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Thinking about Jean— and Derek & Derrick and how Grayson would have had his arms ripped from their sockets before he got ahold of Jean. Thinking about Jean and Cody and how whoever the fuck knocked Jean out for papaya day would have woken up in spit and gravel because Cody would have knocked them senseless and kept the papaya for Jean to eat later. Thinking about any woman who spat at Jean and how Cat and Laila would have put how much they could bench to practice. Thinking about Rhemann looking at the Ravens for years and years and not thinking too much but one day having a reason to say this one is mine and you won’t ever hurt him again. Thinking about Jeremy who would give Jean a hand and for once it’s not to the infirmary or to someone’s room or to a locked cellar; it’s to the outside where Jean can soar and fly as high as wants because it’s his fucking right. Thinking about Mads and Tanner and Xavier and Pat and every other Trojan who would have fought tooth and nail for Jean because they knew from the start that he was one of them. I’m thinking about the Trojans and how protective they are of Jean and how sacred he was from the start; he just didn’t have the right gates to keep the pain and hurt away. But he does now.

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I love this fox so much...

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andreil

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9. Has any of them had to be saved from the brink of death? Were there any consequences after?

Torturing your OCs Ask Game

9. So.......Smith works for Ichirou after college. He tells Jackson and Matthew because they're his partners and he feels that more than anyone they deserve to know so they can make the decision on whether or not to stay with him. It's hard for Jackson because he lost Seth to Riko's machinations and it makes him hate Neil Josten all the more but he doesn't want to lose Smith.

He, however, does not tell any of the Foxes. Mostly because they're all already so entrenched with the Moriyamas due to Neil's deal with Ichirou and also he knows that if Neil found out that Smith joined the Moriyamas specifically because Ichirou threatened Neil's life then his Captain would feel bad.

This all comes to a head when Smith is with Ichirou working on making a deal with a family that goes south and Smith takes a bullet for the crime lord (not intentionally, in true Smith fashion it is a sequence of events that make him look a lot more heroic than he actually meant to). The Moriyamas get him out of there and get him to a hospital with great care but it's still looking bad for a while.

Jackson, who already has a lot of trauma regarding the Moriyamas having people he love be killed (RIP Seth), goes absolutely apeshit to Ichirou and it is only by the grace of 'this dude's partner just took a bullet for me' that Ichirou tolerates that shit.

However it does keep Ichirou back long enough that the Foxes arrive and see him in the hallway outside Smith's room and hear him confirm that Smith is one of his men.

The Foxes find out that their second youngest (of like the main squad and Robin is the youngest) is stuck working for the Moriyamas because Ichirou threatened the safety of Neil, Kevin, and Jean. Jackson, who is already feeling a lot of things and has the medical authority over Smith to make decisions, kicks them all out (The Foxes, the hospital has mafia ties so if Ichirou wants to stay then the MF is gonna stay, it just so happens that Ichirou has other things to do that day now that his translator is in good hands).

Smith wakes up finds out that the Foxes know about the whole Ichirou thing and proceeds to have a panic attack about that. He's a little a lot worried that this'll be the nail in the coffin for his friendships with them and figures that if he just....avoids them forever then they can remain as best friends forever. It is perfect logic. Don't question it.

Cue three months where Smith, with the assistance of Jackson and Matthew (mostly Jackson since he's got beef) avoids the ever loving shit out of the Foxes until they can all converge on his house and forcibly make their point that Smith is still their friend and that he should quit working for Ichirou and let them deal with the consequences of that.

Except, by this point, Smith kind of likes his job? Like yeah there is the whole 'totally illegal' thing but Smith likes to think he's done a lot of good working for Ichirou since he kind of ended up as Ichirou's little Jiminy Cricket and he has excellent health / dental / life insurance, a 401k 50% match, ample PTO, flexible hours with crime from home options, and it pays a shitload.

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I love Derrick and Derek and how they treat Jean

✨🤌🏼☺️😘🥰

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So I literally started a note because I wanted to ask you questions off the OC game and then just never asked them. 1 and 12 if you’re still down to answer.

Torturing your OCs Ask Game

Which of your OCs do you most often imagine sick? In what ways?

So it's Smith because I love whump but also the physical comedy potential. Like in the whump imaginations I'm thinking about him getting a fever and how different it'd be at different points in his life.

