#the ravens aftg

[fallenstarzz]

The Kayleigh Day Lives AU

Extremely self-indulgent bullet fic with probably some written snippets later on. Canon-typical CWs.

So most of the canon backstory for Exy stays the same – Kayleigh goes to Japan, she meets Tetsuji, they create and launch Exy to rapid global fame, etc.

Kayleigh and Tetsuji really are friends. They're almost mirror images, both intent on leaving their mark on the world, albeit for very different reasons. They feed into each other's worst impulses, which works out great up untill it doesn't.

Kayleigh doesn't know the Moriyamas are Yakuza, but she also doesn't NOT know that. They are funding her dreams and that's all she needs to be certain of. And if there is some shady things are going on backstage, well, Tetsuji's the only one handling them so it's hardly like she's gonna get blamed if it gets out

The years go on, they are getting too old to play, so Tetsuji fucks off to create the Ravens and take more full control of the side branch after his leg injury and Kengo coming into power, and Kayleigh also retires after having Kevin.

The main problem is that now Kayleigh is expendable. She's no longer Exy's greatest player, she doesn't need to promote the sport as much anymore, and she and Tetsuji start butting heads over what the future of Exy is going to be. He wants them to settle down and strengthen their base in the US first before moving on to establishing it more worldwide, while she thinks they should keep diversfying the sport as much as they can. They start contradicting each other on interviews, and the media catches on to a possible feud, there is talk of a schism that could stop Exy in its tracks.

The main branch catches wind of that and is, in the simplest terms, Not Happy. They've let Tetsuji put a lot of money into Exy at this point and they can't sit by and watch as he gets usurped, or worse, as Exy becomes to unstable to be a profitable investment anymore.

So Kengo calls Tetsuji with the news that he can either put Kayleigh in line or the main branch will do it for him.

Tetsuji considers it for a while. He is not a sentimental man, but he also isn't ungrateful for Kayleigh's help so far. Plus she has that very convenient, very promising son and he has plans for a Perfect Court.

(since in canon, Kevin is not considered Moriyama property, I'm guessing that they didn't plan on fighting his bio father for custody after Kayleigh's death, it was just a pleasant surprise. Maybe he still would have been recruited, just when he was older and more clearly going to be Perfect Court material. There's a reason why Riko hasn't picked all his players when the series starts)

So Tetsuji calls her and lays down the law. He doesn't say everything yet, but makes it clear that Kayleigh can either follow his lead or the very powerful, very dangerous people she's getting in the way of are going to get rid of her. He makes it seem like he's protecting her by giving her this choice.

Kayleigh doesn't want to get steamrolled out of her own sport, but she wants to die even less, so she ends up saying yes to becoming the Moryiama's puppet. She figures she can keep pushing her agendas from behind the scenes, just with more care and sublety this time.

They end up, then, with Tetsuji functionally ruling Exy as Kayleigh takes a figurehead role, parroting his decisions and essentially becoming even more of a media darling

She doesn't agree on sending Kevin to the Nest straight away. She doesn't want to get separated from her son, for one, and also knows enough of what the Moriyamas are about by now to fully trust them with him. It is known, however, she'll eventually have no choice but to enroll him in EAU.

Kevin and Riko still regurlaly meet up for Exy play dates, become friends, and obsess over the Perfect Court and their possible roles as #1 and #2. This sets Kayleigh on edge a little bit, but she can't find a way to physically interfere and just has to hope it never escalates too far.

But as Kevin grows older, the noose starts to progressevily tigthen – specially now that they lost their intended #3 to an overeager mother.

So Kayleigh starts getting sent away in more and more media tours, and signed up for teaching workshops and attending games and really anything that will make sure she doesn't stay in the same place for more than a couple weeks.

All the moving around is going to impact Kevin negatively – he wouldn't be able to study or practice properly – and eventually Kayleigh is worn down and worried for her son's future enough that she agrees to leave him in the Nest while she travels.

