#anti parabatai bond

[im-out-of-it]

PSA: IS IT JUST ME OR DO CORDELIA AND LUCIE AS PARABATAI NOT MAKE ANY SENSE LIKE ITS SO RUSHED AND IM NOT SORRY BUT MY PSA ARE GETTING SO LONG EACH TIME I JUST HAVE SO MANY OPINIONS AND THOUGHTS TO SHARE OK????????

’ll never understand why Lucie and Cordelia become parabatai. how good friends are they really? we know Cordelia and Lucie hung out a few times (??????) and wrote letters to each other but how well do they know each other?

“But you could have told me. I could never have pitied you, Lucie I bought, bewildered. She didn’t mind that Cordelia had been in love with James- but the lying, the hiding….. she wished it didn’t bother her but it did.” -Lucie responding to Cordelia’s secret

(which is ironic of Lucie to think because this is the same bitch who hid herself working with grace from Cordelia to save Jesse lmao and deep down, she probably knew Cordelia wouldn’t of been okay with it)

Cordelia had gone a sickly color. “How could you not tell me that?”, she whispered. “You were going to go ahead with the ceremony, then, without warning me? What if something bad happened to you during it?- what if the ghosts meant harm?” - Cordelia responding to Lucies secret

“Did you know the difference when you chose to secretly befriend Grace behind my back, and never tell me about it at all?”-cordelias anger to Lucie about teaming up with grace to bring back Jesse from the dead

“I didn’t know how much my working with her would hurt you”, Lucie said. “I doubt James knew either. You never let on that you felt anything for him. You- you’re so proud, Cordelia.”- lucies rebuttal to Cordelia when she comes back from Paris

so I’ve posted four different arguments or statements from Lucie and Cordelia over the issues they’ve had. Cordelia didn’t tell Lucie she was in love with James. why the pity game? I DONT KNOW BUT I HATE THAT BLOODY WORD. honestly Lucie is right. Cordelia is way too proud, as is James. I’m sorry but I don’t get this whole “if I told you I love your brother, you would pity me.” but back in chain of gold, Cordelia likes the fact that they could be sisters in law and even thinks James may actually love her. so I don’t really understand this whole pity thing.

I think the reason Cordelia didn’t want anyone to know was that she then found out about Grace and thought people may in a way pity her since everyone assumed grace and James were in love.

moving on to Lucie seeing ghosts. I can see why Lucie didn’t share it because Cordelia made a whole fairy tale thing about how Lucie lives in fantasy world and they can’t be parabatai? I get why she didn’t say anything and by then, they were passed not giving a fuck about communicating. should she have said something? yes but it’s not like these two are bffs

there is no reason these two should be parabatai. they don’t communicate for starters. there’s too much drama and miscommunication. CC presents parabatai as being closer than brothers but not as close as lovers so wouldn’t you think that soon to be parabatai should be telling each other stuff?

like what bad would it have done if Lucie said “hey Cordelia, I know you don’t like grace but I’m using her help to bring a ghost back to life that I have cared for. please keep this between us. he means a lot to me.”

and why couldn’t Cordelia say “Lucie, I understand and I will keep it between us because I know you wouldn’t do anything to harm me on purpose. if you have feelings for this ghost, I support you. also I do not care for grace because I am in love with your brother and have been.”

mayhap Lucie could then say “oh James is such a buffoon! how could he not see what is in front of him? thank you for trusting me Cordelia”

y’all can critique my summary all you want 😭 (I tried ok?) but I don’t really see any harm in sharing the secrets they had? because maybe if they did or had some honest convos, and actually grew, I could see why they deserve to be parabatai. but I haven’t seen anything from their relationship that shows they should be. they don’t communicate, they keep every secret to themselves because god forbid someone pities or hates them, and they’re basically strangers towards the end.

Lucie even says in pov during the edom thing if she really knows Cordelia? and I think Cordelia thinks the same thing at another time. these two question if they know each other. parabatai don’t have to be perfect but they should have some sort of bond. and I don’t think they should be questioning if they know their friend at all. when it comes to the parabatai bond, CC is incompetent when forming it.

