#the exception is aaron minyard

[joejhang]

one thing about me is i LOVE outsider pov neil josten. maybe even more than his pov. never has any protagonist ever manic-pixie-dream-girled the way outsider pov neil josten manic-pixie-dream-girled. he's a little insane and feral and unpredictable and has a pretty face and a mysterious past and mafia connections. everyone fucking bends over backwards for him. he's just so ineffable.

[falafels]

pt.80!! <pt.79 pt.81>

projecting my wikipedia deep dives onto my princess again. hit me up if you want to know anything about the evolution of maritime trade alongside the economical advent of Baghdad

ALSO i think my masterpost is fucked? i can’t add anything else to it it just tells me error saving or some shit so uhhh. i will come up with something

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[leroiestmortvivelareine]

Andrew pov Kevin pov GIVE ME NICKY POV I wanna see reliable footage of Aaron's whitest dancing ever all tipsy in the gay bar

[ronanlyxch]

“one of us has to make it” and it’s mary and neil “one of us has to make it” and it’s neil and kevin “one of us has to make it” and it’s kevin and jean “one of us has to make it” and it’s andrew and aaron

[lakeshorediving]

Quit making aaron minyard such a good studier. Make him the student that goes “yea im gonna start studying when I get home” and then immediately crawls into bed and is horizontal for several hours before going “damn it’s already 9 pm looks like today’s a wash. Try again tomorrow I guess.” And then the cycle repeats.

[chaos-interwoven]

neil josten definitely picks at his scabs. and it annoys aaron to no end. imagine that aaron just starts swatting at his hands whenever he tries to pick at scabs because he can’t deal with neil having them for any longer. and andrew just lets him because he knows it’s better if neil actually lets his injuries heal and honestly, it’s funny

[pip3dream]

i love how Aaron and Neil don’t hate each other because of their origin or because they’ve both killed people but instead hate each other because they’re in each others business and neither likes it

[the-gay-cousin-666]

I imagine the Foxes watching a horror movie and Neil randomly going "that's not what happens when you gut a man." in the middle of a gore scene. Just completely blank-faced.

And then he's confused why the others are looking at him weird instead of watching the movie.

[winningmymind]

Writing another wholesome twinyard ficlet yay!

Also writing a funny ficlet where Neil fights to be Aaron's most hated person but it's hard to compete with Aaron's asshole med student classmates

Also writing a kevaaron ficlet

[sergiocanavero]

robin is the only person! besides kevin (no quincidence) with whom neil and andrew both have equallyish an important a relationship with !!

[andreilslovechild]

A Study on Aaron Minyard and Hatred

I've been in this fandom for years now. somewhere around 5 years or so. and since I've been here there's always been a distinct theme in how people talk about the brother of our beloved main love interest. see people speak about aaron in two ways mainly. the first way is, of course, labeling him as hateful and homophobic and disliking him because he dislikes Neil. the second way is building on his more personable characteristics and having him paired with someone else like Katelyn or Kevin to mellow him out. both of those are all well and good, everyone is entitled to their opinions and all, but I've never quite seen people look at both of those sides at the same time so I want to try and consolidate my thoughts on the matter.

first of all, I personally rarely consider aaron inherently hateful in my own understanding of him. annoyed or disgusted sure, but not necessarily hateful. mainly that hate is focused on three people from what the fandom talks about: Neil, Andrew, and Nicky. I'm using hate a broad term for dislike just for the ease of things right now so don't yell at me, but I think it fair to say the fandom typically pits these three up against aaron in a way that makes aaron look like the bad guy a lot of the time.

if I'm honest, I never really felt he hated Neil more than just didn't care much. at least until he found out about him and Andrew and gave him his version of the shovel talk. maybe a bit when Neil used Katelyn against him. but overall I never quite got it when people said he hated Neil, let alone hated him for "no reason". like id be annoyed too if a guy waltzed onto my college sports team while im studying premed, and turned out to be the long-lost son of a serial killer with a mouth so big it was a wonder hes still alive. plus he was super shady before all that was revealed too, but aaron was still pretty neutral when Andrew brought Neil into the monsters. he even spoke back to the upperclassmen when they freaked out about Neil sitting with the monsters. if you all need me to get the quotes I will, but it's currently like 2am, and I just can't be asked right now lmao. either way, the only time aaron really hates Neil in the books is when he uses Kate against him to get him to go to therapy. which was done for his own good in the long run, and I doubt aaron stayed upset about it for too long. plus we always have to be careful here because we are seeing things from Neil's perspective, someone who is inherently an unreliable narrator in the story.

