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Hello! I’m Dusty (they/he/she), I’m 24 and my timezone is EST. This carrd and all graphics on my blog were made by me. Stock pictures sourced from: pixabay.com, freepik.comONE. This blog is selective, private, and 18+. I am chronically ill and extremely busy irl, so expect very low and sporadic activity.TWO. General content warnings for this blog include: violence, assault, murder, abuse, kidnapping, torture, gang violence, drug addiction, rape, child sexual abuse, ableism, psychiatric abuse, homophobia, and self-harm. I tag triggers as “[trigger] tw” and am willing to tag for anything, just ask! That said, these are major themes that factor heavily into the Andrew's story and may be referenced implicitly or explicitly in threads, so if you need to unfollow or block me at any point, go ahead. For me, please tag spiders.THREE. I love duplicates, OCs, and crossovers. In fact, I will likely mostly be writing crossovers.FOUR. I would prefer if you didn’t format your text to be super small in replies to me. I struggle with reading due to brain fog and small text can be especially tricky. Don’t use large chunks of red or yellow text in replies to me, either.FIVE. This blog will contain untagged spoilers for the entire All For The Game series, especially the original trilogy.SIX. I am open to shipping, but it would require a lot of plotting and communication, both ic and ooc. I don’t write smut at all.SEVEN. Andrew is an unrepentant asshole. He will be mean and may be violent if provoked, or he may ignore your muse entirely. I trust you to understand that muse ≠ mun and simply leave if he doesn’t work for you.EIGHT. For those who have not read AFTG: It is a sports series focused around a fictional sport called Exy. Also the mafia is there. More information from the author’s website: What is Exy? A History of Exy

Overview

Basics
Full Name: Andrew Joseph Minyard (formerly Andrew Joseph Doe)
Age: 20
Birthday: November 4, 1986
Gender: Cis man (he/him)
Orientation: Gay, Aro-specPhysical
Height: 5'0
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Blond
Distinguishing Features: Always wears a pair of black armbands.
Faceclaim: Aiden Clark from School Bus GraveyardTraits
Positive: Protective, steadfast, truthful
Neutral: Apathetic, guarded, unemotional
Negative: Controlling, posessive, violent

Public Information

Andrew Joseph Minyard is a goalkeeper for the Palmetto State University Foxes Exy team and considered one of the greatest goalkeepers in the sport. He grew up in the foster system and got his start playing Exy during his time in juvie between the ages of 13 and 16 as a way to let out some of his aggression. After his release, he was arrested for assault after nearly killing four men in defense of his cousin, and while it was ruled to be justified defense the level of violence he displayed was deemed disturbing, and a deal was struck for him to avoid prison time: he would undergo intensive therapy, attend weekly counseling, and take medication for at least three years.Andrew turned down a recruitment offer from first-place-ranked Edgar Allan University Ravens Exy team, instead joining the PSU Foxes alongside his twin brother, Aaron Minyard, and cousin, Nicholas Hemmick. Halfway through his first year, Kevin Day transferred to PSU, and him and Andrew became inseparable. In his sophomore year, Neil Josten joined the Foxes.In November that year, his brother was arrested for the murder of one of Andrew’s former foster brothers, while Andrew was in the hospital with injuries consistent with physical and sexual assault. Aaron was released on bail until his trial, and Andrew's psychiatrist petitioned for Andrew to be taken off his medication early as they inhibited his ability to process the trauma of his assault. He spent seven weeks in Easthaven hospital getting sober before returning to the court in the spring, where the Foxes went on to win the championships. In the final match against the EAU Ravens, Riko Moriyama swung at Neil Josten in an attempt to kill him on live TV, and Andrew stepped in, breaking Riko’s arm.Andrew played for the Foxes until he graduated and signed with a professional team.

