#gwen garber

[simonsrosebud]

My Freshmen Foxes post TKM

• introductions

• their studies

• kenna pierce

[simonsrosebud]

Hello! I'm really enjoying The Cards We're Dealt, as well as the pieces on Tumblr. However, I especially love the chapters introducing us to the freshmen, particularly Ricky's. This kid only joined Exy because his therapist said "It's a good idea!" and he doesn't know what he's doing and... oh, man. The tryout scene was so excellent. Love it. Okay, done gushing. I was wondering, what are the freshmen's majors, and who is thinking they'd like to go pro if they can? Thanks!

AW I’m so excited that you like my freshman!!! They’re the loves of my life!

Charlie studies Sports & Adventure Media. Sophomore year he adds a minor in photography. After graduating he stays and gets his masters in Palmetto, which means that he stays close by Wymack. During this time he interns or starts out working with PSU’s media team for PSU sports, so he gets to hang by the stadium a lot as well. After that he gets a job in DC working for ESPN or whatever big sports team is out there.

Eva studies Physical Therapy. After graduation they move in with Charlie hehe and spend 3 years after graduation getting their Doctorate in Physical Therapy. They pass their exam and earn their 2,000 hours of work experience working with Abby and the Exy team. Once they pass whatever other exam they score an internship for the NY Canines professional Exy team and work their way up there. They and Charlie break up for a short period since he’s in DC for the past two years but they find their way back to one another.

Ricky studies Secondary Education yay!! Even though he plans on going pro… which he successfully does. He’s no Kevin Day (none of them are) but he gets drafted to the NY Canines. He and Eva are only there together for two months before he gets traded to the NYC Blackhawks. They hang out a lot tho since they’re close.

Gwen is in Civil Engineering. She moves back to Texas after graduation and does her masters there. She has the hardest time of them all because she doesn’t stay close right after and her Exy career just… stops. She gets a job and sticks with it for a few years then has a crisis and says fuck it and gets a teaching degree. She’s gets certified in ASL and uses it a lot with her younger students that aren’t as verbal. She loves it. (She also becomes the school’s Exy coach bc she can’t help it).

Kenna studies Addiction Studies and gets drafted to the Boston Bulldogs out of college. After 2 years she gets traded to the Houston Racers for 4 years which yay because Jack is in Dallas. She plays on US Court once with Kevin and Neil (they’re on it like every year duh). She gets pregnant (whoops) after those 4 years in Houston and Jack surprises her by showing her an engagement ring that he’d been saving for the past year. She goes back to Exy for a year after that and plays with Jack but then retires. Idk how this works but I’d like to think she becomes one of the first female Exy coaches in the National Exy League.

Jack my beloved boy studies Social Work but goes pro to the Texas Armadillos (Dallas). He’s with them for six years but transfers to the Houston Racers because Kenna gets pregnant. They get married a few months later and Kenna is one of those people who’s baby belly barely shows so she wears this nice ass dress and announces her pregnancy at the wedding. Everyone is shocked. Ricky and Charlie instantly fight over godfather status.

This is more than you asked for but I just love them all <3

[simonsrosebud]

how many freshman are there in the kalton au ? can you introduce them all

YES OMG. there are 6. i love my bby freshmen they have my hearts i legit have their whole lives figured out.

first up is kenna pierce, striker from delaware. she’s 5’9, white, and has long wavy orange strawberry blonde hair. she’s studying addiction studies and attends AA meetings religiously after struggling with alcohol abuse throughout high school.

she was kicked out by her parents senior year, which was mainly her mother’s doing. her oldest brother of 2 takes her in to live with him after 3 months of rehab.

wymack visited her just after christmas and made a deal that if she could straighten out by may that he’d sign her. her father aides her in finding a good rehabilitation center. after seeing her play again in state championships he signs her.

NEXT, is jack young, kevin’s striker recruit from north carolina. 5’11 and white with dark brown hair. lowkey built like kevin… he’s studying social work and psychology. wymack recruited him over spring break.

when jack’s father left him and his 3 toddler siblings in high school, jack’s mother went into a depression after a few months. she lost her job as a result of stopping taking her medicine and not going to work anymore.

jack worked in between school and exy to help make ends meet when money got low, and after almost a year of taking care of his siblings nearly on his own he broke and talked to his school counselor. he had a panic attack trying to express that he was worried for his siblings and his mother.

child protective services interfered and even though jack wanted to stay with his mom to help her, he was placed in an emergency foster with his siblings. they lived with a foster family (a couple with a daughter in college) for a year before going back to their mother. jack’s relationship with his mother is never quite the same, but they try. his father kept in touch sporadically for a year after he left, then just barely. he keeps in touch with the foster family often as extended family, almost.

