MARTY!!!!!!!!

so you visit them after the show and pin the striker against the wall which may awaken some feelings in you. so you steal the cup that he drank water in but in a threatening way not a stalker gay crush way and put it through forensic testing and find out that the kid actually belongs to you so youre like lets fucking gooooooo but ur still kinda angry

so you kill one of the strikers on their team while hes at the club as a warning but highk a favour because now hes in the spotlight as a starting striker but the guy totally doesnt appreciate the favour and see it as an act of love and actually sees it as a declaration of war,,,

so you kinda stir shit up because nobody messes with you and your maybe-crush neilthaniel wesninski MIGHT be dating andrew minyard. so you stir some more shit up.

and at the banquet you see he took those ugly ass contacts out and JESUS those eyes are gorgeous

so you find that hot and dont know how to handle it so you two start arguing at the banquet table and hes still giving hella verbal so you invite him back to your place at west virginia to make amends but hes still kind of a bitch so you start torturing him or whatever because he has to learn am i right

and you dye his hair and beat him up some more and maybe spit in his mouth and make him swallow it. and you look at him for another time and realise... shit. i have a crush on the loudmouth striker and dont know how to handle it.

AS NEIL/RIKOS BIGGEST SHIPPER I AM IN AWE. I AM IN PURE AWE I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

YOURE ENDING UP ON NATIONAL NEWS ACTUALLY BECAUSE I WILL BR GIVING YOU SPOTLIGHT THERE FOR THIS. WHAT THE FUCK

I am so incredibly. Woaw. Oh okay.

I COULD BITE SOMEONE RIGHT NOW

I THOUGHT I WAS ALONE THANK YOU OMG 🙏🏾

AND HE TOTALLY SILENTLY MOURNED NATHANIELS DEATH AND WHEN HE FOUND OUT HE WAS ALIVE THE FIRST THING HE DID WAS TRY TO BRING HKM BACK

totally normal lesbian andreil designs with absolutely nothing behind them. idk why you would even say that. its not like theyre hiding anything ahahah. shutup

(from somebody who has never read tsc and is literally going off vibes - enjoy my unorganized thoughts.)

-> The second Jeremy Knox arrives at Millport, Neil would be too

-> Freshman Neil (still legally Nathaniel) would manage to coax his brain into thinking that the Trojans' kind and joyful demeanors (i'm guessing) would mean that they were agents of his father who were hellbent on killing him

-> After like a week, Nathaniel manages to convince himself they don't mean too much harm, but he would still find their overwhelming optimism irritating

-> Him and Jean are fundamentally like eachother in that they, whether subconsciously or consciously, would influence the Trojans to get a little more pessimistic.

-> The red and gold goes amazingly with his darker dyed hair and dark contacts and his skin tone. He looks like he could cure world hunger. He also has no idea of this.

-> I'm sure at least one of the Trojans would develop a teeny tiny hallway (or fully fledged) crush on him, but due to his utter lack of sexual orientation this would never be mentioned in the books due to the fact that Neil never cared to find out.

-> He would still keep some of the negativity that would be inevitably given to him by his mother, but unfortunately for him, you can't stay more than a month around the Trojans without gaining some happy thoughts

-> They would keep him WAY more well fed than the Foxes, (no shade to them, i mean they would purposely try and fatten him up meanwhile the Foxes mostly leave him alone) and he would build a way stronger body which would fuel his running and his playing.

-> I don't know whether he would transfer to the Foxes (cause of Kevin, who would feel nauseous at the thought of anybody transferring FROM the Trojans), but if he did, he would have a way fresher attitude which would immediately be reverted back to OG Neil Josten

-> In the event that he transfers to the Foxes before summer, the Foxes would still lose to the Ravens first time, but with a WAY closer point gap. Also, we would revert to the original timeline where he falls in love with Andrew.

-> Even if he never transferred, I like to think the Trojans would still stand by him after the Butcher and his defeat.

-> The Trojans grow to love Neil, just like they do Jean. Maybe Jean could transfer to the Trojans as well... idk, I haven't worked around the Riko bit yet.

-> Kevin would be diehard for him, but after finding out some more about him he would revert back to lording over him - though part of me thinks he would still secretly admire him, a little more in the way he admires Jeremy.

-> I don't know which number he would be, especially considering Nora's affinity for number games. 13? Still 10? 31? I'll leave it to the imagination.

-> Also he would've met Andrew at the Pros, and they would have fallen in love either way. They were always going to.