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My ⋆｡*Jeremy Knox Evidence Board⋆｡°

aka: I scoured TSC for all the crumbs I could find about Jeremy Knox and the mystery of his tragic and/or questionable past and tried to sort the information into sections

1. Whatever happened has something to do with Exy

Jeremy mentions "the fall banquet that broke [the Knox] family in half" in his freshman year

Before this banquet, Jeremy's sister Annalise always went to his games, after it, she not only stopped attending but went "out of her way to forget everything she knew about Exy" and had "never forgiven [Jeremy] for sticking with it"

Annalise suggests that their step-grandpa will have an opinion on Jeremy recruiting Jean and states that this recruitment is "a new scandal" which will make Jeremy "End the way [he] started"

2. Jeremy Goes to Therapy

Cat says that this therapist was "legit life changing" for Jeremy

Jeremy's mom was the one to find him this therapist, and she's both very good & very expensive

The therapist has walked him through how to push back against his family (or, at least, Annalise's anger at him sticking with Exy), suggesting that she believes his decision to continue playing after whatever happened is legitimate

3. SOMETHING is up with the Knoxes

Jeremy acknowledges that his family has their issues, though he specifies that his mother never raised a hand to hurt them physically

Again, whatever happened at the banquet "destroyed the family"

There's specifically tension between Jeremy and his stepdad/step-grandpa

- Jeremy is "permanently on his stepfather's bad side"

- Their step-grandpa is a Congressman, and the Knoxes are a "picture perfect family" who are "duty bound to dress up and smile" to make him look good

- When Annalise brings up their step-grandpa it is apparently "obvious bait" which Jeremy rises to by saying that he "isn't their grandfather"

- Him saying this makes Annalise respond "don't destroy my future"

Jeremy's parents are presumably divorced rather than his dad being dead (Jeremy uses the present perfect tense when he tells Jean "Dad's been stationed [in Europe] a couple times"

There's weird energy between the Knox siblings

- Cat identifies three: two brothers and one sister. We know Annalise is the younger sister and Bryson is the older brother, but the third is an unknown. Also, Cat noticeably pauses before saying that Jeremy has three siblings, but Jean doesn't ask about it

- Annalise has a grudge against Jeremy, and he avoids Bryson, who is apparently a jerk

- Jeremy mentions that "most of his siblings" wanted to get out of LA when stating that he wanted to stay because of his love for USC

Jeremy's family is upset when he bleaches his hair (presumably because of how it affects the family's image)

- He's "uninvited from the family table for the state of his hair"

- When Laila asks what happened to frosted tips, Cat says it was "something about how going beachboy mode was more acceptable than looking like a one-hit wonder dropout" and Jeremy says he might do tips next year "after I've graduated and don't have to deal with the fallout"

Jeremy gets "tense and distant" when his mom texts him

- Also her text tone is an "awful noise" (which could mean nothing but also Jeremy has curated specific text tones for everyone so I do NOT believe this is a coincidence)

4. Jeremy's housing situation is weird

In his own words, Jeremy stays "[with Cat and Laila] from June until the start of the school year" and then once school begins, is "usually only over on the weekends" and lives at his house

- When Jeremy explains this, Jean notices "the way Jeremy's gaze slid past him to peer into the distance" and "the tight tug at the corner of Cat's mouth"

Jeremy sneaks in and out of the house "to avoid conflict" and is aided and abetted in this venture by the family's butler

- He says that "the trick to starting Saturdays off on the right foot was to get out of the house as early as possible"

5. A deeply weird financial situation

The Knoxes have money (as evidenced by the butler & mentioned private chef), and Jeremy has access to it to some extent

Jeremy has to deal with his mother's bookkeeper regularly enough that he has the practiced thought that he gets a receipt "so he could file it later" with the thought that it is "always best to have a paper trail"

- He gets receipts three times: when he buys coffee & the gift card for the man in line behind him, when he keeps the receipt from Jean's shirt, and when he gets the receipt for his hair dye job (adding a note with the amount for the cash tip on the top of this one)

Jeremy gives Cat and Laila cash to help with groceries and rent, and Cat "knows how many hoops" he has to jump through to get the money as a result of being on his stepfather's bad side

- As a side note, it's interesting that Jeremy's finances seem to both require his stepfather's approval and are then confirmed by his mother's bookkeeper

- This also ties back into the weird living situation: Jeremy seems to have some financial freedom (he can get his hair done on the book, even though his family does not want him to), but he has to scramble to be able to give Cat and Laila money for the time he lives with them (possibly to disincentivize him from staying there?)

6. Jeremy's weird comment about cops

I will just quote this in full because: “There was little to no chance he’d know them, and no reason they’d recognize him, but Jeremy kept his gaze forward and his mouth shut until they were past.”

- This is never expanded on, and it's such an ambiguous passage in terms of what Jeremy means. First, why say there's "little to no chance" he'd know them and not just "no chance"–why would they know him? His politician step-grandpa? Something he did? It just reads less as a general discomfort with cops and more as an avoidance with a specific reason

- Second, "and no reason they'd recognize him" could just mean that they wouldn't know Jeremy Knox, but again, that would be such a weird thing to say. Would they know his name/know about something he did in the past, but just not know his face?

