Stickball Josten

I caved. It’s orange now.

[lefreck]

Okay but what if Andrew, at Bee’s suggestion, starts picking up hobbies to try and work out what he actually does and doesn’t enjoy now he’s let himself actually like things. So he starts doing craft but that’s fiddly and he doesn’t have the patience so he tries something else and the list goes on and on and suddenly Andrew has so many hobbies to do in his free time and sometimes Neil will come to yoga with him in the mornings or Renee will watch one of his judo tournaments and he’ll take pho broth round to Abby’s in ziplock bags so she can keep it in the freezer, suddenly there’s skateboards and hiking boots and sheet music cluttering up the apartment but Neil couldn’t care less because his husband is so happy and Bee is so fucking smug about this multitalented rage machine who used to carry knives everywhere he went but who now plays piano after practice while the pasta sauce is simmering.

[irisbythegoogoodolls]

does anyone else remember the foxhole court bc that was so insane. for awhile the biggest thing on tumblr was a self published book series that no one outside of this website has ever heard of and that was never even published in physical form about a guy who fakes his name, age (by one year) and identity to join a sports team for a fake sport that the author invented for the series despite the fact that it was literally just lacrosse, after being on the run and changing his name hundreds of times because his mobster dad tried to sell him to a rival sports team that was actually owned by the japanese mafia. or something like that. and then every single subsequent thing that happened was somehow more batshit soap opera plotlines. this was literally the most popular book series on tumblr and was put on book rec lists alongside like, the great gatsby and donna tartt books. if I didn’t remember it so clearly I would assume I hallucinated this

[irisbythegoogoodolls]

oh and to be clear this series was not set in japan, the japanese mafia just owned an american college sports team and was super invested in it for some reason

[irisbythegoogoodolls]

getting some wildly varied feedback on this post

[lazyleezard]

i bet both the cats and their parents are a bit of a myth in the local vet’s clinic

based on this post

[neil-jortsen]

once andrew and aaron get closer they’ll 100% be able to do the twin thing™️

you know, the one where they can look at each and know exactly what the other person is thinking.

one time while playing against breckinridge, aaron gets knocked over and immediately looks to andrew to signal he’s fine, andrew quirks a brow, and aaron rolls his eyes and almost laughs. kevin looks between them in bewilderment.

another time andrew knocks on aaron’s door, swinging his keys around a finger, and aaron stares for a bit, obviously thinking, before nodding. andrew glances at his pre-med homework and quirks a brow and aaron shrugs. the only words spoken are when andrews leaving and aaron calls out “mint chip.”

no one else understands but they do this ALL THE TIME, the rest of the foxes are so confused, but it makes them so happy to see them get along

still it’s reaches new heights when aaron proposes to katelyn, and the moment he walks back to his dorm before he even says a word, andrew meets his eyes and lets out a long suffering sigh.

the rest are completely unaware of what’s happening as andrew raises his hand and waggles his ring finger in the air, making aaron gasp, looking between neil and his twin.

and that’s, THATS, how the foxes finally learn that neil and andrew are fucking married and that aaron just asked katelyn for her hand in marriage.

how andrew and aaron can do this terrifies them, but it’s also fucking hilarious and gives them plenty more betting material.

[theravenkin]

autistic andreil hcs:

neil gets super understimulated in class and he stims by clenching his jaw or chewing on things so he ends up chewing all his pens and pencils to shreds. they look like he was trying to eat them. sometimes he chews all the way through them. when andrew scolds him for it, he's like i can't help it i gotta bite i gotta chomp i just have to. so andrew gets him a teething toy from the baby section at the store, as a joke (or he acts like it's a joke). but neil starts using these, mainly the bigger ones that are kinda squishy and have the lil nibs on them. people look at him weird but he doesn't care. someone is like "is that...a chew toy?" he's like, "yeah my boyfriend got it for me cus i kept chewing on my pens and he was tired of it" and everybody actually finds it kinda cute and funny

andrew cant stand silence, so he makes lil noises when it's too quiet, like tapping or snapping or thumping or whatever. unfortunately, these sounds make neil die inside and he desperately tells andrew to stop. andrew does, because he understands, but then they have to start playing soft music or background noise when they're hanging out in a quiet room together. they settle on lofi and it's actually kinda nice, they find, to listen to lofi and drink coffee and/or study and/or snuggle together, just the two of them.

