#kevriko

[dayurno]

a hot take i think but i actually love the fact that kevin mourned riko. i actually think it's charming and important and entirely in line with aftg's message. i'm sorry if you can't see the ever-growing and all-consuming light of kevin day's ability to forgive and humanize but to me he is the best person in the history of the universe. and you can tell him i said that

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[yes-i-exist-shutup]

Do you think it ever scares Kevin?

Just how much he is like Riko. How similarly fucked up he is.

Does he ever secretly feels guilty? For not caring for Seth's death, for not caring about anyone's pain or injuries outside the court, for how blatantly rude he is to all his teammates.

Does he ever look at all the rough parts of himself, and see Riko? Does he feel ashamed?

[capcavan]

Kevin day kept his hair long only for is brother.

Kevin day with long hair looks like his mother who was the only other person kind to Riko this is why he was so obsessed with it

[prostolita]

I can write a lot of nice things. Just choose a pair.

5 I accidentally wrote the answer in Russian, Kevin/Rico is there

[noomyart]

Softer days at the nest

[aftg-ho]

"Riko, I know you're awake." For all the words were confident, Kevin's voice was a plea. Plaintive, soft, an exact replica of the way he used to beg Riko to stop. If only Riko had known then what he knew now, how much deeper he could twist a knife when it was metaphorical, how easily Kevin would forgive him for that kind of transgression.

He was tired, though he could not sleep, so he continued to ignore Kevin. One day Riko would convince himself he was stone again, as sharp and cold and unbreakable as he had believed himself at 16. He would be glad then to have excised the weakness Kevin inspired.

But Kevin was not done. He peeled back the coverlet, cool air prickling against the back of Riko's neck until Kevin replaced the blanket with himself. He draped himself across Riko's back and tucked an arm over his waist. They did not fit together the way they had before. Kevin hit his growth spurt at 13, long after Riko exerted his cruelty and driven away any comfort Kevin once spared.

Not that Kevin had often risked such care. It was dangerous if they were caught, more dangerous to suggest Riko deserved comfort. Every beating was supposed to be a lesson learned. His uncle had dislocated his shoulder after Riko failed to score in their very first match against the full might of the Raven team. That night, Kevin had tucked up behind him just like this, keeping him from rolling onto the injury in his restless sleep. But what Riko most remembered was the angry muttering Kevin could not silence. It poured out of him--it's not fair--a litany against the Master--how are you supposed to play better injured--and the Ravens they had gone up against--you're ninety pounds, of course a six foot backliner stopped you--but not a single word about how Riko should have done better. For one night, maybe Riko had believed he didn't need to be better. They'd been a pair and it was them against everyone else in the whole world.

But it was not enough for them to survive. Eventually, Kevin had subsumed himself to the Master's will and no words against him were ever spoken aloud again. And Riko had descended into the vagaries of physical power to insulate himself from the mental spiraling, turning on Kevin as much as he turned on the rest of the Ravens. A deeper betrayal against a deeper bond.

And yet, here Kevin was again. Despite it all, Kevin still wanted more, wanted now. Riko could no longer call it pathetic when he himself had come crawling back, asking for forgiveness after twelve years of misery. 

Riko only realized he was shaking when Kevin's arm tightened around him. There should be nothing for either of them here. Just a gaping pit of despair, dug deeper with every action. Riko was not blase enough to call them mistakes. He had known what he was doing and accomplished it well. 

"How?" he finally croaked out.

Kevin did not need him to explain. His voice was a whisper as he responded, "I don't know. I don't- How can you look at Nathaniel?"

Riko shook his head. "It's not the same, I'm not-"

"It is. It's all..." Maybe the trembling was not all Riko. "He's a monster and you're a monster and so is Jean every chance he gets and I-" Laughter bubbled out of him on the edge of hysteria. "How am I supposed to want anything else? When did I learn better than you?"

[fandomnerd101]

I think when Riko was having a shit day he’d put in one of Kevin’s old jerseys

@capcavan

[riko-polls-exist-shutup]

[tara-the-star]

Ship bingo

Kevriko

i genuinely cannot see them together romantically because of how intricate and complex their canon relationship is. i know i marked them as platonic, but that's such a mild term for it. like they grew up with each other, couldn't leave the other's side, they were brothers destined to be stars. yes there definitely was a fucked up aspect of their bond (re: the master/pet thing), but even then they couldn't live without each other. (up until kevin's injury at least).

tbh id love to read something exploring their relationship that didn't paint riko to be a one-dimensionally evil character but alas.

ask game!

[dayurno]

I dont want you to get burned at the stake like a medieval witch. But. Do you mind elaborating on your kevriko opinions

my kevin and riko thoughts are quite disordered and i think i couldn't word them as well as other people have, but i've always thought the basis for their relationship wasn't all that different from the basis of kandrew or kevjean. my ideas are usually always from a (romantically) unrequited point of view, because i think kevin truly bought the 'brothers' lie. for riko it is always more complicated — kevin was never his brother, not really; the meaning he had to riko far surpassed any meaning kevin attached to their supposed brotherhood. do you remember andrew's raccoon speech? i think nothing would fit kevin and riko better than that. riko, who grew up abused and ignored and unloved, receiving someone who loves him as a gift, as a pet. riko, whose only obsession was to be acknowledged by his family suddenly gained a second, shinier, more attainable obsession: a partner in life. someone who *loves* him. it's not unreasonable to think that from thereon, kevin was the end-all-be-all of his existence

but you and i know what happened, and i think, in the end, kevin's existence was a direct factor in the decline of riko's sanity. i think it was dangerous to give him something to obsess over, something to look out for, something that was made immediately inferior to him because he loved it. riko's love for kevin, while true and unreputable, was still the love of a man who knew only the way his father loved his mother; that is to say, only the love of men who believe that that which they love is directly below them. kevin was never going to be riko's equal, not really — because riko was raised by his uncle, because he's his father's son, because the men in his life treated the women they loved and owned like garbage and that was the only reference riko has ever had for what to do when you love someone

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How does Kevin Day keep his hair so soft and shiny?

A diet of nothing but sincere appreciation for the USC Trojans does a body good.

[yes-i-exist-shutup]

Kevriko and allichi spot each other on date night. Cue awkward chaos.

[capcavan]

[cordelami]

“Kevin used to love Riko as desperately and obsessively as he loved exy.”

my poor boys, I love them so much💔

[fallenstarzz]

Thinking many many thoughts about how Jean was Riko's partner for a YEAR and was still rooming with Goon #3. Because that was how unwilling Riko was to let go of Kevin. And how that implies that Jean was placed as his partner both because of the practicality of Kevin being gone AND as a punishment for letting him go in the first place. Being partners with Jean could actually slow Riko down depending on how often he's hurt (because I don't think Riko was all that exempt from the rules to the point where his partner's performance would completely not matter) and he was still placed there. Riko was just THAT angry at him over Kevin's escape. And all the while he was keeping Kevin's side of room like an altar, even back when he didn't even think Kevin could PLAY, because of an injury he caused.