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A moment in The Raven King that I see literally no one talking about: when Adam asks Cabeswater to play Ronan's electronic ear death music and Ronan just smiles like an idiot and Adam's internal monologue is just "making Ronan smile feels like giving my soul to a sentient Latin speak dream forest. Not to be messed with"
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some of you bitches haven’t sacrificed your hands and eyes to a sentient forest that speaks latin and it shows
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This exact dialogue exchange is just so insane and underrated to me. Because it's in Hennessey's point of view, she doesn't linger on Ronan's response so upon first glance it's so easy to take it at face value, that being that he's just being a quippy shithead like he always is. But knowing the assumptions that Ronan is operating under at this point based on the unanswered tamquam, he probably means this very literally. He's incredibly insecure that Adam is going to lose interest in him, which is something Ronan has been worried about all along but now because of the text situation he finally thinks he has grounds for this claim for the first time. And based on what Hennessy says here it brings us back to this exchange from The Raven King
"did he say a spell" being Adam sacrificing himself to the Cabeswater, "now you're bound for life" the revelation that Cabeswater is Ronan's dream. It would be very easy for Ronan to believe now that Adam's interest for him began with Cabeswater, that being a huge tie between them, coincidentally (not coincidentally?) also the time that Adam finally started expressing interest back. And if Ronan is seeing this correlation he may think the disappearance of Cabeswater is the end of the real reason for them to be together, and now that it's not there binding them anymore, Adam is left with the aftermath of Ronan without the reasoning to be with him in the first place, leading Adam not to want him anymore. Because Adam Is A Witch Who Said A Spell Wrong And Ronan Appeared And Now They're Bound For Life.
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The plot of The Dream Thieves is so fucking wild like at the same time (pretty much) Adam was having hallucinations of the sentient forest he sacrificed his eyes and hands to at a republican dinner party, Gansey was having an internal breakdown because his dead welsh king boyfriend has probably disappeared with said sentient forest, Ronan was having a homoereotic-fever-dream-sexuality crises about Adam AND Kavinsky which involved the swallowing of tattoos
Meanwhile Blue making out with a ghost was the most normal thing going on
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Hi Maggie, I'd really like to hear you say a bit more about why you wrote Adam trying to repair the relationship with his abusive parents in the Raven King. What is the merit in salvaging a relationship such as that, and do you think it is possible for Adam's parents to truly redeem themselves? P.S. Can't wait for Call Down The Hawk, hopefully by the time it comes out I'll quit accidentally calling it Call The Hawk Down (every time I do that I'm like SHIT...was that it? That wasn't it...)
Dear courageofhorses,
I have also seen CALM DOWN THE HAWK which is a perfectly appropriate title.
Following is spoilers for TRK
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CAVEAT: I’m going to answer this with how I interpret Adam’s character, but in the end, the books live without me, so it’s what makes it on the page and into your interpretation that counts.
THAT SAID. I’m not sure I would call Adam’s final move in The Raven King an attempt to repair the relationship, because it’s not about his parents, it’s about him. It’s about what he needs to say and do in order to feel he has the moral high ground; it’s what he personally requires to allow himself freedom.
By the time we get to that final scene of his in TRK, he’s been living on his own for quite awhile, a high school senior who fled his childhood home under duress. In that time, he’s lived through a helluva lot of traumatic and brilliant events. He’s seen his mentor die, he’s fallen in love, he’s dreaded his best friend’s death, he’s learned that he can be a good friend.
The only time he’s seen his father in that time is when he comes busting through the door of his apartment with violence and Cabeswater intervenes.
Otherwise, it has been only Adam and his memories of his parents, and if there is anything Adam doesn’t trust throughout the series, it’s his own interpretation of events. He’s been trained his entire childhood to doubt himself.
So him returning to TRK isn’t about him genuinely trying to repair a relationship, to accept his parents back into his life despite all the’ve done to him. Instead, it’s about him — for the first time, ever — walking back to the trailer he grew up in without fear. He’s just come from graduation, and he’s closing the books behind him. He’s choosing to be blunt with his parents, without fear, older, wiser, more powerful. He knows he can trust whatever he sees as he walks back through that door under his own steam. It will be the truth, not what his battered emotional thoughts whispered to him for 800 pages.
Adam returns to see if, now that he knows himself, these people he saw as monsters still look like monsters. He wants to see if he becomes monstrous in their presence. He wants to feel for the first time in his life the glorious glow of the absolutely certain high ground while looking at his father.
He wants to exorcise the memory of a fearful man who controlled his life for 17 years by instead facing him with the full knowledge that he has no control over Adam whatsoever.
And as to the rest: shit, man. Even if your parents beat the crap out of you, it can be hard to make the decision to walk away completely. The voices whisper that maybe it wasn’t that bad –
But Adam says what he came to say.
He came to see if he ever had parents. If, once he didn’t hate himself, they might be different. And guess what: he’s the only thing that changed. They didn’t.
He fled that trailer last time he left. Like the scared kid he was. But now he just walks out, like the man he became.
So to me, that scene is about Adam coming back to the trailer to realize this about his past:
And this about his future:
And walking out as Adam Parrish, son of no one, only himself.
tl;dr: abuse is a complicated creature with many different roads to closure. Is what Adam does right? I can’t say that. Is what I think Adam did in that scene what you think he did in that scene? I can’t say that either.
But I reckon that’s what I was thinking when I walked him out that door for the last time.
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#I FUCKING LOVE ADAM PARRISH SO MUCH#i am also destroyed by this saga btw#i love it#anyways#Adam Parrish#theres nothing else on my mind than him#i love him with my whole heart
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the dreamer
(there's still so much more raven cycle art in my sketchbook y'all)
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I read this particular scene in The Raven King a few days ago I'm I'm so NOT over it
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the raven cycle is hilarious because blue and gansey are living in a coming of age romcom and adam and ronan are living in a supernatural horror film and then when they all hang out it immediately turns into an 80s treasure hunting brotherhood flick. and then they go their separate ways and adam and ronan immediately start battling the horrors again while blue and gansey eat yogurt
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the forever-troubled boys extracted from my fic..
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