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-Jem y Tessa

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Chain of Iron theories: the adopted baby

Here is another hot discussion topic in the fandom. CC has hinted that their will be a special baby, and that they will need to be adopted. So Questions, who is giving a baby up and why? I am assuming that this is a Shadowhunter baby. I cannot see either Hypatia Vex or Kellington who party, operate a secret saloon, and take pleasure in seducing interesting artistic individuals deciding to devote themselves to parenthood. Woosley Scott is set to show up, but their is no way he wants to adopt. Every other downworlder has appeared in the future and never made reference to having raised a baby. So which shadowhunters in this series of so many parents, children, and would be couples are looking to adopt? We know that shadowhunters adoption program isn’t perfect; Ariadne being adopted by an elderly white couple who know nothing about Indian culture and Tatiana somehow being allowed to adopt Grace despite the fact that she is aggressive, clearly insane, and famously unable to care for the one child she gave birth to. But I want to hold on to hope that whoever this little baby is their story will end happily with being given a nice home and family. My Theories

Anna and Ariadne  adopt Eugenia’s baby. (retracted)

  This was my original theory. In COG2 we learnt that Eugenia temporarily left home because of some scandal no one really wants to talk about. It apparently involved her and some guy being caught in a “compromising position” after which said guy could have saved things by asking to marry her but did not? ??? This led many people to believe she and this guy had been immanent and that she might now be pregnant., but unable to raise the baby on her own. So she would give it up for adoption. Eugenia’s older sister Barbara had an understanding with a very nice gentleman named Oliver and kept trying to get Oliver to purpose. I wondered if maybe a reason Barbara was in such a rush to marry is she was hoping for her and Oliver to adopt Eugenia’s baby and pass them off as theirs. Now that both Barbara and Oliver are sadly deceased Eugenia would need to look into finding new  parents to take he unborn child. Well spoilers relating to Eugenia state that despite having different interests and hobbies, she and Anna get along well. She also is set to become friends with Ariadne. Ariadne who really wanted to be a mom. So I thought that if Eugenia was pregnant and looking to give her child up for adoption then maybe she would ask Anna and Ariadne to adopt her baby. That had the potential to be sweet.

  But we have gotten more information now, and surprise surprise, people jumped the gun to quick on what happened with Eugenia. While we still do not know what the scandal was, it is hinted to have been way less extreme/serious than premarital intimacy, and she is very unlikely to be pregnant. I am now hoping that her ex got into a fight with some other guy, she stepped in to hit the other guy with a parasol, and her ex got embarrassed about having to be saved by her and broke up with her. Something that shows the guy was a real loser.

Elias puts Baby Carstairs up for adoption

  In COG2 we got a huge surprise that Sona was pregnant with her third child, unexpected as the family tree only lists her and Elias as having two children. Well actually actually the Carstairs family line is tree has parts of it that “Were lost to time”. So something clearly happened. Jem was clearly hiding something.

   This pregnancy was clearly unplanned and does present some worry’s. For starters Sona is well past the age where it easier/safest for women to give have children. She was already starting to have a difficult time with it during COG2 when she finally confessed to Cordelia that she was about 3 months along. This means that she will be about 7 months along (almost ready to give birth) when we pick up again in COI. Well in the early chapter read Alastair said that his mother has been put on Bed rest with her husband staying by her side and silent brothers monitoring her. This does not sound good. Several people have theorized that even with the brothers help, she will not make it through childbirth. Now lets talk about the babies father Elias Carstairs. Elias Carstairs is even older than his wife. He spent his youth traveling the world (I read a tweet that said he has even gone between dimensions before) leading special expeditions and hunting rare and powerful demons. This sounds grand, but it was a grueling life that left him physically and emotionally scared. Tragically the Clave does not recognize mental health as a need, so they do not provide any kind of therapy or treatment for those who become traumatized. Like many poor soldiers throughout American history Elias was there for the Clave when they needed his help but it that help was not reciprocated at the end. The only comfort he found was at the bottom of the bottle. It took Elias until he was already in his 40′s to start a family, and he has struggled with being able to take care of himself enough to act as a father to the two children he and Sona have already raised. Elias is 63. He is sad and tired, and struggling to keep a handle on his sobriety. This child was unplanned. I have read tweets that show he is at least trying to support Sona, but CC reveals he is questioning if or if not he can really do this a third time. If Sona dies there is no way Elias can raise this child himself. I won’t fault him if he makes that choice, it might be the most loving thing he can do.

