#cristopher lightwood

[mattiloveskawoshin]

They said that the Shadowhunter's genetics are strong but boy they didn't know Linette Owens

[petratherrock]

List down characters that died And they're single or has no partner at the time of their deaths in Cassie Clare's books.

Coincidence? Nope. Hahahaahahahha

[fantasyfictionedits]

I’m trying to write a Gractopher fic and I want to write them as on the ace spectrum. Cristopher as Demi and Grace as gray ace. I’m reading up on the ace spectrum and the identities that fall into it, I’m still figuring out my identity on it, but I’m really excited to write and figure out how these characters fall into it. But I’m trying to figure out wether or not if Gracetopher should end up having children and their descendants being the Lightwood family or if it should be Alexander’s. There’d be many complexities to them as a relationship, and maybe having children especially in that time period. I want to do my best at writing them, and would really appreciate ppl’s opinions on this especially ppl on the ace spectrum.

[taurmane]

I’m trying to write a Gractopher fic and I want to write them as on the ace spectrum. Cristopher as Demi and Grace as gray ace. I’m reading up on the ace spectrum and the identities that fall into it, I’m still figuring out my identity on it, but I’m really excited to write and figure out how these characters fall into it. But I’m trying to figure out wether or not if Gracetopher should end up having children and their descendants being the Lightwood family or if it should be Alexander’s. There’d be many complexities to them as a relationship, and maybe having children especially in that time period. I want to do my best at writing them, and would really appreciate ppl’s opinions on this especially ppl on the ace spectrum.

[silvermoonsthings]

We love inventors

[puranpolianidoodh]

If a fictional man started wooing me, I wasn’t sure I’d recall all the reasons we weren’t a proper match either

[maluceh]

I made some shitty memes

[vinter-the-dreamhunter]

Last letter of The letter game

Lots of things to adress here:

1. The TLH Gang learning from their parents and being a disaster. We love to see it

2. Alastair showing up late and then SINGING. DID YOU HEAR ME WELL? SINGING. I will need more information about that ma’am.

3. Not Lucie doing a “melodramatic narration of the events”. I was laughing on the floor from only thinking about it.

4. James declaring his love to a portrait has the same energy as he claiming to be the duck king.

5. Cristopher ignoring all the chaos and continuing thinking about this experiment... I LOVE AND WILL PROTECT HIM WITH MY LIFE.

6. Who was that vampire? Is someone we know? Like Elliot... 👀

7. Cordelia destroying the Townsend’s house as if it was nothing. Queen behavior

8. And finally Alastair making the Herondales pay for everything because Cordelia is marrying James. IN THIS HOUSE WE STAN THIS MAN

Overall it was mess. What else did we expect??

[bemtevis]

James has eyes of a different color than his parents.

Cristopher has eyes of a different color than his parents (and most healthy human beings.)

Lucie has eyes of a different tone than her parents.

Cordelia and Alastair have eyes and hair of a different color than their parents (why, btw?)

But Matthew has hair of a different color than his parents and everyone freaks out about it? Seems fake or poorly written.

[minkovae]

Got it? XD

[samnherondale]

Nuevo adelanto de Chain of Gold

James se apartó. El viento levantó los bordes de su chaqué oscuro. Revoloteban a sus lados como alas. 

—¿Te preocupa Lucie? —preguntó Cordelia, algo sorprendida. 

—No es eso —dijo James—. Creo que me preocupa que en algún momento todos caigamos en nuestros papeles fácilmente… Christopher el científico, Thomas el benévolo, Matthew el desenfrenado. Y yo… yo no tengo idea de lo que soy exactamente. 

—Eres el líder —dijo Cordelia. 

Él pareció divertido. 

—¿Lo soy? 

—Ustedes cuatro estan irremediablemente unidos —le dijo Cordelia—. Cualquiera puede verlo. Y ninguno de ustedes es tan simple. Thomas es mucho más que solo benévolo, y Thomas es más que probetas y tubos de precipitado, Matthew es mucho más que puro ingenio y chalecos. Cada uno de ustedes sigue su propia estrella… y tú eres el hilo que los une a los cuatro. Eres quien ve lo que cada uno necesita, si alguien necesita más cariño de sus amigos, o incluso si necesita estar solo. Algunos grupos de amigos se separan, pero tú nunca dejarás que eso suceda. 

