#bane chronicles references

[cherry-140]

favorite characters from each shadowhunters series 🎤🎤

AAAAA, so difficult ok, let’s go. Btw, Magnus is one of my favourite characters but since he is in all TSC series I’m just no going to include him in this list.

TMI

- Alec Lightwood

- Simon Lewis/Lovelace

- Lily Chen

Honorary mention: Maxwell Lightwood (I mourn him everyday)

TID

- Jem Carstairs

- Charlotte Fairchild

- Cecily Herondale (I am in love with her)

TDA

(Technically is Ty, Kit and Dru, but I am including them in TWP)

- Julian Blackthorn (My precious)

- Diana Wrayburn

- Octavian Blackthorn (yes, he is)

TLH

- Alastair Carstairs (best character in the entire trilogy)

- Matthew Fairchild

TWP

- Tiberius Nero Blackthorn (big surprise there)

- Kit Herondale

- Drusilla Blackthorn (I never talk about her, but that’s because when I think of her I cry)

[garvalhaminho]

ik i'm late to the trend BUT

extras!!

[happygirl2oo2]

Magnus and Chairman Meow!!!!

(Tho, for a re-draw, I'd also offer- Alucard and Esa when she was still a little kitten)

Draw your characters like this

[spectral-phases]

Batman Writers Need to Stop Making Alfred the Drama

Just read through the end of the Batman: Contagion storyline for some references, and I'm kind of upset at a prank Alfred pulls at the end there.

Anyway, for the uninitiated, shortly after Bruce's back was broken by Bane/Azrael Bats/Dick!Bats-one yada yada, the Order of St. Dumas (that Azrael belongs to) sends in the "Apocalypse Plague" to Gotham, also known as "the Clench" and is a highly-modified Ebola-based virus intended to cleanse the world of sinners.

It's very, very bad. A lot of people die. It kills within a day of contracting it/showing symptoms. Gotham gets locked down in a super quarantine and there's chaos with looting and riots and all of that. Tim as Robin is trying to help keep the city in order and gets infected. He's dying. He's hallucinating a dream world where his mother's alive and he gets to have his dad/mom/girlfriend all support him and love him and be proud of him being Robin, and Bruce suggesting a better work-life balance when it comes to Robin.

(Batman Chronicles 1995 #4)

(Azrael 1995, #16)

Bruce is trying to figure out a cure, but there's no way to make a vaccine, even. Azrael and his friends figure out a way to make a cure based on text they stole from the Order of St. Dumas and deliver it to Gotham's hospital. Dick races back to the Batcave after people are treated by it, but comes back to find the cave empty, the bed Tim was in vacant.

(Azrael 1995, #16)

If you jump to Robin #28 to find out what happened, you find out that Alfred was just kidding.

(Robin 1993, #28)

It turns out Azrael decided to make a dramatic break-in through the bridge to deliver the cure to Gotham, when one of his friends had a fax machine and was just faxing it to every fax machine number he had in Gotham, including Wayne Enterprises. So Bruce already formulated a cure and gave it to Tim beforehand.

Tim and Dick both scold Alfred about the joke, but dear god, is that not even remotely funny. Especially to Dick, who was probably running as fast as he could with the cure because he was probably thinking of Jason the entire time.

Like, obviously, Alfred cares about Tim. He was crying and heavily upset about Tim's condition, watching him deteriorate over all that time. Obviously, also, that was the end of the Azrael book and the ending was suspenseful and dramatic to get people to buy Robin #28, but man do the writers do their best to make it hard to love Alfred sometimes for the sake of drama.

[actually-rj]

I love book fandoms so much but also omf sometimes the overlap of names and acronyms makes my brain hurt. like I’ll start reading a post about tsc and im playing russian roulette on whether it’s about The Shadowhunter Chronicles or The Sunshine Court. someone mentions The Raven King and I have to figure out if they’re talking about the emotional devastating conclusion to one of my favorite series or the second yet equally emotionally devastating book in a different series. i’ll see a post about a Magnus that seems wildly out of character, make it to the tags, and have to reread it all over again because ‘omg they meant Chase not Bane’. hearing mention of Annabel Lee and I can’t tell anymore if people are referring to the actual Poe poem or to Annabel Blackthorn or Alecto.

