orgasmicmilkshakes:

Ngl it highkey bothers me when people dont ‘count’ neil in the same way they do renee and andrew. As if neil would have been able to survive at all if he wasnt just as brutally efficient as them. Imo its not that neil cant fight its more that he doesnt know how to fight without the intent to end the threat permanently. The idea that neil who was trained in one form of fighting or another literally his whole life couldn’t at the very least hold his own agaist them seems a little insulting.

Like the two biggest instances of neil being hurt in any significant manner are both because he let them happen for the sake of others.

Just the idea that neil is defenceless without Andrew really doesn’t sit right with me. Especially with what we know about Neil’s training with a knife and his mother’s….everything. Particularly when Andrew only has to physically protect neil once in all three books.

That being said neil is not a Brawler like I doubt his punches are Powerfull like andrews but I feel like hes also more strategic in a fight and knows how to make them damn well count he’s fast and can be ruthless as all hell so it makes sense to me ig

Although it is very true that neil is better at starting fights than finishing them. Because he is an idiot who doesnt decide that hmmm maybe he shouldn’t antagonize people with far more connections than him.