This is the act of a man who knew it didn’t matter how visible his assault on Andrew was, because he’d still get away with it. This was an attempt to break Andrew, knowing that Luther and the Moriyamas would shield Drake from consequences. This wasn’t someone covertly taking advantage. Look at the description of how bruised up Andrew is afterward. Look at the fact that Andrew fought back enough to scratch Drake’s face and was still assaulted. He is violently, violently assaulted- I won’t quote it here, but look at the description of that tableau when Neil and Aaron burst in. He’s moving on as best as he can.Īnd then in The Raven King, an old threat resurfaces. He cares little for his own well-being, but his self-destructiveness is kept somewhat at bay for the time being, or perhaps just redirected. He takes medication, however dubiously good for him it may be. His ties to the Foxes are more distant, but having Wymack and the team there provides an additional stability he didn’t have before. He has some control through that.) He has Nicky as a caring sort-of guardian. Making these promises with people provides more insurance that they will stay with him they also, by establishing Andrew as the protector, give Andrew a sense of power in the relationship so he doesn’t have to present his vulnerability. Andrew trusts very few people, and his support systems thus far in life have been incredibly tenuous and unreliable. (I maintained in an earlier post, and still insist, that those bargains of protection are meant to protect Andrew as well. He’s got his bonds with Aaron and Kevin and is just starting one with Neil. And it didn’t.Īndrew’s childhood alone was disturbing enough to tear someone’s spirit to pieces, but by the time we join up with the story in The Foxhole Court, he’s a couple years removed from the immediacy of it. In the books, you only get glimpses and vague hints about this having it laid out here, in sharp and stunning blunt detail, never stops being a sickening shock.Īnd as I lay there sleepily thinking about this, the thought my mind settled on was this: For all his hostility and brokenness, Andrew has one of the strongest spirits of any character I’ve ever encountered.īecause for all intents and purposes, this should have broken him. Just everything.) It is, from my first encounter with it to now, still one of the most horrifying parts of this series (the extra content counts as part of the series too, I think). (If you haven’t read it, trigger warnings for everything. And my mind drifted suddenly to Nora’s extra content on the All for the Game series- specifically, this account of what Proust did to Andrew when he was committed at the end of book two. So last night (or rather, very early this morning), I found myself lying half-awake in bed and thinking of fandom, as you do. ![]() The Extraordinary Strength of Andrew Minyard
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