Angsty Thoughts About Neil And If He Died At The Hands Of His Father. If Stuart Was A Few Minutes Too

Angsty thoughts about Neil and if he died at the hands of his father. If Stuart was a few minutes too late.

The foxes would not survive. By that point Dan and Matt had become parental figures in the form of best friends. They would see the quiet places Neil used to occupy and see it empty. No more little quips or questions would come from it. Matt would start sleeping in the girls room again because his room is too quiet. Seth and Neil both dead within the span of 8 months. Their empty beds would be a constant reminder that he couldn't deal with. Allison would lean on Renee like she did with Seth. Renee would push her own feelings behind as she checked on everyone else, making sure they were okay, that they would lean on each other and nothing harmful to themselves. Nicky would still be the connection the monsters have to the upperclassmen. He would keep them updated if Renee or Dan asked how they were doing but he would stay by them for the company only. Aaron and Andrew are quiet in their grief. Aaron would see how Neil's death effected his brother, but wouldn't understand anything more than Andrew lost someone he said he would protect. He would see what would happen if he left his brother. Kevin would be plagued with the truth. He would know the intimate details of how Neil was taken apart, even if they weren't true. He'd remember seeing Neil's father in the Evermore tower and his brain would supply images of Neil in this position. He'd go to Wymack and ask why a father would do such a thing, asking if Wymack would do it to him. Wymack would put the peices together and discover his long lost son in the form of a drunken striker grieving the loss of a brother. Wyamck should have been used to it. Hed lost all of his first pick foxes. Whether it was due to drugs, suicide, or something else. They were all gone. He had high hopes for Neil. Starting as a runaway with trust issues but made connections in the team. He pulled everyone together after Seths death. He pushed the team to be better. He even got through to Wymacks most difficult player. Andrew. Andrew. Andrew would barely make it. He would retreat into himself, allowing his apathy to take full control and let himself drown in his memories. He'd stop going to Wednesday meetings with Bee. Stop responding at all. The monsters would lose him. Renee would find him at the court starting at the pictures on the wall, trying to remind himself that Neil existed and he wasn't a hallucination that he clung to desperately trying to be seen. Neil existed. He was right here, documented on the walls of the Foxhole Court. Andrew contemplates suicide on more than one occasion. First was about a week after Neil's death. There was no funeral. Nothing. No one even acknowledged it other than to say the Foxes forfitted championships to the Ravens. But then Aaron came back and asked if he was going to return to Wednesday meetings with Bee, reminding Andrew of his promises. The next time was after graduation, Aaron going off to Med School and Kevin safe with his father as he played professional Exy. Andrew had gotten his degree, but it didn't mean anything to him. There was nothing for him left in the world. Aaron dropped him immediately and Kevin didn't hold up his end of the bargain. Bee kept telling him things would get easier over time, but that was a lie too. But then Renee texted him asking to meet up for lunch. She asked what his first memory was. He didn't hide, didn't sugar coat anything for her, told her the cold hard truth. Renee wasn't expecting the accuracy of his memory. Then she asked if he killed himself, how would Neil's memory live on? The pictures would eventually be covered up at the court, he would be forgotten in exy. That's when Andrew decided he'd live, if only for Neil's memory to live on with him.

Shortly after Neil and Andrew got the cats, Andrew texts Jean a picture of a cardboard cat with the attached message of ‘this is Sir.’ He provides absolutely no context, leaving that as the only visual Jean has to mentally attach to the cats. Jean believes him.

Jean now expects that when someone (in a very specific group of people) says they have a pet it will be made of cardboard. For a while, he thinks when Neil texts him about the cats that they have now become absolutely delusional and begun making Jeremy Knox level fictional stories and life updates for fictional animals. (If they are made of cardboard how did they break that? Stop using your cardboard cats as an excuse, Neil. You’re the one who ripped up that chair.)

This continues for a very long time, because Jean doesn’t actually say any of that to him because of conveniently being sidetracked, so when Jean meets them for the first time he just kind of blue screens. It hits him that these are real adorable animals who are not being a menace like Neil to him and the others are jealous the cats warmed up to Jean on his first visit so fast.

He tells Jeremy what he thought, and he absolutely loses it. Jean has never been so disappointed in everyone around him

fox tweets (pt.3) ((ft. jean))

kevin as neil's mentor is so funny bc he's the total opposite of what you'd expect from that kind of figure. like in so many pieces of media the mentors are really encouraging even if they privately think the mentee is Kinda Bad whereas kevin's like "you suck and nothing you do will ever be good enough. also i told the press behind your back that you're going to make the national team." and i love that for him

🌻 Pov: you're playing exy and you meet a golden retriever and his sad wet cat of a teammate 🌻