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feeding the bday boy

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you guys dont understand andreil like i do id kill everyone for them to have a happy ending theyre my little babies

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Everytime Neil says "I'm fine" I think about the fact that the only person who asked him if he was okay before the Foxes was his mom and "I'm fine" meant he was alive and could still run, which was all that mattered

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do it. i'm so serious do it. make jeanneil romantic.

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Bffr

I cannot stand Andreil as a romantic ship. I understand it is canon but honestly they just feel super toxic to me and Andrew dropped to one of my least faves of the Foxes after he choked Kevin.

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idk what to do changed phone and now my 290 Google tabs are nowhere to be found im gonna crash out

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for me andrew can only be with neil but neil can be with anyone ive read jeaneil even riko/neil (always abusive) and like i get it but if i see andrew with anyone else but neil i might shot myself

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Ex raven Neil would be a menace for the jerejean relationship. Jeremy thinks he's scary now? Give Neil years of attachment to Jean as his one and only lifeline and you'll learn what terror really means. He doesn't even like Jean like that (definitely obsessed with that one foxes goalkeeper) but he WILL threaten anyone who even tries. He thinks it's funny. Jean is so used to it he just sighs and moves on. Jeremy ends up playing matchmaker to andreil JUST to get Neil out of his life because God is it scary to wake up and see blue eyes just staring at you. Mind you Neil is already on the foxes lineup. How in god's green earth he has enough time to show for dinner once a week Jeremy will never understand. He locks eyes with Andrew and they're both overcome by a neuro telepathical bond of suffering for whatever the hell that is. Last year it was as bad (for Andrew, at least) because Jean was still in the nest and Neil couldn't just come and go there, but now he can and does.

Jeremy is brave and all but having the known son of a Mafia boss in his face telling him very clearly that jean is first and foremost his best friend? Yeah no I would run for the hills Jeremy you stubborn fool that's a RED flag.

Bonus points if both Jean and Neil think this is Neil behaving. Jean is actually pleasantly surprised by how calm Neil is being.

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what if you were GAY!!! and your boyfriend was COLD!!!!!!!!!

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aftg 2020s AUs mean so much to me i cannot imagine so many gays in ONE sport other than professional vogue in the early 2000s

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The more I think about the differences between how the Trojans show affection vs how the Foxes do, the more I come to the conclusion that they unwittingly created the perfect environment for Jean and Neil’s arcs respectively.

Take for example the way Cat and Laila show Jean affection. The forehead kisses, the hugs, the endless reassurance and compassion. It may go without saying but Neil would’ve hated it if he ended up in that situation. He would’ve booked it faster than you can say Wesninski. But Jean? I mean sure he was baffled at first, but the way he grows to lean into it? The way he shows affection the same way back? Jean needed that brand of affection in a way Neil won’t ever. He needed to learn that he was deserving of such love; that there are people out there now who cared about him as deeply as he does them.

Neil on the other hand needed to learn a whole different set of lessons. The Foxes showing him that they care was less such obvious displays of love and more about patience in the face of his complications. More about their willingness to stick by him when the fabricated life he clung so hard to unraveled at the seams. Jean wouldn’t have flourished as much in that environment because he didn’t need understanding as much as he needed love. He didn’t need someone to help piece his life back together as much as he needed someone to love what was already there.

Neil is like an innocent looking stray cat that the foxes still kept even when they got bit; while Jean is like an abused show dog that the Trojans nurse back to health. And good lord do I love them both for it.

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life is too short for the amount of fanfics i wanna read

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So are we not gonna talk about Andrew stopping smoking bc he was not fast enough to reach Neil and protect him after Jean literally told him so??????

He stopped smoking for Neil.

"“You are an idiot,” Jean accused him. “You were barely fast enough to save him last time. The next time someone takes a swing at him, you and your brisket lungs will have to watch him die."

AND ALSO, ARE WE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE "I wouldn’t have given him to you if I’d known you would just throw him away so carelessly.”

MY FOREVER MISPLACED PARTNERS IM GONNA SCREAM.

There's so much to unpack here.

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gonna start my clean girl era by deleting my 205 fanfiction tabs

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oh to be andrew

“desperation was a valuable lubricant” is cheeky clever turn of phrase to paint the clear picture of Neil Josten trying his mighty best to squeeze through oh such a teeny tiny window, yes, we all read that. but i know. i know he’s packing the whole wedding cake back there.

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they are so meant for each other (platonically) it hurts

jean about neil in tsc: the wayward child. a tedious malcontent. a wretched little runaway. an insignificant brat. an abominable cockroach. a rabid little fox. the tiny bastard. a miserable wretch.

also jean about neil in tsc: my misplaced forever partner. an unfulfilled promise. my permanent partner. his voice is a line to follow home.

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bebe nathaniel

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