andrew usually wears noise cancelling airpods 24/7 (my hcs are modern au by default get off my dick) because he likes to block out the sound even if he's not listening to music (also it deters people from trying to interact with him, which is a plus). he buys neil some after the first time he notices neil cringing at a certain noise. later, watching them attached to each other's sides wearing matching armbands, matching airpods, and matching blank expressions become kinda comical (or kinda scary depending on how you look at it)

neil almost exclusively wears oversized fleece-lined sweatshirts as soon as the temperature dips below 75. if he doesn't have any sweatshirts left, like if they're all in the wash or if the only ones he has left Don't Feel Right, he simply won't go to class

nicky introduces him to oversized knitted sweaters, though. which he begins scouting thrift stores for and wearing frequently. nicky got him one that is striped with pastels and was probably knitted by somebody's grandma in the 90s and it's so heavy it's like a weighted blanket. neil wears it at least 3x a week. it's adorable

while andrew has been listening to almost entirely the same music since he was fifteen, neil has adhd as well and thus has very eclectic music taste (this is my experience as someone with both). like he'll make a playlist of like ten songs he likes and listen to only those songs 24/7 for like three weeks. then they start making him feel gross and claustrophobic because he's been listening to them so much so he'll have to find a few songs in a COMPLETELY different genre and then repeat the cycle. so he'll go from like indie pop to death metal to hyperpop to showtunes in the span of like two months. lofi is always a staple for him though, it just doesn't give him the dopamine spike that he gets from other music

(you know what almost always gives him the dopamine spike though? kpop lmao)

anyway, can you tell i'm projecting? there will almost certainly be more of these but i'll leave it here for now. (gotta speculate about andrews special interest at some point right?) send me any requests for aftg hcs please!!

[the-chicken-or-the-banana]

part 2 here <3

andrew is very loud about being gay.

he doesn't really "flaunt it" that much in college

but it gets to the point where he just wants to prove to kevin that yes, he can be successful and gay

so really, it all starts with a bet

anyway. neil has so many videos of andrew getting drunk in front of him and waxing poetic about boys (one in particular)

"neil. neil. this guy has such nice eyes. and ass"

*sigh* "andrew that's a picture of me"

"woahhhh"

but these are (mostly) all private moments

andrew isn't super open in front of others, considering how reserved he is in public

that all changes four years after going pro.

there are some days where queer people just feel exceptionally us and we just want to tell everyone we know

(but being closeted kinda... makes that hard. ahem.)

andrew isn't exempt from these feelings

and one day, the morning of a major interview, he's just hit with the sudden urge to tell someone that he's gay

it's bursting inside him, a physical feeling he can't push down behind the apathy

he tries to ignore it as best as he can and goes to the interview with his team

it's pretty chill. the team is playing a game called "Truth or Drink", where if you don't say truth... you drink?

so everyone's getting tipsy while andrew sits quietly in the corner of the sofa

eventually, one of his teammates realizes that no one had asked andrew anything yet, so when it's her turn, she turns to andrew

"andrew! truth or drink?"

andrew blinks slowly, a bit surprised that the question was directed to him

he considers his options. that weird feeling is still bubbling up inside his stomach and he figures alcohol will probably make things feel worse

so after a moment, he glances up at her and says quietly "truth"

she looks gleeful

after a bit of drunk conferring with some other teammates, she faces andrew with a glint in her eyes

"so," his teammates lean forward. "do you have a girlfriend?"

andrew groaned internally. of course this is the one thing they'd ask their most private, closed-off teammate

"no," he scowled. he was going to leave it at that, really, but his mouth moved faster than his mind and before he could stop himself, he blurted out "i do have a boyfriend though"

there was a moment of silence

then everyone started talking over each other, asking questions and demanding to learn more. andrew slumped in his seat, mentally preparing for the next 30 minutes

a few days later, the interview drops

predictably, the internet goes wild

fans speculate wildly about which guy andrew minyard could possibly be dating

it ranges to other exy players to celebrities to random students from PSU

neil and andrew don't come out for a while though

but in that gap, between andrew being out as gay and actually revealing that he's dating neil abram josten, andrew is pretty vocal about his sexuality

it starts with donations to LGBTQ+ groups and messages of support on social media

lots of sports fans (and people in general) understand how revolutionary it is to have an out athlete of this caliber

so they're constantly putting out encouraging messages

and after all this support, andrew eventually becomes a bit more... lax about what he posts

it starts with this on twitter:

yeah... andrew breaks the internet again

nicky tweets out an unholy amount of keyboard smashes

and andrew just... keeps posting gay memes

you can't go a single interview without andrew randomly interjecting the fact that he's gay

there are compilations on youtube like "andrew minyard being a gay icon for 17 minutes" or "20 minutes of andrew minyard being fruity af"

