#tscauthorsnet’s event 1: Christmas event

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@tscauthorsnet Christmas event: gift giving (Grace Blackthorn)

Gifts and Proposals

Prompt: what your character would gift their families for Christmas and how they would decide it

Notes: not proofread

Christmas was always odd for Grace Cartwright. Up until recently, she never really had any loved ones to share it with. Well, she’d had her brother and Tatiana, but Tatiana had never allowed them to celebrate.

It was odd to look back on what her life was like such a short time ago. Back then, she had nobody. Now, she had a group a friends that loved her, a boyfriend who helped her love herself a little more every day. She had a family now, though they were not related to her by blood. They had all helped her so much, and it was only fitting that they should receive Christmas gifts equally as amazing as them.

Lucie’s gift was probably the easiest. At the local bookstore, Grace purchased a journal printed with an antique-looking floral design. In all honesty, the design reminded her of the rug in the Herondales’ living room.

While at the bookstore, Grace remembered James’ list of the books he’d been meaning to read. He’d sent the list to the group chat a few months prior, complaining about how he had “too many good books to read and too little time.” Grace selected a few books from the list and purchased them.

Thomas and Alastair, who had recently moved in together, both had a strange affinity for plants. Grace selected a succulent for each of them, hoping they wouldn’t find a way to kill them within the week.

Cordelia’s gift was next. The girl had an odd fascination with swords and daggers, and had dragged Grace to several museums to look at the weaponry displayed there. It had taken her a long time to find one that suited Cordelia, but Grace managed to buy a replica sword engraved with the words “I am Cortana, of the same steel and temper as Joyeuse and Durendal.” Grace probably would have preferred it without the engraving, but she was sure her friend would love it nonetheless.

Jesse’s gift was possibly the hardest to find. Though Grace had known him most of her life, she couldn’t figure out what to get him. He’d been adamant that he didn’t want a gift, but she just couldn’t not get him one. Grace had eventually settled on a silver locket with a thorn wreath engraved into it. It was a little odd to get him such a present, but she knew he would like it.

Christopher had two gifts. The first gift was fairly simple: a limited edition copy of one of his favorite biographies of Marie Curie. The other, however, was a stainless steel band, the ring she’d gotten the measurements for while he was asleep, nearly waking him up in the process. She was beside herself with both worry and giddiness, eager to give it to him but also terrified of his answer. Because she was going to propose to Christopher Lightwood.

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[tessherongraystairs]

@tscauthorsnet Christmas event : Alec Lightwood (sue me, apple)

(Alec choosing gifts for the tmi gang and Max and Rafe :))

(Enjoy)

- Alec isn’t very big on gifts but when he does give gifts, he makes them meaningful.

- For Jace, well, because they’re parabatai, he gives Jace lots of spaghetti for his bath.

- He never let him live it down when clary told him about it.

- He also gave him a large box of stuffed ducks

- (A forbidden video footage in Magnus’s phone has one of the best warriors screaming and hiding behind his wife while Simon, Alec and Izzy cry from laughing so hard)

- In all seriousness, his actual gifts were something he thought hard about.

- Clary helped him out a bit. (So did Magnus with his knowledge on Herondales)

- Him and Magnus were visiting Tessa when he got ideas.

- Apparently, Tessa didn’t put away daggers that belonged to a certain Carstairs.

- She didn’t put away a few letters too.

- Letters sent from another Lightwood, at another time, to another love.

- “Magnus, there was another gay Lightwood-“ “darling, I know” “and yOU DIDNT TELL ME?!”

- Which is how he got the idea of carving a quote into a dagger.

- In the end, his actual gifts were a new dagger, carved with one of the things he says about Clary (thanks to their visit to Cirenworth), a book (signed by the author and first edition, courtesy of Tessa), and some quality hair gel.

- (Jace loved it. He hugged a very reluctant Alec. Magnus and Clary both have pictures)

- For Isabelle, it was really very simple.

- Every time he went out with Magnus and Izzy on one of their many shopping sprees, Izzy would gawk at a beautiful dress she saw.

- So really. Very simple.

- He also gave her a bracelet which is really just a weapon that’s concealed.