 Full Biography 

Born in San Jose, California, Andrew Joseph Doe grew up in a world of impermanence. Abandoned at birth by a mother who didn't even bother to leave him a last name, the first 13 years of his life was split between 13 foster homes. None of them were good. Some were worse than others.He was 7 the first time he was raped. He didn't understand what was happening, just that he didn't like it. His foster father said he would stop if he said “please.” Andrew believed him. He said it until the word turned to poison.Afterward, he tried to tell his social worker what had happened, but he lacked the vocabulary to describe it and she lacked the care and patience to understand. She told him he should be grateful he was getting attention, that his foster father was trying to bond with him. He stayed with that family until his bed-wetting and panic attacks became more than they were willing to deal with.He moved homes, but he had learned his lesson and didn't try telling anyone the next time it happened. Or the next. Or the next. Instead, he withdrew. His aversion to touch and growing apathy to school and relationships put off potential foster parents and frustrated his case workers. His grades slipped, he started getting into fights with peers, and he even ran away once, though that attempt was short-lived and not repeated.When he was 12, Andrew moved in with Cass Spear, her husband Richard, and her son Drake. Drake was a nightmare–a future Marine with a fondness for knives–but Cass was the closest he’d ever had to a mother. She wanted to adopt him, and he might have let her. After all, Drake would be graduating high school soon, and Andrew would only have to deal with him in windows between deployments. He dragged blades across his wrists to remind himself his body was still his, and he survived. He tried to live for himself.Then Officer Phil Higgins ran into a boy who looked just like Andrew at a Raiders game.Aaron Minyard, Andrew's identical twin brother. He'd been given up when Andrew had, but a week later, their biological mother, apparently regretting her decision, went back for Aaron and only Aaron. She still wanted nothing to do with her other son, but Aaron contacted Higgins behind her back to pass his information along to Andrew. Maybe he was excited. Maybe Andrew could have been, too. But worse than that, Drake was excited. He started talking about deferring his deployment, spending one more summer with his little brother, meeting his twin–getting them both in bed. It would be picture perfect, he said.Andrew wrote Aaron to tell him to fuck off. Then he went out to the corner store at night, broke the front window, and waited for the cops to show up. With Andrew in juvie and his adoption papers left forever unfinished, Aaron would have no reason to ever meet Drake. He would be safe.Cass was devastated, but Andrew refused to falter. He didn’t explain himself, didn’t even talk to her. Eventually, she stopped visiting. It hurt, far worse than any of his other moves, but he thought of a boy he had never met but who looked just like him and he knew he had to do this.In juvie, Andrew had space to breathe. Away from Drake, away from any foster family. It was decent there, the doors had locks and, thanks to a few carefully-planned acts of violence, his cellmate was too scared of him to try to mess with him. He wasn't safe, he was never safe, but he was freer than he'd ever been before. He started playing Exy to quell the boredom of living and, after being deemed too dangerous for most positions, was placed in the goal and stayed there. He came to terms with his sexuality and had his first consensual kiss.One day, a man named Luther Hemmick came to talk to him. His uncle, apparently. He apologized for his sister’s behavior and offered to help get Cass’s adoption approved if that was what Andrew wanted. But Andrew couldn't go back, and he gave Luther a secret to ensure that. It was risky and dangerous and humiliating, and he thought he was prepared for the fallout.Luther was furious. He told Andrew he shouldn't talk about things he didn't understand. He called Andrew unstable, said he was too unbalanced to understand normal brotherly affection and love. He said it was all a big misunderstanding.And Andrew realized no one would ever help him. No one would ever care.He made Luther promise to make sure Cass wouldn't foster anymore kids after him and that was that. The next month, Luther came back and he brought Aaron with him. The visit was cordial, but something was wrong. Andrew had spent enough time around abused kids to recognize the signs, and he knew those bruises didn’t come from Exy like Aaron claimed. A year later, he was released early for good behavior and went to live with Aaron and his mother in Columbia, South Carolina.Her name was Tilda Minyard, and he hated her. She was scared of him, and made a half-hearted attempt to keep him from finding out about her drug use and abuse of Aaron, but