I love it but omg am I perpetually confused a majority of the time

[brothersnackariahsbitch]

In case you missed the full story of the story of Silas Pangborn and Eloisa Ravenscar, here it is: In the Bane Chronicles, Magnus briefly meets Silas and Eloisa. Magnus notes that Silas introduces Eloisa as his parabatai but it reminds him of someone introducing their wife. In The Infernal Devices, Gabriel and Gideon recount a story that their father told them. Silas Pangborn was their uncle on their mother’s side of the family. Silas and Granville Fairchild (Charlotte’s father) were close friends, however Grandville snitched to the Clave that Silas and Eloisa were in love. Because of the events that followed this, Silas killed himself. Benedict Lightwood, manipulated this story though to claim that his wife died of grief from losing her brother to divert from the fact that he killed her from infecting her with demon pox (🎶demon pox oh demon pox🎶). This story comes back in during The Dark Artifices when Silas and Eloisa are mentioned because of Emma and Julian’s situation. They’re basically referred to as a cautionary tale about the consequences of parabatai falling in love.

I definitely missed putting those pieces together on my first read. It wasn’t until my chronological reread that it all clicked. It’s not really anything that consequential to the plots, but it is interesting that this story comes up throughout the series.

[summers-wild-rose]

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Percy Lightwood

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/kDlYPpR by Loverslanex21 Percy, an immortal warlock, has lived for centuries after the death of his father, Alec Lightwood. Here are the stages of Perseus "Percy" Lightwood's life. Words: 3917, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 20 of Shadows of Thrones - Alecus Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types, The Shadowhunter Chronicles - Cassandra Clare, Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, House of the Dragon (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: Gen Characters: Asmodeus, Asmodeus (Shadowhunter Chronicles), Percy Lightwood, Alec Lightwood, Jace Wayland, Isabelle Lightwood, Dean Lightwood, Kira Lightwood, Lucerys Velaryon (Son of Rhaenyra), Jon Snow, Sansa Stark Relationships: Asmodeus & Alec Lightwood, Percy Lightwood & Alec Lightwood, Asmodeus/Alec Lightwood, Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood, Asmodeus & Percy Lightwood, Percy & Dean Lightwood, Alec Lightwood & Jace Wayland, Alec Lightwood & Isabelle Lightwood & Jace Wayland Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Past Character Death, Reincarnation, Alternate Universe - Reincarnation, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Father-Son Relationship, Family Loss, Angst, Heavy Angst, Teen Angst, percy pov, Alternate Universe - Game of Thrones Fusion, Inspired by Game of Thrones, Game of Thrones References, Crack Treated Seriously, Crack, Crack Relationships, Alternate Universe - Crack, Reincarnated Alec Lightwood, Lightwood kids - Freeform, The Lightwoods are basically Targaryens, Trauma read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/kDlYPpR

[helenofblackthorns]

@pamaramburu welcome to the shadowhunter chronicles!! sorry about replying in a new post, there's just a lot to cover 😅

City of Bones is a great place to start! sometimes people will recommend starting elsewhere, because it's not the best book but imo since it's the first book to be published its the easiest introduction. the world building is introduced gradually throughout the book, it's fun to read, not too long etc. so I would start there!

as for the reading order I would recommend a modified publication order. you could definitely do the publication order as is (just follow the publication dates and be mindful that some books came out the same year) but I personally would make some small tweaks to make it more straightforward :)

start with the first three books of The Mortal Instruments; City of Bones (2007), City of Ashes (2008), and City of Glass (2009)

then, read The Infernal Devices trilogy; Clockwork Angel (2010), Clockwork Prince (2011) and Clockwork Princess (2013)

finish the rest of The Mortal Instruments; City of Fallen Angels (2011), City of Lost Souls (2012) (optional: The Bane Chronicles (2013/14), a short story collection about Magnus Bane. it's not important for plot or anything but it does have spoilers for Clockwork Princess & City of Lost Souls so you can read at any point after them) and City of Heavenly Fire (2014)

then it's Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy (2015/16) this is also a short story collection and it's technically optional but I definitely recommend reading it now, as it follows an unresolved storyline from City of Heavenly Fire

next is The Dark Artifices, which is Lady Midnight (2016), Lord of Shadows (2017) and Queen of Air and Darkness (2018) (aka the longest tsc book, good luck!)

