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CHARACTER
Character Name: Richard ‘Dick’ Campbell Gansey III
Character Age: 17
Canon: The Raven Cycle
Canon Point: End of Blue Lily, Lily Blue
History: A middling summary of the plots of the books can be found here.
Anyone with a name like Richard Campbell Gansey III is bound to be born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and this one is no exception. He was born and raised in old-money Virginia, where he materially lacked for nothing. All signs point to Gansey’s childhood being full of fancy parties and fancy vacations doing things that cost unimaginable sums of money with parents that treated him and his sister with a distant sort of affection colored with high expectations. When he was ten years old, Gansey accidentally stumbled into a hornets’ nest. The entire nest swarmed, and Gansey’s allergic reaction to the stings was so severe that he should have died on the spot. However, instead, he heard a strange voice in his head. It said You will live because of Glendower. Someone else on the ley line is dying when they should not, and so you will live when you should not.
So, Gansey lived, and became obsessed with finding Glendower, who turned out to be a Welsh King that was rumored to have been brought to the Americas to be buried in the mountains of what would become Virginia for reasons having to do with the magic of ley lines. Between his studies and keeping up family appearances, Gansey continued his search, which his family found odd but harmless. He would talk about it to anyone interested, and the person who put up with this the most was Ronan Lynch.The reader doesn’t see their relationship as children, but their present friendship indicates that the past one was deep and fairly exclusive.
When Gansey and Ronan were fifteen, Ronan’s father, Niall was murdered, his head bashed in with a crowbar. Ronan was the one who found his father’s body lying in the driveway the next morning, and has never been the same since. Gansey is one of the only people who can leash Ronan’s temper, and from that point he gladly more or less becomes Ronan’s keeper. They enroll in Aglionby together, and Gansey drags Ronan through his classes and cleans up his messes. There, they meet Adam Parrish, one of the few boys in Aglionby who didn’t get there on a trust fund but who shares their love for sexy cars. They almost instantly become an inseparable group, along with Noah, another student and the other occupant of Monmouth.
Before we even meet Gansey in the first book, the reader learns that he is going to die within the next year. Unknowing of this prophecy, Gansey goes about his normal life, trying to keep Ronan from fighting with his brother and attempting to convince Adam to escape his abusive parents and come live at Monmouth with his other friends. While he is able to maintain the tenuous peace between the feuding Lynch brothers, all of his offers to help Adam seem to lead to arguments.
In the meantime, his search for Glendower suddenly starts leading places. Blue Sargent, who foresaw Gansey’s death, begins to get sucked into his quest even as her psychically powerful family lends the boys as little help as possible. Their search eventually leads them to a magical forest named Cabeswater, where all the trees speak Latin. They call Ronan ‘Greywaren’ and Gansey ‘King of the Ravens’. They learn that they must wake the ley line, and along the path to doing that, Gansey is held at gunpoint by his Latin teacher, goes into a magical tree-trunk that shows him a future-dream of almost kissing Blue, and finds the long-dead body of his roommate Noah, who turns out to be the person whose life ended so Gansey could live. Adam prevents Gansey from sacrificing himself to awaken the full magic of Cabeswater, taking on the job himself by becoming the forest’s ‘eyes and ears’.
The second book is much more about Ronan than Gansey, as it turns out that the Greywaren is a person who can bring things from his dreams into reality and more than a few people are really interested in that. Meanwhile, over the summer Gansey takes Adam to one of the parties his mother is holding to support her Congressional campaign. Introducing him to these politicians will help Adam start making the connections he’ll need to climb the ladder to the success he so desperately wants and is so jealous of. At the party, Adam learns how much Gansey actually dislikes this life, and they fight over how easily Gansey would discard something Adam has lusted after for as long as he can remember.
Within the 12 hours after their argument, Gansey learns that Ronan has stolen and wrecked his Camaro, and that Adam has disappeared. They eventually find Adam on the side of the road in a fugue state, unsure of where he is or how he got there. After giving Adam a little time to recover, the boys head back to Henrietta, where Ronan presents Gansey with an exact replica of his precious wrecked car, excitedly telling him that he pulled it whole from a dream.
