#& aftg canon rewrite

[setevulpo]

the theo vibes in my three main wips are immaculate

[evenfallwriter]

If We Have Each Other Verse

An AU in which Neil and Andrew meet much earlier. Promises are exchanged, deals are made and they become each other's sanctuary soon after meeting.

So wanted to talk about my AU a bit, and drop it here so I don't end up forgetting certain details.

Neil's mother kills Nathan when he is 4 years old before sending him to a 'friend' of hers. She dies soon after and that 'friend' drops him off at the orphanage.

Andrew is 8 and Neil 6 when they meet for the first time in the Spear household.

Mary used to call him Abram, Nathan called him Nathaniel, his mother's 'friend' Chris and than he was named 'Alex'. Andrew is the one who gives him the name Neil, and tells him to stay.

Andrew is 3 years younger than Aaron, and Tilda dies from an accident (Andrew isn't the one to kill her).

Nicky still comes back and tries to take in Andrew, but it isn't easy and he can only get the custody of Aaron- none of the Hemmick's know where Andrew is. (by that time, Andrew would be 10, Aaron 13 and Nicky 17-18)

Andrew Joseph Doe becomes Andrew Dobson and Alex Doe becomes Neil Winfield quickly enough thanks to the accident that puts an end to Tilda.

They are adopted around the time Wymack creates the Foxes. (so pretty much Seth's first year)

Seth:These two are shit-heads, but hurt them, and you gotta deal with me (along with the other four foxes)!

Also Seth: Andrew fucking Dobson! Get your ass over here, Jesus Christ, why the fuck would you think it a good idea to change my shampoo with pink hair dye?!

Andrew: You should be grateful to me! Now both your insides and outsides filled with shit! And you look like one from head to toe too!

Seth: You little-

They meet the three ravens much earlier and promises are exchanged between our duo and two of the raven's.

Neil and Andrew also get to go to the same school growing up and gain the heart of 'a certain captain of USC Trojans Exy team'.

Their childhood is much better after they are adopted, and while in canon their relationship is more 'Enemies to Lovers' it turns into 'Childhood Friends to Lovers'.

Matt just loves picking up Neil and running around with him on his shoulders, but is low key scared of Andrew, because who the fuck gave this kid knives?!

One day, Andrew is in Wymack's office as he is looking at Potential players, and sees Aaron's photo and goes; "I want that one." and Wymack is done with it all, but who is he to say no when Andrew really wants something.

Aaron sees Andrew for the first time after years, and is thinking 'what am I supposed to say' when Andrew straight out tells him that he is only in the Foxes because of him, and yeah, Aaron hates the little menace (not really though) Nicky is apologetic, but Andrew knows how hard he tried to get custody of him, so he doesn't harbor any negative feelings towards him.

Dan is scared of what will happen when the duo is old enough for Uni, because Andrew promised to be a problem for her and she knows that he wasn't joking.

But Lola is still alive and a bitch, so that's nice.

(ft. Andrew never has to take his pills, Neil never has to fear his father the way he does. Mama Betsy and Abby, Uncle Wymack. Andrew and Neil meeting before they are supposed to and coming to an understanding between each other and never really hiding anything from each other. They would def still end up together. Like, after Neil realizes that he can love someone and not get punished for it. Foxes love to spoil the duo.)

[feelingthedisaster]

you guys know you dont have bully/be mean to nora because canon doesnt allign with your personal interpretation of aftg?

dont like a ship? dont like a plot point? dont like the extra content? there is fanfic, fanart, headcanons, fanon, canon rewrites, alternative universes, canon divergence fanon content, IGNORING CANON like any fandom does, your own fucking daydreams. but going to the author to insult her and saying a lot of mean stuff about how she decided to make her creation?

friendly reminder that we only have the books and know the characters because nora spend years crafting, writing, editing, etc and then she was kind to let the rest of the world read it when she could had just keep that to herself (and the fact she did end up having to remove some of it because of people that claimed to love her world, her characters, her books shit on her for every decision she made)

im not saying you have to love every single piece of canon, nobody does, just that you dont have to be an asshole about it

[writereb]

This is Home

Neil has spent the past eight years of his life running from his father and hiding his secondary gender. What will he do after his status as an omega is revealed to the world? Will he stay and fight for the family and home he has begun to create? Or will he continue to flee?

