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“he should be at the club” HE WAS AT THE CLUB!! and he still paid a guy $100 to punch him in the face and knock him out, lest he reveal his traumatic backstory 😔

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Hey sorry your boyfriend got kidnapped by his mob boss dad. Yeah when he said thank you back there he meant thanks for everything you’ve done for him, that was his goodbye because he’s going to die. No yeah he was in love with you, that’s what all the looks meant. Anyway. He’ll think of you kissing him when he’s being tortured by his father’s people as an escape. No I totally get why you might want to burn the world until you find him. Yeah yeah maybe start with choking your teammate for answers. Sorry again.

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This might just be my brain being weird, but I find it so funny that Jean would say this. Because, in another life, Nathaniel would have been number three, and Jean would have been four. But this is the only version of the story that Jean doesn't die, the one that he is three instead of four.

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neil’s curse is that he can’t stay.

jean’s curse is that he has to.

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Yeah, Neil is tough for always going off on Riko when he sees him and throwing shade anytime he gets the chance. Andrew's tough for promising to protect Kevin and Neil from Riko. Kevin is tough for getting away from Riko.

But Renee Walker went to Riko's own stomping grounds to face him and take what was 'his' by force. There was no chance of her ever leaving Jean there. Nobody is as tough as her.

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full disclosure i hope jean does his time on his pro team so he can pay off the moriyamas and when he retires i hope he never goes near exy again. i hope he doesn't become a coach or a manager or anything i hope he leaves it entirely i hope he never goes to the olympics i hope he lives somewhere in california and maybe he becomes a florist or something but i hope he does something that's his for once. i hope he gets a chance to live a different part of his life that isn't tied to anything or anyone else i hope he gets to grow old and smile so much he gets laugh lines and i hope jean dies with the knowledge that while he gave his all to exy as a teenager, as an adult, it did not take his life from him it did not take away his world. he did not endure he survived. i hope he lives something that isn't exy that isn't blood and pain and loss. i hope jean moreau gets to live.

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The most iconic thing about Neil is the fact that his #1 character trait is being good at staying alive, and his #2 is being really, really bad at it.

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i can’t stop thinking about how mcr released the black parade in 2006 and aftg is set in 2006 because i think aaron minyard had a borderline religious experience listening to that album

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I love the part in tkm where they’re about to play their first game of the spring season and neil spots riko and his goons in the crowd and ofc neil & kevin are both having full on episodes and matt is like “what the hell is he doing here?” and with a stone-cold expression andrew just goes “let me ask him.” And starts booking it towards riko with the intent of MURDER and wymack has to catch his jersey like DOWN BOY

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Riko: I’m the second coming of Jesus Christ

Neil: prove it! Take a poop in front of us!

Seth: and then turn it into wine!

Neil & Seth, chanting: turn that poop into wine! Turn that poop into wine! Turn that poop into wine!

Kevin:

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Kenji: how old's your child?

Nathan: only a week old… Do you have any young children?

Kenji: well… Sort of

Nathan: what do you mean?

Kenji: I sent my youngster to an Exy team!

Nathan: I had no idea that was an option!

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my current obsession is Matt hightailing it out of the dorm before The Shower Scene. He said ON GOD Neil I will not cockblock you bro. He said Andrew sir I am not looking, I am respectful. He saw the sexual tension and homeboy RAN I’m-

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appreciation post for the people who write those really long fics like 30,000+ words because that is like a whole book and my short attention span could never.

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something i just really like to think about is neil starting to show his actual personality to the rest of the foxes post-canon and them being shocked.

before they knew about everything, he had to keep up the shy, quiet, ordinary, unsuspecting neil josten act. but post-canon, i like to think that he lets loose a little, allows his real personality to show. he actually lets them see ruthless, blunt, hot-tempered neil josten.

i believe in neil having a very specific "im about to raise hell" expression where he does his scary smile and his eyes go absolutely feral, and the others learn that if they see that expression, they need to step aside. also, i think the others might underestimate how good of a liar neil is. he'll have them convinced that he's innocent but andrew will insist that he's lying; the others, at first, think andrew's being mean and bitter, neil's too sweet to be faking this time, why would he lie about something small like this? ...and then neil's expression completely changes from "innocent child" to "chaos demon" frighteningly quickly. it's absolutely terrifying. andrew sees the horror on the other's faces and just goes, see? gullible morons.

what makes this even better: i like to think that once andrew sees that neil won't be pushed around anymore, and also that neil won't let his people be pushed around either, that andrew feels like he can let down his guard a little bit. like...he feels like there is someone who is willing to and capable of protecting him for once. so andrew might actually relax a little bit...while neil gets more unhinged. i just love this trope and all the possibilities.

like, imagine neil does or says something shocking to the upperclassmen, and they turn to andrew and are like "??? are you gonna control him??" because they're used to andrew being controlling over his people. but andrew doesn't feel the need to control neil when he's like this (tbh he's not fully sure that he could). so he just shrugs nonchalantly and stares blankly (and, if you look closely, admiringly) at neil while he wreaks havoc.

it's just like...wait til the upperclassmen realize that neil is far more willing to fuck shit up than andrew ever was. wait until they realize that andrew just wants to drink hot chocolate and talk shit with his therapist while neil crosses people off his hit list. you know?

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Aaron, after two full years of going to Eden's on a weekly basis: I think this might be a gay club!

Andrew, who just walked out of the stockroom with Roland: Nothing gets past you, does it.

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The reason the twins Act Like That is because they have to speed run sixteen years of Sibling Bane-Of-My-Existence Childhood Era before they can evolve into Sibling Partner-In-Crime Adulthood Era

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pray for aaron minyard he's not dead but finding out your seemingly feelingless stone cold hearted brother is dating the bitch you hate the most must be soo devastating like out of everyone?? you chose HIM?