Khalil Watkins

Name: Khalil Remy Watkins
Portrayed by: Michael B. Jordan
Parents: Dinah Watkins (mother)
Siblings: Kendrick Watkins (brother-deceased), Keke Watkins (sister)
Marital Status: Yasmine Kohl (dating)
Past Relationships: Yasmine Kohl (lovers, ex girlfriend)
Occupation: Basketball player
Written by: Kelly

Khalil is the younger brother of local gang leader turned enforcer for the Madden organization Kendrick Watkins. He spent much of his early life in the Scottswood area until his brother was able to move him and their mother, along with his younger siblings out. He was in high school and became a basketball start starting a relationship with Yasmine. Eventually they decided to break up when their older siblings got closer and began a relationship too. He went to college to play basketball and just recently went with a semi-pro league to then turn to the big leagues. When his brother was shot he took up with local activists to protest his death and now is back in Yasmine’s life as a boyfriend again.

Season 1

Khalil appeared at the end of season one after Jon shot his brother in the kidnapping. He scoffed at Rory who he felt was trying to still Yasmine from the Scottswood area and his life. Going to the protest for his brother he simply whispered that Jon was a killer into the crowd. It took off and rioting and looting began in the downtown district of the city.

Season 2

Khalil and Yasmine reignited their relationship while he was on the off season for basketball and he was learning from point guard Connor Hessington, he signed a huge contract with the Ravens while his mom was filing her civil suit with Jon. He took the stand in his brother’s death an had no answers for the judge about where all the money came from that his bother paid for everything for his mom and siblings, blood money and something he knew could end his life if he told them that his brother was Ronan’s right hand man. Jon was acquitted and he still hated Rory especially when Aspen approached him to tell him that Rory and Yasmine were back in communication and flirting with one another. While at Brooke’s birthday parry and the launch of Val Ruiz’s new line he witness Rory and Yasmine dancing at the club extremely close and got jealous, he then witnesses a moment backstage between the two and took Aspen up on her offer to break them apart. He was thrilled when Rory learned that Yasmine was Forbes daughter and even more thrilled when Rory seemed to have lost it and dropped contact. He was then drug back into Rory’s orbit when the twins were born as Aspen became their godmother and Rory the godfather. He later learned that Rory and Yasmine had snuck off that night and almost had sex at the hospital. Things came to a head when Aspen told him that she spotted the two fucking on Christmas Eve and he vowed to expose it publicly with Aspen who would then reveal her pregnancy. He attended Jackson and Dani’s wedding with Yasmine and took the cues from Aspen who after she dropped the bomb she was pregnant, he then eviscerated her for fucking Rory while he was with Apsen. Calling her a whore and effectively breaking up her last tie to Rory that remained and possibly himself.