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Once Neil gets to about page 6 when looking over his play, he feels his eyebrows furrow. Now, obviously since the play was about the Poets as a whole, there wasn’t really a main character. There would be a more prominent character in each given scene, but Neil made sure to avoid making himself the one who narrated and directed the entire story.
But once he was about halfway through rereading what he had so far, he realized that every character more or less revolved around one Poet in particular. Every scene managed to include the character, there were always in-depth descriptions of what he and his facial expressions looked like, and everyone either went to him for help or obviously valued his opinion highly.
Neil had named the character William, and he was realizing now that he had included a surprising amount of descriptions about this character’s blond hair, blue eyes, and unassuming but devout personality.
Oh shit, Neil thinks to himself, I accidentally made Todd the main character.
Or in which it's 1960, the Poets' senior year at Welton, and Neil's writing a secret play, his magnum opus, but there's just one problem: Todd keeps getting in the way.
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There were some truths that Neil knew were indisputable.
The sky was blue, fire was hot, and the earth revolved around the sun.
The sky was blue, fire was hot, and Neil was hopelessly in love with Todd Anderson.
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Todd meets an old classmate who brings back bad memories. Luckily, Neil is there to help.
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12 Mar 2026
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“Why didn’t you leave a note?” Todd wonders, and he can feel Neil watching him like hawks do field mice but being caught feels a little like being saved.
His voice sounds wretched. “…I don’t know.”
Todd thinks about Keating’s hands on his eyes, spinning around the classroom, forcing the poetry out of his stammer. It seems he can only find the right words to say within dizzying darkness. “Do not go gentle into that good night, Neil,” he breathes, waxing poetic because what else is there to do? “Rage.”
"Run away with me."
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11 Mar 2026
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It is not the Todd Anderson of Welton sitting there on that hospital cot, with his uniform blazer two sizes too big and his tie all disheveled. It is twenty-seven year old Todd Anderson, who has shed both his babyfat and meekness for a lean, manly confidence. His jaw is sharp and his cheekbones are prominent, and, to make matters impossibly worse, he has gained the startling ability to grow facial hair.
It would take a blind, foolish man not to recognize that he is handsome now. Grown-up.
Doctor Neil Perry can’t breathe.
Volta (n.) A rhetorical shift or change. When a poem takes a dramatic turn into revelation.
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11 Mar 2026
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"Todd’s crush on Neil was an unfortunate, ever-present, ever-awkward fact of life since the first weeks of the previous school year. Sometime over the break, however, Todd seems to have forgotten just how intense the feelings resulting from said crush can be. Damnit, he thinks silently, damnit, damnit, damnit."
or, a fic in which Neil lives, and two boys learn what love is in their senior year at Welton.
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- Part 1 of the sustenance and the pang
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11 Mar 2026