#gabriel herondale

[tiredandoptimistic]

Shadowhunters brainrot is back, so I've decided to make a series of family trees for the main five families. Up first, it's the Herondales!

(I'm using information from the found family tree that is yet to be contradicted by other canon materials)

Fairchild

Blackthorn

Carstairs

Lightwood

[amrubrum]

rip matthew fairchild you would've loved chappell roan

[perpetualprocrastinationisme]

I just want to know what happened between the Merry Thieves Generation to the Circle's generation to make them the way that they are. Like, how did these families go from being so respectful and kind to downworlders to their direct descendants forming a downworlder hate group that almost destroyed the Shadowhunting world. Like, was the Circle's generation just on something or was this a horrible, gradual shift that made these families unrecognizable to what they once were?

[mayaheronthorn]

All this yapping just for him to marry Will's carbon copy 💀💀💀

[starrieshq]

Someone tell Cassandra Clare to stop killing everyone's parents like Clary, Jace, Isabelle, Alec, Jem, Jessamie, Cordelia, Alastair, Zachary, Gideon, Gabriel, Tatiana, Jesse, Grace, Emma, Julian, Ty, Livvy, Dru, Tavvy, Helen, Mark, Kit, Ariadne and Magnus literally all grew up missing at least one parent

[illustratinghan]

cecily took gabriel back to her family home in wales where they watched the sun set beneath the rolling hills together 🌅

characters by @cassandraclare 🤍

[hronstairs]

and that's how TID became my favorite trilogy

[spacehero-23]

my biggest issue with chain of thorns is that we're told about some big/emotional events but we don't get to see them...

oh! will and tessa cried when they found out their kids were trapped in london! right after finding out their nephew died. but you won't get to read this scene

gabriel and cecily's son died! and they found out when his body was brought to them! but you won't get to read that scene!

will and tessa found out about the gracelet and were upset. but you won't get to read that.

charles confronted bridgestock and came out to the entire enclave in a very brave and dramatic way! but you won't get to read that!

like??? we had to suffer through 300 pages of a bullshit love triangle (i refuse to believe people honestly thought herondaisy won't be canon) but we couldn't get some genuinely important moments???

[witchlingcirce]

Gabriel needed to be more serious abt his beef with Will cuz if someone embarrassed me after I tried to defend my sister it’s serious. Like not kidding I would find a way to make his day 10 times worse

[tiredandoptimistic]

And now, we have the final (and largest) of the main five families; it's the Lightwoods!

The Lightwoods are in fact my favorite TSC family, which is why I saved them for last (gazing at my blorbos' names as a little treat to myself).

I still used the found family tree for a couple of the names, but it claimed that Isidore Lightwood was the son of Grace and Christopher, which is obviously impossible so I just assumed that he's now Alexander's kid. Also, (and this goes for all my family trees) I used birth years from the defunct tree but not death years, just because the only characters whose birth years are sourced purely from the tree are incredibly minor; while the death years are a lot more significant to characters we care about and therefore far more likely to be contradicted at some point. (Also I'm a squishy emotional guy and don't wanna think about my beloved characters having concrete death dates).

Herondale

Fairchild

Blackthorn

Carstairs

[cortanas-wielder]

Cassandra Clare, the commidic genius that you are

[marrr444]

WAIT WAIT WAIT

Alec Gideon Lightwood was named after Gideon, we all know that

BUT where did "Alec" come from???

FROM ALEXANDER, Cecily and Gabriel's younger son (the one Tatiana took in the ball in CoT) Anna and Christopher Lightwoods' BROTHER

(Who continued the Lightwood bloodline and is the reason Alec and Izzy exist)

[the-best-of-the-myrmidona]

hear me out

Anna and Izzy would get along so well.

Gabriel and Alex would absolutely adore each other

Gideon and Robert might hit it off.

Cecily would box Stephen around the ears

So would James and Cordelia

Will would teach Jace the Demon Pox Song

They would feed the ducks in Central Park poultry pies too

Kit would also be there

Jesse would be surprised that ty is the only one with blackthorn hair while everyone else looks like Lucie.

Gabriel would be deathly afraid of Max

And Rafael

Any more?

[caterpillarinacave]

TID as pictures I found on Pinterest; part 5 (?)

The Silent Brothers showing up at battles:

Everyone in the London Institute @ The Consul when he not just ignores everything Charlotte says but actively bans Shadowhunters from going to help fight Mortmain:

Charlotte @ Cecily in the battle of Cadair Idris when she starts telling her to just straight up abandon her husband:

Jessamine @ everyone who cares about her:

Will when Tessa’s been kidnapped and Jem just died:

Fairwell:

Jem, with his violin:

Jessamine, when someone tries to tell her Nate is not the perfect hubby material and the love of her life who only wants the best for her:

All of the TID cast because they’re all under, like, 22 years old and basically children:

Henry and Magnus:

Will @ Gabriel and Cecily:

Church and Jem:

Will’s last two brain cells making a plan, already well into an action that requires a plan:

That Angel in Tessa’s necklace hanging out for eighteen-ish years:

Magnus walking into Henry’s crypt:

Henry because the whole of shadowhunter society really just makes fun of him for fun:

Sophie, when Gideon and Gabriel start talking shit during training:

Will, finding out Tessa is engaged to Jem:

[queen-aelin-of-terrasen]

Gabriel: Cecily, I can’t seem to think of—

Cecily: where you placed your brain?

Gabriel:

Cecily: that’s probably why you can’t seem to think

[myangelbach]

The Herondale Family face card

🎨: Cassandra jean