Riko Moriyama - Blog Posts

Yessss, and like they're like still super angry and heated but it's kinda charged?!? Like Neil is straddling Riko, putting all of his weight on him so he doesn't move while throwing punches. And Riko gets a punch in and it breaks Neil's nose but the blood drips down and lands on Riko's lips. He licks it in instinct or somthing.

If aftg ever gets a tv show and does not make the scene where Neil and Riko fight as homoerotic as possible I do not want it

Faces a breath apart, one of them has a hand on the other shirt collar, both brawling on the floor, clothes crumpled, hair messy and faces bruised. DO YOU SEE MY VISION?????

I will provide no explanations,,, I want this. I NEED this

If aftg ever gets a tv show and does not make the scene where Neil and Riko fight as homoerotic as possible I do not want it

Faces a breath apart, one of them has a hand on the other shirt collar, both brawling on the floor, clothes crumpled, hair messy and faces bruised. DO YOU SEE MY VISION?????

Rereading AFTG and I totally forgot that Neil and Riko are about the same height. I've been imagining as tall and imposing like Kevin but he's actually just 5'5"

I find it very ironic that Nora named the Moriyama liability "Riko" when the Rico Act of 1970 virtually destroyed Organized crime in America

"The Sunshine Court"

Nora. Where. Is. The. Sunshine.

I don’t feel like there is any sunshine or sunny thing IN THIS MF BOOK FULL OF TRAUMA.

Where is the sunshine Nora… where is it…

“It was not only Riko’s fault, I don’t blame him..- BLAH BLAH BLAH” BITCH???? All the shit he did against everyone in aftg just bc he’s bitchy is really close to being call war crimes

Riko hater 4 lifer🔥

His death was not painful enough, just a shot in his head? Bitch be more creative next time.

Yeah I get it that he also had a fucking shitty childhood but so does EVERYONE else in the books, and yet none of them have done all the shit he did.

(What he did to Neil during Christmas break, all he did to Jean for years, how he treated Kevin, and also Andrew with Drake and Proust)

BURN IN HELL YOU UGLY JAPANESE HOE

Riko spent his free time obsessing over Kevin

Nora confirmed he watched the first time Kevin had sex(he chose the girl) and the first time he had sex with Thea (absolutely not weird at all)

The other way he spent his free time was torturing Jean and also obsessing with him, to the point he noticed Jean liked man just bc of the way he looked at Kevin (I mean, why are you looking so much at the both of them???)

When Neil was in Evermore, part of the torture included cuffing him shirtless to Kevin's old bed (dude, wtf????)

Riko got mad with the idea of having a queer on his Perfect Court, but somebody should have told this kid the call was coming from inside the house all along

“I will not have queers on my court”

The court in question:

Andrew - gay

Neil - has a gay boyfriend

Jean - bisexual disaster

Jeremy - very gay

Kevin - suppressed sexuality to the point of dissociation

Riko - insane internalized homophobia

I was reading the extras and was graced with a chapter, from Renee's POV, on Jean's rescue from the Ravens

And can we just stop to admire how, when she wants, Renee can serve cunt very well??

That peace sign for Riko while leaving in a masseratti with Jean at her side was pure GOLD

Also, fucking telling Zane that Riko can take it up with her if he "has something to say about it" was THE boss move.

Adding the "Im sure he knows where to find me" was the cherry on top of the cake

And that was the day the Ravens fully confirmed that the Foxes dont tolerate Neil's attitude problem, they all have an attitude problem

Anyways, we all stan Renee Walker

Riko can have a little punch in the mouth, as a treat

a question that hasn't let me go since finishing AFTG:

in a timeline where the perfect court worked out, would neil be a striker or a backliner?

while he was at the nest, riko made him play as a backliner but he performed rather poorly, and yet riko marked him #4 for his perfect court.

even though his special potential only showed when he played as a striker for the foxes.

but the perfect court was supposed to be riko (1) and kevin (2) for strikers, and jean called neil his partner that got away or something so we can assume that the planned backliners were jean (3) and neil (4)

did riko really gamble on neil's ability to adjust to being defense, or would he have been a striker sub??

my favourite thing about the perfect court is how they are all parallels of each other - each person could have ended up like one of the others, but they didn’t.

neil could’ve ended up like jean, if his mother hadn’t taken him and run. neil could’ve ended up like riko, if he’d internalised his father’s abuse and tried to earn his affection instead of fearing it. if he’d tried to become someone his father would be proud of - like riko does - he would’ve become heartlessly violent. but he doesn’t.

jean could’ve been like neil, if he’d had just one family member care about him enough to run. he could’ve ended up like kevin, if he’d gone with him when kevin ran. he could’ve been like riko, if he’d taken everything that had been done to him and inflicted it on the world/people around him, but he doesn’t.

kevin could’ve ended up like riko, if he’d twisted tetsuji’s abuse enough to believe that the things he deserved were taken from him. he could’ve ended up like jean, if he’d refused to run after his hand was broken.

riko could’ve ended up like any of them. if an adult had cared about him enough to save him, he could’ve ended up like neil. if he’d hated his father instead of fighting for his attention, or if he internalised the abuse he faced instead of inflicting the same abuse on others, he’d have been more like jean or neil. if he’d accepted his place and decided to fight for the things he did have - exy, kevin - he’d have been more like kevin. but he doesn’t.

yes, their situations are largely shaped by the people around them - riko, jean, and kevin (until he learns about wymack) do not have an adult in their lives that cares about them enough to change their situation. but it’s also their individual responses to their abuse that shapes how they act. i’m not trying to say that people get to choose their trauma response, but it’s important that riko and neil parallel each other because we’re shown the could have beens. it shows you that it really only takes one person to change everything - mary taking neil and running is so so so important for how neil’s character and personality and trauma response turns out.

neil could’ve ended up like riko, but he doesn’t. riko could’ve ended up like neil, but he doesn’t.

Kevin Day

Andrew is medusa,

Renee is Athena.

Kevin is Icarus,

Riko is his sun.

I can’t get over my obsession with Aftg, Neil, or Andrew

I still think about the fact that according to Nora, the man Neil and Kevin watched the Butcher murder in the East tower when they were kids was an assassin who came to murder Riko. And Riko MADE Kevin and Neil watch to send them a message. Especially Neil (you're dad works for ME and I can make him kill you too).

Then at the end of TKM Neil watches with satisfaction as Riko is murdered by his own brother who Neil manipulated into killing him. In the same east tower.

Also Tetsuji who tried to force Neil to bow was forced to bow his own head while his protégé was killed beside him and his exy career and legacy forever diminished.

Neil didn't just beat these guys at Exy is what I'm saying. Then he goes back to his team with a big grin on his face

When Jean thinks this about Neil RIGHT before the game where this all goes down:

"The smile that curved Nathaniel’s mouth was slow and hungry and hateful. It twitched a bit as Nathaniel tried to force it away, but he finally had to use the side of his hand to smooth it off his face. The look he turned on Jean was almost serene, but Jean still saw the madness in his eyes.”

I mean the layers to this are so good, I'm obsessed with the Neil/Nathaniel dynamic that goes on inside Neil

cat, laila and jeremy would've killed riko with hammers i can tell you that much