Nicky Hemmick, #8, backliner, social media: instagram
Tag: the foxes
Andreil at a theme park headcanons
This is a very belated pinch-hit for @captain-ferid for @aftgexchange. I’m so sorry it’s so late, and I hope you like!
- The Foxes are brainstorming where to go on vacation
post-canon – or rather, Nicky ropes Neil inot a discussion he’s having with the
girls, Matt and Aaron as he’s on his way back to the room he shares with Kevin
and Andrew- Allison tries to book something insanely expensive for them
all again, but Dan puts her foot down on that – taking Neil away for his first
proper vacation had been an exception, which means that they need to find something
that they can all afford- It’s Matt who suggests a theme park, one he’s been to with
his mom before.- Aaron scoffs at the idea – it’s totally lame, right? But it
turns out he’s never actually been to one before (not exactly one of Tilda’s priorities)- (Neither has Neil, or Andrew, or Kevin, they all realise)
- Nicky enthusiastically pumps up the idea before the mood can
plummet too far as everyone contemplates their terrible childhoods, and points
out that they can totally make a few days out of it, with the theme park and
waterpark combined- Neil shrugs – he doesn’t really know anything about them,
but it sounds like fun? He’ll ask Andrew- Matt and Allison immediately make a bet on whether it will
be Andrew or Kevin who nixes the idea (Nicky points out that Neil’s going to
ask him, so of course Andrew will agree)- In their room, Kevin’s watching Exy (on his laptop with his
headphones in, because Andrew had complained about being subjected to enough of
the stupid sport already on the big TV) and Andrew is smoking and reading on
the windowsill- Neil goes to Andrew first, who seems largely apathetic but
agrees pretty quickly
- Occasional
adrenaline rushes? Shitloads of junk food? Very little actual effort to do
anything required? Sounds like a good vacation to him- Kevin does live up to expectations, and mutters about how it’s
a total waste of time and money to spend all day queueing up for things but
Neil reminds him that this is a few days away in Carolina, and insinuates that
the two weeks away in Europe Allison wanted to do is their second choice at the
moment- So they rock up – Allison buys them fast passes to
everything even though Dan protests, saying that it’s her choice so that she
doesn’t have to wait in line with them for hours and hours- Andrew immediately gets one of those free refill popcorn
buckets and locks eyes with Kevin as he inhales half of it, using his hand as a
shovel- It’s pretty hot weather, so Neil ties one of his Exy bandanas
around his hair
- Normally the bandana is accompanied
by disgusting hair dripping with sweat but now it just makes Neil’s hair ruffle
attractively in the breeze- Also he
rolls the sleeves of his t-shirt up to reveal his shoulders and biceps- Andrew is
Suffering™- He deals
with it by keeping a blank face and as we all know, our boy Andrew has resting
bitch face to the point where Neil leans in and asks if he doesn’t want to go
on the rollercoaster after all
5/?
“Nicky, add me to your stupid Neil chat. I don’t love him, but I have something I need to send to it.”
The “we love neil” chat originally comes from @local-astronaut’s a look into Matt’s phone post. She was sweet enough to let me turn this into a series, so please check out her original post too and give it some love!
(Also, seriously check out @local-astronaut’s blog and her a look into the Foxes’ phones series because it is soooo good)
ppl have been tagging my recent art as foxpile and this was all i could think of tbh
they sleep
look say what you will about Aaron Minyard but he joined that Fox-pile sleepover when the Foxes get back from Baltimore. Like he slept on the floor with all his teammates for NEIL and as far as i recall having read this series at least 8K times he never makes a single noise of protest about it.
I’M JUST SAYING.
#I’m crying#you’re fucking right though#Aaron seriously does not like neil#but his family and his friend were hurting#the foxes needed that night just as much as Neil did#they needed to know 100% that Neil wasn’t going anywhere#not again#after watching Andrew start to fray like an unraveled string#aaron#angry hateful spiteful aaron#knows that Andrew needs to be with Neil until he knew the danger had passed#until the ghost of fear and desperation and uselessness was gone from his body and mind#but Aaron also knows that yes the foxes needed the physical comfort of sleeping next to one another but andrew?#Andrew isn’t going to sleep on this night#not after the genuine undiluted unobscured fear broke down his emotional dam and drown him until he could only gasp out#Andrew doesn’t need the physical comfort#he needs the visual confirmation that everyone he cares about is right there#right with in grabbing range#he needs to know that he is in complete control again#that Aaron and Kevin and nicky and neil are there and Andrew is their leader#that Andrew is their protector and he can and does do his job every second of every day to the best of his abilities#Aaron might hate Neil but oh lord does he love his brother#he’ll sleep with the fucking foxes on the god damn floor if it means giving Andrew back some stability and control#some comfort (via @daddymemeyard)
Kyla youre both wonderful and right, these tags are beautiful
My favorite thing about the Shower Scene isn’t even the scene itself. It’s Andrew leaving Neil and Matt’s room with wet hair and wearing Neil’s clothes and everyone looking on in shock.
