you smell like home

And lo, Christmas came early that year when Adam stopped being difficult for like two fucking seconds, and let his friends give him things. Which they did on the spot, literally off their backs. 

Gansey was so excited he couldn’t sleep for days. More than usual, that is.

Two years earlier, Adam had made his decision to come to Aglionby, and, in his head, it was sort of because of Ronan.

Ronan said, “I’m always straight.” Adam replied, “Oh, man, that’s the biggest lie you’ve ever told.”

Ronan began to swear at Adam. It was a long, involved swear, using every forbidden word possible, often in compound-word form. As Adam stared at his lap penitent, he mused that there was something musical about Ronan when he swore, a careful and loving precision to the way he fit the words together, a black-painted poetry. 

He stroked Chainsaw’s head with a single finger and she tilted her beak up in response. It was a strange moment in a strange evening, and if it had happened the day before, it would’ve struck Adam that he rarely saw such thoughtless kindness from Ronan. 

Part of Adam wanted to lure Ronan out of his room for company

Both Adam and Blue looked up at the sound of footsteps crossing the floor toward them. It was Ronan, holding something under his arm. He cautiously lowered himself until he sat cross-legged beside Adam and then sighed heavily, as if he had been part of the conversation to this point and it tired him. Note: Read this post to understand why this quote is here

or, “50 shades of Ley”: Real canon facts on what is actually going on with “Ronan N. Lynch”

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A/N: Maggie if you’re seeing this no you aren’t <3

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It all started - as many things do - with a catholicism joke in the crying club discord server.

At that point, Mister Impossible (or as we affectionately call it, Miss Imp) had only been out a couple weeks, and we were all pretty bowled over, and wildly speculating about backstories. One of these speculations included wondering, if the sky book was the first dream Ronan remembers, what was Ronan’s very first dream?

A wise Parrishwife, at the time still blissfully unburdened with what has become known as The Ley Theory, once said: “what if his first dream is….. himself?” aka Ronan dreaming himself into life via Aurora, à la immaculate conception. Maggiekin out, Jesuskin in.

This innocent joke about Ronan being Jesus-adjacent, however, planted the seed of what would become a full blown theory.

Before we get into that though, let’s revisit The Dream Thieves. Remember when Cabeswater said that there are many thieves, but only one Greywaren? Yeah.

This led us to wondering: “Why is Ronan not a thief? Is he just taking back from part of himself? Is he some kind of ley line entity?”

What the damn hell is a Greywaren even??? Does anyone have an idea what Greywaren actually is? Of course Ronan needed his I’m not like other girls dreamers moment, but why do we still not know what exactly a Greywaren is and how it relates to the ley lines, its forests and beings?

Could it be that Cabeswater is so enamoured with the Greywaren because the Greywaren is what sustains it?

Oh. Right. That’s literally canon.

Thus, without further ado, the thesis statement:

RONAN IS A WHOLE ASS LEY LINE

…. and the hypotheses:

Greywaren (aka "Ronan”) is actually a ley line and/or an ancient magical forest.

Greywaren dreamt (manifested) itself in the shape of Ronan Lynch.

Let’s backtrack a bit and review the evidence, shall we?

(A/N: we DID make a powerpoint and present it on a zoom panel. It was 55 slides long and was called - you guessed it - “50 Slides of Ley”, because we are DELIGHTFUL <3)

matthew: my brother doesnt see me as a full person bc i have a magical intellectual disability and because if he sees me as fully human he’ll have to acknowledge that our mother was too. He resents me for his parentification but isn’t self-actualized enough yet to deal with it, so i will need to instead value myself enough to pursue the things i want and need until he gets there. For starters I’ll enroll myself back in school because Declan, my legal guardian, took me out of it without consulting me so he could be on his crime lord shit.