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there's something very funny about wymack recruiting neil and seeing him as this jumpy, cagey asf kid with alarmingly absent parents and then watching him befriend the monsters, speak three languages, start fights with riko moriyama, be incredibly apathetic to violence, join the perfect court and reveal that he uses alcohol as pain reliever because it's too dangerous for him to go to a hospital, unite the team and fall in love with wymack's other problem child, all for him to turn out to be the son of kengo moriyama's right hand man.

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Or why no one including myself will ever see fanfics I wrote

current experience

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I love Jean&Neil bestfrendism, honestly one of the best things in raven!Neil AU's

Can’t get over the trojans expecting jean to be a big scary raven and getting a scared, sweet kid instead vs the foxes expecting a quiet and unassuming neil and getting a loud mouth mafia nepo baby (affectionate)

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And now do this shit w all of the books.

You know I get it.

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Tysm, will add it to our pinned post like rn

Hii, now u r my userbox slave/j (n pos that u make em)

I'd like to request a userbox along the lines of "This user fused to a singlet but has the ability to become a system/collective/etc (again)"

Userbox saying "This user/being fused to a singlet but has the ability to become plural/system/etc. again"!!

We added singlet flag from pluralpedia here

We hope you like it!!

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OH MY GOD I NEED IT .

I'm obsessed with Raven Neil but I've been thinking about Trojan Neil and the idea cracks me up

Imagine Nathaniel was supposed to join the Ravens but someone in the Moriyama camp decides that unlike Jean whose criminal family is not as notorious and pretty low level, Nathaniel's dad and mom are getting a little too much attention from the FBI and BIA and to be honest part of Nathan's function is to take most of the heat off the Moriyamas anyway. Bringing Nathaniel to the Nest would bring the authorities attention on them and they don't want that.

But they still wanna make a buck off this kids future. So they train him up a bit and send him off to the Trojans aka the second best exy team in the league. Nathaniel will debut with them and go pro from there and 80% of his salary will go to the Moriyamas. Also they don't have all of their eggs in one nest so to speak (pun intended). Seems like a solid plan.

But the thing is Nathaniel is still Nathaniel so they need to make sure he has the right attitude for the infamous sunshine court. He is trained to smile sweetly and behave. Which he technically does but...well he's still Nathaniel.

Imagine his Butchers smile as he tells his opponent in a pleasant voice that is still so so unsettling to everyone who hears it: "Have a winning day!"

I need a fic where this happens. I need a hilarious fic where Neil is even more criminally unhinged but has a veneer of sunshiney bonhommie that makes it even scarier.

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kevin day is not “neil josten but taller” ok?

whether it’s kevneil, kandrew, kandreil. romantic or platonic. yes, these relationships affect him and how interacts, how he evolves. but he affects those he interacts with right back. like it should be. the adjustments should show. should matter. should be kind.

if neil and/or andrew–especially andrew–are mean, degrading, impatient, mocking, superior, frustrated towards kevin, simply because he is kevin, and kevin isn’t exactly that right back with them? the whole potential of a kevin-relationship was missed. pulverized.

kevin is not “neil josten but taller”–he’s kevin fucking day, queen of exy, son of exy, cult survivor, first and only ambidextrous striker, self-taught at that, and has led the palmetto state foxes to victory. he can be mean and ruthless and oblivious and hurtful and egotistical and a real fucking asshole. andrew’s that. neil is those things too. but they’re neil and andrew and kevin. their characters paint the colors with which their traits appear. they’re very evenly matched, that’s why they work so well together, but their differences make for a lot of it as well.

so unless it’s for the angst, the eventual happy ending, the character development, the relationship development, the healing, the therapy, the do-better… and *even* then…

don’t make neil belittle kevin. don’t make kevin the butt of andreil’s mean jokes. don’t make andrew compare kevin to neil. don’t make kevin palatable to andreil.

all three of them already fit together. nora’s shown us.

why would andrew despise kevin for not understanding the kind of communication he has with neil? and why would neil be the norm? before neil, there was kevin. and only kevin. he was the first for andrew. that can never be denied. and andrew would never forget. why would andrew build a relationship with a second neil? why would he isolate kevin with private, mean jokes with neil? why would neil make fun of kevin with exy? why would he get irritated with kevin for talking more than andrew? and why would all of that be for nothing, except establish a toxic base for the triad?

i don’t like it. it’s not two knives and a spoon. it’s three fucking knives. all equally sharp. all equally blunt. all equally handy. all equally hold-able.

three. fucking. knives.

thank you for coming to my KEVTalk.

