#madelyn altman

[burnin0akleaves]

Ranger Gathering Day 31: Belonging

Promised myself I would make this quickly and keep it simple no matter what, so I'm sticking to my word and posting it while it's as messy as it is.

Get slept on, idiot

[ragingadhd]

Tbh honest I don’t think I’ll ever be able to forgive Horace and Cassandra for disowning Maddie in TRR1, even if it was temporary. That was unnecessarily cruel.

It especially bugs me that they were ‘just so proud of her for finishing her apprenticeship with Will!!1”. You two gave her no choice. You don’t get to throw your kid into river rapids and then congratulate her for learning how to swim.

And no, I don’t believe they ‘tried everything and nothing worked’. You mean grounding her? Arguing with her when she didn’t listen to you? That was ‘everything’?? There’s no fucking way it is ever completely necessary to disown your 15 y/o child.

The whole thing reads to me as this weird fantasy that a lot of parents have, where all the pain they caused was somehow ‘worth it’. It’s a lot easier to face pain if it feels necessary than it is to own up to your mistakes.

[artsysurvivor]

It's soo telling that Halt (a prince-become-ranger who will die if he's alone for 2 minutes) saw Will having a hard time with the death of Alyss and Maddie being a little snotty/bratty and immediately thought "you know what would work?

Ranger training"

[nineteen-rats]

I kinda want to see how you imagine Madie (Horace and Cassandra's daughter). please draw her.

IM BEGING YOU🙏

maddie,,,

[rangerangel]

I’m not sure why I’ve been on the Gilan train recently, but it’s been nice! Here’s Uncle Gil and baby Maddie, the adorable duo.

I got a new drawing tablet and I’ve been practicing in Procreate instead of CSP. I still haven’t figured it out quite yet and it’s been immensely frustrating to fail over and over again, but being able to draw on the go is quite handy. My artwork might not be to the painting quality yet on this new software, but I’ll keep trying!

[lautreatyandlestealtman]

[rangersapprenticeincorrect]

Maddie: I Keep shooting people in the head, and they keep... Not getting shot in the head by me. It's very frustrating.

Will: Interesting use of passive voice.

[rangercorpstherapy]

I want to like Maddie and I wish I did but I find her boring and unenjoyable. Will is an incredible MC and I got deeply attached to him, so the concept of others books without him being the MC is like awful

x

[araluenrangerdanger]

Will and Maddie learning about the Direwolves:

[rangertessadarling]

cmon the real reason they gave Maddie to Will was because everyone knew that Will was the biggest raging feminist in the entirety of the corp

[burnin0akleaves]

Ranger Gathering Day 1: Dawn

Dawn began to streak the eastern sky over the sea. He could hear birds moving and calling, fluttering through the low bushes and long grass, rustling the branches and leaves as they hunted unwary insects. The day was a normal day, just like the day before. But it would always be different because he would remember this day as the day he lost Maddie.

Obvious reference to Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan by Ilya Repin aside, I guess it's Will Treaty and His Goddaughter Madelyn now, there is so much I want to discuss about this scene.

Will doesn't cry when he thinks Maddie is dead. If the narration is anything to go by he just... accepts it. He was screaming, yelling, thinking about how he could ever break the news of their daughter's death to Horace and Cassie and begging Maddie to stay alive a few minutes ago; yet when the unimaginable seems to happen, he shuts down.

This is a common trend when it comes to how Will handles trauma. He acts in the moment but stops expressing himself once it's done. Since he wasn't there at the time of Alyss' death, he can't cry after her. All he can do to let his emotions out is to go on his solo manhunt for Ruhl and his associates, because that's the only thing there is for Will to do. This way, he can let his pent up emotions out, as anger.

But when Maddie wakes, the relief Will feels is enough to finally break the dam.

He began to laugh. And somewhere, the laughter turned to tears and he was sobbing uncontrollably—immense sobs that racked his entire body and floods of tears that coursed down his cheeks. And he knew the tears were the ones he had never been able to shed for Alyss. They were for her. And they were for Maddie. And they were for him. Most of all for him.

This is years of pent up emotions being released and a vital scene for where Will's character is by the time or TRR. I see Will portrayed in the role of the sobbing widower sometimes and I think it's both a misunderstanding of his character and a total missed opportunity.

Will is miserable during the year and a half after Alyss' death, grief-stricken and depressed, but he isn't a sobbing mess. Will cannot cry for Alyss and he feels terrible about it.

Oh god, how I miss her. It's like there's a huge hole in my life. But I can't cry for her. I've never cried for her and that hurts so much. Why can't I cry, Sable?

That's why when he finally gets to let it out, it's an emotional explosion. He can't repress anymore and breaks down, he's weeping still by the time it's fully day and one of Ruhl's victims finds them.

Another small thing I want to mention is how the book's main theme, new beginnings, comes together in more than one way in this scene. It's the dawn of a new day, Maddie returns from the dead in Will's eyes and Will is taking maybe not the first but definitely the most important steps in his recovery. The passage of a dark time and the promise of new day, it's a literal and metaphorical dawn.

[ragingadhd]

If y’all are allowed to complain about how “Will just became Halt in TRR :(((“ then I’m allowed to complain about how Maddie is just a copy of Cassandra if she were a ranger

[permettez-moi]

So, I'm reading the missing prince, and I'm at the scene where Maddie keeps sticking her tongue out, while practicing juggling.

Didn't Will used to do that in the earlier books too?

And if so, it would be beyond adorable if Maddie accidentally picked that up from him

[nineteen-rats]

your ra art is to die for, if you're still doing requests I would love to see your take on madelyn 👁

you have no idea how much that compliment means coming from you because your art literally has me on my hands and knees

a little trr1 maddie for you :D enjoy

[rangerangel]

RA OC

I very rarely share my OCs, but I'd like to introduce Bianca!

She's Genovesan by trade, and seems to exist only to haunt Will's worst nightmares--after all, she is dating his niece. She and Maddie met during a mission where they were both assigned to the same location, and ended up saving each others lives multiple times over. By the time they realized they were falling in love, it was far to late for them to consider the implications of a Genovesan and Ranger being together.

And so after a series of misfortunes (and a lot of rule breaking), Bianca comes to Araluen to pursue a definitely legal and not at all probationary position with the Diplomatic Corps. She sometimes loans her skills out to educate the Rangers on how to treat poison, and she tries her best to make nice with all of Maddie's guardians. But this particular wild child tends to lead Maddie well off the usual path for a royal princess!

[lautreatyandlestealtman]

Cassandra: Shall we go eat at Jenny's? Madelyn: Mom, you know that's not a good idea, Jenny will never stop feeding Dad, and he's already fat enough!