hola me amiga, back again to ask: tilda minyard and her relationship to both of the twins. thoughts?
hello again!
(cw: abusive parent-child relationship, tilda, twinyards’ pasts)
oh boy. tilda. she is one character that i just. hate. i don’t hate her for putting the twinyards into foster care. i don’t even hate her for only taking aaron back, bc while it’s heartbreaking all around... she couldn’t handle two kids, which is devastating but fair. not telling aaron about andrew was pretty shitty, but again, she couldn’t handle two and aaron would’ve wanted to reunite, so keeping him a secret was maybe what she thought was the least painful.
but god. i hate her so much.
she was neglectful of aaron his whole childhood and made him feel like a burden. he still loved her, bc kids want to love their parents so desperately. and in return he was met with snarls and insults and silent hatred. the kind where a person can channel their hate as they’re washing dishes roughly or clenching they’re jaw while watching tv. the kind that festers around you and makes the entire environment stifling and toxic.
and then andrew. i don’t think andrew had it in him any more to care that he was abandoned. the fact that tilda abandoned him and kept aaron may have stung slightly, but ultimately, he would’ve shoved that down as just another shitty thing in his shitty life and moved on.
however.
tilda started to become violent when higgins told them about andrew. she’d been abusive the whole time, but now it was physical as well. and there’s no way aaron didn’t associate that negativity with andrew, even only subconsciously, before he even met him.
and then andrew was reunited, which tilda had tried to avoid all along. and andrew saw how abusive she was and told aaron he could take care of it, and he did. and aaron despised him for it. because he still loved his mom. because he was still so desperate for the love that came out in fractured fractions from time to time.
tilda is, ultimately, why the twinyards have such a shitty relationship. she’s the reason aaron had such a shitty childhood. (i don’t think it’s 100% fair to blame all of andrew’s on her, because while she is why he’s there, she wasn’t the actual abuser for him. she doesn’t haunt his nightmares).
tilda shattered the twinyards and did nothing to put them back together. and i will never forgive her for it.
I always thought Andrew's big tips were actually for the drugs??? Like to pay them in an inconspicuous way??? The cracker dust at sweetie's and the drug for neil at eden's (also wasn't it aaron who paid in the first sweetie's scene???)
the very excessive tips at sweetie’s were definitely for the cracker dust! but in chapter 9 of the raven king, when all the foxes go to columbia together for halloween, there’s the quote: “Nicky's friendship with the staff and Andrew's generous tips got them instant access and ridiculous discounts on drinks”. so i guess it’s only really confirmed that he tips well at eden’s, but i’m assuming he’d do the same at sweetie’s (even without the cracker dust), especially since they continue to go there after andrew’s deal to quit using the cracker dust. plus, nicky worked there as a host before getting his job at eden’s (it says that in chapter 12 of trk) which would be even more incentive to leave good tips :)
(i think you’re right about aaron paying for sweetie’s and the drugs in tfc. maybe they take turns paying? regardless, he left lots of tips too so i bet they’re just all really generous tippers!)
same energy as “i can walk” “proud of you, didn’t ask”
I thought of this interaction whilst shopping today & laughed out loud in the dairy aisle.
okay you know what, andrew may have killed his mom but at least he’s a generous tipper. murder? excusable. tipping 5% at a restaurant? well now we’re gonna have to excuse another murder
back on my bullshit
n e ways
do you want have headcannon for the foxes cursing habits/how they curse/ everyone’s fave curse word (this totally includes abbie and dadmack too btw)
ilysm, thank you for another ask!