There isn’t much time to celebrate this before another Aglionby student, Kavinsky, who helped Ronan hone his dreaming abilities, kidnaps Ronan’s younger brother and summons a monster to try and kill everyone Ronan cares about. Ronan manages to overcome his long-held self-loathing to summon a creature to fight Kavinsky’s, Blue, Adam and Gansey rescue Ronan’s brother, and Kavinsky commits suicide via dream-creature. Gansey, though fascinated and delighted by Ronan’s abilities, is also worried about the influence Cabeswater is exerting on Adam, as well as his forbidden but ever-growing feelings for Blue.
In the third book, everyone remembers that they’re on a quest to find a dead Welsh king, and the search for Glendower is taken up in full force again as the school year starts. As they get closer and closer to finding the king, Gansey swings between happiness at their progress and the growing realization that since he was ten years old, his whole life has centered around Glendower, and that he has no idea what he will do or who he’ll be when they finally reach the end of his quest. When they find a series of connected caves around but outside Cabeswater, finding Glendower seems more and more inevitable. On their first journey into the caves, Gansey falls into what seems like an endless hole, held up only by the rope tied between himself and his friends. Even though Gansey has plenty of rock-climbing experience, inside the perfectly dark and terribly magical cave, he has to be pulled up by his friends. This is because he finds all of his energy taken up in an attempt not to have a flashback to being stung to death by hornets, because places like Cabeswater have an unfortunate tendency to take thoughts and expectations extremely literally. Whether it’s from the cave’s influence or his own self-doubt, from that point forward Gansey begins having anxiety attacks in which he starts feeling hornets crawling on his body.
Some more hunting leads them to a different cave, where the whole group is actually able to pass through, and in doing so they discover a tomb. It turns out to be the wrong one, however, and instead of Glendower, they end up with his mad daughter, who has been awake and progressively going mad for 600 years or so. At that point, they realize that the only way through is the first cave, where Gansey fell. Once they discover that the hole is a lot less bottomless than it seemed, they find a room filled with the skeletons of animals, frozen in movement as though still alive. Ronan realizes that they are dream-creatures, just like all the animals on his father’s farm. Ronan, Adam, and Blue attempt to wake the creatures by combining their various abilities, but it isn’t until Gansey touches an animal and commands them to wake up that the creatures come back to life. Further shenanigans ensue that end with Gansey being stuck in the animal room, and Ronan and Blue ending up in a room with a pond only Blue can cross. This all leads to an encounter with someone else seeking to wake Glendower, a cave-in and the kids barely escaping with their lives, leaving the other treasure hunter to wake up something that is very decidedly not Glendower.
So, Gansey doesn’t get to kiss the girl who really would also like to kiss him, hasn’t found his king, and is beginning to doubt the purpose of his life. Meanwhile, the quest he began is slipping further and further out of his control and into the hands of his magically powerful friends. Plus, they managed to make the thing happen that really, really wasn’t supposed to happen. Seems like a great place to be taken from!
Inventory: 1 set of clothing including: hoodie, t-shirt, henley, underwear, socks, cargo pants, hiking boots.
contents of pockets: dried mint leaves, wallet (contains cash, credit cards, driver's license, 1 posed family photo, 1 folded-flat paper crane, dumb various gansey-ish scraps of paper), 1 swiss-army style knife/multitool, 1 very expensive smartphone with Box SIM card installed, 1 Ronan-dreamed EpiPen, several coins and a few shiny pebbles (for Chainsaw).
1 crossbody bag containing: 1 handgun with two full clips, 1 glendower notebook, 1 blank notebook, 1 partially used notebook, pens, mechanical pencils, 1 heavier pullover hooded sweatshirt, first aid kit, 2 reusable liter containers of drinkable water, 1 spray can of hornet and wasp killer, 2 jars of dried mint, contact lens care materials and 1 extra set lenses.
