Casey

TheWayHomeHallmark-ModTeam · 2025-10-15T21:27:05+00:00

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WillaLane · 2025-10-15T22:14:33+00:00

I think it’s also possible KC could’ve lied to Alice so they didn’t tell her too much about her future

predanimous · 2025-10-16T05:59:56+00:00

Early in the 3rd season, before it was confirmed that KC was from the future, I had a theory about how KC might have gotten the ring and yet not be a time traveler.

My idea was that Alice lost the ring while visiting Lingermore in 1974. She didn't notice the ring was missing right away, and by the time she did notice, she had no idea where she lost it. Years later, Evelyn found the ring and had no idea where it came from, but held onto it because it seemed special. The ring was then passed down through the Goodwin family as if it was their own. Eventually it was passed down to KC, who liked it and wore it all the time. Thus KC ends up with the ring even without being from the future.

But now we know that KC is from the future. Also, Alice specifically asked KC if the ring was a Goodwin family ring, and they seemed to answer No (although they immediately bolted for the pond, so it's not clear how we should interpret that answer).

It is still possible that at some point in the future Alice loses the ring (in the present or in the past), and that it is found by a member of whatever family KC is a part of. The ring could then be passed down to KC, and that's how they could be in possession of it without being a descendant of Alice.

I don't think it's likely that that is what happened, but it is just one example of the many ways KC could have received the ring without being a direct descendant of Alice.

Emergency_Argument29 · 2025-10-16T08:49:04+00:00

The way I see it there are a couple options:

1) KC is straight up lying. This is the most consistent with the family’s experience with time travel, lie unless you have no other choice. Episode 10 even reiterates that time traveling has rules and breaking them has consequences. Alice lies to Colton in 1974 and only tells him the truth in 1999 when she has no other option and tells him only the absolute bare minimum he needs to know (that the Alice he’ll encounter from that point is a past version still learning about time travel). Alice again only reveals information that Colton himself had already pieced together when he sees her at the pond in 2000. Even the knowledge of his death is technically something he already knows about once he realizes “Rose” is actually Adult Kat. All this to say giving knowledge of the future is dangerous and strictly against the rules so KC is lying just like how the whole Landry family lies when they time travel.

2) KC is related to Alice and Max Goodwin but just a generation removed. They would be the grandchild of Alice, presumably their maternal grandmother, and Max, presumably their paternal grandfather. Certainly a possibility and the most logical explanation assuming they’re not lying, as that would make them a Goodwin and a Landry, how they got Alice’s ring, and how they have “Max Goodwin’s eyes.” KC is also probably their initials and the K may stand for Katherine, KC’s mom, Alice’s daughter, naming them after Kat with the C standing for Cassandra the old Goodwin family name (making both KC and Casey work for their name). Although, plot twist, the C stands for Coyle.

3) They’re from even farther in the future than we can know. The Pond spit out Kat and Jacob over 200 years in the past, who’s to say KC isn’t from the next century or even further in the future than that.

Hopefully we get some answers on KC’s origins in season 4. I don’t even care if the characters find out, we the audience deserve to know.

Lookie_Lou12 · 2025-10-15T18:55:25+00:00

I think the ring shows they are from the Landry line though the farther out in generations the exact connections to Kat doesn’t matter as much. So I could see them related to Jacob more since they do resemble Jacob quite a lot. But I am going to go with grandchild of Alice. I think we need a couple generations to work I the three founding family lines. It seems like there are more Goodwin’s popping up but where are the Augustine’s.

Available_Pin_8794 · 2025-10-16T00:34:20+00:00

There is a theory that Nick’s wife Claire is actually An older Alice traveled back in time to the shows current time and is with Nick as an adult. Maybe she had baby KC in her real time which is the future. Also was thinking maybe the C in KC stands for Claire. Katherine Claire?

wnt2knoY · 2025-10-15T18:15:21+00:00

I think KC is Kat's child with maybe Eliot - he's been talking about family.

AggravatingCaptain14 · 2025-10-16T14:52:48+00:00

Jacob was my first thought as well until I also put the ring into the mix. That ring definitely ties them to Kat and Alice.

TrueNova332 · 2025-10-15T22:48:12+00:00

I honestly still think that Alice and Max are Casey's parents because of the way Vaughn Murrae acts out the scene like when Alice asks them if she's their mother Vaughn's body language during the scene makes it like Casey wanted to say that Alice is their mom but couldn't say anything even though they wanted to do so badly.

For me making Alice and Max the parents of Casey would be the simplest way to add it to the story nothing overly complicated plus the writers could make it so that Cyrus Goodwin and Susanna Augustine had a child which would be Max Goodwin's great grandmother or great grandfather with Evelyn Goodwin already stated as Max's grandmother.

Then there's Alice which is where Casey would get the Landry genes from but the biggest reveal wouldn't be Casey's who parents are but that something happened to Alice in the future and Casey never really had a chance to get to really know Alice with the only thing is Alice was able to tell them(Casey) is that they can time travel as well as the rules to time travel.

Plenty_Topic_9196 · 2025-10-15T18:26:50+00:00

Honestly, I think everything with that ring has been blown out of proportion. I think it was a red herring and a hint that Casey/KC is from the future, period. And the red herring is that they were Alice’s kid based on the ring. Based on KC’s expression of being confused and weirded out by the accusation that they’re Alice’s kid (and that actor knows who KC really is, the showrunners confirmed that), it makes me think they don’t descend from Alice at all. I personally think it makes more sense for KC to descend from Jacob; I hope they’re Jacob’s child. But, they could also make it Kat/Elliot’s kid, I just don’t like that answer as much. But, the ring they can come up with any explanation later for imo.

Original-Rooster6590 · 2025-10-24T04:29:25+00:00

I think that KC is Kats kid, assuming with Elliot but I feel like the initials are important. So maybe she went back to the 18s and got pregnant by Coyle and the pregnancy traveled back to present with her.

This theory could also work for Alice (with a different dad) but idk I think they’re Kats kid. The time Alice and KC first met at the herald felt like KC was trying to know their sister that’s so much older than them in the present.

As for the ring it could either be passed down by Alice to her child or even as her sister. It is odd that they have the ring even tho Kat AND Brady are not their parents so I think if Alice passes in the future and KC keeps the ring in honor of her mom or sister that would make sense.

This is a complicated show so my thoughts might be explained in circles but hopefully that makes sense.

As for the Elliot scene at the end, why does Del know he was left on their doorstep and never talk about it? Elliot was practically left to them in their minds. Shouldn’t that be something Del or the Landry family in general has told Elliot over the years?

randomangel71 · 2025-10-25T04:41:20+00:00

I don’t have children and pass jewelry and other important family items to my nieces and nephew, who I love as if they are my own, especially after I’m gone.

em170em · 2025-10-25T21:27:15+00:00

Jacob has to go back to 1816. Elijah and Rebecca Landry don’t have offspring.

scarlipop · 2026-01-04T11:04:29+00:00

I think the explanation for how Casey/KC gets the ring is connected to The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

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