Kayleigh isn't naive enough to believe the Nest is a paradise, she knows Tetsuji very well after all, but she has settled into her place well enough to start accumulating some information and power of her own inside the side branch. It's not enough that the Moriyamas couldn't still kill her if they wanted to, but it is mutually assured destruction before she goes.

So Kevin gets treated well... When she's around to watch. Which is not really that often. But Kayleigh manages to stay an influence in her son's life and have some say in what his future is going to be. (And if she has her own opinions of what the real order of the Perfect Court should be, well. That's a problem for another time).

She settles into a sort of routine as the next decade or so goes by. She becomes the face of Exy, watches carefully for Tetsuji's weaknesses, slowly ingrains herself with the Moryiamas, travels the world and periodically comes to stay with Kevin in the Nest and try (mostly fail) to mitigate the damage Tetsuji is doing. It's not her ideal life, but she's managing – all she has to do is hold on untill Kevin graduates so she can afford to throw her weight around to put him in a different pro team than Riko, so the Moriyamas can't use them as leverage against each other as much anymore. The first step towards being free is being safe.

And then, of course, Riko breaks Kevin's hand.

#all for the game #aftg #Kayleigh Lives AU #kayleigh day #tetsuji moriyama #riko moriyama #kevin day #more to come when I actually meet my uni deadlines #all for the game fanfiction #aftg fic #bullet fic #exy #the ravens aftg

[ineffablelvrs]

"who fell first who fell harder" i actually need them both to be down horrendously bad for each other. hope that helps

#stranger things #good omens #wwdits #six of crows #riordanverse #grishaverse #the owl house #aftg #the raven cycle #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #byler #vinylatte #ineffable bureaucracy #kanej #wesper #helnik #nandermo #pynch #bluesey #lumity #raeda #ofmd #gentlebeard #ladja #elmax #lumax #lokius

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Andrew Minyard- All for the Game by Nora Sakavic

Neil Josten- All for the Game by Nora Sakavic

#divorce round #Andrew Minyard #aftg #the foxhole court #tfc #the kings men #the raven king #all for the game #Nora Sakavic #Neil Josten #polls #lgbt books #queer book character tournament 2.0

[polartss]

let them smooch!! 

((neil is bending his knees a lil so andrew can reach🙏🏻🙏🏻)

#my art #digital illustration #digital art #aftg #all for the game #nora sakavic #the foxhole court #the raven king #the king’s men #tsc #the sunshine court #andrew minyard #andreil #neil josten #aftg neil #aftg fanart #aftg trilogy

[popcornhee]

Neil & Matt art 🫶

#aftg #all for the game fanart #all for the game #the foxhole court #the raven king #the kings men #matt boyd #aftg neil #neil josten #aftg matt #aftg fanart

[feluart]

Cat's and Jean's friendship is very important to me 🫂

#jean moreau #catalina alvarez #jean cat #jeremy knox #aftg #the raven king #the foxhole court #all for the game #the kings men #tfc #andrew minyard #neil josten #andreil #nora sakavic #usc trojans #tsc #the sunshine court

[eeriethacus]

I fully believe Neil sent this to the foxes post Baltimore

#had a surgery and I'm about to make it everyone's problem /j #aftg #all for the game #the foxhole court #the raven king #the kings men #neil josten #nora sakavic #beanarttag

[eikkou]

babies

#Andreil #andreil #Gay #Aftg #aftg fanart #art #drawing #aftg neil #aftg trilogy #All #all for the game #the sunshine court #the raven king #the foxhole court #Neil #neil josten #Andrew #andrew minyard

[kevindayslover]

in universe aftg memes are so funny it gets me every single fucking time just imagine liking a sport but it turns out the mafia is involved and riko moriyama is literally a psycho and his brother killed him and seth gordon fucking died and aaron minyard killed someone and neil josten's dad is the butcher and kevin day has never been skiing and jean moreau was kidnapped from the ravens and then there's jeremy knox

