#shadowhunters theories

[libinih28]

Shadowhunters headcanon:

Balios and Xanthos are actually Achilles's horses and the London Institute just owns them now and they live forever like Church with no explanation.

And I mean the actual Balios and Xanthos were immortal so... Just saying

[destinysfairchild]

imagine Jem is fighting back to back with Kit and for a second he feels like it's his old parabatai next to him and when Kit calls him dad kind of sarcastically kind of not, then it really feels like Will is there you know

[witchlingcirce]

Very interested to see how Livvy & Ty’s relationship worsens throughout the wicked powers.

We already know that the ghost bond between Ty & Livvy is not good on Ty physically. Ie: Livvy being away from Ty made Ty literally pass out. I can imagine that by TWP, things have gotten worse.

My theory is that during TWP, I think at some point Ty will realise that keeping Livvy around is cruel- and that she deserves to rest. I think they’ll do something to finally relinquish Livvy’s soul (and by doing so, let Ty finally let go of his grief). However: I think ghost Livvy will retaliate from this.

She would hold onto Ty for as long as she could. I’m interested to see how this would go. My theory kind of ends here- but I could see Ghost!Livvy kind of start to drain Ty’s life force. WHICH would lead Ty to probably telling his family what’s going and what happened to him.

Except: I do think that Livvy would be the one to finally let herself rest. She’s mad about the way she died, she’s mad that she didn’t get to live her life. I think once she realised shes hurting Ty she will let herself leave, which references what Magnus told her.

IE: which plays into the fact that Livvy’s fate has already been sealed (her death)

[kitherondaletyblackthorn]

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[balladofbells]

Where would the wicked powers end?

We all know every shadowhunter series has an epilogue near a body of water

TMI: lake lyn

TDA: the beach

TID: Thames under Blackfriars

TLH: The serpentine

TWP: ???

there’s lake Dimmet Tarn near Scholomance, so maybe there? But what river/lake do we also know about?

The afterlife river where Will waits for Tessa and Jem

Watch the epilogue for the wicked powers be Jem or Tessa reuniting with Will.

[garvalhaminho]

hey quick question the last hours of WHAT in specific ???😭😭

[helenofblackthorns]

I need better in black to come out tomorrow so I can make insane theories about it because what do you mean Nene at the very least partially narrates the Seelie Queen and Sebastian story?? in the first person too??????

[wikitpowers]

“and that kids is why lucifer is gonna be the villain in twp, ash actually is lucifer himself, kit is gonna have gold wings, clace will get married, cassie is going to kill off a lightwood, thule!kit will be in the wild hunt and morgenthorn will be endgame”

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[tys-kitty]

The only advantage about having to wait till late 2025 or early 2026 for the TWP release is that I get to create even more angsty KitTy head canons

[julescarstairs]

I already know fact that Ash Morgenstern is going to put his whole ass self into pretending he doesn’t like Dru at all, only to look at her with the biggest heart eyes when he thinks no one’s watching.

[libinih28]

Also let me say before I finish chain of thorns my theory for the family tree so I can see if I'm right by the end

MAJOR SHADOWHUNTERS SPOILERS FOR ALL THE BOOKS

Alright so first of all the family tree makes a circle so that's fucked up and I've made a TikTok and YouTube video about this (I haven't uploaded the YouTube video as of yet) but Cordelia is dark skin, dark eyes and has fiery red hair, James is dark eyes, place skin, dark hair. Every single herondale they produce though is fair and blonde and they have green and gold eyes. Who else their age is fair and blonde with green eyes that occasionally look gold? Matthew. Matthew and Cordelia are going to produce Owen herondale but Cordelia and James are going to raise it as their own. Maybe Matthew dies or maybe he marries someone else, because it is unclear whether Clary comes from Matthew or Charles on the tree. But anyway maybe Cordelia and Matthew have Owen and James dies but everyone assumes it was James who fathered him. Either way, I believe the herondales are truly of Fairchild fathering.

All let you know when I finish, how it's going :/

[aroace-cat-lady]

After overanalyzing the comic I've come to the conclusion the first panel IS canon (I want to kiss you, but—) and we don't know why Kit won't kiss Ty cuz it'd be a HUGE spoiler. Not need to say I'm terrified for my life.

[witchlingcirce]

I think there’s something really interesting about the fact that so much of Livvy & Ty’s ghostly bond being unhealthy due to the spell being poorly done, also reflecting the fact there relationship is growing unhealthy.

Should preface: Livvy & Ty love each other very much - I don’t think either is toxic to one another but I think there situation is unhealthy.

