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aftg au where andrew is an assassin (or just super whipped) and goes around campus killing everyone that is in front of neil on the waitlist for a class that neil really needs to take

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it's horrific how out of character so many of my early aftg posts were. but my god was i having a good time

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foxes walking out onto the court:

matt: talk to me, hemmy. how we looking?

nicky: sexy, but not like we're trying too hard. like yeah, we're trying, but it's almost effortless

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foxes as irrelevant talents

aaron: can fake sleep like a champ (and does so shamelessly) and always knows when someone else is fake sleeping..one time kevin was looking for him to drag him someplace he didn't want to go to so he fake slept on the couch until kevin left and then popped up to find andrew in the room looking at him (he never calls him out on it but from then on andrew is the only fox who can tell)

matt: can juggle really well and absently does so all the time..the first time neil sees him doing it (wymack was talking to them at the court and matt just picked up two tangerines and allisons fluffball keychain) he's impressed and they make a game of seeing how many things neil can throw into matt's cycle without dropping anything

andrew: can predict the ending of a movie or book before it's half finished with 97% accuracy. he'll write his predictions in pencil on the inside of the cover as he's reading and during fox movie nights ™ he'll mutter what'll happen under his breath so only neil can hear (neil stops being shocked but is always impressed)

dan: can make any animal love her..she just walks into a house where there are pets and they immediately take to her (sir and king are no exceptions) also, she can get babies to calm down easily and, no, the first time matt sees this he does not swoon, shut up hemmy

allison: can forge handwriting scarily well (definitely that kid that learned their parents signatures in grade school so they could get out of reading logs) and she'll sign for any packages that come to the court if wymacks not there

neil: can rap? especially in french but he does it under his breath so it's not until kevin hears and recognizes it and is shook that the others (minus andrew, who found out when neil started rapping quietly in his sleep) find out and now allison has a two and a half minute video of neil rapping along to eminem with matt beatboxing beside him (matt tries to convince neil to quit exy so they can go big in music. kevin clocks matt in the head.)

nicky: listen. nicky can do really good, clear bird noises. he does it on court all the time (takes "chirping" in sports to a whole new level) and it drives the other team crazy and makes the foxes grin

renee: can give the best massages.. allison first coaxes renee into giving her one during a girls' night and raves about it the next day and at first the others are wary cause they've seen the damage renee's hands have done to andrew but then she convinces matt to let her give him one while they're all hanging out and he relaxes into it in no time and soon there's a wait list and renee allows herself to be bribed with favours and treats (she always makes sure kevin gets one at least once a week tho because, what with his kevin-like stress and kevin-like athleticism, the first time she gave him a massage she was concerned af because his muscles were tense as hell and if she can help him a little bit then she sure as hell will)

kevin: is really good at brain game type things (crosswords, sudoku, word finds, etc) but specifically can do rubik's cube freakishly fast..dan times him one time to see if he could beat a record and on his fastest run he was off by a fraction of a second and nearly considers cancelling practice to devote the afternoon to it but he hasn't been able to beat it yet

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the Trojans having 12 whole backliners while the foxes have one backliner, one overworked pre-med kid and one 24 year old who's kinda just here for the vibes (and to keep an eye on his cousin!children) is insane

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actually though. one of my favorite things about the foxes is that they're actually all individually good? they're not all kevin-level (who is) but they're actually proper athletes. the reason they sucked pre-trk was never because they were bad at exy, it was because they were brats on the court. it's said that Nicky is the weakest on the team, but given how caught up the story is with Kevin and Neil's (and Andrews) exyness, I sometimes tend to forget that the others are all good at what they do. and that's usually one of my favorite details to pick up on when I reread.

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It drives me crazy when I see people acting like Tilda Minyard intentionally and deliberately chose Aaron over Andrew as if she didn't just grab whatever baby was closest to her to dump in the safe haven baby box.

Aaron wasn't wanted. Tilda didn't choose him because she 'loved him more', she didn't choose him at all. She wasn't standing over the twins as infants agonising over which one to keep, she probably couldn't even tell them apart or even care enough to try.

She chose to keep a baby, a baby she knew she didn't want, and Aaron just ended up being that baby. She chose not to keep twins, and Andrew ended up being the baby that made that a reality.

But she didn't choose Aaron. She just ended up with him.

She didn't even want him.

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once again thinking about a Neil with a very British vocabulary who one time casually refers to the monsters as "the lads" and everyone in the vicinity stops to stare at him

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Aaron Minyard in the foxhole court specifically, character of all time. moisturized unbothered in his lane etc etc. he's got like two and a half lines and pops off with each one. serves cunt on the court. serves cunt on the dancefloor. he's hardly present so he's at his least aggressive out of all three books, in his unproblematic era. doesn't care about anyone's drama but best believe he's paying attention. mans is in the kitchen doing dishes while the others are throwing fits and acting out. king shit.

