#meliorn/jace

[kaitcreates]

What vocal types I think the TMI cast would have in TMI musical:

Clary: Coloratura Mezzo-Soprano

Jace: Lyric Tenor

Simon: Leggaro Tenor

Isabelle: Dramatic Mezzo-Soprano

Alec: Spinto Tenor

Magnus: Verdi Baritone

Maia: Lyric Mezzo-Soprano

Raphael: Baryton-Martin Baritone

Sebastian: Dramatic Tenor

Camille: Dramatic Soprano

Lily: Dramatic Contralto

Bat: Dramatic Baritone

Max: Treble

Meliorn: Countertenor

Aline: Lyric Contralto

Seelie Queen: Spinto Soprano

Jordan: Lyric Tenor

Maureen: Treble

Catarina: Coloratura Mezzo-Soprano

Ragnor: Verdi Baritone

[theunholyfairyxx]

Going to post something today!!!!

Yall Like Malec?!?!

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[justrandomfanficideas]

6-Shadowhunters

Shadowhunters version of 1-Multifandom

So for some unknown reason Magnus, Alec, Izzy, Clary, Jace, Simon, Raphael, Meliorn, Maia and some others(up to the writer who else it could be) travel to the past to start the alliance between the whole shadow world sooner and deal faster with Valentine and all their enemies(if Jonathan may have his chance at redemption is up to the writer), etc.

Of course that everyone(and that everyone probably doesn't include the two sane ones, Alec and Raphael, but they will go with what the others want) decides that since they are in the past they can fuck up with other people especially the Clave because you know the Clave is shitty and none of them like them.

(This reminds me that the future they travel from must be before Malec adopt Max and Rafael as they wouldn't fell right by abandoning their kids and if something bad had happened to them and that was the reason for their return then everyone would take what they needed to do very seriously)

So imagine a few not nice shadowhunters when in patrols seeing the Lightwood-Herondale siblings holding hands with a mundane/downworlder and informing the others or directly telling it to Maryse and Robert which leads to a confrontation and the siblings act confused as say they only went out for patrols or the times Alec allowed the other two went to parties but never went on any dates only for people to still see it happen to the point some think they are hallucinating or there are shapeshifters going around.

They try to somewhat follow the original timeline for a few things like when Clary would make her discovery and get her memories back but once she did they started more chaos.

Like suddenly everyone would see one of the non-shadowhunter members of the time travellers in the Institute, walking around as if they owned it but if you looked away for a second, when you looked back they wouldn't be there.

When Valentine is announced to be back, the group discretely destroys his plans while letting Hodge hear their 'fake' plans to then watch how bad Valentine's plans go.

As Lydia appears, Alec asks her in marriage in front of his parents but in private he says that he doesn't want to marry her and plans to have Magnus take her place(Jem will be the officiator) to which Lydia is confused but decides to go for it since she is Magnus' fan and thinks it is kinda cool that Alec is going so far to marry Magnus while hoping their story ends better then hers with John(maybe they could save John...I'm not sure when he died in canon either way but you can assume that they would save some people who died like the youngest Lightwood or Ragnor if you go for show canon).

Also, the time traveller group goes around adopting any orphan or abandoned kid they find just because I imagine that after dealing with all their enemies they go to a Clave meeting and bring all their kids and go like 'Oh, right! We still haven't presented but this Clary and Alec' kid Xxx, that is Jace and Simon's kid Yyy, that one is Meliorn and Raphael's kid Www' but the kids weren't simply adopted by couples that were together, some of them were adopted by two that aren't together(like Malec, a couple, adopt Aaa but then Alec and Clary adopt Xxx because they feel like it not caring about supposedly only couples being allowed to adopt since they fake all the necessary paperwork...you can assume that if a social worker sees those paperwork they will be very confused and assume the time travellers are all in a poly relationship).

Anything else is up to the writer as it is if they decided to followed any of the ideas of the crazy and chaotic things they could do that I mentioned above.

[buffyspeak]

"i'm afraid seelie magic has little dominion in this realm" "what does that mean" "IT MEANS THAT THERE ARE VERY FEW PLANTS!!!" has got to be one of the funniest exchanges in this whole show

[ofexistencebane]

I think it’s very interesting that Alec’s full name is Alexander.

Alexander means ‘man’s defender’ which is often his tactical position during fights. He defends the perimeter with his bow and often gets the brunt of attacks.

Although it fits perfectly with his identity as a Shadowhunter, it also fits nicely with his personality.

Alec is very defensive over the people he loves:

- He threatens Clary over Jace

- Kills Meliorn when searching for Magnus (insane moment that cemented him as my favourite character)

- Was adverse to Simon dating his sister (who he’s extremely protective of)

⬇️⬇️In this scene he nearly flips ⬇️⬇️

———

“Where's Simon?" Clary interrupted.

Isabelle wobbled. "He's a rat," she said darkly.

Did he do something to you?" Alec was full of brotherly concern. "Did he touch you? If he tried anything-"

No, Alec," Isabelle said irritably. "Not like that. He's a rat."

—-

Even with his sons he’s always defending them, he worked hard to make sure Rafael was adopted properly.

Not to mention all the things he does for the Downworlder community.

Alec spent a lot of his life worrying about being unable to live up to expectations, only to become what his name represented.

Alexander doesn’t just mean defender, bro IS the defender 🔥

[tiredandoptimistic]

A brief montage of Jimon being alive and well in the Seelie Court

(That gets progressively fruitier)

Jace, buddy, when most people are talking about being up against a wall they mean—[I am dragged away by horses]

This is then followed up by Isabelle slipping in the mud and being caught by Meliorn, which is explicitly framed as a romantic interaction.

Hmmm, so you find him extraordinary? Interesting.

Presented without comment.