Or

An AFTG A/B/O retelling featuring gender equality issues with a splash of Fox angst.

(This was originally posted in 2022; however, I have gone back and edited all of the previous chapters. There is no posting schedule but I hope to finish this fic around October 2024. Currently, The Foxhole Court and The Raven King have been adapted. Working on The Kings Men now.)

Tags:

Canon Rewrite, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Non-Traditional Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Past Rape/Non-con, Omega Neil Josten, Alpha Andrew Minyard, Protective Andrew Minyard, Andrew Minyard has Feelings, Soft Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard, Seth Gordon Lives, Seth Gordon Character Development, No Drake Spear, cause fuck that guy, blink and youll miss it renison, Canon-Typical Violence, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Heavy on the Fluff, Family Dynamics, Family Fluff, Explicit Sexual Content, Explicit Sexual Consent, Mating Cycles/In Heat, no mpreg, slightly OOC

[constelationprize]

dead man walking is an intriguing name i’d love to know more

dead men walkin is my baby!!!!! It's my magnum opus. It is also so big (12 at least 10k planned chapters) I'm not sure if I'll ever finish it in this lifetime. BUT I'M TRYING.

It's a kandreil, canon divergence AU that follows my first instict in literally every fandom because people should not have let me watch Count of Monte Cristo as a child: but what if this story was about revenge? It is also a love letter to the kandreil narrative parallels because there are SO MANY of them. There's also a lot of themes AFTG fic could explore that I feel fit better in a canon-adjacent scenario.

I also really love the synopsis so I'll let it speak on the rest of the premise for me:

Dead man walking (idiom) 1. A condemned prisoner walking to a death chamber or other place of execution.  2. Someone who is soon to die. 3. (figurative) Someone who is about to face an unavoidable loss (though the person may not realize it). .... When his mother dies, a runaway is told the reason why his life fell apart. A year later, Neil Josten is signed by the Palmetto State Foxes right before the season starts, looking to get his revenge or die trying. He might find a reason to live instead.

RIP Janie Smalls your canon last-second suicide attempt was just too convenient. Sorry about the mafia hit girl get well soon.

Though the fic is going to span the AFTG original timeline, I'm not going for a beat-by-beat series rewrite because that's just not the kind of thing that interests me. I'm keeping the exy games and that's it, everything else is getting at least a make over. A REVENGE make over.

I have also decided to make this a triple POV situation which means I saddled myself into writing medicated Andrew's internal monologue for 5 chapters. This was probably a mistake!

(Anyway please give me more excuses to talk about this wip I love it so much.)

[cabeswaterdrowned]

need to know about any and all aftg fics you’ve got in the works please and thank you

because I’m not hyperfixating on it rn / have been kind of taking a break from this fandom I haven’t been actively working on or thinking about either of these since like, fall 2023. But:

•Kevin wip. — what I wrote so far is kind of a Drabble but it’s mostly pre canon focused on his grief over Kayleigh, also there’s some pre canon Kandrew in there.

