#aftg timeline

[pumpkinnsoda]

Shaking with excitement at having this information all laid out.

234 Canon Timeline:

22nd February 1986: Kevin's Birthday

9th November 1987: Jean's Birthday

19th January 1988: Nathaniel's Birthday

1995: Kayleigh Day dies - Kevin arrives at the Nest (Age 9)

1998: Mary runs away with Nathaniel (Age 10)

2002: Jean arrives at the Nest (Age 14)

2004: Kevin and Riko join the Ravens - Jean's assult by the Ravens

2005 (Mid) : Mary dies - Neil goes to Arizona

2005 (End): Riko breaks Kevin's hand - Kevin Leaves and signs on as assistant coach to the Foxes

2006: Kevin signs on as starting striker for the Foxes - Neil is recruited

2007: Baltimore - Foxes v Ravens Final - Riko's Death - Jean's almost death - Jean signs on with the Trojans

[its-aftg]

Am I re-reading AFTG and annotating? Yes.

Am I cataloging facts(slash “facts”, it is Neil…) and citing them? Yes.

Am I desperately trying to create a more solid timeline for AFTG? Yes.

will I share? Of course :) fact sheets will release when each book is done, timeline will release post TSC (maybe TGR if it takes that long)

[codename-adler]

can’t believe i forgot my miracle girl Robin Cross 😭

just making a Twitter took everything. she goes through episodes of going private & AWOL because nobody can know who and where she is that’s how they’ll get her, to episodes of over sharing absolutely everything because what if she misses something and if she’s constantly documenting everything someone is bound to know the moment she goes missing, right? oh, baby girl…

>> 4 next >>

P.S.:

Andrew loves Robin (his kid)

Neil loves Robin (his f-up bestie and step-daughter)

Seth loves Robin (his weird baby sister)

Dan and Matt love Robin (their adopted pet)

Allison and Renee love Robin (their missing 3rd)

Nicky loves Robin (his traumatized niece)

Aaron loves Robin (his godsend smart study-buddy)

Wymack loves Robin (his precious granddaughter)

Kevin tolerates loves Robin (his mother’s legacy, his hope for the future of Exy, one of his greatest prides, this little puppy that refuses to leave him be and bothers him until he can’t imagine his life without this little ball of sunshine in it)

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[foxstens]

are we ever gonna talk about this

[laurents-laces]

I was having a hard time remembering when things happen in TSC so I put it on a calendar! Turns out everything happened faster than I thought it did

Kevin gets a lot more enthusiastic about convincing Jean to leave the Ravens immediately after hearing about the deal with Ichirou, and he publicly calls out the Ravens the day after. He's perfectly willing to stand up for himself and others when he thinks it won't end in certain death for everyone

Jean has been in LA for almost two months. He trusted Jeremy enough to ask to share a room with him after knowing him for three weeks

Jeremy got his coaches to agree about Jean in only one day so I guess they weren't reluctant to sign him

Jeremy usually has to leave before dinner, but he's around during Jean's first week in LA because he got kicked out of family dinners for dyeing his hair

Jeremy isn't usually allowed to move in with Cat and Laila for the summer until June, but school ends a month earlier. He was busy with something that kept him away a lot in May, but he showed up with "the sunniest smile he’d worn in weeks" once it was over

That last week of June was the week from hell for Jean. It was disaster after disaster for him. Hopefully he'll have an uneventful July before the interview in August, but Grayson's death might make things complicated

[reddamselette]

Kevin isn't sure when or how it started.

Or maybe he does know but refuses to acknowledge it.

There’s a number of moments swirling through his head as he thinks about it.

A jump in his heart when his hand covered Neil’s eyes in the beginning, asking for his game. Did it have to be anything other than that? Could there be a way to justify asking someone for their devotion on the court, to dedicate that devotion to him as he pours his heart and soul into the very thing that gives him life? 

