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if when he was writing the main series exclusively flanagan let those couple inconsistencies through imagine if he goes back to writing for the OG series after all those years kfskfksfksf what are your flanagan bootlegs? mine are Blonde Will and Chatty Halt

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ranger Halt thinking about Ferris like:

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halt expecting pritchard to not believe him about ferris like

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HOLLERING

ok but like imagine a side book with multiple POVs focusing on the 3 o’carrick siblings through the years?? like a bunch of dun kilty Lost Stories?? flanagan when??? imagine like

story 1: early childhood (halt pov)

story 2: assassination attempts (ferris pov)

story 3: halt confides in caitlyn (caitlyn pov)

story 4: halt and pritchard (halt pov)

story 5: ferris crowned king, caitlyn pregnant (caitlyn pov)

story 6: bedridden caitlyn (ferris or maybe sean pov??)

story 7: halt receives the news (halt pov)

story 8: literally book 8 but from ferris’s perspective (ferris pov)

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dang he could've trolled you hard by saying “Halt dies of poison“

here’s a semi-cursed anecdote:

my fam and i were listening to the RA audiobooks on a road trip. we were somewhere in book 3. my brother, who is two years younger and was 10ish at the time, had already read all the books. he and i were doing the dishes. i begged him to spoil the series for me. he told me that halt and pauline got married. i scolded him and told him to tell me REAL spoilers and not fake ones of halt and pauline marrying because wtf.

cue to seven years later and i’m still howling over the wedding, like “you’re getting a haircut” will just crack me up??? i need help.

also:

halt: what about duncan???

pauline: we’ll make him patron

halt: tf is a patron???

pauline: no idea, just made it up

week later, duncan’s PA, straight faced to Duncan: you gotta give them an expense present.

and then years later Horace and Cassandra straight up do the same thing to Shigeru without a care in the world.

my brain really said “pick these undeveloped scenes and elaborate on them in your head until you can’t live without them anymore” huh

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Honestly? Lewin

How To Sit On A Sofa as demonstrated by the rene(gay)de rangers

based off this post

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ok but like imagine a side book with multiple POVs focusing on the 3 o’carrick siblings through the years?? like a bunch of dun kilty Lost Stories?? flanagan when??? imagine like

story 1: early childhood (halt pov)

story 2: assassination attempts (ferris pov)

story 3: halt confides in caitlyn (caitlyn pov)

story 4: halt and pritchard (halt pov)

story 5: ferris crowned king, caitlyn pregnant (caitlyn pov)

story 6: bedridden caitlyn (ferris or maybe sean pov??)

story 7: halt receives the news (halt pov)

story 8: literally book 8 but from ferris’s perspective (ferris pov)

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Finding out Halt’s backstory in The Kings of Clonmel:

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Will: if I were a gardener, I would put our “two-lips” together.

Alyss: *blushes*

Gilan: if I were a gardener, you’d be my hoe

Jenny: this is why I won’t marry you

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Massive shout out to all bullied 12-14 year olds who lived vicariously through horace's authority sanctioned ass-whooping of his bullies and said bullies' subsequent exile

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So, you know the whole "Does Crowley have blue eyes or hazel eyes" thing, right?

Modern RA AU where Crowley uses colored contact lenses and nobody knows what his real eye color is. It irritates Halt to no end that not even HE knows his best friend's true eye color

(It's brown. Crowley has brown eyes. Nobody has a clue.)

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KFDFKDSKFD I also thought it was really confusing when regular archers appeared, we just have to guess if they’re special or not

yo look at what the “Rangers” are called in other languages this is rlly cool

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oh yeah!! for some reason i thought Gilan was the one who told Halt and Will ab the change of plans

Can you imagine how the ranger corps at large felt when first meeting Will??

First they’re like “oh Halt has a new apprentice. poor thing.” Then he kills the kalkara and saves Halt’s life Then he thwarts Morgarath at the bridge and is kidnapped by skandians Then Halt commits treason and is banished from the country and expelled from the corps, all to go after the boy Then he not only turns out to be alive, but he plays a critical role in thwarting a temujai invasion AND forging an international treaty with the skandians

This all happens before any of the other rangers meet him in person

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yo look at what the “Rangers” are called in other languages this is rlly cool

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Can you imagine how the ranger corps at large felt when first meeting Will??

First they’re like “oh Halt has a new apprentice. poor thing.” Then he kills the kalkara and saves Halt’s life Then he thwarts Morgarath at the bridge and is kidnapped by skandians Then Halt commits treason and is banished from the country and expelled from the corps, all to go after the boy Then he not only turns out to be alive, but he plays a critical role in thwarting a temujai invasion AND forging an international treaty with the skandians

This all happens before any of the other rangers meet him in person

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AU where Will made it to the first gathering

Firstly, more Gilan and Crowley scenes. Yes.

Gilan and Crowley nonstop trolling Halt all day

Keep in mind, this is still when Will revered Halt as a dark, mysterious, quasi-sorcerous unreadable entity. When he sees the two dunking on him he’s like :O

Will meeting other apprentices (new side characters!)

We learn that Halt’s teaching methods are unusually ruthless (it is not usual for the ranger to dismiss their housemaiden and make the apprentice do house chores). Gilan shudders at the memories of gathering water at 4AM on winter. Halt says it “builds character”.

More first impressions/discussions on the minor ranger characters! Berrigan, Meralon, Bartell, etc