Hi, hope you're well.
Uh, so I'm at chapter 40 of trk. I don't know if I'm gonna finish it. The vibes aren't giving what they used to, unfortunately :( BUT it is nice to have more backstory on other characters and I did very much like the beginning of trk. Something about the foxway women and henry and gansey vibing.
But away from that, idk but I had this idea for a post-canon au where: blue gets the money to travel for a few years before settling in another state and she works in a cool flower/plant shop and majors in botany/dendrology or smth like that. once a year she gets to go on a roadtrip (because blue should have a car as a treat because plane tickets and vacationing is expensive as hell) to a particular place in the country with noah (if they're following the leyline), or with the other boys or just by herself. she always goes back home for the holidays/or weekends because blue can't be without her family for too long. I also think it would be hilarious if, through some shenanigans, she started up her own tea business on the side, some iroh type stuff.
adam attends a university near blue (not harvard because we need to stop romanticising that place) and is studying to be an environmental engineer/environmental lawyer (either works). he owns so many plants, his roommate is like: how do you live like this? adam sends ronan letters all the time and he and gansey talk on the phone after a long day (which is a challenge since they live in different time zones now— I imagine that gansey and henry live in the west coast/bay area while adam and blue are in boston or smth) and he and blue drink apple tea in the flower shop and talk abt classes.
gansey and henry go to the same university (UC Berkeley or smth like that) and are roommates. gansey has a European history/ancient studies and civilization major (because why would he take sociology or anthropology or whatever when we all know what he truly loves?) and he raves and talks abt everything he discovers or learns in his classes so much, like henry is just trying to sleep ganseyboy. I think gansey would still try to uncover ancient magical mysteries, because he's gansey ofc, but in like spring/winter/summer break. gansey calls blue and adam all the time, but it's so inconvenient that they live in a different timezone when it's just 1 am on his side. gansey communicates with ronan in the weirdest way (one time he sent a messenger hawk and ronan was like ??? but also: rad!)
idk what henry would study, idk his character enough to get it right. I think he might major in international/global studies. Idk he seems like that type of guy. he somehow finds the time to be in so many clubs and so many people know him. he adds blue to a gc he has with all the Vancouver kids to annoy her and/or make her laugh. all in all, living his best life as a california girl.
ronan would stay at the barns ofc. dreaming new animals, taking care of the already existing ones, waking his dad's dreams, looking after opel, etc. living his best farmboy life™. matthew and declan come down every sunday for church and stay at the barns until they leave on monday for dc, but his brothers also stay on the holidays. I don't imagine that ronan would send a lot of letters to the others (since he's never been good with words), but I imagine that he dreams up some sort of two-way mirror thing to communicate with the others. when any of them are down to visit, they stay at the barns (except blue who stays at foxway mostly and henry who stays at lichfield house mostly). I think ronan would definitely give blue a cool haircut, maybe shave the sides or he gives her the bald look (bald besties for life).
idk, this is just what's been cooking through my head since I started up trk (also because blue and gansey studying sociology makes no sense). Sorry for my brainrot (it's almost incurable)
oh my GOD the raven king. yeah it definitely feels Off compared to the rest of the series and I think this post gets into WHY that is. Major spoilers though !! so it's your call whether to read it now or if you can make it through the book lol
LOVE ur au omg <3 yeah to me gansey and ronan are Henrietta Boys with their farm and abandoned factory while it comes down to adam and blue who are traveling/coming back to their loves and family etc etc. If we were to further my self indulgent brainrot this would be blue's witch era and adams self-acceptance to let himself go through college because he WANTS to doesn't NEED to, while embracing his psychic part more maybe go gravity falls dipper pines about it or smth. I fucking LOVE the career/study choices you got for all of them omg omg <3
