#also ty im glad you liked the aurora one! i have so many feelings about her

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i don’t know if you’re still doing the rambling (?) meme but i love reading your words so 📁about anything at all, but if i should give a topic niall asshole lynch (to go with the amazing aurora one?)

fkjdlsa;jfkdlsaj; i am always doing the rambling meme that’s like a perfect description of my state of existence. i don’t exactly have headcanons about niall asshole lynch but i do think a lot about how violence is a father to son inheritance in trc like you have the very obvious example of adam which i’m pretty sure i’ve talked about before but you also have declan and ronan who both interact with their father’s violence in different ways - declan uses it as a tool and compartmentalizes it into His Father’s World, where violence is honest and nearly constant, and the townhouse kind of world, where violence is faraway and casual and hidden, and to ronan violence is a language and a tribute and a form of expression and relation: his father taught him how to box, his father left him the ability to create life which is a delayed act of violence, his father died on the driveway minutes before ronan found him. like when ronan commits violence the words describing it are almost artistic...matthew is the only lynch brother who isn’t primed to violence like that (i feel like he might have wrestled someone at some point but that doesn’t qualify in the same way imo) and like i’m not going to get into the whole creation myth garden of eden allegory that’s there because no one wants me to be catholic on main let alone myself but also now i’m thinking about if we’re going to get a cain and abel situation in the cdth saga but also i’m OFF TOPIC. anyway then you obviously have noah, whose murder is whelk’s reaction to his father’s fall from grace and abandonment (puke rich boy problems but like that was his motivation) so his entire afterlife is defined by the trauma of bearing whelks anger towards his own father, and gansey, who is conflicted about it but still mimics his father in the harm he causes his friends in trying to manipulate them to fit his own standards and expectations. i care very little about kavinsky but his violence is pretty clearly linked to his father’s abuse and absence...like you could argue that kavinsky is ronan’s foil mainly because he believes in his own mythology as opposed to ronan who believes in his father’s, and you have that direct link between kavisnky and niall who both live violently for violence’s sake and ultimately both explosively self destruct..even piper’s violence, although largely just dumb and selfish, is enacted through the family business her fathers/uncles have taught her. also the grey man but i truly cannot remember enough about his backstory to get into that. i think gwenllian is the only character whose violence acts in direct opposition to her father and that is why i love her. you also have characters with absent fathers, namely henry, blue and hennessy. hennessy’s moments of violence are largely practical or turned inwards, henry has a marked distaste for violence of all kinds and blue probably has the most well adjusted relationship to violence to anyone in the books besides gwenllian, embodied by her little pink switchblade that she feels uncomfortable with but will use when necessary...trc is about connection and absence and harm is an inherent aspect of both those things and the books do a varied in quality but always interesting job of showing the different ways combinations of the two can affect relationships. also cannot wait for more creation is violence discourse as the books go on i feel like that’s the most underdiscussed theme of those books.

#also ty im glad you liked the aurora one! i have so many feelings about her #abuse tw #ask to tag #self harm tw #trc #Anonymous