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fic art for Back to the Start by  @fuzzballsheltiepants !!

sirius: *abused and raised by blood supremacists, is disowned, is framed for murder*

sirius: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

neville: *grew up with a controlling grandmother who always told him he wasn’t good enough, lived with the knowledge that his parents were tortured to insanity, bullied and looked down on by just about everyone*

neville: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

ginny: *is literally possessed by voldemort for the better part of a year*

ginny: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

remus: *had no friends until he was 11, lives in constant fear of being outed as a werewolf, forced to become a monster every month*

remus: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

luna: *watched her mother die, picked on by everyone except ginny, treated as a freak, has only one friend until she’s 14*

luna: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

hagrid: *expelled at age 13 for something he didn’t do, accused of murder twice, outcasted for being half-giant*

hagrid: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

cho: *has her first love be murdered by a genocidal dictator and about half the world refuses to believe it, must struggle with her feelings towards harry and her guilt about them*

cho: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

mcgonagall: *fell in love with a muggle but had to break off their engagement, for fear of turning out like her own mother, later married a wizard who she loved but he died 3 years later*

mcgonagall: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

harry: *is degraded and abused his entire childhood, forced to sleep in a cupboard for 11 years, constantly treated as being an unwelcome outsider, told he should be grateful for his abusers taking him in, lied to constantly for the first 11 years of his life about who he is and who his parents were, consistently blamed for things that he couldn’t control, picked on at school and continuously beaten up by his cousin’s gang, sees multiple people die*

books read in 2016 (1/?) || all for the game, by nora sakavic (x)

☆neil: what is ‘dabbing’ kevin: absolutely not ☆kevin has to chop vegetables into tiny pieces and sneak them into neils dinners because his eating habits are shit ☆they go grocery shopping together and neil keeps putting junk food in the cart and kevin keeps shoving it back onto random shelves with varying levels of rage ☆neil: do i even weigh anything to you? kevin, holding him a foot off the ground: no. its like holding a bag of grapes ☆whack each other w their exy racquets when they get too Extra during practice ☆scary movie ride or die fans ☆kevin curls up and watches through his fingers and neil punches kevins leg when a jumpscare gets him ☆kevin: *mentions anyone who has even slightly inconvenienced him* neil: you should kill them ☆kevin can always sense neils bullshit and he will, inevitably and invariably, be able to tell when neil is doing Something Stupid ☆neil photobombs kevins interviews at/after games ALL THE TIME ☆kevin: it was a tough game but our hard work paid off ☆neil: in the background wearing 3 pairs of sunglasses and dumping an entire gatorade over his head while maintaining eye contact with the camera ☆neil can suplex kevin ☆they are savage at dragging like god help whoever brings down their Roasting Session upon themselves bc they will taste the wrath of a god ☆neil makes a game of how many outlandish claims he can make and still have kevin believe him ☆neil: did you know i once spent a week in australia and had to eat nothing but jellyfish and twinkies to survive ☆kevin, wide eyed and scandalized: how are you alive ☆neil WILL pick a fight in a fast food restaurant and kevin has to bail him out ☆kevin listens to 80s pop music when he works out and neil finds out. neil Finds Out. ☆neil plays 21 loops of tom jones’ ‘whats new pussycat’ and kevin tells him to put in 1 ‘its not unusual’ ☆kevin will send neil a million texts until he gets a response. like in a row, in the span of 15 seconds buzz buzz bitch where are you ☆neil watches chopped and kevin loses his mind because neil will drag a contestant for mixing caviar with peppers while at the same time eating like mac n cheese with nutella ☆they get too into laser tag and get kicked out

It starts, like so many of the things in Neil’s life, with someone being cruel

Allison’s visiting and they’re out grabbing lunch and a passerby cracks a joke about Neil’s scars

And it’s been a hot minute and Neil doesn’t really care but he’s tired of this, tired of people recognizing him as damaged when he’s working on being a whole real person

Allison notices and once she’s finished her biting one-liner coming for the passerby’s life she leans across the table and presses a firm kiss to Neil’s right cheek, directly over the pull of knife scars

Neil’s been learning he likes physical contact, from people he trusts, and he’s surprised but he blossoms under the contact and relaxes

So it becomes a thing

Dan busses Neil’s cheek in greeting when she visits

Renee’s cheek-kisses always leave Neil with the lingering scent of citrus shampoo

Nicky likes to make a joke of it, give Neil’s burn scars a huge smacking kiss when Neil’s feeling down

Matt throws himself into this idea completely, of course

Even Kevin, sometimes, if it’s just them in their dorm and Neil passes Kevin the notes they’re taking on a game, will press a brief kiss to Neil’s cheekbone in thanks

(Aaron doesn’t; but he doesn’t complain when the others do, and that’s– that’s something)

And of course Andrew

Andrew

Wow thanks guy

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

EVERY TIME WE KISS I SWEAR I COULD FLY

CAN’T U FEEL MY HEART BEAT FAST, I WANT THIS TO LAST

NEED YOU BY MY SIDE