#Jericho Madden

[theenemyod]

My unwritten weird what-if-Constantine-didn't-die-and-Call-had-Jericho's-soul idea going crazy in my brain rn.

[secretly-a-catamount]

Arron’s death turned him from the savior (Constantine) into the sacrificial lamb (Jericho), and turned Call from the boy stuck in his counterweight’s shadow (Jericho) into the monster (Constantine).

[noodle-made-a-mistake]

A short list of things that bother me about the Magisterium canon:

Forgive me in advance for rambling, I have to get these thoughts out of my brain lmao (also it's been a couple years so correct me if I'm wrong! (I really hope I’m wrong on some of these :’) )) Spoilers ahead obviously!

● The lack of Calron :(

● Not taking the opportunity to develop Tamara's character and keeping her static until she's randomly just different. Strong female characters aren't just skilled and perfect until their one flaw (usually it's having feelings like any other human being) is revealed shockingly (that's just sloppy characterization), they should be crucial to the plot and not overlooked in favor of developing other characters (from what I remember she literally was my favorite while reading the series until she just got annoying (??) after a while, of course that could just be because the story is told through Call's perspective but still)

● The entire school system that I need more info on bc it sounds so unthought out and not like something that has existed for hundreds of years

● The forceful nature of making people serve as masters?? That makes no sense? Like, “Congratulations on not dying during your schooling or in the war(s), your prize is forced labor 👍.”

● Also THE COLLEGIUM WAS MENTIONED AND NEVER ELABORATED UPON

● TGT. Least favorite book. Get out. Tgt truthers how do you do it??

● The Maugris plot twist. It destroys the meaning behind the past four books. It's just so uncalled for and frankly just sloppy ig? I love the idea in a way, but only if it's foreshadowed from the beginning. Also I'm too attached to the complicated dynamic of Alastair raising his possible ex-bestie for it to end up like that

● The fact that the iron trio is out of school for half the series, I'd like to know what's normal, y'know??

● THE LACK OF ELABORATION ABOUT THE FIRST GEN I WANT TO KNOW MORE I HAVE TO KNOW MORE

● They did my man Constantine especially wrong, give him some ✨️character✨️ aside from E V I L and problematic (trademark) and charming (???)

● AND ALASTAIR GOD TELL ME MORE?? He's characterized as distant and obviously traumatized with his hate of his magic involved past but I just need to know what that past was like. Like who was he before his dead wife syndrome?? Idk but I'd of liked any excuse to know more about it just so I can understand him more??

● Please give me a single character trait of Declan's?? Like he was mentioned a handful of times and that's all we got. He was just some guy and I am hating it !!

● And Sarah. Like. She was a mom and liked peace as a concept but she also made a cool ass knife. That's a lot of things left up for interpretation. And I know Call wasn’t allowed to ask questions for plot reasons but god i wish he had more information about his own dead mother for Christ's sake

● Also other than a victim, who was Jericho? I need to know who this kid who drew scribbles in the margins of his very important journal while writing about how he was slowly being killed was. What was his relationship really like with his brother if he was so scared to say that he was dying or what gave him the impression that he didn't care?? It's fascinating and I need him under a microscope immediately

● Also the lack of queer representation until the last two books. AND THEN IT WASN'T EVEN ANY OF OUR MAIN CAST. Literally the saddest L ever :(

● AND AARON WAS NEVER CONFIRMED QUEER LIKE WHAT THE FUCK JUST L O O K AT HIS CHARACTER AND INFACT ALL OF OUR CORE CAST IS AT LEAST BI LIKE C O M E O N (ik they're like kids but even I knew I was not straight when I was like 11 and i lived in the most conservative non-LGBTQ-friendly town known to man)

● Low key, callmara was so bad, like I love them but not the way it happened, horrible set up. Tamara deserved so much better and to not have her entire character destroyed by becoming a love interest. I wish they thought about her as an independent character instead of the means to implement a romantic subplot in tgt, they did so good in the first books with that

● Also there's no elaboration on what chaos is. It's the mystical 5th element. Wow! Let's go girl, give us nothing! You'd think that if Makaris were so exceptionally rare and special that we'd get some explanation on how they come to be and what it is exactly that they can control but we're just left to assume it's the special "chosen one" type of thing. Idk it bothers me for some reason :/

That's just off the top of my head and it's been years since I read the series all the way through (I should do a reread soon). For the most part I adore this funky series and I hate to bash it but I felt the need to ramble about it's shortcomings because I'm not crazy, right?? It had so much potential! Anyway, I'm sort of glad for the blanks in the story despite complaining about them because it leaves room for fics and fan interpretations that I always love to see, but on the other hand, I'd like for the story to feel finished and not like a last minute science fair project.

Thanks for sticking around for my late night rambling lmao

[sketchyghost27]

I can still recall, our last summer..