The undeniable trust Neil handed over before he left to Evermore. Kevin felt like he’s been holding Neil’s life in his hands since they met. He couldn’t help but think what would’ve happened if Kevin never sought him out in Millport, if Neil heeded his warning to run yet still willing to teach him every night no matter the consequences. Would their paths cross in that other life? Would Kevin recognize Neil, not for who he was hiding, but for everything he’s seen in the other man for as long as he could remember? 

Recognize Neil by his blue eyes. His voice, his quick quips and sharp tongue, his hands and featherlight touches. The cheeky smiles and the dimples on either side of his face.

Then there’s the other thing.

The excitement bubbling in his chest as he came face to face with Andrew for the first time. The potential Kevin had seen and how he wanted to so badly utilize it as he knew inside and out Andrew is worth more than anyone could ever think.

Relief flooding his body when Andrew promised to stand between Kevin and the Moriyamas. To never be hurt, never be taken away again and live a life full of misery in Riko’s shadow.

Patting checks of injuries and late night practices when it was just the two of them like a secret only they ever had.

It’s ridiculous, really. How his mind and his body associates the smell of cigarette smoke to Andrew. The cliché of it all as Kevin compares the sunrise to hazel eyes.

Kevin thinks the irony isn’t lost on him.

How well Andrew and Neil look together like the sunlight against the blue sky or the changing colorful leaves to the fall season. The effortless way they communicate silently with matching armbands, a fire in Neil’s gaze and the slightest twitch of amusement to Andrew’s smileless lips.

Just like day and night.

We’re all born with something missing, so that we can find someone else to complete us, his mother once said so long ago. Kevin still believes it but living tends to carve out holes in everyone and it makes it easy to need more than one person.

He hopes it all goes away.

“You know, I always look for him,” Kevin says quietly, leaning forward with his elbows on his thighs and he rubs his palms together. It’s an ache in his chest he can’t seem to get rid of. A void in his stomach that never goes away—it doesn’t matter what Kevin is stressed over because it’s there. It’s always there. “Even when I pretend I don’t care, I do. I care so much, I don’t know what to do.”

He sighs and peers over his shoulder to look at Thea sitting beside him. Her leg is crossed over the other, a thoughtful expression on her face as she listens. Kevin, though, didn’t come to her for advice but a peace of mind. To get it off his chest so it doesn’t affect his game on court. He’s not entirely sure if there’s anything to say about this.

Kevin can’t let anything go into ruin. He’d rather die than let that happen because he’d lose them both. It’s never one or the other, not when he wants something that’s his and could never be taken away. The scars on his hand and the two on his cheek made sure to engrave all of that into his soul.

“Are we talking about Neil? Or Andrew?” Thea asks and Kevin looks away. His silence answers her question and she places a tentative hand on his forearm. The touch draws his eyes back to her and he wishes he didn’t. He can’t stand that look in her eye. “It’s both, isn’t it? My god, Kevin.”

“I know.”

God, does he know.

Kevin drops his face into his hands.

It is incredibly easy to need someone but the cruelty of that, in which no one ever tells you about, is how excruciating it can be to need and want someone that isn’t yours the way you want them to be.

Kevin can practice and practice and burn himself down to the embers of his soul on the court until his stupid heart can give out but he will never have what he’s wishing for. Not here in this lifetime, not in the society where remaining heterosexual is easier, not when his entire life has been faced with cameras and articles.

Not when there’s countless people watching him at every turn.

In this moment, he finds himself wishing his mother was still alive to soothe him, offer reassurance or advice on how to navigate this issue because he has to be careful and watch what he says before it crumbles before him and he’ll need to start over.

“How did this happen?” Thea asks, carefully pulling Kevin’s hands away from his face before he has the thought to start spiraling in public.

Kevin shrugs helplessly with too many circumstances pounding at the doors of his mind, to allow his heart in and take control of the wheel, to guard the goal of logic and self-destruction. “I don’t know. It was easy to pretend it was nothing, that it is nothing, but I— It has to be nothing, Thea. I can’t have it not be nothing.”

“I can’t tell you what to do, Kevin. You can vent your frustrations. You can drink until you make yourself sick. You can try and fuck your way out of this but I can’t tell you what to do. I know you didn’t come to me for help so why are you asking me to help you?”

