#he found neil

[tessasilverswan]

I think Nicky would enjoy gasping "oh mein Gott" in dramatically exaggerated outrage. One day just for fun Neil anticipates it and beats him to it with an even more dramatic "oh mon Dieu" and it starts a (lighthearted) challenge to see who can say it more ridiculously in any language.

They agree it's Aaron when one day Neil is nagging him and Aaron snaps the most exasperated "oh my God" ever known to mankind.

[d4rkshad0w]

imagine how heartbroken Matt must’ve been when he found out Neil was moving out and Aaron was moving into the dorm

[iamthebonecarver]

Honestly fuck all the florist/coffee shop AUs! I WANT CORPORATE ACCOUNTANT I LOVE MATH NEIL JOSTEN AND SOME TYPE OF CORPORATE GOTH JUSTICE FOR ALL ANDREW MINYARD goddamn it

The angst alone…

[stabbyfoxandrew]

The monsters have these. Neil's just says "NEIL" which is close enough.

[silna-pdf]

Don’t like this guy but Neil Newbon is.. nice to look at to say the least

[kevindavidday]

i need andrew to be sitting stoicly next to neil as they watch a re-run of one of andrew's best matches and i need andrew to score a goal by shooting across the entire court and i need neil to lose his mind like "did you see that?!?!? holy shit this goalkeeper guy is fucking amazing. i bet he fucks hard" and andrew (the goalkeeper guy in question) is just staring at neil like -.-

[koldefingre]

They are so not father son in the way that they so are father son. Yk?

[tiny-planet-13]

headcanon that Neil didn't even dye his hair to fit in he just really fucking hated his natural colour so when he returns from the raven's nest and everyone is like where tf has this kid been thinking they're gonna actually find out the real Neil and he's there like FUCK, who cares if I'm the butchers son now they're all gonna know I'm ginger

[vyl]

This reminded me so much of the way Neil got ahold of his keys and how he traced them again and again because it meant he belonged somewhere. Jeremy getting Jean that first shirt was proof he didn't have to conform anymore. He had someone to rely on. Y'all I'm crying

[this-simplefeeling]

beelzebub and gabriel are one of those rare cases where one person asks "would you still love me if i were a bug" and their partner says "yes" and it's actually genuinely true

[toddtakefive]

I thrash around like those inflatable tube men every time I remember that Neil literally just wanted to act, no matter if he had his parents permission or not. Possibly the most harmless way a teenage boy could rebel, and it was successfully twisted into a tale of obsession, and deception, and malicious defiance. So successfully, in fact, that I see some people who watched the movie call it that. It was just acting.

[innerxsanctum]

Who am I and what will I turn out to be?

[bisexualchaosdemon]

The Foxhole Court, ch. 4

The Raven King, ch. 16

I'm fine.

[moonsnqil]

i feel like if aftg were real and after andrew goes pro there would definitely be twitter threads with people being like "why you shouldn't support andrew minyard:" and the first post would be something like "he threatened a waiter" or "he called my wife a bitch when we were at a bar" etc etc i just think andrew would definitely be one of those celebrities that so many people have horror stories about

[metaforth]

Half the time when I find out about some famous person being a horrible monster it's because I came across some random fanpost defending them. Like "John McShanks did nothing wrong, you don't understand he wasn't all that closely associated with the Puppy Pulverizing Plant™. Don't you remember all the charity work he did? All the make a wish kids he visited? Obviously he can't be a bad person. Even if he's sorta close to the Puppy Pulverizing Plant™ that doesn't really matter." And like 6,000,000 more words but all my brain can focus on is "The fucking WHAT Plant™?".

Then I google it to see wtf they were talking about and there's pictures of the PPP™ and financial statements for the PPP™ signed by John McShanks and pictures of John McShanks at the grand opening of the PPP™ and videos of him singing the praises of the PPP™ and if that one random guy didn't defend John McShanks I would never have found out what a horrible person he is.

[ninyard]

not to disagree with the ninverse on main but, hear me out

Aaron and Neil are friends. Which means!!!!!!!! once Neil has to testify to what he saw, knowing that's what will/could actually prove to the jury that it was 'a justified murder' or something

he does.

he doesn't bat an eye.

literally wymack/Abby/Dan will go to him being like 'hey I know you don't like cops and don't want to talk but if you testified--"

Neil: no doubt, I'll do it.

AND HE DOES. He swears on the oath, not once does he say his full name because lying under oath even on one small detail could literally invalidate whatever he says, he says everything he has witnessed (and he's allowed to say post-discourse with the lawyer I guess+discussion with Andrew to ask for his boundaries on how much he can tell about what he saw) and not once is he a problem.

a menace? always. hell always be sassy and slightly annoying because thats who he is.

but he is the most helpful and everyone is like do you not hate him and Neil is like hjfdhfYES but I'd do the same if I could

and AAAAA yk

that's my HC anyway you can disregard this in the ninverse

OH NO the ninverse (i love that) agrees 100%

the funny hc is that neil is an awful witness. terrible. doesn’t answer anything, too awkward, can’t do it. acab uncooperative etc etc. pissed off the lawyers so much that they don’t have him on the stand for longer than 60 seconds.

the truth (my hc of it anyway) is that neil NEEDS to be there, and he needs to tell the truth. i don’t know about how much he talks about his relationship to andrew, but i think neil is hugely the reason aaron gets off. without neil he simply wouldn’t. neil handing him the racquet is the difference between premeditated murder and whatever the other option is. neil knowing who drake was, leading aaron up the stairs, breaking down that door - it’s all integral to aaron’s defense. so truthfully i do actually believe that neil does EVERYTHING he can to help, and that includes talking A LOT. probably talks the most out of any witness. but neil has such a compelling and intelligent way with words that i think him alone could’ve convinced the jury you know??