Can We Talk About The Attack On The Foxes And Exactly How Many Triggers That's Going To Set Off?

Kevin Day, the only character in the world who manages to be a perfect 50/50 split between girlboss and boyfailure

Eu me sinto uma palhaça

Lendo "A Prisão do Rei" (da saga de Rainha Vermelha) eu jurei que odiava profundamente o Maven e que nunca sentiria pena dele

Agora estou lendo "Tempestade de Guerra" e deu vontade de dar uma abraço no Maven kkkakka O menino realmente era um monstro, mas a consciência dele disso e o fato de que odeia o que se tornou me pegaram desprevenida (não deveria, estava claro desde a Prisão do Rei, mas eu fiquei tão brava lendo q nem notei)

Em fim, no final de tudo a culpa sempre volta para a maldita da Elara

Essa sim eu quero que queime no inferno

Also the fact Wymack had to hold this boy on a chokehold of his own just so that he wouldnt go and murder all the Ravens on his reach

Like, he had a BROKEN COLLARBONE, had already defended Neil, and was about to KEEP ON FIGHTING, just bc they dared to hurt his love

i will never get over andrew minyard, devoted paladin, choking out a girl who fucked up neil when he himself had a BROKEN COLLARBONE and had just slipped away from his own attempted murder

I think we as a community don't recognize how funny the first confrontation scene in The Foxhole Court is. Like we talk about how absolutely confused Kevin must have been and how the sudden language shift was wild and how Aaron and Nicky are just O.O over the quiet new kid losing his shit.

But Neil runs into the room (picking the lock with ease, mind you) guns blazing, threatens Kevin, calls him a slur and a "deadweight has-been", then turns and fucking runs. Like... doesn't even put up a pretense of a physical fight, just books it and slams the door closed like that's going to make a difference. The mental image of Neil Josten sprinting out the room like a thirteen year old who just pissed off his older sibling and is about to employ the kicking method is too good for us not to recognize.

I always found it very funny Kevin's whole thing with "you should be hetero, it is easier to make Court like that". It just seemed to be one of those moments where he was so absurdly into Exy that he couldnt understand basic human things

This was until TGR, and then I understood that his line of thinking was ingrained in very deep traumas. He saw what happened to Jean when he dared to step a little out of heteronormativeness. He saw all the pain it caused. He saw what Riko did to him and Im sure at this moment he swore to never even try to find out if he could like boys in other ways. So when he saw Nicky giving Neil incentives to explore his sexuality, Im sure all the flashbacks of that time came to him like a punch, and he knew that in US court (at least while Riko was still there) being heterosexual meant survival. Thats why he says that to Nicky.

It is literally his trauma speaking for him, not his obsession with Exy speaking for him

Which also brings me to my theory that Kevin is a deeply repressed bisexual (there aint no way that diva is straight). TGR literally only helped to confirm that

For sure he went about it wrong, but Kevin does truly want to protect them. This is the world he was brought up in as well.

Cara, tem dias que eu só queria ter a auto-estima de Comte (o filósofo)

A criatura realmente olhou para a filosofia que ele mesmo criou e decidiu que aquilo era o caminho para o progresso e para o estado superior que uma sociedade humana poderia atingir

Se eu tivesse 1/5 dessa autoestima, 90% dos meus problemas estariam resolvidos🫠

Neil liking math is so funny to me

Like, hasnt your life been hard enough?? (Coming from someone who also likes math)

I love the AFTG characters and their silly interest like Andrew canonically likes to watch musicals with Bee, Kevin is down bad for history, Neil thinks math is fun. They’re just so human I love them

While not being able to find a decent match for himself

Like, c'mmon Kevin, Thea???????

listen

kevin day can be the queen of the court or whatever

he can be one of the best players in the game

but his TRUE talent is unintentionally matchmaking his queer friends

I NEED this interaction in an actual fantasy book

It would make my day

I don't think fantasy writers play enough with the concept of the different fantasy races having distinct ethnicities. Like imagine a group of mixed peoples, where the dwarves are all roasting each other like dwarves do, and one of them remarks that when he first saw one of the other dwarves in the group, he mistook her for a man. The other dwarves in the group blink in surprise - the closest that dwarves will go to an audible gasp of shock - and she pulls out a knife and tries to stab him.

Once the dwarves have been separated from each other and the situation has calmed, one of the humans asks another dwarf what that incident was about. Naturally a human woman would have been insulted too, but dwarves are so jovial about insulting each other, why was this matter different?

And the dwarf who was asked explains that there are things you can brutally insult another dwarf about, and there are things you simply do not touch. The dwarf-woman in question is from a completely different region of The Great Underground as the others, and her people have different norms about what kind of patterns men and women braid into their beards. The dwarf insulting her wasn't only insulting her appearance, he was being racist.

The human is surprised to learn that dwarves have different peoples, and the dwarf looks at them like at an idiot. Of course they do, they even look completely different from each other. And the human listens as the dwarf lists off various distinguishing clothing details too nuanced for a human to notice, and then how dwarves coming from different corners of the world have different physical traits, according to what kind of conditions their local stone types dictate.

The human spots a connection and goes oh! We have that too, though ours are not about rock types and tunnel air, but the weather aboveground. Humans' facial features vary by how hot, cold, arid or windy their ancestors' homelands were, and our skin tone varies by how much the sun shines in their native region.

The dwarf frowns at the last part, going "I thought you people just paint your skin and dye your hair for fun", and the human admits that yeah, we do that too, but not all the time, and not the whole skin. The dwarf asks, what of that tall woman the colour of dravite, her palms and the soles of her feet were lighter than the rest of her. Does that mean she paints herself dark to be more beautiful?

The human says no, that just happens naturally. Maybe it's because one's palms and feet aren't exposed to the sun as much, so they are paler.

The dwarf nods, still unsure whether this is actually legit or just the human habit of lying for fun, and proceeds to ask about the wild northman of their party. He is as pale as an olm, but the palms of his hands and the soles of his feet are dark. Are they painted, or naturally that way?

No, the human answers. That guy just doesn't bathe.

Neil's file on the FBI has the following observation: "he is a danger to society on the outside, but we believe he somehow would be more dangerous in jail. Do not contact him unless extremely necessary. You are gonna regret every second"

pt.55!! <pt.54

renee walker is a 5-in-1 girlie im certain of this. andrew once got her a 10-in-1 (toothpaste, drinkable) and she treasured it. by GOD renee walker will not buy separate toiletries

also projecting my 40 hour wikipedia deep dive onto kevin because i actually smelled so bad by the time it ended (wifi stopped working) but also i now know plenty about the economy of the Kievan Rus so. who really wins here

also turns out i’ve hit the max number of tags in a post so extended taglist will be in the notes but also lmk if you want off the list at any point because im aware of the inordinate levels of spam

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