Abilities: Rock climbing, rowing, hiking, camping and general outdoorsyness as long as he’s equipped. Native speaker of English, high-school French, and can at least read and speak some Welsh. Has the most basic Latin, enough that he can pick out words in sentences, but that’s about it. Knows an awful lot about dead Welsh Kings, ley lines, and has a fair grasp on how the magic of his world works, even if he can’t use it. Naturally charismatic and leadery, willing to take charge of a situation even if he has no idea what’s going on. A good strategist. Surprisingly accepting of people who aren’t like him. Can (somewhat) control Ronan Lynch. Has a knack for finding things other people have overlooked, in both the mental and physical senses. Also has a transparent aura, the meaning of which isn’t entirely clear yet. However, a character sensitive to auras says that he is comfortable around Gansey because his transparent aura makes it a lot like being by himself. Has a certain tone of command that he uses mostly in emergencies, but other characters mention it feeling impossible to disobey Gansey when he uses that tone. He is only semi-aware of this ability.
Flaws:
+/- Loyal: His people are the most important thing to him, and he disapproves heartily of them risking themselves, especially on his behalf. Despite his mask of friendliness, Gansey is choosy about his friends, and will put himself and his friendships at risk for their safety. Being as that he's the King of these ravens, it's never a good strategy to be unwilling to lose any of the pieces on your board, and Gansey definitely is.
+/- Pride: On one hand, Gansey is proud of his accomplishments and those of his friends, and isn't afraid to revel for a moment in a job well done or tell all of his mother's political friends that Adam Parrish is the next biggest thing coming, even more clever than Gansey himself. On the other hand, Gansey hides his actual self behind a veneer that makes people either want to be him or want to punch him purely on the principle of the thing, and doesn't ever like to appear weak or out-of-control. He wants to be liked nearly universally, but he only wants to be known on his own terms.
+/- Strength: As for physical strength, he’s fairly athletic, but not in olympian shape. He can't fight worth a single damn (he throws one punch in the series and breaks his thumb doing it), but he can hike and rock climb and row boats and is generally a broad-shouldered fit American Boy.
- Rich White Boy Syndrome: What it says on the box, basically. Gansey learned from a very young age how to behave within the circles his parents participated in, and when taken out of his environment he can be an accidental but monumental douchebag. Through the series he's been learning when to keep his mouth shut, but his Foot-in-Mouth syndrome can be truly winceworthy at times. This is only partially redeemed by the fact that he's not trying to be offensive, and he generally attempts not to repeat his mistakes.
- Obsession: The other side of the coin of Gansey's belief is obsession. Finding Glendower isn't just a hobby to him, it's the focus of his entire life. He researches endlessly, travels all over the world, collecting every scrap of information that might even maybe lead somewhere. He doesn't just move to Henrietta, he builds a scale model of the town in the middle of his home. He doesn't just make friends, he is the center of this unit of people who are all tangled up in each other so much that Blue describes it as them all being 'in love' with each other. As the group gets closer to finding Glendower, his friends (and Gansey himself) begin worrying about what there is for Gansey after. All other purpose and ambition slowly fell away from his life due to his single-minded obsession.
- PTSD: Everybody in the story seems to have it, and Gansey is no exception. He is deathly allergic to hornets, wasps and bees -- an epipen might save him from a single sting, but even that isn’t guaranteed. The swarm of hornets that should have killed him at the age of 10 became another obsession, and Gansey had years to do little but research Glendower and replay the event in his mind over and over and over. It is revealed that in the past he used to have panic attacks and screaming nightmares about it, that he researched hornets, bees, and wasps, doodled them endlessly in notebooks, etc. Initially, we don't see this side of Gansey, just know that he is a chronic insomniac. But by his current canon point, he is starting to have flashbacks and anxiety attacks again, and has possibly always been having nightmares. When he describes the attack to Blue, he mentions that there were hornets between his fingers and in his ears, and every time Gansey panics, he ends up covering his ears. He also attempts to hide his anxiety, because he is very aware of his position within the group and doesn't want anyone to know how he's faltering. Everyone knows he's faltering anyway.
CR AU
Previous Game and Time: Box, 6/15-9/15
Previous Development: Even though Gansey was only in Box for a relatively short time, it’s had a major effect on his personality. A bullet-point summary is probably easiest.
