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HELLO fuck it this is a Raven Cycle blog now because I listened to all forty hours of audio books in one week and now have every disease anyways find me @cypressblues
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dreamscape (this was meant to be a part 2 to this)
also, absolutely nobody in this series makes me laugh as much as gansey does. So here’s my non exhaustive gansey hall of fame
“I wish you could be kissed, Jane,” he said. “Because I’d beg just one off you. Under all this.”
i can’t prove it but i DO think gansey started wearing a cap because he saw adam wear one a few weeks before and thought it looked boyish, handsome and carefree
ronan lynch, hairspo to the gender questioning since 2012
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blue gansey adam and ronan silently driving back to monmouth at 4:30 in the morning after adam snuck out behind their backs, woke the ley line, sacrificed his free will to the magical forest, and then killed their latin teacher in the span of like an hour.
might be the best first kiss ever. i don't know man it changed my life. it's the way adam was recalling one of the worst memories of his childhood before ronan came into the room but then he was kissed and thought about that stormy day, it's the way ronan still knocked on the door to announce he was coming in even if it was his own bedroom, it's the light, it's the way it was ronan's eighteenth birthday and he was happy and laughing even if it was a good bye day, it's the way ronan kept his eyes closed long after the kiss was over, it's about letting the rain fall on you, it's about adam realising there's things he doesn't want to run away from, it's about both their past and present existing at the same time in this room, it's about how adam was overwhelmed with tones of sensations that day he didn't understand, it's about home, it's about silence, it's about two boys falling in love, it's the way adam thought he was ronan's first kiss, it's about the intimacy, the yearning, the pain, the braveness, the fear. it's about love.
thinking about this again... he was openly bisexual maggie just didn't know that
Hi! You do not have to answer this question if you don't want to, but I was curious why you chose to portray Niall as an abuser in Tenebroso. There is no CSA in canon, so I wonder how you came to that? No pressure to reply :)
hi sure complicated question but definitely worth answering.
it's my opinion there is actually subtext in canon to support this (this being: ronan as a victim of csa). other people have talked about this, i know i'm not the first to think this and i won't be the last. i don't remember specifically which authors/bloggers have discussed it, but it's an interpretation of canon that i've definitely seen before.
when i first read the books as they were released, that's what i thought ronan's Deal was going to be; like i remember genuinely thinking that's where the author was going with it, and i turned out to be wrong, but the subtext is there.
this portrayal isn't based on things we know about niall (since we don't really know that much about niall tbh), but instead, it's based on things we know about ronan. some examples:
- something bad happens to ronan at night that he's not allowed to talk about
- ronan's father refuses to explain or educate him regarding what is happening to him at night
- he is isolated from the outside world by virtue of his "secret" and by nature of his upbringing
- he has fraught relationships with his siblings, particularly the older sibling, who "knew" about "the secret" and was not as understanding/helpful as ronan might have liked/needed regarding "the secret"
- he's weirdly attached to his father and holds him in strangely reverent regard
- he's an alcoholic, has a tendency to self-harm, he acts out for attention, is depressed, misanthropic, and "othered" from his peers
- nightmares/sleep related trauma/sleep paralysis/kills himself in his dreams/monsters appear to him in his dreams and hurt him
- he has a pretty notable reaction to adam's choice of material for the greenmantle plot; csa is the absolute worst thing adam could think to pin on this guy, and ronan is (in my opinion) triggered by it
- he hates himself/sees himself as "wrong" or "alien"
- he is destructive towards his personal property and is triggered when he returns to his childhood home/is reminded of specific things that took place in his house
- he has a deep seated compulsion/desire to please/conform/succeed
- unable to attach/bond in a healthy/regulated manner
- strange relationship with his brother, particularly interesting is that he often refers to them as a married set of parents; he refers to himself as "daddy" and himself and his brother as "mommy and daddy"
- he has a problem with authority, specifically with male figures of authority, especially those who try to "parent" or "teach" him
all of these things are not necessarily ironclad, but i spent a lot of time discussing this with @neurosses at the time of writing, trying to decide if this was a path i wanted to take or an interpretation of ronan & niall that i felt was correct, so possibly she will have something to add since this is a topic we discussed/hashed out/worked to ground in canon.