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i’m so sorry to say this about your fave but neil josten was definitely one of those kids in high school who started off their narrative assignment with “It was the night of the big game…”

this man has conquered unspeakable horrors and when given the prompt “write about a time you overcame something difficult,” he’d write about how his high school exy team won at the last minute…. (the man has been abused and tortured)

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I said this in another post, but it bears repeating:

Neil is to crime what Andrew is to Exy. Supernaturally talented and unstoppable if he wanted, but due to his general lack of interest nerfs himself.

Everyone should be grateful Neil finds crime boring and uninteresting compared to Exy cause he would have been the Kevin Day of crime, surpassing his father and mother. Nora confirmed in the EC that if the Moriyamas had messed with Andrew, Neil would have carefully and competently dismantled their empire and watched all of them burn. He was practically lab created and stress tested his whole life to fight, outlive, and outsmart criminal masterminds.

My headcannon is Ichirou is secretly relieved that Nathaniel just wants to play stick ball.

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Okay I'm going to therapy today and that's how Im going to explain the level of shittyness of my life tnx

"My child is fine." Your child is up until 3 am reading fan fiction about a bunch of traumatised gay college students trying to play Exy while being harassed by the mafia.

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AND THEN NEIL GOES LIKE

"I am not a math problem"

number symbolism in aftg

kevin's bday being 22 + 22 ravens when evermore was shut down + 22 of neil's names and cities

andreil jersey numbers adding up to 13. baltimore happened on 10/3.

renees jersey number being 9 - stephanie being renee's 9th foster home

jeans jersey being 29 for kevin (2) and renee (9) and jeremy (2+9=11)

riko's perfect court fell after number 4 (四 ie, 死 (death))

neil's 10 is the mirror image of riko's 01

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thinking about how Neil let Andrew do every single one of these things to him without noticing just because Andrew’s a boy and Mary was heteronormative

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RENEE WAS IN A GANG, WHY EVERY1 FORGETS ABT IT???

Wymack: If I had a dollar for taking a kid connected to the mafia on a team, I'd have two dollars

Wymack: Which isn't much, but why the fuck did that happen twice

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Still laughing that Jeremy’s response to Jean realizing he’s gay was to pull an Uno reverse

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Okay so story

The fanfic was about minyard-josten rivalry, andrew just joined the us court, n some1 decided to put jerejean andreil n andrew at the same room to film a YouTube video

The question was "who's The drama queen", jean said kevin, Neil - andrew, kevin & andrew - neil

AND THEN Neil says the most dramatic speech abt why Andrew's a drama queen

And Jean goes "I thought it's obviously Kevin, he literally has a queen on him, but now... U know I get it"

N I'm sitting like wtf just happened for 2 minutes until I remembered Jean was there LMAO

aftg fandom is hilarious cause all i have to say is “you know, i get it” and everyone understands

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Every time I see 'please' mentioned in aftg fanfics... Idk it feels wrong, it shouldn't be there

(tell me I'm not alone on this one)

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Not sure but in one of them it was "clinic death and complications so he can't play next season", about the personality, honestly idk, but guess death changed something

Im so confused guys. Why is Seth alive in all of the socmedau’s? That man died book 1. Do we just collectively ignore this? He also has a completely different personality. I thought he hated Kevin and was honestly pretty homophobic. Why is he in love with Kevin and tweeting about Pasta? I’m down for any hc I just feel like I’m missing something. Help