•wanna be the power ballad that (lifts you up and holds you down) — the first chapter of this is on my ao3 (nazyalenskys) and it was originally meant to be 3 chapters but I never finished the second.. I posted it in 2022 so if I ever finish like I said will probably rewrite the one that’s published. But it was kind of a response fic to one of my favorite kandrew fics which I will link later, but the premise of that is essentially the Moriyamas freak Kevin out before his first pro game and a sort of Kandrew comfort sex hook up takes place with Neil’s consent, and I wanted to write a Kandreil navigating the aftermath of that type of scenario. The chapter I wrote was mostly a lot of Andrew introspection and a convo between him and Neil about it, the second chapter I started but didn’t get too far with was going to be entirely an Andrew and Betsy session, and the third was going to be him going to visit Kevin for the first time after this happened. So set of for post canon Kandreil but I was going to focus mostly on Andrew’s feelings and the Kandrew side of it (Kandrew is my favorite Aftg ship if you didn’t know, I love Andreil a lot too they’re definitely my favorite canon mlm ship in any media and I love their arc but Kandrew was what I generally went for when it came to exploring dynamics, they compel me for a lot of the same reasons Adansey do in terms of the divorced energy and the class divide and the fundamental miscommunication that’s interesting rather than annoying, and two chars with control issues as trauma responses having symptoms at each other, and characters desiring autonomy but also being codependently devoted to each other in ways that contradict that… yeah (I totally get the Ronsey-Kandrew and Adansey-Kevneil parallels that are commonly talked about but like. Kandrew-Adansey is real 2 me). • this isn’t really a wip but I did want to mention that I actually first wrote fanfiction on a different ao3 account and started during quarantine, and Aftg was my quarantine hyperfixation (with Community and Legacies which I also wrote for) so I wrote quite a bit at that time that’s floating around but most of it I’m content to never continue with, but there is One I might go back to at some point and it’s this Renee centric fic with some Renee x Dan called Sweet Fascination that was originally meant to be the first in a series about Renee in high school. At some point I might rewrite and repost that fic on my current acc and continue that as a kind of series of introspective one shots. Ty! (Send me a title of a WIP and I’ll tell you something about it)

[blank-citron]

I love sharing my opinions!

1, my favorite character in the foxes is hard?? Because does Wymack count? Cause if not I'm probably gonna have to say either Andrew or Neil. But Wymack is the answer I want.

2, Jean, easily. I think he's not used quite in the right way in canon but everything about him is still interesting to me.

3, so many characters uhh.. you will have to pry British Neil from my cold dead hands. Andreil are happy, and Jeans recovery from his abuse makes him angry.

4, I'll always read a good soulmates fic. For recommendations probably "blame it on my Youth" by youreyestheyglow (a classic) OR "curiosity killed the cat." By Idnis (silly concept, made me absolutely sob) I have so many more but I'll limit myself to two.

5, basic answer, probably the third one.

6, (as an audiobook boy) I think it's fantastic and allows for more people to have a chance to get into aftg than before. Even if the voices are a little bit silly.

7, apart from my like seventy drafts? The art I posted of Mer Neil is still one of my favorite things I have drawn in a while.

8, I don't think I have a favorite?? The cabin visit feels out of place but I still love it. I think that's my closest. (Maybe the extra content of Andrews pov of Baltimore)

9, What do you MEAN Allison gets an abusive partner and fucking stays together with him long enough to have a kid? And also the entire Kevin/Thea situation, get that shit away from me.

10, probably something about earlier drafts of the book, more content she decided to not include in the final version.

11, I don't think I have anything that wouldn't require a major rewrite of the entire book,,

12, aftg would have been more interesting from Kevin's pov, and I actually love the entire they never get married thing (+Andrew never getting "better" and never laughing) I think it fits into their characters really well. (I don't think Andrew needs to laugh or smile to be happy and content with the life he's gotten.)

I don't really have anyone I can tag :')

But if anyone wants to talk aftg I'm always open!!

AFTG Fandom ask game !

by Cavan bc I need to interrogate my friends feel free to reply in replies or reblog! feel free to reply even if I haven't tagged you probably unsure if I can call you a friend but I'll be happy to read your replies!

What is your favourite character in the Foxes?

And favourite in the series aside form this one?

Drop your beloved head-canons about both!

Fic(s) you are always happy to recommend or fic tropes you will always read.

Which of the books is your favourite

Opinions on AFTG audiobook release?

If you write/draw/create aftg stuff, what is your favourite work of yours?

Favourite event/plot point in the books

Least favourite part of canon (can include Extra content)

If you could sent Nora an ask and get answer, what would you ask about?

If you could make an idea of your choice canon to aftg, what would it be?

Feel free to share some random hot takes if you like @noomyart @jtl-fics @dogintheboiler @thefoxesraven @poze-laceen @leedee013 @dianblch @yes-i-exist-shutup also shout out to ppl who have different names on all their socials so in consequence I think you are 3 different people!

