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"Kandrew isn't real-" have you 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 how Kevin reacts the moment Andrew says his name?

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Andrew Minyard

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PSU Foxes

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"Do I need to get a rabies shot, Josten?", Kevin demanded, unsuccessfully trying to wrap the bandages around the scratches single-handedly before Aaron took pity on him and stepped in to help.

"Sir doesn't have rabies." Neil sounded almost offended on his cat's behalf. "She just has trust issues, she's a stray. She does that to everyone."

"Not everyone", Kevin said sourly, looking over at where Sir had stopped hissing at him and was instead trying to drape herself over Andrew's shoulders in a poor imitation of an extremely furry scarf, purring all the while. Neil looked over, his face softening as he smiled slightly.

"Yeah King does that too", Neil said. "For some reason every stray we take in loves Andrew."

Aaron snorted and gave Neil a pointed look.

"Really? You don't say."

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Pride month may be over but we stay gay.

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if im allowed to be so fucking real i dont think kayleigh is particularly fully innocent regarding tetsuji and the moriyamas and i don’t think she’s particularly fully on board and evil about it either. if we’re to judge her by her offspring kayleigh most likely knew a little bit about how bad tetsuji was but knew she had to make a choice between her ambitions and fulfilling her role as a mother, and she chose kevin when she could and exy when she couldn’t. it’s the same morality applied to whether she was evil or not to hide from wymack that he is kevin’s father—she had to make a choice between her responsibilities as a mother and her career, and she chose her career. consistently and all across kayleigh has put exy first and foremost, and that’s exactly in line with what we would expect from kevin’s mother, especially when you take in consideration that exy was her life’s work and everyone around her was constantly trying to find a way to demote her out of it so that exy could belong solely to her male counterpart

if we can put our thinking hats on for a second we can ask ourselves why tetsuji was handed a coach role and his own team when kayleigh was relegated to being an ambassador instead. a lot of us assume it was moriyama madness, but the moriyamas, famously, wanted nothing to do with exy up until the point kengo died. if kayleigh went through with the decision of putting exy in the backlog for motherhood, she would have been pushed out of the scene entirely—she would have been kevin’s mother, yes, but allowed to be nothing else. perhaps her decisions were selfish and egoistical and focused solely on her own ambitions, but isn’t that pretty in line with what we expect from kevin, anyway? the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree for a reason

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I personally find Renee to be a fascinating character.

“I’m a bad person trying really hard to be a good person.”

A bad person wouldn’t instinctively throw themselves in front of an enraged Andrew to protect their friend. A bad person wouldn’t drive eight hours through the night into basically yakuza territory to rescue a boy she barely knows.

Renee, if Andrew was only interested in the person you were before, he wouldn’t spend all his spare time at practice with you. The two of you wouldn’t be constantly referred to as a collective. You wouldn’t be one of only two people he allows to drive the maz, MUCH LESS hand the key over to you in the middle of the night without even asking for an explanation. You wouldn’t be literally the only person on the team—including his family & Bee—he’d come out to. You wouldn’t be the only person on the team he listens to before Neil came along. And he certainly wouldn’t trust you with so much if you were a bad person.

We don’t get that much insight into Renee in the series but she truly doesn’t see that she’s a good person at heart. Despite everything she’s done that’s to the contrary. Despite the fact that even wanting to be better makes you a better person. And I think she believes (at least at first) that Andrew is only interested in her past and that he doesn’t like her as a person bc who would ever like a bad person?

There’s just so much more to Renee that breaks my heart and that I probably spend way too much time thinking about.

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Things that don't revoke your lesbian card :-

- Having had past romantic/sexual relationships with men

Things that 𝘥𝘰 revoke your lesbian card :-

- Not liking Hozier

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“You lied to me”

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Spring championships 2006-2007

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The Foxhole Court Thoughts

My favorite thing about the All For the Game series is how like… no one understands Andrew. They go on and on about how Andrew just does things that doesn’t make sense and he does unforgivable, senseless, violent things

and then Neil comes along. Neil whose mother beat him to keep him alive, who in her own violent way loved him even if it made him hate her and traumatized him, who couldn’t afford to be gentle even if she had the capacity for it. 