- Thanks to Magnus who was talking about Henry Fairchild and his genius inventions. And the inventions he would make for Charlotte.

- Alec thought Henry’s ideas were genius which was how his idea was formed.

- (Isabelle wears the bracelet daily and the dress for special parties and occasions. She loves it)

- For Clary, he was strolling around with his family then came across this Jem gem

- He loved it.

- But he did give her some art materials that he saw while shopping and a duck onesie in case her and Jace have a child.

- (Clary says she hates the mug but is seen drinking from it multiple times. She adores the onesie and uses the paint so much it runs out after about a week or two)

- For Simon, he really couldn’t care less.

- He is forced to give a present to him because Izzy threatened to cook for him and his family.

- He did give it a lot of thought tho.

- Since him and Simon bond over being archers, he decided to give him his old bow.

- Magnus suggested it since Alec wasn’t using it anymore and it was still in pretty good shape.

- (Simon would have hugged Alec on his own if he wasn’t so scared of him. Izzy forces him to)

- For Magnus, well, if you asked him he’d say he didn’t panic but spoiler alert he did.

- He got the idea while he was talking with Magnus.

- Magnus was telling him about his best memory with his family.

- Which is how Alec got his idea. But he needed some help. Tessa’s help.

- Well, he really just needed to ask Tessa about the bracelet she still wears.

- When he asked, he only received a smile. A bittersweet smile.

- “It was given to me by Will. He had Magnus himself enchant it for me. So yes, I think he would really love that gift. It would remind him of good times. I’ll help with it”

- He ended up giving Magnus a locket.

- Not just a locket. A magical locket. One that contains his favourite memory.

- And Magnus can put previous memorable memories and future ones too.

- He also gave him a shit ton of glitter that’s safe for clothes.

- (Both gifts earned him many kisses which would’ve sufficed for a Christmas gift in Alec’s opinion)

- For Max and Rafe, he decided to spoil his children with all the toys they want.

- He made them write a list of things they want.

- The man was struggling to find gifts okay?

- Him and Magnus got them everything in the list.

- (He got very happy kids excitedly opening their gifts. He was rewarded with hugs and big, toothy grins)

- Well, maybe Christmas and gifts aren’t so bad, thought Alec as he watched his family’s happy faces.

- I changed my mind they are, Alec thought while chasing a Max who got a knife and a Rafe with a whip.

- “ISABELLE AND JONATHON-“

[bookswitchcraftandcats]

hello! your character for TSCauthorsnet Christmas Event is Simon. you have to write your piece on what your character would gift their families for Christmas and how they would decide it

Simon always felt he was good at holiday shopping, until he had to buy gifts for more than 3 people. Now he was aimlessly wandering in and out of shops on 5th avenue with no clue what to buy.

Clary was easy, she was his Parabatai after all. She always needed new graphite pencils. He got her the nice ones that she always talked about how much she liked.

Jace was a bit harder, but not the biggest challenge on his list. He stopped by a music store and got him a book of piano music that looked difficult. He also got one of those things that hold sheet music books open before you crack the spines of them, because new music books are so annoying when they close on you mid song.

Alec and Magnus were next on his list. He didn't know them as well but they had become closer in recent years. He ended up grabbing a gift card to their favorite restaurant. He also got a cat toy for Chairman Meow and a couple of Lego sets for Max and Rafe.

For his Mother he had gotten some kind of plant and that nice lotion she liked from the fancy store down the street. Her hands were always dry in the winter. For his sister, he found a good travel mug for her coffee and some of her favorite candy.

Izzy was always the last name on his list, and possibly the hardest. She was the most important person in his life but he had no clue what he could get her most years. Luckily this year he had thought ahead and she was getting a silver, heart shaped locket with her initials engraved on the front. Inside was a picture of the two of them at their wedding on one side and a picture of them with their family on the other. Since family is something she has always held close to her heart, he thought it was a good gift.

He finally got back to the institute and gladly took a cup of hot chocolate after being out in the cold winter air, and greeted Izzy with a kiss on the cheek before going upstairs to hide his gifts in one of the spare rooms. It was a successful gift buying year, only 365 days before he had to do this all again.

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