Like before the Foxes with his step-family / mother he pretended like he was fine no matter how sick he was.

With the Foxes he's stoic about it, he's miserable but also he doesn't want to be a bother. Nicky babies him but he's too embarrassed to actually enjoy it.

Once he's with his partners he's the biggest baby of all time because he knows that they'll dote on him. He makes the world's most pathetic sniffling noise but Jackson and Matthew hear it and are like 100% going to the store to buy him the tissues with aloe.

The physical comedy aspect sick is that Smith has a stomach bug and will not admit it / let it show but the Foxes catch on and are all trying to fabricate a situation wherein Smith pukes all over Jack.

12. What kind of health repercussions has your OC experienced through intense stress? How do they manage them?

Smith famously does not manage his shit well. One thing that I never found an opportunity for is that when he's really overwhelmed and stressed he likes to climb under his bed and just hide there for a while because it's quiet. Doctors are worried about his blood pressure and dentists are worried that he's going to grind his teeth down to dust. He has to wear a mouth guard when he sleeps after his 2nd year.

He has to get checked for ulcers fairly regularly because he's predisposed to develop them.

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Golden ⛅️

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THERE’S ONE MORE JEAN BOOK AND TWO KEVIN BOOKS!!!

So Nora has a tumblr account and she soft launched a Kevin Duology. (https://korakos.tumblr.com/)

It started with reblogging the screenshotted audios with interesting tags.

Then came the list of titles, with five we knew and three new ones.

Because of how they’re organized, fandom theory is that Kevin’s story will bookend the other books. Everything will start and end with Kevin Day.

Things I’m hoping will be in “The Perfect Court”

Book starts with baby Kevin traveling the world with Kayleigh spreading the Exy Gospel.

Kevin’s reaction to his moms death

The shift from Riko and Kevin as equals to Kevin pretending and believing he’s #2

Kevin desperate for someone’s approval

Nathaniel’s try-out and the resulting Butcher incident which makes Riko more interested in knives

How Jean’s arrival impacted his relationship with Riko (While I love Jean, I’m nervous about what will be revealed about Kevin in his POV.)

Discovering the letter about Wymack but being convinced his father probably wouldn’t want him.

The hand breaking and getting out of the nest.

Andrew and Kevin finding an uneasy truce as partners (in the Raven sense) and making the deal.

Book ends on the plane to Millport.

Corresponding list for The Queen’s Game coming soon.

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Things I’m hoping will be in “The Perfect Court”

Book starts with baby Kevin traveling the world with Kayleigh spreading the Exy Gospel.

Kevin’s reaction to his moms death

The shift from Riko and Kevin as equals to Kevin pretending and believing he’s #2

Kevin desperate for someone’s approval

Nathaniel’s try-out and the resulting Butcher incident which makes Riko more interested in knives

How Jean’s arrival impacted his relationship with Riko (While I love Jean, I’m nervous about what will be revealed about Kevin in his POV.)

Discovering the letter about Wymack but being convinced his father probably wouldn’t want him.

The hand breaking and getting out of the nest.

Andrew and Kevin finding an uneasy truce as partners (in the Raven sense) and making the deal.

Book ends on the plane to Millport.

Corresponding list for The Queen’s Game coming soon.

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Jeremy crashout this Kevin crashout that what I really want is a Thea crashout. Like truly can you imagine giving up your body and your mind and your entire adult life for something and you think you made it. You're the success story of the success stories. And then you find out that, actually, everything was a lie and people are trying to skirt around the fact that it makes you a victim not a victor. And the team you sacrificed everything for is now a mockery of itself. Oh, also, just before they put the final nail in the coffin of their reputation they gave away your dream of captaincy to someone else in a whim. Telling the Ravens to kill themselves was not enough give her a gun

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May I propose: ex boyfriends au. Neil and Andrew go back in time per usual, but they arrive together at the beginning of Neil's recruitment to palmetto. They agree that for now, they should keep it low key and not change much in fear of making the future worse. But, they come to find out that repeating your life exactly the same way is BORING. So, they decide to spice it up a bit. In order to explain their familiarity to the foxes, they create this awfully dramatic backstory full of twists and betrayals, where neil met Andrew while he was with Cass and then Andrew did something to land them both in Juvie, and maybe in juvie they betrayed each other or smthn. All of its fake but the foxes eat it up. Neil and Andrew even incorporate song lyrics that haven't been made into fake arguments that they have for fun (strawberry ice cream in Malibu don't act like we didn't do that shit too) and the foxes fully believe that they're ex boyfriends. But even they can't fully hide the affection they have for each other and when that bleeds through the fixes think they're witnessing the best second chance trope when in reality they're just fucking around

This is such a funny concept.

