#TSC family tree

[fairdale]

i know there were multiple wrong dates in the family tree, but nothing will take away the pain i felt when i saw sophie outliving her whole family. her husband. her three kids. that shit hurt more than you can imagine.

[mo-online]

i keep wanting to project my music taste onto my favorite characters but i think if jean moreau heard a single ethel cain song he'd throw up and try to kill himself again

[garvalhaminho]

i know it will be a mindfuck for kit when jem says ty looks just like jesse bc why are you telling the kid his situationship looks just like the kid's dead brother-in-law when in fact the situationship is HIS DESCENDANT

[helenofblackthorns]

I love the shadowhunter chronicles because it's truly one of a kind. what other book series can you say "Julian Blackthorn is related to every single parabatai and love interest of a Carstairs* yay soulmates" and that be a normal sentence. exactly, none.

(*main relevant Carstairs anyway who are not direct ancestors of Emma's)

[moonyscoffeestains]

the blackthorns, jace, alec, and izzy all being descended from the same person is crazy

[the-dark-artifices-trees]

I fully believe that any and all person with the last name “Herondale” would be obsessed with The Tortured Poets Department 🤍🍂☕️📚 🌬

[balladofbells]

Rip Grace Blackthorn and Christopher Lightwood you would have loved Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve by Taylor Swift

[wessasbitch]

do you ever stop what you're doing, think about how complicated the shadowhunters family tree is, shook your head and then go on with your life? or is it just me?

[queenhelenblackthorn]

[allthestories]

Okay but Cassie can we please get an updated family tree?

I need to know what path was taken to get to the modern day Fairchilds.

[kaitcreates]

Shadowhunter families and their place of living.

England

Bridgstock(1903, London)

Baybrook(1903, London)

Branwell(1878, London)

Featherstone(1903, London)

Greenmantle(1903, London)

Hardcastle(1903, London)

Highsmith(1903, 2012, London)

Gladstone(1903, London)

Mayhew(1903, London)

Mayburn(1878, London)

Pangborn(1878, London)

Pouncey(1903, London)

Ravenscar(1878, London)

Townsend(1903, London)

Wentworth(1903, London)

Hayward(1903, York)

Starkweather(1878, York)

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Acosta(2012)

Breakspear(2012)

Gonzales(2012)

Romero(2012)

New York, USA

Graymark(1920)

Safar(2010)

Whitelaw(1984)

Mexico City, Mexico

Delgado(2012)

Mendoza(2012)

Rocio(2012)

Rosales(2012)

Velez(2012)

Brazil

Carvalho(2012, São Paulo)

Pedroso(2012, Rio de Janeiro)

Spain

Casales(2012, Madrid)

Castel(2012, Barcelona)

Villalobos(2012, Madrid)

India

Chaudhury(2007, Mumbai)

Joshi(2012, Mumbai)

China

Ke(2012, Shanghai)

Lieu(2010, Hangzhou)

Wang(2012, Shanghai)

Germany

Grunwald(1721)

Kriegsmesser(2007, Berlin)

Morgenstern(1878, *May be form other german speaking country, also mentioned to be from Sweeden)

Vogelspritz(2010, Hamburg)

Von Mainz(1832, Prusia)

Rome, Italy

Di Aneglo(1903)

Maletesta(2007)

France

Beausejours(2012,*May be from another french speaking country)

Montclaire(1989, Paris)

Pontmercy(2007, Marseilles)

Verlac(2007, Paris)

Portugal

Monteverde(2007, Lisbon)

Rosewain(2007, Cumbria)

Australia

Makepeace(2002, Melbourne)

Sedgewick(2007)

Other

Jahanshah(1903, Persia)

Keo(2012, Cambodia)

Larkspear(2012, Atlanta, Georgia, USA)

Lindquist(2012, Umea, Sweden)

Lovelace(2008, Glascorw, Scotland. 1878, London, England)

Maduabuchi(2012, Lagos, Nigeria)

Kaidou(1878, Tokyo, Japan)

Ashdown(2012, Los Angeles, California, USA)

Theorised

Nightshade(Los Angeles, Califiornia, USA, *Vampire with same last name lives there)

Solcedo(Spanish country, *Taken on by Marisol, who's previous last names were both spanish)

Malhotra(India, *name originates from India)

Tokugawa, Satõ(Japan, *names originates from Japan)

[fairdale]

headcanon where clary dreams about a man with blond hair and green eyes smiling at her while she's painting. she can't help but notice the slightly faded parabatai rune, can't help but notice the nostalgic beauty that man carries.

"it's beautiful." he says, looking at her drawing.

clary can't help but wonder if the man were an artist too.

must run in the family, he thinks, the love for art.

when clary wakes up that morning and looks at herself in the mirror, green eyes stare back at her. she smiles, turning around to see the painting drying.

a blond and a dark haired man, their backs to her. one carried a gun; the other, a chakram.

it's beautiful, she thinks.

[streettealee]

We as TSC fans are all aware that Emma Carstairs... is not a descendant of Cordelia Katāyoun Carstairs, right? The Cordelia that is Emma Carstair's mother is a Townsend (don't ask why she is then named Cordelia, I don't know the ties there).

Cordelia is Jace's ancestor, his direct ancestor. We can still say Emma and Jace are connected via her through the family tree, because Cordelia's the sister of Zachary, who carries on the Carstairs line, but it feels rather inaccurate to say Emma is descended from Cordelia, if that makes sense. And Cortana easily could have still passed on through the Carstairs if the sword chose one of them over Cordelia's child and grandchildren.

I don't know, just, without Cordelia's descendants, that line of Herondales doesn't exist and I think her tie to them overrides the idea that any Carstairs are descended from her. I'm just voicing this because I've seen a few things that seem to imply Emma is Cordelia Katāyoun Herondale née Carstairs' descendent when I'm not sure it's very accurate. The definition I found of a descendent includes being of blood, and I suppose you could say Emma shares that with Cordelia, but do you see where I'm getting at? Zachary shares Cordelia's blood because they're of the same parents and family, but it's Zachary's line that Emma comes from, not Cordelia's. Emma and Cordelia are family, but not... in the way where she's descended from her. She's like a great great great aunt. Who has her own descendants, especially because she also married into another family.

Then again, I suck at family trees, I probably have this all wrong. Feel free to give your own takes or correct mine, I'm trying to make sense of where we're at with this.

Maybe the only difference is between descendants and direct descendants that I'm getting muddled up and it's not that big of a deal.

[garvalhaminho]

btw here is a list of every blackthorn ever mentioned (that i wrote down) either by blood or marriage/name

eva

felix

john

adelaide ‌

annabel‌

abner‌

jerome‌

ezekiel

rupert‌

tatiana

grace ‌

jesse ‌

lucie ‌

andrew ‌

arthur‌

eleanor‌

helen ‌

mark‌

julian‌

livia‌

tiberius‌

drusilla‌

octavian

[helenofblackthorns]

I know everyone wants an updated family tree, and I do too. however I can't help but pity whoever will end up designing that thing because there is no way to make that monstrosity look good. like that job from hell is awaiting someone & I feel bad them already

[sprolden]

actually re: that post about jonathans in tsc, why is christopher lightwood called christopher. because there's already a christopher (kit) in tsc (four christophers if we're counting middle names too) and like, okay, i guess it's implied to be a common shadowhunter name but still why would you give two of your main characters (who do not belong to the same family) the exact same name..... and nickname???? what was that all about. why are kit and kit both called kit