ooo this is fun! (it got very long very fast hahah sorryyy). here’s what i’ve got for you:
(coarse language ahead, obviously)
dan mostly swears at people. by this, i mean she doesn’t usually swear if she stubs her toe or is running late, only if someone pisses her off
her favourite ones are asshole and motherfucker, but she’s also fond of dick
kevin isn’t picky with his swear words - he’ll use whatever gets the point across
however, he loves swearing in french, and his fave french curse is “putain à la merde”, which loosely translates to fucking shit
andrew opts for fuck and fuck you most of the time. in english, because he usually wants everyone to understand him if he swears
that said, he doesn’t often have to swear - his stare says it well enough
matt curses not only when he’s mad, but also when he gets excited (so basically, he swears a lot)
his faves are holy hell/fucking hell and frick frack crack-a-lack (bc of the looks the foxes give him when he says it)
aaron’s favourite english swear words are bullshit and moron, but he especially enjoys the casual german curse word “scheiße” and uses it very often
seth goes right for the throat. he’s not afraid to use the f slur or c*nt, especially around the foxes (two swear words that i’m nervous to even type out LMAO)
in more public settings, he opts for jesus christ and shit
allison loves saying bitch/son of a bitch (bc people call her a bitch all the time so she just turns it around)
worth noting that she swears at inanimate objects more than at people - her curling iron when it burns her, her phone when she drops it, anything she bumps into, etc
nicky, like aaron, is fond of german curse words. his are generally more colourful though, since he learned more german slang and bc swear words are the first thing he got erik to teach him
in english, nicky likes kiss my ass and damn. he also enjoys making up random insults sometimes, like calling someone an untied shoelace or a stale piece of bread. medicated andrew found this very entertaining
renee doesn’t swear - she destroys people with condescension and passive-agressiveness
before she was born-again, she was fond of using fuck (twinning w andrew xoxo)
neil will use literally anything, in any language. typically he morphs his curses to fit whatever culture he’s currently immersed in. some examples:
america: fuck/fucker
britain: wanker and prick
france: merde, salope, and va te faire enculé (shit, bitch, and go fuck yourself)
germany: flachwischer and du fickfehler (~fuckiwit/motherfucker and you mistake*)
wymack always mixes it up. flying fuck, pain in my ass, what the absolute shit, goddamnit, etc. he doesn’t have a favourite; he likes them all
abby’s pretty tame, usually. her most frequently used are crap, what the hell, and christ. if she stubs her toe, she normally says frick. wymack thinks it’s adorable
*i don’t actually speak german, besides very basic beginner duolingo stuff, so those translations are just what i found on random websites
okay but andrew thinking that neil was just a side-effect of the drugs just-
he thought that neil was too good to be true, that there was no way he could actually be real
he probably braced himself for bitter disappointment when he was going through withdrawal, was probably expecting to feel apathy towards everyone and everything yet again
but then neil was there and he was just as interesting as before
he still cared about andrew
he respected andrew’s boundaries
he didn’t run
he kept his promises
the man with a plethora of secrets willingly opened about his life, unprompted, for three hours on the bus
like
how did andrew come to terms with the fact that neil wasn’t a pipedream, he wasn’t too good to be true??
how did he accept that neil chose him and he wasn’t backing out, wasn’t leaving???
how long did it take him to stop expecting neil to abandon him?
how long did it take him to realize that neil was permanent?
and for how long did andrew think that he didn’t deserve any of it?
ok ok but the upperclassmen planning a team bonding night and someone pulls out a puzzle. while they’re building it, neil casually mentions that he’s been there before. after that, it becomes the foxes’ goal to find as many puzzles of obscure places neil’s been as possible. they hide the picture so that neil can’t see it ahead of time, and build until either a) he recognizes it and gives them a random piece of info about that place or b) says he hasn’t been there, but still somehow always has an obscure fact to share about the place
erik: what does ‘take out’ mean?
nicky: dating :)
kevin and aaron: food
neil: murder
andrew: all three, if you’re not a fucking coward
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
it’s funny to think that kevin was completely oblivious while watching exy in the bedroom when neil and andrew were making out right outside the door. BUT it’s even funnier to imagine that since he likely already knew andreil was a thing/not-a-thing and he heard the nicky leave, he was just,, sitting in there and trying so hard to focus on the game while turning his headphones to max volume and internally screaming at himself not to leave the room
i haven’t sent an ask in a little bit so i just wanted to say hi!! how are you :3
hi!! i can’t even tell you how happy i was to see your ask in my inbox, i hope you’re doing well :) and i’m pretty good, tysm for asking <3 i’m super close to being done exams (and my first year of uni!), i’m excited for more time to read. overall, it’s a vibe. and your ask seriously made my day, thank you so much!!!
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