(andrew finds these far too funny — every time he comes across one of these, he just has to share it on social media)

andrew ends up on the face of so many queer magazines and pride events and such

of course, there are some shitty homophobic people

but every time a kid comes up to him and tells him how he inspired them to come out, those people become easier and easier to forget about

needless to say, by the time he and neil come out, andrew's already pretty comfortable with sharing his sexuality on the internet

being out as a couple, though? well, that's just a whole other story

LOOK OUT FOR PART 2 IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS it's abt andrew and neil coming out istg it's a mess but a very fun one lmao

[kevinssexy-deactivated20220310]

neil: surgery is basically stabbing people back to life

aaron: i hate you

[anonknown-deactivated20230720]

Superstitions in Exy

Okay so as an athlete TM, I know that in a lot of the sports I’ve played, down to the one I decided to focus on, superstition is like…a big thing for some of them. I just feel this deep in my bones: Exy players are superstitious as fuck. Here is some of the weird shit they do or believe. 

Kevin is one of those people who has an intricate tapping sequence of his racket on the ground that he does without realizing and then turns around and says that having superstitions makes you a weaker player

Andrew hears him say this and takes up drinking monster or mountain dew during games exclusively, claiming it was for good luck. He’s not superstitious, he’s just a menace 

Jean doesn’t step on the painted lines of a court before games, but Jeremy is the only one who has confirmed that this is superstition, but won’t tell. There are theories though

Fruit is sold at some exy stadiums, but never grapes. This is because once, a pro player was eating some before a game and choked, causing him to be hospitalized and the team to lose, booting them out of the finals. Neil once tried to bring grapes onto the court because he thought it was stupid, and he nearly caught another racket to the stomach, this time from Dan

Allison thinks that if she does bad practice the week before the first game, its good luck because she’s getting all the bad mojo out In warm ups, if Allison does bad, it has the same effect 

The Trojans have admitted to wearing weird underwear to important games (uncomfortable, strange pattern, thong, etc.) under/over their usual underwear so that they are more distracted by that than their nerves. (Knox openly admitted to wearing a gold thong at the national championships that they won) 

Most teams choose an MVP for every game (some for good vibes, others for example, and the more competitive teams do it for motivation) 

Matt has whoever the MVP of the last game was slap him in the face as hard as they can before every game for ‘adrenaline’? 

Aaron wears the pair of socks he was wearing during the national championships for every important playoff game 

Exy is one of the sports where basically every team hits to top of the door frame when the step onto the court. If they can’t reach it, someone will discreetly lift them. Andrew hits it with his stick

Dan absolutely refuses to lend or be lent a racket because she thinks its bad luck 

There will be a part two, because this was getting super fucking long. Also, if you have any superstitions you’d like to see on here, send them as asks, reblogs or comments and I’ll assign them.

[witherwaxian]

Right, we know neil can perfectly mimic a british accent thanks to his mother, but something I’ve never seen anyone bring up: Kayleigh Day was Irish. So I firmly believe Neil and Kevin can whip out near perfect accents and slang.

Neil: oi mate fancy a bit o’ the old game? Bloody get on with it, pull on your trainers, ‘n after we can go for a cuppa?

Kevin: Git off me arse Neil, I aint actin teh maggot. You’re teh one bein’ a bit o’ a dosser. After we’re through, ‘m goin out to get right locked.

Nicky, trying not to cry: what are you s a y i n g

[xpyrox]

AFTG as a TV show

-All the actors are all the right heights

- The twins’ actors are actually best friends in life but bully each other all the time on set. If anyone else says something bad they will defend each other

- Nicky’s actor is actually gay and speaks out for gay rights

- Neil’s actor is actually British

- Kevin’s actor played lacrosse as a kid and everyone makes fun of him for it

- Dan’s actor and Matt’s actor say they are not dating but no one believes them

- They are all crazy on set

- There are tons of photos and videos of them all going out

- Renee’s actor brings in baked good

- Andrew’s actor sleeps like the dead and every morning Aaron’s actor comes to set and then goes back out because he has to wake up his twin

- Allison’s actor has the best style and wins red carpet awards

- Wymack’s actor is a famous actor

- Wymack’s actor and Abby’s actor are married

- They are all activists

- They all play the characters super well and you fall in love with them again

- They spent so much time getting all the make up and scarring 

- Nei’s actor and Andrew’s actor become really good friends and there is a video of Andrew’s actor pushing Neil off the roof onto a matt

