#Tfc

[dcvina-claires]

fake idgafer i saw you beat up four men for being homophobic to your cousin. i saw you kill your brother’s abuser. i saw you befriend a kindhearted religious girl even though you knew the others would tease you. i saw you offer two traumatized boys protection when they thought they would never get any. i saw you ask “how many kids” when you found out that your abuser targeted more people. i saw you sitting on the roof even though you’re afraid of heights because you didn’t want to feel nothing anymore

[aglionbyacademia]

andrew, don’t smoke inside you’ll get in trouble!!

[polartss]

Kevin Day, history student

[thestarsands]

The Percy Jackson effect:

reading tsc series is really funny because we know that neil makes problems and is argumentative but he kinda explains why and it reads as rather rational or at least not out of nowhere

then we get jeremy and jeans pov and yeah neil just starts shit constantly

[scholliski]

i cannot believe that Renee has canonically looked at two people throughout the books and thought ‘would smash’ and those people are Andrew and Jean… girl what’s going on

[swarenar]

weekend at the dorms

[fortheloveofexy]

It's so interesting to me that Nora describes Jean and Neil as being similar in personality.

On a surface level, yes they are a lot alike. Jean is prickly and blunt and prone to verbal insults, just like Neil is. He's unfamilar with affection and kindness like Neil was at the beginning of tfc and he fears older male authority figures just as Neil does.

But at the same time, they are also just so completely different.

Like, I love Neil, but there is nothing about canon Neil Josten that could be described as gentle or soft-hearted or overtly affectionate. In tfc he was studying the Foxes behavior like they were alien specimens under a microscope because he was so unused to how friendships work. He didn't even realize Nicky was his friend until Nicky outright confirmed it. He softens a little for his Foxes in the end (especially for Andrew) and he does love his chosen family, but even by the end of tkm his empathy for other people is still highly selective and he remains a cagey and rude asshole.

But Jean? Jean is a loverboy, through and through. He's not used to receiving affection, but he's a remarkably quick study and he learns how to reciprocate just as fast. He has compassion even for the people who betrayed him and hurt him in the Nest. Protecting Jeremy is so instinctive for him, he does it without thinking. He was so horrified by the thought of Cat being hurt that he couldnt stop himself from checking her for injuries that weren't there. He agrees to getting a dog because he couldn't bring himself to deny Jeremy and Laila something that brought them so much joy. He was already looking out for Cody when he barely even knew them. To his very core, he is so gentle and tender-hearted and kind.

Neil had to be taught how to love other people (and he got there eventually), but Jean's love for others has been pouring out of him for years with nowhere to go.

[mooniism]

help this is so andrew minyard core

[happilyfangirling]

Had a guy come to look at my WiFi today, and he had a load of face and neck tattoos, not uncommon where I live, I didn't think anything of it.

Until he left, and I realised he had a chess piece on his cheek just under his eye like a certain history obsessed Exy player I know.

[wtffgus]

aftg people who are also into pjo, which cabins would each of the foxes (and Trojans) be?

I personally think Neil would be cabin #10

I mean, child of Aphrodite:

- can influence strong emotions on others,

- change their physical features (hair color, eye color, ect),

- can manipulate people into doing what they want (charmspeak),

- are perceived as really attractive,

- can speak french

(BUT I can also see him as a Hermes child)

Andrew and Aaron as children of Nemesis

And Kevin, I'm not sure between Athena and Nike, I think he could fit in both

[reluctanttrabbit]

had a reaaally good vision for a charlie design last night and now theres 4.... mitosis

[thisuserlovesyou]

Thinking about Nicky having to teach the twins German. He probably thought about it as a good bonding moment, but it must have been a nightmare

[leroiestmortvivelareine]

My version of aftg as Homeric characters... on the premise that there are only two stories: The Iliad and The Odyssey.

Note - warriors fought on opposite sides but in classical mythology it's the actions of each individual that determine if they're a hero or not.

So the following is based on alignment of character (not necessarily alignment to the plot).

