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Ronan Lynch ([personal profile] aluciner) wrote2019-04-23 03:08 am

character info

RONAN LYNCH

Dreamer of impossibilities with a smile as sharp as a knife. A being composed of an ever-shifting landscape of razor edges hiding a fragile mess of a boy who can make and make and make but hasn't figured out how to keep. How to feel anything but anger and hurt and loyalty. How to stop saying the truth and have it come out tasting like a lie. How to stop looking backward and remember to look forward.

ooc info

contact: flyingthesky on plurk (+#0332 for discord)
timezone: CST/CDT (check)

ic info

22. Male. Human-ish. Tall. Brown hair. Blue eyes. From Virginia, by way of Ireland.

character info

Ronan is the kind of person who's very effectively an utter goddamn asshole until he mentally transitions you from a nuisance to someone he cares about. He doesn't do it easily, because once someone becomes his, then they're unerringly and undyingly his. Because life has taught Ronan that there's no such thing as stability, he often opts to hold people at arm's length rather than get to know them.

He can be surprisingly fanciful and childish, though, in large part due to his abilities as "Greywaren." Effectively speaking, anything that Ronan can dream up, he can make a reality. These things may not work quite right when they've been pulled into the real world, but he can dream them all the same - cars that don't run on anything and ravens that are both startlingly real and too large to be a regular raven.

Overall, Ronan may not actually speak the truth, but he doesn't lie and those aren't always the same thing, because if you don't ask the right questions then he won't bother to offer up answers you haven't asked for. There's a certain stubbornness to Ronan that makes it hard to change his mind once he's decided something and whether or not you find it charming or infuriating is probably a matter of exposure.


permissions

BACKTAGGING: I'm not always great about keeping track of what I'm doing. If I've left something hanging, just ping me on plurk or send me a discord dm and I'll hop right on it! Seriously, I probably just forgot.

THREADHOPPING: I don't care unless something is explicitly marked as closed, most of the time. Still, you can ask me to make sure if you're worried.

FOURTHWALLING: I don't . . . know why your character would? But sure, if your character would know of The Raven Cycle, you can fourthwall Ronan. So much of his life is super fucking weird that it's barely weirder than a normal sentence someone would say to him.

MAGICAL INFORMATION: Ronan is a dreamer, which means that he can create anything he wants, but the most important part of this is that if your character can read minds, please contact me so I can explain a couple weird things about Ronan.

PHYSICAL AFFECTION: I don't recommend it, honestly. Ronan is a little weird about people touching him and even weirder about strangers doing it. He'll begrudingly accept it from people he considers friends though.

PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Sure! Go for it! Ronan loves fighting, is a trained boxer, and he plays dirty. So, you know, just beware that fighting Ronan is like fighting a rabid dog.

RELATIONSHIPS: Ronan is deeply, deeply in love with Adam Parrish and will hardly look at anyone else in a romantic light but there's some wiggle room there depending on canonpoint or AU. He is strictly into men, though.

content warnings

The Raven Cycle contains a lot of things, but mostly you're going to get the following with Ronan: gore, occasional suicidal ideation, and possible body horror. Also potentially just, uh. Casual talk of murder and blackmail. Ronan had maybe a little bit of a wild senior year. If you'd like a description of the books and don't mind spoilers, here is the wikipedia page. If you do mind spoilers: the books are about Ronan and his friends looking for a Welsh king in a fictional town called Henrietta, located in Virginia. Magic is real, and sometimes? It fucking sucks, actually. There will also be The Dreamer Trilogy spoilers, which you can ask to avoid and I will try my hardest.