#andrew minyard the man that you are

[crisisthegirl]

listen listen listen. every day i am baffled by andrew minyard. he’s the best exy player in the world. not the best goalie. he’s the best there is. ever. he’s better than neil, better than jean. he’s better than Kevin. even kevin knows. andrew couldn’t give less of a fuck about exy he plays out of pure spite and jesus fuck he’s the best. he’s the best. he’s incredible in court. a miracle. he’s insane. i’m just- jesus fuck every day he makes my head spin..

[lemonboyjosten]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDREW MINYARD, MY HONEYBUNCH SUGARPLUM PUMPKIN SWEETIEPIE CUPCAKE GUMDROP APPLE OF MY EYE GIRL DINNER BREAKFAST LUNCH BABYCAKES!!!

[inafieldofstarflowers]

i love matt boyd bc he spends the whole series pre-baltimore trying to give neil openings to tell him he has a thing for andrew and likely trying to figure out how to say “i support the fact that you like men but i think we need to talk about your taste,” and then baltimore happens and he’s like “oh nvm i don’t have to get into all that, i get it now”

like yes it is very funny how many times he aggressively side eyes neil and unsubtly prompts him to talk about his feelings, but it’s also so genuinely sweet how much effort he puts into being a safe person for neil to talk to if he wants or needs it, and how seeing the strength of andrew’s care for neil is enough to change his mind about them being together

[joejhang]

andrew is so real for thinking neil is a hallucination cos now that we have outsider pov on him it's actually insane that he's a real person. like this is neil josten: he's the prettiest boy you've ever met. he's the runaway son of a serial killer. he has a million dollars but is afraid of spending money. he folds his clothes a specific way so he can tell when someone's gone through his stuff. he keeps a stalker's journal on the two greatest exy players of all time. he wears coloured contacts and they're brown. he paid a busboy $100 to knock him out cold. he insulted a celebrity athlete on live tv after trying to keep a low profile. he says he's trying to stay alive while running towards death like it's a race. he mouths off to the mafia. he respects your boundaries and is the first person ever to take you at face value and not consider you an out of control psychopath. he orders hits on your abusers. he has the most electric blue eyes you've ever seen. he looks great in clubbing clothes but dresses like he's homeless. he insults someone for their "intricate and endless daddy issues" while his father is a convicted mobster and serial killer. he didn't give a fuck when his teammate was killed. everyone seems to like him even though it's clear he's hiding a million secrets. he doesn't catch on to the many many hints you're giving him. he calls you out not for being a danger to others but for being a danger to yourself. he thinks you should be protected as well as trusting you to protect him (and you think, how can someone be a victim and a protector?). he doesn't give a flying fuck what literally anyone thinks about him. he comes back from being waterboarded and tortured and abused for weeks (to protect you) and is still as feisty and bitchy as before. except now he's a redhead and has many more scars. he is possibly the first person to ever make the active decision to protect you. he's willing to put himself in harm's way again and again and again so he won't lose you. he always has a cigarette but he never smokes. he says "you're not actually a sociopath are you?" and "the next time someone calls you soulless i might have to fight them". even though he's messy and a little oblivious he's sees you. he might be the only person to ever want you off your drugs. he wants to see you lose control, is aware that you're not out of control, you're actually so controlled and restrained all of the time and he wants to see you feel something, he wants you to be angry, be angry at him. he riles you up on purpose to see you show emotion, feel something. he's a runner and yet he's still possibly the bravest person you've ever met. he gets kidnapped and comes back even more bruised and battered than before and he's still a mouthy little shit who bitches at the press and cuts deals with the yakuza. he's most of the reason why the worst team in the nation ends up winning championships. he shoves a guy clean off his feet because they body checked you. he punched celebrity athlete riko moriyama in public, for you. he threatens him, for you. he's almost killed on live tv. he mouths off to the fbi. he watches the (second) best exy player in the world get shot. he also watches his father, notorious serial killer and gangster, get shot in front of him. and he laughs. he smiles. he kisses you and is never gonna run again and he's free and he wants to be with you, he wants you.

[lightlytoastedcashews]

the biggest thing i took away from the short stories is how much andrew minyard cares about people. he signed onto the foxes to give aaron a chance at college. he went through with the kit to give aaron a legitimate chance at trial. he gave neil the armbands so that he wouldn’t have to look at his scars all the time. he constantly sacrifices himself for others so much so that he ends up harming himself sometimes. andrew minyard, who still gets called heartless when he has one of, if not the biggest, hearts in the series.