I am going to add one thing though. In this AU Neil and Andrew made it all the way to their 90s. They went to sleep in their bed old, in love, and happy together. They've both been getting more and more tired lately, they know what's coming. They've seen it with their friends. It's fine, whatever the next step is they're going to go together. If one leaves a little early, well they've had years to get patient while waiting for the other to catch up.

They pass together and their great grand nephew (Kevin's) finds them the next morning (he'd been staying with them to help with a few things. They're holding hands.

They find themselves in the immediate aftermath of Andrew having driven an Exy racquet into Neil's stomach. There's a moment where Andrew truly panics because "OH FUCK, WHAT IF I RUPTURED HIS COLOSTOMY BAG?" and then oh he never really forgot how Neil looked (Neil had been the one that needed the reminders about things) but seeing his husband at 18 with brown hair, wire thin frame, and brown eyes? It throws him off even if he'd know Neil no matter what hair color or eye color.

Kevin comes up and it's been almost 10 years since he'd died but he's there young, no liver spots, and with a 2 on his face again.

They have long been able to talk to one another without a single word. Now that Andrew's face has full range of motion again (partial stroke 3 years before) it's even easier.

"So this is where you ran off to?" Andrew demands.

"Oh, like I had a choice after what you pulled!" Neil shoots back.

Cue two old fucks who are now in the prime of their life bodies and when they lost a lot of their mobility with age the thing they had most loved to do was fuck with their numerous grand nieces and nephews (I am stating right here that every fox who has a kid FULLY views Andreil as uncles so it does not matter if there is a blood relation).

Neil and Andrew rarely need to lie about the shit they've gotten up to, it just hasn't happened yet. They only make it like 2 weeks MAX pretending like they're mad at one another. They've slept in the same bed holding hands for 70 years. They don't do well when they're separated and Andrew is on that god awful medication but this time they know the medical expert who can argue about how BAD this whole shit show is and they know the lawyer to hire. Neil might dip heavily into his stash money but they know more than enough to make that cash back.

Andrew off his meds almost a whole year early via an outpatient treatment.

Still they keep referencing some insane past. "I'll say sorry for getting us thrown in Juvie when YOU apologize for lighting the car on fire in the first place!" he huffs.

"Then I guess we're at a standstill."

These arguments are had while they are absolutely all over one another because a bunch of parts of theirs just WORK again and that's super fun for both of them. They seem like Seth & Allison 2.0 with 8x the history but Neil makes Andrew act like a human and not a monster so they're all very invested in the relationship working out.

This past is also NEVER elaborated on but they never fuck up the fabrication of it either. Andrew because his perfect memory and Neil because even decades later he is a super tier liar.

They're having fun, it's sort of like being back with all their grand nieces and nephews except it's all of their friends (+Seth). The Original Foxes were long used to Neil & Andrew's shit so it was impossible to mess with them like this.

They're going to have a blast.

Edit: Thanks @the-inner-musings-of-a-worm for the fun idea once again!

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Can I get a little noise for a Dan and Matt supremacy 🎉

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[✨✨] tell me the phrase

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Holy Shit! Does this mean what I think this means? AKA We’re getting Kevin books too! Also that working title for Jean’s book is going to kill me. “The broken cage” is perfect.

>>> the perfect court the foxhole court the raven king the king's men the sunshine court the golden raven the broken cage >>> the queen's game

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Jean hasn't unlocked the other line yet.

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People take Andrew "clocking" Jeremy to mean Andrew instantly knew he was gay, but I don't think that's right. Because of Jeremy's scandal, it's pretty common knowledge that he is gay. Everyone already knows it. I'm sure Andrew knew that as well.

I think what Andrew clocked is that Jeremy has it bad for Jean and vice versa. He could have cut through that tension with a butter knife.

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This would have murdered me so very grateful you went with the meme you did.

Lol I forgot about a different meme I made about finishing Fluent Freshman that felt a little too final but