1. Alec does everything for jace while jace treats Alec like absolute shit. Alec can’t form his own thoughts or feelings without thinking about jace. -CC who thinks everyone loves jace

2. Will is nothing without Jem. like if you take Jem out of the equation, Will is an absolute monster but put jem into the equation, hmmmm maybe this dick can be tolerated for a second. Will is only tolerable because of Jem. but also never forgiving Will and Tessa for fucking right after they get notification Jem has died. -CC who thinks Tessa settling for Jem and waiting for him to die so then Tessa can have Will is the best of both worlds apparently

3. Emma and Julian- not even touching that. I’m so tired and over the unforbidden trope CC is obsessed with. it’s old

4. Matthew and James- James was prisoned by a bloody bracelet and Matthew kept the fairy potion a secret from everyone and ends up turning to alcohol. this is kinda harder to criticize because they are both being prisoned by their own thing. Matthew didn’t have to turn to the potion but belial would’ve found a way to torment James. so I don’t know if he could’ve got out of that. could’ve just told Tatiana no to cutting briars or told his parents on her lmao so as much as I want to like this bond, matthews feelings get pushed to the side and golden herondale steals the spotlight once again smh. James and his feelings take a front seat while Matthew is apologizing for feeling anything and his arc is nonexistent (JUST MY OPINION I DONT WANT NO SMOKE 💨)

in conclusion, these two should not have been parabatai. honestly most of these pairs shouldn’t be. they didn’t really have anything in common or anything that linked a strong powerful bond. I see Thomas and Christopher being more of a parabatai than any of these pairs. even Gabriel and Gideon. these siblings or family members actually speak to each other and work through their shit. Cordelia and Lucie “bonding” together didn’t work at all and felt super rushed. but that’s what happens when you waste hundreds of pages on miscommunication lmao

[dreaming-marchling]

I hope you feel better soon!

Love this bit of cultural worldbuilding in Exile if you have any additional director's commentary!

“I don’t know if Magnus or Jace made it clear or not but parabatai bonds are sacred to us. They’re a serious, serious commitment and there are all sorts of accommodations given to bonded pairs. That someone purposefully broke the bond between you and Jace is literally its own crime. There will be people, especially in the older generations, who will be more angry about what happened to your bond than what happened to you yourself. Mostly those people are anti-Downworlder bigots who don’t like your progressive stance but still, the point stands.”

The show SAID the bond was sacred and then they just never actually showed it. Like super frustrating, it infuriated me all the time. Like bad enough they let Jace be tricked by Jonathan with that text that Max died - HE SHOULD HAVE FELT THAT ALEC WASN'T DEVASTATED AND KNOWN IT WAS FAKE!!! - but like where was the DEFERENCE??

I really wanted there to be scenes where say Maryse tried to pull something on Alec and Jace cut her off like "he's my parabatai and my word goes" instead we got shit like her telling Alec to just like forget Jace because he made them look bad. Or for there to be some sort of "omg those are parabatai warriors, look at them fight, they're blessed by the Angels" awed reaction from new to the Institute Shadowhunters. We got a whole lot of nothing other than an occasional mention that the bond is sacred or losing a parabatai is the worst pain without really showing it.

So I really wanted to show it in Exile. Jace wasn't just in pain, he was shattered and wanted to join Alec in death as their souls were torn apart and wanted - needed - to be back together. I wanted other people to be horrified that Imogen had done that to parabatai. I wanted the breaking of the bond to be its own crime to stack on her mountain. Even Alec who had no idea who he was was dealing with a "rip" inside of him that hurt and destabilized him without understanding why.

I imagine the Clave to be really cutthroat like old royal courts were, lots of scheming and "playing the game" and assassination attempts. I can absolutely imagine some people being like "damn girl" to Imogen for so ruthlessly and effectively taking out Alec to further her grandson's interests and the Herondale name. Not like approval approval but "what a master manipulator, well played" kind of vibe... until she broken an Angel blessed bond to do it.

