#esp considering his personality is like. the complete opposite of Bitty.

[wulfrann]

AFTG Check, Please! AU

Ok so I had this idea a week ago because I’d read something about Andrew getting into baking to satisfy his sweet tooth cravings, and now I can’t think of anything else. So here we go.

(PS: If you don’t know anything about the incredible webcomic that is OMG Check, Please!, do yourself a favor and go read it.)

(PPS: No one is one character, I just took what I wanted for x character and left the rest aside.)

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The Foxes are the same as in the books except they play hockey and live in a frat house.

(NB: Hockey is a mixed sport in this AU thank you very much)

(NB: I don’t know how many people there are in a hockey team and frankly I don’t care. I’m here to have fun, not to be accurate.)

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The hockey team has a frat house instead of a tower, and it’s called The Haus. The few larger bedrooms are shared, the smaller ones are not.

Andrew and Aaron share the attic. They have a mini-fridge for Andrew’s ice-cream and booze, even though there’s already a huge fridge in the kitchen. Andrew likes to climb out the window to smoke on the roof.

Renee and Allison also share a room, and so do Matt & Seth. (Matt does spend a fair share of his nights in Dan’s room, though. The both of them have the most “relationship fines” out of the whole team.)

Kevin technically shares his room with Nicky even though it’s small, except Nicky actually really lives off-campus with his boyfriend Erik. (I lied. They’re the ones who have the most fines. The amount of pet names they can use in just daily conversations is disgusting.)

Neil… sleeps in the basement. Officially he has a dorm room, but he’s never even set a foot near the dorms.

Is he even enrolled? Yes. Where does he hide his bed during the day? He sleeps on a camping mattress. What about his dorm room?? John, his never-roommate, was disappointed until he realised that it meant he could have parties whenever he wanted.

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Kevin hasn’t been that comfortable with contact during matches since he left the Ravens.

When Neil joins and he starts training him at the crack of dawn, Neil makes a deal with him: he’ll follow Kevin’s instructions without complaining if Kevin accepts to practice checking with him.

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Andrew has a baking channel on youtube. He got into baking a long time ago and kept watching baking videos while thinking he could do better, so one day he just. started his own channel.

He always looks bored in his videos and never takes Q&As seriously. No one’s ever really sure if he’s actually joking.

(“What got you into baking?” “I wanted to be taller and thought eating yeast and egg whites would speed up my growth. So far the results are mixed.”)

He’s not big or anything, but the fans he does have love him. His videos are always well-made and well-framed and the recipe’s clear, and there’s always something in the background of his videos - be it a knife that’s obviously not made for cooking just sitting there, or a passed-out Kevin still holding onto the bottle of vodka from last night.

(There’s a fair share of his fans that are just here to pick up on those odd details and ponder theories about who he really is. The leading hypothesis thus far is that Andrew’s lying about the hockey team and is actually in some kind of cult.)

He rarely talks about hockey or his life in general, except to roast or complain about something or someone, mainly Kevin. His twitter however is full vague posts about his life, but never clear enough that anyone who doesn’t actually know him can figure out what exactly he’s talking about. If Andrew’s bored, and at any moment of the day chances are that he is, then you can be sure he’s typing away on his phone somewhere, complaining about campus coffee or how exactly stupid his teammates are.

No one on the team except Renee knows his twitter handle. This of course doesn’t prevent Andrew from vaguing about her, which she takes in stride.

(No one on the team knowns Renee has a twitter. They’re all convinced she’s, like, anti-social media apps for some reason. They’re not exactly wrong, because Renee does avoid getting involved in any of the unnecessary drama those apps stir, but she likes to watch when she feels like indulging in some form of mindless entertainment.)

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Neil used to figure skate in the Raven’s junior club when he was a kid, and he still loves it to death. He turned to hockey after Mary’s death though because he needed some way to be on the ice to cope, and was surprised to find out that he likes it. A lot. There’s something about being part of a team that - well. Anyway, it wasn’t supposed to last. He planned to leave at the end of the year - that is, until he got recruited by Wymack and none other than Kevin day, who was in the Ravens’ hockey junior team, and, well. Off to Palmetto he went.

He doesn’t get Andrew at first (doesn’t even want to after Columbia), but one night he stumbles upon Andrew filming himself as he bakes some kind of pie in the Haus’ kitchen. They both agree not to say anything, since Neil’s not even supposed to be in the Haus at this hour, but it doesn’t take long for Neil to find Andrew’s channel on one of the Library’s computers the day after that.

It confuses him more than anything, to be honest, but it also makes Andrew appear more, well, human, and Neil’s curiosity gets the better of him.

He starts looking for Andrew whenever he disappears and usually finds him filming himself making some kind of pastry or another. It gets to the point where Andrew’s just used to having him here while he films, and decides that he might as well help while he’s here.

So Neil starts popping up in Andrew’s video. Oh, it’s nothing at first, just a hand here and there, entering the frame just long enough to pass something to Andrew. But then he starts making comments that Andrew doesn’t edit out and even responds to, sometimes.

(“Isn’t that a little too much chocolate? I thought Kevin wanted you to eat healthier.” “If Kevin wants to eat nothing but grass, that’s his problem. I like real food.” “By which you mean sweets. Are you sure you don’t have a sugar addiction?” “Are you sure you don’t have a death wish?”)

The only other people who know about Andrew’s channel are Aaron, Renee and Bee. Andrew and Bee frequently exchange tips and recipes, and she always leaves some kind of encouraging comment on his videos.

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Neil practices figure skating on the court sometimes when no one’s around. Andrew finds out about it eventually. (He watches from the rafters, because someone’s got to keep an eye on this suicidal idiot somehow, and Neil pretends to ignore him.)