- All in all, this passage reads to me like there's something in Jeremy's past that has made him uncomfortable around cops, and while there's no reason these particular ones would recognize him from that or know about it, the very idea that they might puts him on edge (is there a potential tie between this discomfort and whatever happened in Jeremy's freshman year?)

7. Cat and Laila know about whatever happened

Throughout the book, Cat and Laila either trade looks or make faces or almost slip out information about what happened when things come up about Jeremy's past

- They're solidly on his side about it whatever's up with his family, seeming to dislike them quite a bit

- Cat mentioning that therapy helped him out a lot does suggest that they didn't think he was in a good place before

- Cat knows even though she wouldn't have been at the freshman year banquet, only the fifth year seniors would have been (that suggests that the only people who DEFINITELY know would be Laila, Cody, Pat, Derek Thompson, and Shawn Anderson)

If there are any other notes you have to add to the evidence board, let me know! Also, if you have any theories about how these things connect and what exactly is going on with our boy Jeremy, I would LOVE to hear them

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The combination of 'unnervingly flawless self-control' with 'occasional tendency to engage in reckless, dangerous, and borderline self-destructive or death-seeking behaviour' in a character is SUCH catnip to me

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Numbers in aftg - MASTER LIST

Links to the posts everyone's been making about Nora's numerical symbolism

(For other types of aftg symbolism see this post by @feelingthedisaster)

Nora numbers games - by @darkblueboxs and @whydamnitwhy

Number symbolism - by @kevrenee and @tiredjustsoverytired

More number symbolism - by @muscatos

Number 3 - by @odetojupiter

Number 4 - by @odetojupiter

Number 13 - by @odetojupiter

Number 13 - by @kevindavidday

Number 13 additional - by @kevindavidday

Number 19 - by @odetojupiter

Numbers for Jean, Jeremy, Kevin, Renee - by @honoragreyskull

Numbers for Jean, Jeremy, Neil - by @dkyla13

Numbers for Jean, Andrew - by @you-know-i-get-itt

Numbers for Nicky, Andrew, Aaron - by @minyard-05

Numbers for Andrew, Neil - by @atlalasassy

Numbers for Neil vs Riko - by @mis-n-the-unwise

Numbers for Neil vs Aaron - by @boatshoesdude

Numbers for Seth vs Renee - by @mis-n-the-unwise

Numbers for Andrew - by @irasthingies

Numbers for Kevin - by @flameheart413

Kevin eleven (which is my new favourite store) - by @millportisntreal et al

Numbers for Thea - by @odetojupiter

Numbers and Wymack, the Perfect Court - by @you-know-i-get-itt

Numbers and Wymack - by @doodlingstuff

Japanese numerals - by @snazzy-jas-z-is-a-fan-of

Magic numbers - by @high-queen-of-the-court

Nora's extra content (master link provided by @peggyrose19) has a lot to say about numbers

This post on the history of aftg by @coldsaturn provides stats about the growth of the fandom

Also:

Neil’s father gave him numbers that kept decreasing; Andrew gave him numbers that kept increasing.

If you can add anything please share !

(I keep a running list of edits in the reblog)

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ppl trying to make some of these ships all cute n domestic dont seem to understand these characters are insane. they would have sex by standing on opposite sides of the room fully clothed playing mind games

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a real blorbo is someone you can both write a lengthy and serious/sad analysis on yet also constantly and i mean constantly make stupid jokes about

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girls dorm bathroom before the banquet !

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Kayleigh Day and her little champ

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ARRGGGGGGHHHH LESBIANS!!!

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The recurring theme of shut doors and helplessness in tsc...

Riko forbidden to mourn his own father. Rejected even in his death.

I feel passionately grateful to Jean for instantly recognising this as third impact. And I'm so sorry Jean had to be the one to bear its fallout.

I know Riko is the worst but I also know, I know, how it feels when that particular door is slammed in your face. You can try to drown it out but part of you will never stop screaming.

Jean trying to escape abuse by doing what his abusers taught him, over and over

Jeremy knowing Jean is in trouble but unable to get through the barriers he's raised

And yet...

This one one warms me all the way through.

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Just thinking about how Aaron said “minyards don’t get any higher than rock bottom” and then became a neurosurgeon and his brother became an Olympic athlete

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I read it T-T

Curse everyone that was so sure I’d love it because you were CORRECT

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ok i know its supposed to be delayed but...its december...the possibility of tgr grows...

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The only thing worse than having a job is not having a job. And the only thing worse than not having a job is looking for a job. And the only thing worse than looking for a job is being 19 years old.

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letting go

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Renee walker!

Redrew her because i wasn't too proud of my first interpretation of her

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Babe that last essay gave me a raging thinker I'm gonna have to go muse off right now

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need everyone to understand the comedic potential of kevin day finding out his ex-situationship and celebrity crush are dating.