I have feelings.

Thank you for asking!!

[rainyhuman]

This is ur invite to rant ab the sh finale,,,, 👀

THANK YOU!!!

ok SO 

the obvious is that it was rushed which i dont really blame them for because they did what they could and like thank god we got the malec wedding right BUT

there were NO scenes of magnus with his family before his wedding however there were scenes of alec with his family so like????? (ofc why did i expect anything else, like im not saying alec shouldn't have scenes with his family but what about magnus??)

magnus did all the planning??? bitch no he didnt alec and magnus did it together bc theyre BOTH getting married and they BOTH are excited about it

we have this wholeass talk with fucking jace who's so surprised about the fact that ALEC IS GOING TO LIVE WITH HIS HUSBAND??? and then he's like "don't be a stranger" and we wasted minutes on this stupid talk for no reason because guess what? alec goes halfway across the world away from jace so like WHAT WAS THE POINT????? WE COULD'VE HAD MAGNUS WITH CAT, RAPHAEL AND MADZIE BUT NO (a 1 minute scene of them helping him get ready would've been ENOUGH)

we didn't even get to see magnus asking cat to be his best woman like WHY

iNSTEAD we got a fucking lorenzo redemption arc WHICH BTW wasnt even a fucking good redemption it was the typical 'the show is ending so we're going to give this character who made the main characters' lives miserable a redemption arc so that its all happy!!!!!' like fuck OFF

and then to top it all off we had fucking reyhill becoming canon which we did not need (them being gay is literally homophobic i can't) like people literally FORGOT that lorenzo made magnus' life fucking miserable (didn't allow other warlocks to help him -> magnus lost his magic, fucking took his loft when he has a MANSION) just bc he was confirmed as queer like S T O P IT

omfg also izzy deserved to be alec's suggenes like who did alec go to for magnus advice??? who wanted their happiness from the starting??? who DESERVED to be suggenes???? IZZY DID!!!! NOT FUCKING JACE (who we all know was suggenes just because hes alec's parabatai)

also um RAPHAEL DESERVED TO WALK MAGNUS DOWN THE AISLE (HIS FUCKING SON NOT MARYSE) look i get it, maryse got a bs redemption arc which she did nothing to work towards and she was the one who told magnus that alec was going to propose but omfg magnus is centuries old,,,,,,, he's wanted to be married for SO long and maryse is an ex circle member, she's killed many of his friends and his people and its such a slap in the face to not have his OWN SON walk him down the aisle instead of MARYSE

WE GOT MADZIE DANCING WITH LORENZO INSTEAD OF MAGNUS AND CAT AND ALEC AND RAPHAEL!!!!!!! LIKE WHAT???? i deserved to see madzie dancing with magnus can you imagine 🥺🥺🥺

look even if magnus forgave lorenzo (which um no he shouldn't have, people are allowed to be mad at their abusers shut up with the forgive and forget bs) cat and alec and raphael wouldn't,,,,,, do ANY of them seem like the forgiving type? especially when it comes to magnus? NO they don't

ragnor is alive and should've been at the wedding tbh

also um i know the only reason behind the wedding being at the institute was spite (and also bc they had no time) but magnus deserved to have his first and only wedding in a place that was not a place of oppression for his people and for this very reason It Is Canon that they have vow renewals every decade at fancy places that they both love

ALSO luke wasn't at the fucking wedding WHY? (ik they gave a reason but i dont remember it and it was probably bullshit)

tldr: i KNOW they didn't have the time but they wasted what time they DID have on stupid fucking scenes

anyway um ik i just complained about a ton of things (and ykw im not going to apologise for it, i am right) but one thing i loved was malec's last scene it was just so 🥺😭💖 like the parallel....... it kills me every time

