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Laila: Jeremy, have you ever won an argument with Jean?
Jeremy: We never argue. He speaks French, and I shut up.
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(The Sunshine Court, ch.17)
Jeremy, probably:
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Neil got his unhinged, mental, bullshit-spewing mouth from his mama. Stuart was in the book for all of 4 pages in tsc and was just as blunt, unfiltered, making the same off the wall comments his nephew does. shit runs in the family clearly
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things about about TSC I can't stop thinking about
"hindsight was a backstabbing bitch"
curtains symbolizing jeans healing journey, how he keeps them closed at Abby's in a effort to recreate the nest in search of some normalcy, how he opens them and looks out the window his new apartment, seeking calm in his overwhelm
"I want to go home" (13) meaning evermore vs. "I want to go home" (329) meaning to his apartment with Laila, Cat and jeremy
the fact that jean's phone is probably still in Abby's freezer
Kevin "their kindness matters" Day
Neil's smile is as unsettling to everyone else as it is to him and he has so much more Nathaniel in him than he recognizes in his own pov
Jean is so similar to neil in that they're both petty, dramatic bitches who care deeply about their teammates' safety
riko and the ravens quite literally took jean's name from him (Jean-Yves, Jonny, Paris)
"[Renee's] love was so tender it looked like grief as it curled her mouth and made her eyes shine"
jean gets forehead kisses from Renee and Cat
"that creepy little goalkeeper Andrew Minyard"
jean's many nicknames for neil: tiny bastard, tedious malcontent, abominable cockroach, wretched little runaway, ignorant child, etc.
Neil took the bandage off of jeans 3 and promptly stuck it over Kevin's chess peice
"I should have let him kill you," Jean said. "Probably," Neil agreed, "but you didn't, so here we all are."
"...aside from his outstanding murder charge, there was nothing interesting about that fox"
the fact that the point of tfc was to show characters who couldn't/wouldn't/ or were unable to heal from the trauma they had faced and yet from the very beginning and without question, TSC is about jean clawing his way forward and toward healing no matter what
the cheese drawer
dadmack dialed up to 1,000 See: "i will burn this house down before I let them touch you"
bisexual jean Moreau panicking over his teammates in swimsuits and Jeremy's long legs
"He's earned the right to be arrogant"
riko couldn't bring himself to hurt wymack because he was Kevin's father and Kevin was like a brother to riko and riko has always yearned for a father's recognition
Alvarez has a motorcycle and jean didn't say no to learning how to ride it
we know next to nothing about Jeremy Knox despite having chapters in his pov (why was he in therapy? why was his dad in France? what the hell did he do at the Fall banquet his freshman year to tear his family in half?)
that being said: Jeremy Knox is a rich boy with a butler
everything about Catalina Alverez
the fact that Jeremy knox has two brothers and one of them is probably dead
"rather than force the Trojans underground for that part, they simply built steps up and over it inside the stadium" the JUXTAPOSITION
Alvarez cooks and so now does jean
we know for a fact riko subjected Kevin to "subtler cruelties" while he was in the nest
"they never should have said yes when you asked" and "I didn't ask"
"as if you can tell a girl apart from a cow on a good day"
"permission to break his face, coach?" jean asked. "denied," white said.
all of thanksgiving pt. II
"alarm looked wrong on a face born for smiling"
jean casually saying "your apologies are as useful as perfume on a frog" to Lucas
Neil's whole relationship with Jean
David "I believe we all have the choice to be better than the hands that shaped us" Wymack
Neil generally being a menace to society but especially "Neil, being the person he was, pointed at the fire hydrant adjacent to it's front bumper and said, 'thats illegal, just so you know.'"
"the cracking heat in his chest could have been his ribs snapping or his heart breaking"
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Tsc
Jean just casually wearing a color other then black
Jeremy: I want him
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This took me out. I am no more. I am deceased.
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Characters being compared to dogs always use terriers or pitbulls or something for their metaphors. “They grab on and they don’t let go” “They keep worrying at it until it’s dead” etc.
Anyway, I want to see collies used as metaphors. Albert Payson Terhune style. “He was like an attack dog–making slash-and-run attacks, cutting them up worse every time, never staying in range long enough to get hurt but circling back over and over.”
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casually ordering a hit on one of jean’s abusers and being willing to pay any price for it and then simply going about his day, all with jean sitting right there, is probably just about the sexiest thing neil josten has ever done
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andreil commission for a friend
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My new favorite thing in AFTG fics is Neil/Jean BFFs. Cuddling in the same bed every night to feel safe? Poking fun at each other for being British/French, short/tall? Essentially willing to do anything to protect one another? But all in a (mostly) platonic way? ❤️
Obsessed.
