I just feel so fucking sorry for Gansey in the dream thieves. I mean the people he loves the most are just falling apart beside him and *he's* the only one responsible or aware enough to 1) bare the brunt of their fall and 2) pick up the pieces and put them together. Like the amount of carelessness Ronan treats Gansey with is heartbreaking. Adam is also so out of his mind with rage and envy he doesn't even see how much this hurt toward gansey's unwarranted. And poor boy is a little condescending, yeah, but he just wanted have his little family and build his little world of scholars and adventurers with his friends. I mean, in a way he's kind of laying on the bed he mande - I do think Gansey was of the mind that he could /maybe/ somewhat solve his friends problems with unconditional support by absorbing them into his makeshift reality which is very kind-hearted of him but also, unfortunately, kind of self-centered. And then this lack of mutual understanding, made worse by Adam and Ronan's attitudes, is just digging deeper and deeper into their friendship. Where I am in the books, I think the only way for the group to survive would be to let the boys go- to let them fight their own fights without someone to cover for them when they fuck up or to bear the brunt of the stress when they can't take it anymore. When Gansey learns to see people for who they are beyond his hopes for the part they'd play in his own future, and Ronan and Adam learn some fucking basic consideration (as well as many other things that need to be looked at) then maybe they could build this little world, each one with their own contribution instead of them trying to fit what gansey's imagined