[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

[sylviabit-thehand]

I appreciate the fact that Kevin is canonically hot but instead of being charismatic and charming, he’s just a complete asshole and his personality will clash with everyone because screw anything that isn’t Exy.

[ashestoashes7]

They walk into a restaurant and Andrew throws his finger out randomly and declares it’s that persons birthday. Even if they had been there yesterday. Even if the person staring them down skeptically saw this exact same showdown play out fifteen times over the past two months. Even if it’s the same exact person forced into claiming it’s their birthday multiple times in a row. Sometimes it’s Aaron on the receiving end.

finally managed to introduce the towning love story for THEE sweetest you-know-i-get-itt!!

a LOT of brotherinlwawism, making coach and his kid suffer (just a little tho) nd people thirsting after Neil (cause...have you SEEN HIM????)

next time there's going to be some kevseth involved cause i found some memes that scream THEM so........be aware

[unfortunately-not-a-chip]

Tweets Part 1

[quiescentdestiny]

Getting Jean's perspective of Neil has casually reminded me that Neil really was out here in tfc acting like Andrew was insane for thinking he was a mole for the Ravens.

Like the man was so offended that Andrew would assume that, even though he spent every moment before that being completely fucking feral, having a literal shrine to Kevin and Riko in his bag at all times along with $250,000 in what amounts to cash, knew french well enough to not only yell at Kevin with no context, but say something that got Kevin to throw him against a wall in retaliation....

This is the man who had the audacity to act like Andrew's assumption that he was hired by the Moriyamas was completely unreasonable.

[itseyaaaa]

me when Wymack said this to Jean:

"(...)I know why you think you have to go back to Evermore, and I know what’s waiting for you there. I will burn this house down before I let him touch you again."

[mauvemischief]

My beloved baddest of asses boy

things nora sakavic has written that make me lose my shit every time i read them: andrew's first game with the foxes

THEY WAKE HIM UP LIKE A FUCKING SLEEPER AGENT AND JUST SEND HIM ON AND HE'S FUCKING THERE AND AARON AND NICKY KNOW EXACTLY HOW TO PLAY WITH HIM AARON IS TAKING SHOTS ON HIS OWN GOAL BECAUSE HE KNOWS ANDREW IS GOING TO DEFEND IT THE WAY THEY ALL JUST SUDDENLY KICK INTO GEAR IT MAKES ME ILL

[feelingthedisaster]

The King's Men's plot structure is genius.

TKM has been critized a lot for not following the conventional plot structure, because it doesnt end inmediatly at the resolution of the climax, like they taught us in class. But it actually has a reason behind it and it think that is what makes AFTG unique and Nora Sakavic an amazing writer. I'll explain.

So, we all know AFTG has a lot of chess metaphors, however i think it doesnt contain the metaphors, it is the metaphor. Each character represents a piece of the board (Riko king, Kevin queen, Neil pawn, Andrew knight, etc) and exy is the chess, but but but, a chess game not only involves the pieces, the game cannot exist without someone playing, the chess masters (which would be Kengo, Ichiriu, Nathan and all the mafia stuff).

So, AFTG is divided into two plots happening at the same time: what happens on the chess board (exy season) and what happens outside it (the mafia mess).

Of couse, the climax has to be about the outside out, because who cares which one of pieces move in which way if the players are pointing guns at eachother under the board? The guns are more more important. So who cares? The pieces on the board care, the ones that are being played with. And who is the narrator? The character that represents the pawn, the less important figure of the entire room.

Yeah, the 'outside of the board' plot is over half way into the book, but it doesnt matter because that happens outside the board, the chess game has not ended yet. The pawn cannot go back to rest in the box until the game is over, until the king dies. The book cannot be over until the chess game our protagonist is a piece of ends. The books have to end with the king's (Riko) death and that is exactly what happens.

If this isnt excellent writing and one of the best examples of know the rules so you can break them, i dont what is.

[blue-jos10]

‘wow dr minyard how are you so calm and patient even with the insane ones?’

‘i’ve had practice.’

[joejhang]

y'all ever think about when someone asked nora what would happen if the moriyamas killed andrew as a warning and neil crashes out SO BAD he literally ditches the "neil josten" persona just like that and reverts back to nathaniel hb pulled out ALL the stops he literally hunts down proust, goes to JAPAN just to give himself over as a HITMAN to the moriyamas' rival mafia family so he can take down the moriyama empire from there...thinking about that au. obv i would never want it to happen but GOD the power he holds.

[saintofsacrilege]

miss nora i suspect no author understands how to write complicated characters better than you do