then there's the third and final (for now) short story collection Ghosts of the Shadow Market (2018/19)

the Eldest Curses trilogy is kinda hard to place since the books take place years apart & are more of a standalone so you can kinda just read them whenever. The Red Scrolls of Magic (2019) takes place in 2007 at the same time as City of Fallen Angels & The Lost Book of the White (2020) takes place in 2010 after Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy and before Lady Midnight (the third book is not yet released)

which brings us to the most recent series, The Last Hours; Chain of Gold (2020), Chain of Iron (2021) and Chain of Thorns (2023)

the last thing is Secrets of Blackthorn Hall (2022) which is a multimedia epistolary novel that was published here on tumblr (@secretsofblackthornhall) and is currently in the works to become a physically published book at some point soon. it came out before Chain of Thorns and there's a few references to it in the book, but they're pretty minor. you can read it before or after it's really up to you.

and that's pretty much everything! tsc is one of my favourite series ever and I hope you enjoy just as much! have fun <3

[quohotos]

So about the Serpents in the Prophecy of Bane...

I'm almost certain this is an allusion to Jules Verne's seminal piece of speculative fiction about going underground Journey to the Center of the Earth. Exerpt from the Wikipedia page:

The story begins in May 1863, at the home of Professor Otto Lidenbrock in Hamburg, Germany. While leafing through an original runic manuscript of an Icelandic saga, Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel find a coded note written in runic script along with the name of a 16th-century Icelandic alchemist, Arne Saknussemm. When translated into English, the note reads:

Go down into the crater of Snaefells Jökull, which Scartaris's shadow caresses just before the calends of July, O daring traveler, and you'll make it to the center of the earth. I've done so. Arne Saknussemm

Lidenbrock departs for Iceland immediately, taking the reluctant Axel with him. After a swift trip via Kiel and Copenhagen, they arrive in Reykjavík. There they hire as their guide Icelander Hans Bjelke, a Danish-speaking eiderduck hunter, then travel overland to the base of Snæfellsjökull.

In late June they reach the volcano and set off into the bowels of the earth, encountering many dangers and strange phenomena. After taking a wrong turn, they run short of water and Axel nearly perishes, but Hans saves them all by tapping into a subterranean river, which shoots out a stream of water that Lidenbrock and Axel name the "Hansbach" in the guide's honor.Édouard Riou's illustration of an ichthyosaurus (which is actually more like a mosasaurus) battling a plesiosaurus.

Following the course of the Hansbach, the explorers descend many miles and reach an underground world, with an ocean and a vast ceiling with clouds, as well as a permanent Aurora giving light. The travelers build a raft out of semipetrified wood and set sail. While at sea, they encounter prehistoric fish such as Pterichthyodes (here called "Pterichthys") Dipterus (referred to as "Dipterides") and giant marine reptiles from the Age of the Dinosaurs, namely an Ichthyosaurus and a Plesiosaurus. A lightning storm threatens to destroy the raft and its passengers, but instead throws them onto the site of an enormous fossil graveyard, including bones from the Pterodactylus, Megatherium, Deinotherium, Glyptodon, a mastodon and the preserved body of a prehistoric man.

So that's our culprit. That basically fits the description of the Serpents. Thought that was just a cool detail and reference.

The underground jungle is an element that you could potentially say is also an allusion to Verne, though I think the version in the underland chronicles is significantly different since the depiction in Journey to the center of the earth has light from above whereas all the plants in the underland are basically carnivores and/or feed off of volcanic heat.

It's also possible that this allusion is not deliberate, as much like War of the Worlds, Journey to the Center of the Earth has basically been subsumed into pop culture cannon and referenced so many times that a lot of it's unique elements have just become tropes. Dinotopia also used dinosaurs in a cave surviving the asteroid, Minecraft, Terraria, Spelunky, Noita, and basically any other video game that involves digging will at some point put a Verne styled underground jungle in there.

