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I need the Queens Game book to be about 1000 pages long if you're going to try to convince me that about 10 years worth of abuse can be healed in one book - take into account Kevin is an alcoholic, he doesn't have friends, he hears Riko, his mother was murdered, he thinks Exy is the most important thing ever, and his scars run so deep that he's denying their existence since unlike with Neil and Jean, you can't see them - they're painted over his heart and mind, not his body.

Add into the fact that we need to witness the fall of the Moriyama's through Kevin's perspective whilst also potentially developing the relationship between Kevin and Thea.

This NEEDS to be a long book.

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Kevin 'He gave his All for the Game' Day.

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These are the characters that we desperately need to see having a conversation with Kevin: Wymack, Tetsuji, Kayleigh, Ichirou, Nathan (somehow) and Riko. All the characters that were unreachable for Neil and Jean MUST be shown in Kevin's duology because he is THE Kevin Day, aka the most important piece on the board of Exy. The one who was trained by both of the founders of Exy, Kayleigh and Tetsuji, and the one ultimatelyto ivercome them in skill, and the one least likely to get killed for back chatting to Ichirou because of his fame and success.

And it's also Kevin, and not Neil or Jean, who should be the one to end the rule of the Moriyamas - Kengo murdered his mother, Tetsuji took his freedom and humanity away (and his mother too in a way) and Ichirou murdered his brother, Riko. Kevin is the beginning and the end. There is no other way to make this make sense than for him to finish the game. Kevin is the only character in the series who gave his All for the Game.

The King falls. The Queen avenges the King and wins the game.

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Linda Friesen 'The Moon Maiden' Haute Couture Gown

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Daily reminder that Kandreil CAN still become canon - the explanation would be that Kevin wasn't ready for a relationship with two people, much less two MEN and so he needed some character development before he was ready.

It just depends on whether the author has the courage to write it.

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It's a fun idea, but I want to read about him AFTER Jean's story - there'd too many things left unfinished concerning Kevin's FUTURE for us to read about his past, and I doubt the author would be fine with writing books for BOTH Kevin's past and future.

no because listen. a pre-canon duology, following kevin's perspective of the tensions rising in the nest as the media speculated that riko was holding kevin back, would kill.

book 1 would delve into the twisted dynamic riko and kevin had, and all the hopes and dreams (outside of exy) kevin held (like his love for history, his relationships with jean, jeremy, and thea), and who he built wymack up to be in his mind (foreshadowing how he'd eventually turn to wymack). it all would be building up an intense climax: their match to determine who was better. we'd get to see kevin throwing the match but trying so hard to not make it seem that way, and riko breaking his hand anyways. it would end with kevin showing up on wymacks door bloody and broken and begging for help.

book 2 would follow his spiral of despair about losing his playing hand and figuring out who he is outside of exy, riko, and the nest. it would be forming new bonds with the monsters and show what andrew taking him in was like... and, goodness, what it was like to have his father in his life knowing that he could never tell him the truth. it would be his journey through recovery and finding determination to not only play again but show the world that he Is the best. i think this book would probably end after the foxes signed him officially.

PRE-CANON KEVIN'S STORY IS JUST AS DRAMATIC AS THE MAIN SERIES AND WOULD BE FANTASTIC IN BOOK FORMAT !!!

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kevin day: quotes to prove why i love him/will protect him (faves/most heartbreaking for me are bold)

“I’m not good enough to play on the same court as a champion.” “True, but irrelevant.”

“Where the court is, Kevin is. He can’t exist without it.”

“You.” Neil said at last. Kevin pulled at his racquet again, and this time Neil let go. “Tell me I can have your game.”

Kevin was more demanding of himself than he was of anyone around him. He set his standards impossibly high and tried for them with everything he had, and he didn’t understand why others wouldn’t do the same.

“I brought him here.” Wymack said. “He showed up at my hotel room at the winter banquet with his hand a bloody mess. He didn’t want us to notify the Ravens or take him to a hospital, so Abby bandaged him up as best she could and I put him on the bus back to South Carolina with us.”

“Fuck you cripple.” Across the room, Kevin’s face went white. “What did you call me?” “I called you a dead-weight has been.” Neil said. Kevin was out of his chair so fast he knocked it over. 

