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Jude: WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?

Cardan: went to a pub, had fun, got into a fight, so we left & um..

Oak: escape room

Cardan:…went to an Escape Room

Jude: WHO GOES TO AN ESCAPE ROOM AFTER A BAR FI-

Jude: you were imprisoned weren’t you.

Oak: IT’S A ROOM & WE WERE TRYING TO ESCAPE

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It would be cool if some fics were to explore the possibility of Aaron and Tilda both having bipolar disorder. They have a history of addiction with depressant drugs (if i'm remembering right) which is often seen in bipolar people who are self medicating manic phases.

It is also a genetic disorder so it would make sense for them to have it, as Andrew does.

It could explain Tilda decision to first give both kids away but then in a spur of the moment go back for one.

For Aaron it could most probably present as type 2 bipolar, with depressive episodes, some hypomania ones, or mixed. (Although type 1 and type 2 are somewhat distinct genetically so they should have the same type statistically. Sometimes, though, you never enter a manic episode so you only fall into the type 2 criteria)

But i see Tilda as really struggling with it. Which. Damn Andrew would hate that.

Obv he wouldn't know/have the words to express it especially now that tilda is dead, but he'd hate for this to be the one thing his bio mom left him.

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Jude Duarte and Cardan Greenbriar

- The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black

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Okay but tell me WHY the Olympics are such a big thing in exy. Like is exy being grouped in with sports like figure skating? Or does it get group with sports like soccer where there is the World Cup. No one really cares about Olympics soccer. It’s all the World Cup (and Continental Cups).

That's a very interesting question.

I think the Olympics are A Thing for two main reasons. These all take the point of view of the writer, and not the canon world (even though I'm not in Nora's head, of course, so this is just what makes sense to me): 1) Exy was conceptualized as a Japan thing first and foremost 2) Once the US became the setting, the sport needed to have international standing

Japan is big on Olympics. It took part in basically every single Game from 1912 onward.

No one cares for Olympic soccer but you can still find youtube reaction videos of Americans being flabbergasted that the World Cup is bigger than Super Bowl. Hockey, one of Exy's big brothers, has different and independent world championships going on which are just chaos to me. Ice Hockey "World Cup of Hockey" managed to see the light of day only 3 times. Did you know that Lacrosse has a World Championship? I didn't. It's only after 1998 that people outside US-Canada-Australia-England started participating.

At the end of the day, if you need a trophy that instantly gives international reputation and social standing to a sport based on people's perception of "How big are you if you win X", then the Olympics are the obvious choice, because everything else is considered big based on national trophies.

If you want to consider the canon world:

"The first professional teams were formed around the graduates of the first university teams. Two years later the national team, the US Court, was born. The following year Exy made its first appearance at the Olympics, where Japan took home the gold."

The Olympics bridged the gap between Japan (where the sport was born) and the teams on the other side of the world, allowing them to compete against each other. They could have organized a world championship, sure, but the Olympics sound so much better and more distinguished lol

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Real beauty is Neil napping on Andrew while Andrew wraps his arms around him and rests his chin on his head. I don't make the rules. That's just it.

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so in the ec, nora says robin moves in with the monsters, and andrew gives her his bed so she has a bed to sleep in. he shares neil's bed with him. okay, so i want aaron's reaction to having to share a room with neil and his brother who are sharing a twin sized bed.

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That’s it, that’s the whole series.

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yeah anyway andrew will fight when wymack asks him to because all wymack is asking for is a win and he’s willing to give andrew something he wants in exchange for it but kevin doesn’t just want andrew to win, he wants andrew to care, he wants andrew to like exy and i think. well i just think that andrew probably takes really really really badly to people telling him what to like

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Matt was the first one to make a promise to Neil, that he would protect him from the monsters until graduation. He gets Kevin off Neil during their first fight in the dorm. He protects Neil's things when Neil calls from Columbia. He waits up for Neil to come back from the first night practice with Kevin just to make sure he is unharmed. He saved Neil from Riko during the banquet since Andrew had his hands full with Kevin. I can keep going but my point is Matthew Boyd does not get enough love from this fandom!!!

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Thinking about Andrew Minyard becoming a household name once he joins the pros. Thinking about him defying every single person who thought he would never amount to anything. Thinking about him spending his whole life being tossed aside as worthless, only to become Andrew Minyard, best goalkeeper in the NEL and Olympic gold medalist.

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thinking about post-tkm andreil

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to me, Cardan sent Jude the coronation dress in response to him seeing Jude wearing Locke’s mothers dress.

dude said, “why have those rotten, old dresses w him, when you could have a gemstone covered dress that is personal to you and also made by the royal tailor, with ME.”

Cardan is such a thoughtful sweetheart to outdo the guy that is chronically stealing his women! <3

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No because Neil is the coldest motherfucker in all the world. He never falters.

Like Andrew, I get it. Doesn't mean I wouldn't blow him, too.

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no one:

Cardan introducing Oak: that’s my nephew, who’s also my foster brother in law,and at the same time he’s my late best friend’s half brother but he’s also my successor and my bestie

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i would kill to read the moment when neil points at cat1 and goes 'king fluffkins' and then at cat2 and says 'sir fat cat mccatterson' and andrew is deadass just staring at him like this ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