One YA series that leans really hard into the Journey to the Center of the Earth inspirations is the Tunnels series. I actually read them in 6th grade to attempt to scratch my TUC itch. Let me tell you, they're not as good and don't even come close. Whereas TUC has some tasteful allusions, Tunnels goes all in. The underground people are more evil (if that's possible) and are intent on wiping out all life on the surface. Worst of all, it's set in England!!! There's cool world building, but no giant talking bats so I have no choice but to award it zero stars. It was supposed to be turned into a movie in 2009 and all the books got stickers for that... said movie appears to have never materialized.

Idk, something I thought about while listening to today's @returntoregalia episode

Okay bonus details about how I made this connection: As a kid, wishbone would come on once a week at like 4 pm or something, I didn't get to see it often, but I vividly remember one of the episodes. For anyone who doesn't know, wishbone was PBS show that followed a dog and his human family as they go through some struggle that wishbone (the dog) finds allegorical to a piece of classic, public domain literature. The episodes are split in half with the parts in the present, and the reenactments within the dog's imagination of the classic piece of literature. In one of the few episodes I caught was about Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth. I do not recall how this novel was relevant to the characters lives, all I know is that it's way to long to fit into half of a 20 minute episode, so they had to really rush through a lot of parts. In one shot the characters are in this jungle and they run away from a Plesiosaurus puppet.

[darcyolsson]

what is the best order to read the cassandra clare books in. idk what the series is called as a whole sorry

RELEASE ORDER, or at least something release order-adjacent. cassandra clare will try and tell you that they can be read in any order but that is a lie and will give you severe emotional whiplash.

tmi and tid were released simultaneously though, and i get maybe not wanting to read two book series at the same time, in which case i think it's preferable to read tid after the first 3 tmi books (since tmi is split into two triologies) or, if you want to avoid that at all, tid after tmi. you'll miss a few references in the 2nd tmi triology but it's perfectly doable, it's how i read tsc the first time around.

this leaves you with 2 main reading options (below the cut):

release order

novella collections & companion books are in italics, these can be skipped if you want to, or read at any point after the last main series that precedes it (eg the bane chronicles can be read at any point, as long as you read it after tmi and tid)

city of bones (the mortal instruments)

city of ashes

city of glass

clockwork angel (the infernal devices)

city of fallen angels

clockwork prince

city of lost souls

clockwork princess

city of heavenly fire

the bane chronicles

tales from the shadowhunter academy

lady midnight (the dark artifices)

lord of shadows

queen of air and darkness

the red scrolls of magic (the eldest curses)

ghosts of the shadow market

chain of gold (the last hours)

the lost book of the white

chain of iron

chain of thorns

"i don't want to read two book series at the same time" order:

city of bones

city of ashes

city of glass

clockwork angel

clockwork prince

clockwork princess

city of fallen angels

city of lost souls

city of heavenly fire

etc.

[boatcats]

19, 26, and 29 for fic writer asks!

Thank you!!

19. The weirdest thing you've researched for fic? I spent a period of time in the les mis fandom attempting to make a lot of historical references. So the weirdest thing I ever researched was probably the Parisian community of Belleville, which was a working class community that was very active in the Paris Commune. I also spent quite a bit of time looking up novels that someone might read in the mid 16th C for a Lymond Chronicles fic and stumbled on a book that was pretty much universally panned (I managed to snag a copy of it in Spanish but have not read it - partially because it sounds... Bad and partially because I don't feel like slogging through 16th C Spanish).

26. Are you able to write with other people around? I write on my phone and I'm very comfortable pulling up my notes app and working on fic when bored in a public place. Probably much too comfortable.

29. How easy is it for you to come up with titles? I'm not amazing at titles but they are not the bane of my existence. Sometimes I think of a fic concept, write the fic, and cast about for a mediocre title. And sometimes I think of the title first and that is what inspires the fic. I like to use song lyrics as titles. I'm actually pretty proud of both 'the lights were as bright as my baby' (OFMD fic title taken from a Hozier lyric) and 'every vessel pitching hard to starboard' (OFMD fic title taken from a Decemberists lyric). I've been meaning to write a young Ed/Jack fic inspired by the lyric "with a heart to let and no tennant yet" from the song Star of the County Down.