“You said he would come for you.” “I didn’t know it would be like this.” “Liar.” Andrew said, and Kevin flinched. 

“Help me.” Kevin said, almost a whisper. 

“Do you even remember how to smile?” Matt asked. Kevin glared at him. 

“Morning sunshine.” Matt said with exaggerated cheer. “Fuck you.” Kevin said. Dan yawned into her hand. “Glad to see youre still a morning person.” “Fuck you too.”

The audience cheered their hearts out, delighted by Kathy’s surprise, but they weren’t quite loud enough to drown out Kevin’s soft voice at  Neil’s side. The words sounded like a desperate prayer.

He ended up with his thigh pressed against Neil’s, hard enough Neil could feel him trembling. 

Abby jogged the last couple of steps to Kevin and crushed him in a fierce embrace. Kevin held onto her for dear life 

“Dont rely on something as insubstantial as a miracle,” Kevin said. “You won’t win anything by standing around. Finish getting changed and get down to the court.” “One day I want you to look up ‘insensitivity’ in the dictionary,” Matt said, annoyed. “I’m sure it’ll do your ego wonders to see your picture printed there beside it.”

Kevin had a knee hugged to his chest and his face hidden in the fold of his arm. His knuckles were white where his hand was clenched into a fist. Neil didn’t think it was the bus that was making Kevin shake like that. 

Wymack pulled a bottle of vodka out of the bag and put it down beside Kevin. “You have ten seconds to inhale as much of this as you can. I’m timing you. Go.” It was alarming how much a man could drink when he needed an emotional crutch. Wymack had to pry the bottle from Kevin’s desperate fingers afterward. 

The noise Kevin made at his side was worse

Kevin stared at him a few seconds longer, then got out of his chair almost fast enough to take the whole table with him. Abby was at his side in a heartbeat, expression pinched with worry. Kevin couldn’t seem to manage words, but he gestured for her to follow. 

Kevin was silent for an endless minute, then said, “You should be  Court.” It was barely a whisper, but it cut Neil to the bone. It was a resentful goodbye to the bright future Kevin had wanted for Neil. Kevin recruited Neil because he believed in  Neil’s potential. He brought him to the Foxes intending to make a star athlete out of him. Despite his condescending attitude and his dismissals of Neil’s best efforts Kevin honestly expected Neil to make the national team after graduation.

“Will you still teach me?” Neil asked. “Kevin was quiet again, but not for long this time. “Every night.”

“Can you do this, Kevin?” Abby asked, searching his face for any sign he was okay. “Can you play?” “If I am breathing, I can play.” Kevin said. “This is my game too.”

“I’m satisfied.” Kevin said. It was the last response any of the Foxes expected from him. They forgot about Riko in favor of gaping at Kevin. “Not with their score or performance, but with their spirit. I was right. There’s more than enough here for me to work with.”

Even Kevin was going to come out of this on top. He wasn’t going to fade into obscurity like Tetsuji and Riko thought he would; he would ride the Foxes’ resurgence to the top and reclaim his place in the spotlight.

“Do you have my ticket?” “You’re not going.”

“I know what he’s like,” Kevin said. Neil looked at him but Kevin was studying his hands. “Riko. If you want to talk.”

“It is not a switch you turn on and off. You of all people know this.” Kevin finally pushed Neil off him, but he didn’t try to get past  Neil. “You did not grow up with him. You do not get to judge me.”

“Good thing you’re not there anymore.” “Jean still is.”

Kevin recoiled so hard he slammed into the wall behind him. He clapped a protective hand over his own tattoo. 

Kevin had his elbow on the windowsill and his face in his hand. “I’ll tell them so you don’t have to.” Kevin gestured with his free hand: “Get out” or “I don’t care” but not “Don’t you dare.” He didn’t say anything; Neil didn’t think he could. 

Kevin was sitting on his bed, one knee tucked to his chest, as he stared dully into the distance. Neil sat cross-legged on the end of the bed and waited. It didn’t take long. Kevin propped his chin on his knee and said, “How do you do it?” Kevin flicked his fingers as if frustrated by his own vagueness and said, “After everything that’s happened this year, after Riko and your father and the FBI and knowing Lord Ichirou has found out about you, why aren’t you afraid?”

