#waiting for tsc2

[allfor-thegames]

Jean Moreau head canons

- he loves traveling to away games.

- he could stare out the window on the bus ride all day long.

- he does not like staying in a hotel room.

- cat buys him a usc snow globe for Christmas. "i know you had something like a collection before. snow globes are easy to collect. maybe this could be a start of a new one."

- when he smiles at the idea, cat and laila get the rest of the trojans to bring him a snow globe back from their christmas breaks. the trojans bring him snow globes from wherever they are from.

- by the end of his first full season with the trojans he as a solid snow globe collection.

- he freckles in the sun.

- he is incredibly gentle with small children.

- after all his time in the nest, his immune system is a little out of date. he gets sick very easily for the first few years.

- his knee and the joints in his hands ache when it rains. he is unsurprised when he is diagnosed with arthritis in his early thirties.

- he can use chopsticks but he isn't great at it.

- he is a very talented artist.

- he has a sketch book. for a while it just sits in his desk. eventually he starts sitting on the porch to draw, out in the sun.

- it becomes something like a journal. he draws his room in the nest. he draws the court at castle evermore. he draws his parents. he draws riko. he draws kevin.

- he draws neil josten finishing his drink in the booth of a thai restaurant while he makes the fbi wait for him to finish. he draws the house. the view out the front window into the yard. portraits of laila and cat. of jeremy. of renee. of david wymack. he draws an open road next to the ocean.

[tigtree]

hey babe sorry i couldn’t make it to our date tonight i thought about jean moreau too hard and got sad

[orange-foxes]

[thewisestdino]

One word from you and I would Jump off of this Ledge I'm on Baby

Tell me "don't" So I can Crawl back in

first love/late spring - Mitski

[d4rkshad0w]

waiting for the day that Jeremy’s “you’re my partner” means something different than what it means right now

[jeanmoreaux]

love it when we received new information. happy birthday jean i guess????

[kevinsdsy]

if i’d write an aftg/trojans fanfiction based on the socmed au, which would be focused on all the trojans in general maybe ?? be honest how weird would y’all think that would be

[laurents-laces]

Dumping my thoughts on the new aftg short stories here to contain all the spoilers in one place, because if I don't get to talk about them I'm gonna explode. Someone very kindly made a typed-up version of them here if anyone wants them!

TFC: David

We all know Neil is "distressingly single-minded about Exy" but I'm dying at the revelation that people in Millport knew this about him. He was supposed to be lying low 😭

Kevinnnnnnnn my boy!!!

"This is better. Easier? Better." Ouch

I had a feeling he was seeing Betsy more often than twice a year! And that we just didn't know about it because Neil didn't. That's amazing for him

Wymack is being such a great dad right now and he doesn't even know it

So excited to have one (1) canonical sentence from Kayleigh Day herself

I was headcanoning Kevin as ten when he moved in with the Moriyamas. I know nine is only a year younger but somehow it's breaking my heart a little more

Awww I always thought he looked just like his mom

I hope he looks a little like Wymack too but no one noticed before

I wonder if he ended up telling Betsy who his dad is? I don't think so but I'm sure she'd have kept the secret. Even though it would've been so hard to keep a straight face about it

"Coaches have no honor. Your word is enough. Just yours." I wanna hit every Raven coach with a very heavy stick, starting with Tetsuji. But I love how Kevin's always trusted that Wymack was different. He can be a surprisingly hopeful person sometimes. He's a little like his dad in how he sees the potential in people no one else does

Am I crazy or is Wymack talking about Andrew here?? Because it reminds me of the part in the extra content where Andrew keeps breaking into Wymack's apartment to rant about Kevin, until one day it's Neil he's more interested in

I always thought that Andrew agreeing to protect Kevin so easily might mean he was kind of into him. If canon unrequited kandrew is gonna be a thing then Andrew and Jean should form a Victims of Kevin Day's Big Green Eyes Support Group

TRK: Betsy

I'm so upset right now I don't even have words

It's so interesting to see what Andrew is like alone with Betsy. And I love that Wymack makes him feel safe

He loves his brother!!

