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Halt can't sleep during thunderstorms.
It used to be because he was scared but that stopped when he was five. The same year Caitlyn was born.
You see Caitlyn was scared of thunderstorms. Always had been, but in Halt's arms she felt save, it felt like nothing could hurt her as long as she was in her brother's arms.
Halt being the protective brother he is always, without fail, held her during thunderstorms. The climate in Clonmel wasn't that nice so this wasn't a rare event.
Ever since, when the thunder started he went to comfort his sister. It's like second nature to him. He would wake up, often before the thunder even began and go to his sister.
At least, until in he had to flee.
Now in Araluen there's no one he needs to comfort during thunderstorms. Halt just wishes his body could understand that. Because he is laying in bed, he is trying, but he just can't fall asleep.
But how can you change something that is so deep seeded?
Rangers have a lot of scars.
Not all of them have such an heroic backstory though, some are stupid mistakes while others are just stupid. Either way they don't support the dark, mysterious and capable figures that rangers are often seen as.
A few examples:
Wrong reflex, seeing a movement while on a mission and standing completely still. Now holding a broken nose, they probably should've moved.
The temper of a horse, multiple rangers have a bite mark from when they annoyed their horse to much.
Angry cats, while most of them are cat people the apprentices always get told 'if you walk into an alleyway be aware of angry cats' so far three rangers don't have scratch marks.
Even rangers need sleep, some of them learned the hard way that after a long mission with little to no sleep it is not that unlikely to trip over your own doorstep.
Keep the cloak in check, the cloak is great and all until it catches on a branch almost chokes you and makes you fall on your butt.
Why would you? For some reason multiple rangers have fallen victim to a courier in one way or another and have been made to whear heels. Most of them didn't last very long, your guess who did manage it.
Coffee fight, maybe fighting each other over the last cup of coffee isn't the smartest idea and throwing hot coffee at each other because one offended your horse isn't the best either.
Does Halt ever just blank on Araluen?
Like he speaks it fluently which is understandable if you grow up as a crown prince so already knew the language and lived their for most of your life.
But it ain't his first language so he wouldn't be human if it didn't happen every ones in a while.
Like, I can just imagine him being really frustrated by a report from another fief because he doesn't know a word and can't figure it out either. Than having to go to Pauline to translate it for him.
Or when he just arrived in Araluen and the renegade rangers are discussing a random topic. While he just sits in silence trying to figure out by the conversation what that word means.
Or if either Will or Gilan uses a word he doesn't know but refuses to admit to his apprentice he doesn't know what their saying. But his apprentice is just confused and scared by the death stare their getting.
It'll be rare but it will probably happen every ones in a while. And him having to figure out by context what it means and being immensely frustrated when his not able to.
Incorrect quotes
P4?
Again family stuff with mainly Will, Gilan, Halt and Crowley
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Will: I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually
finds me first.
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Halt: Damn, the power went out.
Will: Don't worry, I got this.
Will: *shakes rapidly and starts to light up*
Halt: What-?
Will: I swallowed a glow stick!
Halt, on the verge of tears: WHY WOULD YOU-
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Halt: Gilan...
Gilan: I can tell by the tone of your voice that you are disappointed. Alas, must further disappoint you by affirming how little I give a f***.
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Crowley: Who's in charge here?
Will, shrugging: Usually whoever yells the loudest.
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Will: What would Halt think?
Gilan: Ok, that's an interesting thought, but hear me out: what if... we ran an experiment where we spent the rest of our lives finding out what happened if we never told him?
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Halt : Yes, I'm adopting Will and you cowards can't tell me no!
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Halt: I'm telling you, my team is competent.
Crowley, rushing in: Halt! Gilan tried to make pasta in the coffee pot and now it's broken!
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Will: I will send my army to attack!
Will: *releases a dumpster of puppies*
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Will: So I can either do something dumb that could very well get me injured or I can listen to Halt and not do the thing,
Will: Well there's a clear right answer here.
Will: *proceeds to throw five packs of mentos into a barrel full of diet coke*
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Halt: GET BACK HERE!
Will: LET ME RUN FROM THE CONSEQUENCES OF MY ACTIONS!
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Crowley: Are you a painting?
Halt: What-?
Crowley: Because I want to pin you to a wall.
Gilan: OH GOD I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO SAY YOU WANTED TO HANG THEM OR SOMETHING-
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Crowley: Sometimes I drink milk straight from the container.
Will: The cow??
Crowley: What?
Gilan: Will, WHY?
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Crowley: Silence is golden.
Halt: Duct tape is silver.
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Will: When do you usually go to sleep?
Halt: Whenever I collapse is entirely up to the gods.
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Halt: What's the most efficient way to burn calories?
Gilan: Exercise more!
Will: Set yourself on fire.
Crowley: There are two kinds of people.
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Halt, looking through their clothes: has anyone seen my top?