Kevin choked on his first denial. His second attempt was hoarse with disbelief. “Don’t joke about such things .” Neil stared back at Kevin in silence until Kevin flinched and took a half-step back. 

Neil felt cold all over watching him, but he didn’t know if it was fear that Kevin was going to injure himself again or awe. He’d always known Kevin was the best, but he’d almost forgotten what Kevin used to be like at his peak. 

“Did you know I’ve never been skiing? I’d like to try it one day, though.”

Kevin didn’t slow or look around on his way to the locker room, and he pushed right past his celebrating teammates in the foyer. He dropped his helmet and gloves on his way across the changing room and caught hold of the edge of the sink. He swayed a bit like his legs wanted to give out from under him and his hands were trembling so violently Neil could see it from the doorway. Instead of falling he leaned forward and pressed his forehead to the mirror. “We’re all going to die.” Kevin said at last. “No we’re not.” Neil said. Kevin thought about that for a minute, then straightened. After staring at his reflection for an age he lifted his hand and covered his tattoo on the glass. The result sent an odd tremor along Kevin’s shoulders. Neil didn’t know if it was approval or fear. All that mattered was that Kevin nodded and turned back to them. He looked at Neil first, then Andrew. “We have a lot of work to do.” 

Kevin was too busy soaking in the joy of being back on Trojan territory. His contented expression was at complete odds with the nerves and dread evident on his teammates’ faces. Neil wanted to tell him to tone it down, but he couldn’t remember the last time he’d seen Kevin in a good mood. 

“Interesting” was too tame a word for the look in Kevin’s eyes. The smile that finally slipped free and curved his lips was hungry. 

Now that number was gone, covered up by the jet-black image of a chess piece. Neil’s knowledge of chess was hazy at best, but he knew for sure that wasn’t a king. “You did it,” Neil said, too stunned to manage anything else. “Let Riko be King,” Kevin said, with the exaggerated enunciation of the thoroughly sloshed. “Most coveted, most protected. He’ll sacrifice every piece he has to protect his throne. Whatever. Me?” Kevin gestured again, meaning to indicate himself but too drunk to get his hand higher than his waist. “I’m going to be the deadliest piece on the board.”

“Fuck him,” Kevin said, sliding a little further down the door. “Fuck all of them. Waste of time to be angry. They should be afraid.” 

Kevin dragged his stare back to Wymack;s face and said, “and my father comes to all of my games. That is enough.” On Wymack’s other side, Abby’s gaze softened. Wymack’s jaw worked for a moment before he could say in an even tone, “Your mother would be proud of you.” “Not just me.” Kevin said in a rare bought of humanity. 

Before he stepped on Kevin tapped the butt of his racquet against the floor and passed his stick to his other hand. He stroked to half-court head high and left-handed and the crowd went wild. 

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I know a lot found Kevin’s checkmate line hilarious and very diva but I have to say it wasn’t funny and Kevin depressed me in this book🥲

Exy exy exy exy exy exy exy and drinking every time he has to talk about the nest & Riko.

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People mischaracterising everything Kevin said in TGR is gonna be the death of me. Seriously.

Even though he told Jeremy he cares about nothing else but a life of exy, later on, a discussion with Jean revealed that he still just REFUSES and is incapable of processing his own trauma. He uses exy as the one-way ticket to happiness because he has no idea how else to achieve it.

Kevin's discussion with Jeremy about Jean and the nest and Grayson showed that Kevin thinks very similarly still to how Jean thought (still thinks) about the Nest. That's just how the nest is. It's incredibly fucked up, but as Jean REPEATEDLY tells us, Kevin tried to defend him numerous times even if it didn't work. Kevin is an "oblivious fool". He didn't just accept the fact Jean was raped. He still hasn't given himself grace to process stuff, to process the "raven way". He is a CULT VICTIM. He still hears Riko's voice in his head, tormenting him. Even though Jean tells us time and time again how much Kevin also suffered, people still refuse to acknowledge it. Kevin was RAISED there from a much much younger age to the point he lost multiple elements of his own personality. This kind of shit isn't just solved, especially not when he has been stuck on other getaways to ignore his own trauma and doesn't really have anyone like Jean does to direct him otherwise.

He is mean and angry, but he is also gentle with Jean throughout the interview and doesn't push him beyond the point of breaking despite the whole mission to save face. Several interactions with Jean bring out snippets of the personality that's buried underneath several layers of trauma from the nest.