[malimothreads64]

🌀The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Reese Brennan & Maureen Johnson🌀

Genre: YA Historical/Contemporary Fantasy

Series Status: Side Novel

I don't know why, but I wanted to read the entire Shadowhunter Chronicles again? Especially since I've never reread the original 2 series since I first read them? This time, I'm doing it in chronological order (mainly cause I've still not read the Last Hours trilogy, and I don't want to have to read through 17 books to get to them,) which means starting with this collection. By the time I post this review, I'll have already posted reviews for the entire Infernal Devices trilogy and almost finished Mortal Intruments, but since I'm going to write my thoughts as I read each story, I've not even started Clockwork Angel at the time of writing this.

I also make references to spoilers throughout the entire Shadowhunter Chronicles, so;

What Really Happened in Peru-

On the surface, this is just a goofy short story about all the hijinks that Magnus got up to that ultimately don't lead him getting banned in Peru: leading to a twist ending, adding to the comedy aspect. When I first read this collection, and specifically this story as an opener, I found it quite boring and pointless. I was like 16/17 and couldn't really appreciate it because this isn't about what happened in Peru. This is just my take, but the real meat and potatoes of this story is the 1890 section. It's a glimpse into what Magnus' life as a warlock has looked like up until he meets Alec. How lonely it can be? Also discussing how hard it can be as an immortal to allow yourself to love a mortal, the heartbreak you're opening yourself up to and whether they even deserve the chance given that most warlock children are born out of rape, which I didn't appreciate the first time round. I actually picked out some quotes, which I normally never do, but they spoke to me in a sense and they're all said in the same conversation, by the same character, Catarina Loss (who is one of my favourite Shadowhunter background characters.)

"I was born this color. I did not know how to wear a glamour as a newborn. There was no way to look like anything but what I was then, all the time, even though it was not safe. My mother saw me and knew what I was, but she hid me from the world. She raised me in secret. She did everything she could to keep me safe. A great wrong was done to her, and she gave back love. Every human I heal, I heal in her name. I do what I do to honor her, and to know that when she saved my life she saved countless lives through the centuries."

"We owe a great deal to human love. We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did not turn away. I know which side of my heritage my soul comes from."

"Our fathers were demons," said Catarina. "Our mothers were heroes."

And then this one from Magnus, which really just encapsulates the message:

"To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted. Until you loved a mortal. Then time became gold in a miser's hands, every bright year counted out carefully, infinitely precious, and each one slipping through your fingers."

Obviously, reading the series, it's not hard to say Alec is and will be the love of Magnus' immortal life, but that doesn't mean they're any different from every other warlock × mortal relationship that Magnus experiences in this story. The epilogue of Clockwork Princess is infamously devastating because of what Tessa has to go through with Will, but this quote and story are a stark reminder that it's also what's waiting for Magnus and Alec at the end of their relationship. There's even a conversation about it in Red Scrolls of Magic between Magnus and Tessa where he asks her how she continued on after outliving not only her husband but also her own children? The obvious subtext being: how will I survive it?

The Runaway Queen-

Again! Being 100% honest, I didn't like this collection when I originally read it. It was probably my least favourite shadowhunter book despite me giving it a 4. However, now 2 for 2, we have what are silly stories that have deeper interpretations. The main moral of this story is that Magnus will do anything for a pretty face, lmao. There was a guy, black hair and blue eyes, just Magnus' type, who asked him to help Marie Antoinette & Louis XVI escape Paris during the height of the French Revolution — and he agrees because he wants to smash. The plan goes a bit awry, there's some vampires involved, but Magnus gets the Queen to where she was supposed to be, but then he himself needs to flee Paris because the vampires threaten the handsome mortal he has a crush on. He gets news weeks later that the monarchs were captured trying to escape France and were taken back to Paris, and he's asked for help again, this time by the handsome guy's sister because by trying to help, Axel's life could be at risk, but Magnus just burns the message.

