#kengo moriyama

[allfortheslay25]

wait I need to check something draw Nathan wesninski again I need to check something

Does this count?

Scarlet Wedding Goretober wip (based on the Unequal Marriage by Vasili Pukirev)

[noirsloth]

Me: celebrating the confirmation of the trilogy

Also me: quietly hoping that Nora is ready to burn the Moriyama empire to the ground on the next 2 books

[fortheloveofexy]

You're a son, a firstborn, a child of wealth and privilege, and although you know you should love him, your father is not a good man. You know his cruelty as well as you know his favor, his sadism as well as his pride. He raised you, molded you for a singular purpose: to continue his legacy of violence and control. This is to be your inheritance, your birthright, your burden.

You never asked for any of it. What you want has never mattered.

You have a brother, or so you are told. His name is muttered like a shameful secret, a whispered curse your father refuses to acknowledge. You know better than to ask after him; he was a forbidden second son, an errant growth that should have long since been trimmed. A liability. Worthless.

Your mother died bringing that brother into this world, and not a day passes that you don't wish she'd been the one to survive, and your so-called brother had died instead. You do not remember her, beyond the faint understanding that she loved you. Maybe, if she had survived, she could have shielded you from your father's worst impulses. Maybe she'd have given you a choice.

Maybe we could have run.

Years at your father's side have taught you this: to fail him is to die. To succeed is to survive. So you strive for his acceptance, his approval. Maybe, once you're in power, you can finally choose your own path. Maybe you can finally live the life you want.

And through all the bloodshed and the murder and the hardening of your heart, you somehow earn it. On his deathbed, your father passes his empire to you, along with his title.

Lord Moriyama.

It is only then that you learn this final lesson: power is not the same thing as freedom.

[cultpastorkevin]

IM YODELING NORA WHAT

[sunriseabram]

Yes. Riko was an abuser. Nobody can deny that he hurt, sexually abused and tormented people physically and emotionally.

Yes. Riko was abused. He was hit by Tetsuji when he got things wrong, conditioned to believe that he had to be the best or his life wasn't worth living. He was abandoned by his father because he was second born, ignored by his big brother, and not even congratulated after he tried everything to gain their approval.

Yes. He hurt Jean out of anger. He used Jean as an object because that is all he had ever been to his father and family. He was a way to make money, but his father never saw him as anything more than that. It allowed him to feel powerful and in control of someone when everything else in his life was out of his control.

Yes. He flips after his father dies. Of course, he does. When you've worked your entire life to be acknowledged, spending thousands upon thousands of hours training to win, winning trophies, doing sponsorships, raising great chunks of money for the family, only for your father to die before even showing an ounce of pride for you? Of course, he flips. Jean just happens to be there, someone he knows he can hurt and get away with. Someone less than him at the bottom of the food chain. Perhaps the only person who sees the anger for what it truly is: failure. And Riko doesn't like that.

Yes. He hurt Kevin out of jealousy. Riko grew up in a world where failure was unacceptable. Failure meant pain, death and suffering. Exy was all Riko had and all he ever had. He couldn't stand to be second best because second best is all he had ever been. He would not be second in the one thing he was meant to be the king of. He hurt Kevin out of jealousy, and was beaten to an inch of his life for it.

Yes. He grew up sheltered. Riko was groomed to be a star by Tetsuji. He was groomed and exploited for money by the only person who had ever looked at him and seen something. He lost his mother. His father didn't care about him. He had nobody. He lived underground in the nest for most of his life and played exy every single day for most of his childhood. He probably had no friends his own age until Kevin came along. There was nobody who understood what Riko was going through.

Yes. Riko hurt Andrew. He had Andrew hurt as another power trip. It was to show he had great power and could do what he wanted with it. He had no boundaries. Throughout the series, Riko is shown to be insecure. He craves power and acknowledgement and wants to prove he has a place in the mafia family next to his brother.

Yes. Riko is more complex than a simple villain. He is self-destructive and works to the bone to try and be worth something. He uses anger to cover up his blatant abandonment issues. He is never and will never be enough. And if he can't be enough, then nobody else can. Nobody can take his place.

He is scared of Kevin, frightened of Neil, terrified of Andrew. He is constantly trying to stop his precarious tower from tumbling in the only way he knows how.

If all his mistakes were punished with pain, disappointment and anger, how can he know any different? He doesn't know the world really and hasn't experienced it outside his little box of stardom. He doesn't know what is 'normal.' For him, failing means getting beaten. Failure means losing his status. Failing means falling from power. It always has.

