#uncle Andrew and uncle Neil

[kjones-fandom]

Andrew is the good cop/ Fun uncle

Nail is the bad cop/ scary uncle

You call Andrew when you want to talk shit and you call Neil when you need tires slashed.

Also, clearly Andrew and Neil are the favorites of the foxes kids but in the way that when they are babysitting the kids always ask Andrew for things because he will say yes. When Andrew does say no though the kids know not to push because Neil is litterally the coolest and kindest uncle until he uses his adult voice.

[yourleftpinkytoe-blog]

Andrew is the favorite uncle. Not just for Aaron and Nicky’s kids but all the foxes kids are just obsessed with uncle Andrew.

None of the foxes understand why except for Neil. But that only because Neil is there when Andrew gets up at three am to answer a phone call from their sobbing niece, who admits for the first time out loud that maybe she isn’t a boy and “is that okay uncle Andrew”. Or when Kevin’s kid shows up at there house after getting in an argument with her dad and Andrew lets her rage and rant until it doesn’t seem like the end of the world anymore, then walks her home (hc: they live pretty close for a while cause their on the same team). Or when nobody can get Aaron’s twins to stop crying but as soon as Andrew is given a turn at trying to calm the babies they stop immediately.

The kids all love Andrew he’s the first one they go to with their issues, he’s the first one they run too when all the foxes are together, he’s the first one that they come out too if they’re queer(Nicky is so mad when his kid comes out to Andrew before him)

He’s just a really good uncle.

[hmmm-shesucks]

Andrew’s all about respecting someone’s no until it’s one of the foxes telling his nieces and nephews no. Then he could give less of a fuck. They own him. He’ll give them anything and everything. One of them asks for money, he sends double. Presents every time he visits. Parents say no? Uncle Drew says abso-fucking-lutely. As long as they aren’t hurting themselves (or others depending on the severity) he’ll do just about anything for them. He’s the worst about it with Aaron’s girls but it extends to the rest of the baby foxes as well. He is the favorite and he worked hard to get it. He is their confident, their safest space, their biggest advocate. He will drop anything and everything to be there for them. He’s walked off the court just to answer a phone call about homework problems. And higher power help them if someone makes his babies cry. Andrew Minyard is the best fucking Uncle to ever Uncle and you will not change my mind.

[fratbrochrisgf]

i know you, i walked with you once upon a dream

[andreilscat]

neil and andrew buying aaron and katelyn's kids dirt bikes for their birthday or christmas or something just to annoy them

[foxesscramble]

masterlist of instagram posts:

profile pics!

andrew

neil

aaron

nicky

allison

katelyn

kevin

jeremy

jean

matt

renee

uncle andrew

sir & king

not social media related:

the foxes coming home for the holidays (set in the future)

aftg advent calendar 2024 masterlist

WIRED Autocomplete Interviews:

Pt. 1 》 Neil Josten, Matt Boyd, & Kevin Day

Pt. 2 》 Andrew Minyard, Renee Walker, & Nicky Hemmick

Pt. 3 》 Allison Reynolds, Dan Wilds, Aaron Minyard

let me know if any of the links don't work!

also if you want to see anyone specific you can send me an ask! <3

[destialpal]

I HAVE A CONFESSION TO MAKE 🖐️

I’m actually a really huge fan of when ppl make Neil call Andrew “Drew” in fics and art

[stabbyfoxandrew]

arsonist neil?? <3 :))

WIP Wednesday (3/19) | Arsonist Neil / Firefighter Andrew AU (Part 289)

Perhaps it is, in part, the exhaustion that comes with working an overnight shift as a firefighter on Christmas Eve— they had five different calls last night, four flaming pine trees in living rooms and one chimney explosion that took the majority of some grandma's wall out— but when Andrew pulls his car up to his old stamping grounds, he can't believe he ever suggested it in the first place. It's... Well, dilapidated would be a generous term for it. It's certainly ugly and old and in need of a few coats of paint. It seems to sway with the winter wind and, as he stares at it, Andrew wonders if it's even safe to go inside.