Also, remember Nora told us he has his own arc that spans across all books (back when this was supposed to be a duology) and told us to be 'patient' so I assume we are going to see more of Kevin in the third book and hopefully more of him starting his own healing journey. It was barely there in the main trilogy. In AFTG, his healing involved Exy. He still hasn't overcome his actual trauma, as we very clearly see.

Please read with your EYES OPEN, THANK YOU.

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90% of all for the game could've been prevented if kevin day wasn't literally aphrodite incarnate

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Loving and being obsessed with Kevin Day as a character comes with a deep rooted sadness that I can't explain or put into words, I need someone who gets it.

(I'm especially reminded of it when I remember Nora said Kevin and Jean never really speak anymore and that Kevin doesn't stay close with the Foxes and all that jazz and I'm like

WHY he deserves so much better)

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one must imagine young kevin and tetsuji during raven practice as that one scene from whiplash

not quite my tempo kevin, again. you’re rushing kevin. again. now you’re dragging. again. why do you suppose I just smashed that racquet into your stomach, kevin? were you rushing or were you dragging? you don’t know? again. oh, so you do know? if you deliberately sabotage my team again I will fuck you up kevin. again. oh look at that, he’s crying. are you one of those single-tear people? are you upset, kevin? no? so you just don’t give a shit? ah, so you are upset. then say it kevin. louder. say it so that the whole team can hear. louder. louder, kevin. you are a worthless piece of shit who’s mommy decided to whore herself out and then die on you. and now you’re weeping and slobbering all over my court like a fucking infant. do you think you deserve a place on this court kevin? no? then start working for it. again kevin, again.

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neil and aaron's venn diagram intersection: mom died in car, killed rapist, chronic dickhead, loves andrew minyard, moved around a lot, chronic overworkers, could've potentially had a deeply homoerotic relationship with kevin day,

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this is better than drugs

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image to use whenever their is kevin hate

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A great portion of this fandom ignoring or side lining Kevin's abuse will for real be the death of me.

I've always hated the trauma Olympics that this fandom seems to love engaging in, as if there is a reward for "Who Has Had it Worse."

Newsflash: Jean isn't the only one who got abused by Riko. Kevin suffered for a whole ass decade (potentially more) in the hands of the Moriyamas. Might not have been as physical (though the "I will love hurting you like I loved hurting Kevin" line should have proved otherwise to people) as Jean's, but emotional abuse and manipulation are still... you guessed it. Abuse.

The fandom also seems to pay more attention to Riko's abuse of Neil compared to Kevin's. This can, of course, be excused by the fact that Neil is the protagonist and it's his PoV we are reading, but whatever happened to reading comprehension and character analysis? Must we be so blinded by the narration that nothing else matters?

I've talked a lot about Kevin and how his life in the Nest affected him, so I won't go over the same things again, but I SWEAR TO GODS if I see one more person blaming Kevin for leaving the Nest, I'll riot. Yes, leaving Jean behind was an asshole thing to do (though one could argue that perhaps Kevin knew that Jean would refuse to come). But also, Kevin saw the chance to escape the hellhole and took it. Ever since when did this fandom start putting AFTG characters in such high 'moral' pedestals?

Since never is the answer. They only seem to do it with characters they don't bother understanding. Kevin, Aaron etc etc.

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Exy Hall of Fame

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Kevin Day, Son of Exy, Best Striker in the Sport

Riko Moriyama, Son of Exy

Kayleigh Day, Mother of Exy

Tetsuji Moriyama, Father of Exy

Neil Josten, Most Improved Striker in Class 1 Exy, Fastest Player in the Sport

Dan Wilds, First Female Captain of a Class 1 Collegiate Exy Team

David Wymack, Palmetto State Coach, First Team to Win Championships Against the Edgar Allan Ravens

Andrew Minyard, #1 Goalkeeper in Class 1 Exy, #1 Goalkeeper in the Sport

Jean Moreau, Best Reflexive Skills in Class 1 Exy

Jeremy Knox, Captain of the USC Trojans, Winners of the Kayleigh Day Award for 8 Consecutive Years, First LGBTQI+ Identified Player in the US Court

Laila Dermott, Fastest Goalkeeper in Class 1 Exy