#robert parrish

Ronan really said

Half Gone

Blue Sargent doesn't know Adam Parrish at thirty-six like she did at seventeen.

Now he's back in Henrietta, helping with the churchyard watch on St Mark's Eve. There's a wedge between them that widens and sharpens every time they're together. Something that won't be acknowledged until they're standing face-to-face.

On the corpse road at midnight, Adam sees his father.

Blue Sargent & Adam Parrish | 2k | angst and grief

So. This is the first time we meet Robert Parrish. I don't think I really understood what else going on here on the first read, especially with the SRF thing.

Do we think Robert called Gansey a soft rich faggot and when Gansey told Ronan about it, Ronan took it up as a nickname for Gansey? The soft and rich is fair enough, but for Robert to call Gansey a faggot... maybe this is just to add to Adam's turmoil, to let the reader know the depth of how Adam absolutely cannot be himself around his father.

But why do we think Ronan in particular rolls with it? Maybe he just finds it funny that Robert picked that word for the wrong Raven Boy. Maybe he thinks that if he uses it enough in a jovial, affectionate sense then it will lose power. Doesn't he worry about repeating Adams father's violence in front of him, rubbing salt in wounds Adam would rather ignore? Or is this to help Adam too, desensitising him so Robert can no longer use it as a weapon, to show Adam that his father doesn't have to be met with fear but with pride and camaraderie? That no one who matters actually gives a shit what Robert thinks, and Adam shouldn't either.