#so so many thoughts. trying to project twp is like dancing in a minefield but i love it

[bookishjules]

I’m not super active on here but I need someone to rant to about tsc!! (you are the chosen one thank you)

I wanna know how Ash will feel about regular Jace. Uncertain? Sad? What??? Their relationship could be so interesting because Janus is pretty much Ash’s step in father at the moment. In the scenario where Janus is killed or gone and Ash is left without him, I wonder if Jace would even want a relationship at first. Because I feel like Jace would hate everything about Janus because Janus is everything that Jace didn’t want to become and maybe he’d want to distance himself from that at first? Overall, the parallels are so fun:

Janus with Ash

Jace with Kit

But anyway, I hope that Clary can fill that role of an older sister to Ash, kinda like how she is with Emma :)

absolutely honored to be chosen as the recipient of your truly inspired thoughts <3

idk that i'd given much thought before as to what that relationship between jace and ash might look like.. and like ofc they're going to have some sort of relationship given clary connecting them (bc while i fully agree about her filling a sort of older sister role, even if she doesn't, she's still one of his only two blood relatives outside of faerie) .. but like.. how weird for ash right? ?? just as weird as it is for the rest of our world to comprehend a jace that isn't jace. like imagine ash trying to interact with jace after janus (whatever that After ends up implying). it would be like the came back wrong thing. except that he didn't because this was always jace. it would be like if jules and emma had ended up bringing thule!livvy back to our world. except reverse ig? just.. unsettling at the least.

and you make such a good point about the jace that lives in ash's head.. the expectation he unconsciously would project onto our jace being the image of jace's least favorite parts of himself.. dude. i need so desperately to see how this plays out. i do feel like despite any uncertainty, there would be a certain amount of protectiveness, like there is with janus. like jace knows what it's like to have a morgenstern as a father. he knows what it's like to be under sebastian's thumb. and i think he'd do anything that he could to help ash move on from that past. which imo would probably include killing janus (not that that's the only reason he would have for doing that lol) bc janus is the jace that didn't escape sebastian's poisoning before his soul could be permanently tainted. like janus carries sebastian around inside of him in a way that jace would not only recognize but wish to replace bc that isn't the him he'd want to be leaving an impression on anyone. let alone clary's nephew.

but then of course there is the question of how that animosity would affect ash.. which probably would not be well. but while jace likes being liked, i think he would prioritize rectifying a situation he can't help but feel partly responsible for. and ash will come around hopefully.

as for the parallels.. it's really like there's some secret club of blond boys with terrible fathers and more than just nephilim blood lol (sebastian included ofc bc he's always gonna be part of this) but fr the split is sooo interesting. esp if kit and ash end up being on opposite sides at some point and if you add in ty and dru respectively. mirrors.