LMAO I LOVE THEM

sparing one percentage of my brain to think about my blorbo gilan the legend and how the first time halt met him, gilan said to the ROYAL army council that their maps suck

Gilan Davidson (& summer)

autumn 🍂 winter ❄️ spring 🌱 summer 🌻

Quick sketch of Gilan and Blaze

Will and Gilan fighting some bandits. There are some minor depictions of battlefield violence in this one so I put the full picture under the cut to be safe.

underrated scenes from erak’s ransom

- Svengal straight up crashing Halt and Pauline’s wedding

- this hard ass quote from Baron Arald (paraphrase): “if you only value my opinion when you agree with it, then you don’t value my opinion at all” BARS

- the fact that the Wolfwind kept Cassandra’s pennant this entire time

- Halt making fun of Svengal for being unable to sit a horse. Svengal making fun of halt for his seasickness and offering him a meal

- Halt getting back at Svengal by chugging his favorite, very rare, very expensive mead

- Evanlyn seeing straight through Selethen’s bluff of having someone else pretend to be the Wakir. (the hero of this book was Evanlyn and you cannot tell me otherwise)

- [Gilan talking to Halt about Will] “would you trust him with your life?” “without question.” “then trust him with his own.”

- Arrow being killed by a desert lion and in turn saving Will’s life by attracting the attention of the bedouin

- Will killing a sand cobra with an arrow and saving Umal’s grandchild

- the Tug vs. Sandstorm race

- not an underrated scene, per se, but in my opinion Yusal’s absolute cruelty (leaving two water skins for forty men in the desert) makes him one of the evilest villains of the Flanagan universe

- slightly related, Aloom’s entire character is underrated for keeping forty men alive on said water

- Halt refusing to give up hope after being captured by the Tualaghi because Will’s still out there somewhere

- Evanlyn standing unflinching as the executioner swings his sword at her, and the crowd calling for her release

- Will shooting the executioner a split second before the downstroke begins

- Horace holding up his bound hands and shouting for Will, and Will splits the rope by shooting an arrow between his wrists

- Erak killing Toshak in battle and returning his sword to him so his spirit won’t wander

- Evanlyn hitting Yusal with his sling and ending all effective resistance from the Tualaghi

- Evanlyn ripping Selethen to shreds in subsequent ransom negotiations by pointing out that Erak isn’t his hostage, he was Yusal’s; Halt subsequently saying “my god, I’ve created a monster”

- Will’s graduation scene

Day 28: Gilan being Gilan

@rangersapprenticemonth

Day 29: Beloved

Three of my most beloved silly/ridiculous Ranger's Apprentice headcanons illustrated:

Will, at some point in his life, has done the dramatic superhero leap off a high place while shooting his bow. (And it turned out being much less messy than he expected).

Halt has many different specialized techniques for throwing pompous nobles into moats and he practices them often. (He may or may not have tested a few of them out on his apprentices when they annoyed him).

That scene in book 7 where Gilan smiles at the Tualaghi that was threatening/beating him, has the same energy as the knife cat meme.

Day 28: Secret

"Rangers are a mysterious group of people," he said. "But there's nothing about them to be frightened of—unless you're an enemy of the kingdom."

~John Flanagan, The Ruins of Gorlan

Day 14: Family

Because sometimes family is a grumpy ranger, his two apprentices, and grand-apprentice.

Day 10: Elaborate

Would you Care to Elaborate (Missing Scene Drabble from Book 7)

The sun had finally started to set and, although it had yet to sink fully behind the horizon, the dry desert air was already noticeably cooler.

Halt saw that the Aridi troops had already started to light the cookfires for the night. After such a long day of travel, the thought of coffee brought with it a warm sort of anticipation.

Selethen was making the rounds among his troops. Horace was in an animated conversation with Svengal and Will and Gilan were engaged in a discussion of their own a few meters away.

Halt, his steps nearly soundless on the sand, moved to join his two apprentices. As their backs had been to him, he managed to catch the last part of their conversation before they became aware of his presence.

"I still can hardly believe that Halt got married," Will was saying.

"It was unexpected," Gilan put in, "But what surprised me most was that lady Pauline somehow managed to convince him of the existence of scissors."

"Would you care to elaborate on that point?" Halt asked, danger edging his words. He fixed both his students with his best withering glare as they startled and turned to face him, expressions sheepish at being caught out.

"Not really," Gilan replied cheerfully, leaning casually on his longbow.

"Not really?" Halt asked sardonically, one eyebrow raised. "And I suppose you think that's a good enough explanation, do you?"

"Considering the circumstances, I thought it might be better for my health," he offered with an apologetic shrug, though the sudden sparkle in his eyes rendered the gesture more disingenuous than not. Which admittedly did nothing to temper Halt's current mood—despite the sentiment being true enough.

"We we're just thinking that it looks good on you—the haircut, I mean," Will put in with what he probably hoped to be just the right amount of innocence. He'd overdone it.

"I'm sure," Halt replied flatly, wholly unconvinced. "First it's Horace in Al Shabah, and now it’s the two of you. I'll be sure to recommend all three of you to Baron Arald as court jesters, since you think you're so hilarious."

Day 4: Footsteps

Halt and his two apprentices, both following their mentor's footsteps in their own way.

“Remember no one expects you to be Halt. He's a legend, after all. Haven't you heard? He's eight feet tall and kills bears with his bare hands...”

~John Flanagan, Erak's Ransom

happy valentines day to everyone but especially gilan davidson

[Image ID: a scene from Encanto. Mirabel, labelled "Gilan", looks awkward as an excited child points and yells "he was about to tell us about his super awesome hair colour". Dolores, labelled "flanagan", responds, "Oh, Gilan didn't get one". /end]

Please tell me you folks have seen Encanto so this makes sense