i have said before that it's my belief if you are taking away ronan's magic, you have to give him something else; there must be a wound of some sort. this doesn't HAVE to be child abuse, but if you remove the aspect of magic from the things i listed above, you have a pretty solid foundation for an alternative interpretation of his canonical trauma.
specifically regarding tenebroso, i chose not to give declan that shared experience, but there is some basis for it regarding declan as well:
- niall turned him into his "work wife" when his own wife left/his dream wife wasn't designed to be smart/useful/a true equal
- he is parentified, almost by force (assigned guardian in the will)
- strained relationship with his siblings, particularly the one that still genuinely loves their father/doesn't see father's faults
- bears resentment towards younger sibling that he perceives was "preferred" or the favorite based on the attention paid to him by their father
i don't expect everyone to agree with me and i don't expect this interpretation to become widely accepted, but i do believe there is basis for it in canon (the entire lynch clan has serious Gothic Family vibes but that's a whole 'nother essay), and i really am not sure i have anything else to say about it; it is easier for me to explore these things in fiction/character study than it is for me to sit and expound upon it through meta. so i hope this is a satisfactory answer for you!
Linking @whatimages' incisive commentary on Ronan Lynch's sexual abuse coding.
General thoughts (sorry if I sound abrupt, my laptop is about to die):
There is sexual violence in The Raven Cycle/The Dreamer Trilogy, and it is many times interlaced with the alienation and terror of being a dreamer. whatimages noted Kavinsky groping Ronan while Ronan was immobilized. ahotknife noted that Adam's CSA blackmail dreamstuff retraumatized Ronan. Mór Ó Corra's internal agony, at least partly sourced from having been sexually abused, spills through in her dreamstuff: everything in her imagination is full of pain. Aurora is technically younger than Ronan, which, at the very least, is highly disturbing. Outside of the direct dreamer linkage, the Gray Man's recollection of being abused by his brother strongly implies CSA. It is part of the textual fabric of the story.
There are granular, specific details that give rise to imagery of sexual violence. For example: Niall was covered in Ronan's blood, not his own, when he told Ronan, "Don't tell anyone," while laying in his bed, covered in blue petals as deflowering. There are many, many examples of this.
There are also macro level connections between dreaming and sexual violence. Quoting whatimages directly here: "Niall literally molds Ronan in his image." The secret thing happens at night. It profoundly others Ronan from the rest of the world.
Additionally, I'm echoing ahotknife's point that Ronan is profoundly shaped by Niall in canon, and — especially in a story like Tenebroso that presses into Ronan's canonical (!!) proclivity for violence, misanthropy, and criminality — there has so be some crawling, alien gulf between Ronan and Declan, Ronan and the world, if magic doesn't exist.
Also: in DMs, I said, "Declan keeps secrets; Ronan is a secret," with regard to how Declan does seem to display some coding as well. This analysis is centric on Ronan, but there are some things of note about Declan; ex. his telling understanding of Mór's positionality after learning what she'd been through; the discomfort of him travelling all over the world as a kid with his father to meet business associates to trade illicit goods, how human trafficking sees to have a role in the Fairy Market. Same weapon, different wounds.
"Niall Lynch was handsome and charismatic and rich and mysterious, and one day, he was dragged from his charcoal-gray BMW and beaten to death with a tire iron. It was a Wednesday. On Thursday, his son Ronan found his body in the driveway."
Ugh I rarely use dark color schemes so this one gave me a hard time! I'll keep practicing because I'd like to draw more horror/spooky art
an adansey poem for the soul <3
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my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😈 this strain is called "his fallible king" 🤴 you'll be zonked out of your gourd 💯
me: yeah whatever. i don’t feel shit
5 minutes later: what if i sacrificed my spiritual autonomy in order to help preserve your feebly-constructed sense of righteousness and integrity
my stupid and kind and marvellous best friend: hey, tiger
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There’s something that makes me go insane and it’s the image of someone cradling a dead body tenderly. They’re already gone but you still try to comfort them. They’re already gone but while the warmth in their body still remains you can pretend. They’re already gone and you were too late but still you hold them like your kindness can bring them back.
Save me major character death,,, major character death save me,,,