"They cannot keep him. I will not let them." I fully believe Andrew would be down to break Aaron out of prison if he got jail time

"One week Neil had been the subject of some very grandiose conspiracy theories, and the next Andrew had only said 'He's Kevin's problem now, the end!' and refused to elaborate." That's the most Andrew response he could've had 😭

And he was so right about Neil being suspicious as hell! I need everyone to look back on the beginning of the year and realize Andrew was right about him

"Everyone knows now, Bee." My heart just broke into a million pieces

"Neil flinched. He'd pushed because he needed to see that horrible smile crack. He needed to know if Andrew was screaming behind the euphoria his drugs fed his veins. But Andrew wasn't, and Neil couldn't live with that. Andrew's medicine was too strong or his psychosis too twisted; either way, tonight didn't mean anything to him. This was a setback Andrew could sidestep and ignore." That part of TRK really stuck with me. It's a good thing he didn't actually try to act completely unbothered by everything that night but it still hurts to hear about

"I know what happened to you today was beyond cruel and that Drake's death will not undo what he did to you. I know our system has failed you every step along the way and that a part of you will carry that distrust and betrayal for many years to come, if not for the rest of your life. And I know you have done astoundingly well despite life's every attempt to crush you. I'm sorry," she said, trying and failing to catch his eye, "and I'm so, so proud of you." She just said everything I'm feeling, perfectly

Chaos and mayhem, or Blockbuster. These books are so 2006. I miss Blockbuster

TKM: Aaron

This was the first one I read and it took me ages to get through because I was laughing so hard. Aaron calling andreil's matching arm bands a promise ring broke me

He's such an asshole. I love him. He might not like it but he's a Fox through and through

"Exy this, Exy that, get a fucking hobby already. Oh, but I guess he did?" He sent a pointed look at Andrew. He's the funniest character actually

I've always wondered if he was a little jealous of a certain mouthy liar who has everyone wrapped around his little finger. Hearing that Ichirou chose Neil over his own brother must've been a wild experience

I also wondered if he actually had a passion for medicine or if he just picked the most respectable career path he could think of. It's so good to hear that it's really something he loves. He's gonna get his dream job and fix things with his brother and marry the love of his life some day, and I'm so proud of him

Neurosurgeon Aaron and paediatrician Katelyn are properly canon now! It's nice to get all these details from the extra content as part of the actual books

A few months ago, Aaron never would have imagined Andrew needed his approval. Finding out how important he was to Andrew was an ongoing, eye-opening experience. Aaron finally realizing how much Andrew has done because of him might be my favourite thing

"His father's people tore up his arms with a lighter and knives, and none of it is going to fade. He doesn't need to see those." Andrew Minyard you fake idgafer. You care so much. So much.

I wonder what would've happened with andreil if Andrew was in less denial about their relationship? I don't think he'd date someone on purpose while the no-dating deal was still in effect

"Andrew didn't want to talk about Neil with Dobson because once he broached that subject he had to either lie to all of them or admit Neil was more important than he wanted him to be." I love that Aaron understands this about Andrew

I love that the only other Aaron POV story we have also ends with him being able to tell when Andrew is lying to himself. The twinyards have their misunderstandings but at the end of the day they get each other

[avocadohass]

I will be living out my life and suddenly Im like "wow we actually got the trojan/jerejean sequel"

Because for years it was such a crack random thought, a truly hopeless dream because in the main series there were absolutely NO HITS.

It was just a wild manifestation of a bunch of fans that REALLY loved side characters, and I can say it because after reading aftg in 2016 my favorite character was fucking Jeremy, so I know what I'm talking about it okey.

I been in a state of shock since it was announced, and even after I read it, that just now while we wait for the golden raven it just hit me like we actually getting a trojan trilogy A JEREJEAN TRILOGY LIKE????

