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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic Rating: Mature Warnings: Rape/Non-Con, Underage Relationships: Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard Characters: Neil Josten, Andrew Minyard, Various bad people Additional Tags: more thorough warnings inside, theres a happy ending though i promise, Character Study, Established Relationship, tw for andrew's like, entire childhood, Demisexual Neil Josten, sexuality exploration, non-con is not explicit Summary:
Andrew doesn’t care about compliments. He knows he is objectively fairly handsome, height aside. He dresses well, he’s fit, he’s an athlete — he is comfortable with the way he looks and the way he is. It doesn’t matter. Neil is— enough. Everything else is inconsequential. Neil does not comment on his looks. Neil says things like You’re amazing and Choose us and I want to stay and that means more than any shallow observation ever could.
Bookmarker's Notes:
If you want to dive into pre-canon, pre-Neil Andrew's psyche + you mind the tags according to your needs, this is a fantastic fic by @sinistercacophony. There are definitely some squirmy bits, but no head on explicit descriptions of Andrew's childhood trauma. What you will find is the interior experience of someone who has been groomed by others to do their bidding, even when every part of their being rebels. You'll also find pre-canon Andrew slowly building his own boundaries + setting out expectations for safer intimate experiences. Then we move to canon + Neil's arrival. The honesty between these two around how praise sounds to each of their ears + what they do instead?! Oof, hauntingly beautiful.Â
Again, if you your issues are triggered by anything above, I don't recommend reading it, but if not, you're in for a sobering + illuminating story.
