#aftg Au

[sylviabit-thehand]

When you can’t get your exy raquet back because “it was used as a murder weapon.”

[star-bursts-industries]

Brian currently consumed by SMAU thoughts. There’s so much potential.

Andrew and Neil are NEVER online. They have accounts because they have too, but there’s only like….5 photos on their pages combined. And it’s like press photos. They post like Harry Styles ok. Once in a blue moon and you have no idea if it’s them or the press team (it’s definitely the press team).

Allison is purposely chaotic, the ultimate f you to her family. She stirs shit up just because she can.

Dan and Renee are properly trained little media girlies. Pretty photos and pretty tame, Dan sometimes gets out of hand if provoked but it’s never anything to crazy.

Seth is banned from having access to his accounts like once a month for posting offensive shit simply because he doesn’t know how NOT to be an asshole.

Matt is a FUCKING comedian. He also professionally shit posts. Movie critics, exy stats and ultimate professional trash talk.

Kevin is basically a professional exy account, the only thing on his account is exy and he’s like the least controversial because all he does is talk about exy. Sometimes he gets a little harsh with his criticism.

Nicky is one of those accounts everyone sees but no one really follows you know? He’s funny but in a wtf way? Bro is all jokes, thats IT. He also faces near monthly expulsion from his accounts but for inappropriate behavior in the public sphere.

Aaron funnily enough has the most followers out of all of them, even Kevin. Aaron’s account is basically faceless and he just posts candid shots of his life. Like look at my ice coffee, watch me study, here’s a time laps of me cleaning my dorm. Aaron is followed by a lot of people even people who don’t care about exy for the soul purpose of he somehow became one of those accounts that just gives people motivation. Funnily enough he did it by complete accident, he started posting photos for the soul purpose of keeping in touch with the friends he wasn’t supposed to have because Andrew. It exploded without him meaning too.

Even funnier? The other foxes have NO IDEA. Aarons internet handle is something dumb and not at all related to his name. So they all think Aaron is using the fact he’s the least problematic child to get out of media duty, and since Aaron doesn’t post his face online they don’t realize those photos that always go viral across the PSU campus are Aaron.

Wymack knows. Wymack has decided this is INFACT above his pay grade ( he also thinks its both funny and good for Aaron, since Aaron is usually the fox that gets looked over)

Aaron doesn’t pay that much attention to the numbers his posts make either. Bro really just likes pulling one on the other foxes.

Also study with me posts help keep him accountable for how he spends his own time.

[jtl-fics]

Hi!! TBD for WIP Wednesday if I’m not too late?

11/6/24 WIP Wednesday (CLOSED) | TBD AU

Neil looks at him like Andrew’s asking him to do something impossible. “Andrew…” he croaks and Andrew can’t see the complex calculus swirling around Neil’s head. All he can see is himself reflected in Neil’s eyes as he stares back at him. 

He can see Neil’s yes in his eyes but he can also see the fear.

Andrew decides to play a bit dirty in that moment. It’s easy to ignore since he was a Fox, he had been a Fox this entire time.

“Come with me,” Andrew offers his hand to Neil and this is where he plays the dirtiest card he has, “please.”

[utopiajk101]

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[aaxxisses]

neil: andrew, we need to get married.

andrew:

andrew: what?

neil: i want the fbi to have a heart attack, because i'm going to change my last name again.

andrew: shit.

[deklo]

my interpretation of adoptive bee :’)

pls don’t repost!

[hmmm-shesucks]

Once the foxes become more comfortable with each other, they begin to nag. Mostly little things, usually humorous things. They nag on Nicky for being too forward sometimes. They nag on Neil for his horrible life habits. They nag on Dan for her mother henning. They nag on Kevin for everything. It's fun, it's what families do. They all just pick on each other for fun.

It takes a little longer for them to feel comfortable nagging Andrew though, which, is understandable, but one of the first things they start picking on him for is his lack of communication in general. He NEVER talks. They just want him to participate sometimes.

Renee and Neil find this funny because Andrew talks A LOT just not around the foxes. He's not comfortable.

See, Andrew is fucking weird. Everyone knows this, but the foxes think he's weird in a “mysterious, murder you in your sleep, was totally the kid everyone thought was going to shoot up the school” kind of weird.

Andrew is not that kind of weird. He's a different breed entirely. He plans out how he'd survive the apocalypse, any of them. He is constantly fighting back the most wild intrusive thoughts. He is 24/7 existential crisis. His head is a wild fucking place.

But he is trying. Making progress. Trying to be more open and approachable, as Bee says. So he talks. Out Loud.

And the foxes hate him.

In the most monotonous voice ever

“Do you ever feel like your bones are dirty? Like, I could totally strip my meat suit and just give my ribs a good bleaching.”

“If that light fell out of the ceiling it would kill at least three of you and seriously injure the rest of us.”

“Nothing is stopping me from buying five ice cream flavors at once, but I'm learning self-control and Bee would be disappointed.”

“Currently having a manic episode. Should I A.) call Bee, tell her I'm not doing too great, and talk about my symptoms and how to best cope? B.) find the nearest mall and spend every dime I have in less than thirty minutes. Or C.) go apeshit and try to fight anyone and everyone who looks at me in a less-than-kind way. Children included.

