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dumpsterd1va

I’m too sleepy to form my words properly but I really like Aaron and Neil’s relationship. Like they push each other to test their limits in ways not even Andrew can make them do because Andrew is their motivation for a lot of things but they’re the ones who make each other see that Andrew cares about them. I especially liked the parallels between Neil making Aaron fight for Katelyn and then Aaron throwing those words back at him to make him realize Andrew was willing to concede their promise for Neil. That whole exchange at the cabin was gold like Aaron playing Neil the same way Neil played Aaron when he made him realize why Andrew had done what he did to protect Aaron.

I also think they’re both jealous of each other because “Andrew obviously cares for him and he’s too dumb to see it.” lol ur both dumb he loves you both and would lay his life down for both of you. I guess it just strikes me how similar they are in some ways and how much they’re willing to put on the line for Andrew is just one example of that. I know they say they hate each other but I feel like it’s in the same way Andrew kept saying he hated Neil. There’s not really any bite to it cause if there was Aaron would’ve found a way to get rid of Neil. And Aaron was just as gutted as everyone else when Neil showed up scarred after his kidnapping. He also didn’t have to join the big sleepover pile in Neil and Matt’s room but he did. Just.... FOUND FAMILY!!!!!! MY FUCKING BRAND!!!!

And I think they both know that the other is good for Andrew even if they think the other is a grade A asshole most of the time, which is why Neil forced them to repair their relationship and Aaron forced Andrew to choose either Neil or the promise. And they said all that mean shit to get a rise from the other one to prove to themselves that they were making the right choice because obviously, beyond all the pretending, they care. The quote unquote hatred comes from them being angry they got played and they’re petty idiots lol what else is new. Anyways I’m just rambling but I’d like to see more of their relationship over time cause I think they both add something to Andrews life the other can’t offer and maybe that’s what also makes them petty. At the bare minimum they respect each other’s love for Andrew and wow I think that’s so beautiful. Give me more Aaron Neil interactions!!!!!!!

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dumbwaves

y'all have to stop lying to yourselves and admit that you thought kevin 'tell me i can have your game' day and neil 'take it' josten would end up together

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Another incomplete list of the different answers Andrew has given reporters when they have asked why he and his ex-teammate turned rival Neil wear matching armbands:

  • “They aren’t armbands. We coloured on our skin with Sharpie whenever we were bored back at PSU. We spent a lot of time around Kevin. Our arms ended up covered. The Sharpie still hasn’t come off.”
  • “They’re Team Minyard shirts. I got a bunch for free and use them as undershirts. I gave him one to piss him off, but he wears it under his clothes every day.”
  • “Neil has horrendously sweaty wrists. They make his hands too wet to grip his racquet. He left sweaty handprints on everything he touched, even outside of practice. I gave him an extra pair of armbands to absorb the sweat as a gift to everyone around him. Too bad they can’t stop him from reeking.”
  • “Neil is big into shitty magic tricks and wears armbands to make sure he always has sleeves to hide cards up. Somehow, he still manages to guess your card wrong 9 times out of 10.”
  • “His arms are too short for long sleeves. He can only wear t-shirts. He has the armbands because they’re the only things that fit his teeny tiny arms without dangling past his hands. He actually has a syndrome called T. Rex-itis. It’s in his contracts that any time he does any kind of publicity, his coach has to arrange for his arms to be edited to look longer.”
  • “We’re part of an exclusive Better at Exy than Kevin Day club. Members get a pair of armbands and a $5 gift card to Baskin Robbins.”
  • “I told Aaron I’d never wear matching clothes with anyone so Neil started copying my armbands just to spite him.”
  • “He has werewolf forearms. The fur grows back before he can shave his entire wrist. He has the armbands to try to stop the fleas from coming back.”
  • “Wymack gave all the Foxes wristbands. Everyone else lost theirs. This is why we’re the favourites over his own son.”
  • “Neil’s arms have a raw sexual energy that the world is unprepared for. He shows an inch of wrist skin and all the cats in a twenty mile radius go into heat. It’s why Sir and King showed up.”
  • “He asked to try them on and two minutes later they were melted to his skin. Freak birthday candle accident. He still owes me 40 bucks for the new pair I had to buy when he couldn’t get them back off. This is why he hasn’t been allowed at my birthday party in years.”
  • “Neil’s arms glitter like in Twilight. Kevin made him put armbands on because it was ‘distracting on the court’ and ‘hurt his eyes’.”
  • “Neil Josten lives to make me miserable and got his arms tattooed to look like he was wearing my armbands. I keep wearing mine because I won’t give him the satisfaction of taking them off because of him.”
  • “They’re engagement and marriage bands. We used to have rings, but he kept losing his when he took it off for games and practices. I can’t imagine why I didn’t just divorce him.”
  • “Kevin made them for us. He tried to take up sewing to find a hobby when he couldn’t play. He wasn’t very good at it. All he ever learned to make were sleeves. We wear them to humour him.”
  • “Neil Josten is a kleptomaniac. He steals things and hides them up his sleeves. One time, back at PSU, he stole an entire block of cheese from Aaron’s dorm. No one knows why. I guess he really likes cheese.”
  • “Neil’s wrists are so fragile that doctors compared his radius bone to a baby bird’s wing. He has to keep braces on at all times or else his arms will shatter under their own weight.”
  • “Nike gives us 50 bucks every time we go out in public wearing them.”
  • “When Neil’s forearms come in direct contact with oxygen, he loses all impulse control and verbal filter. Don’t you remember his interviews from before he had them?”

Part 3/?

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