- There is a video of Andrew’s actor and Dan’s actor debating about ice cream flavors for an hour

- When they were filming the sleep pile scene they all fell asleep and the directors left them there

- Rico’s actor getting abused by fans and the other actors having to have a conversation with fans about the difference between an actor and the person they’re portraying

- Matt’s actor did actually have problems with drugs as a kid and speaks out against them

- They all take naps all the time

- They got group tattoos at the end

- Aaron’s actor has a hard time being scared of Andrew’s actor because he has seen do the stupid stuff over the years

- They all learned a lot from each other because for all of them this was one of there first big jobs and it is a big deal

- There is a photo somewhere with the whole cast and the author

- They brought in a real coach to make sure all the sports scenes were right

- Wymack’s actor is the narrator which means every time one of them does something stupid it cuts to him sighing and taking a very long drink

- When they won an award Neil’s actor gave a super heartfelt speech about how the show has changed him forever and how they will all be some of his favorite people and when the camera cuts to the audience you can see all of them crying

- After Aaron kills Drake there is a video of Aaron’s actor telling his twin that he would have done the same thing in real life

- When they win and they are all cheering Matt’s actor, Nicky’s actor, and Kevin’s actor pick up the twins and Neil’s actor so they can be seen

- There are videos of Renee’s actor and Andrew’s actors trying to learn how to use knives and they keep dropping them

- The soundtrack is super dramatic but also for sad scenes it is perfect and slow

-Reene’s actor and Andrew’s actor did a romance movie together in the past

- Jeremy’s actor and Kevin’s actor are childhood best friends

- Nicky’s parents are played by Nicky’s actor’s real parents

- On day one when Neil runs away from Wymack when they tried to film it Neil’s actor tripped and fell all over the place and everyone started laughing. That pretty much set the mood for the whole show.

- There is a video of Kevin’s actor and Andrew’s actor running around at midnight practices while Neil’s actor is filming and laughing

- Nicky’s actor does act like the mother hen of the twins and they pretend to hate it but really he becomes like an older brother to them

- The cast bets just as much as the foxes if not more. They take it so seriously that when they are winning awards you can see money being handed around in the audience and Wymack’s actor rolling his eyes.

- Each charter will get to have a scene about there background showing what their life used to be like

- There has to be lines from the books

[i-dvnt-share]

Geborgenheit

Geborgenheit; there isn’t a direct German-English translation for this word, but it’s beautiful, and means (to the best of my understanding thanks to 2 anons) the feeling of safety / security in an embrace from a loved one (most commonly a baby in a mother’s arms but it can also apply to the security of an SO’s embrace.

// this is gonna be a mix of HCs and a fic so bare with / and it’s sad and happy and focuses on Nicky / so fuck all your hearts / also fluffy af cause I’m dying from all the angst I’ve been writing lately// (Anyone who knows German better than I do please tell me if this is the correct interpretation of this word and also how to pronounce it please)

So it’s Nicky’s Junior year at Palmetto, and things start getting bad in his head again

Aaron has Katelyn and is rooming with Matt

Andrew has Neil

Neither twin really talks to him anymore; he’s always the one making the first move

Neil is vice captain and the lil idiot is cocky af now and doesn’t even need Nicky’s fashion advice anymore cause Andrew done his own kind of intervention at the end of the season when they won against the Ravens, and threw out all of Neil’s old and unfashionable clothes while Neil was out on a “Date” with Allison who of course knew Andrew’s plan cause he had told her about it to make sure she kept Neil out long enough - now Neil always looks as well-dressed as a mannequin or model (save for when he’s fresh off the court or is lazy af and just in sweats and a Fox hoody)

Kevin is more connfident and back to being Kevin Day Son of Exy and doesn’t need protection anymore cause they’re all safe

The girls will graduate at the end of the year

And none of the Cubs (freshmen) are really bothered with Nicky

and he starts feeling really lonely

He gets depressed again

It starts slowly, so slowly he doesn’t even notice the signs;

he eats less

he gets bored of his videogames

he only practices when he has to

and at those practices Kevin’s snide remarks hurt more than they did before

he loses interest in a lot of things

and it’s only when Aaron asks him to come out with him and Katelyn to dinner and Nicky turns them down that he realises something’s wrong

When he realises he’s depressed again it hurts so much

he thought he was stronger than this and past this part of his life

it’s a downwards spiral fast

At first he tries to compensate for it by being brighter and louder than ever

but that quickly fades and he gets really quiet and withdrawn

everyone notices but at the same time no one notices

Except the twins and Neil

not that Nicky is aware of this

(Conversation between twins and Neil:

Aaron: “Does Nicky seem different to yous since we got back from summer?”