#aftg #tsc #tkm #trk #tfc #kevin day #all for the game #neil josten #the sunshine court #riko moriyama #the foxhole court #the kings men #the raven king #jeremy knox

[dawnatlas]

(raven neil au) im having so many thoughts about them all the time

#forever partners.... #i miss them so bad #aftg #art #fanart #artists on tumblr #my art #all for the game #aftg fanart #the sunshine court #tsc #following me must be fun #its always a gamble wether I'll post angst or silly doodles lmao #neil josten #nathaniel wesninski #jean moreau #raven!neil #all for the game fanart #all for the gay #forever partners

[deathcherries]

Aaron and andrew have the ultimate bros before hoes pact and both of them chose hoes

#it also gives me great delight to think of neil as andrew's hoe #neil josten #andrew minyard #andreil #all for the game #aftg #the foxhole court #tfc #exy #nora sakavic #the raven king #trk #the kings men #tkm #andrew x neil #aaron minyard

[thepriceofsurvival]

Current WIP

#keep going back and forth on the injuries #kinda already feel like I’ve traumatized myself enough #kinda wanna completely cover jeans face in blood #all for the game #jean moreau #aftg #the sunshine court #the foxhole court #fanart #riko moriyama #tetsuji moriyama #the ravens #edgar allan ravens #the nest #my fanart

[kairospy]

More AFTG Twitter updates because Nora likes torturing me

- Thea will make an appearance but Nora is aware she’s universally hated… so there’s that

- Blond Jeremy

- Auburn Neil. Auburn. Not ginger

- Neil gives Andrew the first cheek kiss and the first forehead kiss (mostly because Andrew can’t reach Neil’s)

- she really likes the bond between Jean and Neil and hopes to explore that to some degree. She says their experiences laid the groundwork for an enduring friendship and they have a very special kind of intimacy

- there will be flashbacks to Jean’s abuse in TSC

- if andreil ever got married Neil would pick Matt as his best man and Andrew would pick Kevin

- Andrew still pampers Neil with gifts and clothes even after Neil learns some fashion sense

- the marriage between Mary and Nathan was arranged

- Ichirou is 24 in TKM, 25 in TSC

- Kevin likes Hamilton and Andrew knows the Le Miserables songs because he heard them once

- Kevin does indeed appear in TSC

- Renee has a few scenes in TSC

- Jeremy’s family makes an appearance in TSC

- she hopes TSC will be a standalone

- the twins got on the horses in TKM with kiddie stools

- when the newbies start bothering Neil post TKM, Matt starts checking them so hard they see stars and denies he’s being overly aggressive when he’s confronted by Wymack

#aftg #all for the game #aftg Twitter #aftg andreil #andreil #neil josten #andrew minyard #jeremy knox #jean moreau #jerejean #nora sakavic #the foxhole court #the kings men #ichirou moriyama #the raven king #aftg trilogy #all for the game trilogy #matt boyd #kevin day #aaron minyard #twinyards #extra content

[ohtobangchan]

Eheh..eh...doing scientific researches ahah :D

#all for the gay #the foxhole court #art #fanart #aftg art #aftg andrew #aftg neil #aftg andreil #all for the game #aftg fanart #aftg fandom #artists on tumblr #drawing #aftg #tfc #andrew minyard #neil josten #andreil #the raven king #the kings men #digital art #digital illustration #digital drawing #procreate #nora sakavic #fandom #aftg trilogy #aftg hc #aftg headcanon #illustration

[polartss]

renee

#my art #digital art #digital illustration #renee walker #aftg fanart #aftg #all for the game #the foxhole court #the raven king #the kings men #the king’s men #nora sakavic #tsc #the sunshine court

[popcornhee]

Fox

#aftg #aftg neil #neil josten #the foxhole court #all for the game fanart #all for the game #the kings men #the raven king