#protective andrew

[vartoids]

neil with jean vs neil with literally anyone else

based on this post by @joejhang

[luvingsolace]

People scream that Nico deserves someone better than Will Solace as if said Will Solace doesn’t canonically serve lethal facecard, hyper intelligence and a big kind heart

[eatsbooks]

remember when andrew was actively pinning allison down prepared to deliver retribution to her for backhanding aaron and neil’s foremost thought during this incredibly tense situation was how relieved he was to see the darkness in andrew’s gaze because he was finally seeing the real andrew after weeks of nothingness post-easthaven

[adamsrcnan]

do you guys think that when neil got back home from cali he took andrew up to the roof where he sat watching him smoke and told him he put a hit out on a raven. and then andrew sat there in silence watching the sunset before asking "why?" and neil looked down fiddling with his own lit cigarette and said very quietly that this particular raven was jean's drake. do you think that andrew went very still and did not speak or smoke for such a long time that neil eventually looked up at him and was taken aback by how andrew was watching him very carefully. do you think that as andrew looked at neil he was so paralysed by the thought of jean going through that same abuse and neil putting an end to it without even thinking twice. do you think he realised his meter had officially broken and neil was so far past 100% and that he was really truly it for him

[puemort]

Real beauty is Neil napping on Andrew while Andrew wraps his arms around him and rests his chin on his head. I don't make the rules. That's just it.

[userarmand]

I'll protect you from the hooded claw Keep the vampires from your door When the chips are down I'll be around With my undying, death-defying love for you

[lamentofspring]

all of us strangers (2023), adam & harry / portrait of a boy with grief, wale ayinla / sonnet of the wreath of roses, federico garcia lorca / an oresteia, anne carson / dancing with ghosts, hania rani & patrick wilson / every poem is a child of love, marina tsvetaeva / meditation: my grief, the sun, sanna wani

[overheard-at-palmetto]

[urfavwelshie]

sometimes i just randomly think about how andrew minyard's 5'0", drugged up ass saw a crippled, pathetic 6'2" exy star begging for help and went "yep, that's a job for lil' ol' me" and proceeded to protect said 6'2" babygirl with all he's got for like the rest of his college years.

[kweenkday]

The craziest thing about Neil is that in his head, the more he did to save himself, the less he became someone worth saving. He genuinely thought he was not worth the effort. And then Andrew took one look at him and went "Yeah, so, I guess I'll burn everything to keep you safe".

[sunriseabram]

I love that Renee kicks Andrew's ass on the weekly like that man needs to be humbled

[artofalyksandr]

So what if I’m the monster lurking deep below?

Had this concept lurking in my head since like April so I finally did something about it to avoid thinking about The Horrors™️

[luvingsolace]

Protective Will agenda hasn’t failed a day since it was created, GODBLESS

[cknossian]

- Neil you...

- Orange cats...

Cat!AU

[cubbyyyy]

Neil is there to protect the one who protects them all.

Andrew always knew how to protect. He sure has his own ways that many fail to understand but the bottom line stays the same.

With Neil coming into his life he gets to be something else than just the protector - which I want to talk about here.

The exy obsessed junkie who claims to only care about his own survival is the first one who sees beyond Andrews play - who sees that Andrew doesn’t take care of himself at all. Too busy keeping an eye on everyone to care about what happens to his own self. And Neil hates it furiously.

So Neil puts Andrew first.

Starting with his health. Exy is important to Neil but he knows Andrew needs to get off the drugs first. The foxes found it easier to deal with Andrew while he’s on drugs, so they didn’t put much effort into changing that - Neil though. Neil saw what the drugs did to Andrew. So they had to get rid off it as fast as possible.

So he makes a deal. He gives up a piece of a truth, gives a promise and makes him go take care of himself.

He punches Riko because he couldn’t stop himself.

He agrees to go to Evermore - he agrees to torture just to keep Andrew save.

Afterwards he refuses to back down his care after being explicitly told to. “If it means loosing you then no”.

After being brutally tortured, one of the first things he does is inspecting Andrews bruises. Inspecting Andrews bruises the same way Andrew inspects his. “All that time fighting and you never learned how to duck?”

He told the cops off when they indicated getting Andrew off him “you’ll what, asshole?”

He was there in a heartbeat the second Andrew got pushed in the final game. And only backed off after checking Andrew was really alright.

For the first time Andrew has someone who has his back the same way he had the backs of everyone else for years. Andrew is fiercely protective and for the first time he is fiercely protected too.

“You are a pipe dream.”

[stick-ball]

Happy Women's Day to all who celebrate