[bytedykes]

i can’t stop thinking about “well maybe your mother was right and your best just isn’t good enough” like what the FUCK was that ?? how did the writers think they could have him say shit like this and leave it completely unmentioned and still have me think jace is a good person?? he never even apologizes like he Never Even Apologizes i can’t... during their fight scene it’s played off like alec is the unreasonable one betraying jace when he chooses not to follow him to god knows where and that’s AFTER he’s went after him and broken god knows how many laws and the writers had the gall to imply alec was the unloyal one?? worms in my brain foam in my teeth i’m going to start kicking in walls

[wehavedreams]

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[normal-thoughts-official]

i consider this peak humor

[cursedlightwood]

You: *makes a very valid post about how the writers treated the parbatai bond as a terrible plot devise even reducing Alec's character and making him very ooc at times* Some reblogger: fake! He loves his brother! fucking Alec stans. Like I don't even know how they thought that correlated to what you were saying and honestly you should say it. The whole "parabatai bond" is so toxic I'll never get over that scene in 3x07 with Magnus and Alec truly the worst. -luxxmagnus

YEAH altho looking at the blog that person appears to be a JACE STAN and jace stans are a different brreed I swear Like, no one is denying that Alec loves Jace as like his brother. But that doesn’t mean that the parabatai bond is unhealthy as hell. Lots of ppl have family members and shit that are horrible and abusive to them but they still love them but that’s not like, a good thing? AND YEAH ITS LIKE THEY DIDNT EVEN READ THE POST I NEVER SAID ANY OF THE SHIT THEY WERE SAYING I SAID! Jace stans see anyone criticize Jace’s behavior or the way he treats those around him and the ooc writing that makes it seem like Jace is the most important person in Alec’s life and just lose all capacity for critical thought.

The parabatai bond IS so toxic and I don’t even think that’s exclusive to Jace and Alec. Like...all of these people are choosing as CHILDREN that they want to bond their soul to someone else’s forever with like, very few ways out? That’s not a good idea for anyone. But yeah the way Jace treats Alec is truly unacceptable. And it’s also unacceptable how Jace chooses Clary over his family time, risking Alec and Izzy’s lives and runes, convincing Magnus to steal from Alec, lying to him, saying things to him with the specific intention of hurting him time and time again but Alec is expected to give up EVERYTHING including Magnus, the person who finally made him feel happy and wanted and loved, for Jace? Absolute bullshit. The 3x07 scene is really awful. The way Alec treats Magnus is actually disgusting, he acts like he doesn’t care if Magnus dies. But then in like every other scene it’s obvious that Magnus is the most important to him.

Idk if I explained that good I just have a lot of feelings and everything u said is absolutely correct. I think that Alec finds a way to become immortal and while it doesn’t strip him of all his runes it breaks the parabatai bond the same way becoming a downworlder did for Luke and Valentine and then Alec and Magnus live happily ever after forever. That’s just my canon now and no one will stop me.

[saltybane]

People on twitter have started the #FreeAlec hashtag because they want him free from the parabatai bond. Amazing.

[boyfriendsmalec]

Another thing I hate about the parabatai bond between Alec and Jace is Alec does everything for Jace, and yet Jace does nothing in return for Alec. How many times has Alec risked his ass and faced the threat of actual death for Jace? The only time Jace tried to help Alec was in 2x03, only when Alec was on the brink of dying from trying to save Jace yet again.

[bi-leigh-bi]

my argument in general is against the entire idea of parabatai a because it’s a fucking stupid concept. like. why the fuck would a race of warriors come up with a rune that would bind the soul of one fierce warrior to another so that when one is hurt the other is hurt. they’re distracted by each other’s emotions. if one dies the other is- supposedly- extremely lessened as a being. it’s tactically stupid. you’re sacrificing two perfectly good warriors for... what? extra strong tracking aaaaaand... ? it’s ridiculous. on top of that the idea that you should tie someone reckless to someone respected because “opposites balance each other out” is also tactically stupid. the idea of parabatai is sweet and all... but... it’s also... really fucking stupid. the reward isn’t worth the risk.