RICKY ROJAS! he’s my love ugh he’s so sweet. ricky is a 6’0 latino defensive dealer from south carolina. he studies secondary education and applied to PSU specifically for exy so that a sports scholarship could pay for college. not typical but he figured maybe he’d, unfortunately, fit wymack’s type. despite playing for the foxes for the free tuition, neil’s passion for the sport ultimately makes ricky fall in love with exy in a different way than he had before. he’d seen what it could do for people, what it meant to his teammates.

he’s got jet black hair and tattoos spread sporadically across his arms and his right leg below the knee. they started as a way to cover up self harm scars from early high school. he’s been clean as of his junior year.

ricky’s parents divorced sophomore year after a lot of emotional abuse and manipulation from his father to both him and his mother. he also took dangerous control of their finances- lots of gambling, very toxic. ricky and his mother both have restraining orders against him.

ricky started therapy the same year and his therapist suggested sports as an alternate way of feeling something, something else to put energy into and let off steam. his mom proposed exy for its fast and hard nature.

the tattoos came about when he caught himself slip and wanted to cover a particularly bad scar. his mom is a tattoo artist and thought maybe redirecting whatever pain he was feeling into something that wasn’t harmful- tattoos. once he got clean he continued because he wanted all his scars covered and just loved tattoos. his mom’s rule is that she won’t ask about the design (within reason) so long as he is honest about ever feeling the urge to harm.

EVA WHITMORE <3 physical therapy student and 5’6 goalie from michigan. they’re white with shoulder length brown hair. eva goes by they/them pronouns.

eva grew up playing ice hockey, but an accident during an unsupervised midnight sneak to the outside ice rink when they were 14 resulted in a lost finger. parents were not happy when they got that 1am call.

eva switched to exy after their parents refused to let them play hockey again. they still went to the rinks when they could drive and learned some spins and jumps.

eva developed an eating disorder sophomore year. it put them in the hospital junior year and they got the help they needed. they figured out their pronouns senior year, but still haven’t told their parents. they ultimately said yes to wymack’s offer because it was far from their family, the campus was pretty and they had a good pt program, and bc they learned to love exy enough. none of the foxes know they’re a damn good ice skater </3

CHARLIE MILASKY! my teddy bear. my boy is a 6’5 shaggy blonde florida man. he’s a backliner studying sports and adventure media, and strategic social media.

junior year he came home from school to find his drug addicted mother loading his belongings into his car and kicking him out to go live with her boyfriend. she’d always been absent so he didn’t even try with her. he stayed in the house until the landlord kicked him out, then slept in his car.

he mastered pick-pocketing & stealing as best he could, lived homeless in his car and squatting for a few months before his coach got suspicious and tried talking to him, but nothing came from it. eventually he got caught breaking into an abandoned house and was arrested. thankfully the cop had a kid on charlie’s team and recognized him.

charlie got put into foster care with a young 33 year old widow. his mother tried getting him back (poorly) but flopped. charlie got adopted a week before his 18th birthday about a year and a half later by his current foster mother. ugh my heart.

LAST but not least, miss gwen garber, picked by neil josten. gwen is studying civil engineering. she is black, and is the 5’7 20 year old freshman offensive dealer from texas.

spring of her junior year of high school, she and her parents got into a car accident resulting in her parents deaths. it left gwen hearing impaired, she has hearing aides but doesn’t wear them often. she learned sign language instead, in case she ever fully lost her hearing.

gwen went to live with her relatively young godfather and had to repeat junior year from falling behind. it put her 2 years older than her class since she already had to repeat 1st grade.

the accident left her with a lot of anger and guilt that she doesn’t know how to deal with, its why she throws it into exy.

wymack noticed her confusion on the court every once in a while due to her hearing and tells her to wear her hearing aides during practices and games for her own safety and success. he and neil recruited her after the foxes championship.

FUN FACTS: kenna was the first to break through to jack and they started dating after a few months. she stays out of drama and gets along with all the foxes, even the monsters to a point.

she “keeps” jack in a similar way renee keeps the upperclassmen. she doesn’t always feel comfy around the foxes when they’re getting hammered and often finds solidarity sitting next to a sober kevin. andrew respects her, mainly when she helps kevin when he relapses.

andrew calls ricky richard on purpose, it’s not even his full name. allison colors in his tattoos on the bus or planes to games. they get close but just friends. ricky getting along with neil was surprisingly a challenge at first bc to him exy was a way to go to college, neil got him to realize how much he wants exy to be part of his future.

eva is probably the funniest of them all. they and charlie get along the best.

charlie is a HIMBO to the max.

gwen is bisexual (the foxes don’t know but she’s not secretive about it, if asked she would tell). she and renee are suspiciously close and have many bets going on them.

gets easily annoyed when kevin or jack jabs at her with exy stuff. she taunts jack and aaron by turning her hearing aides down and pretending she can’t hear them at all. neil gets through bc she respects him the most and bc he gives her notes short and to the point, no smart mouth. she is intimidated by him at first bc he chose her.

gwen is the second one on the team to punch jack bc he took her hearing aides as a joke. she also doesn’t have her license yet after the accident, she prefers to walk places if she can. she runs with neil to the stadium.