Appearance

[greywaren]

As Ronan is a book character, I think it's appropriate to have a few little blurbs on his appearance- since he was described so wonderfully in the books- just in case people are trying to visualize him a little easier!

This post is basically going to be appearance quotes, cherry picked for easier visualization. I have a much longer list of quotes that goes into more detail about his character and his involvement in the story here.

His PB is Anton Lisin.



For the most succinct summary possible: Ronan is repeatedly described with violent imagery- dangerous, knifelike, savage, aflame, sharp, jagged, wicked, brittle... the list goes on. He has buzzed brown hair and dark eyes and is very tall (the tallest of his friends) and lanky. He wears leather bracelets around his scarred wrists, and is typically seen in disheveled black tanktops and jeans. He has a very intricate back tattoo that has tendrils/hooks/claws reaching up his neck, visible from under his shirt.

Overall
'Ronan and Declan Lynch were undeniably brothers, with the same dark brown hair and sharp nose, but Declan was solid where Ronan was brittle. Declan's wide jaw and smile said vote for me, while Ronan's buzzed head and thin mouth warned that the species was poisonous.'

'Sometimes, after Adam had been hit, there was something remote and absent in his eyes, like his body belonged to someone else. When Ronan was hit, it was the opposite; he became so urgently present it was as if he'd been sleeping before.'

'Ronan kept staring at Whelk. He was good at staring. There was something about his stare that took something from the other person.'

'The moonlight made a strange sculpture of Ronan's face, a stark portrait incompletely molded by a sculptor who had forgotten to work in compassion.'

'The three brothers were nothing if not handsome copies of their father, although each flattered a different side of Niall. [...] Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.'

'He wore his hatred like a cruel second skin.'

'Ronan’s close-shaved head was bowed, but everything else about his posture suggested vigilance, distrust. His wicked tattoo hooked out from behind his black muscle T. This Ronan Lynch was a dangerous and hollowed-out creature. He was a snare for you to step your foot in.'

'There was a carefully cultivated sense of danger to this Lynch brother. This was not a rattlesnake hidden in the grass, but a deadly coral snake striped with warning colors. Everything about him was a warning: If this snake bit you, you had no one to blame but yourself'

'Ronan looked as pleased as a pit viper ever could.'


Tattoo
'Six months before, Ronan had gotten the intricate black tattoo that covered most of his back and snaked up his neck, and now the monochromatic lines of it were stark in the claustrophobic lamplight, more real than anything else in the room. It was a peculiar tattoo, both vicious and lovely, and every time Gansey saw it, he saw something different in the pattern. Tonight, nestled in an inked glen of wicked, beautiful flowers there was a beak where before, he'd seen a scythe.'

'Ronan, still in the ruins, looked over his shoulder at them. In the dim light of flashlights, the tattooed hook that edged out above his collar looked like either a claw or finger or part of a fleur-de-lis. It was nearly as sharp as his smile.'

'There was nothing particularly sympathetic about Ronan just then, handsome mouth drawing a cruel line, eerie tattoo creeping out the collar of his black T-shirt-'

'Anything that didn't impale itself on the sharp line of this sleeping boy’s cruel mouth would be tangled in the merciless hooks of his tattoo, pulled beneath his skin to drown.'