Finally got around to drawing my designs for these Magisterium Characters!! My headcannons for them, in order:

Alastair Hunt, in my mind, is an all-American guy with not-so-active parents. He's got his cannon messiness and love for tinkering so I can't help but image him staying up night and day to take apart Radios, Watches and rebuild them with metal magic.

Jericho and Constantine Madden are def French-Russian, obviously have their mum and (despite being irrelevant anywhere) dad. Jericho has a talent for Water Magic in my mind, and him and Declan like making pages like this with Declans Photographs. Constantine is months short of discovering Chaos, so for now he loves Fire.

Sarah and Declan Novak ARE JUST HEADCANNONS. There is NOTHING to base them on except for their names and Sarah having the same dark hair as Callum. So now they're American with Grandparents in South America. They're also the smallest in the group and Declan gets Migraines that can even take his vision for a short while. Just so there's a solid reason he wasn't in active battle, since it would've been a bigger than average risk for him.

[alex-is-the-king-11111]

Do you ever think about it? Poor little Callum Hunt. Dead before he even got to say his first words. Murder by you, Constantine. Just the way you killed the closest thing I had to a brother. Just the way you killed your own brother. You were never meant to have this power. And now, I'm going to take it from you, and be a better Enemy Of Death than you'll ever be.

@captain-fishface777

[eggsistential-breakdown]

Master Rufus' apprentices through the decades

Sure hope nothing bad happens to these kids!

[thebettermaddentwin]

@captain-fishface777 pls make the other half of your soul (Constantine) respond to me HE ISN'T and idk why but you have his soul you might have a better chance getting him to fucking tslkkkkk

[thedoodlecat]

(FINAL) DAY 5 OF TIT BOOK CLUB

WE'RE DONE WITH THE TIT BOOK CLUB! WOO-HOO!

I'll be looking forward to seeing y'alls ideas and interpretation of the prompts tomorrow!

Here are your final prompts!

What is the most iconic line in all of the book for you?

What do you wish would've been added to this book specifically?

What do you wish wasn't included?

Rate this book, independently of the other ones

5.(optional) what is the gayest moment in the book?

@ashpkat

@usernamesarehard1

@yg-calroniscanon

@sleep-needer

@constantinemaddeswife

@massiveladycat

@feything-n-frothing

@quilleily

@incelalexstrike

@lunarvamp

@wuffgang-ameowdeus-moozart

@fl4shluvr

[nonbinary-androids]

I think one of the only points TSM and I really disagree on is Constantine's relationship with Jericho. The one thing we are sure of, the one thing we know about Constantine, is that he loves his brother. His actions, his descent into madness, all the evil that he's done--it's for Jericho. It's the one thing that makes Call sympathize with him. It's Constantine's central, defining trait; and TSM just reverses it for no reason??? It's not even to foreshadow Mannequin, bc it predates Jericho's death. I guess you could argue it has... something to do with making Call his own person, but if so, it's always really failed at that for me, it just makes Constantine unambiguously Evil

[armory11]

I've gone too far...

i finally did it. There is such a thing as too obsessed with jericho madden.

i have seen all posts that mention him on the entirety of tumblr

what have i become...

[ashpkat]

hi i got bored and drew constantine and jericho but got too lazy to fully color. maybe ill do the rest of first gen later you hooligans got me thibking abt them

[secretly-a-catamount]

YOU LEFT THAT WHOLE CATHOLIC CONSTANTINE AU IN THE TAGS OF ASHS POST THINKING WE WOULDN'T NOTICE MF THAT SHIT GENIUS

Thanks, I’m glad you join my rambling that I made up in like two minutes!

Hope it’s coherent. Lol.

[sketchyghost27]

hey Magisterium people, on the grounds of there being no name for Alastairs gen (as far as I know) here are my suggestions:

the first wave (of war and characters, would make call and co the second wave of war and characters)

twin, twin, Alastair (cause hes the only singleton)

Semiramis club (idk I think referencing the knife could be cool)

chaos kindlers (zero logic besides it sounding cool)

Casting crew (casting is both a word for magic as well as metalwork. here it sounds like they're actors tho:/ )

Casting Club (?)

Trial smth smth idk

please add your own I would love to be able to vote from our collective genius

[alex-is-the-king-11111]

I am sick of pretending to like this fucking family Eliza is a bitch and I hope she burns in hell with her precious little Constantine who she loves like 10x more than me, I don't have any strong opinions on Jericho I don't know enough about him, Drew was the only good one, Joseph is weak and dead. This is all facts you can't prove me wrong.

[irefy]

Just went back through the silver mask, and I’m pretty sure all the math I did before still checks out. The only weird thing to me was the mention of Constantine as Jericho’s older brother…which makes no sense. I mean it CAN make sense through a bunch of convoluted reasoning, but I think it’s really just that Constantine is the older twin. As per usual, no concrete dates for anything.