#madelyn altman

[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.

[lautreatyandlestealtman]

Cassandra (dryly): "I was hoping for a quiet conversation, not a new adventure." Madelyn (chuckling): "Well, unexpected adventures just really seem to like me." Cassandra: "Well, I don’t like those unexpected adventures at all." Madelyn: "Unfortunately for you, they seem to like you just as much."

[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!

[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.

[araluenrangerdanger]

Will and Maddie learning about the Direwolves:

[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

[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

[thatonepersoninthebackoftheroom]

Will: Are you there, God? It's me, Willl. IT'S ME WIIIILLLLLL

Halt: Get another apprentice, they said. It'll be funny, they said.

*Halt won't let Will risk his life in a risky move against their enemy.*

Years later

Maddie: Are you there, God? It's me, Maddie. IT'S ME MADDDDIIEEEEE.

Will: So this is how Halt felt.

[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

[lautreatyandlestealtman]

[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!

[dragoneyes618]

The Araluen royal family seems very small - riskily so. Royalty and nobility usually try to have at least several children, so in case the heir dies - the risk of dying young was a lot more common back in the old days, between sickness and accidents - there's still other family members to inherit if needed.

But Duncan has no siblings. Cassandra has no siblings. Madelyn has no siblings.

We don't know anything about Duncan's childhood. Maybe he did have more siblings who died. (I personally headcanon that Oswald and Deborah got married later for whatever reason so Duncan was the only child they had [which is part of the reason why Oswald changed the law to allow girls to inherit, because if he and Deborah only had a daughter and couldn't have any more children than someone needed to rule the kingdom] , but that's just my headcanon.)

But we know about Cassandra, and we know she's definitely an only child. Alright, so we know why Cassandra is an only child. Her mother died in childbirth. Maybe her father was too brokenhearted to ever remarry. Not to mention that what with having to deal with the aftermath of Morgarath's war, build himself a reputation as a good, strong king (with Morgarath not having actually been defeated, and with the army unable to get him out of the mountains, that probably didn't look very good for Duncan's first war as king) and raise a newborn daughter, remarrying was probably not high on his list of priorities at the moment.

But after a few years, even if Duncan himself didn't want to remarry, his court should have been beginning to urge him to. After all, Duncan only had the one heir. If anything happened to Cassandra, there'd be no one to inherit the throne. And indeed, Cassandra came close to dying many times. What if she'd died in Celtica? What if she'd died in Skandia? The future of Araluen's throne would have been in jeopardy. It would've been a lot less dangerous and risky if she'd had one or two siblings, just in case.

Moving on from Cassandra, there's Maddie, who is an only child as well. Again, it's risky for the monarchy to have only one heir. Especially now that she's no longer living safely at the palace but is training as a Ranger. Sure, she's not planning on actually becoming an active Ranger, but Ranger training in and of itself can be risky. Ranger apprentices are expected to go on missions and risk their lives just like full Rangers. Maddie almost died when she was wounded in the hip that time. What if she actually had died? What if she dies from an accident during training? All that would be needed is one bandit or whoever to get in a lucky shot, and that's it.

Royal families usually try to have at least "an heir and a spare." Just in case something happens to the heir, that's what the spare is for. But Araluen hasn't had any "spare" in generations.

The kingdom needs heirs, and generation after generation of only children in the royal family aren't enough of them to secure a stable future for Araluen if there is no direct heir. What if Maddie dies, and Cassandra at this point is likely too old to have children? Who will inherit the throne after Cassandra?