[alexanderlightweight]

I saw your post on Alec being the Devil's Sacrament and just want more of it if possible. Maybe a followup of what is to happen in the ritual.

Could be either sfw/nsfw.

Thank you!

here's that post

here is kinda of an outside pov, because i thought it was funny. i'm not really sure why now that i've typed it out, but it was also fun to write, so there is that ^_^.

i hope you enjoy

<3 lumine

the devil's sacrament

Izzy stares at the direction where Alec’s disappeared and wonders if she’s drank too much faerie wine or licked Meliorn’s chest too many times and is hallucinating.

“How much glitter did I ingest?” She asks Meliorn, still unsure if this is reality.

“None. I did not realize you knew the High Warlock’s paramour.”

“The whose what?” Izzy asks, feeling the world blur around her and she knows Meliorn can’t lie, but none of this makes sense.

This was supposed to be a fun night. A moment of getting away from the expectations of her family because even if it isn’t anywhere as bad as their parents, Alec and Jace still have expectations of her.

Now they’re ones that Izzy is proud of earning and desperately wants to live up to, but it can exhaust her. This was meant to be a break from all that weight.

A step away from the pressure and sure, she may be young by even mortal standards but she’s been a full-fledged and bloodied adult by nephilim standards since she was fifteen.

“Isabelle, are you well?”

Meliorn’s voice sounds almost too far away to hear and it’s with the thundering of silence in her ears that Izzy grabs one of her hairsticks and transforms it between her fingers before stabbing herself in the thigh. Izzy may not have Alec’s gift for connection but adamas transforms without a thought beneath her touch.

The pain lights up her instincts, clearing her mind even as she licks the blood from the metal. No reason to tempt any added danger by letting her blood drip, she reasons as her skin heals from the iratze she’d activated earlier while redressing.

Despite how fun she finds sex and how unashamed she is of it, the last thing she needs is the evidence of some of her encounters still mapped out on her skin during training or spars.

“Yes. Sorry about that, the portal must have had a delayed effect.” Izzy smiles up at him, curling the corner of her mouth and instead of playing innocent, she smirks. The glint to her eyes is a wicked tease and it throws Meliorn off enough that he startles. “I’ve known Alec for ages, I don’t think either of us knew our outings would overlap. I should have guessed when you’d mentioned a magical orgy.”

Izzy is lying without lying… like Alec, her older and what she thought of as fairly repressed brother taught her to do.

She’s has known Alec for ages. In fact Izzy’s pretty sure Alec’s voice is the first she recognized inside and outside the wound.

However, not once has she ever considered Alec and the terms ‘magical orgy’ in the same existence, let alone the same thought.

It’s only the fact that she’s purposefully set off her instincts and is letting them guide her by sheer will that Izzy doesn’t trip at her next thought.

She’s about to witness Alec having sex. In a sex ritual.

That’s fine, she’s walked in on Jace more times that she cares to remember and shadowhunters have their own sex rituals. The thing is… this is Alec. Alec who Izzy wasn’t sure even actually knew what sex was or how to have it, considering she thought he was still stuck on accepting that he liked guys.

This is so far out of Izzy’s range of assumption that she just hopes she doesn’t faint from the shock. Raziel, that would be beyond mortifying. After all the things Alec has seen her get into, if she faints from the mere spectacle of him having some magical public sex, she won’t be able to live it down.

Because of her — Izzy isn’t going to linger on whatever emotional havoc she just endured — contemplation, they’re a little too late to get closer to the center of the circle. Where there is an altar. A raised altar no less and Izzy suddenly gets the very uncomfortable and heavy feeling that she’s about to witness something a little more than obscene.

And then Alec steps up the stairs and kneels, bare and naked except for his wings.

Izzy desperately tries to remember how to inhale because those are Alec’s wings!

Why are his wings out, in a downworlder sex marathon orgy for Raziel’s sake? Is he drugged? Izzy is wondering just how she’s supposed to get to her brother and figure this out when the warlock steps from what Izzy just thought was a pillar of fire. But no, the small column of flames that Alec is kneeling to wasn’t just symbolism, he was kneeling to a whole ass person. A man person, a male warlock being.

With his wings out.

Izzy lets out the breath she’s been holding for three minutes — in order not to scream — and doesn’t noticed Meliorn’s concerned look as she does. It’s lucky that she inhaled when she did, or she would be shrieking louder than the tea-kettle the time she tried to make tea.

The warlock is tall, the energy he’s exuding dominant and dangerous and it makes sense that Alec is kneeling in submission because even Izzy can agree it’s hot as fuck. It just doesn’t explain his wings being out! Especially while he’s kneeling!

Alec means to have sex with a downworlder, with his wings out. It’s possible that the warlock doesn’t know what it means, or what it signifies. The people around them alternate between having sex or simply communing with the flow of magic that is already building. It’s clear they don’t know. They would care a lot more if they knew.

The warlock knows though.

Izzy realizes the moment gold eyes catch her gaze, even with the distance between them. There’s both a threat and a dare in the move. Both in the action itself and the one that follows, where dark tendrils of either magic or matter — the tendrils that have clung to the warlock since the fire ebbed — grab Alec.

They string him up like a slaughtered bird in the air, wings and limbs at the mercy of the dark tentacles and Izzy bites her own tongue, because Alec’s not fighting it.

His wings are soft, they’re even fluffed and if he was in danger, even if he was drugged, his wings would turn to adamas. It’s a self-defense mechanism and there isn’t anyone or anything in existence that can disarm it by force or coercion.

It gives her the strength to hold her tongue and she knows Meliorn was expecting sex — by Edom she was expecting sex and half wants to ignore what’s going on — and the lure of the magic is so intense it nearly tempts her.