I remember I found out about jerejean after reading the jean extra content, and thinking that he needed something good in his life and immediately seeing that people ship him with Jeremy, a character who he never interact with in canon but was probably gonna in the future and I was like "that makes so much sense" and this was when there were like barely fics of them

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I cannot believe that saying "the trojan sequel" isn't synonyms of impossible dream anymore

[cabesswtaer]

now that tsc3 is a thing we have to start manifesting a jerejean kiss in tsc2 🙏🙏🙏

[tessasilverswan]

One more kevjean song

"tore my shirt to stop you bleedin'/ but nothin' ever stops you leavin' " is going to haunt me now

[just-a-little-kreature]

[ninyard]

chewing my fingernails off at “four to six months”

[safyresky]

God. Okay. so. I have a few silly like, long form doodle ideas a la the panik jacqueline comic? thing? anyway,

I MAY have put them in order of which ones I like best 🤭🤭🤭 ANYWAY, let's give this ding dang 3-day option a try! :D

[braveveth]

a friend of mine was talking about how she was surprised that jean doesn't seem to have any specific issue with cat/laila/jeremy touching him and it got me thinking that he doesn't really react in any way, negatively or positively. the narration doesn't comment on it besides stating that it is happening. jean doesn't think on it basically at all which is FASCINATING because given all we know about his background it seems pretty safe to assume no one will have ever wrapped their arm around his waist to comfort him, but he doesn't react to cat doing so (which is even more interesting because it happens right after he sees the pat/cody/ananya dynamic and gets worried about cody's space being invaded).

this feels like such an intentional choice, because all that negative space, the not-thinking about it, actually says so much. like he can't think about it - negatively or positively. thinking about it would probably mean a lot of the raven-conditioning popping its head back up, about how it's all sorts of detrimental to his exy game. but it would also mean realising he's never had this, never been allowed the kindness of touch, the comfort of it (except maybe with elodie, her little hand in his). and would probably mean feeling like he doesn't deserve it. thinking about it means maybe realising he wants it - that he shouldn't, but he craves it anyway

[constelationprize]

your quiet out loud snippet has me feral has me foaming at the mouth I need tsc2 to come out so that I can read ur fic lmao !

Raven exposé leading to kevjean ??!!! I’m SAT.

thank you!!!!

quiet out loud is actually going to be compliant only up until TSC1, most likely, because I have the strong suspicion most of the plot beats I want to explore in the fic are going to be brought up in the kevjean reunion, and I want to give them my own spin. So the only thing stoping the world from seeing this fic is that I write reeeeeal slow, and divided through multiple projects.

But I've been trying to write every day in August (to... mixed results) and quiet out loud is one of the projects that came back into rotation for that. So who knows.

And while you sit and wait, here's another snippet:

The Fall of the House of Moriyama by Mia Han In September of 1974, Irish college student Kayleigh Day started a semester abroad in the University of Fukui. A star women's lacrosse player and lover of all sports, she had always been revolted by the higher standard and yet lower pay all female career athletes deal with. Following her suspension from the University of Galway's lacrosse team (the real reason which still remains unconfirmed, but Day's biographer Stephen Jackson points as probably being her involvement on a protest for better funding for the female student's sports clubs, that reportedly turned violent when she broke rugby then-rising star Aidan Kelly's nose, indisposing him for a game that cost the University's team the season), Day went to Fukui in a sort of self-imposed exile as part of a sports exchange program. But she did not have the intention of simply staying away licking her wounds; Kayleigh Day meant to make her own path. Over the course of the next two years, Day would proceed to create, fund and launch a bastard co-ed sport by the name of exy, that approaching its fortieth anniversary, can be confidently stated by both admirers and critics to be here to stay. Along exy's meteoric rise came Kayleigh's own historic career, as she is to this day considered one of the sport's best players. Day was known for her notion of fairness and her exploratory spirit; over her decade-long career, she never stayed in the same team – and often the same country – for more than a season, wanting to teach the sport as far and wide as possible. Her life was tragically cut short in a car accident in May of 1994. When I started this piece, my intent was to open a discussion about Day's legacy, and if her aims of an equal-opportunity sport had truly come to be. And, while that is still certainly something that must be talked about, during the course of my research and interviews, I stumbled upon a much darker, much larger story that puts into question exy's true values.