#Soft Andrew minyard

[theprettiestboyinthemorgue]

Random fanfic excerpts I have saved to my phone Part 6

Fanfic: Say something

Author: Willow_bird

Fandom: All For The Game

Ship: Andrew Minyard/Neil Josten

Site: Archiveofourown.org

Fic summary:

With his free hand, Andrew pulled out his phone and looked again at the message Neil had sent him about it.

talking is hard today.

Not 'I don’t want to talk' or 'I have nothing to say' but 'talking is hard'.

***

On a bad day, Neil struggles with his own mental state, and Andrew figures out how to be there for him. As they wade through this together, both young men realize its okay to lean on each other and that they are capable of both reaching out as well as hanging on. Also, Betsy has shipped them from the beginning, let's be completely honest here.

[hatfordheadquarters]

completed fic ✎ 3/3

𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧𝐞: 𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘

𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐰𝐨: 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐘 𝐁𝐎𝐘

𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞: 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐅𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋

Nick Hemmick centric Fic🪽

mature, angst, past rape/non-con, stalking, hyperreligiosity, homophobia, suicide, etc. (please treat yourself kindly and stay safe ❦)

pre-canon & post-canon

multiple POV

background andriel (if you squint)

ace rep

Nicky finally snaps

twinyards & Nicky learn to communicate

𝚊𝚘𝟹 𝚜𝚞𝚖𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢:

Nicky would do anything for the twins.

When money problems threaten his ability to maintain the home he had managed to create for them, Roland offers Nicky shifts after-hours at Eden's.

Nicky sacrifices himself a little more, and soon a person from his past creeps back into his life to push him closer to his limit.

He worked so hard to keep this part of their lives his personal secret, but the desperation of the past never leaves quietly.

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝

Nicky turns to sex work to support Andrew and Aaron, and must deal with the toll it takes.

(inspired by "Making Ends Meet" by onedayanauthor and "All we need is somebody to lean on" by AgapantoBlu)

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[sapphoherselz]

"he doesn't give a shit that they're animals he still respects their choices, he doesn't crowd them or touches them if they're snappy at him, he just waits until they come to him"

"like if they scratch him he's like "it's OK I probably deserved it, maybe I startled you/you didn't want me to touch you"

"and he doesn't mind (if they do scratch him), he goes back the next day and waits for the same cat that scratched him to see if it has finally gained its trust and see if it gets close to him"

fettuccine is actually trying to make me cry this is not even a bit funny

@whataboutnoope

thinking bout Andrew and cats, how he always has treats in his pockets/cat food in his car so he can feed stray cats from his neighborhood, how these cats recognize him and surround him and scream at him, thinking how he'll caress each and every one in greeting (but only if they want to, if they're more skittish he's just content with having them come close to him/letting them sniff his fingers), he will call them names and say things like "you're ugly, look at how fat you are, you are so stupid and dumb" but if anyone else dares to he gets protective and stares them down til they apologize (to the cats, obviously)

[two-longing-loves]

one of the most tender andreil scenes is when neil and andrew fall asleep on beanbag chairs and they both wake up randomly and look at each other w sleepy eyes AND neil takes it as permission to be lazy and sleep MORE.

[bisexualcroissant]

andrew helping neil shower was so tender i’m crying into my fucking fist. andrew wrapping up neil’s wounds so they wouldn’t hurt in the water. andrew helping him take his clothes off to shower because it caused neil too much pain to pull them all the way off. andrew washing neil’s hair. andrew helping him stand up when he was struggling to balance. and then neil crossing his arms behind andrew’s head to keep him closer, tilting andrew’s face up to kiss him. i’m so fucking soft for them oh my god

[taktitty]

Staring problem

[simonsrosebud]

I’m a firm believer in Andrew Minyard being gentle with kids.

Upholding his boundaries even with children and telling them no when they try to climb all over him, teaching them to say no as well and to set their own boundaries; to say “no thank you” when a relative wants a hug or kiss that they don’t want to give.

Gentle hands catching chubby arms when they almost topple over, tapping knees and toes and distracting aaron’s girls when they get a vaccine because “i can’t hold them both still while they’re freaking out but katelyn is out of town and you’re in town anyway and andrew they’re gonna be the death of me-”

Soft spoken words and made up stories about where twins come from; about horses growing horns when they see rainbows to become unicorns when someone says unicorns aren’t real; tales of a vegetable goblin that comes to your house when you don’t eat them to steal all your food (even though he doesn’t eat them himself).

Buying Aaron’s twins toys for Christmas that are undoubtedly awesome but such an unbelievable hassle for parents. Encouraging them to make a mess in any way he can just for fun. Getting them those electric cars and watching them drive down the street while Aaron chases after them because “it’s bath time we’re done with the cars, girls!” while they just continue giggling and circling him.

