Keep swimming, I guess

“Emotional torture from the head of your high table”-Kayleigh being killed by Kengo, the true head of the Moriyama family, the fact that even being one of the ones "allowed" in didn't truly save her.

“If our love died, would that be the worst thing?”-whatever fucked up “love” Tetsuji had for her.

“For somebody I thought was my saviour, You sure make me do a whole lot of labour”- She literally built a sport with this man and loved him at least at one point but likely died without fully knowing how evil they were and forever trapped her son with them.

“I know you're a smart man (I know you're a smart man), And weaponise, The false incompetence, it's dominance under a guise”-The entire Moriyama family managing to successfully hide being a yakuza family while the second branch becomes more and more famous. How will anyone be able to prove anything if they can hide in the spotlight so well?

“If we had a daughter, I'd watch and could not save her” the Kevin Day of it all </3

“The emotional torture from the head of your high table” Tetsuji who has custody of the child who looks just like the woman he loved and got killed and who tortures him. A lot of thoughts of Kevin being describes as the mirror image of Kayleigh and if he actually is or if those that have lost her always superimpose her image on her son.

“She'd do what you taught her” Kayleigh being described as always having fought and fighting tooth and nail for everything while never backing down; Kevin continually being called a coward because he can never stand up to his abusers. They couldn't break Kayleigh but they'd do everything in their power to break Kevin.

“She'd meet the same cruel fate” Kayleigh accidentally trapping Kevin in the cycle of abuse, removing him from everyone but her and accidentally thrusting him directly into the hands of his abusers which indirectly led to Kevin’s hand eventually being smashed.

“All day, every day, therapist, mother, maid, Nymph, then a virgin, nurse, then a servant, Just an appendage, live to attend him, So that he never lifts a finger” Something very haunting about Kayleigh refusing to be this and instead trapping Kevin into this fate.

Me: I actually like to use women's deodorant because the stuff for men dries out my skin and smells like harsh chemicals

*BANG*

(3 hours later, at Walmart)

(Mobster holding Dove Advance Care in the deodorant aisle)

I'M SO EXCITED TO HEAR THIS OMG YOU HAVE NO IDEA ANON :D

The mischaracterisation of both Kevin and Jean is sooo much more prominent when talking about Kevjean fr.

I think a lot of people miss the crux of why we like them together. Don't get me wrong, the angst and intensity of Kevjean will always be unmatched but a lot of people really can't see past that surface level tension.

They care about each other so deeply and we need more of them feeling safe enough to be vulnerable with one another without someone *Cough* Riko *Cough* lurking nearby and ready to punish them for it.

1) an Irishman

2) who grew up in West Virginia

3) speaking Japanese

kevin- he’d be really into horror movies that also incorporate something he’s really interested in. like paranormal ones with accurate historical settings or lore based in real historical events. there’s definitely some niche horror movie that focuses on a high school exy team somehow and everyone expects kevin to hate it but he actually loves it. bc when kevin loves something he LOVES something and as long as that thing is portrayed in a piece of media with clear intention and research and respect, that love would spread to that piece of media no matter the genre. i don’t think he’d like psychological horror or anything to do with cults tho. those are his lines even if it’s connected to a subject he likes.

neil- i don't think neil really likes movies as a medium. if he's watching something that's not exy it's more likely to be a tv show. that being said, so long as the horror movie doesn't feature a subject that is particularly triggering and also portrayed realistically, i think he would find some level of entertainment in it. like an example is he would watch slasher movies and guess the killer and explain what's unrealistic and be perfectly content, but anything featuring realistic dismemberment or psychological horror about being hunted/stalking is a no go bc it does not mesh well with his paranoia.

andrew- he can only watch bad horror movies. in a similar way that neil's paranoia doesn't mesh with certain horror movie premises, i think the same is true with andrew and the specific way suspense is portrayed in horror. good horror movies try to inflict a very specific kind of looming dread on the viewer and, considering how andrew is with control and how a lot of his fears/anxiety/paranoia (whatever you want to call it) is in the series based on looming threats he can't control or doesn't have a full picture of, i think that would pair really poorly with how suspense is done in horror movies. it's the framing not the content tho, like i think he'd be really interested in things like bad horror movies that are clearly absurd and (the total opposite) true crime docs and in canon he likes zombie media which is more thriller-horror than suspence-horror.

aaron- he likes the weird and creepy psychological horror movies. and also thriller ones. aaron is stressed all the time there's no convincing me that he's not considering he's pre-med, plays exy, is trying to maintain some incredibly rocky relationships, and now has the mafia to consider. in the way that a lot of people like horror movies bc its a "safe" way to be scared, aaron likes those sub-genres of horror bc of that and bc it's also a "safe" way to be stressed. i've seen people talk about, and i myself have also talked about, andrew and his relationship with control. i think aaron also has a complicated relationship with control after feeling like his life was ruled by something other than him for so long (tilda, drugs, andrew). this would effect what kinds of media and entertainment he likes. not only would getting to be invested in/sacred of something that will end after an hour and a half allow him to have a break, but he could also be that viewer going "clearly that's not real" or "i'd never do that" which would give him more of a sense of control over that fear. idk if i'm explaining this well i have too many thoughts about this.

nicky- he absolutely loves all horror movies and, unlike some of the other foxes, the more he can see a reflection of his own trauma and experience in it, the more he likes it. anything with religious themes, queer characters or queercoding, toxic and atypical family dynamics is a movie that he will watch a million times over. nicky talks a lot but he never really talks about how his experiences have affected him emotionally so i think he'd find some sort of catharsis in seeing a visceral or horrifying portrayal of something he's tried to bury and not talk about.

dan- will not watch a horror movie. it's not a genre she likes, she finds them boring. while others won't watch horror movies bc they scare easily, dan is the opposite. she does not get scared by horror movies so she finds them pointless. she can be jump scared, but will argue that doesn't count as getting truly scared bc its more so being startled. she has seen a decent amount of horror movies and that's why she refuses to watch any more (she doesn't want to be bored again).

matt- same as dan, he will not watch a horror movie. unlike dan, it is bc he is horrified by them. He doesn't like being scared, but it's not really about the fear its about the other feelings those movies bring up. matt is a very empathetic person and he would get very distressed by horror movies. especially after meeting and becoming close friends with neil. he has learned all about the real life horror that exists in the world and how the people he cares about have suffered bc of it. he would not want to watch anything that reminds him of that for entertainment.

allison- horror movies fanatic and the biggest defender of every final girl ever. allison is an advocate and enjoyer of female rage. there's some horror movies she despises with every ounce of her being for the way they treat women. but she's watched so many that she has a top 20 with elaborate reasoning. i don't really have a reason for why i think this i just believe it.

What was the moment in canon that made you go "Yeah, I ship it"? If they haven't met in canon, what influenced you to ship the characters?

Andrew needs someone who will always see him as strong and capable. Someone who can take his brand of protection in its all or nothing, and not only accept it but want it. That's Kevin. Kevin needs someone who can take his codependency. Who will let him cling and hold him back before he turns tail and runs back to Riko's side. Someone he can trust his back to when he has no one else left. That's Andrew.

23. Describe this ship in the most out of context way that you can.

What happens when a sacrificial lamb wanders into the sheep's pen and the guard dog, on noticing its loose wool from rope bindings and a healing throat wound, takes it in as part of his herd.