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AFTG brainrot in full force. Trying to get through life and failing without the ongoing threat of the mafia.

[jugofraga]

I love that Jeremy’s thought process is literally: oh we Trojans don’t suppress our anger it’s healthy to express your feelings! Except me :) I’ll keep all my problems buried so deep only the very edges poke out :) have you met my cardboard dog yet?

[foxesandstarscapes]

(tsc spoilers) just a sad thought i had:

(please keep in mind that i’ve just picked up on this a little, and i don’t have any experience in psychology itself. these are just the rambles of someone who loves these books and unfortunate athletes far too much.)

jean and neil have a few things in common in regards to their backgrounds, as i’m sure we’ve all noticed by now.

but the way that nora has written them both shows a clear difference in their trauma responses. neil has spent most of his life on the run, trying to escape from his past and the moment he feels like he’s in trouble, he runs. he tries it so incredibly quickly when he realises that kevin is there to try and sign him. he tries to run from his trauma until there is no running anymore. so instead of viscerally reacting to certain triggers, he’s constantly paranoid and ready to leave at a moment’s notice. he starts to overcome it because he loves the foxes so dearly that he wants to stay and fight for the first time.

jean on the other hand, responds to his past by bottling it all up. he’s more forthcoming than neil, but that’s not by choice, i can imagine. he can’t contain it all, and sometimes he gets overthrown by it and his fear comes out in an unhealthy way, whether it’s lashing out at the world or completely shutting down. he can’t run, because he’s too scared that he can’t escape. that’s why he’s so consumed by it, because he’s never been able to escape it for a moment. he relies heavily on a few select people that know a lot about his situation, because they ground him. he likely knows how bad everything was, but he’s not in a strong enough position mentally to be able to process it to start moving past it, at least not yet.

seems as if it’s a raven response, because kevin tends to do a similar thing every time the situation worsens. he shuts down in his fear, which we’ve seen jean do a couple of times now. strange coincidence really. it makes sense, since they’ve been raised similarly, and showing how the nest has effected them would have probably been punished more.

just something i found interesting really. probably not phrased quite as well as it could be, but i think the point comes across. would love to hear more if anyone who reads this has studied actual psychology in any way.

[meyhew]

neil in aftg can pass off as like… Almost borderline semi-normal kid who’s found himself in insane circumstances when rlly all he wants to do is play a crazy sport because he looks at andrew’s problems and kevin’s lack of spine and riko’s entire existence and he does believe he’s almost borderline semi-normal. just a paranoid liar bc his dad wants to murder him. then u see him from an outsider’s pov and he’s damn near psychotic arranging a hit on someone while on a lunch date with his gangster uncle and the guy who taped his skin back together after continuous torture not even a year ago and he does it without breaking a sweat while stringing up a series of lies to feed to the FBI. character or ALL time

[foxesandstarscapes]

potentially strange headcanon, but i love the idea that after things have calmed down a bit with jean’s situation, jeremy gets renee’s number. for two main reasons:

the obvious one is so he can better learn how to calm jean down and so he knows more how to handle him since he has a feeling that the foxes have a better idea on how to cope with some pretty strict boundaries. she doesn’t tell him much, but she mentions enough. little does jeremy know, some of that advice is what she learned from being friends with a certain blond goalkeeper.

the second one is so he can ask for advice as to how he can keep his hair alive while it grows out and how to stop it from turning orange in time. the fox proceeds to send over a list of all of the products she uses to keep her hair healthy and not brassy.

he takes longer in the shower after this.

[foxesandstarscapes]

neil josten, our beloved menace and son of a literal murderer, or as it was so kindly phrased by jean:

“an abominable cockroach”.

the best description we’ve ever had for him, thank you nora-