[im-out-of-it]

season 1, episode 11 “blood calls to blood”

aka guess who are “siblings” 💀

1. it’s almost funny that Valentine tricks jace this way. like jace thinks it’s his father and he’s so happy but all Valentine is doing is taunting jace and tricking them just so he can have the cup. just like Alec predicted lmao

2. you don’t have to heal jace. you can let him die. we would all be better off

3. I know I post a lot of anti jace stuff but if the writing actually had him being held accountable and he was a decent person, I could get on board. but I can’t. he’s insufferable, toxic, and self involved

4. well, we are back with Alec and Izzy. one shadowhunter trial about to come up 👏🏼

5. “I can’t find jace because I weakened our bond”- yes Alec did weaken it but let’s not just put it all on Alec. parabatai are supposed to have each others back and I haven’t seen jace do that for Alec at all. anytime Alec needs him, jace isn’t there. we don’t know their relationship before episode 1 so maybe he was there but knowing jace, I fucking doubt it lmao

6. “what am I supposed to do, sit here and play solitaire while they find something else to blame me for?”- Izzy. I’m just surprised she knows what that game is 😭 but honestly it’s kind of messed up that clary and Jace got to run off with the mortal cup while Izzy is here almost about to lose her being a shadowhunter. it’s not fair at all. and I think the treatment of jace and clary vs Alec and Izzy is something that doesn’t get discussed much. they hardly are held accountable for anything. they’ve ran off and who is to blame? ALEC. Izzy may have had a hand in helping meliorn but she didn’t do it alone so why is Izzy the one paying the consequences?

7. literally jace could go out and kill a bunch of downworlders and say they attacked me first! and he still would be fine. oh because jace is supposedly the best of us all except he always needs rescuing. Alec has paid the price for so many of jace’s actions.

8. “Izzy, I’m your big brother, please let me help you”-Alec 😭

9. I love that Simon has people helping him out. Luke in season one, Magnus in season two. Magnus had to deal with being a warlock all on his own. Luke had Jocelyn but no one should have to go through their changes on their own ☹️

10. LET JACE DIE! LET JACE DIE! LET JACE DIE!

11. I know Raphael is asexual but I would have been 100% okay with a Raphael and Simon pairing. THEY HAVE CHEMISTRY

12. but I love the importance of the showing making representation matter. we have Magnus who is bisexual, alec is gay, Raphael is asexual, and I can’t think of her name but that officer in season three who is a lesbian as well as aline and Helen. so nice to see 🥹

13. “Funny how those rules for downworlders stop being such a big deal when you need our help.”-ok Raphael tell her off 🔥 literally, what I have been talking about!!!! shadowhunters can break the accords = it’s okay! downworlders breaking accords = they’re evil and must be executed and punished!

14. having Camille only being on the show as temporary was a mistake in my opinion. I’m not saying she needed to be there the whole time but I think she’s a very underrated character who could’ve been more. she didn’t have one entire scene in all of season one that was terrible

15. ah blackmailing, how original

16. how I feel everytime jace gets away with something lmao (I always try to do shadowhunter gifs but I couldn’t resist)

17. Raphael: blackmailing me? how unkind, now stick around new advisor 🥲 raphael doesn’t play any games

18. ah, inquisitor herondale. what a cold bitch she is

19. well jace lives so yay I guess?

20. “this is real clary”-jace. ugh not them putting their whole mouths all over each and making cringe facial expressions 🤢

21. not sorry, I find them so cringe

22. ah, Valentine being Michael wayland being highly suspicious (shit I hope I didn’t ruin this for anyone, SORRY)

23. I love how “Valentine” sees jace following whatever clary says and is thinking hmmmm interesting

24. Izzy is all like if Jocelyn can be on the run then I can, but she had runes and weapons and Luke for starters so it’s not like Jocelyn was alone

okay so this isn’t going to be in order and this post will be more than likely go towards the trial 😌

45. I love the way alec says done and he just stares at Magnus like this man is going to take me for all I’m worth and I’m going to be happy about it 😭

