Throw Your Heart Over

Cast of Characters

Killie

Sure, the sport of horse racing is awful on the horse athletes, and worse on the human athletes. But at the end of the day, for as long as horse racing exists, you can take comfort in the fact that someone’s always having a worse day at work than you are. And it’s Killie.

Four foot ten, bitter, ripped, with a permanent scowl, amazing arm muscles, psychic horsegirl powers and at least three awful bruises at all times… it’s Cillian Tiernan, champion jockey. What a wretched man! He’s the heart of the story, and the story is his heart.

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Supporting Characters

Of Killie Tiernan, two things are true. One is that he is a terrible person. The other is that he is so, so loved.

Charlie

O Holy Thunder

Derek

Miles Dragonfly-Meadows

Colm Tiernan

Ciara Tiernan

Philippa “Pippa” Loughborough

Kenji MacKenzie

Rossa Sean Ryan Levey

Bill Tiernan

Who the hell is

Killie?

He’s a small, angry, and entirely fictional racehorse jockey with an unfortunate psychic connection to his rancid racehorse frenemy (O Holy Thunder), a redemption-arc relationship with his nice nerdy boyfriend (Derek), an elusive twin brother (Charlie) and a messy, rambling family of horse-obsessed weirdos who are overly-invested in the fascinating, complex, dirty, problematic and unhinged world of horse racing.

He is a short athletic ginger jock like an angry little wet cat, who is always getting injured, and we love him for this.

He is a terrible person. But he is so, so loved.

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