*stage whisper* there's a secret fourth option but I'm saving it for later ;) (pronounced Semicolon left facing open parentheses. Yes he says this out loud)”

disappears for less than five minutes and comes back with three furrbies and a corndog, one that is obviously not from the mall's food court.

He's so fucking weird. Like, weirder than Neil, and it's awful (so good dude, the foxes eat it up)

And it's not the manic Andrew on meds. It's just Andrew. He's still Andrew. He's still quiet most of the time and he is still grumpy and apathetic, but he's also comfortable enoughto just blurt random shit out and have fun watching everyone figure out how to respond. He's found safety in his new family and he can openly be who he is without fear of judgment or rejection. He's happy in a way he's never felt nor ever thought he'd get to experience. He's just Andrew.

[rise-deepseamonster]

[In court]

Neil, whispering to his lawyer, Renee:

Renee: This has nothing to do with the case.

Neil: Just ask please.

Renee, sighs and looks at Andrew who's the judge: Do you think he's cute? Be honest.

Andrew:

Andrew: I hereby sentence you to death.

[sunriseabram]

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[sylviabit-thehand]

Andrew: I hate you all

Also Andrew: saved Nicky, protected Aaron, got Matt clean, played for Kevin, and last but NOT least told Neil Josten to stay

[jtl-fics]

TBD please I am asking you to fix the hole in my heart!

11/6/24 WIP Wednesday (CLOSED) | TBD AU

“You wanted to tr-”

“I wanted to be yours.” Andrew interrupts and Neil freezes. “I still want to be yours.”

It is a terrifying thing for Andrew to admit. The distance of 5 years doesn’t make it any less terrifying for Andrew to admit. Andrew should want to belong to no one but himself. An Andrew who never flew out with Kevin Day to bumfuck nowhere Arizona would want that. An Andrew who never swung a racquet and caught Neil Josten in the stomach would want that.

Andrew’s not that Andrew.

Andrew wants to be Neil Josten’s and he wants Neil Josten to be his.

That’s why he went out and endured hours of ring shopping with his cousin. It’s that admission that had his cousin wrap that ring in hundreds of layers of packaging tape just so that he could convey how important it was for Andrew not to throw out what was contained within.

[foxes-today]

The ‘Monsters’

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[allfor-thegames]

au where betsy dobson is a foster mother and ends up taking in 8 year old aaron after a well check call reveals tilda's abuse, but aaron looks exactly like this kid at the school betsy works at--like exactly like him-- and she's the one that pulls andrew out of his foster home to be with her and aaron and as andrew and aaron open up, betsy uncovers the abuse andrew faced at his previous home and then the twins get to heal together as children in a loving home with a positive and loving maternal figure and then she adopts them and then-

[biscof]

For the few years that Andrew and Neil are on different pro teams Andrews team knows next to nothing about him. Now since he got off his meds and significantly mellowed out after graduating, its not that his team mates don’t like him, they just don’t know who he is outside of being an amazing player. When his teammates release their lack of Andrew Minyard info the “who the fuck is our goalie” coalition is created. They share all the information they have on Andrew in order to paint the picture of who the hell this man is.

One day one teammate comes across Andrew after practice reading a book in the players lounge. As they step closer to desifer the cover Andrew glances up at them with a questioning look. When they ask what the book is Andrew gives a surprised raise of his eyebrow and gives a shockingkly well put together synopses of the plot. After the player goes home that night they look up the book only to discover that the fantasy adventure novel that was described to them was not only an extremely sappy romance, it was also the last part of a queer YA series.

Andrew is spotted soon after at a local coffee shop drinking some sort of whip cream topped chocolate concoction with reading material much different than before. He sips his drink and peruses some large fancy looking book. With only a quick google search they realize that its some complex scientific book about Homo sapiens through history?

A few weeks later another of Andrews teammates walk in on a pacing Andrew with his phone clutched to his ear. He’s talking in an intense whisper, not angry but concerned, about some sort of cat sitter falling through. After Andrew spots them he hisses out a quick goodbye into the phone and hangs it up. When they ask what the call was about, Andrew contemplates for a second then explained that he’s visiting family and the cat sitter he had sceduled wasn’t going to be able to come after all. When the teammate volunteers to do the job Andrew only sighs but accepts their offer. After a weekend of cat sitting and semi snooping around Andrews apartment the brave cat sitter reports back to the team with all their suspicions confirmed.

Andrews pro teammates have concluded this: Andrew Minyard is not the violent and cruel man the media and his past can make him out to be. Andrew is actually a cat loving book nerd with a spotless apartment decorated in soft cream and earth tones. He is sarcastically funny and incredibly smart. And maybe, just maybe, Andrews pro team are some of the first people to see him for who he truly is under his sandpaper exterior.

[aaxxisses]

headcanon, that andrew throws his leg over neil's hip, when they sleep together. andrew also wraps one arm around neil's shoulders and puts the other under his pillow. and neil likes it all. he feels protected.

[andrew-dramaqueen-minyard]

trans Neil could actually make so much sense if you think about it because imagine they’re on the run, and Neil says to Mary ‘mom what if I started dressing like a boy’ and Mary, hellbent on disguising them, thinks that a fantastic idea, and immediately agrees. And then Neil is like, ‘maybe I could change my name to more boy names’ and Mary agrees even more. It’ll be harder to find them. Meanwhile it settles something in Neil, makes him feel about as at home as he could be in a body on the run.