The overview of this story is obviously quite camp, but it's the ending that just reiterates my thoughts from the first story. Magnus has been settled in Paris for 6 years but is then forced to leave a home behind again because by giving his attention, he's put this mortal's life in danger. A mortal who is then gungho to put his own life in danger by going back to France to try and save the Queen once again! Leading to Magnus choosing to forget about him, not wanting to get wrapped up in human politics when to him it's all so fleeting. He's genuinely seen it all before. Times change. Being a spectator is just a part of the curse of being an immortal, and sometimes you do just have to take a step back and let things play out how they will.

"Axel would return to Paris. Of that, Magnus was sure. Vampires, fey folk, werewolves, Shadowhunters, and demons — these things made sense to Magnus. But the mundane world — it seemed to have no pattern, no form. Their quicksilver politics. Their short lives... Magnus thought once again of the blue-eyed man standing in his parlor. Then he lit a match and burned the note."

Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale-

This one I don't have as many thoughts on. Since I'm reading this in chronological order, it's the first instance of Shadowhunters being horrible bastards: so that fun. It was also cute getting to see Will's parents meet for the first time and how much Edmund was willing to give up to allow Linette to live her life but still be together. I also liked the fact there was a focus on Magnus pursuing a woman in this, even if it was Camille (🤮). As much as there's been refence of him dating women, it's nice to have his bisexuality so overt and in your face. Also, now we're getting more into genuine prequel territory that reveals things about the series, I have a feeling that going forward, I'm not going to find them as profound, lmao.

A note now I've actually reread Clockwork Angel & Prince: obviously read this story, but going into the novels, I genuinely forgot him and Camille do actually get romantically involved IN the text, and you have to read about it 🤮🤮. Also, Magnus stepping aside to allow Camille to be with that werewolf since he was mortal, and Magnus isn't, so is able to wait for her is so Jem × Tessa × Will coded. I kept thinking about it while I read Clockwork Angel, when you learned that the werewolf was then killed, which is why Magnus and Camille are now together. Not unlike Tessa and Jem being together in the present.

The Midnight Heir-

It's so interesting reading this again after having read Ghosts of the Shadow Market and Chain of Gold because James and Grace just appear so different. Which makes sense given that this was written YEARS before any of those stories, so these characters were more ideas than fleshed out people. Still, this was veryyy angsty. Very apt considering the Last Hours Trilogy is probably one of the messiest of Shadowhunter love stories, lmao.

Edit: now, having finished reading Last Hours, Grace being very different was on purpose, lol.

The Rise of the Hotel Dumort-

It's now been months since I read a story from this collection, so I'm very much not in a big reviewing mood the way I was when I started. I don't know what my takeaway from this was. Just another example of Magnus not really caring for the ongoings of the mundane world having seen it all before and it all happening no matter what you do to prevent it. This also is sort of clickbait in a sense because it's not really about the founding of the Hotel Dumort? More just the events that led up to it being abandoned so the vampires could eventually take it over, but that doesn't happen during this story.

Saving Raphael Santiago-

This was a really cute story of how Magnus met Raphael. I think the aim of this is purely just to make what happens in Heavenly Fire hurt that much more, lmao.

The Fall of the Hotel Dumort-

This was interesting. I don't know what I make of it. It's interesting to see how true Magnus' feelings for Camille were that after the events of this story, he had Catrina wipe his memory of what he'd seen. Reading these stories separate from the context I'm sure they're in reference to in the main books is interesting given I haven't read TMI in in like 7 years. I'll be looking to see if this stuff is referenced.

What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything (and Who You're Not Officially Dating Anyway) & The Course of True Love (and First Dates)-

Decided to lump these together since they're similar vibes, just really cute stories about when Magnus and Alec first got together. It's also funny, but there was something that was said by Raphael which is a call back to a story in Ghosts of the Shadow Market, obviously in reference to this since it was written first. Just fun to notice.

The Last Stand of the New York Institute-

This might be my favorite story tbh. It's interesting to see Valentine's Circle and how they operate, not that different from the cohorts in TDA. I think it's also interesting to see the setting of the original uprising happening during the AIDS epidemic, just a time of intolerance all around. However, the reason I love this is the end where Jocelyn goes to Magnus and Tessa and asks for help. Tessa seeing her old friends in her face, taking on the name Fray.. rereading it in chronological order was for a moment like this.

