This Is How The First Chapter Of The Foxhole Court Went Right

I think we as a community don't recognize how funny the first confrontation scene in The Foxhole Court is. Like we talk about how absolutely confused Kevin must have been and how the sudden language shift was wild and how Aaron and Nicky are just O.O over the quiet new kid losing his shit.

But Neil runs into the room (picking the lock with ease, mind you) guns blazing, threatens Kevin, calls him a slur and a "deadweight has-been", then turns and fucking runs. Like... doesn't even put up a pretense of a physical fight, just books it and slams the door closed like that's going to make a difference. The mental image of Neil Josten sprinting out the room like a thirteen year old who just pissed off his older sibling and is about to employ the kicking method is too good for us not to recognize.

remember when. remember when books used to have adam parrish in them

jeremy knox really hit it all!

- dead brother

- not one but TWO asshole fathers

- suicide attempt

- cocaine

- gay

If i know anything it's that Neil would probably be that one white boy who wears shorts in the middle of the freezing winter completely unaffected

aaron minyard's life will never stop being funny to me. your mother is abusive and you become addicted to drugs. you discover you have a twin brother and the guy doesn't want to fucking talk to you. he goes to juvie and then comes to live with you. he kills your fucking mother. he doesn't talk to you. your gay cousin comes back from Europe and adopts you. your brother almost kills some more people and now he has to be medicated all the time. you get a scholarship to play a stupid sport at a dead-beat team of rejects with basically your whole family. your brother still doesn't talk to you. he carries knives now. he adopts a guy who had his hand crashed and looks like he ran away from a cult. he's a celebrity. you meet a girl that you like but you can't be with her because your brother might kill her. he still doesn't talk to you. new guy gets signed up on the team and he has all your warning bells going off. your brother seems to agree. then suddenly he's part of your little gang. your brother and him talk a lot apparently? (he doesn't talk to to you) said guy can't keep his mouth shut for 5 seconds. he is a real asshole and he knows german. you have to keep up with uni because you want to become a doctor. you kill your brother's rapist. he goes away. you still haven't talked. he comes back. the insufferable brat goes missing. he is the son of a serial killer? no, fuck that. him and your brother are a thing? are they for real? you're half convinced your brother is doing this to spite you. you're going to the championships against a team used as a front for the mafia. you just wanted to become a doctor.

i cannot believe that Renee has canonically looked at two people throughout the books and thought ‘would smash’ and those people are Andrew and Jean… girl what’s going on

The fact that we have chekov's safe word just laying around is making me so nervous. The fact we didn't see it used this book just means she is saving it for something awful down the line

Jeremy to Kevin: i wonder 🌸😊 what 💞Jean💕 will do after college ✨🌼 when he doesn't have to play exy anymore 💫☺️🌺✨

Kevin: this sweet summer child doesn't know our souls literally belong to a mob boss

nora confirmed that if he wanted to Neil could take down the fucking Yakuza and kill everyone he dislikes but he chooses to be a fucking jock

my favorite scene in all of literature is when Neil Josten wakes up in Columbia after being drugged, hurls an alarm clock at Aaron, dumps his water on the floor and throws the cup at Aaron, stuff his clothes down the toilet and squeezes out through the window, has the foresight to call Matt from a pay phone to protect his shit, hitch hikes back to campus, eyes back to brown?? shows up on Wymack’s door like 😜 and reveals he could speak German the whole time?? CHARACTER OF ALL TIME, that is a protagonist who knows how MOVE THE MFING PLOT ALONG