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First Lines Game

Thank you to @merceyca and @millportisntreal for tagging me!

Rules: share the first lines of ten of your latest fanfics (or up to if you have less!) & tag 10 people.

I’ve got 8 published fics and I’ll round out my list with the first lines of a couple of my WIPs :)

“After spending winter break at the Nest, Neil never really remembered the whole event.” - delayed haunting (andreil, 11k)

“Andrew sat in the last seat on the bus and looked down at his hands.” - who do you see in the mirror, rabbit? (andreil, 2.4k)

“Summer in South Carolina came around with her sticky fingers and humid breath and the quiet laughter of a thing that knows it is both too good and too awful all at the same time.” - all twisted up in you (andreil, 6.4k)

“Marissa Baker liked being on the cheerleading team at Palmetto State University.” - ode to marissa baker (marissa, 1.6k)

“The bus ride back to Palmetto was tense.” - the ongoing effects of growing a backbone (pre-andreil, 10.6k)

“The university library’s first floor was filled with the sounds of keyboards, printers, hushed conversations, and the administrative white noise that filled any building with an office space.” - the perils of a library job board (andreil, 4.3k)

“It started like this: fifteen people worked at a nonprofit in Seattle, Washington.” - i reserve the right to change the ending (andreil, w/ brief appearances of jean/neil and matt/neil, 19k)

“It was a quiet night.” - jean moreau learns a new language (jeandriel, 8.5k)

“It took an embarrassing amount of time for Neil to realize he worked at a kink club.” - WIP

“Andrew stood in line at the Magical Affairs Department (MAD) and refused to fidget.” - WIP

No pressure tags, especially since I’m a touch late to this so at least some of y’all have probably already done it: @yourinsomnea @ominousandreil @kingfluffkinss @rwnjun @kiwiaok @eviefrie @cosmmicdancer @ajosm86 @chaoticas-hell @bisexualchaosdemon

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The Menace by KingFluffkinss

Been reading since chapter 2 and i’ve been loving it so far!! It’s basically about a cat shifter neil who meets the monsters (minus kevin) before PSU and before Andrew gets placed on medication. I totally recommend it’s mixed with fluff and angst which I love and would love to see other people enjoy it!!

Let’s spread the word! - S

The menace by Kingfluffkinss [Rated M, 109105 words, complete, 2025]

“Nicky, what the fuck! Why are you drenched? Did you seriously walk here?!” Aaron shouted from next to Nicky, still holding the door open and letting the rain in like a dumbass.

“Surprise!” Nicky exclaimed with a deranged hinch in his voice as he dropped the ruined jacket onto the floor and lifted something small and wet above him.

The thing yowled pitifully at them.

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In which Nicky finds a stray, feral kitten and brings it home, while Neil finds a family and a reason to stay.

tw: violence, tw: implied/referenced rape/noncon, tw: implied/referenced child abuse, tw: blood, tw: depression, tw: drug withdrawal, tw: implied/referenced drug addiction, tw: self harm, tw: animal abuse

Nb: artist @teomoy produced this art for the fic, and the author @kingfluffkinss posted this about cat!neil

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Andrew and Cat!Neil aka Menace from @kingfluffkinss fic

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Andrew and Cat!Neil aka Menace from @kingfluffkinss fic

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Andrew being coerced by Renee to go on a series of blind dates but Andrew only goes to fuck with them-sometimes psychologically, sometimes literally-once he deems them boring, only for Neil one day to drop into the chair across him and start talking abt his serial killer father.

Andrew is surprised, to say the least. They're bantering back and forth until Andrew asks if Neil is up for a blowjob in the bathroom of the pub and Neil is confused.

Turns out, Allison told him that one of her girlfriend's friends needs help with an essay on dismemberment methods, so Allison volunteered him.

Andrew would strangle Allison if it weren't for the fact that Neil was so interesting and blunt with no interest in small talk. The blowjob does happen one day, though, after Neil figures his demi identity out and Andrew stops calling them 'nothing'.

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The Foxhole Court Chapter 1 Webcomic

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Runaway siren Neil singing to deaf fisherman Andrew who is fishing from his very small ship, and being surprised that Andrew was completely unaffected by it.

During the last encounter with his father's men, Lola almost cut his throat off, and now Neil is sure that his power is somehow gone. With no way of luring sailors off their boats and less and less fish populating the polluted waters, he has no idea how he'll survive. Andrew's ship is too huge for him to upend, but there's nobody else on it, so Andrew is the perfect prey, if only Neil could lure him in.