La mueca divertida de James había desaparecido. Había un poco de dureza en su voz cuando dijo:

—Así que soy el que más se preocupa por todos, ¿eso es todo? 

[herondamned]

Matthew: okay so here’s the plan: Cristopher and Thomas try to distract the guards, Lucie and Cordelia will take what we need and Anna will be the supervisor

Lucie: what about you and James?

Matthew: James is drunk, complaining about how he’s Herondamned and I’ll just do the job for which I’m part of this group: being fabulous

[rhiannons-bird]

Valentine (proudly):

These are my children. Jonathan Christopher, Jonathan Christopher, and… Serafina?

[theamazingwhizzo]

Common theme with Kit’s powers

Do I know what the common theme is with Kit's powers? No, I do not. Am I going to ramble for the entire post anyway? Yes, I will.

(And CC took down what she said and substitute it with an Ash answer. Why?)

This is a theory, but mostly I just recollected as much information as I could and hope someone finds this useful, so it’s LONG

(My first post about Kit’s magic, pre-GOTSM)

1. What do we know about Kit’s magic:

Few of his ancestors have manifested it before, save Auraline

It might have been triggered with the talent rune (He felt it burn when he first used them)

It may be connected or triggered with his emotions

It manifests in white light

Kit felt it like cold fire in his veins, electric

The first time he used them it made him fall to his knees from the force

It also drained him and he was ill for a few days

And it’s growing

2. So far, Kit’s powers are:

Glowing net: It trapped the riders. He describes it as “surged through him, electric, exploding” and it came from his hands. And then…

Make the Rider’s horses vanish: When he closed his hands, the horses vanished, “winked out of existence between one breath and the other”. We don’t actually know what happened to them. Did they cease to exist? Moved to a pocket dimension? To another place in the world?

Channel magic: Magnus felt Kit humming when he got close to the circle and ask him to add his focus to the magic. Kit was actively channelling his magic without knowing. When Magnus broke the curse, the magic was still blue (Magnus’). I also find this curious, taking into account fey and warlock magic are said to be mutually exclusive.

3. Bonus:

Better Sight: We’ve seen this in two occasions, in LOS with Ty and Livvy, and in SOBH with the Blackthorn ring (My post comparing them).

Maybe the necromancy?: People have said before Kit might have had a role in the necromancy ritual without his knowledge. I’m not going to go into detail, but if you’re interested you can read this post.

The Peacemaker: Created by Cristopher Lightwood, it was meant to kill demons. Kit was able to shoot it, and the only other person who could was James, but his sister Lucie not, so we don’t actually know why some people can and some not. Tessa and Jem thought it may be because of his fey heritage (Not possible, it didn’t work for General Winter) or his First Heir blood.

Vibrating with power: Magnus said he had a feeling of power, humming in Kit, when he got close to the circle where he was doing magic, like when your body vibrates with a loud sound, but silence. And he probably isn’t aware. In my opinion, when a 400-years-old warlock tells you he hasn’t felt anything like that before, you’re in serious problems.

 Given the fact his powers come from the Seelie Queen /Unseelie King, I thought it was worth investigating them.

4. The Seelie Queens abilities we know:

Glamours: She can make herself change her appearance to reflect people’s desires.

Telekinesis: In the Court scene, she throws Annabeth into a wall with a motion of her hand.

Strong physical strength: She was able to draw free from some redcaps who held her like they were nothing.

Inflict pain at touch: When she escaped from the redcaps, some of them fell screaming to the floor with their hands burned and blackened, their fingers snapped.

Teletransport: Sha vanished from the Unseelie Court with Adaon.

6. Unseelie King / Kieran:

Glamour: He made Emma believe a faerie was her father. 

Projection: Arawan made himself appear to Kieran in LOS.

Make a portal to Thule: He created a portal to the dimension of Thule.

Make a portal to Faerie: After he was made Unseelie King, Kieran created a portal to Faerie to save the faeries in the battle in QOAAAD.

7. Auraline’s known powers

Expanding someone’s life: She used it in Roland, and it made him live longer than he should have.

Perfect loyalty: This is tricky, because it’s more like a spell on her and we know Kit didn’t inherit it.

