i'm obsessed with the fact that neil josten is a ridiculously fast learner. and it's not limited to one particular thing, it's EVERYTHING. like he made up nearly a decade of not practicing a sport and managed to become COLLEGIATE LEVEL in a YEAR. we don't even know how many languages he speaks fluently bc he doesn't find it important (nothing like neil's priorities) but it's at least 3 and at least 1 (2?) other(s) conversationally. he may have been oblivious to andrew at first, but as soon as he found out there was something there he was INSTANTLY flirting. he's casually a MATH PRODIGY (yes, he's absolutely a prodigy there's no way someone who never had consistent schooling would excel in an college math program after already being behind in said program, bc neil switched his major, without being one). the way he catalogs and interprets andrew's andrew-isms (for lack of a better generalized term) says a lot about how fast he can process information.
this man is insane. sometimes it gets overshadowed by the fact that he makes bad decisions when put in the crazy situations that happen in the series, but neil is genuinely really smart.

