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Shattered 
Someone asked if I could post this here as well (since I already posted it on Instagram some time ago) so here you go.
I drew this as an entry for @verdiris​ draw this in your style challenge so credits for the composition go to them ;)
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who else broke here
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To counter all the angst and grief that tsc gave me (and everyone I think I can safely assume), here are some of my favourite Bitchy Jean parts - Part 1??? - SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT
1. "If his hands ever started working again, Jean would choke the life out of Kevin next time he saw him."
Homicidal Jean gave me hope (even if it's Kevin he was metaphorically murdering)
2. "There was something seriously wrong with them, but Jean couldn’t say that without inadvertently admitting that Kevin was right. Still, he had to wonder what could possibly cause so much irrevocable brain damage. Something in the water this far south, perhaps? Maybe carbon monoxide poisoning at the Foxhole Court."
Man Almost Beaten to Death Curses People Who Tried To Help Him
3. "More often Kevin had no choice but to distract the rest of the Ravens from Jean’s misery by being an insufferable bitch. Luckily for them both, Kevin was a master at the latter."
You can rely on Jean to never leave a chance to insult Kevin!
4. “Did a week away from the court damage your ball- battered brain?”
I'm sorry Jean, it did not. Exy brain rot is a chronic disease.
5. “Unhinged optimist.” “Of course it’d be you, you tedious malcontent.” “You are only here now because you are an abominable cockroach” “He couldn’t not watch the Fox and Raven match, but it’d be nice to have a real match waiting as a palate cleanser.”
Bitchy Jean is Best Jean, his sass was the only thing keeping me sane
Will do part 2 of my favourite wholesome moments coming tomorrow morning! I need to spread this tsc brain rot 😭😭
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tsc made me appreciate Wymack so much more which i thought was impossible. Neil refused to rely on him too much but Jean had absolutely no one else and just - the scene with Wymack stopping Jean from hurting himself?? It's Wymack's lot in life to save people from others but also themselves. He doesn't need to do it but he does. First Neil with the number 4 tattoo and then Jean choking himself. I wonder if anyone ever did the same for Wymack when he needed it.
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The way both Neil and Jean approach survival is so interesting to me. Like their entire lives are built around just surviving - not living, not being happy but surviving another day but the way they go about it is so different.
Neil had a mother who cared enough to try to keep him alive if not happy even if it meant taking on a husband who was called The Butcher and the fucking mafia; even if it meant running their whole lives. Whatever we say about Mary Wesninski, she taught Neil to rebel, she beat rebellion into him; to not go down easy even when you know you will go down, to not make it easy for the bastards who will take you down.
Jean tried to do that, he tried so hard but it's so difficult when you can only completely rely on yourself, when everyone else, even your closest friend will leave you if it meant they got out safe.
Neil will kick and scream and do whatever he wants even when he's being broken down. That is how he survives - by letting you know he will never truly bow down. Jean, left completely alone, can only give in. That is how he survives.
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the Andreil scraps nora fed us were 🤌🏻✨ Andreil are canon protective boyfriends cos what do you mean Neil crosses the court to retaliate for someone fouling Andrew?? What do you mean Andrew throws himself out of his goal like "all hell was at his heels" to protect Neil??? What do you mean they look for each other in lingering looks and matching armbands and cigarette smoke "whenever one fell out of orbit for too long"???? Are you trying to kill me?????? 😭😭😭
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I think the most endearing thing about Jean is that he just cares. So fucking much. Not to say that Neil doesn't but Neil had to learn to care and I think it's widely accepted that he cares about a select few people and cares about them fiercely; to the point of kill or be killed.
Jean though? He cares for almost everyone regardless of what they have done to him. He cared for Zane, the man who betrayed him in the most horrifying way for a number, for something Jean had no control over. He cared enough to save his life. He cared for Lucas who brought Jean's abuser right to his gate where he had believed himself to be safe. Not once did he lash out at him because he understood that his actions came from a desperation to know his brother again, the ache of having him near again but not having him at all. He cared for Cody, someone he doesn't even really know; cared enough to ensure they were safe and not being forced into something.
After being beaten down every day, holding on to life out of sheer desperation and perhaps a promise made to a once? friend, Jean still hasn't had his ability to care beaten out of him and it's such a beautiful miracle. He's a little like Andrew in this I think, in that he pretends so desperately to not care under the guise of barbed words and cold shoulders because that's a weakness, a chink in his already dented armour that the monsters can and will exploit with glee. He knows that yet he can't choke that tenderness out of himself.
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