Neil: “He’s been quieter than usual.”

Aaron: “He’s not been that mad about anything either. Not even Eden’s.”

Andrew: “Idiots, the both of you.”

Aaron and Neil: “???”

Andrew: “He’s depressed again.”

Aaron: “Fuck.”

Neil: “Can we fix him?”

Andrew: *glare cause by now they’ve been dating for months and how tf does Neil not know there’s no cure for depression?!*

Neil: “I mean can we help him?”

Aaron: “How though?”

Andrew: “Sometimes I wonder how you two survive without me.” *walks out room*)

Unbeknownst to Nicky, Andrew calls Erik

He doesn’t tell him what’s going on, just tells him to fucking Skype-call Nicky and then call him back after cause after seeing his face Erik will get why Andrew called in the first place

So Erik skypes Nicky later that night, and doesn’t tell him about Andrew calling him

As soon as Erik sees Nicky’s eyes he knows though

They talk and Nicky tries to be happy - Erik’s calling and Germany is only two years away and he just has to hold on and Erik is gorgous as ever - but his smile never reaches his eyes

“Nicky what’s wrong?”

“What do you mean?” - he can’t lie to Erik but fuck the boy will try to deny / avoid the issue as much as possible

“Babe I haven’t seen your eyes this sad since we first met.”

Nicky goes silent and still at that cause fuck fuck fuck

“It’s getting bad again, isn’t it?” But Erik didn’t need to ask

Nicky breaks down and everything comes out

They end up talking for almost 4 hours

Nicky ends the call with a half-hearted “I gotta go I’ve got class first thing” (it’s 3am by now) and even though Erik knows Nicky will have a really shitty sleep he goes with it and hangs up

Erik calls Andrew, who picks up on the second ring cause of course he’s still awake (he’s actually on the roof cause he had a nightmare and had to get out of the room)

Erik: “How long?”

Andrew: “Since we came back from summer.”

Erik: “Shit.”

Andrew: “We’ve got a game on next Friday.”

Erik: “??? Good luck???” *why the subject change???*

Andrew: “Check your E-mail.” *hangs up*

That Friday, of course, is the game

Unbeknownst to literally everyone but Andrew, Erik flew in on Thursday and stayed at a hotel

(if anyone wants me to write what happened when Andrew picked him up from the airport LMK)

The Foxes win cause duh

But Nicky gets hit really bad part way through second-half, and spends the rest of the game in Abby’s room getting patched up and hugged

After the game (following Andrew’s instructions) Erik follows the crowd into the concession area, but ducks out the way and hides in the restrooms for 10 minutes before going back up to the stands and down to the inner ring (instructions told him there are no alarms on the court doors) and he follows it along to the door he assumes leads to the foyer / lounge, and when he opens it the girls and Matt are on the couch and Aaron’s getting suffocated by Katelyn cause she’s a regular now

“Can we help you?” Renee asks and all eyes go to Erik

“Uhm I’m Erik-” Of course they hear his accent straight away and “OMG THE ERIK?!” is shreiked at high volume

“Yeah?”

“Nicky didn’t tell us  you were coming fuck we would’ve gotten you better seating and like access to our door instead of having to deal with all that stuff!!!”

“Nicky doesn’t know.. Andrew invited me.”

Obviously this shuts everyone up

At that moment Neil and Andrew appear from the changing room

“Down that hall, first door on the left. Knock once and just go in - always works for me.” It’s all Andrew says but it’s more than anyone was expecting

Erik goes down the hall and everyone is staring at Andrew

“‘Drew?”

*Bored glare* “You said you wanted to help him.”

Neil grins like a puppy

Erik does as Andrew said and knocks once on the first-aid door before opening it

“Andrew, are you alri-” Abby starts cause of course Andrew is the only one of the Foxes who only knocks once, but then she turns around and sees this person is very clearly not 5′0 Andrew Joseph Minyard

“Can I help you?” she asks cause the woman is polite til the end

Nicky’s sitting on the bench with his gaze on the floor and a bottle of Andrew’s whiskey in his hand

“Nicky?” It’s all Erik can manage cause he hasn’t seen Nicky look so utterly shit since the first few weeks in Germany

Nicky’s head bolts up at Erik’s voice and the boy is frozen for 2 seconds before he somehow jumps across the room  to Erik

“Oh, you should have told us you had invited him!” Abby says cause obviously there’s only one person who could cause that reaction from Nicky

Nicky has 458438572085 thoughts running through his head but the only one that actually forms itself into words is “I didn’t.”