He sits in his car and stares up at the old barn in front of him, trying to decide if it's too late to cancel (it is). Or if he could try and bully his way into 10's hotel room instead (he could try but knows he wouldn't succeed). After a few minutes of watching the building it doesn't spontaneously collapse, so he figures it'll be safe long enough for them to have their date in it. Andrew wipes the temptation of sleep from his eyes and gets out of the car.

Upon closer inspection, the barn's not too bad. Just ugly. Andrew can work with ugly. He'd known it was a barn, after all. He stopped by his apartment after his shift to take a long shower, one to melt away the smoke and ash his quick jump-through showers at the station can't fix. And he'd grabbed a few things to make it less Little House on the Prairie, more cozy.

The side door of the barn had never quite locked, so getting inside is easy as pie. Just a quick jerk of the handle and it opens like a dream. For a moment he's back in high school, jimmying it open for his little band of freaks. (And Aaron.)

He steps inside the barn and it's even less glamorous than the outside, but it's fine. Andrew is Andrew and 10 is a couple steps above street urchin, he will not mind this one bit. As far as Andrew knows, this place has been always used for storing hay and not much else. So it luckily doesn't stink of animals or anything like that. Mostly it just smells dusty. Sort of stale.

A decade ago it would have smelled like weed. A lot of weed. Andrew thinks back to the gaggle of delinquents that used to follow him around and grimaces. They were idiots for smoking in here around all this fucking accelerant. One false move could've barbecued them all. What the fuck was wrong with them?

Oh. Yeah. They were seventeen. And stupid.

Andrew grinds that thought out and cautiously tosses it aside before spreading out the thick blanket he'd dug out of his closet this morning. It should be comfortable enough, he thinks. He'd also packed them a lunch, which is in a cooler he borrowed from Wymack's office. Nothing fancy. Just a couple sandwiches and a bag of chips, a couple drinks.

He stands back to observe the scene he's laid out and it's not the most romantic thing that's ever happened. But he was not aiming for romance. He was aiming for practicality, something he knows 10 will appreciate. If Andrew had wanted to plan something romantic, he would've waited a week and taken the arsonist to a decent restaurant. One where you have to wear nice clothes and order expensive, tiny portions. But they are not at such a stage. This is their second... interaction. And a shitty little impromptu picnic inside a dusty old barn is just fine for that, Andrew thinks.

He goes back out to his car and leans against the side of it, poking at a game on his phone until he hears a car approaching.

[dysfunctionalcreature]

idk about yall but one of my most ever favorite aftg headcanons is that Andrew is really good with kids, and in the future when Aaron and Katelyn settle down and have kids, their kids will absolutely adore "Uncle Andrew", and he'll happily suffer through whatever sort of play the kids want to do with an as genuine and un-menacing smile on his face as he can manage, whenever he and Neil (and Kevin) come to visit

[kevin-day-more-like-kevin-gay]

so self indulgent aftg au where mary takes neil to england to be with the hatfords and co. and neil grows up pretty much like he would at his fathers, but less psychopath and more 'the life we live in is dangerous and you need to be able to make the hard calls'.

but neil knows that he doesn't want that life (in the books it is said that if he had kevins life he would have hated it; would rather be free and dead than trapped and alive) and he runs back to america, trusting his father wouldn't notice he was there (at least for a while) and knowing if he stayed in europe his mother would find him.

and he ends up at palmetto, maybe bc he remembered kevin and wanted what he had.

and kevin remembers him, because neil doesn't change his appearance in england, his mother forces him to keep it to 'show him we aren't afraid' or some kind of twisted logic like that.

and kevin looks like he's seen a ghost, bc to him he has, and andrew immediately goes guard dog mode and tackles neil.

who promptly flips him on his ass and they eventually stand with knives at each others throats until kevin tells them to stand down.

neil tells kevin everything (along side 'just neil, nathan was my father :/') an kevin tells him he's a moron trying to get himself killed.

neil trains with them over summer, having played a little social exy in england bc his mother wouldn't let him play at school, and eventually gets signed with coach who had been struggling to find a replacement striker.

idk where this is going ngl, i literally just wrote this and am posting un edited o7

