he's done, the more the damage will spread.