[foxgloveinspace]

My one ooc Andrew Minyard headcanon I will never let go of is that his eyes are very expressive if you bother to look, but he’s so intimidating is hard to look in his eyes so only Neil, Renee and Kevin notice. Maybe Wymack does too but that’s outside of his pay grade still.

[tankuare]

Neil Josten said “I want to see you lose control” and we expected Andrew to recover from that???

[codename-adler]

the moment that did me in is when Andrew brought Neil’s hands above his hair and said “Just here.”

[artofalyksandr]

Happy Asexual Awareness Week to Neil Josten specifically

Also small gay disaster Andrew

[the-best-of-the-myrmidona]

Andrew Minyard is so mentally scary and tough to me, and then I remember that he canonically matches things like his armbands with Neil. And then I remember he's also probably secretly a little mushy pile of love

[emry-stars-art]

I still need practice, but digital coloring is getting a little easier 💕

[dawnatlas]

andreil wip

[jtl-fics]

Thinking about Neil and Andrew's house again and getting emo. Like they had their own places when they were on different teams. I think they'd be the type to take one another shopping for those apartments wanting to make sure they're good for one another. Andrew's apartment was near a running trail, Neil made sure that there was roof access on his. Stuff like that.

Then they finally get on the same team and they're getting a place together. Neil wanting a fenced in backyard, Andrew wanting something with a porch, Neil wanting a walkout basement, Andrew wanting a lot of natural light, and they both want at least a 2-car garage.

They never intentionally decorate but they've just accumulated stuff. Gifts from friends, things they saw and grabbed on road trips, gifts to one another, and now it is all in one place. Rearranging their furniture over and over again until they like it. Doing DIY on a lot to make it exactly how they like it.

Kevin keeps mentioning how their backyard would be perfect for a vegetable garden and they both make faces and never do that. Getting a couch that's perfect for sitting close or far apart depending on the day. Guest rooms for when friends visit that they decorate utterly annoyingly just because Aaron said something one time about it being so boring so now there's a cross stitch hung above the guest bed that Andrew did himself that says 'Home is where the heart is' with two little knives underneath.

Just space to do with what they want that is completely theirs.

[ninyard]

Honestly honestly the most romantic moment of the entire series is when Neil talks about how he'd never gotten to travel for fun before and the Foxes are planning to take him to the mountains, and Kevin starts to protest that they can't go on vacation but stops because Andrew is holding a knife on him 😭🥺😩 like I don't know that's just just a sweet little moment to me, Andrew threatening Kevin if he takes this little chance for happiness from Neil

Uhhhh literally Andrew “I-don’t-care” Minyard is the most romantic of ALL the foxes. My line of work revolves around intimacy and from all my training and studying let me tell you that man is a master at his craft.

Andrew’s touch is beautiful and sacred; this thing he does not take easily, or give out kindly whatsoever. Yet with Neil it’s as if he can’t stop himself. We see it in how gently he tapes the garbage bags around Neil’s injuries, wordlessly, without being asked. THAT’S intimacy. How he holds his neck to inspect his eyes when he removes his contacts, how he hands Neil cigarettes without a request, how he doesn’t say a word while touching Kevin with the point of a blade because Neil deserves a fucking break. Sure, by technicalities, the shower scene from TKM is intimate by definition, but really it’s in the kiss he ghosts across Neil’s hip, in how he pats dry his broken skin afterwards. How can you look at him wordlessly dropping keys into Neil’s palms, and think, yeah there’s no way Andrew could be romantic. Is he soft, is he gentle, as a person? No. But his minuscule actions are, his unmentioned gestures are. You just have to look and find them.

TKM just has some of the most subtly beautiful examples of a different flavour of love and intimacy that is so unusual and heartwarming it’s insane. That shower scene drives me crazy when I think about how caring Andrew is in it. He came in with the tape and bags on his own volition, knowing Neil needed a shower and couldn’t do it unattended. How he didn’t take away Neil’s autonomy by assuming he couldn’t undress himself, instead waiting until he paused and couldn’t go any further before he started to help. How he drapes the blanket over Neil’s shoulders, again giving Neil a chance to struggle before wrapping it around him. They practically don’t speak to each other really in that chapter at all apart from a bit of flirting in the shower. Because they don’t need to, because Andrew knows how to love, how to be caring, how to wrap up the boy he almost lost in bubble wrap because if he loses him again, it won’t be pretty. He washes Neil’s hair! He covers his wounds! He treats him gently when that is possibly the last word that could ever be used to describe Andrew. I feel like that scene was in part of course him just looking after Neil who can use approximately two square inches of his entire body, but in another part proving how serious he is about Neil. Everything changes between the two of them then, suddenly their actions more relaxed than hungry, not yet a given but instead now just a want.

I don’t know. I can’t help but see so much intimacy and romance in subtleties and things you’d barely even notice, regardless of the people/the characters and their circumstances. I wouldn’t use the word sweet to describe Andrew at all, but the things he does for Neil? The way that he loves Neil? The absolutely fucking sweetest.