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"Speaking of getting some," Nicky says in German. He wheels on Aaron and flails at him. "How is he suddenly okay with this? What the hell did you do?" "I returned the favor," Aaron says with a cool look in Neil's direction. "Neil used Katelyn against me, so I used Neil against Andrew. Depending on how you look at it, Neil's as much a violation of our deal as Katelyn was. Andrew could break our deal and let me go or break things off with Neil." Neil is fluent in German, but Aaron's words are a jumbled mess he can't make sense of. Aaron had warned Neil he was ready to fight for Katelyn, but if Neil was the ammunition he'd used Aaron should have lost. This had to be a misunderstanding or Aaron's skewed take on Andrew's intentions. Nicky finds his tongue first. "Wait, he chose Neil over you? That sounds a little serious for a fling, don't you—" Nicky glances at Neil's blank face and falters. "News to you too, huh?"

Day: Friday, March 22nd / 23rd* Time: 11:15 PM EST

*Due to the Leap Year, I have opted to highlight the day rather than the date to keep the events in occurrence to the 2007 year. I will continue to mark both days accordingly.

#DIES #ANDRIEL #aftg #all for the game #neil josten #andrew minyard #reblog

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Yes. Riko was an abuser. Nobody can deny that he hurt, sexually abused and tormented people physically and emotionally.

Yes. Riko was abused. He was hit by Tetsuji when he got things wrong, conditioned to believe that he had to be the best or his life wasn't worth living. He was abandoned by his father because he was second born, ignored by his big brother, and not even congratulated after he tried everything to gain their approval.

Yes. He hurt Jean out of anger. He used Jean as an object because that is all he had ever been to his father and family. He was a way to make money, but his father never saw him as anything more than that. It allowed him to feel powerful and in control of someone when everything else in his life was out of his control.

Yes. He flips after his father dies. Of course, he does. When you've worked your entire life to be acknowledged, spending thousands upon thousands of hours training to win, winning trophies, doing sponsorships, raising great chunks of money for the family, only for your father to die before even showing an ounce of pride for you? Of course, he flips. Jean just happens to be there, someone he knows he can hurt and get away with. Someone less than him at the bottom of the food chain. Perhaps the only person who sees the anger for what it truly is: failure. And Riko doesn't like that.

Yes. He hurt Kevin out of jealousy. Riko grew up in a world where failure was unacceptable. Failure meant pain, death and suffering. Exy was all Riko had and all he ever had. He couldn't stand to be second best because second best is all he had ever been. He would not be second in the one thing he was meant to be the king of. He hurt Kevin out of jealousy, and was beaten to an inch of his life for it.

Yes. He grew up sheltered. Riko was groomed to be a star by Tetsuji. He was groomed and exploited for money by the only person who had ever looked at him and seen something. He lost his mother. His father didn't care about him. He had nobody. He lived underground in the nest for most of his life and played exy every single day for most of his childhood. He probably had no friends his own age until Kevin came along. There was nobody who understood what Riko was going through.

Yes. Riko hurt Andrew. He had Andrew hurt as another power trip. It was to show he had great power and could do what he wanted with it. He had no boundaries. Throughout the series, Riko is shown to be insecure. He craves power and acknowledgement and wants to prove he has a place in the mafia family next to his brother.

Yes. Riko is more complex than a simple villain. He is self-destructive and works to the bone to try and be worth something. He uses anger to cover up his blatant abandonment issues. He is never and will never be enough. And if he can't be enough, then nobody else can. Nobody can take his place.

He is scared of Kevin, frightened of Neil, terrified of Andrew. He is constantly trying to stop his precarious tower from tumbling in the only way he knows how.

If all his mistakes were punished with pain, disappointment and anger, how can he know any different? He doesn't know the world really and hasn't experienced it outside his little box of stardom. He doesn't know what is 'normal.' For him, failing means getting beaten. Failure means losing his status. Failing means falling from power. It always has.

No. Just because Riko was abused and groomed does not mean that his abusive behaviours were justified. He chose to become an abuser, despite everything he had suffered.

No. He wasn't born evil. He is horrible - don't get me wrong - but he shouldn't just be cast off as coming out of the womb with horns and a tail. He was shaped by his experiences, negative and positive. We all are.

Riko thought beating people into submission would show his power and prove his worth to his family. In the end, it resulted in his downfall.

#riko moriyama #aftg #all for the game #aftg trilogy #reblog

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— the foxhole court (2013)

— the sunshine court (2024)

#reblog #oh my god #tsc #tfc #the foxhole court #the sunshine court #aftg #all for the game

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#reblog #aftg #all for the game

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what if they were dogs this or what if they were cats that

my inner horsegirl demands respect so without further ado here is the AFTG cast as horses

Andrew and Aaron: Fjord

Nicky: American Saddlebred (homozygous pinto)

Neil: Kiger Mustang (buckskin)

Kevin: Thoroughbred (chestnut)

Dan: Marwari (bay)

Matt: Friesian (black)

Allison: Akhal-Teke (perlino)

Seth: Tennessee Walker (blue roan)

Renee: Morgan (palomino dapple)

Riko: Thoroughbred (black)

Thea: Mangalarga Marchador (grey)

Jean: Andalusian (black)

Jeremy: Appaloosa (palomino blanket)

Wymack: Rhenish German Coldblood (chestnut)

Abby: American Quarter Horse (tobiano)

Bee: Silesian (grey)

Kayleigh: Arabian (dapple grey)

Ichirou: Holsteiner (grey)

Tetsuji: Trakehner (grey)

#OH MY GOR #aftg #all for the game #aftg trilogy #reblog

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gay sex but you know, i get it. being raised as a superstar must be really, really difficult for you.

