illicit affairs is SUCH a Kevjean song. And that’s the thing about illicit affairs and clandestine meetings and longing stares? You CANNOT tell me that this was not Jean’s perspective of Kevin at the Nest. So you leave no trace behind, like you don’t even exist?? Not Jean trying to disappear into the background, to be so quiet and insignificant that the Ravens wouldn’t even notice him. Don’t call me kid? Don’t call me baby?? Look at this idiotic fool that you’ve made me??? You taught me a secret language that I can’t speak with anyone else???? The fucking French. For you I would ruin myself a million little times??? Kevin asking Jean to distract Riko. “Unspoken: You cannot refuse me” FUCK SOMEONE SEDATE ME
I see kevjean everywhere they make me sick they're my otp and I want them at least a timezone apart at all times
channelling Andrew Minyard fr
Every time I think about Neil Josten, I want to punch his stupid, pretty face. How dare he make me feel things
AHHHHH
the thing about neil and jean is that i very much feel like their relationship is mirrored in andrew & aaron's relationship. the 'misplaced forever partner' vs. 'the brother who was given away.'
the way neil was abused but he was KEPT, he had a mother who gave her life to fight for him vs. jean who was sold and forgotten and abandoned, stripped of his own name and his language, who had to survive riko and the master and the complicated dynamics of being perfect court but also property, who had to navigate the nest and all its horrors and hierarchy completely alone.
aaron who was abused, who was beaten and strung along and neglected, but who his mother came back for vs. andrew who was left behind, who never had a last name, who said 'please' so much at seven he can't stand the sound of the word at 21, who was willing to carve pieces from himself for the promise of a scrap of family.
andrew and aaron made a deal and hated each other for it. jean and neil were each others partners - your failure is my failure, your success is my success. andrew, who killed aaron's mother when he found out she was beating him, to hold up his end of the deal. jean, who held neil down to be carved, but who patched him up again after.
aaron, who killed his brother's rapist. and neil who did the same
at some point after tgr, the trojans sit cat down intervention-style
‘cat you CANNOT keep making jean hotter. you taught him how to cook. you taught him how to drive a motorcycle and helped him get his own. you’re getting him to show his soft boy side in public. you helped convince him to be a dog dad cat we CAN’T HANDLE ANY MORE the whole team is obsessed with him and jeremy is DYING can you have some CONSIDERATION cat’
pov Hennessy with From Chaos
does anybody else drunk night sword
this scene was so indulgent, I love it
the most car ride of all time
The fact that JEAN said this to ANDREW about NEIL is actually fucking crazy
“I wouldn’t have given him to you if I’d known you would just throw him away so carelessly.”
neil josten the character that you are. auburn hair and ice blue eyes and a serial killer's smile. the capacity for both extreme cruelty and immense kindness. an honest liar, a brave runaway. someone who is born of two violent, dangerous, immoral people and desperately, desperately doesn't want to be like them (but is a little bit anyway). harsh and brutal and rough around the edges and at the same time so devoted and genuine despite it all. spent his entire life outrunning his past, cutting people loose for his own survival, and was ready to die for the people he called family. never does anything half-hearted (except maybe college, but that's actually completely valid) but throws himself into it and literally puts his life on the line all for the game. bargains for jean's safety and makes an effort to keep him alive and well despite barely knowing him at all. signed his own death warrant by staying at the foxhole court because he wanted to see kevin break free of r*ko and make it to the top (where he belongs). neil josten, who could've been so much more violent and bitter and evil, but remained true and good and would've held onto his integrity and the people he loved till the day that he died. neil josten the character that you are.
forever grateful to all the people who commented “Neil josten??” on a Picrew I made of Wylan van eck with blood on his face
can’t believe that’s how I learned about aftg but it’s fitting
i love that cat took a look at jean (tortured 6’2 huge strong bisexual frenchman sad grey eyes elite athlete tragic homoerotic situationship victim) and said i will make him even hotter. get on this motorcycle.
this is gay sex
knee deep in the passenger seat (of the car my stepfather bought you so you would break up with me)
Andrew with guyliner™️ and Neil with highlighted cheekbones and mascara framing his Bambi eyes™️ (thank you, Allison). They definitely use the back room at Eden’s that night. Nicky is confused where they went, Aaron’s face is pinched with disgust, Kevin’s hanging off the stool mumbling exy stats to no one.
cassandra clare made lucie herondale and kit herondale live 110+ years apart bc she knew theyd be too powerful if they got to interact as canon siblings
Jean would absolutely LOSE HIS SHIT
goldenboy for ur attention
"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there
sometimes i randomly remember jean saying “your brisket lungs” to andrew motherfucking minyard and i LOSE MY SHITTTTTTT
i love tree news
i need more sibling jean + neil interactions. like they’re the same age, both assholes in different fonts, both dating blonds (kind of), like i need fics of them as brothers
Every day I wish Kevin Day was real a little more and more. Like imagine a Kevin day Calvin Klein add
kateaaron
andreil
new and improved articulation that i still cant quite put into words the way i want to. hence diagram.
REAL
oh jean ☺️
this came to me in a vision
something about jean having to live under the ground in the nest for so long but the people he loves are from the sky
renee is a rainbow. kevin is a star. jeremy is the sun.
you know what one really underrated but heartbreaking scene in tda is? that scene in lady midnight after mark comes back, when he lets the kids eat whatever they want for breakfast and makes a mess of the kitchen. everyone’s having fun but then julian comes and sees it and kind of just malfunctions and breaks down.
because julian can never be the fun one. he can never be the one who lets them eat syrup for breakfast, he’s too busy making sure they have actual food to eat for each meal of the day. julian can’t make a mess everywhere and leave it to clean later, he’s too busy running the institute and making sure the kids keep up with their studies and have clothes to wear and are as put together as they can be.
julian never gets to be the fun older brother, because he’s the parent. julian doesn’t get to take things lightly because he’s too busy holding everyone up. julian is serious because he stopped being a child when he lost his last parent aged twelve. julian is serious because the only person in the world he can open up to and share some of his burden with is the one person he can’t have without losing everything. cristina sums it up when she says to mark: he is envious because he loves them but cannot be their brother. he must be their father. in his mind, they dread him and adore you.
julian could never be the fun older brother. because he was too busy being the only parent the blackthorn siblings had left.
oh god, I was thinking how Elodie Moreau and Mina Carstairs could probably look similar, with their dark hair and little duck dresses… aand I’m sad now.
Le petit prince
Is anyone else ever genuinely shocked when you find out you have an impact on someone’s life? A coworker can be like “I’ve missed seeing you” and I’m just like “???? you?? missed me????? My presence has an effect on your daily experience???? I affect things??? W h a t ? ? ?”