Finally I Made This

what the Trojans expected: violent dangerous giant ex raven 👹🔪

what they got:

what the Foxes expected: traumatized poor baby angel runaway 🥺😇

what they got:

hi! i love your neil(s) so much! i saw someone mention the neil universe and now im thinking uhhh trojan!neil !!?

trojan! neil descends upon us ... (deeply cursed)

i said i would never step on danganronpa ground again ... yet here i am, 3 years later.

trend starter here

buy ME a ko-fi here AND get a doodle of your choice! :)

Even if Dead plate wasn’t queerbaiting, it was DEFINITELY shipbaiting. The dialogue option about whether Rody is jealous of Vince’s possible gf, the hair drying scene, the way he stops correcting Rody about not calling him Vince… u guys r tumblr girlies, you knew damn well what you were doing LMAO. There’s nothing wrong w that lol - it makes for a fun dynamic - but don’t claim that queerbaiting never came into it pffft

My co-developer and composer who worked on the game are both men, calling us "tumblr girlies" is a bit condescending and disrespectful.

To queerbait or shipbait, it means we were taking advantage of possible queer characters and relationships as a means to appeal to queer audiences while maintaining ambiguity about the characters' sexualities. We don't believe the game was baiting anyone since again not only the sexualities of the characters aren't ambiguous as it was fully stated they were written as queer the moment they were designed way before the game was even developed, we've expressed multiple times that while the game does have themes of queerness and cannibalism the main plot and intention behind the source game was always intended to heavily focus on exploring the horror that comes from toxic and unhealthy obsessions and mindsets and how far one is willing to go for them (Rody's self-sacrificial and desperate love for Manon, Vince's selfish obsession for perfection, Rody and taste, etc). The game is about a waiter seeking out and realizing what happened to his ex-girlfriend, that's always been the main plot, Dead Plate is a game in the thriller/horror genre and there was not a single mention of the game having any possible romance in it nor the queer identities and interactions of the characters were used to promote the game in any of the official game pages or promotional material to draw in more audiences, so hearing that you're watering the game down just as some kind of shallow bait is a bit disheartening.

Sometimes characters just happen to be queer, and not all media with queer characters are strictly about romance. Their relationship is still up for audience interpretation and people can take them as whatever they like if they want to enjoy them like that as long as they aren't hurting anyone but we never meant to intentionally bait anyone into trying out the game using their queerness, and that as queer writers ourselves we've expressed time and time again how we wished people to check out the game for the overall narrative and message it has rather than for people to only focus and view the game as shipping material since we believe the game offers a lot more than that.

The Monsters’ Little Monsters

The Princess

Amalia Theadosia Day

The Demon of Exy

Emilio Isaiah Minyard-Josten

The Cutest

April Brianna Minyard

The Overachiever

Anais Margot Minyard

— I know it was all based on a misunderstanding... But I lived as the Predator Killer for a while.

— Yes, that's right. You're probably the person who knows him best.

I want "Neil died in Baltimore" Andrew and "The Moriyamas killed Andrew as a warning" Neil to meet

Akutagawa

Do you have any very romantic Andreil? In character, but fics of them growing together and finding where their sharp edges fit together without hurting each other. I dunno i was just rereading Trust Fall (and Welcoming Arms) and Progress Comes in Small Steps and i had a need for more. Can be au or post canon or whatever! Thank y’all; i’m grateful for everything you do!!

Andreil fitting their broken edges together and healing is so satisfying to read and good for the soul! This ask took us a long time because life kept happening so we had less time to read fic and for the library. Then we started to worry that we could not do this topic justice, and that made it so much harder to post an answer. We welcome reader recs in the comments. -A & S

referenced in the ask:

‘progress comes in small steps’ series here

‘Trust Fall (And Welcoming Arms)’ here

building trust/developing relationship

‘Hold me close, in fact bury me’ here 

‘right side of rock bottom’ here

‘Sophomore Slump’ (since updated) here

‘on the tip of my tongue (say something)’ series here  

‘the icarus to your certainty’ here

‘I can't make you love me (if you don't)’ here

‘overturn the violence’ here

‘Unspoken’ here

‘lessons in trust’ here

‘Every Choice Leads to You’ here

‘I Just Want You’ here

‘Andreil: Into The Future’ series here

‘I Will Always Choose You’ series here

‘stop the clocks’ here

‘Broken’ series here

you may also like

the most romantic smut here

andreil getting married here

fave andreil breakup/make-up here

andreil dramatic reunions here

Andrew is soft about Neil here

Neil professes his love for Andrew here

recs for getting comfortable with sex/exploring sexuality here

flashes of intimacy by mostly_maudlin [Rated T, 7241 Words, Incomplete, Updated Feb 2023]

a series of andreil flashfics on touch & closeness.

NB: find the art by @emry-stars-art that inspired ch. 13 of this fic here

paradise by saturnwaves [Rated E, 38360 Words, Complete, 2022]

Neil and Andrew take a very well deserved vacation.

tw: explicit sexual content 

Artist!Neil AU series by Fortheloveofexy [Rated G/E, Collection, Complete, 2021]

Part 1: May We Meet Again [G, 10732 Words]

Neil hurriedly pulls out his sketchbook and crosses the street. “Excuse me,” he says in fluid German, waving his hand to catch the short blonde's attention. He’s soundly ignored right up until he’s next to the man’s table. “Hi, sorry to bother you,” he smiles politely, “But I was wondering if I could sketch your portrait?”

tw: implied/referenced abuse, tw: implied/referenced rape/noncon

Part 2: Paint Our Lives In Color [E, 41386 Words]

It's been two weeks since Neil followed Andrew to the States, and life couldn't get any better. Neil has never really known what home feels like, but he imagines it must be something like this.