The Voicemail of Magnus Bane-

This was such a nothing short story, lmao. Purely for comedy. It's funny to be done since I've been reading this since the beginning of February and now it's 4 days of July. Also how deep I was reading into the stories in the beginning. My reviews have just gotten shorter and shorter, but that's how it goes.

[lurafita]

Here i am again

Anyways dont worry if you yap,i do the same and i like to hear your ideas

Btw sorry if I just send anonymous asks,im kinda shy lmao

ANYWAYS

I went to read some scenes from tlbow and the bane chronicles and i found some thing that I didn't remember at all

1. Magnus's family was religious but it doesn't say that they were christians,it just says that his step father forced him to repeat prayers and it also says that "He forced him to repeat prayers until the sacred words became bitter in his mouth" page 268 of the bane chronicles

2. Magnus was raised by Ragnor after he killed his father and run away. Ragnor had to take care of him because he lost a card game against a silent brother,so he was a mentor to Magnus since he was a kid. This wasn’t really important but I found this in the tlbow

3. Magnus was found by the silent brothers in Madrid,so that means that when he ran away from home he traveled from Indonesia to Madrid,all alone. He also thought that he had no soul and the silent brothers told him that "there was another life to live" they talk about it in the bane chronicles

So yea,for like one hour i looked for references to Magnus's childhood just because I am a yapper and i love to talk about Magnus to everyone who also loves him

- the fanfiction person

Oh, don't worry about going anon, I completely get it. I have sent my own anon asks in my time. ;-)

Well, as I said, I mostly don't care for book canon and prefer to conclude my own circumstances from the info the show has given (and not given).

But let's consider for a moment what it means for Magnus to have run away from home, after such a truly tragic thing, make a journey that takes over 17 hours by plane (!!!!), as a child, alone, not knowing what he is and only just discovering his magic, in a time where shadowhunters still hunted and killed downworlders.

I mean, that's beyond heavy.

And not gonna lie, but I don't love that Ragnor only raised Magnus because he lost a card game against a silent brother. I always feel like Warlocks especially should care about warlock children. Also not loving the silent brother invovlment at all, to be honest, as I don't have a very high opinion of the shadowhunter organization in general.

So, basically, I personally stick to my own musings where this is concerned versus the books canon, but I do understand the drive one has to find out more about the "intended" origins of a character.

For me, I like to think that Magnus managed to get out of Edom (and away from his father), some time in his teens. And that then he later comes across Ragnor, who takes him in and teaches him about the downworld and shadowhunters and all that. And at some point, Asmodeus realizes that Magnus gave him the slip, and tries to reclaim him. And Ragnor is trying to protect Magnus from his father. And maybe he gets hurt. And then Magnus is emotionally driven and adrenaline fuelled enough to actually banish Asmodeus back to his realm, and make it so that Asmodeus can't come to the mundane plane by himself anymore.

And then life continues.

Oh well, that's just my personal go to though. If the actual canon works better for you, that's also wonderful.

Anyway, both scenarios reinforce my headcanon about Magnus having been homeless and poor for a while there, having experience hunger and thirst and whatever the elements threw at him as well, and that just makes me want to hug him more than I want to do at a usual basis... :-)

[malec-ao3feed]

Electric Rain

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/oPBg0K6 by redhair_and_a_handmedown_robe Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood are the top two residents at Seattle Grace, so, naturally, they hate each other. When a teenage boy and sister show up asking for Dr. Lightwood, Magnus finds out there's more to his nemesis than meets the eye. Tagged M not because of smut, but because there's references to the Lightwoods' upbringing in a kind of religious cult. Please check the tags and look after yourself. Words: 2585, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 4 of Artie's AUgust Fandoms: The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Magnus Bane, Alec Lightwood, Catarina Loss, Maia Roberts, Andrew Underhill, Isabelle Lightwood, Max Lightwood Relationships: Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Hospital, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Religious Fanaticism, Needles, Blood, Seattle Grace Hospital (Grey's Anatomy), Swearing, Enemies to Lovers, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Loss of Parent(s), AU-gust | August Writing Challenge, Medical Debt, medical neglect, Anti-Vax Rhetoric, Cults, Emerald City Bar | Joe's Bar (Grey's Anatomy) read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/oPBg0K6