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[whatever810]

I feel like we as a fandom don’t talk about Neil’s time on the run as much as we ought to

[starsworth]

i honestly think if mary was presumed dead but showed up post-foxes beating the ravens game that neil would have a fucking heart attack and freak out if she so much as Looked at andrew. she would turn up and neil would immediately be possessed by his entire life worth of mommy issues and as such would seem to be acting So Weird to the other foxes but andrew who Knows The Most about neil's mommy issues is reaching for his knives like Sigh, Here We Go Again, Miss Neil's Mother I Need You To Drive Me Somewhere and mary is like Abram Who Is This Young Knife-Wielding Man and neil is frothing at the mouth like No One He Is Most Absolutely Definitely No One Important At All while vibrating at the speed of light. and ofc in this scenario mary is obviously going to try to get neil to leave with her and neil is like No Im Gonna Stay and mary is immediately like. i see. which one is it. then surveys all the girls like this 😐 until she swiftly decides allison is a no, dan is a maybe, and renee is the most likely option for the girl who has Bewitched Her Son. while neil is like Mom Stop Embarrassing Me Also No Don't Kill Her It's Not Her and then andreil do something weird in front of her and she pauses and stares and is like. wait. boys? and neil is like. well....A Boy. just One Boy. and mary is like 😐 and it just happens to be the One Boy with knives. so you have learned nothing from my mistakes. and neil experiences for the very first time what it's like to be so humiliated by a parent that he considers death as a swift and valid form of escape from the situation.

[starsworth]

i know everyone jokes about neil having an exy kink, but can i just remind you of:

The racquets were arranged by numbers, a pair for each player with Neil's at the end. Neil unhooked one and gave it a slow spin, testing the weight and feel of it in his hand. It was dark orange with a single white stripe at the base of the head and white rope netting. It smelled brand new and felt like a dream, and it was all he could do to keep from smashing the taut net against his face.

he's such a fucking freak 😭 im obsessed w him. he gets an exy racquet that's better than the one he had in millport and he's like. god i need to shove my face in that. genuinely has the impulse to be anything but normal and has to resist it bc he's in front of other people. do we think he gave into the urge later when he was alone and just didn't tell us about it narratively. i do. i think that. neil josten, biggest freak out of all the foxes, and i will die on that hill

[queenautavia]

“i would never have give him to you if you were going to throw him away so carelessly” Jean loved Neil ♥️

[larken-the-skies]

Bruh

[darlingflowersstuff]

Andrew is lowkey (almost) a better liar than Neil bc he had everyone convinced he couldn’t care less.

like, he gives so many fucks,

he cares so much, about everything and everyone, and it’s plain as day when you notice his actions, and yet he had everyone (even some readers) convinced he’s winning the DGAF olympics on aura alone

I see you Andrew Minyard fake DGAF-er

[dustisus]

nicky trying to have heartfelt, tender conversations with andrew like

@canonicallyshort

[lexthe13th]

i literally cannot imagine andreil cuddling in any way that isn’t andrew being neil’s weighted blanket

[cowpants147]

Interviewer: so what's the worst thing about being married to Andrew Minyard?

Neil: my brother-in-law

[queenautavia]

Neil worrying about Andrew black eye being blinded when he literally just got out the hospital for being tortured is my why 

[instigatorjosten]

“I could have been wild and I could have been free, but nature played its tricks on me”

but its Neil spending years jealous of The Kevin Day getting fame, being in the spotlight, getting to play exy and having somewhere he belongs, never having to be on the run

and Kevin spending years jealous of Nathaniel Wesninski, the kid who got away, who escaped the cult, who never knew Riko’s anger or the public’s pressure to perform.

[aceofspades42]

Twinyardstwinyardstwinyardstwinyardstwinyardstwinyardstwinyardstwinyards

[allforthegamefanatic]

no thoughts, just that neil avoided his reflection as if his life depended on it, especially after winter break, but when he looked at the picture of him and andrew dan had taken he didn’t compare himself to nathan or thought that he looked just like him—instead all he could think about was that he looked like a real person, like a fox, like a part of them which would remain long after he was gone.

[queenautavia]

Andrew vehemently denying there’s anything going on with him and Neil

Aaron: “Liar.”

Aaron: “I like Neil’s promise ring.”

Aaron: “Then break up with Neil.”

Aaron: “Says the man dating a mafioso”

Literally just siblings bullying each other

[maddielourd]

Thinking about that time in TKM when Neil punched Aaron and “Aaron took a couple of bored steps out of Neil’s reach and calmly checked the corner of his mouth with his thumb.”

Being bored is not 🚫 a normal human response to being hit. Aaron didn’t even flinch, and I think that shows how traumatized he is because of Tilda that being struck doesn’t even phase him anymore.

It also seems like he does the same trick Neil does where he looks at a person’s arms to judge the safe distance away from them, and I think it’s so sad that they both had to learn how to do that.

[spindellilja]

Anyone mad at Kevin for his fear when it comes to Riko/ the Moriyamas but not at Neil for his fear when it comes to Nathan/ his men is missing the fucking point actually

[akiragatr]

Tumblr is super big on the "I didn't say it was good, I said I liked it" but really need to discover the value in its opposite of "I didn't say it was bad, I said I hated it".

You can acknowledge that something is good, great, a masterpiece even, and just straight-up not enjoy it.