#ch: izzy lightwood

[caracarnn]

This wasn't at all what he had imagined for himself when he had moved to the city. He had always assumed that falling in love was something storied, something that had happened to his father with his late mother. But meeting her had changed everything. It had been instantaneous for him, looking into her eyes he had found something that he hadn't even been looking for. She was beautiful, physically, inwardly, everywhere. He couldn't have kept himself from her if he tried. There were parts of her hidden from him, ever shifting that he did try to catch onto but always it slipped from between his fingers. He had promised himself that he would never stop trying to know her completely. He loved her, more than he could even explain. He loved her utterly. He just wanted her to know that, wanted her to feel like she could be honest with him.

Their anniversary had come up and he had made reservations at a beautiful nearby restaurant that they had yet to dine at. He peeked into the bedroom, leaning against the doorframe as he looked in at her. "Are you ready?" He softly asked her, studying her a little to see if anything was off kilter about her. Sometimes he could catch her seeming worried, concerned, maybe even a little flustered if he ever put the question of what was wrong to her. "We should leave soon if we want to make the reservation." - @inabcck

[inabcck]

@ssolessurvivor sent: [ snuggle ] sender snuggles closer to receiver as they sleep

For whatever reason tonight Isabelle found it hard to sleep even though she was curled up in bed with Logan. They had had a busy day between their planned activities and those that took place before he fell asleep. She had no issue with laying there listening to the sound of his breathing watching the rise and fall of his chest while her mind refused to stop. Shadow Hunters never got involved with mundanes for a reason it could get complicated and while so far they had been lucky in this lull of peace she could feel the clock ticking.

Logan shifted next to her coming to snuggle in closer and she found herself nuzzling into his hair to memorizing his scent. Her eyes close as she lets one hand wander down along his spine slowly memorizing the feel of his skin under her finger tips. When she went into these headspaces it felt so much like she was preparing to say goodbye and maybe she was. She wanted to protect him; this one bright spot that was in her world where she got to pretend to be a normal girl. She pressed her lips to his crown in a soft kiss she hoped wouldn't wake him. "I hope you know I love you." Izzy whispers so soft that she barely heard it herself.

[aesofmifavs]

Romantic Ships: Simon Lewis x Isabelle Lightwood

[28onlythebrave]

my clarissa adele fairchild now and forever

[herestoimagination]

[jancsloan]

Moodboard: Izzy Lightwood

Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before.

[herestotheunknown]

Look.. does that really change where I should take her for dinner? I just don’t want to ruin this.

[captainholmes]

favourite female characters [9/15]

Isabelle Lightwood - ‘I watch my brothers give their hears away and i think,                                           don’t you know better?

                                   hearts are breakable and I think even when you heal,                                            you’re never what you were before’

[buffoonprincess]

HEART OF SPADES

Author: @buffoonprincess | Art: @louisec-m (ch 7)

Keen to upholding her family’s reputation and being mindful of her career ambitions within shadowhunter ranks, Isabelle Lightwood always aced every single test that came her way. She played the bitch, the princess, and the whore on the field, and the perfect daughter, sister and girlfriend outside of it. Soon enough, however, she discovered that she dreaded physical intimacy. Every single relationship eventually fell apart. Every time a man looked at her with hungry eyes, she became more and more sick of it.

Why is she broken? Why can't she just be normal? Can she reconcile who she truly is with the person she’s expected to become?

This story covers Isabelle's journey to self-acceptance since her teenage years at the NY Institute to the end of S03. It reviews all her romantic and professional relationships, offering a new reading by asking how these could be interpreted if Izzy was ace.

Read it on AO3 now! (7/7 chapters — Complete)

[Daily updates throughout Ace Awareness Week]

Check out all the Shadowhunters Ace Mini Bang 2021 stories here!

[magixqueenie]

So here‘s my @shadowhunterbingo 2020-2021 Masterpost, I didn’t get as much done as I wanted but alas, exams, even though I still had fun.

The Similarities of Alec Lightwood and Alex River

Word Count: 1982

Ship: Malec

Square: Memories

Five times Alec Lightwood, the Shadowhunter, and Alex River, the Warlock, experience things differently.

And one time they found a similarity.

