aftg au where everything is the same but neil dabs each time he roasts someone
Tag: tfc
Title: time and tide (might just wait for you)
Pairing: Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard
Rating: T
Warnings: Discussions of death, mentions of self-harm, mentions of sexual assault, none of which are graphic.
Summary:
A fact: Andrew is biding his time until death.
He counts the hours left in a day, the minutes left in an hour, the seconds between sunrise and sunset. The world keeps turning, and with it, he wakes up, he eats, he smokes, he plays a sport he doesn’t care about, he guards his things, he keeps his promises, he breathes. Each intake of breath ticks off the time he has left – the space between him and death.
But against his will, his clock begins to run on a different schedule.
(or: Andrew versus life and Dr. Dobson, an act in eight parts)
Title: time and tide (might just wait for you)
Pairing: Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard
Rating: T
Warnings: Discussions of death, mentions of self-harm, mentions of sexual assault, none of which are graphic.
Summary:
A fact: Andrew is biding his time until death.
He counts the hours left in a day, the minutes left in an hour, the seconds between sunrise and sunset. The world keeps turning, and with it, he wakes up, he eats, he smokes, he plays a sport he doesn’t care about, he guards his things, he keeps his promises, he breathes. Each intake of breath ticks off the time he has left – the space between him and death.
But against his will, his clock begins to run on a different schedule.
(or: Andrew versus life and Dr. Dobson, an act in eight parts)
ok but the shower scene (and the scene preceding it) in TKM is so important to me?? and it ain’t just about the bj. first, andrew was prodding neil’s hoodie to see if he was wearing anything underneath and it’s so cute but then! andrew could’ve just let neil wrap himself up with the garbage bags and tape but no,, andrew does it for him, and he does a damn good job too (neil was prepared for pain when he stepped under the shower but was surprised that he didn’t feel a twinge of pain at all like scuse me while i cry about andrew’s meticulousness). and ofc andrew proceeds to wash neil’s hair efficiently and gently (these are canon words, mind you. do you ever cry because andrew is being gentle). BUT what kills me is that andrew takes off his arm bands??? ok so a couple of things: if he was wearing short sleeves, it meant that he was letting neil see his scars. second, even if he was wearing long sleeves, do you realize that he took off his arm bands, you know, the things he carries his knives around in. his weapons. he is letting himself be unarmed in front of neil and im like??? and ofc we have the scene where andrew is only in a towel (and probably his wet pants) while he dries neil and helps him put on clothes…..im just…..do you ever just wanna cry and die
if i love andrew minyard any more than i already do i’d be neil josten
ok but andrew and neil are that couple who splits their oreos – andrew licks off the cream and neil eats the wafers
is nobody going to talk about this?? like, andrew’s pettiness has always been obvious, especially in scenes like when he threw neil’s keys off the roof, but this one is gold imo. he forgoes the chance to make out and share a moment of privacy with neil because he’s full of spite and doesn’t want to accept any “help” from nicky, especially not in matters of his not-relationship. like. andrew. my boy
deadass one of my fav moments in TKM is when neil shoves kevin against the door because kevin won’t stop bitching about neil’s attitude and his hobby of antagonizing riko and andrew cleanly side-steps outta the way like andrew had attacked matt for hitting kevin but neil is more than welcome to take a go at day lmao
ok so like we know that neil is a multi-lingual who can learn new languages like nobody’s business right. and in canon he knows english french german and spanish, and in the extra content we find out that he learns russian with andrew later on. so like after he’s fluent in russian he decides to learn japanese bc he figures it’ll come in handy when he’s dealing with the moriyamas and whatever but mostly he does it because he wants to terrorize kevin. like
- one day kevin is bitching and cursing in japanese during practice and neil just slides in beside him and says, in japanese, “you shouldn’t swear so much, kevin” and kevin blinks and just. doesn’t know who he wants to punch more, himself or neil
- after he gets over the shock of neil knowing japanese, he rolls with it ok so w/e it just means that they can communicate in another language now
- and andrew is Suffering because now kevin and neil can argue about Exy in english, french, AND japanese
- kevin and neil going over progress reports about the freshmen’s training with wymack and kevin saying “everything is going according to keikaku”. neil, turning to wymack, “keikaku means plan”
- kevin accidentally telling neil, in slurred japanese when he’s had a bottle vodka, that he’s actually a closet weeb in addition to being a history nerd
- watching anime w/o subtitles together and criticizing and rating the anime they watch on a scale of how much of a mistake each one is. miyazaki did not retire for all the boob and panty shots
- “one day they’ll make an Exy anime, i just know it.” “kiss kiss bang your head on the plexiglass”
- misspelling エクシ (e-ku-shi) as エクツ (e-ku-tsu) and kevin complaining about neil’s incompetence for an hour
- “kevin does thea know about all of your waifus”
- kevin’s favorite j-pop singers are all Johnny’s boy-bands and one day he plays the songs because now neil can appreciate his taste in japanese songs as well and then nicky googles the bands and sees that they all consist of pretty boys and nicky is just kev,, sweetie,, ,
ok so like we know that neil is a multi-lingual who can learn new languages like nobody’s business right. and in canon he knows english french german and spanish, and in the extra content we find out that he learns russian with andrew later on. so like after he’s fluent in russian he decides to learn japanese bc he figures it’ll come in handy when he’s dealing with the moriyamas and whatever but mostly he does it because he wants to terrorize kevin. like
- one day kevin is bitching and cursing in japanese during practice and neil just slides in beside him and says, in japanese, “you shouldn’t swear so much, kevin” and kevin blinks and just. doesn’t know who he wants to punch more, himself or neil
- after he gets over the shock of neil knowing japanese, he rolls with it ok so w/e it just means that they can communicate in another language now
- and andrew is Suffering because now kevin and neil can argue about Exy in english, french, AND japanese
- kevin and neil going over progress reports about the freshmen’s training with wymack and kevin saying “everything is going according to keikaku”. neil, turning to wymack, “keikaku means plan”
- kevin accidentally telling neil, in slurred japanese when he’s had a bottle vodka, that he’s actually a closet weeb in addition to being a history nerd
- watching anime w/o subtitles together and criticizing and rating the anime they watch on a scale of how much of a mistake each one is. miyazaki did not retire for all the boob and panty shots
- “one day they’ll make an Exy anime, i just know it.” “kiss kiss bang your head on the plexiglass”
- misspelling エクシ (e-ku-shi) as エクツ (e-ku-tsu) and kevin complaining about neil’s incompetence for an hour
- “kevin does thea know about all of your waifus”
- kevin’s favorite j-pop singers are all Johnny’s boy-bands and one day he plays the songs because now neil can appreciate his taste in japanese songs as well and then nicky googles the bands and sees that they all consist of pretty boys and nicky is just kev,, sweetie,, ,
Nothing but My Aching Soul 