“I wasn’t,” Kevin sighs out.

“You implied it. I won’t tell anyone, you know that. And you also know that saying this out loud makes it into a bigger problem that you will need to fix,” Thea says without missing a beat, as harsh as she can but as supportive as she could be. Kevin appreciates the lack of sugar coating, though, she could’ve told him what he wanted to hear and they’d be parting in separate directions.

Kevin can’t talk about this to anyone.

Wymack seemed to pick up on it not that long ago and speaking as a coach—Kevin had to handle it, but speaking as a newly found father—Kevin could confess and request the advice he needs.

But it’s not the same as they’re still navigating the tightrope of their relationship.

It’s something only a mother could understand.

Kevin stands abruptly, brushing off Thea’s hands trying to pull him back and he doesn’t spare her glance. He merely shakes his head and inhales deeply. “I’m aware it’s a bigger fucking problem. It would’ve been easier if it was like what I had with you.”

“Kevin,” Thea scoffs and grips his arm to spin him around and face her. She rises to her feet as well and a frown settles over her face with furrowed brows and a narrowed glare. “Don’t walk away angry. You should’ve known what it would cost you if you got too involved. It might not be like what we had but it’s all the same, isn’t it? Don’t tell me you’re that stupid.”

“Should’ve known,” Kevin echoes and waves his hand around dismissively. “It’s not easy, Thea. I wasn’t in love with you.”

His words startle them both into still and stiff stances. Thea’s lips part and Kevin’s eyes widen.

Oh.

Is that what this feeling is?

The explanation for these dreams he has of them, daydreams and fleeting thoughts of what could be and what couldn’t be. The meaning to play with what if’s and obsessively watch over Andrew or Neil or the two of them when they’re in the same room. Is to love with a traitorous heart to believe the best of them, to act as a stepping stone to their victory and have a hand in crafting their futures because he only wants what’s best for them? Is to admire with wandering eyes tracking each and every mistake they make on court to help them work through it and grind it down into nothing so no one else can ever take advantage of them where they can feel somewhat safe away from what haunts them?

Is to speak with bitten lips as he glances once, then twice, then countless times in wonder of how it’d feel to have taste them on his tongue and swallow the sounds of their voices to always know it and always remember until the end of time?

Yes, he should have known what it would cost him for becoming too involved and too attached but the Foxes weren’t like the Ravens and sometimes, when speaking to Thea, he defaults to that mindset.

Kevin could ignore it before but he could never take those words back no matter how much he prayed and begged a god that would never listen. 

“You idiot,” Thea whispers and pushes at his shoulder harshly. “You idiot.”

“Don’t. Just…don’t.”

next

[bisexualcroissant]

thinking about jean and neil being misplaced forever partners and haunting the narrative of each other’s respective main pov. there’s something so tragically poetic about it. they’re each other’s “in another life, maybe” except there is no another life, because only in this draft does jean stay alive. (but wouldn’t it have changed things? if neil had been there by his side?) jean knowing it was foolish, but wondering it anyway: what if? what if he stays? nora saying that neil would have stayed at the nest for jean. neil playing with the foxes as a living reminder of jean’s shattered promise, the ghost of what they would have been: neil’s 3 to jean’s 4, raised side by side, suffering together rather than alone.

he was jean’s misplaced forever partner, an unfulfilled promise jean had stopped believing in years ago.

— and neil’s quiet “jean” gave him a line to follow home.

[emry-stars-art]

Ok life cycle of a jelly mer is a GO. I’ll stick it under the cut in case anyone doesn’t want to see the lil development/newborn stuff

BUT before that since I know at least a few people are going to ask; yes, you can hold tiny baby medusa Neil, it can’t even sting you yet. Just a lil tingle

(Shout out to @the-tortoise-lady for the idea of baby Neil with no common sense or self awareness being very certain it both can and will eat that thing it found wading in the water near the beach (fisherman Andrew))

So normal jellyfish polyps grow into what looks like little stacked saucers or plates and when one breaks off it grows into the actual medusa we all know. So like. I’m just imagining the upper body/human part of the mer grows inside more like two cups stacked together, and there’s only one per polyp (i don’t even know if regular polyps have multiple discs break off tbh).