Ammonia and Magic

Word Count: 1064

Ship: Malec

Square: Enemies to Lovers

A footstep. Then silence. Something flutters. Wings, maybe. Heavy, powerful.

Another footstep. Alec doesn’t breath. He finds it stuck in his lungs, quivering in fear.

“Hello Alexander,” something purrs from the shadows beyond his sight.

Me and My Husband

Word Count: 6224

Ship: Malec

Square: Graveyard

“A man such as Magnus Bane is incapable of love,” Alice replies, watching a man she thought was innocent of any crime, once. She is not so sure anymore. “That’s what a psychopath is, someone who cannot feel a thing but pretends they do. He has you fooled.”

“That’s where you’re wrong,” Alec muses. “It’s the opposite, that’s what makes him so irresistible. We, no. All of you really, see the world in shades of grey, cowering under the pretence of law and order. Magnus sees the world in brilliance and colour. He sees beyond it all.”

“And what about you?” Alice says, watching the man.

Alec ponders for a moment before saying, “Magnus woke me up.”

—

Psychiatrist Doctor Alice Darrow gets insight into the frightening minds of the Warlock Ripper, Doctor Magnus Bane, and his husband, Alexander Bane.

Faliciou Selphim

Word Count: 5418

Ship: Razriel + Original NB Character

Square: Rituals

And so, he stares at the roaring fire, the colour the inkiest black. It burns with no fuel, no smoke pulses from its flames. It flickers with no wind. It is large, towering at thirty feet tall and there is a vast heat radiating as he nears the embers. Alek’s hand is tight amongst his.

“In this ritual, you will submit your immortality, your Angelic form so that your soul may find refuge in its new mortal body.”

Raziel waits, tears spilling down his cheeks, hands trembling as the fire beckons him within its depths. The heat is overwhelming.

“Do you accept?” The voice asks.

—

In which, Alek is Raziel’s parabati and an Angel. The revered creator of the Shadowhunters participates in the Faliciou Selphim, the ritual to descend as a mortal Shadowhunter.

Mr Shadowman

Word Count: 7302

Ship: Malec

Square: Children of the Night

Alec first meets the Shadow when he is three.

The Shadow doesn’t come abruptly. Instead, he comes to Alec slowly, with soft, gooey touches like human fingers. They caress his hair gently, and it is nice. There is a sense of rightness, a peace that makes his heart still.

Alec peers out in the nighttime darkness to find the man holding him.

But there is no one there.

Star Tears

Word Count: 5141

Ship: Malec

Square: Blind Character

Star tears, a disease that offers no biological explanation as to how or why it began. It is reported that the victims cry tears that are as sharp as glass but as beautiful and bright as stars from the moment nightfall occurs to when it ends. The only thing the victims have in common is that they are the suffers of unrequited love.

It is not fatal, but rather, the magical tears slowly drain away your vision until you are left colour blind, and then, completely blind.

However, Alec never imagined that he would be infected.

Alec Lightwood Can Wear Heels, Jury

Word Count: 1662

Ship: Malec

Square: Drunken Antics

Alec watches something dance over Izzy’s face and then her grin turns a sly touch mischievous that has Alec’s hackles rising. “As much as I’d love to take credit, I’m unfortunately not the real expert of wielding weapons in high heels in my family.”

—

What if Alec taught Izzy to fight in heels?

That’s it. That’s the fic.

Wildest Dreams

Word Count: 12883

Ship: Malec

Square: CH 1 - Royalty AU | CH 2- Free Space

Alpha Asmodeus Magnus Zader Bane III, the king of Idris, is hosting the monarchy’s famous mating ceremony in hopes he’ll find the perfect Omega mate.

Alec Lightwood is his sister’s Alpha guide as she hopes to win the spot as the future queen of Idris.

Only, Alec nor Magnus expected to find their destined mate not in any of the Omegas present, but rather in another Alpha.

—

A story of pining, balls and court mannerisms with a happy ending.