Erik smiles - “Your cousins care more about you than you think”

Nicky looks shocked and then like he’s going to cry

Abby excuses herself but just before she shuts the door she says “I’d say ‘no sex on the bench’ but you’re related to the twins so I know it’s pointless” or something to that effect

Nicky squawks when he realises what she said a few seconds later

But Erik laughs and kisses him and 4357873 of the thoughts disappear; the other 458434214212 thoughts all fight each other cause yeah they’re everything he wants to do with Erik

They stay in the room for what feels like forever but is actually 10 minutes

And yes they wind up on the bench but they don’t fuck they just cuddle

Nicky’s crying but it’s happy tears this time

There’s a single knock on the door before Andrew opens it

Aaron and Neil are behind him

Aaron is still confused af and Neil looks more curious but Andrew looks as bored as ever

“You two want a lift or not?”

Nicky wipes his nose - the poor boy is a hot mess

“Wait wait which one of you two invited him?”

“Andrew,” Erik says after neither answer

Nicky’s shocked ok this cousin he was convinced didn’t give a single shit about anything - who he thought couldn’t give a shit about anything not even Neil - is the one who bothered to invite Erik out of the blue

And then Erik shows how fucking amazing he is in one simple minute; he holds his arm out to Andrew, the universal for “Want a hug?”

Of course Nicky, Aaron and Neil start to tell him “Don’t bother he doesn’t do hugs” but then Andrew moves

He goes over and lets Erik hug him - Erik’s smart so he knows to only hug around Andrew’s shoulders and it’s a quick hug but it’s still the most shocking thing ever to Aaron and Nicky (Neil is grinning like fuck in the background)

And Nicky just makes some inhuman noise and hugs Andrew really close to him cause this tiny man has done so fucking much for him

Andrew toleraes it and Nicky lets go after almost 10 seconds

He goes to appologise but Andrew shuts him up when he brushes Nicky’s tears away

“Fucking idiot.” *walks back to Aaron and Neil*

Needless to say Erik and Nicky go back to the hotel (Andrew drives them there without question actually without being asked, and drives off without comment and ignores the look Neil and Kevin give him)

The pair stay there for the whole weekend (mostly naked the majority of the time) and just talk (amongst other stuff)

Nicky is 110% going to Germany for Christmas  this year

Andrew drives them to the airport and waits on the hood of his car while Nicky sees Erik off, and lets Nicky sit in the passenger seat on the way back to the dorm

“Thank you,” Nicky says and Andrew looks at him for a few seconds before letting some of the mask fall and Nicky can see his mouth quirk and the hint of something in those eyes as his little cousin says “Don’t fucking let it get that bad again or I swear to your God I will send you to Germany for the rest of college” and Nicky can hear something in Andrew’s tone that isn’t bored detatchment for the first time since he came off his meds

It’s almost enough to make him cry again but he swallows and nods

From then on the twins make sure to drag Nicky along with them and Neil asks him if they can go shopping the week after cause he needs more comfy stuff and Andrew threatened to crash the car if Neil tried to drag him along

It takes time, but Nicky heals again - he has his family back, and he realises he never really lost them in the first place

[mitskihost]

Kevin Day and his Punk Girlfriend

(now has a pt 2)

we all talk about bi!kevin with a cute boyfriend BUT consider kevin w a punk gf and he just loves her Alot. yes this is inspired by bluesey no i will not be taking questions

- the first time he sees her, it’s at eden. she’s wearing a leather skirt and a band shirt, and she’s sitting alone by the bar until some jackass comes to disturb her. kevin watches from a distance as she pours her drink down his pants after several minutes of conversation and she only flips him off as he walks away angrily. he doesn’t go up to her, partly because he fears she’ll spill a drink on him too, and partly because he can’t find the courage too (he knows he’s free now, but it’s still takes times to adjust)

- he thinks it’ll be easy not to think about the girl, between games and classes and his wild team, he’s barely got time to think about himself. he only thinks about her once though, when jean says that he’s dating jeremy and he’s proud of himself; he thinks of her fierce eyes and imagines what they would look like staring at him. and then he tries to never think about her again.

