dan:she is all about school spirit, she is way too enthusiastic about picture day and has a ton of ideas for action shots and poses. the photographer loves her, and she is thriving.
allison: she’s a model. every angle is flawless, the camera captures her beauty and she is looking fabulous. only downside is that she is very opinionated about how she poses, and she doesn’t know what a compromise is.
matt: he is just trying his best. he is tall and doesn’t know how to pose. the majority of the foxes are short af, he is just standing in the background looming over everyone. he looks beautiful, but very threatening.
renee: she is the designated peacekeeper. when one of the foxes is being dumb about getting in a pose, she just gives them an evil little smile and they immediately fall in line. all the pictures of her have to be edited, because somehow her eyes are red in every single one.
seth: he just wants to go home. he doesn’t like smiling at the camera but dan and allison bully him into it. his action shots look great, but in all of the group pictures his eyes are closed.
nicky:he just has fun. he is the moment. the photographer kind of hates him because during the group shots he keeps giving seth bunny ears, and seth keeps trying to throttle him.
kevin:he is the worst. kevin think he is the main character, and despite being one of the few tall members on the team he always tries to be in the front row. as a compromise he has started laying on his side in front of the group, like he’s about to be painted like one of those french girls.
neil: cryptid behavior. the photographers forget he exists. he is in group pictures, but half of his body is always cut off. he has an individual photo, but all of them are out of focus.
andrew: he pays aaron to do all the individual and action shots for him. he is in the group photos, but he is always looking anywhere but at the camera.
aaron: he is just so done with andrew’s shit. he has twice as many pictures to take, and he has to do a wardrobe change. he was not payed enough for this.
the foxes in high school if they were not traumatized au
part 2 (ft. everyone being oblivious)
when andreil starts dating no one really notices, even though andrew and neil will mention their relationship but people sort of just think it’s a weird inside joke. this is because of many reasons, but here’s a few of them:
kevin knows they’re together and will tell them to stop flirting whenever he is in their presence, but neil will always go “ew cooties” while andrew just looks offended, and people assume it’s becuase he’s been accused of flirting and not because his bf just said he has cooties
most people think andrew is straight even though he regularly makes gay jokes, because they think it’s his weird way of supporting nicky (even if a lot of the jokes feel vaguely homophobic), and that him and neil just have a weird jock bromance going on
whenever neil wants to hold andrew’s hand he very dramatically goes “give me your hand” in a weird voice and then andrew (very reluctantly) will put out his hand, and then once they are walking neil very dramatically swings their hands back and forth until andrew tells him to calm down
when they are sitting on sofas andrew sits at one end while neil sits side ways with his legs on top of andrew’s lap, taking up the entire couch. everyone thinks they are just being assholes who are unwilling to share a couch (which yeah, they definitely are) but it’s actually just that cuddling is very awkward when other people are on the same couch as you, so they’re improvising.
andrew and neil will sometimes take kevin with them on their dates. kevin is horrifically bisexual and obsessed with aaron, so andrew says it’s because he wants to keep an eye on him. neil says it’s because kevin doesn’t trust them to not do something dumb that ends with them kicked off the exy team. the rest of the school thinks that they are just the ultimate friendship trio. when kevin starts dating aaron people are like “omg but what about neil?” and kevin’s just kind of like “he has andrew?” and people are like “but you’re dating andrew, right?” and kevin is very eager to list of all the reasons he would never date andrew, and why aaron is husband material.
why does no one talk about how ridiculous riko’s obsession with neil is?
like imagine finding out your childhood friend is playing for a rival school and the reaction you have isn’t like “oh my gosh!! i haven’t seen neil in 4ever, i hope i can catch up with him soon uwu”
instead your brain goes “im gonna kill neil’s teammate, and then kidnap and torture him over winter break!! that’ll make him transfer schools >:)”
i love how the first time most of us read aftg we thought kevin was going to be the love interest but then BAM! next thing you know the short blonde guy with anger issues is telling us that he would blow neil
and then you reread the series for the first time and realize that this series is the ultimate slow burn that you didnt even know you needed, and you spot all sorts of gay shit you missed the first time around
andrew *turning left in the maserati*: that man better fucking brake for us otherwise we’ll die
neil: i would be the only one dead. he would hit my side of the car and then i would be smushed to bits all over your car
andrew: ew, let’s avoid that. i don’t want your bloody remains in my car, that’d be a pain to clean out.
kevin *sitting in the back, being ignored*: i like how your first thought was “neil’s death would inconvenience me.” and not “omg that’d be awful, neil would be dead!”
headcanon that neil forgets what things are called because his brain is very full of more important stuff so most of his conversations will at some point include interruptions like this:
neil: what is the thing called that blocks people? like it makes it where you can’t get out.