No. Just because Riko was abused and groomed does not mean that his abusive behaviours were justified. He chose to become an abuser, despite everything he had suffered.

No. He wasn't born evil. He is horrible - don't get me wrong - but he shouldn't just be cast off as coming out of the womb with horns and a tail. He was shaped by his experiences, negative and positive. We all are.

Riko thought beating people into submission would show his power and prove his worth to his family. In the end, it resulted in his downfall.

[capcavan]

Parasocial Relationship

[siriusblackisdead]

Kevin literally learned french for Jean. If anyone ever tells me that Kevjean isnt real im gonna commit.

[the-inner-musings-of-a-worm]

give me kardashian family drama between all the adult mafia people in their 20's. i'm talking, nathan, mary, kayleigh, stuart, even the moriyamas. there's a big mafia wedding and mary and kayleigh are drunk and close to fistfighting. the irish v british genes are strong. nathan is trying to torture someone but stuart keeps insisting his interrogation methods are better. kayleigh called mary a british cunt so mary spread the rumor that kayleigh slept with kengo. kengo is annoyed bc nathan got blood on the carpet and it's his cousins wedding. they're one big murder mafia friend group who all hate each other.

[scholliski]

do you think anyone ever starts making connections between Kayleigh’s car crash and tetsuji? I can’t imagine that no questions are raised once he is fired for abuse and running a cult years after his best friend happens to die in a car accident that leaves the exy fortune and Kevin day solely to him…

[rosalinesurvived]

Its being insane over Riko Moriyama hours. Guys, he wasn’t even murdered because he was an abuser. The whooole establishing reason for Kevin leaving and kickstarting the Foxes against the Ravens was because Riko was an abusive fuck and they didn’t even kill Riko for that reason. He was killed because as the Ravens lost, Kevin and Jean left, Riko ultimately became a dangerous liability. They killed him because he became worthless to them.

In the end, after all of that, Riko doesnt die as an abuser. He dies because he’s an abused child nobody cares about enough to keep. Again, a pet, a golden goose, nearly a similar thing to what Riko saw Jean and Kevin as, only with the twisted emotions removed.

Riko’s death being ruled a suicide cements it. The coronors were manipulated by the Yakuza. The public know nothing. He was murdered by his older cousin and nobody cared. The true masterminds behind most of it–Kengo, Tetsuji, Ichirou, they get away with it.

[broken-heart-raven-queen]

You know what I'm thinking about now??

Kayleigh Day and her ties with the Moriyama mafia. Because there's no way that she just met Tetsuji one day and created a sport that became famous world wide and it was pure luck.

I bet se was into some sketchy business too and maybe Wymack knew about this... ohhh the posibilities.

[noirsloth]

I can imagine how at some point Nathan Wesninski kidnapped some poor writer and made them write down his biography. Did they publish it as fiction after his death? Or they had guts and pull out real names and shit? Have they waited for a trial to add details from Neil? Have they published it purely from their perspective as a kidnapped victim? Or have they played a card of a villain that was misunderstood? Did Nathan tell them about Moriyama?

Yeah, maybe he’s lost a leg or something, but at least he’s set for life with the money from this book adaptation.

[leroiestmortvivelareine]

Kengo Moriyama / Tetsuji at his worst.

The part of Tetsuji that pines over Kayleigh is Kozo Fuyutsuki.

And perhaps Kevin is a little like Rei… incomplete, as though his soul is split and part of it is elsewhere.

But I can’t rid myself of the conviction that every member of the Perfect Court is a splintered facet of Gendo Ikari’s son, the most lost of all lost boys

[hatfordheadquarters]

y’all hear me out, idk if it’s just me, but sometimes when i see geto suguru my brain goes ICHIROU MORIYAMA‼️

(picture from @ dessrius on instagram)

[wolf-saint]

The Curse of the Moriyama Family

In another novel, our protagonist is a young woman. Married off to the Moriyama clan, she lives a solitary life, trapped before she could run away. Her husband Kengo does not kiss her; he does not have dinner with her. Her only company are her bodyguards... Until she has her first son: Ichirou Moriyama.

Part of her wishes that he was never born. For when he is birthed, it is Kengo who holds him. It is Kengo who does not give him back. Her heart screams when she realises. Ichirou's last embrace from his mother was in the womb. Even his name has no trace of her. He is branded as what he is: Kengo's first son. Kengo's heir. He never sees her again.

