He is bad tempered, irritable, extremely sarcastic, and cynical. Ronan is 'dangerous' and confrontational, rarely attempting to filter his words. He repeatedly encounters another dreamer, Bryde, in his dreams and saves Jordan Hennessy from drowning. He is shown to be much more acclimated to his dreamer abilities, but also struggles with the dangers of Nightwash. Ronan worries about his relationship with Adam due to his unpredictable dreaming that keeps him bound to the Barns. In Call Down the Hawk, Ronan is essentially living a simple farmer's life at the Barns. He keeps living at Monmouth but often visits his childhood home.Īfter Aurora is killed, Ronan spends hours just sitting in the driver's seat of his car, staring blankly down the road to the Barns, waiting for Gansey to come and tell him what to do. In The Dream Thieves, he gets some semblance of closure with his father and finds a loophole in his father's testament which allows him to return to the Barns. He is also an insomniac and is frequently haunted by night terrors, which manifests themselves as physical creatures in his dreams. Ronan copes with his trauma by drinking a lot of alcohol and going out street-racing in his father's old BMW along with other Aglionby thrill-seekers – most notably the unsavory Joseph Kavinsky. It is revealed in The Dream Thieves that Joseph Kavinsky was witness to the wounds appearing when Ronan woke, making Kavinsky the first person to know about Ronan being a Dreamer. Everyone else falsely believes it to have been a suicide attempt, as Ronan was keeping his Dreamer abilities a secret at that point. Ronan moves in with his friend Gansey at Monmouth Manufacturing.īefore the events of the first book, there was an incident in which Ronan brought back injuries he had received from a night terror in one of his dreams, and would have likely died had Noah not found him. His father's will prohibits Ronan and his brothers from visiting the Barns, and they are all forced to move away from the farm.

His mother goes into a catatonic state, which leaves the Lynch boys to fend for themselves. Niall's death also drives a wedge further between Ronan and his older brother Declan, with whom he already had a complicated relationship. The books say little about what Ronan used to be like before his father's untimely death, but it is implied that he used to be of a friendlier and gentler disposition. One day, before the beginning of the book series itself, Ronan finds his father brutally murdered in the driveway outside their house.

Ronan was always particularly close with his father Niall and is considered by his brothers to have been his father's favorite son. In most of his formative years, Ronan and his family lived at a farm called the Barns a little outside of Henrietta, VA.

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