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clockwork-carstairs · 4 months ago

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When Jem Carstairs said “Death shall never rule me” and “I do not want to live half a life” and “There is more to living than not dying.” When he said “I meant to show you that I would not break, that love was not so fragile” and “This, then, was my only recourse. To live, to stand and fight” and “I would rather die and be reborn and see the sun again, than live to the end of the world without daylight.”

Thinking about Jem’s fierce will. How maybe it goes unnoticed because of how kind he is, but how he has one of the strongest wills of any tsc character, how he is described as being unwaveringly determined and stubborn when he wants to be. Steel under silk. Thinking about his fierce desire to live beyond not dying, and how he was always, always a fighter.

#jem carstairs #pun intended with “will” :)#the “than live to the end of the world without daylight” speech lives in my head rent free #just. fuck. what a character #i feel like it's easy to forget because he has so much kindness. but he's also very stubborn and #unmoving when he wants to be #tid #the infernal devices #clockwork princess #cp1-cp2 era jem carstairs you’ll always have such a hold on me !!!!!!!!!!!

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