I mean. Imagine the curveball that they were throwing the rest of the team through. Three days before their relationship status was a bet half the team didn’t know about. Two days before they’re apparently a “thing”. Now they’re all trying to figure out if they missed some subtle clues and instead they’re getting the most blatant “we’re fucking” signals ever sent.
It’s like your friend saying “hey I think there’s something on the horizon idk what it is though.” so you look with your binoculars and it’s the fucking sun.
Headcanon that Nicky will not stop putting Kevin puns on his Snapchat story.
- A picture of Kevin shirtless in the kitchen, making breakfast, with the caption “Kevin Bae”
- A pic of Kevin in his uniform captioned “Kevin Play”
- A pic of Kevin sitting on his bed with an exy game paused on his computer and his arms crossed over his chest captioned “Kevin Stay”
- A pic of Kevin dressed to go for a run with Neil, wearing a light grey t shirt and dark grey sweats, with the caption “Kevin Grey”
- A pic of Kevin taking a nap with the caption “Kevin Lay”
- A pic of Kevin at Eden’s Twilight, taking the drink tray from Andrew with the caption “Kevin Tray”
- A pic of Kevin looking really annoyed in the Fox lounge with the caption “Kevin ‘No Way’”
- A pic of Kevin modelling in a magazine Nicky found with the caption “Kevin Slay”
- A video of Kevin stumbling at practice with the caption “Kevin Off-Day”
- A picture of Kevin and Jeremy grinning and talking to each other before a game with the caption “Kevin Gay”
- The upperclassmen join in after a while and their snap stories have fewer Kevin puns, but they still make them when they can
- After a game, Allison takes a video of a highlight reel where Kevin knocks a backliner to the ground even though they didn’t have the ball and captions it “Kevin Foul Play”
- Dan takes a picture of Kevin’s hair looking a little too styled and captions it “Kevin Hair Spray”
- Renee takes a picture of Kevin with Starbucks and captions it “Kevin Latte”
- Matt takes a picture of Kevin helping Neil up at practice and captions it “Kevin Fair Play”
- Renee waves at Kevin and takes a video of him waving back and captions it “Kevin Hey”
- Andrew never has a snap story
- But then one night he puts a video he takes through the car window on his snap story
- It’s Kevin walking down the street alone, next to the car because Andrew locked the doors and won’t let him in
- The caption says “Kevin Stray”
- The whole team loses their shit when they see it
- (But they also check with Kevin to see if Andrew let him back in the car or if he needs a ride)
- (Andrew did let him in the car eventually)
Remember when Andrew and Kevin were drinking while Neil was standing at the edge of the balcony, watching his friends dancing and having a good time, knowing he could never be a part of that? Well:
- The whole team goes on another trip to Columbia to celebrate their victory
- Neil’s debating whether or not to go dancing, but of course he isn’t going to say anything and he likes staying with Andrew too
- And Neil knows there is no point in asking Andrew to dance because even if he agreed to, Andrew would not be comfortable on a packed dance floor
- And Neil wants Andrew comfortable a lot more than he wants to dance with him
- When the upperclassmen and Aaron and Nicky are heading off to go dancing, Renee asks Neil if he wants to come along
- Neil hesitates for just long enough to reveal he’s considering it
- Aaron takes off without waiting to see Neil’s verdict while Nicky starts up the “Come on, Neil. You never dance with us. Just once can’t you follow someone other than Andrew and Kevin’s lead and actually try to be fun?”
- And Allison’s already trying to drag him out of his chair while Dan tries to talk him into it and Matt chants his name in encouragement
[ANDREW] You’re staying with us. If they try to take you away, they will lose.
[DAN] Take you away? To where?
[NICKY] You can’t have him. He belongs with us.
[ALLISON] What part of ‘go to hell’ do you need us to explain to you?
[MATT] Unless he wants to stay with you, you’d better bring Neil back.
[NICKY] Neil or Nathaniel or whoever. He’s ours and we’re not letting him go.
[WYMACK] Neil. Talk to me. What do you want?
[NEIL] I know i shouldn’t stay but I can’t- I don’t want to lose this.
Nothing but My Aching Soul 