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Its Andrew’s first time trying a cigarette and he coughs on the smoke and its Aaron’s first time snorting cocaine and he sneezes on the tickly powder. Andrew aged 14 enters juvie to get away from Drake and Aaron aged 19 enters custody after murdering Drake. Andrew and Neil sit on the roof and Aaron and Katelyn enter the library, Andrew crashes the car holding himself and his not-mother and Aaron drives the Mas holding himself, his brother and Neil in California, Andrew gets onto drugs just a year after Andrew gets off of them, Aaron writes a letter, "Andrew," [Aaron says,] desperate and frightened. He held onto Andrew like he thought Andrew would disappear if he let go and Andrew writes back a refusal, Andrew who’d barely acknowledged Aaron’s existence in the entire time Neil had known them, looked immediately to his brother, they’re identical twins and they’re the closest set of twin primes, Andrew forces Matt clean as to not trigger Aaron into relapsing and Aaron wavies his right to a jury and hinges the entirety of his life onto one judge to save Andrew from spilling his trauma to strangers, Andrew slams Katelyn into the wall and Aaron hounds after Neil viciously to make sure his intentions towards Andrew are pure, they’re doomed in every universe and they seperate after graduation but they interconnected no matter what they do.

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jeremy accidentally calls jean dude once and jean goes. do not ever call me that again

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so excited for jab to be loved. so excited for him to get to wake up in the mornings cuddled between cat and laila. so excited for jean to put him on the best doggy diet imaginable in order to help him gain some weight so his ribs aren’t so prominent. so excited for jab and jeremy to play fetch and run around the apartment with laughter and barking echoing off the walls. so excited for jab to go to practices and get dog-sat by adi when the trojans have away games and for the floozies to get together at least once a week to buy him new outfits that they know jean will only put him in “when the time is appropriate.” just so excited for a little dog to finally get the love he deserves and for his new family to get to treasure him as their fifth heart.

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Neil Josten our not so friendly neighborhood trash panda

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Jean and Jeremy would have been menacing children

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AFTG is actually insane because you'll read 3 books of Neil telling you how everything and everyone revolves around Andrew.

And then you read TSC and Jean points out how they orbit each other.

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all for the game fandom! i have made a quiz. a uquiz in the year of our lord 2025, yes.

hope you enjoy, and remember it is just a silly, short quiz!

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Nora is actually incredible. If I were the author I would’ve drop-kicked half the fandom in the throat by now

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THEA MULDANI DISCOURSE

if you're a hardcore thea hater do us all a favour dni w this post

THEA DID NOT GROOM KEVIN. lord the amount of INSANE takes i see about kevthea makes me want to bash my head in. THEA IS NOT A FUCKING PREDATOR. nora did make a post about this already but i'll reiterate the CANON FACTS for you all: thea and kevin didn't begin a relationship (romantic or otherwise) until they were both legal adults. the age gap between the two of them is maximum five years. there is no evidence to suggest the two of them had any kind of an intimate or close relationship before kevin's freshman year and their age gap isn't anything crazy it's not like kevin was freshly 18 and thea was like 30 so there was no huge gap in maturity. nora also makes it clear that their relationship was not the same as the toxic sexual encounters many of the other ravens had. much as some of y'all don't like kevthea (which i understand), it has to be said that they did actually have a relationship with each other. they passed each other notes and actually cared to get to know each other. nora doesn't really suggest there is anything unhealthy or toxic about their dynamic on its own.

yes i do think kevthea the ship has problems. however i think the toxicity is due to the environment they were both in (a literal cult) rather than either kevin or thea. the main reason i don't ship kevthea hardcore is because their relationship is borne from a very abusive very codependent very toxic environment that neither of them are healed or fully detached from. i honestly think it would be better for them both to just clean the slate and not pursue a relationship until they're more well-adjusted and free of the nest. that being said, i actually trust nora with her characters, so i'll let it rest.