Andrew spots him, of course he does, but he does nothing about it, since Neil can't harm him. Only Neil is gorgeous and visibly malnourished because he's been following the ship for days and with each day, he seems weaker and slower.

In the end, Andrew decides to call him over and throw some of the fruit that Nicky's packed for him but he hates overboard. Neil is overjoyed- the fruit is ripe, delicious, and something he can't acquire on his own, but that he remembers loving as a child. He talks to Andrew, but Andrew was never well versed in lip reading, so it's hard to communicate. Neil stays around and gets daily meals. He also learns a few basic phrases in ASL and throws fish at Andrew that he hates but Andrew is searching for. They make it back, and Neil sticks around. Andrew's island is remote so with time, he allows himself to lounge in shallow water and let Andrew teach him ASL. He brings Andrew nice seashells. He gets attached.

Neil all but forgets about his voice until one day, a ship comes too close to their island. He hears their plans to kill Andrew and everybody who lives on the other side of the island, namely Andrew's family, and starts singing in desperation. It works, and he kills them all. Andrew steals riches from the ship and the ship itself. He also builds a small, open house right by the shore so Neil can live with him. Andrew's family accepts Neil. They spend the rest of their lives like that - fishing and swimming and raiding ships and celebrating Nathan's death, once the word reaches them.

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>>> the perfect court the foxhole court the raven king the king's men the sunshine court the golden raven the broken cage >>> the queen's game

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hi im notoriously bad at finding people who make posts but someone (I FOUND IT @kingfluffkinss) made a short prompt about an au where neil is on the run and he pulls up to edens and gets super paranoid cause some blonde follows him all night and he starts to suspect hes involved with nathan but then is fucking floored when he approaches him to ask to blow him 💥 im practicing comics and i thought id try this on for size

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Saw this and thought of cat!Neil helping Andrew with his car 😭

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMSJAqjN9/

He so would!! Just think about how many cars he'd had to fix while on the run, Neil knows his screws!! Andrew doesn't even need to tell him what he needs, Neil's already off getting it

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Andrew graduates and signs with a pro team in another state. A few months later, he flies to Palmetto without telling Neil. When Neil lets him in the dorm, he notices that their room is now almost completely bare - no pictures, no knicknacks, no personal touches. There's a new duffle in the corner that wasn't there when Andrew and Kevin moved out.

With none of HIS Foxes present to ground him, Neil started to drift and revert back to old coping mechanisms. He's paranoid, wary, and always prepared to run. It all culminated when he bought a duffle and found himself thinking about which bus to hop onto.

Andrew knew none of this because their Skype calls always helped with paranoia and memories (Neil was careful with which wall was behind him and visible to Andrew. Andrew couldn't notice the dwiddling of personal items from that angle).

Neil's behavior is critical, and he knows it. He can't help himself, though.

Andrews' first message to the old Foxes group chat in four years is "the fox tower, Saturday". Understandably, everybody is aware that this is an Emergency. Andrew stays with Neil and wordlessly takes everything out and decorates the room again. He tells him not to be stupid, to reach out, to talk to him, Betsy, the racquet, just to not run again.

Neil is trying, and with Andrew there, present and palpable, he can finally calm down. His Foxes help tremendously; they're horrified when they find out why they were called, and they do their best to vow to call him multiple times a week and visit as often as possible. It isn't perfect, and he'll still miss them when they go back to their new lives, but they help him remember what he stayed for and what he fought for during his freshman year.

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I wish more people liked Canon Nicky. Like yeah, he sucks a little bit, but that’s the point.

All the Foxes suck a little bit. They’re not perfect victims, they use slurs, they do bad things to each other. Seth’s a selfish homophobic asshole, but he saves Allison. Kevin’s a one-track-minded alcoholic who hears his teammate died and wonders how the team will keep playing, but he also gives Andrew a chance before anyone else does. Wymack’s lucky they didn’t have cancel culture in 2006, because some of the things he says are horrifically not PC. But he’s not some perfect savior of a coach. He’s a guy with a terrible past who decided to make it his life’s mission to help troubled kids. And if he gets it wrong sometime, it’s because absolutely no one in these books is 100% mentally well and they’re definitely not coming across mental health tips on TikTok or reading books about how to do better.

Nicky is terrible at boundaries and consent. It’s probably a trauma response to his upbringing and conversion therapy, but that doesn’t make it okay. He makes creepy comments all the time and he assaults Neil in Columbia.

I’m not excusing any of that. But Nicky isn’t only that, and that’s why he’s interesting.