But it’s clear that Izzy has missed some pretty important things about Alec. Now yes, it can be said that he didn’t share them. But Izzy didn’t even know to suspect and that means she’s been missing things for a while. That unsettles her almost as much as Alec’s feathers being molested in public.

“Find someone to join,” Izzy grins at him and then slides off her shoes and lets her toes sink into the loose, damp soil with a sigh and an excessive shudder of release. “I want to let it build.”

Meliorn leaves with a kiss and a promise for her to find him if she changes her mind and as soon as he’s slipped into the crowd, Izzy concentrates instead on what she can feel, the intensity of it, and how Alec’s handling the ritual. Because her hermano didn’t tell her to leave. He could have. From what Izzy is seeing, he probably could have had the warlock kick her and Meliorn out. But he didn’t and that means he isn’t ashamed of this, of himself or his relationship.

So Izzy might have a new brother-by-vow and while she wasn’t expecting any of her siblings to marry anytime soon, she’s not going to do anything that will make Alec pull away even more. Which also means trying to figure out as much as she can about the dynamics of their relationship so that by the time they’re done, she doesn’t mess up.

She just still can’t believe that not only did she meet Alec at the devil’s sacrament, but that he is the devil’s sacrament.

AN:

Alec was like: huh my little sister is here... weird but honestly one of the safer things she's done. and then fucks off and doesn't think about it because he's not ashamed and he tries not to overly monitor Izzy's habits beyond 'are you being safe?' which he means in a variety of ways and most of them aren't condom related.

Yes, the wings out means things. Izzy is like, horrified, mortified, awed? didn't know he had it in him and good for him but also Izzy is having 'a time' dealing with some realizations. because if alec thought he could trust her (either with secrets of with care of his emotions) then he would have shared. and that kinda hurts her but gives her a boost of realization as well.

Magnus is not dealing with Izzy ruining his Alexander's mood. Otherwise he's pretty delighted to have someone who recognizes what Alec's wings and submission mean. Like he's also preening a little bit and also going a little more over the top with 'showing off what Alexander lets him do'.

Meanwhile Izzy is just like 'okay so like, alec would stab himself in the heart if this guy told him to, kind of trust him'.

Alec is just enjoying subspace. this is his night off and nothing is going to ruin this for him. he has been looking forward to this for DAYS.

[eliotquillon]

non-exhaustive list of relevant characters who first appear in city of bones, city of ashes, or city of glass, and how likely they are to be the person killed off in the first wicked powers book (rated out of 10):

CLARY: 0/10. lowkey i was convinced she would get killed off in queen of air and darkness but that didn’t happen and tbh i think she has lifelong plot armour by virtue of being the first ever protag. plus the two jaces inevitably fighting over her doesn’t work if she’s killed off in book 1.

JACE: 1/10. technically he died already in city of glass so uh. doesn’t seem fair to put him back here. in any case i don’t think cc would ever break up clace and also he needs to survive for the jace off but i’m giving him a 1 for wild magic purposes (and also because i can see his ‘died and came back’ thing from city of glass being dug back up for “”parallels””)

ALEC: 0/10. has yaoi plot armour on his side. will never ever die because malec is so resoundingly popular, alec in particular is popular on his own, and killing him off would alienate half the fanbase. next

MAGNUS: 2/10. also has yaoi plot armour + additional factor of everyone expecting him to cameo in each main series book. however marginally more likely than alec because a) shock factor, b) i think cc probably thinks it’s clever and romantic to subvert the idea of magnus outliving alec, y’know. but chances are low i’m not worried

ISABELLE: 5/10. okay i’m a little worried. would fulfil the lightwood sacrifice quota, sizzy has a history of being treated as a little bit more disposable than the other tmi ships (their engagement party is a CLARY short story, their official TMI ending was very open and bittersweet with their ‘endgame’ being relegated to what is objectively an optional short story collection), isabelle can be very angry and impulsive in a way that is conducive to being killed off AND objectively her death would be great angst fodder. however it’s likely that being an original main 6 TMI cast member will save her, as well as thule!jace’s open affection for her and alec. i hope so anyway

SIMON: 4/10. lowkey has suffered more than jesus already and in many ways is cassandra clare’s favourite guy to put in Situations, so it’s possible. i think killing him off would undermine his entire story arc and sacrifice in TMI but that has never stopped cc from making bad decisions in the past...still i’ll give her the benefit of the doubt. i’m mostly concerned because if i remember correctly we never did find out what happened to thule simon and we were told that this was a deliberate omission, but i think he’ll be ok

JOCELYN: 5/10. i actually think the main factor keeping jocelyn alive at this point is cc’s open disdain towards shadowhunters tv and its direction, and the show killed off jocelyn. she’s also technically ash’s grandmother and i imagine something will come of that. equally ash might lash out and have her killed. and she is in that sweet spot of relevant enough for her death to sting but not so major that the fandom would riot. a real coin flip.

LUKE: 7/10. would watch my back if i were him. downworlder married to a shadowhunter while the cohort are inevitably gathering sympathisers outside of idris? girl go into witness protection already. ticks a lot of maryse’s boxes in terms of relevance/how his death would play out. and to be so honest he’s too reasonable lmfao.

LILY: 7/10. her odds are only this low because i think her teaming up with thule jace to get raphael back might last more than one book. anyway. yeah she’s doomed and has been for years. am preemptively taking this very personally.

ELLIOTT: 5/10. makes it onto this list by the skin of his teeth btw since he cameos briefly in the dumort scene in city of bones. granted he’s a fairly minor character but he is lily’s second in command and it is possible he could be a victim of her plan to get raphael back. plus cc’s definition of ‘shock character death’ is subjective, she classed meliorn and maureen as part of her five notable character deaths in CoHF. watch out, is all i’m saying

MAIA: 9/10. has never been more doomed by the narrative in her life, by which i mean: she’s alive in thule. plus she has always been in an awkward position of not quite main tmi gang but too important to be relegated to the background, and killing her off ‘fixes’ that. would have emotional impact on all the main tmi gang, but also lily, which would push her further into trying to bring raphael back to cope. as a side note i am not happy about this and i sincerely hope maia gets to live but.