[bloody-wonder]

I am highly suspicious of people who come out of reading AftG and say things like “Jean/Jeremy/Seth/Aaron is my favorite character!” that’s how I know they hate canon

well not necessarily

i love aaron and he isn’t my favorite character only bcs andrew, neil and kevin exist so

but i see your point ://

[willowbird]

^_^; i apologize for spamming the fandom... but like, I’m really enjoying writing stuff and it’s been a long time since I’ve been able to just write because I like writing so... 

*holds out fics like the gallbladder with his kidney stones* 

i maked these?

[mrsdallway]

witch neil josten

WITCHCRAFT!!! i really like the idea of cozy neil crocheting, gardening and baking… and that's probably why i LOVE the idea of witch neil! (no supernatural elements, just a normal modern witch)

a rewrite of aftg. everything is the same. except

mary is secretly a witch and teaches neil everything she knows

neil's binder is a book of shadows / grimoire

neil has a LOT of amulets! necklaces, bracelets etc all handcrafted by himself. when he starts to get familiar with the foxes, he makes for them too

TAROT! he obsessively reads the future for himself and the foxes! watch out for the king cards! allison and renee weekly ask him for advice

crystals! neil carries at least a quartz with him everywhere he goes. amethyst for kevin's hungovers. meditation with rose quartz when he starts hooking up with andrew.

neil always forgets sabbats

sigils/runes!!!! he draws them everywhere! exy racquets, notebooks (we all know neil doodles in the margins), phones, his duffle, allison's beauty products AND HIS SCARS

tea!! after his first night at eden's he makes spearmint tea to control his anger, garlic tea to expel negative energy and evil eye. also,,, he lights a black candle (our little candle collector) for banishment and takes a coarse salt bath for cleaning

fennel seeds under his pillow to keep nightmares away

saint george's sword at the dorm entrance for protection

neil puts pretection spells all over the fox tower. many students have reported odd events where they see a tiny little weird guy reciting ancient words of prayer in the hall

neil is obviously adept of chaos magic

he tries to curse riko once

matt eventually gets used to the rituals at the middle of the night. he even defends neil to dan saying "let him! it's full moon!"

neil's water bottle at practice is alway full of sun or moon water

"no nicky i don't worship the devil"

when the foxes are fighting at practice he just lets some chamomile incense burn

he eventually becomes pagan and prays to hermes (get it?) / or maybe he gets in some religion like umbanda

neil likes listening to celtic songs!!

after evermore and being beaten up by riko he jokes that the pain is just because his chakras are unbalanced

sitting outside, sticking his fingers in the earth, laying in the sun, stargazing, hugging trees, hunting mushrooms, watching bugs, feeding stray cats, making flower crowns

his offerings always have fruit

he probably blessed his exy racquet, don't judge him

when neil moves to the monsters' dorm andrew helps him to set up an altar. and gives him one of his knives to use as an athame. he loves his witch bf

neil pays back spreading lavender essential oil on andrew's pulse points to ease stress

YOGA! YOGA YOGA YOGA! NEIL LOVES YOGA IT'S CANON

his fav element is obviously fire (but he's a capricorn so he likes earth too)

blowing cinnamon every first day of the month

[h-i-raeth]

Files For This Week:

The Sum Of Our Parts* (AFTG, Andriel, Unwind AU, Ch 1 - 5 on AO3 here)

Time And Hearts Will Wear Us Thin (hanahaki deconstrucion fic) (Stranger things, queerplatonic Stobin with several side ships, Ch 1-3 on AO3 here)

The Shadow Of Dust(Disconnected Scenes) (Stranger Things, His Dark Materials AU, unpublished + looking destined to be Long. Asks for this this week will be delayed/potentially added onto next week's roster.)

Alternate Version (Trapped In The Upside Down) (Stranger Things, unpublished but should be much shorter than the other two Barb Lives AUs living in my WIPs)

Barb Lives Side A (Alive) (Stranger things, Barb is assumed dead until El rejoins the Hawkins Crew in S2, heavy canon divergence spiraling from pre-S3)

Bonus: Muse (Rewrite) (Original work that I'm blowing the dust off of for the first time since high school. I won't share sentences for this, but I'll share sentences from something else if you send an ask for it)

Snippet (from The Sum of Our Parts)

Wymack wishes that he was surprised when Andrew breaks into his rooms at—Jesus fuck—3 AM.