[aesofmifavs]

Hogwarts AU: Isabelle Lightwood - Ravenclaw

[faejilly]

2020 Fic Masterpost

I started and ended the year with my beloved #7kpp, which I know doesn’t mean a lot to most of you, but the thought makes me smile. ❤ I also posted a lot of Shadowhunters, (so many fairy tale riffs), a couple bits for BioWare (including the ten-years-in-the-making finale of my Adelaide Hawke/Sebastian Vael ficlet collection), and even one entirely new-to-me fandom in a The Old Guard gift!fic. Whee!

Most of them are very short, ficlets and flash fiction, which wasn’t the goal going into this year, but... this year broke a lot of people’s plans, didn’t it? And there are some lovely words in there, (hopefully short & sweet!), so... All in all, not that terrible for a year of apocalypses.

The Old Guard

Until The Time... (Nile & Family & Music) [tumblr / ao3]

7KPP

Chaperones

Woodly/Court Lady [tumblr / ao3]

Yvette & Emmett [tumblr / ao3]

Falon & Hana [tumblr / ao3]

Hana of Jiyel

Ink-stained fingers [tumblr / ao3]

Shade [tumblr / ao3]

Theodora of Arland

Rise [tumblr / ao3]

Renown [tumblr / ao3]

Surrender [tumblr / ao3]

Hidden [tumblr / ao3]

Nathalie of Revaire

Harsh Whispers [tumblr / ao3]

Gold [tumblr / ao3]

BioWare

Dragon Age

Adelaide/Sebastian: for comfort (cuddling prompt) [tumblr / ao3]

Adelaide/Sebastian: Adored Finale [tumblr / ao3]

Merribela: Tentacletober (how many of those are there?) [tumblr / ao3]

Mass Effect

OT: Kaidan & The Beacon [tumblr / ao3]

Andromeda: F!Ryder/Jaal (Not Just Loyalty) [tumblr / ao3]

Shadowhunters

Coda-Fics/In-Universe

prequel (Jace & Izzy) [tumblr / ao3]

01x02 (Dorothea) [tumblr / ao3]

01x03 (Alec) [tumblr / ao3]

01x04 (Magnus) [tumblr / ao3]

*Trust Your Heart (01x04 Jace aftermath) [tumblr / ao3]

01x05 (Izzy) [tumblr / ao3]

03x10 (Magnus) [tumblr / ao3]

03x22 (Alec & Clary) [tumblr]

*Ashes of Angels (during the epilogue time-skip pt 1) [AO3]

*Ashes of Roses (during the epilogue time-skip pt 2) [AO3]

Psithurism (Inquisitor Lightwood-Bane) [tumblr / ao3]

Clizzy

tug-of-war [tumblr / ao3]

before the beginning [tumblr / ao3]

Pandemonium (again) [tumblr / ao3]

back-to-back [tumblr / ao3]

Criminal Minds Fusion

School Teachers [tumblr / ao3]

Star-Gazing [tumblr / ao3]

There’s Only One Bed [tumblr / ao3]

Lydia & Alec [tumblr / ao3]

Maia & “Hunt” [ao3]

Clary & “Family” (free space from bingo!) [ao3]

Misc AUs

*ask the always impossible of me (Cinderella) [ao3]

*Our Souls Inhabit (Snow White... ish) [tumblr / ao3]

a lean wind flays (Jack & the Beanstalk... even more -ish) [tumblr / ao3]

transient (Sleeping Beauty) [tumblr / ao3]

mer!Alec AU (of an AU) [tumblr / ao3]

Reticence (Persuasion AU) [tumblr / ao3]

Priest!Magnus/Demon!Alec [tumblr / ao3]

omegaverse PWP [tumblr / ao3]

Into the Labyrinth (Inception Crossover) [tumblr / ao3]

Let’s Go Steal Some... Magic? (Leverage Crossover) [tumblr / ao3]

I am for you ch 17 [tumblr / ao3]

[herestoimagination]

You watched Superman?

[marauder-level-chaos]

The Voice Inside My Head Ch. 2

More slow burn between soulmates. Magnus and Alec both wonder if there is anybody for them and they are too scared to find out. Alec also does something he never thought he would have the courage to do. Masterlist.

Warning: swears, soulmate AU, fluff, slight slow burn

A/N: Okay yes I created some parallels between Magnus and Alec but does that really surprise us at this point? I’m a sucker for parallels and sprinkle them everywhere. Y’all should know that by now. Also I know Magnus’ part is kinda blah, I’m sorry.