the foxes in high school if they were not traumatized au
part 1 (ft. andreil being absolutely horrible)
nicky is the president of the gsa club and tries to get andrew and neil to join. it goes about as well as you would expect. for some reason nicky thought asking them in a public place would go better, but instead it ends with andrew and neil getting sent to the office.
because apparently loudly announcing that you and your boyfriend would not join the gsa because you ‘hate gay people’ is not an inclusive school appropriate response.
neil then made it worse becuase when the principal asked him why they would say that when they are involved in a homosexual arrangment, neil informed wymack that he isn’t gay, and that he would never touch another man. when wymack gives him a Look, he then turns to andrew and goes
“oh shit babe, you’re a guy? well this is awkward”
and mr. wymack is not paid enough for this
and then becuase andrew is a great boyfriend who values communication and lives to cause problems goes
“ok so am i your boyfriend or not?”
and neil, with his two brain cells replies
“we can’t be boyfriends. becuase im not gay. but you can be my super smash bro :)”
“ok, sick dude”
and then they kiss and dear god wymack wants to retire so badly but he has had a teachers salary for the past 25 years and he has not been principal long enough to have a good retirement, but maybe McDonald’s is hiring
but because he plays on a pro team he’s expected to do certain PR events for various charities
for the first season of his pro career he manages to avoid all of the events involving children, but at the beginning of his second season he has to volunteer at a local children’s athletic center for an exy day camp
at first he’s just happy that he doesn’t have to read them books or make crafts with them or something. but then he realizes that he will have to play exy with actual children. tiny little uncoordinated demons with heavy sticks and projectiles. maybe he would have preferred glue sticks and cotton balls.
when he gets to the event, his teammates (who had done events like this before) filled him in on what he was going to do. kevin’s job is to hand out equipment to the kids when they need it, but he won’t have to actually teach them anything or play with them if he doesn’t want to.
at first it goes relatively well. at least as well as giving energetic grade schoolers helmets and sticks can be. some of the kids vaguely recognize him, but otherwise he is mostly ignored. until two of the kids have an argument about him.
two of the gremlins were arguing over who the best professional striker was, and one of them built their hill on kevin’s career and was ready to die on it. the other kid didnt know who kevin was, until the other child pointed to kevin, who most of the children had simply been referring to as ‘the stickman’
but then kevin’s teammates start shit-talking kevin’s exy skills to the children, because they knew that while kevin might be unpredictable on the field he is a very predictable person when it came to his pride
five minutes later, kevin finds himself on the exy court with a racket that’s made for someone at least 2 feet shorter than him, vs every single child
andrew: mommy isn’t allowed to have cracker dust anymore so you are also banned <3
***
andrew: now that i’ve removed your girlfriend from my hit list i have something i need to talk to you about~
aaron:i stg if you say what i think you’re about to say-
andrew: you radiate very strong virgin energy so i just want to make sure you are aware of safe and sane sexual intercourse practices in case your gf ever propositions you
aaron: stop talking right now.
***
andrew: i got these for you :))
kevin: these are all pamphlets about internalized homophbia
andrew:it’s time for an intervention. nicky and i have formed a 10 step plan to help you analyze your romantic and sexual preferences and by the end of the course we anticipate that you will end the program no longer be the boring cishet man you currently are
***
andrew: sweaty, i bought a ton of clothes for you to try on so we can keep what fits and return the rest. i got so much old navy cash from this, and i am such a dicount god that it ended up being more than 75% off >:)
neil: didn’t you buy me clothes last month?
andrew: are you saying i should return all the sweatpants i just bought?
neil: ok i’ll try them on, geez…
neil: …why would you think that i might need sweatpants in tall? or XS?
andrew: i was just being thorough. you never know what sizes might fit when you’re an athlete uwu
***
nicky: hey andrew just wanted to check in with you about something. are you doing alright?
andrew: i’ve been amazing, why would you ask ?
nicky:you’ve been listening to mamma mia on repeat for the last 3 hours
andrew: yeah. i know. it’s about being a mother. i’ve been taking notes.
***
matt: why do you keep referring to yourself as mommy? is that like a gay thing?
andrew: it’s becuase i am a mother
renee:it’s becuase he has mommy issues
andrew: not anymore. i dealt with the issue.
allison: or maybe it’s because neil is a daddy?
dan: does this make nicky a grandfather?
kevin: maybe the ’m’ in his last name reminds him of the McDonald’s ’M’ which represent voluptuous maternal breasts
aftg where everything is the same except neil and mary keep getting caught by the butcher’s men because neil writes kevin x reader fanfic and overshares in the author’s notes
*cue kevin reading this with varying levels of “what the FUCK” and “WHO THE FUCK” and fine neil pretty quickly
OH FUCK
WHAT IF KEVIN FOUND OUT AFTER NEIL JOINED THE FOXES.