in Nicky's case, there's a lot to consider. aaron definitely does and says some things (again not finding specifics rn because it's 2am) that are hurtful to him, or offensive. I certainly don't really blame people for reading it as homophobic on a surface level. but that's exactly what it is. surface level. his feelings about Nicky are probably the second most complex in this instance. because Nicky is his cousin, caregiver, friend, whatever you want to call him. They're close, they mean something to each other. but aaron also grew up with Tilda, probably talking with his family over the phone every few months, seeing them maybe once a year or two. when aaron moved to South Carolina he was 13. Nicky would have been 17. aaron probably spent a lot of time with him at first to avoid being alone before he made friends himself. used him as an excuse to get out of being around Tilda alone. which undoubtedly left him susceptible to Luther's preaching. I could make a whole other post on this alone. Still, he would have known Nicky was gay and that it was "wrong". He likely saw only his mask, not the depression inside because Nicky would have wanted to be happy with his cousin. he probably was around when Nicky went to Germany and then came back loud and proud, telling him about a man named Erik and finally standing up to his parents. to us, it's inspirational, exciting even, but for aaron it was like Nicky was abandoning him. He had gotten through Nicky being gone with drugs and staying out of the house as much as possible, but now knowing Nicky was leaving him there alone with his mom for what he assumed would be forever would have hit him hard. he never hated Nicky for being gay. he was angry he had left him, and he had grown up surrounded by the ideals Luther preached and likely his mom did too. with that, plus how uncomfortable it would be to have your cousin being openly sexual around you to an extreme extent like Nicky, I don't blame him really for how he reacted. he was disgusted by the thought of his cousin having sex, not who it was with. I can't remember if his disliking Erik is a canon or fanon thing. Still, he disliked him for taking Nicky away, not because he was a guy. Long story short I don't think aaron ever truly hated Nicky or was truly homophobic. I think he was just a scared kid who learned the wrong words and didn't know how to be vulnerable.

Andrew. good old Andrew. the most complicated relationship in Aaron's life save maybe his mom. I think we all know aaron doesn't hate Andrew. just like Andrew doesn't hate aaron. it's impossible for them to hate each other because they are so irrevocably tangled up and tied to each other's lives. from the second they found out about each other, everything they've done has been for the other in some way. mostly on Andrew's end sure but aaron has also done his share. see out of everyone here I think Andrew is the person that aaron thought he hated the most. he was angry about Tilda, about the drugs, about how Andrew refused to look at him. but deep down he knew he couldn't really hate Andrew. if he truly hated him he wouldn't have stuck around him this long to try and form a relationship with him. he wouldn't have bothered renewing their deal after graduating high school. he may have been stubborn and confusing and made aaron want to pull his hair out in frustration, but I don't think hatred for Andrew truly existed in him. For certain actions maybe, but him overall? definitely not.

Aaron Minyard may have been complicated, cranky, and annoyed for the majority of the times we see him, but he never truly hated anyone. not in the way people seem to think at least. and certainly, never the three people hes accused of hating the most.

[inafieldofstarflowers]

aftg au where aaron and tilda spend a summer in la for some reason when he’s like 11 (not being able to afford rent so they’re staying with someone she knows? a relationship went bad and she needs to distance herself from san jose, so she hits up an old friend most of the state away?) and aaron befriends a kid around his age at the skatepark & they hang out pretty regularly (sometimes with the kid’s brother) either skating or playing their game boys (aaron can tell the kid’s family is better off than him and tilda, but he’s not complaining about getting to play newer games he hasn’t been able to afford), and after the summer they stay in touch sometimes over email (aaron didn’t have one before because why would he need that, but the kid’s older siblings had gotten him set up with one, and he helps aaron make one), only over the years they slowly start talking less and less, and as things escalate with andrew, they stop talking at all, and then it’s a fee years later and tilda is dead and aaron is locked in a bathroom with canned food thinking about the past and when he gets out he emails the old friend he’d thought about, only to get an email back from the brother he’d met a few times saying that he’s dead, too, and he doesn’t stay in touch with the brother (obviously, they weren’t really friends), except a few years later he gets an email with a link to a report about his arrest and a question mark, and they talk only a very little bit, and then before semifinals he gets another email just telling him that the foxes better beat USC because joshua hates the trojans

[falafels]

pt.23!! <pt.22 pt.24>

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[aawaken01]

I love aftg so much but I fear that if any one of them were real and I had to put up with them for more than five minutes, I'd kill them

[screechin-outloud]

still thinking about how Aaron put together that Andrew accepted Wymacks offer only if he also signed his family probably because he wanted Aaron to be able to become a neurosurgeon

he remembered that from the time that he told his mother that he wanted to be a doctor and she laughed at him

and aaron spent all that time thinking andrew hated him

[yourleftpinkytoe-blog]

Matt: good to see your still fuck-all crazy

Aaron: it wasn’t the drugs that made him crazy

Andrew: ✨Hunny, it was ruined when she bought it *snap snap* mmhmm ya✨