Death in a Tarot Card

The Basics

Fandom: All for the Game / The Raven Cycle

Main Relationship: Adam Parrish/Ronan Lynch, Andrew Minyard/Neil Josten

Rating: Teen

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Summary:

Adam Parrish gets recruited for the PSU Exy team, and learns what it means to be a fox.

Featuring Adam Parrish's dramatic inner monologue, Neil Josten's dramatic outer monologue, and David Wymack being exhausted with these goddamn strikers.

Available on Archive of Our Own

Meet the Freshmen

Adam Parrish #13

It wasn’t that Adam Parrish didn’t get into Harvard; on the contrary, being wait-listed for an ivy league school alone was a feat in and of itself. It meant he was good enough that he was noticed, that they were interested, just not good enough to be immediately accepted. Which was fine, Adam could live with that. He could go to another school for his first year and then reapply to Harvard and MIT next year, and maybe by then he’d have the advantage of a collegiate academic record that would make him more noticeable and likely to actually get fucking accepted. It was fine, he’d worked it all out. He might not even have to wait that long, because they could take him off the waitlist and then he’d be going to Harvard.

Fletcher Reid #11

“I think you guys are pretty cool, and I’d really like to hang out more, but, like, you’re all qu- er, LGBT, and I’m not, so I didn’t wanna, like, barge in on your space.”

“Have you checked?” Eliot asked sardonically.

“If I’m LGBT? Oh, yeah, totally, I’ve checked, and, like, men are handsome sometimes, but I’m firmly into boobs.”

Jack Rudawski #12

“Are we just gonna talk about gay shit for this entire dinner?” Jack asked from the end of the table.

“Adam is our teammate and our friend,” Dan said harshly. “We’re just trying to get to know him and his boyfriend. If you have an issue, save it for later.”

“I don’t have an issue with half the team being queers, I’m just wondering why you have to talk about it so much.”

Benjamin Tucker #16

“Jesus Christ, what the hell is that?” Allison said, disgusted. Renee was wincing as politely as she could beside her.

“I think it’s…music?” Benjy supplied. He looked as though he was trying to place the words, the artist, the genre, anything, but coming up completely empty.

Gillian Bacay #14

“That’s cute. The whole ‘united front’ thing you are doing.” Andrew said. “Really shows team spirit. But it is pointless and unnecessary. We are leaving at 7 after practice. Expect a bag of clothes-”

“What part of ‘no’ did you not understand?” Gillian snapped. The energy in the room changed as Andrew stopped lazily pacing, freezing in place. “We said we’re not interested. So we’re not going. You can’t just talk over us like we said ‘yeah, sure, let’s fucking go.’ We said no, Adam said thanks because he’s a polite young man, and I’m saying fuck off because I’m not. If you can’t take no for an answer-”

“Get out.” Andrew cut her off.

Eliot Keng #15

“Are you a boy or a girl?”

“Hm, see, I’m not quite a boy or a girl, but more like a graffiti covered car abandoned on the side of the road that people think is indicative of society’s collapse, but if that car was put on a stage in front of a bunch of rich people they’d probably consider it high art.” That was Eliot.

“…What?”

“You can just call me a faggot, if that’d be easier for you.” Eliot suggested. Adam snorted softly as Fletcher spluttered and tripped over himself to try and explain how he would never use that word, he was an ally.