I Like To Believe That One Day One Of The Foxes Makes The Mistake Of Going To Neil For Relationship Advice

I love the idea of Neil sabotaging the Raven’s fight song. Imagine it’s a really high-stakes game between the Foxes and the Ravens and then right when the Raven’s fight song is about to play A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton starts playing instead, cutting through the tension like a knife.

I love Jean’s commentary in The Sunshine Court when he’s watching matches

If Jean was a chess piece, he’d be a pawn. Not because of the expected reasons like the fact that he has been used as one for years, but because it’s the only piece that can make itself something better when it reaches the end of the board. The Ravens held him back for years, doing everything in their power to make sure he didn’t make it to the other end of the board, to make sure he didn’t see what he could really be. But with the Trojans, they don’t tear him down, they lift him up. And he makes it to the end of the chessboard. I don’t know what other piece he’d become but a pawn has a chance to better itself and move on from its role. A king is a king and a queen is a queen but a pawn could be anything.

Everytime I think about David Wymack and Kayleigh Day I become useless for roughly an hour

I’m a firm believer that the only reason Andrew and Neil aren’t women is because Nora knew they would be too powerful as lesbians

Wylan Van Eck, Adam Parrish and Neil Josten are like the holy trinity of characters with daddy issues

I need to know more about Raven Andrew!! He haunts my narrative.

How would he have coped in the Nest? Assuming he was medicated at the time he joined the Ravens, I assume he wouldn’t have taken it all that seriously. He would’ve had to have it beat into him by Riko and Tetsuji, but I can’t see any of it actually sticking with him until Riko and Tetsuji start hurting other for his mistakes or misgivings. Watching people like Nathaniel (Neil), Jean or Kevin have to suffer for what he was doing would’ve messed with Andrew since, as we see in the series, he just wants to protect everyone around him, but what would his reaction to that have been?

Joining the Ravens would have fucked up his relationship with Aaron and Nicky beyond repair. There is no way Riko and Tetsuji would’ve let him communicate with them (maybe holding it over his head as a punishment for him acting out??) and he would’ve just have to live with not knowing how they were doing. For years, he didn’t know Aaron and Nicky existed and then, finally, he learnt about them and he had them, and their relationships were by no means perfect or even anywhere close to perfect but he knew they existed. I think having Aaron and Nicky for him so late in life only to have them torn away again would’ve messed with him.

In the series, while on his medication during the first two books, Andrew comes off of his medication for their games. Would he be able to do this at the Nest for games? Would his medication be withheld from him at other time, perhaps another punishment for acting out? If he was acting out, would Riko and Tetsuji have kept his medication from him, to see him have to go through those awful withdrawal symptoms? How long could Andrew have gone without his medication until he caved and did whatever they wanted him to do as long as he got his medication back? He hates his medications of course but the withdrawal symptoms are worse.

And one final thing, even if it’s not a behavioural thing, I want to talk about the numbers. Nora said if Andrew was a Raven he would’ve been number seven. It’s such a symbolic number for him. Seven as in the age he was the first time he was assaulted. Seven as in the age where he had to say the word ‘please’ so much, possibly reflecting how his time with the Ravens would’ve went. Then of course we have the way all the numbers add up. Andrew’s Raven number (7) and Andrew’s Fox number (3) would add up to make Neil’s Fox number (10). Andrew’s Raven number (7) and Nathaniel’s Raven number (3) add up to also make Neil’s Fox number (10). Even in universes where they don’t end up together, the traces of what could’ve been (and what was in the universe that we got in the books) still find their way into the story.

I just need more information about Raven Andrew and I don’t know what I’m meant to do to get it!!

What bubble tea flavours I think The Sunshine Court crew would get:

Laila - something fruity like strawberry or mango - with popping bubbles instead of the actual tapioca pearls

Cat - one of the milk teas - she’d insist on getting a large and finishing it and then regret it later

Jeremy - whatever sounded the most wild, like my local bubble tea place does a strawberry cheesecake bubble tea and I can see him trying that

Jean - nothing - he just stares at them all with disgust

The fact that Kevin was just there the entire time makes the ‘That doesn’t mean I wouldn’t blow you’ scene a lot funnier