46. the struggle is real for alec because not only is he denying a man who he is most likely having feelings for but he has have the audacity to go back to that same man 😬 and literally ask him for help while also trying to fight his feelings

47. like it’s just got to be hard for alec to be around magnus. I know he’s gay, we know he’s gay, literally the whole world knows he’s gay but alec doesn’t feel comfortable being gay in the shadow world. this is more of an assumption on my part when it comes to Alec. because he’s never dated and we see him “secretly” eyeing other men. which he is rightly validated in because the shadowhunters (more clave) are such oppressive ass judgmental prejudicial dicks who would rather control a being to their mold than have someone be comfortable in who they wish to be. they have this my way or no way thinking of how a shadowhunter should act and be

48. and the show doesn’t really touch up often on what it means to be gay in the shadow world or just different (I mean the books barely did and I would rather cc stay away from all matters because she burns everything she touches so no thanks)

49. also can we talk about how fucking gorgeous Magnus is???????

50. HE KNOWS HE IS FINE AS HELL

51. like how is Alec not drooling over him?????? man he’s got to be using every strength to hold it in and fight it 😭

52. also kind of funny how we’re introduced as jace being the one without emotions and clary as the emotional feeling one and the fact that clary is the one ending valentines reign, and Jace can never handle it

53. I sympathize with Jace losing his parents and having a messed up childhood but I don’t sympathize with someone who has this and uses excuses to be a shitty person. I’m sorry but I never once saw a change in either jace or clary in the show or the books.

54. “You don’t trust Alec so clary means more to you.”- “Michael wayland” ayyyyyy isn’t this what I have been saying this whole time????? dude is reading my mind I swear

55. and now he’s trying to act as though he trusts Alec. “Valentine” is right about something. he has put clary first since she arrived and Alec last. fucking Izzy is about to get deruned and jace and clary are out here basically having the time of their life. I know it’s an exaggeration but what did they think would happen after they saved meliorn????

56. MAGNUS THE LAWYER IS HERE

57. HES IN A SUIT AND TIE ALL READY TO FIGHT FOR THE LOVE OF HIS LIFES SIS AND HE IS ABSOLUTELY THE HOTTEST PERSON IN THE ROOM!!!!!!!!! this is who I need to represent me at any time!!!

58. Magnus: excuse me, your honor but this bitch is irritating the fuck out of me (magnus having to be near Lydia lmao)

okay, so part 3 coming soon 🥰✨

[banesboy]

Anyway jace died and Alec felt pain in the moment but then continued on, worrying about others and making sure everything else would be in order. Doesnt seem like "nothing" to me.

So again i say, that was a bullshit line and the parabatai bond is nothing but bullshit

[bytedykes]

I hate how in that one scene in season one when alec and jace have that fight scene and it ends with jace begging alec to come with him and alec says no and it’s played like alec’s being unreasonable and betraying jace as if jace hadn’t spent the entirety of the season repeatedly going against his goddamn parabatai (you know, that thing that’s allegedly the strongest bond two people can have) for a girl he literally just met 🙄

YEAH LMAO EXACTLY !! YOU GET IT

that’s so fuckkking stupid, i hate that scene so much... the entire season jace is like “alec i don’t give a shit what u think i’m chasing a girl get out of my way” and then during that scene he’s like “b-but the parabatai bond,,, bro it’s sacred why are you doing this to me 🥺” like shut the fuck up man!! shut up!! 

take some bad memes bc that’s how i cope

[ID: the distracted boyfriend meme. a guy labeled “jace” is turning around to look at a girl labeled “some random girl” while another girl beside him looks at him with an incredulous expression. she is labeled “alec and their sacred parabatai bond or w/e” /end ID]

[ID: the “i am once again asking” bernie sanders meme. it says, “i am once again asking for you to cater to my every need and let me walk all over you (because that’s what parabatai are for). /end ID]

[thatskablamo]

alec just wants to help jace because he cares and jace yelled at him and made alec feel so guilty he literally didn't eat for an entire day so he could solve the owl problem jace is a shitty fucking parabatai alec deserves better

[cursedlightwood]

can’t reblog the comment so ig I was blocked but here’s a screenshot

I really thought this post was gonna make it through without anyone commenting any wack shit on it but here we are! Let’s go!

