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Uncle Neil!!

aaron's twins looove andrew to hell and back, he's their favorite uncle no matter how many fancy chocolate Nicky brings from Europe to buy their love through cavities

but aaron youngest? neil is her favorite uncle. her favorite person even

she plays exy to be just like him, and she eats fruits because neil does! and she wants a cat just like neil's and she NEEDS, DAD, I NEED ITTT armbands like neil's. she loves math, she wants to learn every language in the world, she's smart and fast -

aaron hates it. his eyes twitch. his face is constantly angry-red. he is having stomach issues for years now. out of anger. kate tried to convince him that it wasn't so bad but it is much, much worse than so bad: its terrible, its a nightmare

even more when his adorable, little, strawberry blond daughter with two teeth missing and cute lisp starts to show neil's level of attitude problem. Aaron's princess, with adorable curls and shining hazel eyes, was roasting a random stranger because she overheard him talking about Neil's exy skills during an Olympic game

andrew as a joke gave neil a necklace with those dog's pendant that goes " if found return to Andrew Minyard" + phone number

neil wears it every single day.

I love the headcanon that Jean thinks Andrew is kinda spooky like a blank-eyed child in a horror movie or something.

hc that neil is in fact a Flirt Expert. BUT he only flirts that well when he doesn't know he's being flirty, he can't do it on purpose to save his life.

neil winks at andrew during an exy game just because he felt like it: the perfect wink, sexy, kills andrew, everyone who sees it has to take a second or two to calm down, five players literally tripped, the referee blushed. he winks at Andrew in the bedroom trying to flirt? TERRIBLE. blinks instead, looks like he has something on his eye, so focused on the task that he falls out of the bed and hits his head

kevjean is very orpheus and eurydice

except that unlike orpheus kevin DIDN’T look back when he got out of hell and that meant eventually jean got out too

this terrifying confrontation could have been an email

“Hope this email finds you well” lmao

I'm so sorry (no)

love how neil is just like hey ichirou yeah if u think ab it for 5 seconds u know what to do :/ and ichirou is like ok tiny butcher son who i am just now talking to for the first time ever i will kill my brother ur right

I think seeing andrew shut down 150 goals from the ravens in one game would change my life

ik we talk about how Neil’s an unreliable narrator in terms of leaving out details about his life & that’s true BUT it’s important to me that we acknowledge that he’s also deeply unreliable in the more traditional sense when it comes to his understanding of the people around him—it’s easy to overlook because the person Neil thinks about the most and in the most depth is Andrew, and he does understand Andrew incredibly well, so it’s easy to just trust he knows what he’s talking about when it comes to other people when that’s not necessarily true. Especially when it comes to Kevin and Aaron, who Neil has some pretty direct ideas about, but whose images in his mind are impacted respectively by Neil’s understanding of himself and his understanding of Andrew. To really understand Kevin you have to lose the idea that he only cares about Exy & is a coward for not standing up to the people who he fears will kill him for valid reasons. To understand Aaron, you have to acknowledge that Andrew’s view of events & their relationship isn’t objectively the “right” way to view it because that’s not how that works, and that, as much as Aaron didn’t understand Andrew or his motivations, Andrew didn’t underrate Aaron or his.

neil josten is so funny. dude was getting countdown texts everyday and was well aware they were leading to the end of his life. he did not give a shit. he had exy to play.

on the other hand he cannot go to the mall

"that doesn't mean i wouldn't blow you" is an iconic confession for a lot of reasons but i love that andrew obviously picked his wording so so carefully there to avoid admitting any feelings involved and then neil's demisexual ass just totally bypasses that and he responds saying "you like me." WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT ANDREW WAS TRYING TO AVOID ADMITTING.

will never get over how DIFFERENT kevin is in tsc compared to the rest of aftg

neil put kevin on a pedestal at first. he was everything neil wanted to be, but he was terrifying because he was a symbol of the past. and then as time went on, neil saw him as cold, and bitchy, and a coward. but he was still Kevin Day™️. And kevin promised to teach him every night but he was still an asshole with a one track mind and a fear of riko.

but jeans pov, oh my GOD jeans pov of kevin. sure he’s resentful. he’s angry that he was left behind the first time kevin had felt pain at rikos hands when jean had been ENDURING for years, and “slit his throat on the way out”. but even then, kevin is so gentle with him. he holds his hands and grabs his face and tells jean to trust neil. he’s the beautiful boy who asked jean to teach him french in secret. he sends him post cards and brings him back magnets. he made jean promise to stay alive, because he couldn’t lose him.

both jean and neil are in awe of kevin’s prowess, but it’s so easy to see kevin as an exy obsessed douche through neil’s eyes, meanwhile you put him in front of jean and he turns so unbelievably soft.

bringing this back in light of my tsc reread… kevin taking jeans face in his hands and telling him to breathe… taking his hand and carefully scanning his injuries… having him make a fist to confirm that his hands are okay… stopping him from hurting himself… oh kevin

"You're losing blood" no I know exactly where it is. The floor. Don't ever underestimate me.

neil josten

The fact that after the incident between Andrew and Allison where he almost killed / seriously hurt her, Neil was filled with so much rage for the monsters.

He was angry at Aaron because he was blind to the role he had to play in Andrew attacking Allison.

He was angry at Nicky and Kevin for being useless when faced with it.

He was angry at himself for not seeing it sooner.

But he never mentioned that he was angry at Andrew. Never Andrew.

No one talk to me.

Nothing funnier to me than Renee going “don’t you think ur due for some rainbows of ur own?” And then Jean going to the gayest exy team in all of America