Gilan: Crowley's in the kitchen
Halt:
Halt: Not what I meant
Gilan: Oh, Duncan's in the study
Halt: I was talking about my clothes
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Crowley: I'm so tired of this life. I want to be a roomba. I want knives taped to me. And I want to be set loose.
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Halt: We need to distract these guys.
Crowley: Leave it to me.
Crowley: Centaurs have six limbs and are therefore insects. Discuss.
Gilan & Will: *immediately begin arguing*
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Halt: What the f*** is wrong with you??
Crowley: What? No good morning?
Halt: Good morning, what the f*** is wrong with you??
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Will: Help! I’m drowning!
Gilan: Calm down. We’re only in six feet of water!
Will: NOT ALL OF US ARE TALL!
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Crowley: I'm tired.
Halt: You slept for three hours last night! Why are you surprised?!
Crowley: I'm not surprised. I just wanted to complain about it.
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Crowley: I'm tired.
Halt: You slept for three hours last night! Why are you surprised?!
Crowley: I'm not surprised. I just wanted to complain about it.
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Gilan: Yum, thanks!
Kidnapper: *puts more tape over their mouth* I said stop eating it.
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Gilan: You’ve got to learn to love yourself.
Will: But don't you hate yourself.
Gilan: Yeah, but this is about you. Stay focused.
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Will: I have to say, I'm a little embarra**ed for you.
Gilan: This is a sports-related injury. It makes me look cool!
Will: Tripping over a basketball on your way to the bathroom is not cool!
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Crowley: Wait a minute, how did this happen? We're smarter than this!
Will: Apparently, we're not.
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Will: Why am I the bad guy?
Gilan: I don't know, why am I the pretty one? We all have our thing.
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Will, texting Halt: *sends a voice message*
Halt, texting back: I’m a little busy, is it urgent?
Will: No, don’t worry, just listen later.
*later*
Halt: *presses play*
Will's voice message: THERE’S A FIRE-
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Halt: Could you guys at least try to see this from my perspective?
Gilan: *crouches down*
Crowley: *kneels down*
Horace: *sits on the floor*
Halt:
Halt: I hate all of you.
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Gilan: What do you call a dictionary on drugs?
Will: If you say "addict-ionary" I swear I will shoot you.
Gilan: I was actually going to say "high definition", but your answer's much better.
Will: ...
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Gilan: Do you want some tea?
Halt: What are the options?
Gilan: Yes or no.
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Will: I wanna sleep for 40 hours.
Halt: You know that's called a coma, right?
Will:
Will: That sounds so refreshing, I could totally go for a light coma right now.
What if rangers used code names?
What would the names be? I think they'll use animal names, cause why not?
But who would have what? They'd be animals that exist in Araluen, but by tradition, the ranger can't chose the name themselves. And I think the name would be based of their apprenticeship.
A few suggestions:
Halt: Black fox
Crowley: Red fox
Berrigan: Song bird
Will: Black cat
Gilan: Lone wolf?
Pritchard: White? eagle
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As apprentices they'll be called something like little- and then whatever their mentor is.
So Gilan and Will would be called 'little fox'. And Crowley and maybe Halt would be called 'little bird'. Although Pritchard has called them 'his chicks' repeatedly. They still get teased about it by the renegade rangers.
Halt still calls Will little fox sometimes. So does Crowley though, and so does nearly every ranger.
I will think it would be nice. Just to have the funnys
Do Halt and Will pick wildflowers together?
So we know both Halt and Will keep wildflowers in their home. Which are fresh every morning.
So like, they would have to go out every morning to get new ones, right? Would they meet up to go pick them?
I'm just imagining them discussing random topics while picking wildflowers together. They'll go to some random spot only they know of, and pick out the prettiest ones they can find. Just this peaceful scene every morning with a father and son sitting in a field while putting flowers in a basket they brought.
Them just discussing flower stuff, like which are better, how to pick them and how to keep them the prettiest trough the day when on a mission together. Them making sure that when one is on a mission they'll return to wildflowers.
It would be so good to just have them start the day like that.
All of you angsty mfs can go away let me have my funnies
This is your invitation to talk about what scars you think the RA characters have and how they got them
Halt can't cook.
In chapter 28 of book 10 Halt let's Will cook because 'he likes doing it' but Will points out that 'it's known that can Halt burn water.' He is then gonna tell us some examples but gets interrupted.
But how bad is Halt at cooking for Will to say this?
A few possibilities:
He had a flame in the pan enough times for Will to not look up anymore when there was a sudden flash of warmth and light in the kitchen for less then five seconds.
When it wasn't one of the few meals Halt can cook without burning it was either half burnt or Will was sent to town to buy them a meal.
The vegetables are either undercooked or burned. No inbetween.
Ones a particularly sleep deprived Halt had tried to boil steak. He didn't even notice till Will pointed it out and told him to go to bed.
