Neil: This Is It

honestly, what a power-move for neil to be an absolute asshole to the feds and get his way because of it. like damn, yes, let them know that you know how vital you are to their case. speak a different language so that they can’t understand you. call them out on their lies. insult them. go off my guy, that’s what we like to see

(and also shoutout to the rest of the foxes for refusing to tell the feds anything because they said they couldn’t see neil. this is the friendship neil deserves. this is the family that he didn’t dare to dream for. iconic)

how terrifying do you think it was for kevin to get a phone call from riko during christmas break while neil was at evermore? do you think his heart skipped a beat when he saw the caller ID? do you think he stared in shock and tried to fight off a panic attack while his mind spiralled to worst-case scenarios? what do you think kevin thought riko was calling for? to bring kevin back? to tell him that he took things with neil too far? to say that neil signed the contract and wouldn’t be coming back? or that he passed him off to nathan and neil was gone forever?

how do you think he reacted when riko told him that he’d inked neil? that he hadn’t passed neil off to nathan, but he might as well have? that he was practically painting a target directly onto him and begging someone to take aim? how worried do you think he was? how relieved when neil came back, harmed but alive? 

and most of all, how hard do you think it was for him to try and keep it together when he knew how it would eventually end for his smart-mouthed, runaway recruit with worlds of potential?

boy overthinks literally everything else

i present my own personal headcanon: indigenous matt boyd

lots of fanfic makes nicky out to be completely clueless and hyper but in the books, neil says he thinks that nicky has to act more outgoing to make up for the twinyards antisocial tendencies, and he’s actually pretty perceptive - normally realizes as soon as he makes someone uncomfortable, could tell when neil was anxious near the end of the kings men leading up to raven game, just genuinely tries to help others and be a good person but he has to put up an act all the time

Dude no shit, he literally says “fuck you, cripple” and books it out of the room before Kevin can beat his ass. And in the first book too, like oh damn you guys don’t even know about his “attitude problem” yet

I’m surprised this quote is in the third book considering, you know ... everything

the foxes love neil bc he’s like a lil stray that they feel like they need to take care of half the time and are terrified of the other half, but like... he’s such a Bitch™ to literally everyone else. not even just his considerable amount of enemies but... the cheerleader that he shot down, bee, basically every exy player that isn’t on his team, the doctor in baltimore, etc etc etc. i love him for it, but i also know that if i met him irl he would tear me to shreds

i just think that if i go one more day without meeting the foxes i’ll cry

damn😍🤤

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honestly andrew probably got to neil in time by booking it across the court the second neil opened his mouth after the final match bc he just knew it’d be some dumb shit that would make riko want to kill him