- PTSD +100%, depression/anxiety +100% - Upon arrival in Box, Gansey found himself separated from his friends. Panic generally ensued, considering that he’d never been alone for more than a day or two at a time, maximum. Being alone isn’t the greatest state for him, because it lets him think himself into obsessive, destructive spirals. Then, to make everything better, Gansey died (again) messily and horribly, which has served to traumatize not only him, but also all his canonmates! All his friends are wracked with guilt that he died, Gansey himself is wracked with guilt that he abandoned them and they all fell apart spectacularly without him there. He resurrected directly into a battle and then was immediately separated from his friends again before they really had a chance to work anything out. After his death, Gansey fell into a pretty serious depressive spiral, from which he hasn’t entirely emerged, but he’s getting better. In general, his mental state is much more fragile and his mask more prone to breaking.
+ Interpersonal relationships +/-???% - When their ghostly friend Noah arrived in Box in a very human body, he came to rely on Gansey for physical comfort and grounding. This has turned into a sorta-romantic sorta-relationship where they cuddle and sleep in the same bed a lot and make out sometimes when they can’t get caught, but they (especially Noah) aren’t ready to call it anything yet. Not until Ronan and Adam kiss, probably. If they ever get around to that.
Gansey’s relationship with Ronan got a bit rocky with the addition of a human Noah, Ronan’s monstrous crush on Adam and Gansey’s death, but they’re working on it. When it comes down to it, they’re too important to each other to let even pretty terrible things pull them apart. In the meantime, Gansey has also been making a real effort to further solidify his relationship with Adam, because goddamnit, love yourself, Adam Parrish. Adam feels responsible for Gansey’s death and is determined to ‘save’ him, Gansey feels responsible for Adam’s guilt and is trying to help him learn to accept some very difficult concepts, like that his friends might love him a bit and not only when he’s doing things for them. This is a slightly uphill and occasionally embarrassing battle on both sides.
+ Skills: shooting a handgun (poor to middling), basic first aid (proficient in basics up to giving stitches, might be able to set a broken finger, but not a broken arm), living rough (no shower or toilet for weeks D:), fashion sense upgrade (currently possesses ZERO polo shirts or chinos other than his school uniform, only colorful t-shirts, hoodies, jeans, and cargo shorts. still wearing those boat shoes, though.)
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample: gansey's tdm toplevel.
Player name: rui
Contact: alioth @ gmail,
Characters currently in-game: n/a
CHARACTER
Character Name: Richard ‘Dick’ Campbell Gansey III
Character Age: 17
Canon: The Raven Cycle
Canon Point: End of Blue Lily, Lily Blue
History: A middling summary of the plots of the books can be found here.
Anyone with a name like Richard Campbell Gansey III is bound to be born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and this one is no exception. He was born and raised in old-money Virginia, where he materially lacked for nothing. All signs point to Gansey’s childhood being full of fancy parties and fancy vacations doing things that cost unimaginable sums of money with parents that treated him and his sister with a distant sort of affection colored with high expectations. When he was ten years old, Gansey accidentally stumbled into a hornets’ nest. The entire nest swarmed, and Gansey’s allergic reaction to the stings was so severe that he should have died on the spot. However, instead, he heard a strange voice in his head. It said You will live because of Glendower. Someone else on the ley line is dying when they should not, and so you will live when you should not.
So, Gansey lived, and became obsessed with finding Glendower, who turned out to be a Welsh King that was rumored to have been brought to the Americas to be buried in the mountains of what would become Virginia for reasons having to do with the magic of ley lines. Between his studies and keeping up family appearances, Gansey continued his search, which his family found odd but harmless. He would talk about it to anyone interested, and the person who put up with this the most was Ronan Lynch.The reader doesn’t see their relationship as children, but their present friendship indicates that the past one was deep and fairly exclusive.
When Gansey and Ronan were fifteen, Ronan’s father, Niall was murdered, his head bashed in with a crowbar. Ronan was the one who found his father’s body lying in the driveway the next morning, and has never been the same since. Gansey is one of the only people who can leash Ronan’s temper, and from that point he gladly more or less becomes Ronan’s keeper. They enroll in Aglionby together, and Gansey drags Ronan through his classes and cleans up his messes. There, they meet Adam Parrish, one of the few boys in Aglionby who didn’t get there on a trust fund but who shares their love for sexy cars. They almost instantly become an inseparable group, along with Noah, another student and the other occupant of Monmouth.
