#andrew Minyard headcanons

[allfor-thegames]

twinyard headcanons

aaron's voice is deeper than andrew's but andrew's voice is raspier.

both aaron and andrew are pickers. they'll pick at anything they can get their hands on. their nails, their cuticles, hangnails, loose thread, sticker labels. if it can be picked at, they will pick at it.

after andrew starts his medication, aaron sees all the same tics he has when he's tempted to use again show up on andrew.

andrew likes the color red. aaron likes green.

both of them slept with stuffed animals when they were younger. tilda ruined aaron's when he was 11. a foster brother ruined andrew's when he was 9. both of them remember it happening.

aaron has never had a cavity. andrew has a cavity every time he goes to the dentist.

both of them are light sleepers. when they shared a room at tilda's house, they both pretended to be asleep when the other woke them up.

andrew is better with kids than aaron is. but andrew is good with kids in the way that he doesn't treat them like kids. he talks to them the same way he talks to everyone else (but without saying fuck).

neither of them can swim. andrew's foster parents never taught him, and tilda never bothered.

both of them will pretend they are totally fine when they're sick. but aaron gets mean while andrew withdraws.

andrew is afraid of heights. aaron is afraid of deep water. both of them are afraid of dogs.

[the-s-exy-squad]

Headcanons:

Andrew Minyard

Andrew’s favorite color is not black. It’s blue/green but he never told anyone and let the assumption grow because in his mind, even that small amount of happiness would be taken if he admitted it.

I think the reason Andrew is so protective of Aaron isn’t just because he is his brother and he couldn’t protect him but also that his definition of brother differs from the normal. He sees it as “Protect. Save. Take care of.” And since he didn’t have any stable and emotionally available role models for those kinds of relationships, he is using what he knows to accomplish those meanings.

^ The deal he made with Aaron was NOT to control him but to ensure he isn’t taken advantage of by friends because his history of abuse. If he doesn’t have friends, he can’t be taken advantage of.

^^ The issue Aaron had with Katelyn stemmed specifically from their mother. Since Aaron was abused by her most of his childhood, he was afraid they’d get into the exact same relationship but romantically and we know how Andrew reacts when he’s afraid.

When Neil becomes team captain, he and Andrew kinda take in the newer classes’ Exy players. Neil is the protective and sometimes unhinged silly father while Andrew is the caring but emotionally unavailable one.

^ I also think one of the younger class’ players would get back to the dorm late and he would be standing right inside the door scaring the shit out of them deadpanning a “where’ve you been?”

^^ He also enforces that all triggers for the team be averted during practice and casual hang outs for everyone. (He threw a sandal at one of them that he pulled directly from his foot during movie night once after someone made a joke that had a “not normal” trigger in it for one of the other team mates)

Andrew is very specific about his ice cream texture. He likes all sweets for the most part but his ice cream has to be a specific texture.

^ He HATES carnival peanuts and orange slices (the candy). The texture is not a vibe and he would rather stab himself SEVERAL times.

He loves sudoko, puzzles, and logic games. His favorite are 3d puzzles that you stack the pieces to make. He had a lot of every puzzle and logic puzzle and how long it took him to beat or do it successfully.

^ Those metal fidget puzzles? He has HUNDREDS.

^^ He gives one to Neil every so often and would watch him try and figure it out. If Neil didn’t get it and asked, he’d explain. If Neil did get it, it was usually within minutes and he’d sit it in front of Andrew with a triumphant cocky grin.

His first mention of anything Drake did to him was actually in a fit of anger when Nicky got really depressed with guilt about thanksgiving.

(If he had a modern phone) His phone passcode is the day Nicky got custody. When he and Neil became dating “but not dating”, he changed it to the day he hit him with an Exy racquet.

^ When asked he’d say “the first time I took Neil’s breath away” and everyone assumed he meant the first time they fucked or something and not question it anymore. Kevin would be the only one to know but he wasn’t gonna mention he remembered that day.

His favorite animal is a deer. He likes how elegant looking does look and feels a sense of connection with him since he technically was one (by temporary last name).

His favorite number is 88. I have no reason. It just is.

He does art sometimes because Bee suggested an outlet and since he has eidetic memory, he’s able to draw pretty realistic things.

^ He keeps these locked in a desk. Nobody knows even Neil. (Who one day accidentally stumbles upon a loose drawing Andrew forgot to put up of a bird- drawn because he was stressed and wanted to leave. When he asked Andrew who drew it for him, he said he did. Neil has a new binder that is full of drawings Andrew did.)

