“neil was much better at instigating fights than winning them” lmao no shit, boy went to the monsters’ room, yelled ‘fuck you cripple’ at kevin and then zoomed tf out of the room the moment kevin got out of his chair
EXYNETWORKCHALLENGES: july - favourite character
He’d been raised to run, to sacrifice everything and everyone to ensure his own survival. His mother had never given him ground to stand on. Maybe that was why he hadn’t been strong enough to save her in the end. A jumble of lies had nothing to fight for. But Neil Josten was a Fox. Andrew called this home; Nicky called him family. Neil wasn’t going to lose any of it.
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“You know, I get it,” Neil said. “Being raised as a superstar must be really, really difficult for you. Always a commodity, never a human being, not a single person in your family thinking you’re worth a damn off the court—yeah, sounds rough. Kevin and I talk about your intricate and endless daddy issues all the time. I know it’s not entirely your fault that you are mentally unbalanced and infected with these delusions of grandeur, and I know you’re physically incapable of holding a decent conversation with anyone like every other normal human being can, but I don’t think any of us should have to put up with this much of your bullshit. Pity only gets you so many concessions, and you used yours up about six insults ago. So please, please, just shut the fuck up and leave us alone.”
“Trying to remember fear, or trying to remember how to feel anything at all?“ Neil asked, but Andrew didn’t answer.
why is neil josten so accidentally hot and why is he so unaware of it it’s unfair
will i ever learn how to draw animals………. probably not
“I’m not as stupid as you think I am”
“And I’m not as smart as I thought I was,” Andrew said. “I know better than to do this again. Perhaps it’s the self-destructive streak in me?”
listen. listen. andrew is a space nerd. you can fight me and @happyminyards we will defend this until we’re dead. this headcanon was brought to you by late night musings with lauren n tina.
- it fits andrew so well?? bcs andrew isn’t interested in a lot of things, he doesn’t allow himself to be? but space? space is so removed, it’s almost fantastical, but it’s still real?? it can’t hurt him or come back to bite him in the ass, but it’s big and there’s a lot of stuff to know, a lot of really almost unreal seeming stuff??
- andrew who, one day, on the roof makes a noise and when neil turns to look at him just says “the iss is flying over” and neil is like?? the heck?? bcs?? why does andrew know that?? andrew just rolls his eyes and points to the bright dot quickly moving towards the horizon again.
- andrew, who points out constellations bcs neil admits that he doesn’t know any (ofc it’s not something the butcher teaches).
- neil catches him looking at pictures from the iss astronauts instagrams one day.
- andrew who totally has a twitter account just to follow neil and curiosity.
- andrew buying books on space and telling Neil random facts to distract him from panic attacks.
- one day he gets into a heated debate about the possibility of.life on other planets and Neil sheds a tear because here is his boyfriend being passionate about something that was never forced on him like exy was.
- neil buys andrew a shirt with the words “I believe” and a tiny space ship printed on them after Andrews argument about the probability of life on other planets and Andrew just gives him this withering stare and says “life on other planets is more likely to be tiny micro-organisms than it is full grown sentient beings capable of vehicular flight” but he wears it at least once a week anyway.
- andrew dragging neil wordlessly to the car one night and driving out onto some random fields to catch a meteor shower (neil teases him about this ~romantic date~, andrew shuts him up by pushing him back on the grass and kissing him).
- neil forcing everyone to watch sci fi space movies with them so andrew can grumble at the inaccuracies but also neil knows that he likes to watch the super hd space shots with all the stars.
- neil dragging andrew to a science/space museum for his birthday, though they refuse to acknowledge that it’s his birthday.
- when he has a nightmare or can’t sleep andrew will flop on the sofa with a laptop and watch documentaries, mainly ones about deep space, the furthest away you could get from the stuff haunting him. and whenever he’s okay with neil being close neil will join him, and he won’t admit it, but the feeling of neil’s breath on his collarbone probably calms him down just as much as neil degrasse tyson babbling away over eta carinae.
- when neil has a nightmare that just happens to happen in the middle of the eta aquarid meteor shower which andrew had been wanting to see from the roof, but he doesn’t want to leave neil to wake up alone and scared so he sits by the window and smokes while neil is tossing and turning behind him (he won’t wake him up bc it just disorients neil more).
- (neil wakes up eventually, realises that andrew is missing out on seeing the shower properly to stay close in case neil needs him and proceeds to drag them both up to the roof with blankets and snacks bc he refuses to take this away from andrew, even unknowingly).
SO YEAH. SPACE NERD ANDREW.