When Ty first raises Livvy, Livvy warns Ty that what he is doing is wrong. But Ty tells Livvy that all he wants is her, there is nothing without her. And she says “is that what you want”

Not what SHE wants, what he wants. Livvy knows she can’t come back, she knows it’s wrong but she would do anything for Ty. It kinda puts it into perspective, should Livvy be allowed to rest peacefully? I feel like this line is sentiment that Livvy would never put her own happiness above Ty’s. Livvy deserves to rest, but if Ty wants her back, shouldn’t she go back? He said it so. There’s nothing here without her.

Binding Livvy to this world and to Ty himself has made them develop this kind of co-dependency on each other.

Ty & Livvy have to be with one another or else they start feeling wrong. They’ve grown to always rely on each other.

Livvy doesn’t have any other options. She can ONLY talk to Ty, and Ty feels very obligated towards Livvy as well. Bringing Livvy back and how her ghostly presents work is like then tying there souls together, like there just one person.

Neither of these characters really feel as if they get to the live there own lives, again- feeling very responsible for the other person.

All of Ty’s relationships are limited because of Livvy. She’s probably his greatest sin. He literally can’t tell anyone about her. Bringing someone back is strictly forbidden in shadowhunter society. How imagine how he thinks Julian would react to the news? He probably fears that his entire family would hate him.

It’s almost as if Ty has isolated himself because of Livvy. Never really giving himself out to anyone or letting himself that the opportunity to do so.

And again, it’s the same for Livvy. She has no option but to talk to Ty. She could talk to Kit, but Kits made it obvious he doesn’t really wanna talk to her. Livvy, a character so full of life- has to watch others live the life that she wishes she could live from a far. In GOTSM, we see how much she actually hates being a ghost. But she loves Ty to much to say that.

And again: Ty & Livvy being away from each other physicallys hurts one another. There always bound to be together. And I wonder if maybe Cassandra wanted to play on the fact of those old sayings that twins have one soul split into two.

As much as I want Livvy to come back, I think there arc is meant to end as Livvy finding peace in the afterlife- and Ty finding peace without Livvy :,( my doomed siblings

[darcyolsson]

bestie I need your help because I always see people mention that it's canon that jem and will were in love but I can't remember anything like that in the books so are they just kind of exaggerating or is it actually canon 😭😭 it's been too long since I read these books

so the answer no but also yes but no but yes hope that helps :)

if your question is "do they have an on-screen romance on par with the other romances in the books which involves them mutually acknowledging their romantic feelings for one another", the answer is no. in the infernal devices, their relationship is presented as a really close platonic relationship (with notable homoerotic overtones, but which man in tsc hasn't been there). HOWEVER,

there's two quotes from other tsc stories that people usually bring up when disussing this:

Clary took a deep breath. "Were you ever in love? Before the Brotherhood? Was there ever anyone you would have died for?" There was a long silence. Then: Two people, said Brother Zachariah. There are memories that time does not erase, Clarissa. Ask your friend Magnus Bane, if you do not believe me. Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable. (city of lost souls)

and

“What you said before,” she asked. “That Jace Herondale loves Clarissa Fairchild more than anyone you’ve ever known except someone — you never finished the sentence. Who was it?” “I was going to say you and me and Will,” he said. “But — that’s rather a strange thing to say, isn’t it?” “Not strange at all.” She cuddled in close against his side. “Exactly right. Ever and always, exactly right.” (after the bridge)

both of these are notably from spinoff stories set 100+ years after the infernal devices, though, so basically..... interpret it how you want to. cc said she did not intend to write them as a romance (and i don't think they are in tid), but that's what death of the author is for.

in MY humble opinion they were in love but only in the same way will & jem are one person. so like, yes, but not in the most literal sense, but it's kind of woven into every word in those books so you'd have to be quite blind not to catch it, and the story is stronger for it being a natural interpretation of the text rather than it being something that is outright stated (more than a few times, at least). but what do i know. hope this helps!

[kitty-gray]

Am I the last person on earth to realize I have loved you and you haven't known it might mean that Ty not just did know what Kit meant with I love you, Ty, I love you but that he also regrets not saying it back? That maybe if he had, Kit wouldn't have left. That maybe, on top of the guilt he feels for the ritual, he's also carrying the guilt of not saying it back? Because maybe, just maybe, if he hadn't been so shocked by [everything that was going on at that moment] he could've stopped Kit from leaving. Maybe if he could've said it at the time, Kit would've stayed. That he thinks he lost Kit because of it. That part of his self imposed penance is related to that.

[kitherondaletyblackthorn]

This is going to be Kit as soon as he gets the chance to be with ty omg😭😭😭😭😭😭