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Work’s finally chilled out a bit!

POV: Nicky is taking pictures of the team arriving for another match 🤭

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One of many third book makeouts 🫡

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I’ve got this urge to draw the monsters on the couch 👀

WIP 🚧 more updates on my ig account de.bee._ 🫶

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Meal prep

As much as I love drawing doodles and simplified figures, I missed doing full illustrations, feels like it's been a while.

Trojans!! Can't believe I hadn't drawn them fully yet... So, here's my take for the four of them, I guess.

For those who wondered - yes I've read tsc and tgr, obviously (i've been following both of the releases like a famished animal ready to pounce). I love these guys' dynamic and domesticity so much. I wanna be their friend.

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It's all fun and games with Neil 'I'd rather be free than safe' Josten vs. Kevin 'I'd rather be safe than free' Day - until you whip out Jean 'Please just kill me' Moreau

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This is the BEST jerejean fanart I've seen so far

Someone mentioned Jeremy looked lonely in this artwork…naturally, I had to add Jean!👀

Thanks to the person who gave me this idea, I love it!

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Lifes were changed here

15/30 days of park jimin

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I NEED Jean and Tanner interactions so bad

if most annoying freshman tanner has no fans I’m dead

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neil’s not allowed to talk to the press anymore bc the last time he did they asked him his thoughts about trojan v foxes games and he says “i think any games with the foxes and trojans competing against each other should be legally classified as gay porn”

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Thinking about Wymack putting up with Neil, alone, during his senior year. None of the other foxes are there to deal with his antics. Kevin isn’t there to talk about everything Exy related. Andrew isn’t there to keep him grounded and sane. Allison and Nicky aren’t pushing him out of his comfort zone with his style, appearance, etc. Matt isn’t there to be a friend. Dan can’t help him captain his team. Aaron isn’t there to annoy him. Renee isn’t there with her gentle, reassuring smile.

I know that some of the freshman from the EC become Neil’s friends, but it isn’t the same as the OG Foxes.

So, he turns to one of the few people he trusts, Dad Wymack™️. Neil joins him in his office for lunch and tells him all about Andrew’s most recent Exy game. “Did you see how many saves Andrew made last night?” 38. It was beautiful.” *heart eyes* Coach returns his attention to the paperwork he was working on when Neil walked in. He half listens as the striker explains a movie that Nicky said he needed to watch to understand current trends.

After a game night, Neil goes home with Wymack, who now lives together with Abby, and stays for dinner with the couple, yapping about everything that plagued him that day. “I talked to Andrew last night and he was telling me about this drill his pro team does at practice. He thinks it’s stupid, of course, but I think it could help us get through the other team’s defense easier.” He goes on to explain the drill between bites of pasta and sauce.

When Neil leaves, Coach looks at Abby, feeling slightly dumbfounded, “I never knew the kid could say so many words in such a short time.” Abby lets out a chuckle.

“I don’t get any paperwork finished anymore with him around so much.” He explains with fake annoyance. She gives him a soft smile, “He just misses Andrew and the rest of our Foxes. I think it’s says a lot that he trusts you with the details of his private life. We all know how hard that is for him.”

Dad Wymack sits in his thought for a quiet minute, thinking back to the locker room in Millport with the brown-haired, brown-eyed boy who was scared to live. To the airport before the new year with the red-haired, blue-eyed boy who was fighting for his family. To a cheap motel in Baltimore with a boy covered in scars who fought to stay and live. Neil has come a long way and Wymack’s chest swells with pride and love for the striker.

Two days later, on Monday, Neil shows up right on time for Wymack’s lunch hour, but the older man doesn’t mind the sound of Neil’s chattering over their shared lunch. “Allison told me my hair is getting too long, but the shampoo she sent me is making my curls look “delicious”. I don’t know what she means by that, how hair can look edible, but Andrew says not to worry about it. Speaking of Andrew, do you know how much he has been bench pressing in the gym? He’s up to—“

Wymack lets out a quiet, exasperated sigh as he leans back in his chair, accepting his fate for the next year as Neil continues talking. He may act annoyed about his new lunch time guest, but it means a lot that Neil feels safe with him, even if that means learning about pop culture and Neil’s distaste for broccoli.

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Fathers

Coaches Fathers. Holding their boys in one piece.

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Jean Moreau would have an aneurysm reading this

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Just sitting there, silently witnessing the girls lose their minds over the book. Peak entertainment

They're on chapter 20

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Wymack took two teenagers who were so afraid of coaches and older men they flinched at his presence and loved them so hard they think of him as a father

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Need to know more about freshman year Jeremy. Need to know why the freshmen avoided him and what Cody meant by not the kind of guy you wanted to get into an argument with back then, yk? Need to know about the careful lectures Rhemann sat him down for and how he ended up with Noah at that banquet. Need to know about how he felt when the officers finally remembered to tell him about Noah and the ride to the station and how long it took his family to come bail him out. Or was it Rhemann? Need to know where they were and how long it took them to get him help after , because he says he wanted to spiral out and feel nothing at all, so he didn’t stop there. Need to know how the conversation went with his parents where he “took Bryson down with him anyway”. Need to know about those 5 weeks in rehab and how alone he must’ve felt when he came back. Need to know more about how Rhemann welcomed him back with open arms when his family shuttered him out, need to know about him meeting Adi and the slow reception of him back into the Trojans after such a disastrous night

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Jean asking if peaches come from trees devastated me in ways I can’t even describe 😭 As someone who grew up surrounded by so many fruits — especially peaches (we had a peach orchard) — it sounds so unreal to not know where fruit comes from or to have never tasted a peach

my poor baby Jean 😭😭😭😭

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love their dynamic

Friendship of friendships. They love each other, they cannot stand in the same room with each other.