   Who would adopt the little guy. Well the most common theory is that Alastair and Thomas would become his new dads. Now the family tree does suggest that both Alastair and Thomas are dads in the future. It also doesn’t list the names of either of their spouses (I am guessing neither had wives) so their is nothing to suggest that they do not live together raising a group of adopted children. Given the way the Cave feels about homosexual parents that could also be why Jem “lost” the records. I will not deny Thomstair becoming adopted parents is plausible, but I am not completely sure that baby Carstaris is who they will adopt. Babies are hard, they are a lot of work, and I am not convinced either Alastair or Thomas will be up to it. Look at Alastair. He is not exactly in a good place at the start of COI, and whenever fans ask CC if Alastair will make any friends she always reply that he won’t until he learns how to speak nicely to people and to be there for them when they need him. Honestly that is a thing he struggles with. He obviously loves Cordelia, but he totally pulled an  Queen Elsa on her where he shut the door and shut her out for roughly 7 years of their lives, leaving her as alone as Anna was. He claims to have loved Charles but the pair spend most of COG arguing because Alastair wants Charles to spend all his time with him and Charles is struggling to balance his promotion, his public reputation, and Alastair (Important I am not saying it was wrong for Alastair to be upset about Charles engagements or to break up with him. I am just saying it seems like Charles did try to see Alastair as much as he could, and Alastair trying to pin all his emotional needs on one person, who already had so much going on, was unfair). On Thomas side well lets just say he has a lot of mixed up and complicated feeling of his own he needs to work out before he will be able to be in a healthy relationship let alone raise a child.

  If Thomstair aren’t able to take care of Baby Carstairs I bet I know a long time married, long time Carstairs loving couple, who would be happy to take the little guy in and have enough resources, experience, and love to give him a great life. Hey in the future Tessa says she has kept watch over three families: the Herondales, the Carstairs, and the Blackthorns. The Herondales and the Blackthorns are her and Will’s grandchildren. If she were watching the Carstairs because they were once her friends wouldn’t she also watch out for the Fairchilds and Lightwoods?

Blackthorn Babies with Mundane and Shadowhunter mommies and daddies

  (Okay this is one will involve some hopping around and several references to the family tree, so stay with me people, stay with me.) We aleady know Jem made some changes to this line. Lucie is not 12, she is 16. Tatiana is probably not going to live another 15 years. Also the tree said that Jesse dies 59, yet he actually died at 17. But future wife Lucie wants to resurrect him... which is highly illegal and should she be successful she will probably face terrible repercussions. Jesse also might not be able to live as a shadowhunter after being brought back. So even if we don’t want it, for the sake of this theory lets assume that upon Jesse’s resurrection both he and Lucie are banished and become a mundane pianist and writer. Let’s assume they also get married and have children. In order for the TDA Blackthorns to be shadowhunters at least one of Jucie’s kids would have to become a shadowhunter and move to the shadow world. I feel like Luce and Jesse would be willing to let their kids go in that case. That was all Jesse wanted growing up and Lucie is Will’s daughter. The children would just need someone they could stay with.

  Now lets hop to the Lightwood family line. According to the tree Christopher and Grace get married (Grace is also listed as a Cartwright so was her adoption overturned and she rejoined her bio family?) and continue the Lightwood line down to TMI. Grace and Christopher are set up to bond  (over science) and many fans are willing to believe that they are an endgame ship. But fans are also doubting that they are the ancestors of the TMI lightwoods.  For one thing Christopher is heavily coded to be asexual; and Grace herself seems to have a very.... twisted and warped view of physical acts. So now lets say Grace is somehow saved from punishment over Jesse’s resurrection or because of her past trauma is given a lighter sentence. Lets say Gracetopher really do get married. if they got married they probably will apt out of having children; at least biological children.