- except she turns up everywhere. she’s sitting on the campus lawns with her guitar and a notepad (kevin sees a tattoo along her calf and finds himself thinking about it for days). she’s cheering her vixen friends on during one of the games (kevin thinks he imagines her looking his way at one point). he runs into her in the library one monday morning, reading the only copy of a book he was searching for (nicky would’ve screamed at him for not taking the opportunity, but what nicky doesn’t know, doesn’t harm him)

- the first time she sees him, it’s at a diner the foxes chose to eat at one night. she’s two booths down, he thinks she didn’t notice him. but she did, she recognized the queen tattoo and the straight nose and the shy mouth. she only waved at him before he left.

- the first time they spoke, it was at an after game party. he’s only there because dan demands it and she’s only there because she’s allowed to chose the music. it takes four drinks and some breathing exercises before kevin gathers the strength to talk to her. it goes terribly. but she laughs, and then clutches his elbow as she laughs louder at his next comment. the night starts with them talking about the game and ends with her number scribbled on a paper that he shoves in his wallet.

- it takes more time for kevin to actually open up to her. they meet often, she drags him to art events across campus and in return he drags her to exy games. she sneaks him into her dorm room and teaches him how to strum her guitar, he gets her into irish folklore.

- he doesn’t invite her on a date. a lingering fear from his past reminds him that girls are a distraction. but he can’t think of anything that’s still holding him back. neil survived, and he has andrew. jean survived, and now he has jeremy. kevin won’t admit it, but it feels bitter and almost like defeat when he sees them move on.

- opportunity presents itself when kevin least expects it. spring banquet is around the corner, the foxes all have dates and nicky finally intervenes and forces kevin to ask her out.

- she wears a grey croptop and a blazer with long pants, ears and fingers lined with silver jewelry. andrew has to knock kevin’s mouth shut with a finger.

- she’s funnier than he remembers. a dead pan humor with a side of that fox like sarcasm makes her excellent company. kevin keeps her by his side throughout the night, and only lets her go when he talks to jean.

- dan and matt love her immediately, nicky follows suit when he realizes she can shut kevin up without trying, allison and neil are just surprised someone like her is willing to try with someone like kevin (it’s all a joke, they reassure when kevin frowns). andrew and aaron don’t talk to her, but kevin hopes they aren’t far behind.

- they first time they touch, it’s her kissing his queen tattoo the day after the banquet when they drop her off. andrew knocks his mouth shut again, but saves him from misery and doesn’t make a comment about it.

- the kisses get more frequent- she kisses him next on the side of his mouth the next time they step out. he kisses her forehead after a tough yet victorious match. she kisses his shoulder after he fires at someone for making a very misogynistic remark about dan at an after game party. he kissed her nose when she’s too exhausted to reach his face. she kisses him after their first actual date, and he kisses her back until they’re both kind of breathless.

- kevin still has a hard time accepting that she’s interested in being more, and that isn’t just a stress-induced attraction that he was so used to. she was patient, never demanded more or less. he has once asked her how long she would wait, she only smiled and told him that there was no waiting. “i’m happy with whatever i get of you”

- they become official months later. the team is delighted to say the least, not only because they absolutely adored her but also because she was the only one who could pull the stick out of kevin’s ass.

- she tells andrew that she thinks his all-black outfits are “killer”, and andrew learns to tolerate her. aaron comes around only because she knows katelyn too.

- dates!! kevin on dates!! them, driving around aimlessly after midnight practice and she introduces him to queen (she’s shocked when she learns he doesn’t already listen to their music). (kevin’s favorite song is don’t stop me now, but he says killer queen just to see her smile) them, making breakfast together at her dorm after a particularly hard hitting week. them, falling asleep on the floor, her sprawled on his chest and him with an arm around her waist to keep her there.

- they go out for dinner with wymack one night (he sees him staring at her when she isn’t looking and he sees her hooking a hand by his elbow when he’s thinking far away and realizes that she makes his son happy, so she’s worth keeping around)

- they go to eden together for the first time, she kisses him silly at the end of the night and it’s all he can think about for weeks. he returns the favor weeks later, and she takes whatever piece of himself he can willingly gives to her, until he can give her everything entirely.

- he’s happy with her, and it satisfies andrew to see him like that, though he’d never admit it.