(I have the theory that even if Kit can’t cast perfect loyalty, the remains of that magic make him immune to it and it will play a role in Kit and Ash’s relationship, because not only are they similar, but also Kit will be the only one immune to it. The extent of Auraline’s magic is unknown, after all it’s not only what she inherited form her parents, but also given to her from the spells and magic they used on her before and after she was born. It's still unknown what the connection is between the disfiguration in the face of Arawan, and Auraline. And there’s also the prophecy, but now it’s not important).

 The codex says fey magic is chaotic, difficult to structure or has rules that can be learned. Malcom said in LM warlock magic and fey magic are like two different languages, so it probably wouldn’t work if Magnus tried to teach Kit. Demonic magic and fey magic are very different, but are believed to have the same origin.

I’m not sure if the theme CC was talking about is why his powers manifest or the nature of them, but here are my ideas:

A. Dimensional magic

What the Seelie Queen did (Teleporting herself inside of a dimension) is dimensional magic. And also, what the Unseelie King did with the portal to Thule (Or maybe Kieran with the portal in Faerie, as some believed Faerie is a different dimension).

Long ago, I theorised Kit had dimensional magic (Mention in the first post about Kit’s powers), and even if I don’t see it as a common theme in his powers, it’s the only real idea I have. But dimensional magic is technically demoniac, and fey magic is neither demoniac nor seraphically allied.

B. Wild magic

Can you imagine if what he has is wild magic and Auraline could lie? I really don’t believe it, but let’s explore this possibility.

Kit doesn’t seem affected by iron, salt, nor rowan wood, and has no problem with technology. He specifically says so in QOAAD after he discovers he has fey blood and he’s confused about it.

Can it be because his blood is diluted? Yes. I think so? No. Maybe it’s just another thing that he’s different about.

People talk about how much fey blood he has talking with percentage, but if we used this same idea with his shadowhunter blood is much worse. He would be maybe 1/34 shadowhunter, and he definitely doesn’t have any problem with runes or any other shadowhunter thing. Some blood is just predominant, more difficult to get diluted.

But getting back to the wild magic, the users we know are the Wild Hunt and the Riders. The members of the Wild Hunt are immune to typical faerie weaknesses, such as salt, grave dirt, and cold iron, and the Riders could lie because of it. When Emma killed Fal in LOS, she describes it to Kieran as “have you ever held ice so long in your hand that the coldness hurt your skin” and Kit described his magic as cold fire.

We don’t have a lot of knowledge about it, apart from being older even than the shadowhunters.

C. Common trigger: Emotions

All the moments he used magic were very emotional for him. The Riders are about to kill him / discovering about his mother’s fate and the aftermath of the reunion with Ty. But to be fair, when doesn’t he now? That boy needs a vacation.

There are various people who have talked about it more extensively.

 CONCLUSION

These are all the possibilities I could think about after deeply studying QOAAD, SOBH and the Codex. It’s probably going to be something very obvious and I’ll feel very silly afterwards, but at least with the Mina situation, I’m sure we’re going to learn more. Until then, this is all I have.

I’m probably going to end up having a Wall of Crazy like Emma :)

Feel free to add more or correct me!

If you want to check more theories, there are other posts I found that bring up interesting points:

Emotions triggers Kit’s powers by @lifeofbrybooks

necromancy scenes and the common theme by @tea-and-a-clandestine-agenda

Times that Kit used his powers by @aroace-cat-lady

[starlightprincessart]

Week 2: The Mortal Instruments

DAY 2  scene that made you laugh :

“You have something on your neck," he observed. Alec's hand flew to his throat. "What?" "Looks like a bite mark," said Jace. "What have you been doing all day, anyway?" "Nothing." Beet red, his hand still clamped to his neck, Alec started down the corridor. Jace followed him. "I went walking in the park. Tried to clear my head." "And ran into a vampire?" "What? No! I fell." "On your neck?” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

Entry for #TSCcelebration for the new book @cassandraclare

[vinter-the-dreamhunter]

For those who were worried that Cristopher was not getting a paper cut in COI, Cassie has confirmed that he WILL HAVE ONE.

The characters that have a paper cut are: Cordelia, The Meery Thieves, Anna, Ariadne, Alastair, Jesse and Grace. (Two of them share one).

Plus, Alastair’s name is going to be spelled correctly