The Raven boys and Blue as The monsters and Jean, ok hear me out for a second.
Blue as Aaron’s mirror, they both struggle with the whole feeling overlooked and unremarkable. Blue being surrounded by psychic women while she’s not inherently psychic herself. She’s a ‘human battery’ and a great support to the boys and her family, but she doesn’t value this. She feels that her gender and homelife estranges her from the boys, and her lack of clavoriance differs her from her family.
While Aaron struggles with the fact that he is constantly perceived as nothing more than the lesser cruel twin (and not being as respected in exy, but that’s another conversation). He finds it impossible to connect with the upperclassmen due to his and their relationship with his brother.
His issues with connecting with the foxes, worsen after the deal is struck about Katelin/neil, and his ties to Andrew are cut.
This also makes the Gansey=Kevin of it all work so well in my opinion. The obsessed scholar/athlete (idk what to call whatever tf Gansey is doing). Both of them being total nerds about history in their own ways, their placement in their respective worlds (they’re both the protagonists fight me).
I also think that a few very extreme lines can be seen in their early lives, if you’re willing to look for it.
Ronan as Neil, is much more based on the countdown=dreamer of it all, and the heavy impact their respective parents have on their story (dead mothers, not really but still relevant). THE SECRETS, oh my god the secrets, come on it’s perfect.
And this of course leads me to the Adam as Andrew. The abusive (foster)families, the distrust, his priorities changing from Blue/Gansey to Ronan throughout the books, much like Andrews priorities go from Nicky/Aaron/Kevin to Neil.
It also makes sense that Gansey/kevin brings out the more confrontationalpart/stubborn Bart of Adam.
And Noah is of course Jean (he only survived in one draft???? Come on guys, being left behind, forgotten? The fox who never was?).
The entire story is built on his death, meanwhile Kevin never would have survived the nest and be able to escape without Jean.