BAT: 6/10. i can never tell if we’re meant to care about him or not tbh. anyway if he does go down it’s probably with maia. and this would be kind of a fun callback in the worst way possible—he’s the dj at pandemonium in city of bones! getting killed off in the first book of the final series would be very full circle. would be shades of killing off jordan all over again though so who knows

MARYSE: 7/10. more likely to be the necessary lightwood sacrifice than isabelle BUT we saw her executed in thule already and like…not sure if you can kill her off again and have it work. and also i don’t think readers will care if she dies? presumably this death is being done for shock factor. idk. that said yeah the odds aren’t super in her favour

ALINE: 7/10. i actually think she perfectly hits the criteria for this kind of death—we’ve technically known her since city of glass but she only really became relevant in TDA, it will undoubtedly traumatise all the blackthorns and either cause division or bring them closer together, killing her off in book 1 allows for a whole ‘helen overcoming grief’ storyline. lowkey aline if i were you i’d be sleeping with one eye open

JIA: 8/10. gets one more point than aline because she’s a former consul and her death would be very ‘barbara lightwood’-y of being close to home for the blackthorns but not TOO close. scraped her way onto this list through a single line of dialogue in city of glass though so maybe splitting hairs

TESSA: 3/10. ‘but tessa doesn’t get introduced until the infernal devices’ wrong. she has an unnamed cameo at the end of city of glass. and can you imagine the shock factor. the subversion of her outliving jem. so very cassandra. i don’t think she’d actually do it but it isn’t IMPOSSIBLE and it would devastate kit.

[kaitcreates]

The Shadowhunter Chronicles Character Showdown

Round 1, Round 2, Round 3, Round 4, Round 5, Round 6, Finals

Maia Roberts vs Elliott, (Feb 23)

Axel Mortmain vs Dru Blackthorn, (Feb 23)

Kraig vs Mother Harthorn, (Feb 24)

Kieran Kingson vs Ari Bridgstock/Joshi, (Feb 24)

Robert Lightwood vs Simon Lovelace-Lewis, (Feb 25)

Unseelie king(Arawn) vs Charlotte Fairchild, (Feb 25)

Julian Blackthorn vs Ke Yi Tian, (Feb 26)

Jem Carstairs vs Maurice Bridgstock, (Feb 26)

Jordan Kyle vs Nene, (Feb 27)

Hypatia Vex vs Jace Lightwood-Herondale, (Feb 27)

Hodge Starkweather vs Malcolm Fade, (Feb 28)

Stephen Herondale vs Church, (Feb 28)

Woolsey Scott vs Henry Branwell, (Mar 1)

Sona Carstairs vs Sophie Collins, (Mar 1)

Gideon Lightwood vs Tessa Gray, (Mar 2)

Magnus Lightwood-Bane vs Sebastian Morgesnstern, (Mar 2)

Luke Graymark vs Thomas Lightwood, (Mar 3)

Ash Morgenstern vs Maryse Lightwood, (Mar 3)

George Lovelace vs Cristina Mendoza-Rosales, (Mar 4)

Jia Penhallow vs Alastair Carstairs, (Mar 4)

Rosemary Herondale vs Catarina Loss, (Mar 5)

Andrew Blackthorn vs Annabel Blackthorn, (Mar 5)

Meliorn vs Max Lightwood, (Mar 6)

Rupert Blackthorn vs Thais Pedroso, (Mar 6)

Cordelia Carstairs vs Mina Carstairs, (Mar 7)

Ty Blackthorn vs Matthew Fairchild, (Mar 7)

Barbra Lightwood vs Shiyun Jung, (Mar 8)

Beatriz Mendoza vs Diego Rocio-Rosales, (Mar 8)

Anna Lightwood vs Zara Dearborn, (Mar 9)

Tatiana Lightwood vs Raphael Santiago, (Mar 9)

Tavvy Blackthorn vs Livvy Blackthorn, (Mar 10)

Arthur Blackthorn vs Isabelle Lightwood, (Mar 10)

Jessamine Lovelace vs Mark Blackthorn, (Mar 11)

Elias Carstairs vs Claude Kellington, (Mar 11)

Marisol Garza vs Eugenia Lightwood, (Mar 12)

Benedict Lightwood vs Amatis Graymark, (Mar 12)

Bridget Daly vs Paige Ashdown, (Mar 13)

Jocelyn Fairchild vs Esme Hardcastle, (Mar 13)

Grace Blackthorn vs Madeleine Bellefleur, (Mar 14)

Camille Belcourt vs Horace Dearborn,(Mar 14)

Michael Wayland vs Cecily Herondale, (Mar 15)

Alexander Lightwood vs Anush Joshi,(Mar 15)

Rayan Maduabuchi vs Clary Fairchild, (Mar 16)

Celine Montclaire vs Manuel Casales Villalobos, (Mar 16)

Christopher Lightwood vs Ragnor Fell, (Mar 17)

Rafeal Lightwood-Bane vs Chairman Meow, (Mar 17)

Adaon vs Maureen Brown, (Mar 18)

Patrick Penhallow vs Gabriel Lightwood, (Mar 18)

Cameron Ashdown vs Julie Beauvale, (Mar 19)

Eliza Rosewain vs Kit Herondale, (Mar 19)

Nate Gray vs Aloysius Starkweather, (Mar 20)

Jesse Blackthorn vs Alec Lightwood-Bane, (Mar 20)

