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Explain Andrew's fatal disease in the comic version

Could you talk more about the terminal brain disorder that Andrew had in earlier drafts? Was that only back when the books were Neil/Kevin and Andrew wasn't as big of a character?

so way back when, when the foxhole court was this horrendously drawn over-dramatic comic ((e.g. not that diff from the books)), Andrew had this undefined brain disorder for OVERDRAMATIC!! ANIME!! REASONS!!!. back then both the twins lived with their parents, and so long as they were in their parents' custody the clinic would provide funding for Andrew's clinical trial medication??

((look I was like 13 or 14 it didn't have to make a lot of sense back then))

one of the side effects of Andrew's illness & medication was that his memory kept short circuiting, he couldn't retain much for very long. now and then he'd try and come off his pills for a while so he could create a significant memory ((e.g. the days surrounding Neil's arrival)) but most everything in between you could just distract him and he'd completely lose it

stop it, he'd cry, as you overloaded his circuits to the point of breaking, because he knew you were forcing him to forget something important, stop it stop it stop— oh hiiii when did you get here

in those drafts Aaron was the abused one, he took on the role willingly because if it happened to Andrew, Andrew would forget all about it. So Aaron made it like he wanted to be abused to keep the focus on himself, because Andrew forgetting such things was intolerable. The more abuse Aaron took, the quieter he became, until Aaron stopped talking completely ((and Andrew forgot Aaron had ever talked at all))

and then Aaron was sitting in the park one day and Dan walked by with her aunt's twin babies, and Aaron just started crying, and that's how Dan met Aaron, and how Dan brought the twins to the Foxes

tl;dr Andrew was still a major character, but way back then the series was Kevin/Neil with a side of Riko/Kevin