#gansey
THE RAVEN CYCLE
Many people talk about how they love Adam Parrish but I just wanna say: I absolutely love Gansey.
He’s like the greatest nerd and the biggest dork you can think of. He’s 17 and 50 at the same time. His personal style is horrible. His friends are magical creatures/trees/dead/200 years old professors/Henry Cheng.
He has notebooks full of useless stuff. He lives in an era of smartphones and still makes handwritten notes and snippets of newspapers. He built a miniaturized Henrietta - no normal person would do that.
He had one wild obsession and was ready to give everything including his life for it.
He drives an unpractical and ugly car just because he feels good with it (it’s like the equivalent of wearing t-shirts with superheroes on them).
He’s just such a nerd and I love him for it. And for the fact that he doesn’t even hide it. Even the judge is like “hey did you find your dead king?”, the whole school is like “ah yes the Glendower, Gansey’s bf”.
Sick Ronan gets to be part of a cuddle pile until he is better.
for Avalonjoan, part of the @fandomtrumpshate2022
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one moment i wish people talked about more in the raven cycle is when gansey confesses to being greedy when it comes to magic. how he says that all the wonderful, slightly terrifying things he encountered lost their meaning after a while because he was always looking for more
excelsior - onwards and upwards - but what happens when you climb so high you forget everything below you?
looking back on that moment i think it’s really important because it shows why the ending of trk was so important. if everything had culminated exactly how gansey wanted it to - if wishes were granted and summer never ended - then i think he would have never have understood the value of everything he had already
one of the big developments in gansey’s character is him recognising the privilege he has and i think without the series ending the way it did that would never have happened because one of the greatest privileges he has - and one of the most important in the books - is the relationships he has with his friends and i think that deserved to be highlighted
all of the gangsey are a little bit in love with and willing to die for each other and that’s immensely important to the story. they are people that are all a little lost on their own who are able to feel safe and understood together and that’s one of the core themes of the books
and in the decision for glendower not to be what they wanted it not only makes gansey appreciate all the other magic he has around him - blue and the women of fox way, ronan the greywaren and cabeswater, adam the magician - but also the beauty of his family - something just as magical and rare and completely fundamental to the story and to gansey
