[kienava]

i hope this email kills us both instantly

[serien-grl-22]

Ronan: *tries to hide is crush on Adam*

Blue and Gansey: *try to hide their situationship from Adam*

Adam:

[ahotknife]

adam parrish has pure O type OCD & there is textual evidence of this + maggie said it herself first so this = another hill for me to die on

[ahotknife]

the knocking (#knockwatch). he’s regularly shown knocking on things three times PRIOR to persephone teaching him to read. this is obviously foreshadowing his pre existing psychic ability, but it is a repetitive and useless behavior he Only does when he’s upset or making a decision, so: compulsion

he is rigidly moral & very black and white when it comes to his own truth & responsibility (“in matters of money, he was quick to assign credit or blame”, etc) in the first few books (this later changes when he learns that lies can/do benefit him)

constantly over analyzes his own behavior and his own responses, to the point he convinces himself there is something wrong/immoral/other about his reactions to things (thinking they should kill opal & then regretting it, “too much monster blood”, etc)

at least twice we see him obsessively washing his hands to remove dirt that isn’t there, he compulsively picks at or thinks about others noticing flaws in his clothing or appearance

the gansey murder tree dream

staunchly independent and strict about his own moral code/life choices to the point of neuroticism (the whole “on adam parrish’s own terms or not at all” bit, ronan observing adam thinks the only right way to do something is the way that “causes pain”) despite the fact this causes hardship and tension in his life and relationships he literally cannot accept doing something any way other than the way he’s decided he’s going to do it

feels like he can’t trust his eyes or his mind, second guesses the way he observes things as if there is something flawed about his worldview/vision. multiple times in the text he punishes himself for his intrusive thoughts

pursuant to the above point, he excessively lingers in regret, engages in doom spirals and traps himself in damaging cycles of negative self talk/thought

expects the truth & good behavior from other people, to the point he entirely dismisses or actively despises people who do not adhere to those rules (kavinsky, etc)

the most telling one to me is “i am such a damaged thing.” where he observes that everything “inside his head” is “tangled” but like (gestures broadly) open any of his pov chapters and luxuriate in the horrors

and from maggie:

[aestheticofstars]

[spiribia]

i like when you're petting an animal on the head and then remove your hand and then the animal puts their snout under your hand and flips your hand back onto the top of their head like they're a spatula with a burger patty. so far i have evidence that cats do this and that dogs do this. what else can i learn about this world...?

[veerbles]

does adam parrish deduce that ronan is gay before ronan himself does because he's highly observant as a survival mechanism or because he's psychic. does adam parrish sense that someone is following their quest because he's hypervigilant as a survival mechanism or because he's psychic. does adam feel different and alienated from his friends because he's self-reliant as a survival mechanism or because he's psychic. can adam sometimes dissociate and literally detach from reality as a survival mechanism or because he's psychic. does adam have sudden nightmares and fear-induced hallucinations after he stops living with his parents because he has trauma or because he's psychic.

did adam's psychic powers originally manifest as a survival mechanism to keep him alive, or are adam's psychic powers actually a metaphor for the effects of childhood abuse

[kidovna]

persephone and adam🔮

[oorione]

He left bloody fingerprints on the rock, but there was something satisfying about that.

I was here. I exist. I’m alive, because I bleed.

He hadn’t stopped being thankful for his body. Hello, Adam Parrish’s formerly chapped hands, I’m happy to have you.

[lunjetlyd]

a sense of human morality

[cinnamon-flame]

Qibli and Winter annoying each other for fun

[zondearts]

I never actually drew one of the wof chracters, so have the blue one (He's bluer under the cut)

[glassshine]

Qibli not moping

[drgon-wings]

Qinter! ❄☀

[christinarobinson-art]

My daughter Blue!

[li4r]

[kidovna]

blah blah blah proper name place name backstory stuff

[ledwinged]