About the forced-to-be-parabatai thing: they both made that decision as CHILDREN. Hot take, but, children are not mature enough to decide to bond their soul to someone. Just me? Okay. Aside from them both being literal children, you cannot tell me that there was no outside influence in the decision. Again, they’re kids. Talking specifically about Alec, he had a big thing for making sure his parents were proud of him and he has difficulty doing things that go against him. If they weren’t supportive of the idea, he probably wouldn’t have gone through it, and even that is a form of pressure for him to do if. He literally had last minute regrets and didn’t want to do it, but was then convinced by Izzy. His reasoning was that he was in love with Jace, and while that obviously isn’t and wasn’t true, he still should have been able to make that choice for himself, whatever the reasoning.

About the other shit you said: I never said that Alec didn’t love Jace as a brother, he does. I also never said that Jace was less important than Alec’s other siblings, I just said that he wasn’t more important. I literally say that losing Jace WOULD NOT BE HARDER than losing Izzy or Max. I didn’t say it would be easier. But I’m just saying that Jace isn’t the most important person in Alec’s life. Now let’s talk about Magnus. First of all, Jace spends basically the entire series choosing Clary over Alec and risking Alec and Izzy’s lives, jobs, and runes for her. The fact that y’all think that’s cool and me saying that, if it came down to the wire, everything about Alec’s story and relationships in the show implies that he would choose Magnus over Alec is a problem is incredibly wack. Alec was willing to stay in Edom FOREVER for Magnus, he would never see Jace again. And yet we’re supposed to believe that Alec would just act like he doesn’t care if Magnus dies as long as Jace is saved? It’s bad writing, bad characterization, and it treats Magnus like shit and like he’s just a prop. Alec loves all his siblings equally but the love he has for Magnus is on a totally different level. That’s what this post is saying, not that Jace is less important to him than Alec’s other siblings.

Finally, let’s talk about how Jace treats Alec. For most of the show, Jace treats Alec like shit. Are we all just ignoring the “maybe our parents were right and your best isn’t good enough” thing that Jace never apologized for? Because that was seriously below the belt. Totally uncalled for and absolutely targeting Alec’s biggest insecurity. Jace is using the trust that Alec has in him and their bond and how close they are to hurt Alec. When Simon points out that if Jace keeps treating Alec like shit he’s going to leave, Jace just pulls the “ALEC WOULD DIE FOR ME” thing while totally refusing to acknowledge the actual point that Simon is making or doing anything to correct the behavior. Instead he just lashes out at Simon. Obviously I’m not saying like kill Jace or anything but I am saying that it’s unhealthy for Alec to have this bond with someone who treats him that way. Anyways, fuck Jace Herondale lives. Free Alec.

actually i think it’s less that Alec can’t live/fight without Jace and more that he thinks he can’t bc he was forced into this bond at such a young age. Aside from the actual physical detriments of losing the parabatai bond (and parabatai bonds, from what I’ve seen insinuated, CAN be broken), losing Jace would not be worse for Alec than losing Izzy or Max and literally EVERYTHING about his ENTIRE character arc implies that he would always choose Magnus over Jace. What I’m fuckin saying is that the entire interaction where Magnus says “lll use every bit of my magic to get Jace back even if it means my death” and Alec is just like “lol thanks” is so desperately out of character I don’t even know how to process it also stop using Jace as a reason Alec can’t become immortal with Magnus also jalec is bad and also incest and even if it wasn’t incest it would still be bad

[saltybane]

Isn’t it very telling how happy and laid back Alec has been in the first three episodes of this season but then as soon as J*ce comes back into his life everything goes down the drain? It's like Alec being J*ce’s parabatai fucks up his life and causes only J*ce to benefit from it. VERY TELLING.