all of those posts "you wouldn't last in asylum" but its AFTG and the joke is that most of people interacting with them very much do not last in the asylum
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Everytime i see a fanart of Neil and im just screaming in my head like.
Where are his scars??? Mutilate him!!! I don’t want to see an inch of skin without scars on him! He looks horrifying and thats the beauty of him.
Anyway it makes me mad. Dont be afraid of scarring him.
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A character can still be a great character without being a good person.
In fact, some of the best characters are terrible people.
Because a character’s worth should be based on how complex and interesting they are, not their morality if they were real.
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So many people have mentioned Jean cutting his nails to help prevent his self harm - I have too many things to say about this, so let's just leave it at: This is not an effective solution, you do not need long or sharp nails to cause extreme damage.
So may I instead present an alternative:
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drop the link to the jerejean fic pls op
You need account to read it I think. Anyway, it's fucking perfect, the usage of language is wonderful and very creative
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I want your theories - when did Kevin and Riko get together? Had they fooled around in the nest? Or was it only after? Bc I think Ravens are banned from romantic/sexual relationships bc it takes up too much time and takes their mind off the game. Or maybe they're encouraged to build team cohesion (although I doubt it).
Maybe there was some shower time mutual stuff? Or maybe things happened in that shared dorm? But when would it turn from just sex to actual feelings?
On an unrelated note - I love that drawing of Riko & Wymack ❤️❤️
Tl;dr: Yes
Bonus headcanon with Riko, Kevin and Dadmac
After Riko gets closer to foxes he forms relationships and bonds with many people, both on and off team. Kevin struggles. He has no idea how to navigate any of this and solicit some alone time with Riko.
Wymack is an amazing wing dad and often takes them for small silly trips to the zoo or to have dinner with Abby (it's also part of Riko’s therapy since the boy needs to get used to more normal living environments as he was never part of it. They used to domesticate Kevin that way too)
This way Kevin gets some no pressure exclusive Riko time where they can just talk and be together without anyone else interfering
I take inspiration from Nora's extra materials mostly!
She mentioned there that Kevin and Riko would never get together in canon because it could fuck up their future careers, but then again she also wrote there that
So you know, I will only pick things I like!!!
She also wrote that they have very unhealthy dependant relationship and that Kevin used to love Riko (Not phrasing it 100%, but I love myself enough to not open extra content file more often than once a month if I can help it)
Riko and Kevin grew up together. They went through hell together. The portrayal of their relationship in the canon/extra content is very fluid because they seemingly go through phases that go from one extreme to another. They can be close friends, trusted brothers or on the flip of switch, Riko becomes Kevins worst nightmare/abuser.
I think in one way or another, they were always together. They survived too much pain not to occidentally grow into each other as their wounds healed.
I see Riko as a person who is bad because he was never given a choice, was it a horrible environment or lack of therapy or medication, and I see Kevin as someone aware of it but in the end enjoying the distance the 1 year long break gave him. Yet he is still looking back because he understands that Riko is the way he is because of the people around him. They are not healthy for each other or together but at this point letting go or amputating the other is impossible.
In all of my au's, no matter the ships, I always see them together. They aren't always romantically involved, but they share a platonic connection? Call them soulmates if you like. They are very pretentious and often refuse to define their love for each other in simple terms.
In the nest they were the only other kids their age, thrown in a world of adults and impossible training.
They were teammates in a pair system, always together. They shared quick, painful sex that was not allowed comfort of preparation and tender aftercare, but they loved it and craved it when allowed to have it. Their love language was tending to each other's wounds - often wounds Riko caused Kevin as disciplinary action - often on Tetsuji’s demand because Tetsuji saw them close and Tetsuji needed them apart to keep them easy to control.
Kevin was aware a lot of it was master’s doing. He was afraid of Riko because he knew Riko was too cowardly to go against master's words.
But now Riko is not in the nest anymore. Riko is going to therapy. Riko is allowed to be a person for the first time in his life.
And Kevin is afraid that when Riko is done picking broken pieces to build himself there won't be a spot for him.
Kevin is trying to retrigger him and halt this growth, scared of Riko moving past him the way Andrew and Neil moved past him, because Kevin stubbornly clings to his pain.
Kevin's inability to heal is Riko’s motivation to recover and get better - he needs to make sure they can do things right this time around.
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Kevin and Riko bonded over all the small things like escaping from the training hall into rain and getting sick after laying on wet grass just to then spend the whole next day cuddling because they were too ill to train.
The days they spend locked in the training hall when there is nobody to oversee them playing pretend to pass the time. For a child who never held anything else than an exy stick and ball, Riko had imagination. He was a king of the kingdom and Kevin loved to play his little games
And big things
Like exy
Nora said in the extra content that Riko was happy in his life because he truly knew nothing else. He was unaware how bad the life they had truly was (Kevin at least got few short years with his mom)
I think Riko struggles to see value in his life now that he knows how much of it was wasted, but he would never see time he got to spend with Kevin as wasted time so it's not all bad
Also this is my fave trope:
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never ask a woman her age a man his salary your mutual how late it is in her timezone when she starts posting about that bisexual man
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"I'm so tired with the discourse" "why can't this fandom be normal" friendly reminder discourse and fuck-up starts when someone comes onto another person's post and starts throwing shit. Not when the post is made. I think that's an important addition to make to the current conversation, since multiple people are talking about the discourse, which, I guess we could stop calling discourse at this point bcs it's just dead dove purging. You know you should not eat the dead dove, you look inside anyway. That's on you, nobody else, so take your pitchfork and go home.
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The "Riko Discourse" can literally be summed up to:
Someone posts art/fic/headcanon about Riko that isn't the 898743th rendition of "Riko Moriyama should die"
People get offended and make post anywhere from vague but still very clear exactly who it is about to outright harassment, death threats and suicide baiting
Person who made that art/fic/headcanon responds because yo that's not cool, you could just have blocked and muted
Whoever made the call out post whines more
And you know what, this is kinda to be expected, because the internet is like this. You should still call the behavior out because it's vile, but it's not surprising.
What is surprising (Or rather should be surprising but really isn't) is that equal blame is put on both the "Riko Stan" and "Riko Hater" (In lack of better terms). The act of making the art/fic/headcanon is treated on the same level as the act of going out of your way to shit on it publicly.
If this was about Jerejean or Andreil it would not be treated the same. Everyone would pretty much agree it's bad behavior to take someone's andreil art/fic/headcanon and use it to whine about how much they hate andreil shippers and how tired they are of seeing it. Everyone would pretty much agree they should just block/mute the andreil tag and/or person(s) that they find annoying.
But because it's a character people don't like, it's okay to make an example out of people who do like that character.
People keep preaching that we should learn to just exist alongside each other, but anyone liking something deemed "wrong" are not afforded that luxury
aftg fandom is very dopamine depleted because it gets into discourse over the most normal and accepted statements and i just love to laugh at it any time "riko discourse happens"
but it's not even a discourse it's just the same 30 people saying the same 5 lines that had already been said 10 last times the same conversation took place
get yourself some new things to be offended about at this point its not even entertaining
it costs no money to say nothing about the topic
everyone cries about how "fanfic writers do not ask for criticism"
yeah people who make content for ships you do not like do not ask for your criticisms either so fuck off and get a hobby
i get why teenagers act this way but if you are older than 21 rethink your life
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died and came back exactly the same but something was so so so wrong with me before and now I have an excuse to really lean into it
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