Neil Josten's stinky shirt

My personal headcannon is that he will do ANYTHING not to talk about Exy, especially as a Proffesional Exy player.

And I imagine him going through phases, testing how much he can do, before his PR Agent snaps and tries to kill him.

First time he is chosen to talk to reporters at the end of the game… he just keeps silent. Stare at all people with dead bored eyes, until they give up and ask somebody else.

Yeah, no, that can’t be. His PR Agent immediately tells him you have to, HAVE TO talk to the reporters, Andrew.

Very well, Andrew can talk to them.

Next time he answers all of their questions…. in german.

Ok, I see what you are doing here, I see. But no, stop that. In English Andrew, answer in English.

No problem.  So Andrew of course answers questions in English, by convincing every reporter that he is Aaron (and also implying that they are incompetent by catching the wrong brother.)

Andrew can tell his PR agent is a step away from nervous breakdown when he gets a berating letter from her the next day. (He blocked her everywhere out of spite.) This time he even got a list that said You can’t keep silent with reporters, you can’t answer them in another language and you can’t claim you are Aaron, you have to talk about exy.

And honestly all that can be arranged.

So next time he talk with reporters, even in english! and don’t claim to be Aron single time… instead he tells them he really doesn’t know anything about exy.

You see the thing with Andrew is that he has this energy, this posture, this quiet self confidence that makes it really hard to realize if he  is lying or not.

Just picture room full of sports journalists staring at Andrew unsure, quietly looking at each other trying to judge what is really going on.

“You dont know anything about exy?”

“nope”

“None of the rules?”

“Nothing”

“But…but you play professionally!”

“I was told I have to keep the ball out of the goal, I don’t know anything else.”

“You … you trained with Kevin Day! Son of the exy! How is it possible??”

“Kevin also told me to keep the ball out of the goal.”

The cats tricked Neil into bringing them home (based on an ao3 fic called King and Sirs Gotcha Day)

Sir enjoys pretending to be cute to lure you in to pet him, but will take his first chance to attack you.

King will stalk you and attack your feet. You'll never see her coming. (She uses her claws like Andrew uses his knives)

So photogenic you forget forget all the wrong they've ever done

They are the sweetest to Andrew and Neil, even when guests are over. Nicky whines about how unfair this is

Neil doesn't allow them to have people food

It's okay though, they know Andrew will give them people food when Neil's not looking

(Neil totally knows)

Sir wears a bell on his collar so they know where he is

King refuses to wear a collar

She keeps pulling/ biting them off, much to the boys displeasure, and hides them so they can't find it

They eventually gave up on the collar when King started meowing everytime she entered a room with Andrew or Neil so she wouldn't accidently sneak up on them

Aaron and Kaitlyn babysat them for a weekend while Andrew and Neil were at the fall banquet

They proceeded to destroy Aaron's house without getting caught

King will stare Aaron down until he looks at her. She will then proceed to knock over the closest thing to her.

She even locked him outside his apartment once. (He was mildly impressed)

Sir is all cuddly towards Kaitlyn, so Aaron can't punish them

After the weekend Aaron vows to never see the cats again

(Andrew interrogates them on how they did that so he could do it. They meow and Andrew nods back in understanding)

Renee takes care of the cats when the boys are gone

King likes Renee. Sir begrudgingly respects her

Dan was the first to mention how similar King and Sir are to Andrew and Neil respectively.

Neil: haha, and what are you going to do? Tell my dad?!

I like to think that in her younger years in the gang, she kind of thought that she was attracted to men but in the aftermath realised it was more about their validation, or what she could gain from them. Learning to uncouple the idea of male validation from genuine attraction took years of work.

And I’ve seen a lot of discussion and posts about the idea of the monsters and the upperclassmen mirroring each other and how Renee mirrors Andrew. Andrew who also had to grapple with the idea of his homosexuality. Andrew who is a gay man. Renee who is a lesbian woman. It just makes so much sense that they could also bond over the shared struggle of figuring themselves out after being hurt.

And you may be thinking, but what about all the subtext with Jean in the actual books? I say have you considered that Jean connects with her because she is just a good person, who is kind to him, and listens, and is a genuine friend who wants nothing but his safety.

Neil: oh my god MY UNIFORM ITS STAINED

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