- lemme have this PLS i just wanna see him with a loud, happy girl by his side who makes him smile and realize that he has a chance to grow again, to be loved again. :’) i can dream

[itsrainingfish]

Part two of my shitty all for the game headcannons

Nicky collects phone numbers. He will take any phone number given to him and save it till the day he dies, if you need to contact anyone, Nicky can get it done

Neil constantly makes jokes about his trauma and Aaron always chuckles a least a little bit

Aaron just finds other peoples pain kinda funny

Like he laughs at the videos of kids falling down stairs

Andrew shoves cotton swabs way too deep into his ear

Neil eats bell peppers like apples

Matt used to have a lizard named Joey

The girls dorm has one of those pole dancing poles in it

It was there when they moved in, they don’t know why

Matt has tried it, it wasn’t as bad as expected

Allison almost broke her arm when she fell off it drunk

Renee ropes Andrew into some of her charity work stuff

Like fundraisers and stuff

The foxes constantly poke at Nicky not knowing Andrew was gay

“You guys didn’t realize either!” “Yeah but we aren’t gay, you are” “Aren’t gay people supposed to like sniff each other out and hunt in packs” “That wolves Aaron”

It was a drunken conversation

Laila is a cant do math and doesn’t have a good relationship with her father lesbian

Alvarez is a cant drive, doesn’t own a uncuffed pair of jeans bisexual

Jeremy takes Jean to pride one year and although it does stress Jean out a bit but he does enjoy it and Jeremy is so proud

Jeremy is a nice guy but when he hears someone say a slur he gives them one shot to explain and feel sorry before he decks them in the face

Jeremy is short

I don’t care what Nora said about him being relatively close to Kevin in height

The sunshine is short

Dan can rap really well

She doesn’t understand it but damn does it give Matt butterflies

“She’s just so damn cool” “I know Matt” “and he chose ME” “I know Matt”

Matt has dylexia and thus can’t spell for shit

Andrew always make fun of Aaron’s appearance

Aaron has given up on mentioning that they are identical

“Aaron you dumb blonde bitch” “Your blonde too”

A guy once mentioned the possibility of Allison being a dumb blonde and he was never seen again

Allison is actually really smart

Her parents always paid for the best education

She knows how to play at least one classical instrument

I feel like she chose the flute so her threats of shoving it places would scare off creepy guys more

Y know cause if someone said they’re gonna stab you it’d be more intimidating if they were actually holding a knife

Or if they were Andrew

Andrew saves the icecream that collects on the bottom of the lid for last

Andrew Joseph Minyard loves eggnog

Aaron Micheal Minyard despises eggnog

The twinyards will randomly just throw random ass hand signals at eachother

It’s not ASL. It’s not gang signs. It’s not a secret code they developed as kids (although if they were raised together they definitely would’ve done that”. It’s just incoherent waves and flicks

Andrew and Neil watch crime tv shows together

And murder documentaries

If Neil falls asleep somewhere or can’t walk for whatever reason Matt always carries him

Andrew really only lets him because he can’t carry Neil very easily

Renee is really good at paper crafts

Like cutting snowflakes and stuff

She makes all the Christmas decorations and stuff for the girls apartment

Neil sits in the weirdest most uncomfortable looking ways

He sits on the backs of couches

Or hangs upside down off the arm

“We should’ve known Neil isn’t straight, he doesn’t know how to sit”

Kevin likes ice baths

And hot baths

Just baths in general

[dkafterdark]

Could you maybe write some andreil, with Neil starting to cry over something, but just CANT STOP CRYING. I know that when I cry, because it is a rarity, I can't stop, like I try but they just keep coming because they rarely get let out. I think that would happen to Neil, because he never cries. Sorry if this is a lot.

Hi anon! Sorry it took me so long to get around to answering this! I hope you don’t mind but I’m using this as my prompt for Andreil Week 2019, Day 8: free day. FYI: I’ll also post this to my AO3: justdk

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At lunch, when Neil joined Andrew and Nicky in the cafeteria for tacos, he was fine.

Hours later, when Andrew returned to the dorm from his last class, Neil was not fine.

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[whatmack]

nicky: hey! plenty of people like me! I was “a pleasure to have in class” andrew: yeah well I was “a danger to myself and others” so who’s the real winner here

[redrabbitspod]

Happy birthday to this animal loving, blanket hogging, cold ass feet having, life changing idiot. 

Still glad you were born. - A

[underyoursnow]

i hate how some of the fandom has just boiled down neils personality to uwu little sunshine boy w angry bf. like no he is a fucking bitch and is never nice to anyone outside of the team. he shit talks ppl in the press and could beat ur ass, he is at least as deadly as andrew he just have slightly better control of physical violence. now will u shut up :)