#you know i get it #aftg #all for the game #neil josten #aftg trilogy

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Neil Josten my beloved 🦊

#neil josten #aftg #all for the game #reblog

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POV: he's judging the weird position you fell asleep in but didn't mean to wake you up... oh well you're awake now

#hes got BOOBS #aftg #aftg fanart #andrew minyard #reblog

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exy uniforms have shorts right. right. tell me yes.

andrew minyard short shorts

#andrew minyard #exy #aftg #all for the game

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So, I was thinking about how Andrew was in the car with Tilda when he wrecked it and how he could have gotten hurt and I just– Can you imagine if Andrew went deaf in one ear or something?

Like, he for sure wouldn't say anything about it. Aaron hates his guts, and he barely knows Nicky. Why would he bother telling either of them? He probably figures it could be temporary at first, but when he starts to think it might be permanent, he still says nothing about it. It's not like they would care, right?

So he would say nothing. People just think he's this asshole that ignores people (and, sure, sometimes he is ignoring them because people be fucking annoying) but half the time he just legitimately doesn't hear them. None of the Foxes notice. The staff don't either, since Andrew always keeps his hearing ear towards them. It causes issues, sure, but it's not like anyone would be able to fix it, so Andrew still stays quiet. But Neil figures it out.

It takes him a while, but he eventually notices that Andrew always sits on a certain side or has to turn to face Neil when he hasn't quite managed to pick up what he said. He starts watching and realises that he does it with the others too, and he's much more likely to completely ignore someone speaking to his left.

One day, when the monsters are hanging out, Neil finally decides to ask:

Neil decided to speak up during a lull in a conversation that Andrew was totally zoned out of. "Drew?"

"Hmm?" It's subtle, but Andrew definitely turned his right side slightly more towards Neil.

"Can you not hear out of your left ear?" Neil asked, and Andrew just blinked at him for a moment.

"Neil, what are you talking about?" Kevin shot him a confused look.

"I'm deaf in my left ear." Andrew said to answer them both.

"What??" Nicky looked startled. "Since when?"

Andrew considered that for a moment. "Since about a week before we met."

"Hold up," Aaron held up a hand. "Are you telling us you have been deaf in one ear since the crash?"

"Yes."

"And you didn't think to maybe say something about it?!"

Andrew shrugged. "I didn't think you would care." It wasn't a jab, it was just the truth.

"Andrew–" Nicky splittered a little. "Of course we care!"

"Telling you doesn't really make a difference." Andrew said, glossing over his own surprise at how much his family seemed to genuinely care about him. "The hearing loss doesn't just go away because you know about it."

"No," Neil agreed. "But there are things we can do to help."

And they do. They all make small adjustments, simple things that make Andrew's life easier. He and Neil even learn ASL together. It increases the amount Andrew calls them all annoying ten-fold, but he secretly appreciates it.

#aftg #all for the game #andrew minyard #neil josten #andreil #twinyards #reblog

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how am I supposed to tell people that this is my favorite color specifically because of the funny hex code?

#aftg #all for the game #reblog

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Uncle Andrew’s thoughts on kids

Neil being a shit under the cut

#i love them #aftg #all for the game #aaron minyard #andrew minyard #neil josten #reblog

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.... trans Riko rights I guess?

#fuck #riko moriyama #all for the game #aftg #reblog

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Kevin is my lil wildcard. He's aroace. He's gay and in love with Aaron. He's gay and in love with Andrew. He's gay and in love with Neil. He's gay and in love with Jean. He's gay and in love with Jeremy. He's gay and in love with Andrew and Neil. He's gay and in love with Jean and Jeremy. He’s straight and in love with Allison. He's bi and in love with any of the above. He's bi and aro but it takes him a long time to realize it because he's with Thea and they seem to feel the same way about each other so clearly that is what being in love feels like. He’s only into casual sex. He’s incapable of being casual about sex. He's genderqueer. He's cis but likes being called princess. He’s straight but has such intense relationships with men (Andrew, Neil, Jean, Riko) that he spends years questioning his sexuality. He's ace and biromantic. He’s queer but his head hurts if he tries to figure out exactly what that means. He’s a shapeshifter that changes depending on my mood, but every version of him makes complete sense to me.

#reblog #aftg #all for the game #kevin day

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the beginning of me and my husband reminded me of him

#reblog #aftg #all for the game #neil josten

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aaron is therapist material but i think he would cry after Every session

#aaron minyard #aftg #all for the game #aftg fandom #aftg trilogy

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idk if y'all have seen those videos where it's like

"i work out to feel healthy" "i work out to lift my girlfriend"

"i work out so he'll never touch me again/i can push him off me next time"

anyway what if I said Andrew Minyard

#oh god #aftg #all for the game #andrew minyard #reblog