***

September, 12. Alexander Lightwood was officially 18. Having just started college, he hadn’t made many friends. Not that he was a very popular kid in high school, either. His birthday parties were always planned by Isabelle, his sister. He never even knew half the people there. As annoying as those parties were most of the time, he did miss Izzy and Jace. At least with them around, he didn’t have to spend his birthday alone. They must have sensed this because as soon as Alec sat down to enjoy his dinner, his phone buzzed. The name “Little Lightwood” flashed on his phone. He immediately picked it up.

“Hey, Izzy!” Alec could hear loud music through the phone. “Are you at a party? Iz, it’s a school night.”

“Oh, well Jace thought it was a good idea to throw a party in your honor because you probably are eating dinner in your dorm by yourself.”

“So you threw me a birthday party?”

“Yes.”

“Without me actually being there?”

“Yes.” There was a pause. Alec could hear Izzy move through the house. The music in the background had gotten a lot quieter. “Hey, Alec?”

“Yes, Iz?”

“Did you try to talk to your soulmate yet?” Alec sighed in response. He knew Izzy would want to ask about that. She was the only person in the world who knew Alec was gay. She’d known since he was 16. Even Jace did not know this about Alec. Part of that was because Jace was the person who had made Alec realise his sexuality. Izzy was Alec’s support system, she had always had his back.

“No, I haven’t talked to him yet. I don’t even know if he exists.”

“And you’ll never find out until you try.” Another silence. “And Alec?”

“Hmmm?”

“Happy Birthday.” That was the last thing Izzy said to him before somebody came and dragged her back into the party. Alec finished his dinner quietly, all the while thinking about what his sister had said to him. He threw the now empty take out containers into the trash and headed for the shower. It was already quite late and Alec wanted to get some sleep before he needed to start putting late hours at the library every night. After his shower, he curled up in his bed but sleep did not come. Alec sighed and closed his eyes.

Hello? Alec called, to a soulmate who probably didn’t even exist. He sat on his bed, with his eyes tightly shut, sure that he had just made a terrible mistake.

***

Magnus was having dinner with Dorothea and Cat that night. Even though it was just a casual affair, he had put on a crisp silver shirt with his black dinner jacket and dark skinny jeans. When it came to fashion, Magnus never settled for less. The silver shirt complimented his gold eyes perfectly. However, he further accentuated his look with a simple stroke of gold eyeliner over his eyelids. His hair was dyed with streaks of silver. After admiring himself in the mirror one final time, Magnus went over next door.

Dinner with Cat and Dot - or as Magnus like to call them: Dotarina - was always fun. The girls never failed to cheer him up. That’s why they were his best friends. They always had his back. With them, Magnus could let down his guard. He didn’t have to be everyone thought he was. He could be himself. He’d often wondered if they were his soulmates. In a platonic manner, obviously.

“You know what, Mags?” Cat said, reaching for his hands. “Who cares if the universe didn’t give you a soulmate? I will find you one. Or you know maybe you already have one. Maybe the reason you can’t talk to them is because you’ve already met them.”

“I’m sure I would know if I had met my soulmate, Cat.” Magnus wasn’t sure if it was the drink, but talking with Cat made him feel better than he had felt in a while. “It wouldn’t feel so...mundane. It would be different.”

“Not necessarily. I didn’t immediately feel fireworks when I first met Dot. It takes time to figure these things out.” Magnus sighed at Catarina’s words and ran a hand through his hair. His eyes darted toward the clock. It was getting late. They quickly said their goodbyes and Magnus headed back to his own apartment.

Magnus soon changed out of his clothes and snuggled into bed. Just as sleep was about to take over his body, Magnus heard something.

Hello? A voice rang inside his head. It felt so familiar but still so new. Magnus sat upright, immediately knowing whose voice that was. It was his soulmate.

Taglist: @addisonsintern @quickbright @tolkienlockian @just–another–hufflepuff @literally-magnus-bane

[herestotheunknown]

alec lightwood being a total badass.

[autisticsimonlewis]

Yeah, this place isn't creepy. Not at all.