#andrew minyard: gay disaster

[konaiiro]

Neil & Andrew

A thank you for the writer of Deals With Devils, @toadlilyaus. Dialogue is based off a section in Chapter 41 (https://archiveofourown.org/works/47081227?view_full_work=true)

[chaoticas-hell]

I like how Nora tried to make us believe there was something between Renee and Jean like- no- that's a lesbian collecting traumatized gay men to be her friends like they're Pokémon

[cabesswtaer]

this but jerejean

[kweenkday]

Neil: *fake name, fake ID, fake birthday, fake hair and eye color, fake background story*

Andrew: Hm, that seems like a person with a totally legit driver's license. I'm gonna let him drive the Maz.

[snowcoming]

imagine telling your crush "that doesn't mean i wouldn't blow you" straight (not) to their face like im sorry but andrew minyard was insane for that

man is such a disaster gay omg

[kururusti]

Well it was fun

[medeaaasworld]

Thinking about how confusing this is for Andrew— both in canon and in black sand beach—because Neil just looks at him like—

all the fucking time

And then he's like "I don't swing"

And then—in bsb— "Lola's my ex"

And Andrew’s just—

Bitch.

Wtf????

[looneydoomed]

some more spoilers from my fic! This is ch 6 everyone, and it's complete, but I have no beta, so I die alone with my own typos

[exy-shmexy]

Andrew is an art student who likes to go to museums to find inspiration for his anatomy studies. One day, while he is walking through the Antique Greek sculptures, he stops dead in his tracks. Standing in a ray of sunlight is a man with fiery auburn hair studying an Apollo statue with his piercing ocean blue eyes, and putting every single one of the marble statues around them to shame.

[lemon-shark04]

Andrew calls Neil rabbit out loud but bunny in his thoughts.

[willowbird]

just got really gay thinking about andrew seeing neil in a white suit

idk why hes wearing one - i just think it would be fucking DEVISTATING and andrew wouldn't know what to do with himself

his lil gay brain misfiring as he just

stares

and neil just smirks cheekily at him

neil: *smirk* staring

andrew: *twitches, because you add in that smirk and its even worse* shut the fuck up, josten

neil: make me

andrew: *the sound of gay brain shortcircuiting; grabs neil and hauls him off to the nearest store room/broom closet/single stall bathroom*

[gayfrogsandarson]

Andrew probably had to pay to set Neils ringtone to that song

[kevindayscrown]

Andrew really asked Renee to tell Neil that he is gay. He is dramatic like that. Or it was more of a "Tell him for me cause he is stupid and this arrangement rids me of the burden 👉🏻👈🏻." Disaster gay Andrew Minyard.

Also, Neil immediately assuming Andrew and Kevin are a thing is always hilarious.

[rekikiri]

ace spectrum aaron minyard

aaron grew up with tilda and the hemmick’s who were very homophobic. he was constantly around them talking about gross it is that people choose to be gay, and of course, he adopted that mentality.

he always thought girls were cute, pretty, etc but he didn’t realize until high school that he didn’t feel about girls like the other boys. he wanted to kiss girls, hold their hands, hug them. but the other boys talked about wanting to have sex with them, which thinking of always made him uncomfortable. he knew he didn’t like guys, so he wasn’t gay. but he didn’t want to have sex with girls, so what did that make him?

aaron ignores it in favor of trying to fit in. he ends up in relationships where he doesn’t want to have sex, but he does it because that’s what normal guys do, right? but he can’t help the nagging feeling in his head that tells him there’s something not right.

he doesn’t really have the chance to worry too much about it because of all the chaos of meeting andrew, losing tilda, his drug addiction, starting college, etc. andrew drove away any of the girlfriends he could’ve had in high school so it was put out of mind. aaron only really starts to think about it again in college. at first it’s not much, he’s focusing himself on school and with exy, he doesn’t really have any time left to worry about dating.

then, he meets katelyn. he likes katelyn pretty early. he thinks she’s the prettiest girl he’s ever seen, she’s so smart and nice, and just always so bright that it helps light up his day. but again, he doesn’t want to have sex. he’s hesitant to say anything, because the girls he’d dated in the past wanted things and he didn’t want to disappoint them because they’d think that he was weird and not want to date him anymore.

