It Would Have Been So Interesting With A James Who Is Insecure And An Outcast Of Society + His Love Triangle

It would have been so interesting with a James who is insecure and an outcast of society + his love triangle would have been awesome with the fact that as Cordelia is an amazing warrior shadowhunter and wielding a legendary sword that everyone admires and James the pariah of society who also has demon blood

I imagine James so much when he's around Cordelia he realizes there's a rift between them which makes him a bit jealous of Cordelia and makes him even less confident and pushes him to be with Grace a strange girl but who understands him and makes him feel comfortable in her presence

It would even have been a great parallel the fact that he turns into a shadow and the fact that he lives in the shadow of all his loved ones

Matthew might even have had a romance instead of being in this love triangle

Something that’s been bothering me for a while is the way cassandra clare did a complete 180 on james as a character.

the james we were promised way back when the midnight heir and nothing but shadows came out is nothing like the james we see in the main series. and it makes me viscerally angry. james in the last hours is well…it pains me to say this because i do love him, but… until chot he’s not that interesting.

most of his struggles that were set up in the short stories magically resolved themselves before the series began, he’s no longer insecure about how different he looks compared to other shadowhunters, suddenly he’s just as quick and witty as will and matthew are, and everyone loves him and wants to marry him! when the james we were promised was a social outcast, who every day was reminded that not only is he not like his father, he is so much worse. 

james in the midnight heir is shown to be jealous of his parent’s perfect love, when he himself is suffering because he’s madly in love with grace and she just broke things off with him. we also see this hint of resentment towards will for being so “perfect”.

which shows up again in nothing but shadows, james constantly compares and is being compared to will. will is so handsome, and james is so odd looking. will is able to make everyone laugh and everyone likes him, james is awkward and often does not know how to express himself.

and we can see in the way james talks about this, that he’s annoyed at his father for making him feel like he is inadequate. and then he gets to the academy and the first thing that happens to him is all the other kids start to make fun of him for the way he looks. they keep telling him how odd he looks, like a goat. and then his powers manifest and once again he is reminded just how different he is from everyone else.

the last hours was originally pitched as a love triangle with a herondale in the middle. so when i first found this out i thought this story was finally going to challenge the godawful “herondales love but once” rule. and this would also fit into this idea that james is somehow “wrong”, he’s not extroverted and witty like his father, he has demon blood and demonic powers, which creates a wedge between him and other shadowhunters.

and on top of that, he loves two people! one of them being an amazing shadowhunter warrior from a respectable family with close connections to the herondales (cordelia). and the other not so proper, maybe kind of evil, weird daughter of a mad woman who hates herondales (grace). so the story wouldn’t only be about him choosing between two women he loves, but also about him being torn between the expectations of his family and society and his “dark side”. 

but then cassie made the gracelet and erased all of james’s problems and we ended up with yet another boring love triangle that no one asked for…

and then is surprised that I don't like Jocelyn's character,

I'm sorry, she's a horrible mother to Jonathan who might have had the chance to be a good person even with his demon blood. if he hadn't been raised by Valentine

although I understand that she was perhaps blinded by love not to see the things that Valentine was spanking

It turns out that Valentine did not hide the fact that he was studying magic and it did not bother Jocelyn? Considering that magic is unnatural for shadowhunters

He made a quick gesture with his fingers, something she (Jocelyn) had seen Valentine do when he had taught himself magic. - City of Heavenly Fire

He liked to wear white. Funeral clothes. It's almost like a sign of death

The door opened and Sebastian stepped through.He wore a white knit shirt, and she was reminded again of his father. Valentine had liked to wear white.  - City of Heavenly Fire

This is the perfect baby. What kind of monster? Jocelyn, what are you talking about? He was cold… maybe baby J needed to be held more often?

She crossed her arms over her chest. “What are you doing here, Jonathan?”He shook his head, still with the same smile on his face, and drew a dagger from his belt. It was narrow, with a thin blade like an awl. “If you call me that again,” he said, “I will put your eyes out with this.”She swallowed. Oh, my baby. She remembered holding him, cold and still in her arms, not like a normal child at all. He hadn’t cried. Not once.  - City of Heavenly Fire

English

Laurits: Super Fjor gives me an appointment!

Magne: Why every time I fall in love with someone, Fjor has to steal that person from me

Laurits: What

Magne: No nothing

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French

Laurits: Super Fjor me donne un rendez-vous!

Magne: Pourquoi chaque fois que je tombe amoureux de quelqu'un, Fjor doit me voler cette personne

Laurits: Quoi

Magne: Non rien

BUT YES !!! I like the series but it must be said the books are a thousand times better with their little details that weren't there in the series.

You have to read the books before watching the series, plus the series seems like it was created for book readers as it didn't really explain the universe in season 1 for a person who hasn't not read the books there will be incomprehension (ex: when Magnus tells Camille that he cannot have children (which is never explained or discussed in the series)) in addition to the choice of the series adapts lots of things from the 6 books in an impossible mess which for me was bullshit because there are lots of things which become inconsistency in the series

but the worst is that the series also took away lots of things like Heosphoros that I wanted to see or the character of Lily Chen or even small physical details that are important like Alec's blue eyes or that we rarely see Magnus' cat eyes even when he loses his powers we don't see them see not. Now that I'm starting to read the books I'm so sad when I read a Malec fanfic that takes the example of the series with the physical appearance of the actors and the fact that when the Malec couple in the fanfic have children none of them have the first name of Max or Rafael 😭😭😭

i truly hate the show bc YOU GUYS DONT KNOW WHAT YOURE MISSING WHEN YOU WATCH THE SHOW BEFORE READING THE BOOKS

you dont know that magnus’ magic is the same striking blue as alec’s eyes

you dont know alec’s eyes are the same color as the ancestors of a family so intertwined with his

you don’t know that magnus sees ghosts in the blue of alec’s eyes

you don’t know magnus is two inches taller than alec

you dont know that alec loves that magnus is taller than him

you don’t know that they dated in secret for months

you dont know alec’s wardrobe is absolutely hopeless and he only wears years old worn out sweaters with holes in the cuffs and magnus loves it

you dont know that sometimes magnus wears his worn out sweaters

you dont know that they didnt get married for years until alec became consul and they could get married in warlock blue and shadowhunter gold under his new law

you dont know they have two kids, before they ever married

you dont know their first son is named after alec’s brother max, who actually died during the war

you dont know that max’s skin is blue, and his eyes are just a shade darker than alec’s

you dont know that alec loved one man so much he changed the world for him

Can someone explain to me why I am debating with a person at 12:30 a.m. on the Lightwood family tree because of Christopher's death which made it illogical because as it is written in the tree that Isidore must have been born in 1908 and that Alexander was 8 years old at that time (and the Lightwoods of our time cannot be descendants of Anna and Ariadne because Alec looks like Will and must therefore be a biological descendant of Cecily)

Merthur love

Arthur: Why are you so obsessed with me?

Merlin: You're the one who keeps one of my neckerchiefs under your pillow, you clotpole!

Arthur: And somehow you knew that. Obsessed.