It’s been maybe two hours since the clusterfuck earlier. He still has to wake up in another two and a half hours so he can catch Abby up to speed before she officially clears the new kids. He was really hoping that Andrew would wait to have this discussion until a little closer to a reasonable time.

Probably serves him right for not getting it out of the way after sending Josten back to bed, no matter how enticing the idea of putting it off had been at the time. He’d known this was coming.

“This doesn’t stop being deeply unpleasant, you know. You couldn’t have waited a couple of hours?”

WIP Wednesday Game

It’s WIP Wednesday, time for a little accountability, sharing your work, and getting a kick in the pants.

Here’s how it works:

In a reblog (or new post w/ rules attached), post up to five (5) filenames of your WIPs; not titles, file names.

Post a snippet from one of them. Snippet must be words you wrote in the last 7 days. We’re posting progress here. If you haven’t made any, go make some and come back to post!

After you’ve posted, people can send you an ask with one of your file names. You must then write 3 sentences in that file. If the filename is one you can't share from (for example, an event fic), write 3 sentences on it anyway, and then 3 more on another to share.

That’s it! You can invite others to join in, or just post. If you tag me in your post, I will send you an ask request!

If you’re reading this, you’re invited!

If you see someone posting a WIP Wednesday Game snippet, send them an ask! Make them write.

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[aftgficrec]

Trans Neil? Like the one where he knew Kevin from the nest and Alison was a supportive friend and she called him handsome the first time they met on fox court? Preferably like a canon rewrite (?still don’t know the correct terms so idk if canon compliant works here) but other types would be appreciated too

Hi, anon. The fic you describe may be ‘Remind me I’m not home,’ which has Neil as a former Raven and is below in our previous recs. I’m re-listing ‘Beautiful and Splendid Things,’ which has a fun twist on exy. - A

previous recs:

trans Neil 1 here

trans Neil, Andrew, Kevin here

‘Remind me I’m not home’ here

‘In Flanders Fields,’ ‘In The House of the Rising Sun,’ ‘All or Nothing,’ ‘Josten’s Eight,’ and ‘Beautiful and Splendid Things’ (this one is also recced below) here

‘there's gotta be some butterflies somewhere,’ ‘forgive our sins forged at the pulpit,’ and ‘We All Get A Little Wrecked Sometimes’ here

‘Staring at the Sun’ (jerejean, since updated, background andreil) here

Affection can be shown in so many ways by Theoddgalaxy [Rated T, 5978 Words, Complete, 2021]

Andrew is learning, learning to support, to be supported and it’s terrifying. He’s slowly each day relaxing into normalcy, that is until the nightmares start up again, and Luther contacts Nicky.

Andrew has a nightmare Neil comforts. Nicky gets a call from Luther, and it reminds them all they’ve got a home with the foxes. Andrew also drags Neil to therapy.

tw: nightmares, tw: homophobic slur

Show and Tell by darkbluebox [Rated T, 806 Words, Complete, 2021]

“Show me your scars.”

tw: implied/referenced violence, tw: implied/referenced torture, tw: referenced deadnaming, tw: referenced involuntary outing

a different way in the destiny by sheskyripa [Not Rated (we say T), 14853 Words, Complete, 2021]

Neil had bandages on both cheeks. Andrew removed them one by one, as gently as possible so as not to hurt him further. The tattoo was gone, giving way to burned flesh. Two new knife scars arrived in Neil's collection. Other than that, he looked fine. Andrew hated having thought of that. Neil was not okay. He was hurt. He was…

Andrew's eyes dropped to his stomach. Neil noticed, of course. He placed a hand on his stomach before making Andrew look at him. “I'm okay. We're okay.”

or, where neil was pregnant when he was kidnapped.

tw: self harm, tw: blood, tw: violence, tw: implied/referenced torture, tw: transphobia, tw: misgendering, tw: dysphoria, tw: involuntary outing, tw: panic attacks

When it comes to us by trubenblack [Not Rated, 1762 Words, Complete, 2019]

It’s incredibly difficult to pretend to yourself that you haven’t really fucked up when you very clearly have.