[moonsnqil]

andrew and neil never adopt or anything but andrew never quite broke the habit of taking in strays. the latchkey kid next door who's failing math comes over every thursday so neil can help him with his homework. andrew noticed a teammate's 8 year old daughter getting teased after one of their games so he scared off the bullies and ever since then she insists on seeing uncle andrew after every game (his teammate doesn't understand why bc this is the same andrew that backed him into the corner with a racquet for saying the wrong thing). andrew meets a foster kid in aaron's clinic with eyes that are a little too jaded for 16 and now he comes over every second saturday of the month (neil teaches him exy. junkie). neil was never very good with kids (he doesn't know how to handle them so he always ends up awkwardly standing and staring) but the lady at the store he always stops a at the end of his morning run brought her baby and she seemed overwhelmed and when she said she was going through a divorce neil offered to babysit to ease some of the tension bc babies always know what's going on even if they don't understand (andrew stared at neil like he grew a second head when he came home and saw his partner standing in their kitchen with a 17 month old). maybe, after andrew retires, he finally puts his criminal justice degree to use and gets a job in some sort of social work or something and he's started keeping candy and little trinkets in his pockets for the younger kids he works with because yeah their situation is shit but he wants them to be able to look back and remember it wasn't all bad (maybe he has an office. maybe he makes the older kids hot chocolate like bee did for him).

[andreil-fic-stash]

Octopi is Plural For Octopus by jingerhead

Word Count: 4,378

Rating: G

Summary:

Though he tried to keep the day as normal as he could, Neil still got up a whole hour earlier than usual to take his run and attempted to make some eggs that burned when he got lost in thought. Andrew walked into the kitchen with a scowl and helped clean up the mess, making something actually edible with a mask of perfect calm. But Neil was an expert in Andrew’s facial expressions by now and could tell he was a bit nervous about what the day would bring. Facing Riko? No problem. The mafia? Neil could deal with it any day. Watching two little blonde girls that said words like ‘fishies’? Neil felt like his heart could stop at any moment. ~*~ It's Aaron and Katelyn's anniversary, and they'd prefer to spend it child-less. Enter Neil and Andrew, who are going to do their damn best to give these kids the best sleepover ever.

Comments: Pure fluff, super sweet!

[booksydaisy]

Andrew *sighs*: did Neil, my boyfriend, the love of my life, chaos incarnate, kill the guy who hurt you?

Jean *sniffs*: no, he asked his uncle to do it 😪.

[winningmymind]

The way Neil's mafia uncle came in clutch and killed his abusive ass dad, saving him from being tortured to death while Andrew's shitty religious uncle ignored the truth and essentially doomed all 3 cousins to unnecessary trauma for life

I love the foils in this trilogy

[mini-minish]

Uncle helping the cubs beat a hard level in Super Mario Land 🎄 Merry Christmas! Here's some foxes fankids, with headcanons under the cut ^^

🌟 notes:

• i only have names for the twins, andrea (aaron needed a Moment after admitting he wanted to name her that) and annelise (annie for short);

• all of the cubs know he doesn't like being touched;

• kevin got everyone (including the adult foxes, and including david, abby, stephanie and bee) the matching santa hats with cat fox ears;

• dan and matt's first child loves exy and captains his little league team;

• renee and allison adopt a little girl through unconventional ways. allison dresses her up in all sorts of little outfits;

• nicky and erik's kid is the newest addition to the bundle. it took a while for nicky to get over a lot of things from his time being the twins' guardian, and at first they wanted to adopt a baby, but after knowing this child they decided to keep him. he also gets a hat, but wants to show off his minecraft reindeer antlers a little longer;

• king fluffkins, andrew's daughter, is a rescued ragdoll mix runt from a breeder's litter who threw her away. if the breeder is never heard from again, neil doesn't know anything about it. she and her brother sir fat cat mccatterson ruin andrew's goth vibe.

[meyhew]

neil in aftg can pass off as like… Almost borderline semi-normal kid who’s found himself in insane circumstances when rlly all he wants to do is play a crazy sport because he looks at andrew’s problems and kevin’s lack of spine and riko’s entire existence and he does believe he’s almost borderline semi-normal. just a paranoid liar bc his dad wants to murder him. then u see him from an outsider’s pov and he’s damn near psychotic arranging a hit on someone while on a lunch date with his gangster uncle and the guy who taped his skin back together after continuous torture not even a year ago and he does it without breaking a sweat while stringing up a series of lies to feed to the FBI. character or ALL time