But according to some v quick research and not being able to find specifically Sea Nettle reproductive cycle, I am declaring their polyps the average size of Small (about an inch/3cm or something close) and their baby medusae have A LOT of growing to do :D

[kevinsdsy]

haven’t outright started the brocedes inspired kevjean fic but i've been collecting some brocedes moments i want to include in the fic and worked into adding some details for infamous are you a better driver now moment we all know soooo enjoy hehe

[that-sure-is-a-person]

Look I haven’t gotten round to the sunshine court yet it’s on my shelf as I’m typing staring at me, but with everything I’ve seen though osmosis of just existing here all I can think about is Neil and Jean as the song two birds on a wire.

[smile-dance-breathe]

Here’s my golden raven bingo

[kevindavidday]

Twinyards Timeline:

Ages have been adjusted due to them being born in November. For e.g., they would turn 12 in 1998 but would spend majority of 1999 as 12 year olds.

November 4, 1986: Andrew and Aaron are born a few minutes apart. (Andrew is older.)

November 5, 1986: Tilda Minyard gives both of the twins away

November 12, 1986: Tilda takes Aaron back, leaving Andrew to foster care.

November - December, 1986: Andrew is registered as Andrew Doe in the foster system

1994: Andrew (Age 7) is sexually assaulted for the first time

1999 (January - October):

Andrew (Age 12) is moved to the Cass & Richard Spear's household (12th foster home.)

His foster brother, Drake Spear is somewhere between the ages of 18-28 as he has already joined the Marines.

Drake's abuse towards Andrew begins.

November 1999:

Aaron (Age 13) and Tilda Minyard go from San Jose to Oakland to meet her boyfriend at a Raiders game.

Aaron finds out about Andrew through Officer Higgins.

Officer Higgins gives Tilda's number to Cass Spear, who calls to set up a meet and greet, which Tilda declines.

Drake begins to threaten Aaron which makes Andrew disinterested in meeting him.

Aaron goes behind Tilda's back to contact Officer Higgins. He gives his information for them to pass along to Andrew.

Andrew sends back a letter which 'basically' says "Fuck you. Go away."

Aaron withdraws his attempts at communication (being the first to respect a rejection from Andrew)

Cass writes to Aaron telling him to try again in spring.

March 2002: Andrew (Age 15) goes to juvie in an attempt to get away from Drake. He begins to play Exy at juvie.

May 2002: Aaron moves from San Jose to Columbia

2003:

Luther Hemmick flies to California to meet the Spears and Andrew in juvie.

A month after his visit, Luther sets up a supervised 30 minute meeting between the twins (Age 16) where they meet for the first time.

2004:

Andrew (Age 17) receives early parole and Luther convinces Tilda to take him in.

Andrew confirms Tilda is abusing Aaron. He makes a 'no girlfriends' deal with Aaron till highschool graduation. Tilda's abuse continues.

A few months after staying with them, he stages a car crash in which Tilda passes away.

Nicky (Age 20) returns from Germany and takes up role as the twins legal guardian.

Andrew locks Aaron in the bathroom as a DIY rehab attempt.

Andrew beats up 4 people, almost killing them, and is put on medication and court-ordered therapy.

Early 2005:

Kevin approaches Andrew with an offer to join the Ravens which he rejects.

Wymack approaches Andrew, Aaron & Nicky with an offer to join the Foxes.

Fall 2005:

Andrew, Aaron & Nicky join the Foxes. Andrew and Aaron extend their deal to college graduation.

December 2005: Kevin arrives with a broken hand

2006:

Andrew makes a deal to protect Kevin.

Andrew gut punches Neil Josten with a borrowed racquet.

Thirteens:

1) Aaron and Nicky are simultaneously Andrew's thirteenth and first family.

