do i think the FBI agents liked neil? no. do I also think sometimes they'd look at him during the interrogation and see the baby fat on his face and wide scared eyes and go "aw fuck" cause he's just a kid? absolutely
Felt like this was appropriate for Halloween because honestly if I saw this irl I’d panic tbh
Anyways happy halloween!!!🎃
Math major Neil is all about problem solving so OF COURSE he called that hit. His whole runaway life was a matter of high risk problem solving. Arranging that hit was child’s play
the way i clamped my hand over my mouth because holy FUCK neil fucking josten.
do you think mary was praying the night they escaped?
That one trend with Neil sweetie pie
I wanna see more andreil "arguments" that's just them being petty assholes to each other. andrew calls neil an idiot on a plane one time and neil tells him "we are 32,000 feet in the air"
just how tired is neil really? i mean, they have all these practices and matches, studying, exams, classes?? they also regularly go out? and even in his free time he is always running and doing stuff
not to mention that he is also literally fighting for his life daily
how does he do it
I think neil has one of the worst immune systems on the team. everytime something goes around he gets sick
I think neil has one of the worst immune systems on the team. everytime something goes around he gets sick
okay so I've not actually read aftg yet so I don't know if it'd even be possible but! What do you think would've happened if Neil had fallen into a coma after Baltimore??
ooh I've never thought about that before!
I think it might have made the feds more empathetic with him, so that would be different. stuart would've been furious, I could see him cutting some sort of deal with ichirou on neil's behalf (which would've left kevin and jean to fend for themselves). The foxes would've been so stressed for the time it took him to wake up. could maybe see even aaron being nicer afterwards. I think andrew in particular would've skipped out on every game to stay by neil's side until he woke up.
There are now over 1,000 of you 😧 I know some of those are bots, but still that’s crazy to me! Anyways, to celebrate y’all get to pick what I draw next :)
i feel like we don't talk abt this part of the ec enough bc CAN WE JUST. TALK ABOUT HOW ANDREW EQUATES HIS AND NEIL'S RELATIONSHIP WITH WYMACK AND ABBY'S. LIKE. CAN WE TALK ABOUT IT. BECAUSE I THINK ABOUT IT EVERY DAY. EVERY. DAY.
I truly believe that neil could effortlessly pull off being a king’s scheming self serving advisor. Not even in a fun emperor’s new clothes kind of way I’m talking about real evil grand vizier levels of subterfuge and manipulation. This isn’t a criticism btw I’d wholeheartedly endorse all of his alleged malicious schemes because i know that he needs that sort of enrichment in his life.
My favorite animal is Neil Josten tearing Kevin a new one after Andrew leaves to get off his meds.
"'As if you feel any differently," Kevin sent Neil.
Neil fixed Kevin with a stony look. "Maybe if you'd stuck around a moment longer, you'd understand why I don't care anymore. When you came upstairs, did you hear him laughing, Kevin? He was," he said, ignoring the way Nicky flinched and the quick look Dan shot Matt, "before Drake even hit the ground. So yes, even I would give up this season. And after everything he's done and every risk he's taken for you, you'd better feel the same."
"It's not that simple," Kevin started.
"Then simplify it," Neil cut in."
-The Raven King, pg. 262-263
basically I think that if your protagonist doesn’t want to fuck someone so bad it makes them look stupid, then there probably isn’t enough energy in your story. “Fuck someone” isn’t literal btw—they can want to uncover the secrets of their parent’s death, they can want to prove their worth, they can want a donut from one particular bakery—it can be anything so long as they want it so bad that they’ll make decisions that make any sane person go “are you a moron??”, with little to no forethought, or even tons of forethought and this is still the option they chose. Because they want to fuck that thing so bad.