-

Neil gets anxious and doesn't know when to stop pushing himself.

tw: dysphoria, tw: anxiety

Beautiful and Splendid Things by Dhillarearen [Rated T, 37105 Words, Complete 2019, AFTG Reverse Big Bang]

Hobbes hasn’t been taught in a century, but if he were, Neil Josten would agree with his view on humanity. The only good thing about living is Exy, and being a member of a professional Exy hover-racing team means that Neil doesn’t have to think about anything else.

Enter Andrew Minyard.

tw: violence

NB: Art prompt by @still-waiting-for-godot

[swordofazrael1992]

every aftg rewrite from andrew’s perspective is just angst, and obviously thats very canon and in character. However. as a Stupid Gay (tm), whenever i see a pretty girl i cannot form any thoughts and just have to. sit there. and. take a few deep breaths. and scream internally. so where are the Stupid Gay andrew rewrites, huh? do you know how much he was internally gay panicking when neil did anything during the series? probably so much. so much. give me Stupid Gay andrew now pls

[polestarry]

I am alive !!

I had to focus on school for a bit, but I’m (hopefully) done after next week ((:

Im currently working on details for an aftg rewrite, but it’s almost becoming more of a.. au in canon divergence than rewrite at this point with the things I’m changing, but we’ll see!!

I mainly want to make it more realistic-ish and remove some of the harmful stereotypes etc etc etc (maybe add a bit more diversity too.. you already know I’m doing that whoops)

I also figured out that apparently an exy field is about the size of an SOCCOR FIELD. Mad respect for the foxes to be able to run over that field with a team of 9, because in a soccor players line up it is 11 on each half. I am totally not thinking about changing that up… (I am.. I’m planning to add an extra dealer to the court so the line up + plays would make more sense.. wow my jock side is showing right now.. but yes! That means an oc. They won’t be very important or related to any of the main characters, they’ll just be a fox!)

Well that was my update for now! Maybe I’ll be posting some random posts again soon, or maybe the next time I’m back it’s to update about the rewrite.. au… again!

[corvidhours]

Never in my too many years in fandom culture have I experienced anything like aftg. No one who has read these books hasn’t read all three of them in one sitting, running on 3 hours or less of sleep, fallen deeply in love with Andrew Minyard, and sworn their fealty to Neil Josten. Then comes the immediate rewriting of the canon, the merciless memes, and the endless headcanons. The community! The universality! The found family extends to us all

[onereallygoodlambonastick]

domestic bliss (i know how badly you wanted it)

Abuse aftermath is seen to seriously by Wymack and Abby; consequences are left in the hands of the Foxes; a few finally make unprecedented moves. Kevin just wants to die, so maybe nothing's different. (Except it is; has to be.)

Kevin felt the eyes of all his teammates on him, looking, seeing, condoning or pitying or denying. He kept his eyes on Andrew and his locked jaw, his brow, the tenseness in his fingers, spread up his arms and coiled in the rest of him like a nocked bow.

"What." Kevin finally said, breaking the silence between them for the first time since Andrew made him talk. His voice was a mangled mess of a thing, launched out of him as if to rip and ruin.

Andrew stared back at him, mouth clenched shut, and didn't speak. Wouldn't. His eyes were iron-blue.

Warnings: none

Fandom: AFTG

Relationships: Kevin Day & Andrew Minyard, Kevin Day & Allison Reynolds & Renee Walker, Kevin Day & David Wymack, Allison Reynolds/Renee Walker, Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard (hm. kind of? out of respect for my AU.), Kevin Day & The Foxes 

Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, renison are kevin's new protectors i dont make the rules allison is catty in all the right ways they throw some hands! and words! aaron sees kevin as family can't change my mind, no sir, kevin day disregarding abby's certified medical advice every .2 seconds, (beware the non-certified medical inaccuracy), the Adults of the Series Actually Give a Proper Shit and Do Their Jobs, Fluff and Angst, Hurt/Comfort, humane abuse aftermath, Not Canon Compliant: ), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon Rewrite, Fix-It, Basically, Found Family, The Author Regrets Nothing

Part 2 of the hand over hand series. 

Huge thanks to my beta-reader, @essence-29!