   Christopher has a younger brother , Alexander Lightwood, who seems like a much more likely candidate to continue his family line. Alex has been noted to have those dark blue eyes that while once a Herondale trait later become a Lightwood trait. He shares a first name one of TMI’s most prominent characters, and that is just about the only way baby Alex could have relevance to the story given that he is way to young to help out in the war. If Alexander Lightwood the first is one who carried on the Lightwood line why are his descendants listed under his brother and sister in laws names?

   Well way back before the CC launched TLH I remember her posting a tweet that said Grace could become an ancestor of either the Herondale or the Blackthorn line. This upset a lot of people who thought that it meant that Grace may have a baby with either James or Jesse. (No, just NO!!!) But what if instead of Grace having a baby with Jesse, She and Christopher adopt one of Jesse and Lucie’s babies so that that baby could be raised as a shadowhunter? I could see Grace and Christopher doing do: they each love one of the respective parents and are set get to know the other. The only good thing about Tatiana adopting Grace was she got Jesse as a brother. Should she ever recover from having Tatiana as an adoptive mother I could see her becoming very critical of other adoptions and refusing to allow Jesse’s children to potentially end up like she did. I am in love with a head cannon I have that Christopher will become a science professor at the academy. If Lucie and Jesse have to leave the shadow world, and they have to give up their children then I want to imagine that child living in Malec’s future academy suit with Shadowhunter mommy and daddy Gracetopher while they secretly get gifts and send letters to their mundane mommy and daddy Juice. (It is the least CC can do for the pain reading about that potential exile would cause me.)

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"Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?” Will demanded with mock horror. “Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something wrong, as the case may be." Cassandra Clare- The Infernal Devices

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The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare

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Clockwork Princess // Book Review

First of all I would like to point out that yes I did cried while reading this book and that this review will contain SPOILERS.

You have been warned!

I think I'm just going to talk about my favorite parts because if you're reading this you probably read the book too and if you haven't read it you can always look for a long description of it on wikipedia, but I do recommend you to read it.

- Tessa wedding dress! I was so happy with all those preparations and then BAM! they go fighting the Lightworm and the dress get's ruined, is it a foreboding for what happens later?

- Most people won't agree, but Jem is still my favorite male character and even though I really like Will, Jem will always have a special place in my heart, so I was always rotting for Jem and Tessa. I just loved all their moments together, all the cuteness between them, the way they talked to each other, the song that Jem made just for Tessa and all that. (His proposal was perfect).

- Of course I was also sad for Will, but I loved the way he dealt with his emotions towards Tessa.

- To be honest, at first I didn't care much for Cecily and she was actually becoming an annoying character for me, I just started liking her a little bit more when she stopped asking Will to go home and then much more when Gabriel came along. Their romance was pretty adorable too, all the ratings during her practices and then when they finally kiss and she tells him he was a 4! I laughed and oooowwwwwed at the same time.

- Let's move along to the fact that Jem IS dying and quickly! He decides to start taking more yin fen so he could "bright brighter" for Tessa (cute but reckless!), so he just takes more and more and he get's worse. This leads us to the fact that Mortmain is gathering all the yin fen in England and he also controls all the shipments, so no more drugs to Jem. Mortmain sends them a little bit of the drug as an act of good will, he wants Tessa to go to him and he will deliver them all the yin fen Jem needs. Of course that Jem refuses and even throws the package into the fire, making Will burn himself to recover it ("brotherly" love finally! Cassie had to use characters that were not even blood brothers to actually show a relationship of love between brothers - if we just forget about all the Lightwood siblings of the world of course, oh and Simon Rebecca)

-Jessamine's death... I never really liked Jessamine, she just looked like a spoiled little girl that wanted nothing to do with the shadowhunters, and then she betrays them so you're not really supposed to like her I guess. Well but then she gets back to the Institute and she is completely scared and my opinion of her started to change, then she dies (grrrrrrr) and I find myself crying again, because she just dies there on the steps, on Will's arms.

