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Hello! I'm Zin: 24, she/it, bisexual. This blog is a whole mish mosh of whatever is catching my attention atm, although often that will be Harry Potter, All For the Game, Dan and Phil, or Buffy the Vampire Slayer related. Have a nice visit :)
My ao3
These are links to my oc profiles (or they would be if I could get around to finishing them)
Hogwarts Mystery:
Gracie Chiva (x Merula Snyde)
Tessa Chiva (x Chiara Lobosca)
Chiva Twins Childhood - Year Six Storyline
the twins' profiles are currently under reconstruction
River Mund
Sarah Etsysa (x Rowan Khanna)
Oliver Adams (x Isla Lyall)
Liam Disteel (x Penny Haywood)
Corban Russell (x Ismelda Murk)
Sabrina "Quinn" Mercurenius (x Jae Kim)
Magic Awakened: [retired as the game is no longer available and I hardly ever played anyway]
it baffles me that some people read “i assume nicky's the next-best person to take away from you?” from wymack to andrew about dorm arrangements and thought yeah andrew doesn't like or care about kevin/he only cares about keeping his promise to kevin ???? wymack wouldn't dare take kevin away from andrew 😭 his best bet was to instead change aaron and nicky's dorm arrangements because andrew is just THAT protective over kevin and CARES about kevin's well-being and doesn't want kevin living in a dorm without him. and you got yeah andrew hates kevin from THAT???
have we considered: jean getting off not just to the thought of jeremy in tbc but also- jeremy who has left his hoodie at the lofts and jean has his face buried in it while doing the deed 👀
I love people who have specific characters that are their "no one understands this character like me. not even the writers." because they're genuinely not joking. the way they understand those specific characters is so profound that it'll change your entire veiw.
can’t even criticize the diet industry or the recent wave in misogyny and return of thinspo with the rise of ozempic as a weight loss drug without everyone having this knee jerk reaction to defend “women’s rights” to be malnourished and conform to white patriarchal beauty standards in the name of feminism. god forbid we not encourage eating disorders and unhealthy body image in women. choice feminism is a disease and everyone is licking the rats it’s driving me crazy
sex is a distraction from your true purpose in life which is to go to the aquarium and look at the fish and go "wooooooaaah.... fishies". cmon guys we all need to lock in.
sorry to be a broken record every month but christ menstruation is a stupid concept. oooooh excuse me for not getting pregnant, why the fuck is there goo falling out of me about it? grow the fuck up and reabsorb that shit for nutrients.
Amazing how we cant discuss the foxes being cruel to kevin in tkm (BECAUSE THEY ABSOLUTELY WERE WAY MORE HORRIBLE TO HIM IN THAT BOOK THEN THE OTHERS FOR SOME REASON???) without apparently "sanitizing" kevins character??? Lmao ppl talk all the time about how awful the upperclassmen were to Andrew but god forbid day fans talk about Kevin. That comment about hitting him where it wont show was so fucking cruel
pre-romance cuddling (with their hearts beating out of their chests of course)
Jean initiates the first kiss by asking, Jeremy is the one who actually does it (boy has never romanced anyone let him be a little nervous I beg)
first kiss is in Jeremy's POV (I NEED to hear his disbelief at how different it is from everyone else IN the moment not just after)
dry humping scene (bonus if Jean comes in his pants)
incredibly long Neil+Andrew+Kevin cameo (I miss them)
any sign that Kevin and Jean will be able to be real friends again (I refuse to believe they can't be) plus some cute Kevin and Jeremy moments (they're friends and they care about each other so much)
Jeremy frees himself from his family and ends the book happy as hell (he's precious and he deserves to realize it)
more importantly, JAB ends the book happy as hell (I've read too many books where the dog only exists to die. I will burn the book if that happens)
And now a few.... somewhat bitchy ones:
the Trojans do NOT get a red card (it would ruin everything they stand for)
Elodie is NOT somehow alive (dumbest theory I've seen in a long time)
Jeremy does NOT relapse (he'd literally never forgive himself and he can't take any more guilt right now)
Jean is NOT talked into "loosening up" with drugs or alcohol (he's right. that shit's poison. why do people think healing has to involve poison?*)
*It worked for Neil because his objection to alcohol was the loss of control, and him agreeing to drink was a show of safety and trust. Jean's objections to substances as a whole are health based and from seeing what drinking is doing to Kevin (as well as what cocaine did to Jeremy in the past) and neither of those will change because he's safe now, or because he trusts people. All that shit is still poison and it's still a terrible coping mechanism and if he doesn't want to touch it, he's not only valid but correct
I am going to make a post about this because I simply cannot help myself and I want to put all my thoughts togheter regarding this.