He knows violence as an act of affection and protection when he sees it.

He recognizes that when Andrew kills Tilda, it wasn’t for himself because Andrew accepts violence towards himself as a normal part of his life and he could care less. It was to protect Aaron, his brother. He realizes that when Andrew tells Aaron to “Fuck off” when they first find each other, it wasn’t for any other reason but that Andrew was willing to suffer alone to keep Aaron safe from Drake’s abuse. Andrew goes back with Aaron to Tilda’s home where he knows that he isn’t wanted, that he’s hated even, to protect him from her heavy hand. Aaron, who was only ever hit out of resentment rather than survival, can’t understand that level of caring. 

He can see that when Andrew beats strangers for assaulting his cousin, it wasn’t to protect his own sexual identity, it was to protect his cousin, his family, even if he doesn’t believe in blood relatives. Nicky, who was never hit by his parents (that we know of, at least), whose familial abuse was verbal and psychological and emotional rather than physical, knows that Andrew was protecting him but didn’t see it as anything more than Andrew being territorial, of protecting his things rather than protecting someone he cares about because, let’s be real, Andrew would not tolerate Nicky or protect him if he didn’t care about him; if they had had a deal like Aaron or Kevin or Neil, I’m sure we would have known about it. He may be a complete asshole to Nicky and treated him like he was an outsider, but I don’t remember reading any part of their relationship as some kind of deal. 

If Nicky was anyone else, Andrew would hate him but Nicky moved all the way back from Germany where he was loved and happy and alive to help Andrew and Andrew, although he doesn’t show it, has accepted Nicky as family and cares for him. Andrew cares about Nicky because Nicky cared about him first, after Cass, Nicky was the first one to treat Andrew like he was family and care about him regardless of how broken he was. Yes, he pulls a knife on Nicky when he’s hitting on Neil and although that was probably because of Aaron’s comment about rape or that he himself found Neil attractive, I think part of it was Andrew’s distrust of Neil in the beginning, that he didn’t know if Neil was dangerous. He didn’t want Nicky to get too comfortable around someone he didn’t trust. 

but Neil

Neil sees Andrew’s fathomless rage and loss of control after Baltimore and he sees his threats, and very clear warnings of “Get away from us” as he is supposed to: Andrew, despite what he says, cares about a very few select people and he will do anything and everything to protect them no matter what it costs him, and no matter how much it could hurt him because his own pain is irrelevant. Neil understands why Andrew is violent, he understands that it isn’t senseless, that it isn’t to hurt Neil or Nicky or Aaron or Kevin, it’s to protect. Andrew’s violence makes perfect sense to him and it is the only way he can show how he feels because he’s been so broken so many times that all that is left is a the violence he needs to protect. It isn’t until Neil that Andrew has another way to show that he cares, a new way only for him: kisses and touches and keys, and of course trust. 

Neil understands Andrew which is why he can get Andrew to back down and give ground when he needs to and it’s also why Andrew let’s him, it’s why Andrew let’s him in and why it’s okay to be quasi-intimate with Neil. It’s why they work. For the first time violent affection doesn’t leave scars on Neil’s skin and for the first time someone understands Andrew enough that he doesn’t have to explain himself. 

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The three words “take care of” mean wildly different things from different aftg characters

Neil - “take care of” (threat)

Andrew - “take care of” (promise)

Kevin - “take care of” (requirement)

Jean - “take care of” (duty)

Jeremy - “take care of” (need)

wymack - “take care of” (reassurance)

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The Holy Trinity

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Kandreil details

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no matter what the funniest thing about the perfect court is always that for both riko and jean their entire support system was kevin day. we are master and pet and you have tortured me in ways i cannot admit to myself let alone others but the only person in the world who gives a damn about you is the only person in the world who gives a damn about me. twinsies?

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Someone draw this painting as kevin and riko PLEASE.

For context im pretty sure they were both twins whos uncle wanted to rule and had to kill them in order to get what he wanted