KEVIN SEES THE CHANGE OF BEHAVIOUR IN THE KEVIN CHARACTER AFTER NEIL MWT HIM AND IS SUSPICIOUS
LATER NEIL FALLS ASLEEP ON HIS DESK AND KEVIN SEES THE COMPUTER!!
That night:
Kevin, gripping the raquet like its Neil’s neck: “YOU. You are even dumber than i thought”
Neil: “Andrew babe come help”
the chapter update that night:
“kevin’s strong hands gripped the raquet, in a yearning sort of way. like he wanted to be holding something else. for some reason, i wished i was the raquet.”
THAT WOULD MEAN KEVIN WAS READING THE FICS IM SOBBING
think about mr. kevin day’s personality for 2 seconds and try to tell me he doesnt read fanfiction about himself
@pomenixx i just had the worst funniest thought. when neil is at the nest riko forces him to write riko x reader fanfic so the real reason neil has so much trauma after leaving is becuase riko made him write kidnapped by the yakuza fics where riko is the hot yakuza boss. when neil negotiates for his freedom and for riko’s death he just sends the link to ichirou and was like “your brother’s being reckless. look what he made me write.”
i was thinking about how Edgy™ andrew is from neil’s pov but so many fans have realized he is really just a gay traumatized emo kid
so i have decided that andrew is definitely very active on twitter and has a substantial following. he mainly posts about his stupid little boyfriend, horrific food combinations, jokes about therapy, and random gay thoughts
none of the foxes knew he had twitter (except for his stupid boyfriend) so when his PR agent got on his back about being active on social medie he just changed his twitter handle to his name and that’s how he came out
allison feels betrayed because she had been following andrew for almost as long as he’d been twittering and is horrified that she actually thinks andrew is a funny person
kevin and aaron get married in december because they both love snow and for their honeymoon they go to a ski resort
they go skiing and kevin almost breaks his hand and when he facetimes andreil (for some reason thinking they would be sympathetic, when his own husband won’t stop laughing at him in the background) neil just hands andrew $5 and is like:
“how the fuck did u predict this”
and kevin is super offended that andrew bet that he would have a ‘close call’ while skiing
*andrew age 16, desperately trying to make nicky realize he’s gay without having to say it but also being stubbornly unwilling to make it easy for nicky*
nicky: those are some colorful socks
andrew *wearing socks with gay flags on them*: yeah, you could say that i take great pride in my socks
nicky: okay. im not sure if you know this but those are gay socks
the real reason andrew went through neil’s bag was to figure out his clothing size so he could pick out a Hot outfit for neil when they dragged him to eden’s
thinking about andrew and neil sitting together on long bus rides
neil sleeping on andrew’s shoulder and andrew resting his head on top of neil’s
andrew sharing a pair of ear bud’s with neil, listening to playlists andrew put way too much time into
neil bringing a backpack full of snacks and energy drinks. andrew tells him the only reason he deals with him is because they are trail mix compatible. andrew gets all the raisins and chocolate, while neil gets all the nuts
aftg where everything is the same except neil and mary keep getting caught by the butcher’s men because neil writes kevin x reader fanfic and overshares in the author’s notes
so you know the scene where “happy birthday junior” is written in blood on the locker room wall? how did they write it. did they do it like fingerpainting? or with a massive paint brush? im just imagining lola with a massive paint brush, dipping it into a bucket of pig blood going “this is gonna be so epic, junior’s gonna lose his shit >:)” like how the fuck did this scene get set up????
kevneil au where neil joined the ravens when he was a kid
(neil and kevin are a year apart in this au)
when riko broke kevin’s hand neil made kevin go to the foxes. kevin didnt want to leave neil behind, but neil knew kevin wouldn’t last long if he didnt have any value to the ravens.
when kevin showed up in the foxes bus, wymack immediately took him under his wing. he took him to abby’s to get patched up and then sent andrew after him to make a deal, and kevin became one of the monsters.
slowly kevin integrated himself with the foxes. at practice kevin would throw impossible passes, and seem surprised when no one was there to catch them. but then neil showed up and suddenly someone could catch kevin’s impossible passes and complete his overly complicated drills.
