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Every day they watch as a new headline comes out of a Raven player being found dead or trying to end their lives because they couldn’t handle leaving the Nest.

And mind you they were only there for a couple of years while Kevin grew up there glued to Riko’s side and having to build himself up all over again.

Jean’s also in a bad place but at the very least has people who were warned and could get help and tips from Kevin on what to do.

But Kevin was the trial run. For once in his life he was first and he had to figure this all out while trying not to destroy himself from the inside out.

Kevin lost everything when he left and there’s no doubt in his mind that he was ever supposed to succeed. He didn’t have someone to drag his battered body out of the Nest he drove himself out of hell itself with a broken hand.

The fact he’s here is a miracle in itself and I can just imagine Neil recalling Wymack’s “if we lose the game against the Ravens, Kevin won’t survive” speech and realising how true that sentiment was.

Really funny concept i just thought of where Nicky is obsessed with Teen Wolf (obviously? cmon now) . He even makes Aaron watch along and eventually Andrew and Kevin get dragged along.

And so when Neil comes around, acting all innocent and shifty and paranoid, and having little slip ups of showing rage, and immediately looking freaked out he showed his anger so clearly… Nicky calls wolf. They all roll their eyes but Neil keeps acting like a freak with a big secret, hiding scars and constantly going on runs for fun, so they all slowly start to subscribe to the conspiracy.

🫵 👤💡, 🙋 🤝 🤷‍♂️. 👶 ⬆️🧑🏻‍🍼🪺 ➡️ 🦸🏻‍♂️🌟 😓 💯, 💯 🤯 4️⃣ 🫵. 🕰️ 🪙💱, 🚫 👨, 🚫 🚹 📥 🫵 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 🤔 🫵 💎 🚫🤑 📤 🥍 🏯— 😮‍💨, 🗣👂 💪🏼😱. 🧑🏻📅 ➕️ 🙋 💬 🫵 🤨📊 ➕️ ❌️🔚 👨‍🦳🚩 ♾️ 🕰️. 🙋 💡 👉 ❌️ 🌍 🫵 🐈‍⬛🫗 🫵 🧠 😵⚖️ ➕️ 🦠🤧 🔄 🤪 📴 🤴🏻🥇, ➕️ 🙋 🧠 🫵 👣 🚫 🤲 👍 💬 🔄 🚹 👍 💯👥️ ✅️ 👨🥫, 🍑 🙋 ❌️ 🤔 👥️ ⬅️ 🤷 👉➡️👈 🫳 🆙️ 🟰 📈 📴 🫵 🐂💩. 🥺 🔛 👤🎁 🫵 🆘️ 📈 🛟🙏, ➕️ 🫵 🔚 🆙️ 🧮 6️⃣ 🤬 ⏮️. 🪚 🤌, 🤌, 🤐🖕🆙️ ➕️ 👉🚪 🧑‍🤝‍🧑🤾‍♂️ ⬅️ 🧑‍🤝‍🧑.

Who also happens to be Greek.

Okay, I'm sure there are are many Greek mythology geeks or Percy Jackson fans in the AFTG fandom so here is my opinion over whose children would the foxes be (it makes no sense with their canonical parents but who cares?)

Neil Josten -> Neil is a son of Mars. Many might disagree but hear me out, it would make sense. Unlike Ares, the god of war's Roma persona Mars was the god of military power, not just war, which also includes not only bloodlust and an appeal to conflict, but strategic knowledge. You can't convince me that Neil Josten wouldn't want to run away from this legacy like he wants to run away from his father's legacy. But it is in his blood (which results in the wonderful roasts). Plus, Mars would be appealed and enticed by someone like Mary to begin with.

Kevin Day -> Kevin is the son of Athena. Athena is the Goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice: things someone would not usually attribute to Kevin, but he actually does take after her. She is also Goddess of crafts, and skill, and if there is anything Kevin values the most, it's skill. She is known most specifically for her strategic skill in warfare. Kevin is a known strategist when it comes to playing Exy.

