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i should call her (reread aftg)

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He's basking in the sun

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it’s a tragedy that Jean was waterboarded for many reasons and one of them is that Jean can’t peacefully take an existentially long depression shower

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can you iMAGINE HOW FRECKLY THEIR KIDS WOULD BE???!! 

also she’s bending her knees to smooch him, she loves her tiny boi

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Honestly, Jean being so good at English is a fucking miracle.

Wdym he learned two languages in just a few years while suffering physical and psychological abuse on an insane training schedule that left him severely sleep deprived?? And, presumably, he learned his third language using his second language, because French was forbidden.

Between that, and starting university at sixteen? Jean-Yves Moreau is a genius, and you cannot convince me otherwise.

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“You two could at least say hello,” Wymack said, somewhat aggrieved. 

“There’s no point,” Kevin said. “All they are is a distraction.“ 

“It’s called a support network. Look it up.“ 

"Thea is watching from South tonight,” Kevin said, looking to the elevated VIP box. It was too far away and too high up for Neil to make out any faces, but there was a small crowd gathered at the windowed walls already. Knowing the Court was here to watch them play sent a chill through Neil’s veins. Kevin dragged his stare back to Wymack’s face and said, “and my father comes to all of my games. That is enough." 

On Wymack’s other side, Abby’s gaze softened. Wymack’s jaw worked for a moment before he could say in an even tone, "Your mother would be proud of you." 

"Not just of me,” Kevin said in a rare bout of humanity.

-The King’s Men (All for the Game Book 3) by Nora Sakavic

my scene for the @giveyourbacktome-zine​! I had so much fun working on this and I was lucky to snag a #dadscene :D

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Jeremy: you don't want Jean to die.

Jeremy: and I don't want Jean to die.

Jeremy: so now we gotta make sure Jean doesn't want Jean to die either.

Kevin: fantastic plan but have you fucking met Jean?!

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neil "you know, I get it" josten.

(guess who's so deep in the aftg trenches that I was compelled to draw this by a force beyond my control and comprehension!!)

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something about neil lying instinctively and compulsively when he opens his mouth when under pressure while jean keeps compulsively spilling the truth when under pressure

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That’s it, that’s the whole series.

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neil josten the character that you are. auburn hair and ice blue eyes and a serial killer's smile. the capacity for both extreme cruelty and immense kindness. an honest liar, a brave runaway. someone who is born of two violent, dangerous, immoral people and desperately, desperately doesn't want to be like them (but is a little bit anyway). harsh and brutal and rough around the edges and at the same time so devoted and genuine despite it all. spent his entire life outrunning his past, cutting people loose for his own survival, and was ready to die for the people he called family. never does anything half-hearted (except maybe college, but that's actually completely valid) but throws himself into it and literally puts his life on the line all for the game. bargains for jean's safety and makes an effort to keep him alive and well despite barely knowing him at all. signed his own death warrant by staying at the foxhole court because he wanted to see kevin break free of r*ko and make it to the top (where he belongs). neil josten, who could've been so much more violent and bitter and evil, but remained true and good and would've held onto his integrity and the people he loved till the day that he died. neil josten the character that you are.

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Yall know what I've been up to. Reading the EC all over again always makes everything crash into perspective.

This one makes me appreciate Kevin so much more because we can say he grew up in a cult and that exy was his whole life but that doesn't show us how stuck he was in that environment.

A pet kept underground with a brother that held your leash and the only parental figure a wrathful and unforgiving god. The best pet but always a pet.

That person, that broken person with his teeth pulled managed to stand his ground, walk out of the cage he was in for 11? years and drive himself to safety? To his father?

And grows so much in just over a year? I'm so proud of him.

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Guess what trilogy I finished

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Raven jeaneil would literally yell at eaxhother for the stupidest shit yet still fall asleep in the same bed pissed off at eachother bc the co depedency prevents them from being 2ft from eachother

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I’m back and in aftg hell 😩

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In each other’s gravity