I feel like the aftg fandom has just swung hard from one mischaracterization of Neil to another.
Yes, Neil is not an innocent little soft-boy like a lot of fans made him out to be pre-TSC, but he isn't some cold, calculated badass either.
He took out a hit on Grayson over Thai food. He doodles fox paws in his notebooks and hates vegetables. He insults FBI agents' parking jobs and he spent a bus ride staring over the back of his seat making heart eyes at his boyfriend. He manipulated the agents while eating takeout in the interrogation room. He canonically internally panics and overthinks the entire time he's attempting to manipulate anyone. He uses people's family trauma to manipulate them. He misses his mom.
Neil Abram Josten is a multifaceted character
Andrew & Neil
Thoughts and musings!
hilarious to me when andrew haters are like "neil could do better!" like? you think so?? you think ANYBODY else is willing to unpack all of that???? no let andrew keep him okay i think neil would give anybody else a heart attack
people like to associate kevjean with ‘the love was there and it didn’t change anything’ but between you and me the love was there and it changed everything. the love was there and it spoke to jean in his mother language. the love was there and it held jean to his promise. the love was there and it sent jean to usc. the love was there and it got him postcards and magnets and notes and stickers and a reason to live. maybe it didn’t light all the corners of jean’s life but it burned bright enough to remind him there was still a way out
neil when nicky said girls were too soft for him:
The Foxes, leaving the banquet after Neil physically and verbally assaulted Riko:
Neil is the most unserious character like what do you mean you develop a secondhand nicotine addiction purely because you want to remember the smell of your moms burning corpse
This is so jean -core that I’m pretty sure it’s cannon.
rereading the foxhole court is so funny. like Andrew took one look at Neil and was like "idk what the fuck this kid is so paranoid for but he should not be planning to flee for his life. his ass should be in the CLUB"