Gwyn ap Nudd vs Will Herondale, (Mar 21)

Emma Carstairs vs The Dark Sisters, (Mar 21)

Seelie Queen vs Lucie Herondale, (Mar 22)

Diana Wayburn vs Valentine Morgenstern, (Mar 22)

Charles Fairchild vs Jon Cartwright, (Mar 23)

Lily Chen vs Bat Velasquez, (Mar 23)

Helen Blackthorn vs James Herondale, (Mar 24)

Elyaas(Demon) vs Jaime Rocio-Rosales, (Mar 24)

Johnny Rook vs Irene, (Mar 25)

Aline Penhallow vs Alexei de Quincey, (Mar 25)

Max Lightwood-Bane vs Divya Joshi, (Mar 26)

Janus Herondale vs Imogen Whitlaw, (Mar 26)

[helenofblackthorns]

this is your invitation to talk about all your two theories :))) thoughts on janus? the role of the princes of hell? pleaseeee feed me

thank you for this opportunity anon, as it turns out I have far more to say on this than I thought (buckle up for a massive amount of yapping)

firstly, Janus. He's an interesting character given all we know about him, but he also feels very straightforward. At this point he is being presented as an antagonist, a very central one at that, but in the scheme of things he seems very minor. He is nowhere near the same level of threat as the other antagonistic forces that we know await us in TWP, which brings his role in things into question. Normally, a tsc antagonist has some connection to the main character(s) and there is a specific reason why they become entangled (eg. Valentine is Clary's father, Mortmain created Tessa, Malcolm needed the Blackthorns to raise Annabel etc etc). Janus as a villain however has no obvious connection to any of the twp mains, and it's the total opposite when it comes to Ash despite the fact his motivations are known. He is focused around Clary, Jace, and the other tmi mains and given what we know its hard to see why he would come into conflict with Kit, Dru or Ty. There is the parallels between him and Livvy, but this doesn't seem antagonistic to me, he just represents a possible future for her (as Magnus said in gotsm, if she does not do great things, she will do terrible things).

All this is to say I think Janus is a massive red herring and not the person we should be worrying about. I think his relevance as a antagonist is going to come from his alliance to the Seelie Queen, who's motivations we know nothing about. She has been entangling herself in matters ever since she requested their audience in City of Ashes and we do not know why. It's especially obvious she's up to something when you compare her relevance in the modern timeline to the historical one, where I don't think she mentioned at all. Some of her actions are also suspicious, such as how she went out of her way to ensure Meliorn was the faerie representative. It's a plot point that gets resolved with the reveal she's working with Sebastian, but Sebastian was dead when she did it and I doubt even she would have known Lilith was going to raise him from the dead. This implies she had different plans that she then abandoned to aid Sebastian, because he could give her something she wanted; Ash. Ash clearly holds more significance to her than simply being her child as the Seelie Queen has only ever had two children, Auraline and Ash, and they were born over 200 years apart. There is clearly intention behind this, there is something that both the Unseelie King and Sebastian have in common that the Seelie Queen wants her children to have. What her plans are, we probably won't know until twp, although there may be hints in the Better in Black short story.

Like the Seelie Queen, the Princes of Hell are also likely up to something big behind the scenes. The last time we've seen from any of them was in 2010 with tlbotw; they're entirely absent from tda. This is strange as it makes tda the only series where they do not make an appearance or play a role in the story (side note I do include Lilith as a Prince of Hell even though she's technically not). Which is extremely suspicious and it's very likely that not the case, and that it'll be revealed that they have been influencing things in twp. Thule especially is something I think they're involved in, for a number of reasons. We're told the thing that altered the timeline was a powerful demon giving Lilith the strength to kill Clary, and CC said on tumblr the demon is one who is associated with Lilith in mythology. At the time (2018) CC was very mysterious, but we know enough about the PoH now to make a very educated guess that it was Sammael. Also, it's always struck me as odd that there was such a massive passing of time between Annabel & Ash coming to Thule and Emma & Julian following them. Every other time someone has gone through the portal, time has passed more or less the same and if there was discrepancy it's very minor, nowhere near the years that Ash was in Thule for. I would not be surprised if someone (Belphegor?) manipulated the portal to ensure Ash was in Thule for a certain amount of time before Emma and Julian could interfere with anything. Why the PoH would want any of this I have no idea, except poor Ash is seemingly a pawn in their plans (again) (free him for all these evil plans hasn't he been through enough?)

There is also Lucifer, who is by far the most mysterious tsc character and we know next to nothing about him. However, in the PoH art series CJ did, it does say on Belial's page that a) he claims to have convinced Lucifer to rebel and b) he is sometimes called the "father of Lucifer." A lot of the information in these arts come from preexisting Jewish & Christian mythology and can be easily googled, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. Either it's more obscure or CC made it up herself which is slightly terrifying because what does that mean. is Nate losing the title of Tessa's worst brother 137 years after his death?? ig we'll find out in 2026

[theoteotheodore]

So, I started the mortal instruments a little while ago and oMFG ITS BEEN AN EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER! I will be ranting so if you haven’t read up to the last book ya should probably scroll because I’m gonna be talking about the fifth and the last book, possibly earlier as well. I also am only half way through the last book so please don’t spoil. Oh, and there is cursing so scroll if you don’t wanna read that.

