my hot take is that the grey man is clearly a character from a different series of a different genre who just sort of wandered into trc and got tangled up in all that by mistake, which means that nothing he has done can be graded on the same morality scale as the rest of the series. therefore he has done nothing wrong and is blameless.
So there is a Canadian buddy cop movie about an uptight English cop from Ontario partnered with an asshole French cop from Quebec and one scene is 3 minutes of the french cop teaching the English cop the correct way to use the word fuck in French while they’re beating up a suspect and forcing him into the trunk of the French cop’s car
oh also my favorite part of the book is how Gansey is like the king of their little squad but when shit’s about to go down in the cave Adam’s like “ok so Ronan’s gonna do his dream magic, I’m gonna do my sentient forest magic, Blue’s gonna do her awesome amplifying magic, and Gansey can… move some rocks?”
and like. Gansey just. nodded. and moved some rocks. I love him.