badacts:

i feel like you’re full-naming me and honestly? i’m kinda into it

things that make kevin happy:

• learning, because kevin loves to learn, especially history, but he’s one of those people who always seems to know random facts about all kinds of topics
• …learning to ski
• thea, because she’s beautiful and intelligent and skilled and takes no shit from him or anyone else. also because she has a wicked sense of humour, and because she brings out just a little of that in him
• his dog, who likes to go running with him but is really bad at fetch and also really bad at not being a naughty brat, because it turns out kevin isn’t great at training dogs? andrew compares the dog to neil when he watches it blatantly ignore kevin yelling at it as it bolts across the park after a squirrel
• kevin likes the park squirrels, too. they’re really cute. thea calls them fluffy-tailed rats which kevin finds genuinely offensive
• seeing the foxes succeed – watching dan’s team win, seeing aaron graduate and nicky get married, even the other pros beating him with their teams makes him smile a little
• knowing that, even though their relationship will never be great, jean is happy and healing
• helping people. he’s not renee, but there’s something nice in giving back. he gets into philanthropy and allison rings him once a fortnight to recommend charities and also make fun of him
• buying a house and making it his own, because he’s never really had a space of his own since he was a kid. he gets super into design shows and thea has no time for it at all. they do, however, spend a weekend painting rooms in colours kevin picks. kevin gets paint in his hair and it’s a big thing with his fans for weeks afterwards
• his mother, because grief fades a little with age and leaves him more and more able to appreciate the memories
• wymack and their relationship which gets more and more established with time, less fox-coach and more father-son in all the good ways. they dad-barbeque together, and wymack is the best babysitter in the world, probably because he got lots of practice with the foxes. also, kevin is terrible at taking exy advice from wymack, but he drinks up all of the actual-functional-adult advice
• his daughter, who is mostly thea with a touch of him thrown in, and who has him absolutely wrapped around her finger as she traverses the world with twice the confidence kevin has ever had
• travelling, the kind where he stands on the top of a hill he climbed up, looking at the view and being impressed that he made it in the broader sense that, hey, he’s still alive, and that’s something worth celebrating

and everyone reacts like you would expect – they’re pretty goddamn happy to see him happy