The mortals

Neil - Paris - wanting more than he should dare to want, starting a war that others wound up fighting but also sneakily killed the enemy's best warrior, choosing love above all else

Kevin - Helen - the face that launched a thousand ships... but still caught in a game she couldn't control

Andrew - Odysseus - not remotely invested in the battle but with the smarts to end it, always scheming

Dan and Matt - Hector - yes, Hector is so awesome he gets both. brave and pure-hearted warrior, family man

Aaron - Patroclus - intensely loyal, will risk his own life no matter how stupid his loved one is being

Renee - Nestor - respected and wise former warrior

Allison - Polyxena - istfg nobody except Reinaldo Arenas properly appreciates the EPICNESS of The Scene when, with every last eye upon her, she unfastens a single earring and casts it onto the scales below... ah... but when the FBI were trying to tell the Foxes they're all gonna be brutally murdered by the mafia and Allison, ALLISON speaks up first and says 'Fuck off you're clashing with my nail polish' or whatever she said... sigh. I get it.

Nicky - Aeneas - more a lover than a fighter

Wymack - Chiron - a wise teacher but who can and will kick your ass

Tetsuji - Priam - willing to sacrifice everyone to his dream

Riko - Agamemnon - total bastard whose greed started the war and whose cruelty kept it going

Jean - Cassandra - ignored and ridiculed despite having talents above everyone else's

Zane - Achilles - mighty warrior, but irrational when he feels slighted, loses his mind when he loses his love (I know, pity to waste him on a straight guy but he fits too well...)

Grayson - Ajax the Locrian - violent degenerate (and in this case does align with plot, sorry)

Thea - Penthesilea - badass battle queen of the amazons

Jasmine - Menelaus - appears to be in a position of power but is just swept up in events

Browning and Towns - slaves who were told to 'stay there and guard the boat, we won't be long'

Evermore - the walls of Troy

Exy - the wooden horse

The gods

(all are beholden to them; mortals may entreaty but do not really interact, each backs their own champion)

Ichirou - Poseidon - powerful destructive force

the ERC and particularly Rhemann - Athena - wisdom and justice

Nora - I want to say Aphrodite but really Zeus - will smite us all dead with a single sentence, we are doomed

I'd love to hear alternatives so don't be shy to disagree!

[foxstens]

just imagine being riko though

you're 20 years old and you've been raised to believe that you are above everyone else by virtue of being born in this family. but at the same time you've been aware your entire life that said family does not care about you

your entire worth hinges on the faint hope that if you become the best at this sport (the only thing you have), maybe, just maybe they'll finally look at you

the erc says kevin - your second half, your confidante - is a better player than you. you nearly destroy him in your rage and you're not sorry, not really, because this is what happens to those who defy the moriyamas. but you don't know how to live without him, either

and kevin doesn't come back. you use up all your cards but him and his new team keep defying you and things don't go as they're supposed to. your father dies without giving you the recognition you've been trying to earn, you're not even invited to the funeral. the foxes make it to finals and kevin walks onto the court with his tattoo covered up

against all odds they win. a racquet breaks your arm and maybe some part of you realizes that you did this to yourself. for the first time ever, your brother stands in front of you, having watched you fail at the one thing you're supposed to be the best at

his face is the last thing you see

[scholliski]

I started this two years ago and didn’t know how to render then but were so back and I can finally colour it now 😁😁

[max0pal]

I imagine book 1 Andrew waking up after a bad night of rolling around, nightmares, feeling ghost hands over his skin, and all the comfort he gets is (even grumpier) Kevin waiting for him in the kitchen with his next dose. Like no wonder he hated his meds. (It must've felt like an insult to all he had overcome. (is my speculation))

Also Matt's 'I don't want to be here when Andrew's between doses.' Andrew wants the others to be afraid of him, because it's the easiest way, perhaps the only one he knows, to ensure they will always respect his boundaries and keep a distance. And then there comes Neil who's like: I've seen so much worse in my life than one "psychotic midget" idgaf, but he still respects those boundaries, he still doesn't cross any lines. And perhaps it gives Andrew a little bit of hope that he can still be respected without being feared. (is how I interpret it atm)