(neil, in all of his wisdom, had talked to ichirou and convinced him to let him join the foxes, promising ichirou impossible results by the end of the season)
andrew was the first to catch on. at first he pushed aside their lingering eye contact and touches as casual familiarity. but then he noticed the small things that they did for each other.
every morning neil went on a run, and every morning kevin made protein shakes. when neil stayed over at abby’s, kevin started to ‘accidentally’ make extra, and neil would 'reluctantly’ drink the left over shake becuase it would be wasted if he didnt.
when kevin dragged neil and andrew to practice during break, neil would always bring an extra water bottle that he let kevin steal. nicky tagged along one of the days and tried to use the 'extra’ waterbottle but backed off when kevin threw a ball at his head.
neil and kevin watched recordings of exy games religiously, and had a set method of gathering data on other players (unless it was related to jeremy knox. knox’s glory could not be captured by mere numbers) while neil argued with every conclusion he came to, even when they agreed.
when the season started neil and kevin would talk rapid fire french at each other during breaks and at half-time. andrew decided to try his best to copy what they said into google translate after the game, but came to the conclusion that his memory must finally be faulty because dear god he sure hoped they weren’t talking about that in front of the entire team.
their relationship was only really confirmed when andrew walked into his dorm room to find neil inside the oversized sweatshirt that kevin was also wearing, cuddling on the couch watching their exy videos together.
before practice aaron and kevin have a very intense stretching routine they do together. it takes them a solid 20 minutes to do every time but they refuse to practice without doing it first bc they dont want to sprain a muscle. neil complains about his legs being sore once and kevin then forces him and andrew to join them too.
pre-kevaaron stretch routines were absolute hell for andrew and neil bc they had to deal with kevin and aaron being flustered when they were watching each other do some of the stretches, or when they had to do the ones where one of them was lying on the ground and the other was pressing their leg into the air for them. andrew had never been happier that he ended his deal with aaron, bc now he could bully kevin into asking his brother out bc jesus christ he didnt want to see that much unresolved sexual tension involving his little brother.
kevin steals his dad’s sams clubs card to by big multipacks of sports drinks and bulk buy healthy food. he always drags aaron with him, and theyll get churros in the food court to eat while theyre shopping. aaron complains to kevin that they dont go on enough dates and kevin goes “dude, we literally went to sams club last saturday” and aaron realizes how dumb his very pretty boyfriend is. “andrew i just realized im dating a himbo” “kevin’s not a himbo he just forgets he’s not straight sometimes”
aaron and kevin use hand warmers for their sore joints after practice, or will keep them in their pockets for when their hands are sore. they have the ones with adhesives to put on the inside of their clothing, and will use those on their legs when they have long classes after practice. matt walks in on kevin putting his arm down the front of aaron’s pants to help him put the adhesive in the right place and is scarred for life. he sends kevin a 3 page word document titled “god i wish i were blind: a guide on how to have a healthy sex life when you have roomates who arent into voyeurism”
aaron sprains his ankle when kevin accidentally pushes him off of his bunk bed when they’re making out bc he thought there was a wall behind him. kevin decided that it is too risky for him and aaron to kiss during exy season so from now on his relationship with aaron will be completely chaste until summer break. the decision lasted exactly 47 minutes, until aaron came back from his morning class.
sometimes kevin forgets that nicky is related to aaron and will start talking about how pretty he is and be offended when nicky doesn’t agree with him “have you seen him stretch to get my cereal off of the top shelf? i want to have so many babies with him. dont you think he’s great too?” “no lol” “fuck you, you have awful taste” “im literally his legal gaurdian” “oh, yeah.”
aaron loves halloween so he ‘forces’ kevin to go to pumpkin patches and haunted houses with him. the twins used to work at one of the haunted houses so aaron knows all the hiding places in the building so he makes kevin hide with him to scare the actors and other people going through. they only go once, because an hour in andrew and neil show up and try to take their hiding place because they were gonna try to scare people too. aaron is horrified that his brother had the same date night idea that he had and never takes kevin to that haunted house again.
aaron makes kevin use his interview personality to get them discounts when they go out to eat. kevin and aaron are both broke college students so kevin very berdugingly will go along with aaron’s plan. “babe i only have $3 for coffee but i wanted a bagel too~” “im not doing the thing” “come on you love doing it” “no i dont. im not doing it.” “ok. guess ill just starve. you dont have to do the thing.” “fine.” “i just said you dont have to~” “im doing it. stop looking at me like that” “thanks babe i knew you loved me”
aaron is majoring in chemistry and has to take 8 different chem classes before he graduates, so kevin knows way more about chem then he needs to. aaron will take pictures of the cool reactions he gets to do in lab and send them to kevin bc kevin likes the colors. for his history major, kevin has to write a big paper so he writes about famous chemists so he can have aaron help him. aaron isnt really much help though bc theyll read about a discovery one of the chemists made and then go down a science rabbit hole and realize that kevin still doesn’t know anything about the chemist.
this post is dedicated to my lovely besties with kevaaron requesties: @/lena.h.w @/kaaaaarts @abundance-ofemilys(@/aftg.bois)@allfourthefoxes@/ukumushu_the_bibliophile
