Ichirou Moriyama - Blog Posts

IVE FINSISHED THE KINGS MAN GIYS OMG THAT WAS SO FUCKING LONG BUT LIKE JESUS CHRIST I LOVE THIS SERIES SO MUCH I ALMOST FORGOT HOW MUCH, Jeremy there like 😊 when handing over the list of his teams players for the match like omg you go boy you radiating sunshine engery, rikos death the way ichiro cradles rikos cheek like the thoughts that would have been going through his head (he's a bad person don't get me wrong he's awful but like to only meet his brother when his brother wants to kill him is somthing)

'now he couldn't help but smile and pull andrew in, this was everything he wanted, everything he needed and Neil was never letting go.' LIKE OMG WAY TO FUCKING END THE BOOK, I'm never gonna shut up eved again I was like simmering in this series for years never again I'm gonna be so annoying that I will not apologise for it because woooo fun

i always thought that too because Nathan wasn't doing anything that would have him to have to give up nathaniel as a way to get out of debt and like we know due to the ec and canon that Kevin, riko, and neil had all seen someone cut up in one of the towers at edger Allen so it's not far fetched to think that neil would have still been trained by his father in the towers and got all the other training via being perfect court because why would kendo even allow riko to break neil in the same ways he broke Kevin and jean it doesn't make sense if neil is to take after his father

okay my personal thought and assumption has always been that Neil would have had a totally different Nest experience than Kevin or Jean did. I had always assumed that he wasn’t getting sold off to the Moriyamas to repay a debt but that he was getting placed in an environment to be groomed into Nathan 2.0, for when Ichirou took over. Like the violence of the nest to train him and isolation from his parents so he had only loyalty to the Moriyamas. So that eventually when Kengo died and Ichirou took over there was a replacement for Nathan ready and (hopefully) willing to go

A random take but outside of the drama I feel like Aaron and Ichirou would get along.

how many of us think that the Butcher's trial/case, and Neil and Jean's involvement in it, will be an event that plays a large role in the plot of the next book?

i didn't really think of it too seriously during tsc just because these books are about Jean and Jeremy, not Neil who is obviously the primary witness/corroborator for the case. but now with tgr, there have been multiple instances of the fbi and Neil himself bringing Jean further into the case as well. such as with Neil and Stuart ensuring the fbi's discovery of the Moreau's connection to the Butcher at the end of tsc, the subsequent arrest of Jean's parents in tgr, and of course the fbi stepping in to provide housing to Jean, Laila, and Cat when their house burns down, specifically outlined as being done to protect (and bribe/monitor?) a witness in said case until the trial ends.

in the discussion about the housing with Browning and Owens, they imply that the trial should be finished within the school year. so obviously it'll be happening at the very least in the background like we saw with Aaron's trial, but given these examples of Jean's perceived importance to the case by the fbi, i think it's likely that his involvement will play a larger role than i originally thought in the plot of the next book. (books? i'm still convinced there's too much to cover in only one more book, especially if this ends up being a part of it)

how he is involved, however, i'm wondering if will be different than we or even Jean is thinking. he specifically says to the agents in the housing discussion that he has provided them with the little amount of information he has and knows nothing else of worth for this case. and that's true... except for the exclusion of his knowledge on the Moriyamas. Browning's response to Jean stating that he was of no more use to them was “i guess we'll see”. i have a niggling suspicion that the fbi might be starting to look further than face value into either the potentially (though we know it's certain) extensive violence and abuse (and murder) that occurred in Evermore, or maybe even considering a connection between the Butcher and the Moriyamas and/or the Ravens given the concern brought up by Neil in tsc over why his appearance changed after going to the Nest in trk and Jean's early induction into the Ravens now that the fbi believes his family was working with the Butcher. or both given that one leads to the other.

i don't think this line of questioning will go far, considering how little it seems the fbi knows about the Moriyamas true business and the fact that we know that Neil, Jean, and Kevin continue to play exy in contract with Ichirou well into the future, but i wonder if this will become the primary issue in Jean's involvement in the trial with him having to validate his connection and knowledge about the Butcher and Neil without revealing anything about the Moriyamas, as we have already seen him having to censor himself about during the discussion with the agents.

and finally, if all of this comes to be true, i wonder if Jean's concern (likely terror) at being involved in this trial due to the Moriyamas and the complications that inevitably arise because of that, becomes how his contract and the real Moriyama business gets revealed to Jeremy, at the very least, but likely (hopefully) Cat and Laila as well... because as we know, where Jean goes those three follow and Jean will choose them right back.

I told my friend about Edgar Allan ravens, the nest and moriyama lore, the image she had in mind when I finished was this

accurate much?