#Kevin day deserves better

[aftgphoenix]

I need Kevin to make friends who don’t care about exy/ think it’s cool but aren’t sports fans. I need Kevin to be told that his knowledge of history is so cool and really fascinating and “Kevin, can you tell me more about that one ancient civilization you mentioned earlier?” I need Kevin to be told that he’s worth so much more than his exy skill. I need Kevin to know that he is enough and worth something even without exy.

[dqmens]

every time someone calls kevin day a coward my eye starts twitching

kevin spent his WHOLE LIFE being abused and mistreated. It is totally understandable that he doesn’t want to talk back or speak up when it comes to riko and the ravens. It’s been ingrained in him for so long that he’s number 2. Those feelings and that training doesn’t just go away because he physically went away.

People will bring up the fact that Neil stood up to riko BUT YOU CANT COMPARE THAT AT ALL

[sethisonendgame]

⚠️TSC SPOILERS⚠️

I can’t get over this part on page 290 of TSC right after Grayson’s attack:

“Jeremy’s response was low but unhesitating: ‘I will not look away.’

‘I do not want you to look.’ It frightened him how much it sounded like a lie…”

Because Jean wants Jeremy to look!! He subconsciously wants him to notice somethings wrong! The same way he wanted Renee to text him, the same way he agreed to teach Kevin French and made him that promise, the same way he wants Jeremy to look because he believed and believes they’d save him!!!

[zephyrine-gale]

Farewell, hero Welcome home

[blablablabla-ur-mom]

One thing I HATE is when people portray andrew as this unfeeling monster who doesn't care about anyone or anything. Like this is the same guy that has to wear long armbands to cover up all his scars. This is the same guy that beat up three grown-ass men, almost to death, because they wanted to hurt nicky. This is the same guy who killed his own mother because she wouldn't stop hurting aaron. The same guy who stocked a bathroom full of canned food and locked his brother in it so he could come off his drugs. This is the same guy that got matt to swear off drugs forever. This is the same guy that when he was being assaulted, first asked his brother if he was hurt. Just because he doesn't display his emotions, doesn't mean he doesn't feel. Yes, he has done shitty things, yes he does regularly threaten and attack his teammates. Whenever he does said shitty things however, its when he feels the people he is trying to protect are being threatened.

This man cares too much.

[cloud-hymn]

People that hate Nicky for what happened during the first Eden’s scene in tfc but say nothing about Andrew really drive me up the wall. Like personally I choose not to acknowledge that scene as canon but if you’re gonna call Nicky an evil monster for kissing Neil, maybe hold the same energy for Andrew who not only horrifically violated Neil’s consent and autonomy by drugging him but then didn’t even bother making sure nothing happened to him while he was high out of his mind in the middle of a fucking night club. Like genuinely the whole scene is horrific and so fundamentally misrepresents both Andrew and Nicky as characters but people are so hypocritical about it that it makes me feel crazy.

[ohfallingdisco]

We all know how Kevthea has no chemistry at all, right? Not a single interaction that reads as romantic partners?

How they got together Thea’s senior year, before she moved away and into the grasp of the Moriyamas at large? How they both grew up in a terrible place, where Jean, at least—a mutual friend/ally—was forced to do unspeakable things in the name of punishment? Jean, whose best friend/situationship was Kevin “it’s easier to remain heterosexual” Day? Who found magnets to send back to Jean, who stored them away over the years until they became childhood keepsakes. You know, Kevin couldn’t have purchased very many things on these trips. He was with Riko. I bet the magnet was it, most of the time.

I don’t think Kevin and Thea were ever actually together, romantically. I think they’re a beard couple, a hetero-alliance formed in a bad time.

[wherethemothsgrow]

I love the little details that remind you just how young they all are. Vodka and takeout box paired with a drawer full of cheese in their probably messy dorm room. The silverware drawer is just full of candy 😭 they really are just youngsters. I’m crying

[deprivedofbraincellsandsleep]

It sucks how Neil got more sympathy for being at the Nest and evermore for 2 weeks than Kevin who was there for most of his life

[astridsbirdskulls]

Thinking about how the monsters and upperclassmen thought Kevin was completely insufferable cause all he would talk about at exy, but then every time he tried to talk about anything else (probably history) he got shut down

[lizardson]

god i wish I posted on tiktok because the need to make one of those "do you feel ashamed / when you hear my name" videos about kevin and jean is overwhelming

[ineedibuprofen]

im thinking about the aftermath of drake and andrew and im thinking of andrew being sent to the hospital and im thinking of neil stepping up and telling kevin andrew was more important than exy and going downstairs to get their delivery food and saying up until everyone fell asleep and making sure everyone is okay and sleeping with his back against the wall to watch the door and make sure his teammates are okay because he's learning to care for other people and he cares about them and he's not nathaniel anymore

[dqmens]

Kevin’s vision starts to blur. For a second, just a second, he swears he can see Riko. Can hear his cruel laughter. Can feel his hands.

He finally takes a breath though, and things start clearing up around him. He wonders why it took so long, and so many people to get Riko Andrew off of him.

Kevin trusted Andrew. Just like he trusted Riko. Look where that got him. With fingerprint marks that’ll probably stay for a week. At least these aren’t permanent like the ones on his hand.

Andrew looks at him with something like betrayal in his eyes. How ironic. Kevin thought he was doing the right thing. He thought he was protecting Neil.

He NEEDS to get away from his… what is Andrew anymore? A friend, protector, someone to be trusted? He wants to get away from his so called “family”. They’re all looking at Kevin like he stole Neil. Like this is his fault.

He tries to speak, but his throat is scratchy and his voice doesn’t sound right. No one can hear him. Kevin realizes he’s trying to make himself smaller. Small and quiet on the ground surrounded by strangers.

