#gwenllian

[myrao-studio]

"The head is too wise. The heart is all fire."

- Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

[lilianobsidian]

[From Maggie Stiefvater’s IG/Substack]

Gwenllian art by MStief !!!

[hayleywilliamsfan84]

Okay here's some character designs for my YEARS old trc pirate/sort of steampunk au

Gansey--captain of an old tallship named the camaro, asked adam to add mechanical parts to it over the years to make it partially steampowered. I did his design and he wasn't ugly enough so i gave him those pants pocket things. I think his journal (in relation to whelk) in this au is a treasure map

Blue--stowaway on the camaro. In this au she wasn't cursed her whole life but instead when neeve told blue she would kill someone she ran away. I think instead of being half tree she's half mermaid

Ronan--he's just ronan man. He has that sword from the dreamer trilogy. First mate

Adam--ship's mechanic. this au used to be way more steampunk lol so noah is a robot/cyborg thing that adam like maintains lol but that might change. Adam lives a short boat-ride away from aglionby so at night he stays on the camaro

Gwenllian--i just wanted to draw her in period-piece undergarments. She might be a siren idk

[banana-beavers]

Gwenllian telling Gansey immediately after meeting him that he reminds her of her father oh okay cool cool cool

[alexandrarosa]

Crazy TRC theory I came up with after my third reread

What if it’s not actually Blue that kills Gansey. We know that Gansey has the power to tell the world what to do. He awakened the bones from the cave just by saying so. He told Glendower to show himself and it happened. What’s important to my theory is that both of those times he’s with either Blue or Gwenllian.

After Blue kisses him he doesn’t just die instantly. He says something before he collapses. He says that the demon should be destroyed thanks to that or something similar. That being him dying. What if what actually happened was that Gansey intended to die just like he intended to wake the bones up and to find Glendower and it just happened. Blue intensified his weird power and he just told himself to die and did.

Now hear me out because the second part is important too. Blue was destined to kill the boy she loves with a kiss. But! There was only one boy she could love. A boy with a power to tell the world what to do. She was destined to kill him because it was him. She couldn’t kill anybody else and couldn’t love anybody else (which here means the same thing). And that particular prediction was always so detailed as opposed to all the rest. Because it was important for both Blue and Gansey to know that the kiss is going to be fatal so that they can use it in the right moment. The moment when Gansey intends to die. Blue is close to intensify his power and it literally happens.

(That would also mean that Gansey and Blue can kiss freely when he has no intention to die)

[trc-annotated]

"This coward magician hiding in this closet having killed everyone through his inactivity." (The Raven King pg. 289).

Gwen here is referring to Artemus, but magician also calls Adam to mind and again we see this compare and contrast to the kids - Adam and Artemus are magicians but Adam is bold where Artemus hides. Gwen and Blue are mirrors, Ronan is arguably the ley line itself, and Gansey, their king, who rises again and again where Glendower never does.

[stringcage]

Genuinely one of the things I love most about the raven cycle is how the magic just exists and doesn't need to be explained away, we just let it be mysterious and arcane. How didn't Gwenllian age or die? Unclear. Let's take her to meet my aunts. Why are there people who can merge with trees and how did Glendower come to find them? We don't know, but let's use this magical revelation to spiritually facetime with my boyfriend. Don't even get me started on the Camaro wheel

[marinecorvid]

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