Andrew gets a Medusa tattoo on either his shoulder blade or forearm. He’s grateful the artist didn’t ask him if he knew the meaning and left a large tip for just that with no explanation. Explanation for the tattoo, not needed.

^ He’d keep it simple and put Medusa’s head (or a graphic of it) inside a circle or some other shape because he likes to signify it’s a part of him but it’s encased in the past and he can’t change it.

He thinks about the stupid shit he laughed at and/or said while medicated and cringe sometimes. (“bee being bee”)

He is actually good at debates. Especially if he does his research on it first and will tear apart anyone he debates ANYTHING with.

^ The DEFINITION of “if I talk long enough, I can make anything right or wrong”

He doesn’t associate with Christianity or Christians but he does grow a sense of spirituality after college. He thinks that nature and sacrifice is worth appreciating and honor and although he doesn’t have a set religion or practices, he goes out for walks in the woods often and sits there sometimes to just thank nature for remaining pure and I corrupt like humanity.

^ (-kinda) After college, he starts meditating. Not like an internal analysis thing but he’d imagine his breathing being the world around him and he’d use this to relax and be calm for a while and to escape his life.

He isn’t one of Bee’s clients after college, but they still have calls where Andrew can use her as a therapist if he needs. If not, it’s just a catch up call on life.

He gets better but not in a “I don’t deal with that anymore” way but a “I deal with that every second of every day and I am this close 🤏 to stabbing everyone in the room so I am leaving (and going to mediate or stab a brick if Neil doesn’t give me something to focus on).” (He learns what tells his body gives him and what he needs to do to fix the issue based on the level of those tells.)

He had a journal that is locked in a locked box in a safe (with Neil’s art binder ) and he uses this to right down things he notices when he’s trying to figure out someone’s motives or way of thinking and has EXCEPTIONAL pattern recognition so he’d get it done pretty quick.

He gets a psychiatrist service animal.

^ He gets a dog because he decided that Sir and King are emotional support animals not his service animals because they are older and would be harder to train. He also wanted to differentiate between his psa and animals that benefit both him and Neil.

^^ His psa is trained for panic attacks, dissociating, anger management, and other things. His psa will help Neil out sometimes as well but knows his job is to take care of Andrew because Neil HAS Andrew.

^^^ Andrew got the psa because he doesn’t want to burden Neil with EVERYTHING. Or become co-dependent.

^^^^ He gets a stereotypically “aggressive breed” of dog for a psa. (Pit Bull, Boxers, etc)

I have so many more. Someone please send help. I need just one (ONE! - 1 singular day without thinking of this man)

[not-a-user-jussanidiot]

Something something thinking about the extra content where Andrew asks Neil to live together by telling him that "if he wants more than two chairs and a bed" he needs to think about all the furniture himself. Neil taking the job pretty seriously because due to his life on the run he now associates material possession with stability and he really wants to make sure this feels like a forever home and that he's not going anywhere, for once.

Neil ending up buying a bunch of stuff that he doesn't know how to build (never built furniture in his life) and Waymack coming in clutch to help, having a bonding moment with his now-fully-functional-grown-adult kid that almost died a few times and went against the fking mafia being like "what do you MEAN you don't know how to use a damn screwdriver?!!"

[tankuare]

Andrew was such a yapper when he was on his meds I like to think that when Neil and him get comfortable in their relationship he goes right back to yapping 24/7

[disastersappho]

the sunshine court really put the original trilogy in a new light bc we finally see just. regular college students. they go to get boba. they have a cute gay apartment. they actually go to classes. and then we have jean, neil, andrew, kevin, and the rest of the foxes who are just Not Having a Normal Time between unresolved oodles of trauma, not a single stable home life in sight, oh also and the literal mafia. — their metric for being Okay is just,,, not helpful. but trying to picture jean just like— in my econ section. hanging out at someone’s bday party on a saturday in socal. my man holding a corona and having no idea what to do with his hands. i cannot.

[yourgalgremlin]

The Monsters would have clocked Andrew’s crush on Neil from the way that man willingly wasted his cigarettes on him.