So, I very much ship Magnus and Alec. With my whole being. It’s kinda an obsession. And when the scene in the second(I think) book when Clary makes the love rune and Alec looks back and forth between her and Magnus I swear, I internally was dying from happiness. And then in that same book when they “come out” I started pterodactyl screeching with joy. So now every time I read even one of their names my autism just takes control and I start squealing and kicking my feet like a middle school girl who just get a text from her crush. And so when, in the fifth book, Alec starts talking to Camille and she says she can take Magnus’s immortality away I literally shut it and told my friend “I’m done. I can’t do this anymore.” Obviously, I did start reading again later on. The next time I had an angry moment at them was when Alec was asking Camille for relationship advice. Like, bro, Magnus loves you the way you are, you iDIOT. Tbh, the entire thing with Camille and Alec talking mad me furious. Then, on a completely different subject, is when Clary fucking bETRAYED JACE AND TOLD SEBASTIAN. Like wHAT?!?!?! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU LOVING HIM?! YES, YOU DID IT BECAUSE HE WAS GOING TO GET HIMSELF KILLED but sTILL! I literally threw my book across the room. Clary stabbing Jace through also didn’t fucking help. But when Magnus broke up with Alec I actually started crying. No joke, I was sobbing. In the next book, when Alec is texting Magnus I swear, that was Clary and I was Jace(I know I just ranted about it but idrc). Then when Jace was talking to Magnus and Jace said what Magnus said back at him, omg i dIED. Plus the description of Magnus’s condition without Alec in his life 😭 I kid you not, when Alec saw Magnus healing Clary and start I started squealing then I kept reading and he walked away I slammed the book onto the ground immediately. Cause, you know, how else do you respond to something like that when you’re a bookworm? And going back into the story a bit, when Magnus was worried about Alec when Jace came over to his house- grrrrrrrr, I love him and hate him so much. Fast forwarding a little ways to when he and Catrina were talking and he said that he’s never felt this way about anyone else before I was on the brink of tears. Now, back to before I started jumping around. When Alec is supppeeerrrr worried about Magnus after he goes missing asryjhgdytdsjh- Oh! Jumping back again! Books back! When they’re at the ship and Alec falls off I remember thinking, Magnus is going to cry and want him back because I had thought Alec had died. But reality was better. Magnus saved him and Alec and him got even closer. Now, back to the time the Endarkened were first endarkened and Magnus almost dies. I almost cried at first but then Alec being Alec helped and just aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, atjfcihbvutesvkjhvhjfcutfxthd!!!! But Magnus sTILL broke up with him ☹️ Where I’m currently at in the sixth book is right after Alec killed Meliorn and oMG. QUEEN, SLAAAAYY! KILL LITERALLY ANYONE WHO STANDS IN THE WAY OF YOU AND YOUR LOVE YOU ACTUAL FUCKING GODESS!!! But yeah, that’s as far as I am. My friend is a bitch, though, and spoiled shit for me. Including who Magnus’s father is. I no longer let them touch any of my books. Ever.

Anyway, if you’ve read thus far, thank you so much! Have an amazing day or night or whatever time if is for you! Happy reading! 😁

[novelsoverload]

City of Heavenly Fire (SPOILERS!!)

Author - Cassandra Clare

Genre - Fantasy, Young Adult Literature, Fantasy Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Horror Fiction, Adventure Fiction, and Paranormal Fiction

Dates - June 13, 2025 to June 24, 2025

Page Count - 727

Method (How I read it) - Special Edition Hard Cover Book

Tropes - Unqualified Protagonist Succeeding Above Overly Qualified Supporting Characters, Love Triangle, Unambiguously Bad Boy Guy

Part of a Series - Yes

Book 6 of 6

Ratings Storytelling – 10/10 World Building – 10/10 Characters – 10/10 Romance – 7.9/10 Character Development – 10/10 Overall Rating – 9.9/10

Review Honestly, this was hard to read. Not because it wasn’t good, but because it was the end of an era for me. I have loved this series for many years. It has been a comfort to me. This is going to jump around a lot, sorry for that.

I loved that we were introduced to Emma and Julian in this book, and that they played a significant role in it. I loved being able to see into their lives before TDA (which I haven’t read yet). I think that it gives me, as a reader, more motivation to read the rest of the books.

Let’s start with Sebastian because of all his attacks on the institutes, all the Shadowhunters we called back to Alicante. He was attacking institutions because he wanted more shoulders. He was using the Infernal Cup to turn them into Endarkened. Which essentially killed them, though throughout the book, people were searching for a cure. With him hiding out wherever he was, which we learn later is Edom, it made it impossible to be able to track him.

Like, why did he send an Endarkened after Jordan, Maia, and Simon? Was it to try to get leverage with Clary and Jace? Or was it just to be able to kill them? Then the fact that Sebastian is going all out on everything. The killing of the Praetors and Jordan was just heartbreaking. I know we don’t get to see them much, but they were there to help a lot of downworlders. I don’t understand why he went after them when it wasn’t their fault that his attack on the London Institute was foiled. I know it was to send a message to the downworlders, but it was a weird pattern there.

Then the fact that he took Amatis, Luke’s sister, and left a message for Jocelyn in her house via the box that Jocelyn had for Johnathan. I can see why he took Amatis. I mean, she was important to Luke and even to Clary. But why make her a lieutenant? What was the purpose of that? I mean it seemed, towards the end, that she had more “free will”. I think that part of me wants a story on him.

The Seelie Queen is just a bitch. Like, sorry, not sorry. I HATE HER. The fact that she sent Meliorn to be the representative for the Clave, when she knew she had no desire to be a part of it, and that Meliorn could LIE, because he was only half. I mean, I did not see that coming. Then there is the fact that she was a lover of Sebastian’s, or he was her lover…who knows. I saw the whole her turning on the Clave thing. She was also the reason that Sebastian was able to travel the way he did. That Also being said it was the Seelie Court that drugged and made the kidnapping of Luke, Jocelyn, Magnus, and Raphael possible.

