I Tighten My Arm Around Him. I Get My Wing Around Him, Too. I Like Having Four Arms To Hold Him.

“I tighten my arm around him. I get my wing around him, too. I like having four arms to hold him.”

— From chapter 20, Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell.

DAY 1 | Creature | @carryon-countdown

Happy Ace Awareness Week!

Kicking it off, because it's already the 22nd here 🥳

Just like potatoes, asexuals come in many different varieties, and guess what?

We're all tasty and valid!

Asexuality is a spectrum, not a fixed point. And if you fall anywhere within that spectrum - you are asexual and YOU ARE VALID.

If you aren't sure what the hell I'm talking about, head on over to The Trevor Project's page about Asexuality. It's a pretty good starting point, with links to further information.

But before you go... please consider reblogging this post to raise Asexual awareness.

And to give an asexual a potato 🥔

Aaron may not have an eidetic memory like Andrew does but he has a damn good one and he can remember anything he puts even the smallest amount of effort into remembering.

After everything that happened in Baltimore Aaron starts to note every small possibly important (and unimportant) medical fact about the foxes. And he’s not even totally conscious he’s doing it.

He consciously remembers Andrew and Nicky’s blood types. He knows Nicky’s allergic to penicillin and he knows Andrew doesn’t react well to doctors so it’s best for everyone if he can be administered some kind of sedative right away.

And then he thinks he should probably know this stuff for Kevin, and begrudgingly Neil, because they’re part of his strange little family that Andrew’s created. So he quickly and easily finds this information on them (because he’s a Minyard and he just knows how to find the things he needs to know). So he knows their blood types and he knows Kevin still feels residual pain in his left hand but doesn’t show it and try’s to ignore it. He knows Neil heals annoyingly quick from his all too common injuries but he also knows he aggravates those injuries easily by pushing himself too soon.

But it doesn’t stop there, there’s a small itch in the back of his head driving him to find out the important medical facts about the rest of the foxes. So he allows himself to remember their blood types and allergens and tells himself he needs to know incase of an emergency.

But he also notices that Matt has a high tolerance to pain medication whenever he’s being treated by Abby for an injury during practice or a game. And he notes the one type that works for him and keeps multiple bottles on him and in their room. (It’s also the only type that works for Kevin and works best for Neil so he stocks their room with it too)

And he notices that Allison is a slight germaphobe and applies hand sanitizer anytime she has to touch a public door handle or they go out to eat. So he opens as many doors for her as he can despite the confused look he gives her every time and he just glares right back at her. He keeps an extra mini bottle of hand sanitizer in his backpack for her as well and silently passes it to her when she’s forgotten hers.

He notices Dans chronic knee and lower back pain that Abby is constantly treating and how there’s always a rotating rainbow of colorful KT Tape on her. So he keeps an eye on Abby’s stock of tape and when a color is running low he casually mentions it to her to order more and then walks away.

He notices how Renee always picks at the scabs on her knuckles that result from her sparring with Andrew. He figures the wraps she has are getting old and silently leaves a new pair on the counter the next time he’s in the girls dorm, along with a box of bandaids and a tube of antiseptic ointment. He leaves a matching set of supplies in Andrew’s dorm as well just to be safe.

He doesn’t consciously realize that what he’s doing is protecting and taking care of the Foxes. But the others catch on and smile fondly at him because he’s letting himself care for them and become part of their family.

And the one time Dan mentions what he’s doing for them he looks at her like she’s crazy. He tells himself, and her, that that’s not what he’s doing, he’s just a future doctor and someone needs to take care of these injury prone idiot athletes and no one else besides him and Abby are going to do it right.

Aaron would definitely be so observant and acutely aware of the Foxes physical well beings despite him insisting he doesn’t care and hates them all. But he basically becomes Abby’s right hand man and teams second nurse because it’s good practice for his future and he knows them.

Happy twinyards day, here they are once again royal au flavored 😅

1) Andrew arriving back at the castle after eight years away

2) pov you’re at a casual event and you’re pretty sure the young Minyards are talking about you but there’s really just no way to be sure, is there 😶

When Neil wakes there is a metallic black beast parked alongside the rental car. Neil isn't any smarter about cars now than he'd been at the start of the year, but every curve of this one screams expensive. Neil assumes Andrew did with this purchase what he'd done with the last: simply looked for whichever car would burn through his budget the fastest. It is a perplexing quirk for a man who claims to have no attachments to his material possessions. Andrew opens the back door and looks across the backseat at Neil. "Kevin?" Neil scrubs the sleep out of his eyes and undoes his buckle. "Let him ride with you. I have nothing to say to him." Andrew shuts the door again, and Neil moves up to the driver's seat. Andrew pulls out of the lot first and Neil follows him to the interstate.

Day: Saturday, January 20th Time: 1:30 PM EST