Before we even meet Gansey in the first book, the reader learns that he is going to die within the next year. Unknowing of this prophecy, Gansey goes about his normal life, trying to keep Ronan from fighting with his brother and attempting to convince Adam to escape his abusive parents and come live at Monmouth with his other friends. While he is able to maintain the tenuous peace between the feuding Lynch brothers, all of his offers to help Adam seem to lead to arguments.
In the meantime, his search for Glendower suddenly starts leading places. Blue Sargent, who foresaw Gansey’s death, begins to get sucked into his quest even as her psychically powerful family lends the boys as little help as possible. Their search eventually leads them to a magical forest named Cabeswater, where all the trees speak Latin. They call Ronan ‘Greywaren’ and Gansey ‘King of the Ravens’. They learn that they must wake the ley line, and along the path to doing that, Gansey is held at gunpoint by his Latin teacher, goes into a magical tree-trunk that shows him a future-dream of almost kissing Blue, and finds the long-dead body of his roommate Noah, who turns out to be the person whose life ended so Gansey could live. Adam prevents Gansey from sacrificing himself to awaken the full magic of Cabeswater, taking on the job himself by becoming the forest’s ‘eyes and ears’.
The second book is much more about Ronan than Gansey, as it turns out that the Greywaren is a person who can bring things from his dreams into reality and more than a few people are really interested in that. Meanwhile, over the summer Gansey takes Adam to one of the parties his mother is holding to support her Congressional campaign. Introducing him to these politicians will help Adam start making the connections he’ll need to climb the ladder to the success he so desperately wants and is so jealous of. At the party, Adam learns how much Gansey actually dislikes this life, and they fight over how easily Gansey would discard something Adam has lusted after for as long as he can remember.
Within the 12 hours after their argument, Gansey learns that Ronan has stolen and wrecked his Camaro, and that Adam has disappeared. They eventually find Adam on the side of the road in a fugue state, unsure of where he is or how he got there. After giving Adam a little time to recover, the boys head back to Henrietta, where Ronan presents Gansey with an exact replica of his precious wrecked car, excitedly telling him that he pulled it whole from a dream.
There isn’t much time to celebrate this before another Aglionby student, Kavinsky, who helped Ronan hone his dreaming abilities, kidnaps Ronan’s younger brother and summons a monster to try and kill everyone Ronan cares about. Ronan manages to overcome his long-held self-loathing to summon a creature to fight Kavinsky’s, Blue, Adam and Gansey rescue Ronan’s brother, and Kavinsky commits suicide via dream-creature. Gansey, though fascinated and delighted by Ronan’s abilities, is also worried about the influence Cabeswater is exerting on Adam, as well as his forbidden but ever-growing feelings for Blue.
In the third book, everyone remembers that they’re on a quest to find a dead Welsh king, and the search for Glendower is taken up in full force again as the school year starts. As they get closer and closer to finding the king, Gansey swings between happiness at their progress and the growing realization that since he was ten years old, his whole life has centered around Glendower, and that he has no idea what he will do or who he’ll be when they finally reach the end of his quest. When they find a series of connected caves around but outside Cabeswater, finding Glendower seems more and more inevitable. On their first journey into the caves, Gansey falls into what seems like an endless hole, held up only by the rope tied between himself and his friends. Even though Gansey has plenty of rock-climbing experience, inside the perfectly dark and terribly magical cave, he has to be pulled up by his friends. This is because he finds all of his energy taken up in an attempt not to have a flashback to being stung to death by hornets, because places like Cabeswater have an unfortunate tendency to take thoughts and expectations extremely literally. Whether it’s from the cave’s influence or his own self-doubt, from that point forward Gansey begins having anxiety attacks in which he starts feeling hornets crawling on his body.
Some more hunting leads them to a different cave, where the whole group is actually able to pass through, and in doing so they discover a tomb. It turns out to be the wrong one, however, and instead of Glendower, they end up with his mad daughter, who has been awake and progressively going mad for 600 years or so. At that point, they realize that the only way through is the first cave, where Gansey fell. Once they discover that the hole is a lot less bottomless than it seemed, they find a room filled with the skeletons of animals, frozen in movement as though still alive. Ronan realizes that they are dream-creatures, just like all the animals on his father’s farm. Ronan, Adam, and Blue attempt to wake the creatures by combining their various abilities, but it isn’t until Gansey touches an animal and commands them to wake up that the creatures come back to life. Further shenanigans ensue that end with Gansey being stuck in the animal room, and Ronan and Blue ending up in a room with a pond only Blue can cross. This all leads to an encounter with someone else seeking to wake Glendower, a cave-in and the kids barely escaping with their lives, leaving the other treasure hunter to wake up something that is very decidedly not Glendower.
So, Gansey doesn’t get to kiss the girl who really would also like to kiss him, hasn’t found his king, and is beginning to doubt the purpose of his life. Meanwhile, the quest he began is slipping further and further out of his control and into the hands of his magically powerful friends. Plus, they managed to make the thing happen that really, really wasn’t supposed to happen. Seems like a great place to be taken from!
Inventory: 1 set of clothing including: hoodie, t-shirt, henley, underwear, socks, cargo pants, hiking boots.
contents of pockets: dried mint leaves, wallet (contains cash, credit cards, driver's license, 1 posed family photo, 1 folded-flat paper crane, dumb various gansey-ish scraps of paper), 1 swiss-army style knife/multitool, 1 very expensive smartphone with Box SIM card installed, 1 Ronan-dreamed EpiPen, several coins and a few shiny pebbles (for Chainsaw).
1 crossbody bag containing: 1 handgun with two full clips, 1 glendower notebook, 1 blank notebook, 1 partially used notebook, pens, mechanical pencils, 1 heavier pullover hooded sweatshirt, first aid kit, 2 reusable liter containers of drinkable water, 1 spray can of hornet and wasp killer, 2 jars of dried mint, contact lens care materials and 1 extra set lenses.
Abilities: Rock climbing, rowing, hiking, camping and general outdoorsyness as long as he’s equipped. Native speaker of English, high-school French, and can at least read and speak some Welsh. Has the most basic Latin, enough that he can pick out words in sentences, but that’s about it. Knows an awful lot about dead Welsh Kings, ley lines, and has a fair grasp on how the magic of his world works, even if he can’t use it. Naturally charismatic and leadery, willing to take charge of a situation even if he has no idea what’s going on. A good strategist. Surprisingly accepting of people who aren’t like him. Can (somewhat) control Ronan Lynch. Has a knack for finding things other people have overlooked, in both the mental and physical senses. Also has a transparent aura, the meaning of which isn’t entirely clear yet. However, a character sensitive to auras says that he is comfortable around Gansey because his transparent aura makes it a lot like being by himself. Has a certain tone of command that he uses mostly in emergencies, but other characters mention it feeling impossible to disobey Gansey when he uses that tone. He is only semi-aware of this ability.
Flaws:
+/- Loyal: His people are the most important thing to him, and he disapproves heartily of them risking themselves, especially on his behalf. Despite his mask of friendliness, Gansey is choosy about his friends, and will put himself and his friendships at risk for their safety. Being as that he's the King of these ravens, it's never a good strategy to be unwilling to lose any of the pieces on your board, and Gansey definitely is.
+/- Pride: On one hand, Gansey is proud of his accomplishments and those of his friends, and isn't afraid to revel for a moment in a job well done or tell all of his mother's political friends that Adam Parrish is the next biggest thing coming, even more clever than Gansey himself. On the other hand, Gansey hides his actual self behind a veneer that makes people either want to be him or want to punch him purely on the principle of the thing, and doesn't ever like to appear weak or out-of-control. He wants to be liked nearly universally, but he only wants to be known on his own terms.
+/- Strength: As for physical strength, he’s fairly athletic, but not in olympian shape. He can't fight worth a single damn (he throws one punch in the series and breaks his thumb doing it), but he can hike and rock climb and row boats and is generally a broad-shouldered fit American Boy.
- Rich White Boy Syndrome: What it says on the box, basically. Gansey learned from a very young age how to behave within the circles his parents participated in, and when taken out of his environment he can be an accidental but monumental douchebag. Through the series he's been learning when to keep his mouth shut, but his Foot-in-Mouth syndrome can be truly winceworthy at times. This is only partially redeemed by the fact that he's not trying to be offensive, and he generally attempts not to repeat his mistakes.
- Obsession: The other side of the coin of Gansey's belief is obsession. Finding Glendower isn't just a hobby to him, it's the focus of his entire life. He researches endlessly, travels all over the world, collecting every scrap of information that might even maybe lead somewhere. He doesn't just move to Henrietta, he builds a scale model of the town in the middle of his home. He doesn't just make friends, he is the center of this unit of people who are all tangled up in each other so much that Blue describes it as them all being 'in love' with each other. As the group gets closer to finding Glendower, his friends (and Gansey himself) begin worrying about what there is for Gansey after. All other purpose and ambition slowly fell away from his life due to his single-minded obsession.
- PTSD: Everybody in the story seems to have it, and Gansey is no exception. He is deathly allergic to hornets, wasps and bees -- an epipen might save him from a single sting, but even that isn’t guaranteed. The swarm of hornets that should have killed him at the age of 10 became another obsession, and Gansey had years to do little but research Glendower and replay the event in his mind over and over and over. It is revealed that in the past he used to have panic attacks and screaming nightmares about it, that he researched hornets, bees, and wasps, doodled them endlessly in notebooks, etc. Initially, we don't see this side of Gansey, just know that he is a chronic insomniac. But by his current canon point, he is starting to have flashbacks and anxiety attacks again, and has possibly always been having nightmares. When he describes the attack to Blue, he mentions that there were hornets between his fingers and in his ears, and every time Gansey panics, he ends up covering his ears. He also attempts to hide his anxiety, because he is very aware of his position within the group and doesn't want anyone to know how he's faltering. Everyone knows he's faltering anyway.
CR AU
Previous Game and Time: Box, 6/15-9/15
Previous Development: Even though Gansey was only in Box for a relatively short time, it’s had a major effect on his personality. A bullet-point summary is probably easiest.
- PTSD +100%, depression/anxiety +100% - Upon arrival in Box, Gansey found himself separated from his friends. Panic generally ensued, considering that he’d never been alone for more than a day or two at a time, maximum. Being alone isn’t the greatest state for him, because it lets him think himself into obsessive, destructive spirals. Then, to make everything better, Gansey died (again) messily and horribly, which has served to traumatize not only him, but also all his canonmates! All his friends are wracked with guilt that he died, Gansey himself is wracked with guilt that he abandoned them and they all fell apart spectacularly without him there. He resurrected directly into a battle and then was immediately separated from his friends again before they really had a chance to work anything out. After his death, Gansey fell into a pretty serious depressive spiral, from which he hasn’t entirely emerged, but he’s getting better. In general, his mental state is much more fragile and his mask more prone to breaking.
+ Interpersonal relationships +/-???% - When their ghostly friend Noah arrived in Box in a very human body, he came to rely on Gansey for physical comfort and grounding. This has turned into a sorta-romantic sorta-relationship where they cuddle and sleep in the same bed a lot and make out sometimes when they can’t get caught, but they (especially Noah) aren’t ready to call it anything yet. Not until Ronan and Adam kiss, probably. If they ever get around to that.
Gansey’s relationship with Ronan got a bit rocky with the addition of a human Noah, Ronan’s monstrous crush on Adam and Gansey’s death, but they’re working on it. When it comes down to it, they’re too important to each other to let even pretty terrible things pull them apart. In the meantime, Gansey has also been making a real effort to further solidify his relationship with Adam, because goddamnit, love yourself, Adam Parrish. Adam feels responsible for Gansey’s death and is determined to ‘save’ him, Gansey feels responsible for Adam’s guilt and is trying to help him learn to accept some very difficult concepts, like that his friends might love him a bit and not only when he’s doing things for them. This is a slightly uphill and occasionally embarrassing battle on both sides.
+ Skills: shooting a handgun (poor to middling), basic first aid (proficient in basics up to giving stitches, might be able to set a broken finger, but not a broken arm), living rough (no shower or toilet for weeks D:), fashion sense upgrade (currently possesses ZERO polo shirts or chinos other than his school uniform, only colorful t-shirts, hoodies, jeans, and cargo shorts. still wearing those boat shoes, though.)
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample: gansey's tdm toplevel.