@projectliterature event 04 : free week - neil josten (all for the game)
— he’d been raised to run, to sacrifice everything and everyone to ensure his own survival. a jumble of lies had nothing to fight for but neiil josten was a fox. neil wasn’t going to lose any of it
When I’m playing, I feel like I have control over something. I feel like I have the power to change things. I feel more real out there than I do anywhere else. The court doesn’t care what my name is or where I come from or where I’ll be tomorrow. It lets me exist.
hi i know this is super random but i was wondering if you ever drew sketches of any of the other characters in the foxhole court ? i was stalking you blog when i saw you drawing of neil and i was shook ! it was so different and yet i couldn't see neil as any other way !! i was just curious if you had any small sketches or unfinished pieces of the characters though im mostly curious as to hiw you envision andrew
Hey there! I’ve been saving this ask so I could give it some time, but to answer your question, I haven’t before but I do have pretty strong opinions on Andrew’s face.
I like a blockier andrew, with a shorter nose and wider jaw. The kind of short nose that could make a kid look really mean if he wanted to, and maybe just a little bit snobbish. It fits with my mental image of him and with the sport (more like hockey but y’know, in more dimensions). Also I think of him looking just a little more average compared to Neil.
Might not have conveyed myself fully in the sketch below but i feel like it looks close.
This is one of the best Andrews I’ve ever seen in fanart!!! Wow 😮😍
do u ever cry because neil has been through so much abuse from both his parents and yet he’s still kind.
i know people will lose their goddamn minds if you claim that neil is soft but like y'all gotta understand that softness =/= weak or nice. softness is the way neil tries to mend aaron and andrews relationship. softness comes from neil telling andrew that he was amazing before walking to his death. neils softness is the way he lets allison put make up on him, it’s knowing he’s going to die so he dives headfirst into spending time with matt and dan. it’s how he’s willing to spend the money he’s conditioned to save on a vacation for the foxes. he’s soft in the way he’s surprised when nicky hands him andrew’s gift, in the way he asks nicky if they’re friends, he ditched exy and kevin to get ice cream with nicky for them all, this all comes from a place of softness and tenderness
and i know i know neil is still rough edges and anger and pettiness and harsh words spit as bodies collide but this isn’t exclusive from being the same boy who tried to calm down andrew on a plane bc he’s afraid of heights. don’t erase his tenderness because you can’t fathom that it can exist alongside his fire and passion. after everything he’s been through, after his father’s abuse and his mother trying to beat his essence out of him, he still has kindness and softness left. let him have it.
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