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Aaron Minyard in the raven king specifically, legend. he's still largely out of sight but that doesn't stop him from spitting bars left and right. it's becoming obvious just how much of a Fox he is, his jackass tendencies are starting to show. probably at his surliest but he gets over himself quickly. we meet the wife. we get the backstory. he's playing wingman. he's killing his brother's abuser. he's becoming more involved than he probably wants to be but he's better for it. 10s across the board and he's still just warming up.

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Aaron Minyard in the king's men specifically, absolute menace. he gets the girl he's working with his brother, very sexy book for him. very frustrating book for him. heavily exercising the "take no shit" part of his "do no harm but take no shit" way of life. for a good minute he's the angriest he's ever been and so he's more unpleasant than ever. silent treatment and cold shoulders galore. he has his like two month long beef with Neil and gets over it. has his cold war with Andrew and gets over it. he's having nightmares, he has a trial to think about. he gets slapped by Allison (deserved), punched by Neil (deserved from Neil's pov, less so in the grand scheme of things), and punches Neil (deserved. long time coming). he's in therapy. he's in a hot tub drinking daiquiris. he's a national champion. he's slowly getting his brother back. he's brilliant. no notes.

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the inconsideracy of men is actually insane because how could riko and neil not tell that their little moment where they tried to become a murderer/murderee respectively was literally not about them in the slightest..that was a DAN WILDS main character moment and they nearly ruined it by getting blood all over her dub

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[zombiecowboy65]

POV: Jeremy Knox just said he’s going to lawschool

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I ain't ever seen art like this since the renaissance

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riko must’ve hated jeremy’s ass so bad oh god just think about it. jeremy is the EXACT opposite of riko, yet in the same position. riko tries so hard by using violence and abuse day to day just to keep the other two members of the perfect court in line and jeremy is admired by jean and kevin with smiles and clean play from miles away from the nest without even knowing. this fucking gay kid from california should have no place on the court with the way he plays but he’s close enough to perfect that they get compared. he beats jeremy every year but it’s still not enough to stop the awe on kevin’s face or to take jean’s admiring eyes out off him.

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i haven't read tsc bc ik it's going to change a series where im fully happy with how its ended/the fandom space im in. i've surrounded myself w ppl i like their interpretations of characters, yknow?? and reading/expanding on it kinda sucks sometimes.

however i love stumbling across about how horny jean is for jeremy it's extremely funny to me

yeah that's exactly it for me too!! i feel like i need to get over it tho because why do i still have fomo when im choosing to not read them myself asdfkjfkgd

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DID YOU SEE THE KEVIN DUOLOGY NEWS????

i sawww..not totally sure how i personally feel about it but i'm sure nora will absolutely kill it, especially given how ive literally only seen positive responses to the jerejean books and everyone seems to love them so far

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you know what? kevin and jean actually are the good ending of orpheus and eurydice.

if kevin had not walked away without looking back, jean would never have made it out of that hell.

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one thing about Dan Wilds is that she, to her core, is a dork, an absolute goof. but only for the important people.

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there's the Dan Wilds who everyone knows: badass exy player, first ever female captain, the fierce face of the PSU foxes, the woman who blazed her way from an unfortunate home life to a D1 sports team and then dragged that team alllllll the way up.

and then there's the Foxes' Dan....the one who spends ten minutes every. single. morning scraping off the burned part of her toast and spends the whole day mortified because she told the cashier "you too" when asked if she wanted a receipt and flings herself on top of coach to prevent him from bailing on his surprise birthday party and has a terrible french accent but loves her french class and is somehow always banging her elbow on something and has to put the chair as close to the steering wheel as the car settings will allow when she drives Matt's truck and flings herself onto Matt, Neil, Allison, literally anyone, after a long morning and doesn't realize her headphones weren't actually plugged into her phone until everyone on the bus is mad at her and practically skips around the dorm when shes happy and thinks she's dying every time period cramps hit and will practically strangle Neil, Nicky, Renee, anyone closest to her in a hug after winning a game and is a little bit superstitious and has pro-exy watch parties with Neil Kevin Matt Coach (+ sometimes others) and shouts at the screen just as much as Kevin and Coach and once @ ed a famous actor on Twitter and lost her mind when he actually responded and drunkenly tells Andrew one time that it makes her really happy that he and Neil are together, to know that they have each other etc etc etc etc etc she's everything

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rip kevin day you would’ve loved telling people to lock tf in