#All for the Game

[erlie]

*cries in tears* Him. And the tomatoes. Goddamn.

[grechgor]

⭐⭐⭐

[thewisestdino]

Or you’re a dog and I’m your man

[aymmidumps]

me when i'm french and bisexual

[bookish-art1st]

Jean & Cat. I genuinely adore them more than anything.

[theonethatyoudreamof]

Kevin selling Jean to the Trojans like:

[ouijacine]

“Pop. How easily these monsters die in the end.”

[heartstringgs]

pre-tfc , extra content :

the raven king, chapter eight :

the king's men, chapter ten :

the king's men, chapter seventeen :

kandrew [ w/ neil ] + the 2 year quest

[lorasx]

this was a marriage proposal TO ME

[every-name-is-taken-but-this]

ahem-

I could fix him. I could make him worse. Good for you. I could gently take the weapon out of his shaking, blood-soaked hand and hold him until he finally believes that he doesn't have to be defined by all the ways the world has hurt him. Then we could ruin the lives of everyone who has ever treated him like he's a monster who doesn't deserve love.

[andrewminyardslawyer]

I'm super curious so:

It was 2015 for me!

[minyard-05]

ALL FOR THE GAME HITS 20 THOUSAND WORKS ON AO3 LETS FUCKING GOOOO

[fortheloveofexy]

Seeing Andrew from a perspective outside of Neil's is so fascinating because it really demonstrates just how quiet and detached from his surroundings he is. He fades into the background of Jeremy's POV especially, but Jean only notices him a bit more because he cares about Andrew's Exy career and his connection to Kevin and Neil.

Meanwhile when Neil is the narrator, he is sure to inform us of where Andrew is in any given scene and what Andrew is doing. For him, Andrew is the bright spot in every room, and when he is not present Neil feels his absence keenly.

Andrew also actively engages with Neil even when he's not speaking, through eye contact and fidgets and listening when Neil speaks. Pretty much everyone else (apart from Kevin) is ignored. Notice how, for example, the only time Andrew made a point to have a conversation with anyone in California was to ask Jean about Neil getting rid of Grayson.

It's such a brilliant way to show - not tell - how stupidly in love with each other they are.

[harurssh]

“I am Jean Moreau. My place is at Evermore. I will endure.”

[joejhang]

"i hate you" because that's easier than "how can you see right through me when my own family can't? why would you walk through the fire to avoid losing me? why do you keep looking at me like that i'm not your answer, but i want to be? how do you see right through my violence and my blank stares and know that beneath it all i'm just angry and self-destructive? how do you see all of that and still stay and still want to stay? i'm not supposed to care about anyone or anything but you stop when i tell you to, and when i let you, you kiss me senseless. i'm supposed to feel nothing but this was your last hurrah and you were hanging on by a thread and you had nothing but you chose, you chose to lean on me. and everyone called me a monster and a sociopath but you trusted me enough to spend the last year of your life here. with us, with me. you were supposed to be a side effect of the drugs, you weren't supposed to be real, you are impossible, because you make me feel and when you were gone i felt fear for the first time in years and i wanted to tear apart the world to find you again, and i couldn't even fall back on the deal we made because you dissolved it just in time. i had no excuse, i just felt like i was free-falling because of you. it was meant to be just hate sex but i knew it never was it never could've been for me, because you saw me and you understood me and you stayed with me and-"