he was patient and she couldn’t hide it forever. Meanwhile, he formed a tentative bond with Aaron. On his second night in Columbia, he told Aaron that if he couldn’t defend himself against a woman, he’d do it. In exchange, Aaron would stay with him until graduation. They would stick together, no friends, no girlfriends, just them. Aaron agreed. Their interactions were awkward but relatively friendly, and he found himself talking more than he had in years, though aside from Aaron confessing his drug addiction neither of them truly opened up. Andrew couldn’t bring himself to hope–family had never meant anything good for him, after all–but he thought they could make this work. That this was something he could have.He pried Aaron and Tilda for information until they confirmed his suspicions, then he started planning. He told Tilda what he would do if she laid her hands on Aaron again, but she ignored his warning. Five months after he moved in, he asked Aaron to attend a study session for him and went to confront Tilda. She thought he was Aaron and hurt him like he was. He headed over to his aunt and uncle’s house covered in cuts and bruises, and they called Tilda to talk things out. She took “Aaron” and left. On the drive home, he yanked the steering wheel, sending them over the median and into traffic. She wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.He wasn’t expecting Aaron to be grateful, exactly–he’d given up on expecting much of anything from anybody–but he thought he would understand. They had made a deal, and Andrew was fulfilling his end of it. Instead, Aaron grieved. He picked his mother over Andrew, and the relationship they were only just starting to build shattered. But Andrew had decided to protect his brother, and he could do that without being liked or understood. Aaron was still doing the drugs his mother got him hooked on, so Andrew stocked the bathroom with canned food and locked Aaron inside until he finished going through withdrawal.On the day of Tilda’s funeral (which Andrew did not attend), their 19-year-old cousin Nicholas “Nicky” Hemmick arrived in South Carolina, having flown in from Germany where he lived with his boyfriend. He'd heard about what happened and came to fight his parents for custody of the twins, and somehow, he won. He bought a house in Columbia and the three of them moved in, a mishmash family of broken, ill-fitting pieces. Nicky got a job at Sweetie’s diner, then at a nightclub called Eden's Twilight after befriending the bouncers and Roland, a bartender. After a while, he got Andrew and Aaron jobs there, too, working in the kitchen.One night, four men attacked Nicky during his break. And Nicky… Nicky was obnoxious, loud and pushy and oblivious, but he was there and he tried. He smiled brightly and made jokes and stayed, even as both Andrew and Aaron did their best to push him away. Being related didn't make them family, but Nicky was Andrew's. Andrew stepped into the fight and beat the men into unconsciousness. He would have killed them if the bouncers hadn't pulled him off in time.He was arrested for assault and taken to court. It was ruled that his defense of Nicky was justified, but the level of violence he'd displayed was an extreme overreaction. To avoid more jail time, his lawyers struck a deal and Andrew went along with it. He was to spend time in intensive therapy and attend weekly counseling sessions for three years. He would also be placed on medication for three years, after which point he would be taken off them long enough to assess his progress.The meds made him manic and inattentive, providing a chemical lift to the numbness his emotions had settled into. Everything was oh so amusing now, and he couldn't stop smiling.His senior year of high school, Kevin Day and Riko Moriyama, the so-called Sons of Exy, showed up personally to recruit Andrew to the Edgar Allan Ravens. Kevin was adamant, but he wasn’t interested in someone so set on being number two that he’d get it tattooed on his face. Instead, he signed with the Palmetto State Foxes on the condition that Aaron and Nicky were signed as well. Andrew didn’t care about Exy, but Aaron wanted to be a doctor and this was a way to get him a scholarship, to buy them another five years with Nicky before he returned to Germany.Then Kevin showed up at PSU with a shattered dominant hand and a wild story. The Moriyamas were an immigrated yakuza family, and Kevin their property, Riko’s pet. And if Riko or his uncle Tetsuji asked Kevin to return, he would, like the well-trained dog he was. So they made a deal: Andrew would stick with Kevin and protect him, keep him from returning to the Moriyamas, and Kevin would give Andrew something to live for. Andrew wanted to see if he could keep his promise, if it was even possible.A few months later, Kevin dragged him down to Millport, Arizona to recruit a new striker sub by the name of Neil Josten…

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