2) The twins are thirteen when they meet.

3) Betsy is Andrew's thirteenth therapist.

Unknowns:

1) The pace at which Andrew's foster homes were switched.

2) When Aaron began to play Exy, presumably to stay out of the house to avoid Tilda.

3) When Andrew began to hurt himself.

Other Timelines: Kevin Day, Jean Moreau & Neil Josten (234)

[its-aftg]

AFTG years

I'm tired of trying to find all this lol source sited with * in the timeframe that relates to the text the most. Some of these feel like putting a logic puzzle together. (so blessed by the last page of TSC)

2002-2003

Foxes

Seth - Freshman

Ravens

Thea - Junior

2003-2004

Foxes

Seth - Sophomore

Dan - Freshman (Captain)

Allison - Freshman

Renee - Freshman

Trojans

Jeremy - Freshman

Laila - Freshman

Ravens

Thea - Senior

(Summer Olympics)

2004-2005

Foxes

Seth - Junior

Dan - Sophomore (Captain)

Allison - Sophomore

Renee - Sophomore

Matt - Freshman

Trojans

Jeremy - Sophomore

Laila - Sophomore

Ravens

Thea - 5th year Senior *TRK ch 10

Riko - Freshman

Kevin - Freshman *TRK ch 10

Jean - Freshman

2005-2006

Foxes

Seth - Senior

Dan - Junior (Captain)

Allison - Junior

Renee - Junior

Matt - Sophomore

Andrew - Freshman *TFC ch 1

Aaron - Freshman *TFC ch 1

Nicky - Freshman *TFC ch 1

Kevin (spring) - Sophomore

Trojans

Jeremy - Junior (Captain) *TKM ch 16

Laila - Junior

Cat - Freshman

Ravens

Riko - Sophomore (signs with court 2005 *TFC ch 13)

Kevin (fall)- Sophomore *TKM ch 14 (signs with court 2005 *TFC ch 13)

Jean - Sophomore

2006-2007 (TFC/TRK/TKM)

Foxes

Seth - 5th year Senior *TFC ch 7

Dan - Senior (Captain) *TFC ch 3/TRK ch 7

Allison - Senior *TFC ch 3

Renee - Senior *TFC ch 3/TFC ch 6/TRK ch 7

Matt - Junior *TFC ch 5

Andrew - Sophomore

Aaron - Sophomore

Nicky - Sophomore *TRK ch 7

Kevin - Junior

Neil - Freshman *TFC ch 1

Trojans

Jeremy - Senior (Captain)

Laila - Senior

Cat - Sophomore

Ravens

Riko - Junior

Jean - Junior *TKM ch 16

2007-2008 (TSC/TGR)

Foxes

Dan - 5th year Senior (Captain) *TKM ch 9

Allison - 5th year Senior *TKM ch 9

Renee - 5th year Senior *TKM ch 9

Matt - Senior

Andrew - Junior

Aaron - Junior

Nicky - Junior

Kevin - Senior

Neil - Sophomore

Trojans

Jeremy - 5th year Senior (Captain) *TSC ch 16

Laila - 5th year Senior *TSC ch 16

Cat - Junior *TSC ch 16

Jean - Senior *TSC ch 16

(Summer Olympics)

2008-2009

Foxes

Matt - 5th Year Senior

Andrew - Senior

Aaron - Senior

Nicky - Senior

Kevin - 5th Year Senior

Neil - Junior (Captain)

Trojans

Cat - Senior

Jean - 5th Year Senior

[palmettoshitposts]

it’s probably full of mistakes and fucks with even our own fanon but you lot seemed to enjoy the last one so have fun with this 🧡

[saywhatyouwillbut]

when andrew decides to pick up reading to pass the time on roadies in the pro leagues, that man is not reaching for litfic or ya. the first book he picks up is pride and prejudice and zombies

[liaisun]

the first shrek movie came out when neil was 13. presumably, neil was still in europe at this time. the movie came out on VHS and DVD later that year. it also premiered sporadically on the HBO tv channel starting in 2002. with this: