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"This ship makes no sense—"

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. It doesn't have to make sense. It's all vibes here

#gileythen #or however you spell it #gilan davidson #selethen #ranger's apprentice

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Oh nothing just imagining Halt being like vaguely pissy the whole day, more than usual, and Crowley finally asking him what's wrong and Halt straight up just says

"...

You look more Hibernian than I do. You look more Hibernian than an actual Hibernian. I just realized that and it makes me mad."

@that-one-enby-ranger you like angry Halt stuff, right?

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trick or treat! i'd like a treat of morgarath in a silly outfit

[Image ID: Morgarath holding a sword with a Sid from The Ice Age movie costume on. On top of that is a large diaper with an exaggeratedly large safety pin in it as well as a large blue bonnet with ruffles at the end. /End ID]

Uhhh is this what you wanted.

Also @ask-lord-morgarath do you like your Halloween costume 🥺?

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we know very little about Rangers getting married but we can assume that it’s not common.

and I like to think that in his half-retirement Farrell got married to a woman who is a lot better at axe-wielding than he is.

which could lead one to argue that only Rangers stationed at Redmont seem to get married - there must be something in the air.

which raises the question: Gilan????

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I just got some random music and imagined Gilan putting Halt’s coffee on the top shelf.

He forced Halt to dress up with him and have a little modeshow. (He was confused when he saw Halt walk in heels without breaking his ankles)

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I made A Boy

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DAMN

Damn

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i saw that fic, while going through willxhorace fics (i read one really good one and became mildly obsessed) and like. ow.

look I know I’ve been dead for like 9 months but I made a fic

https://archiveofourown.org/works/35007424/chapters/87949123#workskin

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The RA girls and lipstick/eyeliner

might be inspired by my own struggles

JENNY is the only one who can pull off bright red lipstick. effortlessly. can throw on sweats and red lipstick and is red carpet ready. amazing. simple black small winged eyeliner that costs her .3 seconds exactly. powermatch.

CASSANDRA either wears a super shiny bright pink or none at all. depends on her mood and the level of misogyny that her guests radiate. also wears some eyeliner, but usually tailored to the colour of her clothes.

ALYSS has a surprising large amount of matte lipsticks. she matches her lipstick to her clothes and if it’s not the same shade it’s not happening. eyeliner is too much effort though, so she doesn’t wear it often.

MADDIE owns several shades of green matte lipstick just to mess with her mentor. prefers natural lipgloss because it balances her colourful (and sometimes quite massive) winged eyeliner.

#cassandra is a mood honestly #i too would like to tailor my appearance to the level of misogyny people around me radiate

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this started as simple sketching for my special service au because i saw an old drawing with will’s cute lil face and i had intended to draw him properly with his full face,,, and then i did the opposite

(i started explaining points of the au and it got pretty long so i’ll put it below)

Keep reading

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no but imagine if Rangers WERE supernatural. but like if it were funny instead of terrifying

- Apprentices (*cough* Will) desperately trying to hold in a sneeze while invisible during exams

- Pranks at Ranger gatherings get a thousand times more chaotic (how many things can you steal from someone before they realize it was you, except this time you're taking it directly out of their hand while they're using it)

- Bragging about who can shoot farther and arguing over how far you need to be able to shoot for it to count as "supernatural ability"

- That whole scene in book nine where Horace is asking if Halt (and Will) can see him while wearing Halt's cloak? Imagine the cloak actually turning Horace invisible temporarily, but because it's nowhere near big enough, his legs and face are still sticking out in full view. Horace promptly screams

- Halt gets poisoned in book 9 and normally poison wouldn't affect a Ranger, so Halt's all like "it's fine don't worry I'm a Ranger I can handle it". Meanwhile he looks like he's on death's door and Will is just "Uhh Halt I don't think that was normal poison maybe we should get someone" "No it's fine I can handle it--" *passes out*

- Will gets stabbed while on a mission with Alyss and Gilan. Gilan and Will are laughing about it since they're like, 90% sure Will won't die? Meanwhile Alyss is trying to get Will to sit down and actually fix the wound because Will oh my god you're bleeding out, meanwhile Will just wants to get something to eat and barely notices anything

- Gilan's hair (and age)

- Crowley's eyes

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Maddie should've been a redhead.

Pros: Cassandra is a strawberry blonde, there is a thin line betweent that and a redhead, clearly genetically possible.

Red hair is adorable

She would be the only ra/bb character besides Lydia who's not blonde

Cons: none. Literally none.

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Young and naive Will: I hope something good happens

Adult and tired Will: I hope whatever bad thing happens next is at least funny

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"Even the Araluen troops were stunned by the deadly efficiency of the two companions. They stood back, knowing they weren’t needed, watching in awe as the invaders fell away beneath the two flashing, whirling swords."

This is highkey a very funny image,

Like, a bunch of dudes leaning on their swords, relaxed looking at their leaders completely destroying the enemy all on their own, popcorn is being shared

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This probably wouldn't work but what if

what if

the brotherband go to hibernia to discuss a treaty or smth, with will (bcuz he was there in the kings of clonmel) and karina there for Plot Reasons™️. and then its like

"Hello, my lord (or whatever form of address will would use). I am a King's Ranger, and the former apprentice of your uncle. This," (gesturing at Hal) "is your uncle's ex's son."

cue hal being pissed off and the brotherband trying not to laugh

According to the wiki, Karina Mikkelswife is two years older than Halt and that feels cursed somehow

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gilethen headcannons because I really don't want to write a third fanfiction about them and my obsession only grows stronger with each passing day:

gilan and selethen get together after gilan's first mission in arrida, but nobody notices (halt suspects something but he isn't quite sure – he saw gilan talking to jenny on his wedding and it misled him)

surprise: jenny and gilan are just besties, also she makes the best plum pie, so gilan just follows her around with his puppy eyes

gilan and selethen exchange letters, of course. when he becomes the corps commandant (I still can't get over the fact that crowley died and duncan is still alive, like, come on, flanagan) it becomes more frequent as they have to discuss international matters as well as their undying love confessions

about love confessions: I like to imagine that they first said they love each other during the fifth brotherband book – that's how the herons found out (although I still quite like the idea that hal found out because gilan had a wedding ring on his left hand)

as I have wonderful and truly outstanding math skills (that is an obvious lie) I managed to figure out that during RA, gilan is in his early twenties (I think twenty one or twenty two), and in brotherband there is a mention that he is not yet thirty. assuming that brotherband happened somewhere between the lost stories and the royal ranger: a new beginning, gilan, during the whole TRR series would be in his forties (this might be completely wrong but anyways). where i'm going with this: gilan and selethen got married when gilan was thirty eight.

so, we all know that the herons visited araluen on several occasions, but I am thinking here specifically about the one visit when maddie was already an apprentice and they helped her with saving cassie or something (forgive me for the lack of details here, but I erased the whole TRR series from my brain as it caused me some serious emotional damage). now, if I remember correctly, halt wasn't around and the herons left before he returned and they never actually met, but: what if they did?

I think that one of the herons would mention the relationship that gilan and selethen have, because they've known about it for quite some time and they just generally like to tease gilan. (I am assuming that gilan did not propose to jenny even once and they were friends, of course) and while halt was just like 'yeah I knew it' (he actually made a bet about it with crowley, but… you know), will was. well. caught off guard.

now, moving on from writing gilethen into the plot (it basically wrote itself I am so sorry, this was supposed to be short). time for more specific headcannons about them

they like to hug a lot, I think. or hold hands. sometimes, during a fight, they hold hands (selethen is very glad that gilan can fight with both of his hands). they don't have assigned pet names, but selethen probably calls gilan his sunshine sometimes. (gilan repays with calling selethen 'my love' to which he just melts)

gilan introduced selethen to blaze just after they started dating. selethen was very nervous about this (he found it quite ridiculous at first, but he quickly got over it when she bit him), and he almost had a cardiac arrest when gilan told him that he has to try and ride on blaze, and if she accepts him, she won't throw him off the saddle. of course, he didn't say a word about the special password, so we all know how it ended.

gilan still laughed at him because of that even ten years later.

this is getting out of hand, I have to finish now or else this monstrous thing will reach 3k words for sure

last but not least, after gilan's sudden death selethen couldn't stand living so close to the desert – it was his home, but it was also full of sunshine, and how was he supposed to move on if his sunshine was long buried under the green hills of araluen?

I am terrified that flanagan will actually kill gilan off so that will can be the corps commandant. that thought keeps me awake at night (and this, my fellows, is why I have two gilethen fics written)

alright that's it I'm finishing

selethen gifts gilan plants on every occasion he has – mostly ones that can be found in the desert, and gilan adores every one of them

no more headcannons that was the last one (...for now)

I would love to hear your takes on gilethen, so feel free to share!!

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crowley: alright, boys. we're all here. today is her royal highness' wedding day.

halt: yeah, and you said there'd be no bloody uniforms!

crowley: nevertheless... NEVERTHELESS, HALT. despite the bad blood, i'll have none of it on his majesty's carpets. now, for cassie's sake, nothing will go wrong. those bastards, out there, that's her family. and if you fuckers do anything to embarrass her; your kin, your cousins, your horses, your bloody kids, you do ANYTHING to -

gilan: commandant!

crowley: WHAT!?

gilan: what about dueling?

will: yeah, nobles are never any good with a bow, i'll say.

crowley: no. no. no. no dueling. NO dueling. no bows. no challenging people. no betting. no FUCKING, STEALING, HORSES, from the front of their fucking carriages! And YOU! GILAN! stop spinning yarns about the damn knight, okay?

gilan: aw, i'm just trying to sell him to them, commandant.

crowley: but the main thing is, you bunch of bastards, despite the provocation from the cavalry, no fighting. OI! no fighting. no fucking fighting. no fighting. NO FUCKING FIGHTING!