- Jem's death was something that I never really believe in, I mean, he just couldn't be dead! I had no idea that he would end up actually being Brother Zachariah but I knew that something would happen. I don't think that they ever really confirmed his death, the only one who actually said that Jem was dead was Will and he just felt that because Jem wasn't really Jem anymore and the link between them was broken now. But still I felt for Will, he was so desperate, I just wanted to pick him up and take him immediately to Tessa. Oh and when he buries Jem's dagger! So beautiful and heart-breaking.

- Clockwork creatures with demon energy? Can you just say creepiest thing ever! And impaled Mrs. Dark head????? WHAT?! I would just be terrified at that sight!

-The clockwork angel that Tessa uses all the time is connected to her life and has an angel soul trapped in it, Ithuriel's soul to be exact, now isn't that the angel that Valentine had trapped in his basement? How does an angel get captured these many times?

- I love the fact that was HENRY who invented the portals with Magnus help, this series really made me love Magnus so much.

- Will finally finds Tessa and they both get trapped inside her bedroom on the weird cave. Will tells her that Jem is dead and she eventually confesses her love for him. I love Jem but seeing Will and Tessa together is so adorable too! It's really hard to chose between the two of them, I completely understand Tessa... They talk for a long time and just stay there on the floor hugging each other, comforting each other, until the moment when they decide that they are going to die the next day and they apparently don't want to die virgins. To be honest, it was cute and I get it, they thought they were going to die and they really love each other, but Jem had just died, it was just a tiny bit weird, but I got over it, then the next day Magnus appears and it's hilarious.

- The fight! When Will finds out about Jem I almost choked, I wasn't expecting that at all. I was quite scared for Henry's life, I really thought that he had died, but was somewhat glad that he was just paralyzed, which was actually quite sad. Tessa Changes into the angel Ithuriel and she is consumed by the Heavenly fire, she crushws Mortmain (OH YEAH! CRUSHED!) and all the creatures just die, because he was smart enough to linked them all to his own life - but not before they chopped off Consul's Wayland head, so happy that it happened, he asked for it! - and Tessa just falls to the ground, shinning like Jace will do later. The heavenly fire gives her nightmares and hallucinations and she has to stay in bed until it disappears.

- Will convinces Charlotte to call Jem so that Tessa can say her goodbyes to him. The conversation between the two of them is quite sad and I didn't want it to happen because Jem cannot just leave Tessa okay? Then Jem talks to Will and it's even more sad! Will seems so vulnerable and I couldn't take it.

- Well now to sum things up (and because I can't even talk about it that much) can we just say how the prologue was the most adorable and saddest thing ever? I don't even know what else to say, I cried throughout all of it and I would read it one hundred times. The ending was just perfect, Tessa married Will and had an wonderful life with them and then many many years later she had Jem, who was no longer a Silent Brother (something that I bet we will find out about on City of Heavenly Fire)

I loved this so much that I don't even know how to express my love for this book, for this series, for these characters and above all my appreciation for Cassandra Clare of course.

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When Clary drew that rune that made you see the person you loved the most, whom do you think Tessa saw Jem or Will? 

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i made jem! i made jemmmmm!!! 

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Imagine Tessa, Jules and Clary singing this!

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“Hell is empty. All the devils are here.” by proterra on Polyvore

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As a Jem Stand

reading CP2 was torture. Just saying.

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Oh My God. What if the cure for Jem is to become part auto bot?

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when people fancast a white guy for Jem 

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second thoughts

Alright, since I read that Cassandra Clare said that everyone who thinks Will is Brother Zachariah is in fact playing into her evil scheme [paraphrasing a little] I now reconsider my assumption and say that Brother Zachariah is either Will or Jem. 

Jem would have just as much desire to save the Herondale blood line as Will & he loved two people enough to sacrifice himself same as Will. If the Silent Brothers have a means of keeping Jem alive he probably would have taken it.

"I arranged it through Magnus. A Silent Brother was present...and a female warlock who took the place of the Iron Sister." <- Magnus called up Brother Zachariah and Tessa. Magnus knows Will better than Jem thus far in the series but it could have changed as time went by.

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I finished Clockwork Prince today well....