I feel like there is a lot of defensiveness when people point out how the treatment of the Foxes (specially in TKM) might have been bad or unfair. So I am going to try to break this down.
Long as hell, so It Will be bellow the cut
First of all, I feel like it is important to make a distinction between moments in which the Foxes are just being Foxes (fighting, bickering, being assholes) and the moments where the critics to Kevin's treatment really are.
For example, Kevin and Seth's fights were totally an example of the second of case. Kevin was frustrated, both with his hand and with the fact he was now in a team considerably worse than the one he came from(and frustrated because Seth being his pair striker was probably a very bitter reminder of everything that had happened to him). Seth was frustrated not only with Kevin's constants critics and harsh push for performance, but also because Kevin was a bitter reminder of everything Seth wasn't by simple virtue of birth. Seth grew up being one more among a bunch of siblings with clearly neglectful parents. He grew up being treated as completely unimportant. So of course having The Great Kevin Day there in his team felt like rubbing salt on a wound.
They were both going through a shitty time and took it out on each other by constantly fighting and bickering. They were hurting so they hurted.
This type of conflict appears through the whole narrative with different characters. It is gennerally a two way conflict.
There are also moments that involve great emotional distress and you can understand why a certain character might have taken a certain action, even if that might have caused damage to another character (i.e choking incident. I have a post somewhere analysing it, so I definitely won't do it now, because this will get too long)
But the point is, specially in TKM, there are plenty of moments in which the Foxes are just unnecessarly cruel or unforgiving towards Kevin, specially in moments in which he is fragilized and this isn't adressed at all
1-We already start the book with Matt punching Kevin TWICE because of what happened to Neil. Kevin, who was probably already feeling horrible, didn't react or tried to fight back at all.
I don't think I really need to explain why punching someone who isn't reacting is a bad thing.
And yes, he was shocked, worried and mad because of what was done to Neil. Assaulting Kevin didn't change anything and also didn't 'punish' the right person. It was absolutely pointless.
Yes, Kevin didn't tell them where Neil was going. Maybe he didn't say anything for the same reason Neil went there in the first place. If Riko had enough of a levarege to force Neil to go, than he definitely had enough to make Kevin stay silent about it(which was true. Riko had Andrew and Kevin knew it. If he stopped Neil from going, whatever happened to Andrew would be his fault. Kevin did the right thing by allowing Neil to decide what he wanted to do and respecting it). But of course, instead of assessing the situation for 5 seconds, we jump straight to assume Kevin didn't say anything for giggles and kicks.
(Just to make it clear, this is not saying Matt is a horrible person. This is just me saying in this instance he was wrong)
2-Andrew threatening Kevin with a knife because of that stupid trip.
I hate this scene so much and on so many levels that it is not even funny anymore.
It makes me so sad that this is what Nora has decided to do with Andrew and Kevin's relationship.
Because the thing is: Kevin was never afraid of Andrew.
There is one other moment in the series in which Andrew lifts a knife to Kevin and this is when Kevin literally presses him against a wall and ignores his warnings to let go. Andrew uses the knife to nip Kevin and make him let go, and that is it. They are mad at each other, but there is no fear.
It is a heavy scene, but Andrew was completely on the right and doing it out of self defense(honestly, Kevin had that one coming from a mile away).
But in this instance in TKM, Andrew threatens Kevin for what? Being against a vacation? This is literally the most stupid reason Andrew threatened someone over in the series.
And the worst part is: even though this is a bluff, this happens a few days after the choking incident and Kevin is actually afraid of Andrew. So instead of calling Andrew out on it, like he would probably usually do, Kevin actually stops talking.
In other words: he is now afraid of the one person who used to protect him and this person is using this as a way to control his behavior.
Wonderful
Gets even better because no one ever touchs this subject again. Is Kevin forever afraid of Andrew now? Or was this just because it happened so soon after the choking? Will Andrew keep on acting like this towards Kevin now?
No idea, we are pretending it didn't happen
To think their relationship was essentially based on kevin's unwavering trust that Andrew could protect him and that is where it is by the end of the three books.