Maureen was an interesting turn in the vampire clan. She was insane. I think her being in love with Simon was more of the fact that he sired her rather than her having feelings for him. However, I am very confused about how Maureen was able to kill Camille. Like Camille, who was supposed to be some badass vampire, but was taken out by a child vampire gone crazy. Along with that, Raphael wants Maureen dead, not just because he wants to be the leader of the New York Clan, but because Maureen is causing way too much of an issue with recklessly killing mundanes.

The Heavenly Fire reversed Brother Zachariah change from Shadowhunter the Silent Brother…which is insane. I think by the end of the book, it was needed and will be a huge part of TDA.

Rufus, one of the surviving Praetors, challenged Bat, who is standing in for Luke, to be the leader. All because Seb wants the wolves out of the fight. When we all know he’s just going to go after the downworlders once the shadowhunters are gone. Maia is now the standing pack leader until Luke returns. By the end of the book, we all know that Maia is the new Alpha. Which I love for her.

Seb sent Matthias to get Clary and Jace at the meeting. Revealing that if Clary and Jace came willingly Luke, Jocelyn, Magnus, Raphael, and fucking Meliorn would be released. Thought Meliorn is probably perfectly fine…..since hes a fucking traitor! So instead of going willingly, Jace, Clary, Alec, Izzy, and Simon are going to the fae realm to get to Edom….to get Jocelyn, Luke, Magnus, and Raphael. Going through the seelie court, they almost killed the queen but instead killed Meliorn, who cares. But while in the Seelie Court, they find out that Mark Blackthorn is a part of the Fae Hunt… forever, or at least he is for now.

A demon gave each person their “darkest desire”. Clary had a dream about her, Jocelyn, Luke, Seb, and baby sister Val…all living together and happy. Her getting married to Jace, she woke up because of the fact that Simon was missing. Simon had a dream about him and Clary being a couple. But broke it because he said he loved Izzy. Izzy dreamed about her life with Simon. He threw her a surprise party, and Max was there. Max is why she woke up. Alec had a dream about being honored for winning the war against Seb. Magnus and him being engaged. and of everyone accepting him. Magnus helped him out of it. Jace dreamed about being with Sebastian in Edom and being a ruler with him.

I was sad that Raphael died. While he had his downs, he was still a very good man. I mean, he could have been worse. MUCH worse.

While I understand that Clary was the one who had to face Sebastian, it was kind of obvious from the start. The way she went about it was much different than what I had imagined. First, she decided to stay with him, as part of the plan. But then he closed the border between the dimensions, which I don’t think was part of the plan. But her putting the Heavenly Fire into her sword and using that to end Sebastian's life was a shock. Less of a shock than Sebastian becoming Johnathan before he died. I did not see that coming. And him telling them how to destroy the Endarkened. I was kind of sad to see Johnathan die.

The fact that Asmodeus is Magnus’s father was astonishing. I had a feeling it would be a higher demon, but I was not expecting it to be a PRINCE OF HELL! Asmodeus wants to take Magnus’s immortality to get everyone back to their world. Which he was fully willing to do, even though he would have lost his life. That just showed me how much he loves Alec, Simon, Clary, and Jace. Then Simon goes and offers his immortality. Which was both a shock and a relief. Though Asmodeus took Simon’s memories of being a part of the Shadow World and of his friends.

In the end, Magnus and Alec are together. Jocelyn and Luke are married. Jace and Clary are happy for once without a threat hanging over them. Simon is remembering his past. And he’s going to be a Shadowhunter!!!

Characters Clary - Main Character (Shadowhunter) - 9/10 - Overall, Clary is Clary still. Though she doesn’t make as many reckless decisions in this one as others. She leans on her friends and trusts them to help her. I think by the end of this book, hell, even the start, she is so much better than before. She isn’t just rushing off to save the world alone.

Jace - Bad Boy (Shadowhunter) - 9/10 - Most of the book, he was distant for a good reason. He was terrified of hurting Clary with the Heavenly Fire. Though he did work on his issue of just shutting down when he is not feeling right. He worked on that a lot. He was more open to talking and listening. Loved that change.

Isabelle (Izzy) - Sexy Goddess (Shadowhunter) - 10/10 - Izzy had a lot of changes as well in this book. Being honest with herself and her GOING OFF ON her parents!! She also allowed herself to accept the emotions she had for Simon. She is also still grieving Max, which a lot of them still are and probably will for as long as they live.

Alec - Gay Bestie! (Shadowhunter) - 7/10 - Alec was moody most of the book. Though he does pick himself up and become more assertive. Which I liked. He came into himself. His love for Magnus is almost overwhelming to who he is as a character. While I think that when they broke up, my heart shattered, it did give us a real view of who Alec really could be.

Simon – Vampire Bestie - 10/10 - Simon went through the most change, I feel. He went from being a softy to sacrificing himself. While I know he never wanted to be a vampire, he also gave up his memories for the lives of those he loved. I think that in the end, when he is going to become a Shadowhunter, that is the best thing for him. He will make a great Shadowhunter.

[malec-ao3feed]

The Storm and the Rain

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/FoI0WHZ by Lina_1402 Five years after the deaths of Valentine and Clary Fray, the Shadowhunters continue their mission—fighting demons, upholding the Accords, and protecting the humans of a world that will never know them. When Cataleya Ballanger transfers to the New York Institute, strange things begin to happen. A new mission arises for Jace, Izzy, and Alec—one that will require Cataleya’s help. But who is she? And why does she feel... different? Words: 13650, Chapters: 9/9, Language: English Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - Cassandra Clare Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: F/M, M/M Characters: Jace, Simon Lewis, Alec Lightwood, Isabelle Lightwood, Magnus Bane, Maryse Lightwood, Robert Lightwood, Maia Roberts, Clary Fray, Catarina Loss, Valentine Morgenstern, Lucian, Raphael Santiago Relationships: Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood, Jace Wayland/Other(s), Isabelle Lightwood/Meliorn, Simon Lewis/Other(s) Additional Tags: Inspired by Shadowhunters (TV), Jace Wayland is a Herondale, Alternate Universe read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/FoI0WHZ

[julietherondale152]

Season 1 Thoughts

This will be long (as I read City of Bones, and then binged the entire series in 2 months). This is part 1 out of 3, because I’m trying to keep this short, and it’s not working, so I’m giving my highlights!