katelyn notices something is up with him, though. she notices how he’ll be kissing her but the moment hands start to wander, he tenses up and fakes an excuse to stop. and katelyn is fine with it. she’s okay if aaron wants to take things slow, but she wishes he’d just tell her that, not constantly back off and close off to her.

she finally asks him point blank if he wants to have sex with her, and he freezes. aaron really doesn’t want to hurt katelyn. he doesn’t want her to think he doesn’t find her attractive, because he does! she’s so beautiful! just, not that way. and katelyn takes it in stride. she really likes aaron too so she accepts that for what it is and says they can just continue as they are.

aaron can’t help feeling guilty because katelyn is putting up with so much shit because of him. between andrew, the chaos with the foxes, the thanksgiving disaster, etc, he’s fully expecting her to give up on him by that point but she stays.

aaron only starts to understand that he might be asexual during a therapy session with andrew. he’s asking andrew questions about neil. he brings up the whole, “he said he doesn’t swing but then suddenly y’all are together.”

andrew finally is fed up with it and stops him. “he doesn’t swing.”

and aaron just gets more irritated. because how the fuck does he not swing if he likes andrew??

“he doesn’t like anyone, just me. he’s demisexual.”

and aaron scoffs because okay, he knows about being gay and bi, but that has to be made up.

so bee explains what it means to aaron, and that it falls onto the asexuality spectrum. she explains that too because aaron just stared at her in confusion. then, he feels a little bit of something click into place.

josten wasn’t interested in sex or romance, until he met andrew. he was part of the asexuality spectrum, which he didn’t know was a thing at all, but the not sexually attracted to anyone part feels a bit on the nose for himself.

he gets quiet for the rest of the session, choosing to just listen to bee talking while he tries to consider that for himself. he leaves therapy that week confused and uncomfortable, so he ends up biting the bullet and asking bee for a private session so he can ask more about things.

aaron feels really awkward doing it, but he tells bee about how he doesn’t want to have sex with katelyn, but that he loves her and wants to be with her in every other way. but he’s not like josten because he has had crushes before, he’s wanted to date people, he just has never wanted sex. bee tells him more about the difference between romantic and sexual attraction. that you can be asexual and still want to date people, which is what seems to be the case for him. hearing that helps everything feel a bit more steady, he no longer feels like he’s walking a fine line trying to be normal even though he knows there’s something different.

he doesn’t really tell people. he tells katelyn of course, and she is confused at first but he tries to explain and she is understanding of it. she loves him, so she is fine if that’s not an aspect of their relationship. maybe she even asks aaron if he wants them to have a joint therapy session together so that bee can explain things if aaron isn’t sure how, which he appreciates so, so much.

andrew kind of figured it out because of how he stopped antagonizing Neil as much since a bit part of his dislike for neil for a bit was that he felt like he was lying about his sexuality or only with andrew because he saw him as easy. (maybe aaron even goes to have a chat with neil, because he wants to understand).

and maybe aaron starts to slowly feel more towards katelyn, realizing that maybe sex isn’t completely off the table as long as it’s her. he still doesn’t want to have sex all the time, but he’s found that she’s an exception to the rule. so he thinks that maybe he is demisexual, but they just take things slow to see where things go.

katelyn is just an angel with aaron, and her sticking by his side and helping him through the trial for killing drake and just how steady she is for him finally tips the scale and he really starts to understand neil because yeah, having someone who stands by him no matter how ugly his truth is, that trust and feeling of safety he gets with her is what makes him feel truly safe enough to want to “swing” for her.

[thespineoftherighteous]

i kinda hate it when people call andrew a "gay disaster" cause usually it's just used as a strand of The Woobification Of Andrew Minyard. and i especially can't stand when it's applied to the "renee telling neil andrew is gay" stuff when andrew never explicitly told renee she could out him to neil and that was just a logical inference that she could tell neil on her part

ywah tbh this isn't something I've ever really paid attention to either way but I'm 100% with you ab hating the distortion of Andrew's (and Neil's!) characters in general. I think a lot of the time it starts off as a joke by fans who actually understand it as a Joke and then it spreads and somehow becomes something actually ingrained in other fans' beliefs idk it's scary out here sometimes

[lgbtqjockshowdown]

propaganda for andrew minyard: he is canonically called the best goalie in his sport's history. he is also a disaster gay. he told his best friend to tell his crush that he was gay. he also confessed to liking his crush in the most andrew-way possible - he said "i hate you, but that doesn't mean i wouldn't blow you."

andrew propaganda