(And this isn't shade on Andrew, but on Nora's writting choices. Andrew gennerally uses violence whenever he feels like there is a threat, but here he seems to do it simply for control and to me it doesn't make much sense with his character at all. It also doesn't make sense with what happens after, because Nora signals Kevin is now afraid of Andrew and doesn't adress it any further. It is a fucking mess)
3-Then we have the shitshow that was the Foxes finding out Wymack is Kevin's dad
I find this one the worst of them all, to be honest. Their reaction bordered on cruelty. It wasn't just the Foxes being the Foxes. It was a complete lack of any consideration for another person.
After Kevin talks to Wymack, he and Neil go back to the Fox Tower and Kevin is clearly on the verge of a panick attack when Neil leaves the car. He has his hand in his face and cannot even speak, gesturing for Neil to go away. Neil interprets the gesture however he wants (as permission to tell the Foxes the truth) and goes up leaving Kevin there.
(Honestly, I believe Neil's intentions were good here, that is not the problem)
Neil gathers everyone and the Foxes react as if Kevin not telling Wymack is the worst absurd ever seen and Kevin is selfish because of it(wonder why the guy who was raised wihtout a father, has scaped a mafia run cult and has no where else to go felt like it was better to not reveal this information). Also, Kevin literally doesn't owe the information about his patternity to anyone. Getting mad at him is fucking WILD.
Dan makes a literal scandal, turns the situation onto something about herself and her feelings and how she is mad because >Kevin< hurt Wymack. No, not Kayleigh, who literally lied in Wymack's face. Not Tetsuji, who had this letter hidden all along and also didn't say anything while he broke and abused Wymack's child for a decade. No, none of them. Kevin. The kid who spent a decade raised as a human pet because his mother trusted the wrong person. He is the one who hurt Wymack.
This gets even worse when we learn Riko almost put a hit out on Wymack as things were. Of course Kevin was cautios about revealling the truth.
The Foxes make sure someone stays with Dan to console and take care of her, meanwhile Kevin was literally left alone on the verge of a mental breakdown inside the car. And he is still down there, alone, inside the car.
Because of course, the one that needs support here is Dan. Makes all sense in the world.
Right after all of this, Kevin is forced to go on that trip he didn't even want to go in the first place, with the team that is now mad at him.
At some point, Dan pushes Kevin aside to talk to him and Matt tells her to NOT STRIKE HIM ANYWHERE IT WILL BRUISE.
We don't get to know if Dan did hit him or not, but there is no excuse whatsoever for what Matt said.
It would already have been absurd if that was anyone else. You don't hit someone for growing up without a dad and being afraid to tell their dad the truth. Kevin had the right to take however long he needed to talk to Wymack. It is not a son's job to tell a father he is a father.
But the fact he said this about Kevin, who would suffer physical abuse constantly, everything in places that either could be hid by clothes or where it wouldn't leave bruisess, is absolutely horrible.
Then both Kevin and Dan come back from that talk and Kevin specifically sits on the OUTSKIRTS, which is how he spends most of the trip.
All those scenes are only made worse when we learn from Jean that Kevin would read Kayleigh's letter all the time. Or when we learn in the EC that Kevin's best non-Exy memory was finding the letter.
Those are just a few examples, all from TKM, which honestly I think is the worst part.
The whole idea of the series is that team unites around Neil and on the process, the rifts between them start to close. By this point in TKM the relationship between all of the Foxes is considerably better than it was during TFC . Of course, it is not perfect, far from it, but definitely better. They are all on their way to healing.
Except Kevin.
His relationship with essentially everyone has gotten worse (except Nicky and Aaron, I feel like it remained the same), he is isolated inside the team and constantly being belittled, berated and more than once the victim of unprovoked physical violence or threats.
The funny part is that he was way more of an asshole in TFC, and still he didn't get treated half as bad as he does in TKM.
So no, Kevin is not a sweet victim of the Foxes mistreatment for most of the time. He knows how to be violent and how to be an asshole. Most of the time he gives as good as he gets. That is what happens during the first two books.
But then we get to the end of TKM and it is just a sequence of the Foxes kicking Kevin while he is already on the ground, and there is no resolution.
(But of course, Kevin and his obsession are very useful when he appears left handed to play against the Ravens. Then he is a part of the team. When he might have been in need of support after the hard conversation he must have had with Wymack, he got a "don't strike him where it will leave a mark". But when he is "dancing circles around the Ravens defense line" then the fact is an obsessive bitch is very useful.)
This is not saying the Foxes are horrible, here the critic is mostly to the writing. Because what we essentially have is an arch of union and proximity between characters of which only one character is excluded. It is bad and it makes honestly amazing characters look horrible for no reason.