Horace's always complaining to him that they won't get a single decently cooked meal if he has to seperate from them at missions.
Will eventually went to Jenny to ask for some cooking lessons. When he started to cook every night neither of them spoke of it.
I feel like Will treaty would be one of those children that would absolutely refuse to wear shoes.
Ranger's apprentice but avatar au
Will is the avatar but because he is always playing in the forest he isn't with the explanation of what defines the avatar (4 elements).
Because of this he will only hear the bedtime stories. The ones that are twisted into stories with great heroes who are big and strong. Of course, because of this he learns that the avatar can bend four elements but he doesn't realize the avatar is the only one who can do so.
So his 5yo brain goes like. The Avatar is big, strong and can bend four elements. Will himself can bend four elements but isn't big or strong so he can't be it. But why can he bend four elements? Then his five year old brain came up with the reason. Everybody must be able to bend all elements but for some reason just doesn't.
He lives his whole life believing this so everybody around him thinks he can bend a different element. Somehow no one puts the pieces together.
But one day at the Gathering (Will isn't an apprentice anymore). Will and Gilan have to cook.
Gilan looks on as Will both lights the fire and bends the water to go in the pan. He just stares for a moment, takes a deep breath, then asks Will how he did that.
Will being confused says something like 'You can't?' Gilan then has to painfully explain what him being able to bend multiple elements means.
Will doesn't believe him. He spent his whole life thinking he was nothing significant and now he is suddenly the most important person in the world? Yeah, no, he ain't buying it.
Gilan then drags him to Halt and Crowley who have to painfully watch as Will bends four elements. They try to explain to him what this means but Will is still in denial.
Halt immediately knows it has something to do with his incredibly low self-esteem. So he drags him off to calmly explain to him with reason and logic that he is the avatar. Seeing the panic rise as Will realises and hugging him till he calms down.
There is gonna be a lot off chaos the next few weeks, with mountains of paperwork but right now Will just needs be held by his father to hide from the world for just another moment.
Halt: What did you do?
Gilan: Why do you always blame me?!?!?!
Halt: Because it's always you.
Gilan: Not always......
We can just do a memorial week. Where everyone makes fanart or fanfics of dead souls.
Not just with Crowley, Alyss and Pritchard but with the less important characters too like Caitlyn, the parents of the ward kids or that one ranger that died in the Royal ranger I, maybe even some villains.
Just one week where we remember them all.
I have a proposal to make.
How about for Crowley and Alyss's anniversary, we do it for the day The Royal Ranger got released, since we don't what days they actually died.
The only slight problem with that idea though is that it got released on slightly different dates for different countries.
New Zealand: 1st October
America: 4th October
Canada: 5th November
People can just do it for their country or what Evers closest to their country. I'm doing New Zealand dates though because Woo. Kiwi's!! 🇳🇿
Same with Pritchard's anniversary:
September 16th. I can only find one date for the three second search I did so that works.
What y'all think of this.
I'm doing it. Putting them in my calender right now.
Imagine one day at the gathering some of the rangers are trying to see who can hit the lowest note. And then realize the amount of base in Will's voice because holy fuck when did your voice get this low.
Random Thoughts Ranger's Apprentice
If any of the Rangers had children, the cloaks are definitely getting stolen for a game of hide and seek. Every. Single. Time.
Random Thoughts Ranger's Apprentice
Am I the only one who thinks that Halt, Gilan, and Will would definitely not hesitate to throw anyone who insulted the woman they love out the window?
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I want Alyss to live, and raise at least two kids with Will. I refuse to accept any other ending for them.
Venting my writing woes
Sometimes I get stuck when writing. There are two ways for that to happen for me.
First, have a place where I want my characters but not sure how to get there. I can force myself to write still, but I usually don't like it as it is a struggle to get words out.
Second and worse in my opinion is when I have no idea where I'm going in a story. I read over the story and my brain just stops. There is no ideas, no progression, nothing. No matter the positive comments, the people who want me to write more, I just can't. There's nothing and I hate it.
That's why I have so many unfinished stories on Fan fiction dot net and the same ones on Archive of Our Own. I just can't wring anything else out of my stupid brain! So I move on to a different idea and write that.
I kind of wish people would give me ideas on where to go. Don't get me wrong, I love the positive reinforcement! But I sometimes feel that I'm letting people down because I just CAN'T GET MY BRAIN TO COOPERATE!
So I'm sorry. I'm promise I'm trying. Please know that I don't like leaving stories hanging for months or years. My brain just gets fixated on certain things for a while and then moves on to the next obsession and just won't go back. I'll do my best to progress the stories in the next year.
Because my autism based hyperfixation will not let me really think about that anymore. When it lets me come back I will.
A greeting for negligent penpals and procrastinating authors. Postcard from my collection, 1911.