The Minyard Twins -> This one is a bit tricky, because ideally, the two of them would not have the same godly parent but they are twins so we cannot separate them. I think (and this will be an unpopular opinion but hear me out) that Andrew and Aaron are sons of Apollo. And tbh, I'm tired of the stereotype that sons of Apollo are all sunshine uwu children. Aaron got his father's gift in healing, while Andrew got his blatant honesty, as well as a prophetic gift and the gift of delivering the most poetic lines.

Nicky Hemmick -> Nicky is the son Hermes. Hermes was the God of trade, wealth, luck, fertility, animal husbandry, sleep, language, thieves, and travel. He is the most mischievous of the Olympian gods, and a protector of those who lost their way - usually during travels. Likewise, Nicky took in his brothers from their lost path while never losing his flair for the dramatic. He also loves spilling the tea and that's honestly all Hermes is about.

Matt Boyd -> Matt is the son of Zeus. Zeus is known for being wise, fair, just and merciful but also easily angered. Those are basically all things Matt is, but unlike his father, Matt is loyal to our best girl Dan.

Dan Wilds -> Dan is the daughter of the Roman Goddess Bellona. Bellona is the Roman goddess of war, destruction and devastation. She is an important goddess to the Romans, as she also controls the policy of foreign warfare. As a Captain with lots of bite in her, I think Dan takes a lot after her mother, who is often considered a Roman equivalent of Athena.

Allison Reynolds -> Allison is daughter of Aphrodite. Aphrodite is the Olympian goddess of love, beauty and sexual pleasure. While her mother is often consider the weakest of the Gods, some forget she is the eldest of them all and that love is a very powerful weapon. Also, Allison will snap your jaw if you call her weak.

Bonus: Seth Gordon, son of Ares. I don't think I need to enlighten and I find it funny how a daughter of Aphrodite and a son of Ares would get together.

Mathilda, apparently:

and Erik Klose who also has never visited the US so from what Nicky tells him he thinks it’s this dystopian country because all he hears about it is god awful. like.

knowing how Nicky gossips, Erik knows Nicky’s cousins story really intimately, so wdym America is the land where a mother chooses to throw a kid away? and she beats the fuck out of the other one? and then the first kid comes back and kills her? and its totally fine with everyone that this barely adult (nicky) becomes their guardian???

and then years later Nicky tells Erik all about the Foxes, and that’s 80% of the people Nicky knows, so he just assumes all americans are either former strippers, addicts or murderers.

and THEN Kevin comes into the picture and Nicky is all like “okay you can’t tell anyone but there’s this team here that’s actually a cult and the son of the leader has this brother of sorts but he is insane and he broke the brother’s hand and now we have him” and poor Erik is just like ???? and then Nicky weeks later is like “oh my god remember the cult i told you about?? they’re japanese mafia” and Erik just needs to put his phone down for a minute and think.

and Nicky keeps casually mentioning shit like “Andrew pulled a knife on me today” and “people trashed every car on the lot and left a dead animal in ours” which doesn’t help at ALL

and Erik is having this inner fight of “i sent my boyfriend back there to study for his degree but it’s a death trap of a country”, still worried for Nicky, when suddenly all the Neil lore hits. next thing Erik knows Nicky is on a team with the son of a mass murderer ALSO connected to the mafia.

and Nicky gives his updates like they’re the most normal thing ever so Erik just thinks this is average stuff happening in America

when Erik comes to visit for the Ravens game he is STRESSED to even breathe around so many Americans, assuming it’s common for most of the population to have ties to the mafia and carry knives w them.

Neil being annoyed/embarrassed by it only encourages them to do it more and they start dropping it all the time. Andrew says it to Aaron every chance he gets. Practice basically stops when Kevin finally says it for the first time after everyone keeps fumbling the new drill. Dan even catches Wymack saying it while on the phone with Andritch. The new freshmen have no idea where it came from but eventually they start using it too.