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riko in kayleigh’s care au yeahh…
riko: KEVIN WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME FREAK LEAVE ME ALONE??? *terrified for his life*
kevin, an autistic 7 year old: i have this rock in my pocket. for you
AND HE DOES............ riko he has this rock in his pocket. for you.
its cute to me it really is i think they're so funny and kevin is seriously so autistic. riko at this point hasn't interacted with any other children his age outside of little league and kevin is not just patently unusual he's also 1) super intense 2) loud 3) excited beyond belief over having someone to play with. SO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW HAPPY HE IS. most children would be happy to get a brother no matter what but this child in specifically has spent a lot of time with nannies or in adult-world events with his mother so of course he's happy to have a friend to accompany him!!! are you crazy!!!!!! the way i see it on riko's first day with the days (heh) kevin teaches him approximately three hundred different games in a span of two hours that riko either brutally rejects for not being exy (which kevin agrees with but also says they have to play other games because not all children know exy) (he's shocked by this too) or just outright doesn't understand because kevin's accent is so thick :)
BUT I THINK despite riko's fragile state and the ghosts that will inevitably follow him well into adulthood, it is a happy childhood.......... it's hard and at points feels hopeless, but when riko grows older he does look back and understands kevin's intentions and maybe even is a little grateful that someone was willing to reach out to his angry terrified traumatized 7 year old self. i think this k & r are not as close as they were in canon for a myriad of reasons, the biggest one being that riko's relationship to kevin and kayleigh is pretty complex because he feels like an outsider, but they're also a lot more well-meaning towards each other. they don't understand the other as well as they'd like to (i'd wager kevin will spend years and years trying to understand riko and failing to) but i do think they get impossibly closer after (sorry) kayleigh dies, which i can imagine happening in their late 30s to mid 40s. they'll always be brothers <3:)
#i love you reverse aftg au i want to write it eventually because i think this k&r are sooooooo fun and interesting and#dare i say. twinyard parallels#also trojan!riko is fucking funny and you will have to pry it from my cold dead hands#he's so pissed off when kevin drops their usc plans to go to fuckass palmetto get chased around by a white man with a knife#but he'll survive it and thats what matters#also i havent given this much thought yet but the timeline of canon still goes pretty similar for everyone else besides kevin and riko#so kevin is still going to go through neil's shitstorm of a freshman year#which riko will find very funny years down the line but horrifying triggering while it goes down#its i think a very physical reminder of what haunts him and will send him to meltdown city every week or so in cali#but things will be okay. you'll see#he'll be terrified of the butcher and of the moriyamas doing anything to kevin and it somehow being his fault#asks#riko#kevin#kevin&riko#reverse riko au
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