Her loneliness prevails; every day seems meaningless. The sliver of intimacy she gets is when Kengo is tired and has to rest in their apartment. Knowing he is in the building is more warmth than she gets from him in a year. It cannot be said what changed if it is Kengo's pale complexion, the dullness of the season, the tension in the main branch... Except that one evening, her husband joins her in her room, a chessboard set up in front of the fire and an empty chair.

It's a small stroke of fire; it burns slowly. When Kengo is not home, she resigns herself to watching television. Her brother-in-law has amassed a following for a new sport; they call it Exy. Her husband laughs at it but she sees the stubborn glint in the Tetsuji's friend's eye. Kayleigh Day says that Exy is the future; she believes it.

It is a mistake, in retrospect, for her to forget the cruelty of the Moriyamas. But she has become so cold. Kengo is the only sun she gets, the warmth that makes her days bearable. He kisses her sweetly and for a night she believes he is just a man. A man who cares for her. She forgets the unkindness of Moriyama men; she wakes up alone.

Many moons later, her hands drip blood onto the ivory tile, her mirror smashed into thousands of pieces - morning sickness. She knows where this is going.

It isn't worth screaming over: Kengo tells her that she cannot have her baby. His empire does not need a second son. Her tears trail down her face; her lip quivers at how he says the words. Cutthroat. Like her baby can be discarded. As if she won't feel the pain of him being taken away. Flashes of her first birth stab her heart over and over again. Her knees buckle to the floor and all she can do is beg. His face remains unchanged.

It is the night of her surgery, she sits in her bathroom, hugging her wrists and staring down the blade. She cannot lose another child; she feels like she may die. Her hands shake as she tries to psych herself up to the task, to pick up the sharp knife. The fluorescent lights drown her vision, tears flood her face... It reminds her of her wedding night, when she tried to escape through the venue's back window, crawl out the bathroom and run to god knows where-

-Her hand stills.

Motels are hard to come by, her racing heart hates the lack of exits in hotels, and nobody seems trustworthy... She finds it easier to sleep in back alleys. The lack of rest and food makes it so she has not grown too big and a kind stranger lent her a large duffel coat to keep away the cold (it swallows the signs of her belly). Money has been hard to come by and she cannot get on another bus. She hopes not to give birth soon.

Having a fever is not the worst part of giving birth, but it does not make it any less unbearable. It is a laborious process, and after it is done, she passes out, but not before sneaking a glance at her new baby. Wrapped in her old clothes and flushed with winter's cold, he lets out a soft cry. She hugs him tight, shielding him from the harsh winds, before her vision bleeds black at the edges and she hears the gasps of crowding strangers.

When her eyes burst open, the sterile walls of the hospital and a hand on her arm made her realise that it was not death who was speaking to her. Kengo was stroking her skin, muttering a prayer above her before his eyes met hers. Wet with tears. Wet because he was mourning. Later, the nurse hands her son, and her husband gives her that same remorseful gaze. Straight through her. Like a ghost.

"Jiro sleeps well," he whispers. He has an eerie smile on his skin, one that she wishes she could claw. Jiro. Second son. Her heart burns; her fingers clench.

"His name is not Jiro."

It is the first time she sees Kengo's mask slip from his face. It makes her death almost worth it.

Kengo's right-hand man is a hideous beast: Nathan Wesninski. Many men have been tortured by his knife, squealing like pigs. Under the Baltimore Butcher, death is welcomed eagerly. She peers up at him, and she can't help but shudder under his pale blue eyes.

From the beginning, she never expected a good life. Death always loomed over her. But in this moment, she waits, finally ready to accept it. Her husband sits in the chair furthest from the crime scene, cigarette puffing grey clouds from his lips as he avoids her hardened stare.

"You never told me what our son is to be called, Riko," he calls out, "I will give you that... before your death."

There is not much time to research baby names while on the run from the mafia. Her baby's health and survival always seemed to be the bigger priority. Now, she is at the guillotine. It is time for her baby to be taken from her once again.

Riko knows that it is a small price to pay- her life in exchange for her baby's. Unlike her firstborn, he will never be held by Kengo. Her husband has told her that he is to be discarded - left to his brother. Tetsuji will raise her son in Castle Evermore, the nest for tomorrow's Exy prodigies. Kayleigh Day's smile flickers in her mind. It is news that lets Riko be at peace.

Yet, here, she has unfinished business. The chance to do what she could never do before. Her baby will always hold a trace of her.

Riko can finally run away.

(A:N: This is me trying to avoid working on my WIP,,, Just straight up writing then posting,,, less structured than I'd like but GOD the idea of this unnamed character was so intriguing!!! The mafia side of AFTG ....)