[jeanmoreauirl]

CW: religious trauma and referenced SA (never described)

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Jean Moreau being raised Catholic.

Even after being brought to the nest he didn’t loose his faith. It got hard some days when he was tired, so tired but some days it was all that kept him going.

He prayed almost every night, wishing for something to change, for things to get better, for his family to come back for him. He never lost his belief through it all.

Until he was 16 (iykyk) and everything changed. He cursed a God he believed in but felt abandoned by.

He swore he’d never ask God for anything ever again. And he doesn’t.

Until Kevin leaves.

Every single night after that he finds himself begging a God he isn’t sure he believes in anymore to protect him.

To just keep Kevin safe, to let Kevin heal and for him to be happy.

Jean isn’t sure he will ever trust in God again but he begs the heavens anyways. Pleads that if anyone is listening they’ll watch out for the man he loves. He can’t ask for salvation anymore but he can pray for the people he cares about.

[hmmm-shesucks]

What Was I Made For by Billie Eilish is about Kevin Day and you can not change my mind.

“I used to float, now I just fall down.

I used to know, but I’m not sure now.

What was I made for?”

Right after Riko smashed his hand and he couldn’t play the game he was literally born to play.

“Look so alive, turns out I’m not real.

Just something you paid for.”

The press smile? Being owned my the Moriyamas? Any public appearance ever.

“Cause I don’t know how to feel,

But I wanna try.”

Him doing his best to be different with the foxes. Handling them with more care than Riko did with him. Putting their health and well-being first.

“When did it end?

All the enjoyment?

I’m sad again

don’t tell my boyfriend

It’s not what he’s made for

What was I made for?”

The boyfriend being the foxes, and Kevin hiding or simply just ignoring his own feelings and traumas so he doesn’t burden them. So he doesn’t distract them from Exy. So he doesn’t hurt them. Even when he wakes up and feels like throwing up at just the idea of holding a stick, at stepping on the court, at becoming Riko, Kevin loves, will always love, Exy, but it is the source of all of his trauma and that will always make him sad.

“Cause I don't know how to feel

But I wanna try

I don't know how to feel

But someday I might

Someday I might”

Changing his tattoo. Taking Exy back and making it his own. Becoming the Queen rather than Rikos number two. Becoming Kevin Day on his own.

“Think I forgot how to be happy

Something I'm not, but something I can be

Something I wait for

Something I'm made for”

After Riko dies. Making things right with Jean. Watching Neil heal. Not relying on Andrew for everything. Finding a life outside of Exy. Having a relationship with Wymack. Finding himself. Being himself. Getting sober.

Kevin's Day learning how to be happy. One day at a time.

[evenfallwriter]

Kevin Day Appreciation Post

Okay, okay, so I realised something about Kevin Day a while back and needed to get it out. (TW; mentions of the Nest, Nest's teaching methods, Tetsuji Moriyama, Riko Moriyama, child abuse)

Kevin is not appreciated enough by the fandom or the foxes? Like, he is a fricking genius, probably the best player- no def the best exy player to ever exist.

He is beaten and his hand is broken so badly by Riko, who he saw as his brother for years and he still manages to relearn how to play with his other hand before once again picking up the racquet with his healed hand. He wins against Riko in that state- and imagine how good he must just have been before that, if he can win against Riko in that state.

He fears Tetsuji Moriyama to the point that he can't say no, if the man ever asked him to come back. Kevin fears him to that degree- he has been abused by him and Riko in the past for a such a long time that he is afraid of saying no. When Neil coms back, he says that he knows that it must have been worse for Neil, but that he can still talk to him if he ever needed to.

Kevin, who is literally allergic to human interactions tells Neil that he can always talk to him.

Kevin, who knows who Neil is, doesn't tell Andrew a thing- and when he realizes that Neil won't make it he still tells him that he will train with him every single night.

"You will be court." becomes "You should have been court." so so quickly.

Kevin, who believed in Neil before all of the others, continues to go to the court with him every single night.

Kevin contacts Jeremy, and asks him to take Jean and let him join the Trojans. he isn't scared for himself when he tells Neil that he should run, or to Jean that he should go back- no, I think that he is scared of what might end up happening to them in the long run.

I wonder, if he was ever planning on telling Coach that he was his son, because he only does when Neil makes him to do so. Just imagine, your coach (-who also happens to be your father who doesn't know that he is your father yet) sitting in front of you and literally threatening your contract. Maybe Wymack was exaggerating, maybe he was just saying things, but did Kevin know this? Is Kevin ever really gonna be able to see Wymack as his father and not his coach?

Tetsuji makes Neil kneel in front of him- did he ever make Kevin kneel? Did Kevin have a messed up mindset of how teams and their coaches were supposed to be and was so confused by the foxes and their behavior? Did he ever kneel in front of Wymack? Did he ever think that Wymack was going to hit him? Did he ever cower away from Dan?

Did he ever panic to the point of passing out after being left alone in a room for a long time because they were supposed to be in pairs, because he had thought that he had missed practice? that RIko had left him? that he had to get up but it hurt so much?

Why did he gain an alcohol addiction in the first place?

Gosh, just, my heart goes to both of the raven boys along with Neil and I can't explain how much it hurts to even think of these things.

I really hate Kayleigh Day, probably almost as much as I hate Tilda Minyard and Mary Hatford (but not as much as I hate Luther and Nathan- oh my god.)

Stephanie Walker, Randy Boyd, David Wymack, Cass Spear, Abby Winfield and Betsy Dobson- we don't need any other adults to intrude in the lives of our Foxes. (Oh, and also probably Stuart)

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk