“I Don’t Want You To Be Like Zane…I Don’t Want Coach To Be Like The Master. I Don’t Want To

renee finds out about the fire and texts jean that she’s giving the foxes his new address so they can send him postcards, pictures, new things to fill their new home

kevin sends a couple of postcards, like he always used to

neil takes the absolute WORST photos of the team and sends them jean’s way. he can’t help but laugh at them, blurry, out of focus, ridiculous moments

renee keeps texting him, of course, but she’ll also send him the occasional artistic photo of the open sky, a flower in bloom

wymack sends him a terse letter telling him to contact him if jean needs anything

and then jean gets this ugly, dollar-store card that has a simple ‘fuck you, moreau’ scrawled in messy handwriting on the back, and he thinks it’s just another attack from one of the ravens or their fans until he sees the signature at the bottom: ex-brisket lungs

he frames it.

the thing about neil and jean is that i very much feel like their relationship is mirrored in andrew & aaron's relationship. the 'misplaced forever partner' vs. 'the brother who was given away.'

the way neil was abused but he was KEPT, he had a mother who gave her life to fight for him vs. jean who was sold and forgotten and abandoned, stripped of his own name and his language, who had to survive riko and the master and the complicated dynamics of being perfect court but also property, who had to navigate the nest and all its horrors and hierarchy completely alone.

aaron who was abused, who was beaten and strung along and neglected, but who his mother came back for vs. andrew who was left behind, who never had a last name, who said 'please' so much at seven he can't stand the sound of the word at 21, who was willing to carve pieces from himself for the promise of a scrap of family.

andrew and aaron made a deal and hated each other for it. jean and neil were each others partners - your failure is my failure, your success is my success. andrew, who killed aaron's mother when he found out she was beating him, to hold up his end of the deal. jean, who held neil down to be carved, but who patched him up again after.

aaron, who killed his brother's rapist. and neil who did the same

I thought that Jeremy couldn't be an addict because that would make him "too much of a fox" and the trojans didn't have criminal or public, stigmatised problems but in actuality I think it's a great way to explore how wealth defines these labels. The foxes are constantly maligned for being problem cases but Jeremy is the captain of the trojans because of blatant bribery and abuse of power. Jeremy suffers horrific consequences for his actions, in the form of homophobia, shame, guilt, emotional and fincancial abuse and control. But he is able to avoid the worst practical consequences (serious jail time, let alone suspension from school, loss of his Exy career) because of his parents influence and wealth. He is able to get clean because of their wealth. Whereas the foxes are 'junkies and criminals' for their entire career and are only allowed a shot at a better life if they're lucky because Wymack puts his neck out for them. I think it's genius to have us guess and wait for book two because it emphasises this disparity.

Like, how did they think that the same Kevin that got white as a ghost when he saw Riko at Kathy's program would serve this amount of cunt to Riko???

My poor boy took almost two years to be brave enough to cover that pathetic face tattoo, he definitely wouldnt be running around recruiting runaway backliners just to provoke Riko

I think that this mostly serves as a way to show how egocentric Riko was, and how this mentality would also contaminate others around him. Riko knew Kevin was f-ing scared of him, and he clearly had a lot of fun on the Kathy's show and banquets making Kevin feel afraid. But he just couldnt accept Kevin was his own person and would do things bc he wanted/believed they were right. So if he recruited Nathaniel off course it was on porpuose only to taunt him, bc off course he is the center of the world and all Kevin's actions must be related to him

Actually hilarious to me that Riko & co. thought that Kevin went out and recruited Neil Josten aka Nathaniel Wesninski aka The Butcher's son ON PURPOSE

They really thought my guy went "you took my hand? Well I'm taking your runaway backliner who's been missing for the past eight years." And that he went and did it BY HIMSELF in FOUR MONTHS

I know Kevin is and has always been That Bitch™, but he could never dream to serve the amount of cunt Riko thought him capable of when he first got the lab results back from Kathy's show. No wonder they were so mad lol

Our queen Kevin "it is easier to make court if you are straight" Day

I was going to change the username but then I realized there was too many people it applied to so I decided to leave it up to interpretation

Neil is an unreliable narrator TO YOU. I believe him.

now what if i said pillow princess kevin day and service top neil josten?

no? anyone??

my favourite scene of tsc is when cat saves jean from fans by asking him in french if he wants to fuck and jean is so shocked he just stops functioning and forgets to be an asshole long enough for them to drag him away. 10/10 problem solving from catalina alvarez

Aaron Minyard🤝Neil Josten🤝"dead man dont rape"

And I love them for it

It’s so funny that Aaron has killed a man. Bro really said “I haven’t taken the Hippocratic oath yet, motherfucker” and concaved a rapist’s skull.

Yess

Like, that "give your game to me" shit with Neil was the most non-straight interaction I have ever seen in my life

That sh*t was literally screaming homosexuality

Or him taking Jean's hands, the way he talks abt Jeremy

There is no way our diva queen of Exy is straight, I cant accept it

its truly poetry that kevin “it’s better to be straight” day only has 4 friends and both pairs of them are gay and fucking each other