#ahhh just thinking about baby ronan and matthew and the field mice :(

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thinking about how matthew is sort of implied to be the ronan pre-niall’s death, pre-losing the barns, the ronan full of easy love and whimsy. the carefree, innocent, happy, perpetually ebullient younger brother. 

and also thinking about these two quotes from the dream thieves:

“What was that?” Matthew whispered.

 “There are,” Ronan replied, “bad things in the world” 

and

The old Ronan Lynch’s laugh. No, it was better than that one, because this new one had just a hint of darkness beneath it. This Ronan knew there was crap in the world, but he was laughing anyway.

and lastly thinking about how both ronan and declan try to keep him happy above even truth, how they want matthew to be untouched by the brokenness of the world. but of course they fail (because thats not a viable expectation in a life as broken as theirs) in cdth to keep that illusion up. matthew will have to learn the same thing that ronan had to after his father’s death, and its going to be so painful (but also hopefully good) to see their parellel journeys.

#ahhh just thinking about baby ronan and matthew and the field mice :( #ronan lynch #matthew lynch #the raven cycle #trc #cursed trc reread #birdverse