Just imagine Aaron, Nicky, & Kevin watching Andrew light Neil his Emotional Support Cigarette™️ for the first time. Andrew, who doesn’t share anything. Whose pack of cigarettes is on the “do not touch” list with his car keys. Who’s pulled a knife on ppl for grabbing his lighter (including Nicky.) Who just…lights this 5’3 ginger a “just to hold” cigarette, like it’s nothing, like it’s normal.

They wouldn’t be able to keep their shit together. They’d ask Neil what his intentions are, someone would get maimed, there would be blood everywhere. It would be chaos.

[0bnoxious0range]

Neil strikes me as the kind of person that just like doesn’t blush. Like yeah sure he may get embarrassed a little at the Foxes’ dropped jaws when yet another pop culture reference flys over his head, but he’s so desensitized to things most people can’t fathom that I feel like he would never get flustered enough for his skin to flush.

But. Maybe it does happen sometimes.

Like when Neil complains that he feels like his feet are gonna fall off after night practice and Andrew just. picks him up. Bridal style with a deadpan face and bored eyes like he picks Neil up all the time. And Neil’s face goes red in seconds because he’s never been picked up and it was Andrew doing the picking up.

Or when Andrew shampoos his hair in the shower and takes great care not to get any shampoo in his eyes and Neil pinks at the sweetness that Andrew will deny later.

Or when Andrew insists on Neil actually using the curling gel Allison got him because his frizzy curls extend “a mile off his head”. Neil blushes when Andrew comes into the bathroom with him (cause he knows fuck all about taking care of his hair) and stares while he applies fumbles with the gel.

TLDR, I like the idea that Andrew is the only one that can truly fluster Neil and Neil is the only one who can fluster turn Andrew’s ears slightly red in turn.

[feelingthedisaster]

little hc that andrew knows the exy regulations book word by word (yk, edeitic memory) but pretends to not know the rules until one day kevin says something that is slightly incorrect, a miniscule error no one else would recognize, so andrew goes "well, actually..." and qoutes the rule, just to make him mad

[floretissogay]

neil and andrew rly are THAT couple that are constantly matching but not because they're trying to be cute– neil just never buys himself anything so andrew starts getting two of everything he buys

[walkingcorpse03]

i fell to my knees in kmart

[allfor-thegames]

Andrew head canons

his name is andrew. not “andy.” only Neil is allowed to get away with calling him “drew” and even then it doesn’t happen often. 

his hair was short when he returned from juvie. he purposely let his hair grow into the length and style of aaron’s. 

The twins only switch places a handful of times. It’s andrew’s idea every time.

he counts on his fingers.

if he can’t find something he likes or wants to watch when flipping through channels, he will always settle for animal planet. 

he either reads 10 books in two weeks or he doesn’t pick up a book for 3 months and there’s no in between. 

he is a big fan of uber eats. 

he has beef with doordash because his dasher canceled his order once and never uses the app again. 

he backs into a parking spot. 

he is always cold. he will always prefer to be hot than cold. 

he puts all his paychecks towards his and neil’s retirement. the cut of neil’s paycheck that doesn’t go to the moriyamas funds their daily life until then

he will never, ever admit it, but he loves to curl up behind neil at night and slot the top of his head between neil’s shoulder blades so he can feel him breathing (and also leech off neil’s heat.)

he’s more unsettled when neil is out of reach than neil is when andrew is out of reach. 

[cowpants147]

I neeedddd more Foxes on TikTok content! Them doing their own versions of trending videos and challenges like the "dress up as something that starts with your first initial challeneg"

Allison, looking ethereal dressed like a literal Greek God, glammed to the heavens: I'm Allison, I'm dressed as Aphrodite and it's the onw year anniversary of my boyfriends death so I better be the drunkest tonight.

Renee, wearing a real leather F1 jacket/jumpsuit that Allison for some reason has in her closet with a blow up steering wheel in her hand: I'm Renee, I'm a race car driver and I think Nicky might be the drunkest.

Andrew, dressed exactly the same as normal but has a stethoscope around his neck and a piece of paper saying "Aaron" duct taped to his chest just stares into the camera for 30 seconds until it's obvious Allison will not be leaving without an answer: when Kevin starts puking I'm leaving.

Once everyone has given their answer the video enda with a pic of Nicky and Kevin passed out in a bathtub together.

