My Favorite Plot Twist In Trc Was Ronan Being An Absolute Fucking Loser. Like Wdym The Stoic Spontaneous

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

I love aftg because it’s literally impossible to water down the characters. Literally everything that they do is based on the unique intricacies of their circumstances. Like there’s no surface level behavior for them because they’re all so individual and have different responses to the situations they’re placed in.

This is also abt how annoyed I get when people try to dumb characters like Neil Josten to “short and feral and depressed” or Andrew to “angry and spontaneous bad boy” when they’re SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT RAHHH

Do y’all think Jean and Kevin used to play smash or pass but it was court or not court

Kevin and Jean being bitches in the same room together is so powerful. level 10 cuntquake two million dead

I love Henry Cheng because where tf did he come from??? Like there was absolutely zero mention of him in the first two books and suddenly he appears out of thin air with enough charisma to feed a small family and a robotic bee. Oh and also his mom is a crime boss?? So there’s that

My favorite character in aftg is Neil’s hair. Because wdym after years of being on the run and constantly having to change his identity AND play a dangerous physical sport he still kept his gorgeous locks? He could have saved himself half the trouble of dyeing and holding it back by just getting a buzz cut, but the poor guy just didn’t have the heart to cut it.

I’m actually crying whose decision was it to have Lloyd’s edgy montage scene be him jumping from the rooftops with Hard Knock Life from Annie playing in the background

Golden trio

It was the 90's! Yeah babe!

I read a head canon saying Harry hated tight clothes after his childhood with the Dursley, always wearing Dudley's too big for him stuff. So here he is in his baggy!

Hermione's in high colored outfit

And Ron with the inevitable combo backpack/army jacket.

Sometimes I’m okay and then I remember that at the end of trk Noah is literally just gone. Like no one remembers him. It’s like he never existed in the first place and no one can even be sad about that because they DON’T EVEN REMEMBER GOD IM GONNA BE SICK NO ONE KNOWS THAT HE LOVES GLITTER AND SPIKY HAIR AND HATES BEING ALONE AN

doodle bc this is extremely Jean coded