Season 1:

The intro with Jace, Alec, and Izzy was a masterpiece

Flashing back to introduce Clary and Simon (and the first hint of Clary’s power)

Showing Jocelyn and Luke

Okay, Luke not owning a bookshop was sad, but I understand that him being a cop made a little more sense

Jace bumping into Clary (you two have chemistry!)

Clary almost getting hurt by the demon

Clary actually getting hurt by the demon and Jace saving her

The Institute is really pretty

Alec not liking Clary

Luke talking about how he doesn’t care about Clary

Clary bumping into Magnus!

Is episode 1 where we meet Hodge?

Izzy’s and Alec’s banter (plus Jace)

Simon and Jace fighting for Clary’s attention

Jace’s sass (Dom plays him so well)

Izzy still can’t cook and Simon is head over heels for her

Let’s go to City of Bones and have them dangle a sword over your head to try to get your memories back

Dot and Magnus (although Dot gets captured)

Alan being terrifying as Valentine

Why are you in Chernobyl?

The purple necklace showing Dot

Alec being done with Simon

Simon getting kidnapped (multiple times: listing them here for season 1: by vampires, by werewolves with Clary, and I think that’s it)

Simon wasn’t turned into a rat, but like this made it better?

We see Camille earlier on and Raphael!

Encanto’s!

The demon motorcycle!

Meliorn

The huge fight scene with Alec, Izzy and the separate one with Jace and Clary

Sure, Bloody Mary given to you by a vampire…not suspicious at all

Raphael let Simon go

Magnus and Alec meet (pretty boy, not you this time Jace)

The Ruby necklace!

Clary saving the warlock girl!

The second mention of the parabatai bond

Magnus flirting with Alec in the middle of a demon summoning

Clary stabbing (right?)/saving Jace

The werewolves threatening to kill Simon (no everyone, Clary has no idea where the mortal cup is)

I honestly forget what happened in episode 6…. Nevermind (saving Luke from the alpha bite!)

Clary stabbing demon Jace

Jace stabbing demon Grandma

Alec trying to flirt with a woman

Night vision rune!

Clace’s first kiss!

Lydia shows up (she’s okay, but like she stood in the way of Malec)

The Foresaken attack

Poor Hodge

POOR SIMON DIED (ik he comes back to life as a vampire, but still)

Simon didn’t drink from Clary!

Free Meliorn!

Ouch for Jace and Alec’s relationship

THE FALCON STORY

Also, hard way to find out your parents were members of the circle

No notes for the AU episode (expect for Chairman Meow and Church)

The Falcon story part 2 where Clary realizes it’s Jace

Because that’s my father (gasp!)

Do not…and you handed the mortal cup to Jace’s dad

Jace’s dad was Valentine! (No one saw that coming)

Clary using a glamour rune on the cup

You’re siblings! (Iykyk)

Poor Ragnor

MALEC WEDDING

Seelie Queen rings!

Jace, no…and you went with your dad

Jocelyn’s awake!

[silver-lily-louise]

Shadowhunters Rewatch, 1.10 - This World Inverted

- Okay this portal talk is interesting. Why does it being from another dimension negate the whole 'only places you've been' thing I wonder?

- Honestly, pack. Don't growl at the alpha's quasi-son. 🙄

- Nerdferatu :') I love Simon so much. And his relationship with Luke. ♡

- CLARY 😂 that is NOT the calm and measured response of someone who was ready to dimension hop!! 😂😂

- omg I LOVE twi!Magnus' TV ad 🤭🤭🤭 protect this man at all costs!!

- 'It's not your fight'... Izzy do u know this man at all 😂 'hey sky, stop being blue'

- :C forever sad about the differences between S1's Alec and TWI's. Look at this unrepressed thriving fella ♡

- Oh NO I forgot that TWI!Izzy is crushing on Valentine 😂😂😂 CURSED

- Fisk, you using the words 'epic fail' in earnest in that tone is the most embarrassing thing I've ever SEEN

- Okay consistency. He DOESN'T think you killed Vargas! He called himself your alibi!! Unless he has decided 'actually Garroway is just super sneaky and totally did it ♡'

- Jace that is rude af. How would killing Meliorn help Clary anyway

- >:C Magnus it is NOT appropriate to frown at your grumpy cat. If your animal is grumpy you ENSURE that everyone knows they have never done anything wrong in their life ever and they're a perfect angel. Incidentally did I ever post about my baby bunny girl Biscuit on this page, because speaking of perfect angels -

- Hm. If Alec didn't give up the Cup as soon as Jace and Clary went on the run... he must have left the City of Bones thinking he could still talk Jace round... 💔

- Sidenote, I love the different colour palette for TWI.

- TWI!Magnus is so precious. ♡

- Oh my GOD Simon!!! Playing the part of the demonic murderer!!! Boy has SKILLS 😂😂😂 I'm love him

- TWI!Izzy is ALSO precious. ♡

- The fuzzy camera for when this world's Clary is taking over is a nice touch.

- Aw, TWI gang at the party 🥺 these beloved nerds...

- Simon's so proud of himself for his performance 🥰 he should be tbh!

- Meliorn 😂 Just Slap Him, That'll Work! 🤭

- They are not exactly being quiet and subtle for having portalled into Valentine's lair 😂

Good ep! I enjoyed the contrasting storylines, and I love a good what-if.