~ is the drag-king companion to Cartier the Queen.

Ian reflects Cartier’s non-binary ~ gender-fluid nature.

The polite story about how Ian got his name is that it’s a reference to the song “Apex Predator” from the musical rendition of “Mean Girls”.

The actual story of how Ian got his name was that the inspiration to become a drag king named Ian Apex landed in Cartier’s mind a day after she and a few other witches stormed the private enclave of a high-witch and crashed a party there.