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AFTG REREAD BABYYYYYY

#still not done with exams but fuck it i couldnt help myself any more

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aaron minyard doesn’t hate neil josten because he’s annoying or because he’s his brothers boyfriend.

no, aaron minyard hates neil josten because one day, neil will be asked to kill his brother and andrew would hand him the gun without hesitation.

it starts when neil joins the team. sure, things were rough before, but this kid showing up out of nowhere and trying to fix them rubbed salt in the wound. he sees how neil interests andrew, how his brother keeps giving the liar his yeses and his deals and promises. it doesn’t sink in until baltimore, until andrew breaks his deal and chokes out kevin. watching andrew kneel in front of neil (nathaniel), a broken boy made from butchers and glass, that’s when fear starts to claw into his heart. he interrogated neil at the cabin, and the whole time there’s a whisper in his head saying “just how far will andrew go”

aaron watched andrew fight his way into being his own person after a childhood of tragedy upon tragedy. he was there when nicky adopted them, when andrew explored his agency and rebuilt himself from the ground up. and then he watched as andrew found neil and piece by damning piece built his life around him. they’d deny being codependent but there is no more andrew minyard and neil josten there is only andrewandneil.

neil makes a deal with the mafia and aaron wants to scream, shake the man and ask him where his brother fits into all this.

but he knows.

he knows that one day, neil josten won’t be a professional exy player anymore. he knows that the man will grow old and slower, and one day he won’t have a paycheck to send to the moriyamas. they’ll consider him a liability, show up at his home (the one he shares with andrew)

and when neil josten will fall, so will andrew minyard.

his brother claims he is an independent person but he is lying

aaron is terrified, because he knows there is no corner of hell that neil josten could not lead his brother to.

neil josten is andrew minyards death sentence, and aaron is the only one who can see it. he cares too much about his brother not to.

#THIS

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love me a good "different first meeting" Andreil fic, but I gotta say the best ones, that real gourmet shit, are the ones where Neil catches Andrew's interest by simply being an obstinate asshole with a smart mouth. Usually to defend himself or others. Like-

Andrew, witnesses a scarred up red head with blue eyes being a bitch: Oh no, he's hot!

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pov you ask the Foxes if they're homophobic

neil: stop asking me personal questions andrew: yes. next question, you have twenty seconds, timer starts now aaron: no I just hate gay people nicky (avoiding the question): i’m literally gay kevin: no our PR can't afford it this season renee: the lord says to love thy neighbor, not to do so heterosexually dan: fuck around and find out matt: no?? did I say something?? allison: not unless you count my terf phase in freshman year seth: no reply, since he’s dead, but his ghost calls you a slur in the shadow realm

#i love them

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Neil Josten render practice because tsc made me reread the whole series again

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Fox

#neil josten #i love this ??? so much ?????

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first snow

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you know what i've been thinking about a lot lately?

- the raven king, chapters 10 and 11

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The thing about Andrew and Kevin is Andrew believes that Kevin can't really be this spineless, and Kevin believes Andrew can't really be this apathetic, and they both resolve to poke each other with a pointy stick until they're proven correct. And then Neil shows up and instead of going hey maybe poking each other with sticks isn't getting anywhere he says oh look it's stick time and starts poking them both even harder. And then it works.

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🦊🦊🦊

#queens . in love with them

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they're still in love (final version)

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Just some dumb Aftg poetry I wrote in class

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On my aftg reread and why does Ichirou kinda slay? Like he’s in the car with Neil, and obviously he sucks, but also ??? Weirdly an icon

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Neil & Matt art 🫶

#I LOVE

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*stares romantically into ur striker's eyes*

#THIS ART 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1, Wave 4, Poll 1

A character being totally canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included.

Check out the other polls in this wave and prior here.

Neil Josten-All for the Game

Qualifications:

I mean he def has PTSD even though it's never like fully fleshed out in the series and also he is demisexual

Mod Note: he also has various scarring.

Propaganda:

Neil goes through so much it's amazing he is still functioning as a person. He bottles up all of his trauma but he still has nightmares and triggers that bring back the trauma he felt from his abusive mafia father and his abusive mother. However, once he lands at PSU to play D1 Exy, he finds a home with all of his other broken teammates and coach. This includes Andrew Minyard, another possible contender for this bracket. While he still has trauma to deal with, he becomes a much more well adjusted and happy person with his teammates. :)

Spira-Tess of the Road

Qualifications:

They're canonically intersex and nonbinary, and they have a genetic disorder that means they have to rely on medication to survive; they also use a cane.

Propaganda:

They are so so miserable and the narrative won't make them forgive all those that have wronged them, but that doesn't mean they won't find some joy; this is a character who feels deeply out of place and unloved and spited by the universe, but there's a wonderful man who falls in love with them, and they with him, very sweetly, regardless of all their preconceptions. (And he's disabled, too!) Also, this is barely a paraphrase, and it's one of my favorite things about them: "They feared no awkwardness. They were born awkward."

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please stop comparing aftg and trc one of these is a series about all encompassing love and devotion from the most unexpected of places, of death and life and everything in between, of the most found family of their entire existence like a genuine treasure to the world with brainrotting concepts and characters that makes you long for something that doesnt exist with character dynamics that drive you Up the Fucking Walls and the other is aftg

#THIS IS SO MEAN LMAO #like dont get me wrong i Love trc its the love of my life #but implying that aftg isnt a beautiful story too ?? youre just Wrong lol #aftg has so many layers to it every time i reread i discover something i didnt before #maybe you didnt get it #maybe you just dont like it #either way aftg fucks so hard sorry op 乁⁠(⁠ ⁠•⁠_⁠•⁠ ⁠)⁠ㄏ #just in a different way than trc does