Or; Neil settles into his new life, makes some new friends and learns a little about the meaning of family.

Set after "May We Meet Again" and before "And May We Never Part"

tw: implied/referenced child abuse, tw: panic attacks, tw: ptsd, tw: anxiety

Part 3: The Past, Stained Red [Not Rated, 4443 Words]

It had started out as such a normal, innocuous day. A peaceful morning, so far from the shadows of his past that he could almost pretend it hadn’t happened.

tw: panic attacks, tw: implied/referenced rape noncon, tw: vomiting, tw: implied/referenced child abuse, tw: implied/referenced self harm

Part 4: And May We Never Part [E, 3241 Words]

A year has passed since the day they first met, and Andrew doesn't shy away from Neil's perceptive gaze anymore. In fact, he finds comfort in it. Being seen by Neil has become its own form of safety. The world may look unkindly on Andrew Minyard, but in the eyes of his lover, his partner, his person, he doesn't need to hide. Neil sees him and loves him for exactly who he is.

Maybe that's what gives him the courage to do what he does today.

(Set after "Paint Our Lives In Color")

tw: explicit sexual content

Part 5: My Love For You Runs Blue [E 3321 Words]

It had been a shock how much he liked this, when he and Neil had first tried doing things this way. Andrew had expected to hate it, or a best, to be neutral about it. He'd wanted to try anyway, just to prove he could. Just to prove that he could have this.

The knowledge that not only could he have this, but he could enjoy it too had been nothing short of a revelation

(Set several years after "And May We Never Part")

tw: explicit sexual content

NB: this may not be all of it, but you can find art for this fic by @fortheloveofexy​ here, here, and here

Shut Up, This is Love series by lady_flash [Rated T/M/E, Collection, Updated Jan 2023] 

Part 1: I Wanna Get Better [M, 40125 Words, Complete, 2021]

I didn't know I was broken 'til i wanted to change

I wanna get better, better, better, better,

I wanna get better

Or, Andrew persuades Neil to give Dr. Betsy Dobson a chance and the decision starts to change their relationship in ways they didn't expect.

tw: panic attacks, tw: urge to self harm, tw: implied/referenced noncon, tw: implied/referenced child abuse, tw: implied/referenced nonconsensual drug use, tw: implied/referenced abuse, tw: implied/referenced torture, tw: violence, tw: alcohol, tw: explicit sexual content   

Part 2: Wake Up to Your Sunset by lady_flash [M, 49047 Words, Complete, 2023]

Neil and Andrew are living apart. And it's fine. Except when it isn't.

tw: involuntary outing, tw: homophobia, tw: implied/referenced rape/noncon, tw: victim blaming, tw: self harm, tw: implied/referenced suicide attempt, tw: alcohol, tw: violence, tw: explicit sexual content

Part 3: Bunny [T, 6541 Words, Complete, 2022]

How each of the original Foxes found out that Andrew likes to call Neil "Bunny".

That's it, that's the fic.

Part 4: Hop, Little Bunny [E, 1855 Words, Complete, 2022]

Happy (slightly belated) birthday to my fellow Scorpio, Andrew Minyard. Here's some pwp just for you.

tw: explicit sexual content

Roadside Motels (a The Little Things remix) by static_abyss [Rated M, 7108 Words, Complete, AFTG Remix 2020]

Neil's well aware that this is the first time he and Andrew are away from the others. And the idea that there's no one but Andrew for miles sets a low heat in Neil's stomach. They're by themselves on the road and Neil isn't sure what to expect. But he figures he'll know by the end of the week whether this trip was a good idea.

Thorns by mostly_maudlin [Rated E, 17693 Words, Complete, 2022]

Part 2 of Five Hours Away

Andrew and Neil are used to surviving. They are not used to people coming back.

It’s Neil’s senior year, and the five hour drive separating them comes with obstacles they couldn't anticipate. But they’re trying.

They’ll do better.

tw: explicit sexual content

Buried in the weight of your arms by kenkatsuki [Rated T, 3595 Words, Complete, 2017]

Neil grasped tightly at Andrew and hoped to convey all he felt towards the other man. It was so much. Too much. He wasn't sure how it was possible to feel so much for a person when he had learned all his life that feelings were dangerous and risky things, better to be held at bay.

But Andrew had come into his life and Neil would have to lose his fingers and hands and arms to let go of him. Maybe not even then.

No matter what happened they would always find the way back to each other.

mind the angels my love (mind also those words) by skysolos [Rated G, 643 Words, Complete, 2021]

Andrew Minyard has never been good with words. But for Neil Josten, he would try to.

Art

Andrew caught Neil's face in his hands and leaned in art by @laurafromnowhere

Neil kissing Andrew’s scars art by @flockeinc

I‘m not a pipe dream art by @colourofmagic

andreil book scene art by @stopitsaya

happiness for Neil Josten art by @masslowart on instagram