He’s the one who texts Neil a million times a day, until Neil stops looking frightened every time his phone beeps. He gave up Erik and Germany to raise two angry teenagers who never reciprocated his affection. He had a relatively normal upbringing (religious trauma aside) and then got thrown into dealing with the twins and having to navigate 1) Andrew locking Aaron in the bathroom to get clean (is he being a good or bad guardian by letting that happen?) 2) working two jobs to pay for the house 3) Andrew being arrested 4) Andrew being put on meds that made him manic and unreliable 5) Aaron’s homophobia 6) Andrew’s violent threats and so much more.

When exactly did he find out Andrew had killed Tilda? Which of the twins told him? And did he ever wonder if Andrew would kill his newest guardian if Nicky messed up?

Nicky is incredibly selfless, brave, and patient. And he’s also pushy, kinda creepy, and incapable of understanding boundaries. He’s both. And I wish the fandom wouldn’t sanitise him, because I think that’s part of the point.

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AU where Andrew sits down for a confessional in a deserted church one day because Renee recommended venting his frustrations out loud, and Andrew would never pass up the opportunity to fuck with the system.

The only statement he speaks into the stale air is how he'd like to blow Neil Josten, a professional track runner. They run in similar circles, what with Kevin being their mutual friend and Andrew playing exy, and the sight of Neil's thighs is driving Andrew mad. Even Renee's god should know that.

Neil, who's sitting on the other side of the confesstional because he comes there to smoke and battle memories in quiet sometimes, chokes on cigarette smoke.

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Okay okay I just read your 2nd vamp Neil fic over on Ao3 and for some reason that webbed site is refusing to accept my comment on it and keeps giving me an error. Sooo I decided to copy paste it as an ask here. Ao3's bs will not stop me from expressing my appreciation!

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I don't normally even go for vampire stuff, but I had to after reading every other work of yours. I am genuinely in love with your characterisation, like.... how does it feel to capture Them and their intricate rituals in a way noone else does. You're in their head for real.

Anyway, this work bowled me tf over. I don't even have any words. Just... yes. The fucked-up ambiance of standing behind Edens under the lights while leading each other into having epiphanies uagh I'm unwell

Details I'm losing my mind over include, but are not limited to:

-Neil not wanting the disgusting bloody chocolatey alley-behind-a-club-residue covered skirt to be washed, go off possessive (but unsanitary) king

-Nicky's reaction just being to smirk and collect his winnings from bets he made about the random vampire, who showed up one day in fuckass jorts after knocking out his cousin a week before, ending up with said cousin

-The implication that Neil has club clothes in the car courtesy of Andrew and Nicky (literally how is Andrew going to survive the rest of the night if they put Neil in a mesh shirt or something NOW)

-and lastly, the whole entire conversation between Neil and Andrew. All of it. I've said it already and I'll say it again you are in their heads. Goated characterisation. One of the very best I've read. Cannot get your version of them out of my brain, I've been chewing on them for several days already.

Amazing job and thank you So Much for writing these aftg fics and posting them so people like me get to experience the joy of reading them!

- Juno

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First of all, hello, second of all, you're insane. This is genuinely the nicest comment I've ever received so I had to stare at a wall for a few minutes to recuperate. I did try to keep the characterization in vamp Neil series as close to canon as possible, but the fact you actually actually like it as much as you do is mind blowing!! Thank you for reading all of the fics (I cannot comprehend that) and coming here to scream at me about them, my ego is already humongous but now it's rivaling Kevin Day's. Dangerous situation, if you ask me. The second (third?) chapter is in the works w Neil and Andrew IN Eden's, and it's wild, so just a heads up ;) fuck knows when it'll be out, I'm a drowning in fics currently, but vamp Neil is definitely a series I'm not letting go of. (Would you believe me if I told you I'm not the biggest fans of vampires either? More of a werewolf gal. This series just spawned from then nether.)

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Pro runner Neil buying a new pair of "high quality runner shoes" by a brand a pro exy player, Andrew Minyard, was sponsored by. His ads look ridiculous, but Neil still gives them a try.

The shoes are useless - poor quality and quite uncomfortable. He lets Minyard know this in his twitter comments under one such ad. The fans of both sports go crazy when Andrew, who is notorious for never responding on twitter and only posting his mandatory posts and a few pictures of his cats, responds to Neil with "tried your protein ice cream. It was abysmal. An insult to ice cream. My Italian nonna is rolling in her grave. You have no ground to stand on."

Despite his PR's warnings, Neil responds to that with a succinct "I don't like ice cream. No idea what it tastes like." Andrew replies with "and I don't run." Both PR teams are in shambles.