Funniest part of The Raven King was for sure when it was revealed that Cheng2 was not in fact Henry’s brother but actually just some random kid who was also named Henry
Kevin and Jean being bitches in the same room together is so powerful. level 10 cuntquake two million dead
Jean being real asf
Do y’all think Jean and Kevin used to play smash or pass but it was court or not court
Every time someone says that Tim Drake discovered the identities of both Batman and Nightwing and became the third Robin because he was BORED an angel dies
this is a post born primarily out of personal interest/necessity but i hope it will be useful to other people too. outtakes and cut scenes from trc have been floating around fandom spaces for a while, but they are infuriatingly hard to track down: some of them have been reblogged without tags and are therefore lost in the depths of tumblr, some i did not get to reblog before maggie deleted her tumblr, and some were posted to twitter and subsequently deleted.
so, since i was tired of having to dig through months and months of my trc tag (and often coming up empty handed), i decided to compile all the deleted scenes i could into this post. it is possible that i have forgotten some, and if that is the case, please let me know.
i owe a big debt of gratitude to kelly @harvardparrish for compiling a downloadable archive of maggie’s tumblr; most of the outtakes below i retrieved by browsing maggie’s “how i write” tag in the archive and taking screenshots of the relevant posts. others were screenshots that were posted to twitter by maggie, which i managed to save before the tweets were deleted.
enjoy!! (under a cut for length and future edits)
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Burning oceans, hand kinks, whatever whatever LOOK AT HOW RONAN DREAMS OF ADAM HE LITERALLY WORSHIPS HIM
Obviously it’s a general rule in fiction that a character cannot be who you first believe they are, but trc just takes it to a whole other level. By the end of The Raven King, every single character is so drastically different from how they were in The Raven Boys, partially because of their own development, but also because of how the perspectives are divvied out between books so neatly that you get basically an entire character study in each one alongside the overall plot. Everytime I reread it I’m so off-put by the first book because of how differently they used to act and think, even if it the timeline is only a few months. Maggie Stiefvater please never die
oh nothing just Helen supporting Gansey’s weird interests and Helen technically being the first person that Gansey tells about him liking Blue and Helen and Gansey hugging despite the Ganseys not being huggers and how even though Gansey was able to find his own family outside of home Helen will always be his big sister shut up don’t talk to me