#jace continually lying about it makes it worse ofc but

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honestly i remember there being a lot of Rage on the alec stanning side of the fandom because of 3.04 and how upset/off he seemed after his fight with jace / in his very sweet scene with magnus. but now watching it’s like. yes he’s possessed but they don’t know that yet, for all the people in his life (including him - he has a hard time talking about it with alec because he feels backed into a corner, but he seeks out luke to learn more about his mother’s history) jace struggling with some kind of mental illness is a very real possibility! and lashing out at people when you’re coming to terms is sometimes part of that! i’m not saying it’s justified or that in an ideal world he wouldn’t apologize, but i just find it so strange that on a website so adamant that we need to accept and not demonize even the messiest parts, it was still sort of a prevailing idea that jace was like. evil for this when he was struggling?? like yes he was unknowingly dealing with effects of being possessed too but undeniably he is mentally struggling in the process.