(And if one day Neil’s feeling so on edge that he asks Andrew to skate with him just to make sure that this is real, that he’s not back in Evermore with the Ravens, skating through Winter break with as many cuts and bruises as he has hairs, that he’s safe - and if Andrew says nothing but gets his skates anyway, so Neil can hear someone else’s blades cutting the ice, can hold onto Andrew’s shirt to remember that he won’t run - well. No one has to know.)

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When Neil gets a phone, the Foxes make it their duty to create a profile for him on every social media platform imaginable. Eventually he gets a twitter account, and Renee messages him Andrew’s handle.

Neil starts scrolling through Andrew’s profile distractedly until he realises that a lot of his posts are about him, and he immediately starts responding.

Andrew, of course, cannot leave well enough alone, and the whole thing escalates to the point where Andrew’s followers start calling it a Feud, then a War, and post summaries of the day’s battles for those who couldn’t follow in real time.

(It’s flirting. They’d deny it to their graves but it’s flirting.)

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Everyone has a nickname except Andrew, because he’s lame.

Allison’s is Allie. 

Dan’s just Wilds, because it’s already cool enough. 

Seth’s is Gorder. 

Nicky’s is Mickie. 

Renee’s is Walker, because same as Dan. 

Aaron’s is Ronnie, and he hates it (Nicky came up with it). 

Matt’s is Boydster. 

Kevin’s is Daisy. 

Neil’s is Joster, then Jester after the interview with Kathy Ferdinand. 

(I know those don’t do justice to Check Please so if you have better ideas please tell me.)

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Bonus facts:

Matt and Nicky do Ransom & Holster’s “Hockey Shit” thing at Neil every time Neil asks a question.

Kevin has the best Hockey Butt, no questions asked.

Allison has the best Flow, no questions asked.

When they make the playoffs they stop shaving/getting haircuts, because that’s the Rule. Dan throws hers and Allison’s epilators in the trash as soon as they get the news. Matt’s beard is crowned Most Magnificent by the end. The twins get, like, five and a half hairs on their chins. Neil ties his hair back because it keeps falling in his face. Nicky grows a beard which he either loves or hates depending on the day. 

[misqnon]

tagged by @yalocalbiwitch​ !! answerin under the cut

Do you have any nicknames that aren’t derived from your actual name?

my aunt calls me itty-bitty. it is because i was once small (i am no longer as small but she still calls me itty bitty)

How good are you at communicating through facial expressions?

too good. people use me as reaction images bc my face is so expressive (riley) sometimes its a bad thing bc you can always tell how i feel fvjfk

How many things can you do with your weaker hand?

everything that my right hand can do just not as well. except brushing my teeth, which for some reason works better

Last thing you cried over?

being mentally ill :’)

How much do you enjoy decorating for holidays?

very much!!

Name celebrity you wish was still alive.

robin williams :’’’

Have you ever wished you were born the opposite gender?

a few times, but i avoid thinking about that stuff super often i have more important things to worry about than Gender(tm) especially when my gender is just. shrug with spice of girl(?)

What is your biggest regret in life?

not being brave enough to take opportunities when they come to me .

Last show you binge watched?

buffy the vampire slayer 👀

Last musical artist you saw live?

i’ve never been to a concert or anything similar :’) i saw a local band play in a  record shop once??? no idea what the name was rip sorry guys

If you could take home any one animal from the zoo, which one would you take?

all the small feral cats (servals, black footed cats, caracals) are coming with me and i will not be stopped

Complete this phrase: You cannot by happiness, but you can buy______.

breadsticks,,,

Are your birth parents still together?

no

Describe your sense of humor.

quirky and unironically quotes internet jokes

If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, without any consequences, what food would you choose?

(surprisingly, not breadsticks ksjdvf) uhh pasta

Would you rather live through a blizzard or a heat wave?

blizzard, just because i feel like you’re less likely to die (blankets) and seeing snow more than a foot high always makes me excited the cold makes me depressed tho i really almost chose heat wave

Name/author of the last book you read cover to cover. Do you recommend it?

blink: the power of thinking without thinking - malcolm gladwell ! it was part of my AP summer reading lmao BUT i did enjoy it?? if you like psychology or just human behavior/logic it’s a really interesting and fun read and despite its topic its not boring and its written with some personality! 

Last YouTube video you watched?

the new try guys video where they compare birthday cakes lmao

Do you consider rapping singing?

yes

Would you attend a same sex wedding, if invited?

of course not. my own wedding is canceled

What celebrity do you most admire and why?

ooohhhh boy okay i dont know very many celebrities. i know. a few but its only bc i think they’re hot kdfnf (taika waititi, it’s taika waititi, ) however i think he is admirable, especially with how much he cares and raises awareness for native people esp in new zealand !! also. he’s a big good and he seems Indie but he’s still successful and just seems to be living his best life and thats just inspiring to me as a little ol weirdo also...honorable mention, karamo brown is like my own distant therapist that ive never met 

Name topic you wish people would stop blogging about.

coffee.

Would you take a bullet for anyone you know?

,,,,maybe my cat (he’s my son :( )

What color do you wear most often?

burgundy/maroon

Name one item on your bucket list.

to visit a different country!! at least once!!

What do you call your grandparent(s)?

papaw  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You’re on a blind date. Your date is physically appalling, but they have the personality of your perfect match. Would you go on a second date?

probably!! if someone’s nice and likable i instantly start to see them differently (and the opposite also applies)

Would you rather be the best player on the worst team, or the worst player on the best team?

best on worst. i dont wanna embarrass myself