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deklo · 15 hours
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third wheel kevin 🫶 or just kandreil 🫶 whatever you want 🫶
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kevindayscrown · 2 days
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"I will watch you. If you want to drink tonight. I won't let you say something you will regret."
"You'll be drunk inside an hour," Neil said. "Then who'll stop me."
"I would stop drinking."
*on my knees* KEVIN DAY THE MAN THAT YOU ARE
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neroholik · 3 days
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Quick sketch of Kevin and Jean 💘
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Nicky, about Neil: Apparently we’re getting someone new in the group!
Kevin: ..are we stealing them?
Aaron: New or used?
Nicky: Wonderful responses, both of you.
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lucky-slice · 1 day
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Do you understand how much kevin respects neil? And i don't mean when it comes to exy, like sure there's a whole lot of you're not good enough followed by you will make court bluh bluh bluh, i mean fundamentally as a human.
Kevin and Neil's conversation after the truth of Neil's father is revealed drives me absolutely insane because I think it highlights a lot about how Kevin views Neil.
so indulge me for a bit....
I think a lot of people forget, in light of Andrew choking Kevin for not telling him the truth, that Kevin's initial reaction was to tell Neil to run.
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*sorry for the quality - these are all screenshots off my phone
Kevin's instinct is to tell Neil to save himself, despite what that would mean for the team's success and for Kevin himself. This is significant to me for two reasons.
It highlights that Kevin genuinely cares about Neil outside of his exy potential. For most people, this would be a pretty obvious response to finding out your teammate has a guaranteed death sentence if they stick around, so it might not seem all that meaningful, but Kevin was raised in such an environment were you continued to play no matter what - even at the risk of death. Kevin is unflinchingly callous when it comes to exy and his teammates (*see his reaction to Seth's death), but he is frantic in his concern for Neil in contrast to his fairly passive response to basically anyone else's wellbeing outside of exy. Neil's death will have no real impact on Kevin. If Neil dies or goes to the ravens, nothing changes for Kevin. He is not at a greater risk of being hurt by Riko or the Moriyama's nor will his exy career be effected. That's not to say he would tell Neil to stay if he cared about him any less, but there is a desperation that implies a depth beyond just that of a teammate.
The fact that Kevin is frantic and desperate for Neil to leave, gives weight to his decision to keep teaching Neil in the aftermath of the revelation.
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Neil doesn't want to run - he wants to be Neil Josten until the end. He gave Kevin his game and now he's asking him to keep it and Kevin obliges.
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This is essentially Kevin promising that he will keep Neil's secret. He will allow Neil to wear his mask and continue teaching him despite the fact that Neil is essentially a dead man walking. This, to me, is Kevin ultimately respecting Neil and his choice. At any moment, Kevin has the ability to got to Wymack or Andrew and give Neil the chance at surviving, but that would mean betraying Neil.
Some people (certainly the foxes) would view refusing Neil's request as the proper and morally correct thing to do. But I think Kevin's immediate acceptance of Neil's decision is both immensely meaningful to Neil and also a signifier of a shared understanding between to two.
Imagine how impactful it must be for Neil, who has never had autonomy over his own life and has been marked for death basically since he was born, to be told that not only will his decisions and his autonomy be respected, but there is someone who will stand by his side on the court, knowing the whole truth, until the very end.
Kevin doesn't have much to offer Neil at this point. He can not give him a future - he'll be long dead before he can ever make court, and Kevin is a coward - he is not andrew, he can't stand up against the Moriyama's or Riko or Neil's father. Kevin can not protect Neil in a way that matters. All he can do is promise to keep Neil's secret and offer him a few more months of being Neil Josten.
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I'm not including this to disparage Andrew or to suggest that he does not respect Neil, but this highlights that Kevin knows the decision to keep Neil's secret is one only Kevin would make. Andrew without a doubt would immediately try to get Neil to leave or attempt to get him into protection. I'm not passing a judgement of morality on what would've been the right thing to do, but I do think Kevin's reaction is indicative of the fact that Neil and Kevin understand each other in a way that no one else really will.
Neil and Kevin are a parallel's in a number of ways. Kevin lived the life that Neil was supposed to have and they are two parts of one story.
To them exy is not a game, but it's not really about exy either. It's about deciding to stay just to play for a couple more months even though you'll wind up dead because playing means you finally get to live after years of being a ghost. It's about playing to be the best no matter what, even though the consequences are having your hand smashed and the life you know completely demolished. It's about playing even though you're shaking with fear and anxiety because you need proof that your life, whether it be running to survive or living under an abusive hand, was not a waste.
Kevin agrees to keep Neil's secret because if the roles were reversed, Kevin would like to believe that he'd be strong enough to ask Neil for the same thing. This is obviously conjecture and a heavy heavy reading between the lines, but I'd like to think there's some truth there.
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Finishing up with this line because it makes me a little emotional.
Kevin starts the conversation by calling Neil "Nathaniel" and ends it by calling him Neil again. Its right there in the text, "it was a promise". Kevin is offering Neil a life that is fully his - not his father's, not Riko's, but Neil's to do with what he would like, even if its only for a couple more months. If that's not respect, than I don't know what is.
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chaoticas-hell · 2 days
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Nicky and Erik: *having a bad fight*
Andrew: oh no. We're from a dysfunctional home
Aaron: what if they divorce? We'd be from a broken home then
Kevin:....*opens his mouth*
Neil: shh let it happen
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incorrectaftg · 9 hours
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[hands you these] part 83
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exy-time · 2 days
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Guys. you know that ravens only do 16 hour days on breaks right guys. they still have normal days when they have classes. guys. you know that right guys
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ionlydrinkhotwater · 2 days
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My hc is that not only do Neil and Kevin host their own Exy Podcast as a side hobby but at one point Kevin is explaining a very funny Exy anecdote and the two of them Crack up so hard that the fans realise that Kevin's real non-public persona laugh is filled with cute hiccups and snorts. And that Neil Jostens laugh is adorably wheezy
The public would be OBSESSED (like me)
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czer-ny · 2 days
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"kevin's liquid spine" neil has such a way with words
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rekikiri · 3 days
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i have been informed that I walk too quietly. I apparently scare the shit out of my boyfriend because he never hears me coming.
this is twinyard + neil josten and I know it. when they want to I guarantee they can walk so quietly that they scare the shit out of nicky/kevin/matt in the dorms. (andrew generally is stompy on purpose, but he CAN be silent)
those three, on the other hand, cannot walk silently to save their lives. stompy men if I ever met one
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kevindayscrown · 2 days
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Done with my reread of the Raven King in prep for the Sunshine Court and here are some thoughts:
• Seeing the progress Neil is making with trusting people around him (from giving Andrew some truths to trusting Kevin with his binder etc etc) is always *chefs kiss*
• Kevin loml, he is less of a little bitch in this and still out of touch, but the way he stood up for the Foxes in the match with the Ravens, the "Will you teach me/Every night" is sending me, i want to hug him.
• Jean Moreau being iconic, showing up for like 10 pages total and serving 💅
• The Riko Roast ™️
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operose-reblogs · 13 hours
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Thinking again about how Nicky what the only "monster" that Andrew didn't have a pact with. He was the only one who was just ALLOWED to be around Andrew for no reason
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Kevin, pointing to Neil and Andrew: this is actually my worst fucking nightmare.
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sharkszone · 2 days
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My cat, as aftg characters
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