Or the Trauma Dump Candy salad video which goes off the rails immediately and PSU makes them take down 3 hours after posting

"Hiiiiiii, I'm Nicky and I'm a gay teenage father of two and I brought Nerd Cluster Gummies"

"I'm Aaron and instead of going to rehab my evil doppelganger locked me in a bathroom w a blanket and a weeks worth of canned food and I brought Reeces"

"I'm Allison and my parents didn't even yell at my brother when he got expelled from boarding school for having coke in his room but I got kicked out of the house when I showed up to my deb ball with a black eye and a busted lip after playing (and winning) an exy game. They didn't even ask if I was OK. And I brought cherry flavoured Twizzlers"

"I'm Neil ans whenever I burn something while cooking I have a panic attack cause I start to think about burning my mother dead body in a ditch on the beach and I brought ... Andrew what are these called? Oh, I brought sour patch kids"

"I'm Kevin, I grew up in a cult and I brought raisins" except he's body tackled by a blonde blur before he gets a chance to dump the raisins into the bowl.

Them posting stupid shit to popular sounds:

Aaron, sat on the couch, study notes laid out around him, energy drink cans littering the place: I want to sit back and enjoy my my evening when all of a sudden ...

Camera flashes across the room to Neil just minding his own business: ... I hear this aggravating, grating voice

***

The "My Shalya" sound over clips of Neil absolutely violating people.

***

Zoom up of Kevin in full Queen Day sttess mode on the sidelines of practice with the sound "yes I'm a drama queen, but it's not by choice" playing over it and when it gets the "it's genetic" part the video zooms out to show Wymaxk next to him with the exact hand on hip, stressed look on his face

***

Renee doing the "actually I do cuss a little" sound while she's getting her gear on to spar with Andrew and when it reaches the "probably fuck" portion of the audio the clip switches to her taking Andrew downnnn. And then there's a beat drop just cause.

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Another edit of Neil but with the "am I the drama? I don't think I'm drama" sound.

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Upperclassmen scrolling through news articles or flipping through sports news channels rhag are reporting on them while miming along to "is this fucking play about us"

***

Some teammates, probably upperclasmen, definitely Nicky also miming along to "I'm sorry, not everybody fits in the bad bitch genre, it's a genre, not everybody fits on the he roster" while dressed in full exy uniform, with the caption "when you're coach only recruits the most traumatised bitches"

And forcing teammates to do "day in the life" "what i eat in a day as a member of the most fucked up exy team" and "ootd" videos.

Andrew (bribed with alcohol, ice cream and ten dollars) does a What I Eat in a Day as depressed mother of 3 whose forced to play stickball. There's no sound, its just the picture carousel style w block letters next to pics of his food:

Breakfast is a massive mug of hot chocolate with half a can of squirty cream and marshmallows.

Breakfast 2 is a big bowl of whatever sugary flavour cereal that's overflowing w E Numbers and almost illegal food dye you guys have in the US.

Snack 1 is a chocolate bar.

Lunch is a slice of pizza, fries and then there's a hand forcing salad onto his plate. Andrew adds a note to this pic saying "I'm allergic to green, Kevin's trying to kill me"

Snack 2 is a an energy drink and a cigarette

Dinner is a pint of ice cream

Midnight snack is just a pic of Neil which Andrew thinks is an obvious coming out without coming out vibe but everyone is immediately worried about Neil's safety and there endals up being a Reddit thread about Andrew being a cannibal.

Then they post a follow up video of Kevin reacting to this and he just watches on in despair saying "no. no. Andrew you have a nutritionist!"

[tiftelka]

Could you even realise how badly Andrew wanted someone to be good for him, someone he can trust, that he thought he imagine a boy he met in Millport 6 month ago.

And how he was afraid and blindside to find this boy wasn’t real, when he become sober. And how he was shocked when he could still have this boy next to him.

My heart just tears apart.

[tankuare]

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

[disastersappho]

i’m cackling imagining criminal-justice-major-andrew minyard as a paralegal. like he’s simultaneously really good at his job bc of his eidetic memory. but is also an absolute asshole to attorneys. and occasionally alludes to having committed felonies.

[trashypotpiebitchybitch]

Come with me down this rabbit hole if you will. The moment we the readers find out about how much Andrew cares is the moment he says "I hate you". Because of this one "throw away" line in the first book "I don't care about exy enough to hate it".

I personally think this is the exact moment HE relieved he was in love with Neil. Because he realized he does care, he cares so much it hurts. And he hates that, he hates his feelings, he hates the fact that Neil makes him feel- makes him care.

And so he hates Neil, because he loves him, because he wants him. Because he cares for him.