i don't even like thea that much but some of y'all are literally just misogynists. i don't think it's a coincidence that one of the most hated characters in the series is a canonically black woman, especially when contrasted against the all white, male main characters of the books who arguably all have a very fucked moral compass (except for jean and jeremy. sometimes). considering she has like four canon appearances in the series and she is still one of the most hated characters in the fandom for YEARS says a LOT. smells like misogynoir to me.

i also think a lot of people forget that thea is also a victim of the nest. probably more than the average raven because of her race and gender. it's already been said that she faced hatred and copped a lot of shit during her time because she's half black, and jean makes it clear that women weren't highly valued in the nest as well. that combination of her identity did her no favours as a raven and y'all just want a perfect victim so bad don't you. of course she has a twisted way of thinking of course she's not well-adjusted or gentle or particularly kind she's a veteran from the nest and their vicious cult mindset that's not something you can just shake off, and neil, jeremy, kevin and jean all say that ravens graduate but never leave the nest. you all forget how prickly and bitchy and mean jean and kevin can be as well, probably courtesy of the nest, but for some reason their flaws are brushed over and even endearing but thea's are enough to despise and hate her passionately. crazy and suspicious.

yes a lot of the thea discourse is somewhat valid because i do think her responses to kevin + jean's trauma isn't particularly tactful or sensitive but i've said it before and i'll say it again. what do you guys expect her to fucking do??? riko is dead and tetsuji is nowhere to be found. if y'all want her anger and indignation you have it. she wasn't just totally chill and fine with the abuse they suffered. yes, thea made some ill-advised comments, but it's pretty clear she didn't know all the information and the facts about what happened to kevin/jean were so muddled anyway i don't really understand how you guys wanted her to respond. also note that andrew, neil and kevin also don't have the most gentle and sensitive responses to trauma either and yet they never get as much hate as thea does. which is insane btw. i love the boys but actually let this woman REST.

tldr thea isn't my favourite character but i feel the need to defend her because this fandom sometimes makes me genuinely crash out. she is NOT a fucking predator and she is also a victim of the nest. while she's not perfect she's also a character we know next to nothing about and the amount of hate she receives is actually batshit. sorry idc.

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im sorry

Jean: You TATTLE on jean? You tattle on him like the child? Jean: Oh! OH! Painful deaths on the Queen! A thousand painful deaths upon the Queen! (Scene im referencing below the cut)

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kevin's the court queen and neil's the court jester

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jeremy knox and matt boyd become bffs when they play in the pros together. they know every dog’s name at the park. they trade plates halfway through meals. loudest laughers in any room. get those two in front of a pinball machine and you won’t see them for hours. they frequently leave the other's favorite snack in their locker. weekly volunteering at the local animal shelter together. they go on friend dates to the zoo. both love a good disco ball moment on the dance floor. they regularly get late night pancakes and leave a huge tip. they run around the dog park playing frisbee whilst their dogs sit in the shade. and do not get me started on their elaborate handshake!

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you know, i get it. being raised as a superstar must be really, really difficult for you. always a commodity, never a human being, not a single person in your family thinking you’re worth a damn off the court— yeah, sounds rough. kevin and i talk about your intricate and endless daddy issues all the time. i know it’s not entirely your fault that you are mentally unbalanced and infected with these delusions of grandeur, and i know you’re physically incapable of holding a decent conversation with anyone like every other normal human being can, but i don’t think any of us should have to put up with this much of your bullshit. pity only gets you so many concessions, and you used yours up about six insults ago. so please, please, just shut the fuck up and leave us alone.

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I also think it’s kinda #crazy that everyone argues that Jean is still in love with Kevin when it’s pretty paralleled to how Jeremy feels about Leo. Except Jeremy’s sleeping with the guy still . And yet no one argues that Jeremy’s still in love with him the way they argue Jean is still in love with Kevin

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the dopamine hit i get every time neil josten shows up on my dash is actually medically concerning

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one of my favorite scenes