IS YOUR MUSE WANTED FOR SOMETHING ? WHAT ITEM DO THEY VALUE MOST ? WHAT IS THE BOUNTY ON YOUR MUSE’S HEAD ( IF THEY HAVE ONE ) ?
andrew doesn’t put a lot of stalk in physical possessions. actually, he doesn’t put much ATTACHMENT into anything at all. as far as HE’S concerned, everything’s replaceable. there’s no sense in tying any of his EMOTIONS to an object, in associating a THING with anything important. it’ll only let him down, get LOST or BROKEN, && then where would he be ? an item he valued MOST used to be a woven leather band, thinly BRAIDED into a circlet && worn around his wrist, just inside the rim of his ARM BANDS. it was a gift from cass to always REMEMBER her by. to remind him he had somewhere he belonged. after leaving her home, he kept WEARING it as a symbol of what he’d lost. it was a PHYSICAL representation of the emotional scars, a way of REMINDING himself what happens when he’s weak enough to CARE, to believe in ridiculous notions of family. but still, there was a PART of him that clung to it, that still thought CASS was out there somewhere, still caring for him as he once cared for her.
of COURSE, that all came to a head at aaron’s trial. she wouldn’t even LOOK at him, too grief stricken over her REAL son, the man who’d abused andrew for all those years. after all was said && done, after getting cass’s letter, he finally took it off. it took one SNAP to pull the leather from his wrist, broken && mangled. he forgets now, where he left it last. maybe in a BACK ALLEY, perhaps in ashes, possibly in the LAKE at the edge of campus. he only knows it’s lost && he doesn’t care. he knows BETTER than to put such importance in physical things he KEEPS. the only item he values now is a KEY, && that was given rather than r e c i e v e d .
as far as he currently knows, there are no outstanding WARRANTS out for andrew minyard’s arrest. that is, at the present moment in time, at least. he’s been CAREFUL not to get caught with any illicit dealings, only too familiar with the DRUG INDUCED haze the last arrest ended him with && fresh from the TRAUMA inflicted by a crooked therapist who liked to REENACT past trauma’s at the court mandated rehab. however, he DOES have a bit of a rap sheet behind him, including stunts in JUVIE for petty theft && assault, along with THREE YEARS of court mandated medication to avoid jail time after nearly killing four guys for beating up his COUSIN. not to mention his mother’s murder, a tragic CAR ACCIDENT he’s admitted to causing amongst his close circles but could never be FORMERLY charged for.
accordingly, there’s no BOUNTY on his head. it can be supposed that something akin to it was once, in the form of NEIL JOSTEN, when andrew was in rehab && at the mercy of proust. in PREVIOUS drafts, riko extorted a night with andrew for the safety of the foxes, though in the finalized version andrew was relegated to BARGAINING CHIP between riko && neil. it’s not exactly a BOUNTY, but it’s the closest thing to it that he’s had. however, due to NEIL && KEVIN’S association && debts to ICHIROU MORIYAMA, he’s grown familiar with bounties && tithings && the navigations there within.