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Friendly reminder that Grace basically SA’d Matthew and made him think that he did something wrong to her, and that he couldn’t excuse his own actions - because he didn’t know about her powers.

And he hasn’t talked about the kiss to anyone because he still doesn’t know about what is going on.

Before you Go by Lewis Capaldi is the soundtrack of the train station scene in COI. James’ POV, to both Matthew and Cordelia.

Here are the best bits:

‘Cause now that they’re gone

All I hear are the words that I needed to say

(…)

So, before you go

Was there something I could’ve said

To make your heart feel better?

If only I’d known you had a storm to weather.

So, before you go

Was there something I could’ve said

To make it all stop hurting?

It kills me how your mind can make you feel so worthless

So, before you go

(…)

Our every moment I start to replay

But all I can think about is seeing that look on your face

(…)

So, before you go

Would we be better off by now

If I’d let my walls come down?

Maybe I guess we’ll never know

(…)

I want to write a modern TLH university AU with Heronchild as the main ship and major focus on Gracetopher. All the professors are our favourite warlocks. Bridgestock, Claude and Charles are the local assholes. The gang all have their own aesthetics and subjects that they study. Like, Anna does fashion, Thomas has been into Romance languages ever since he spent a year in Spain during high school, Kamala and Alastair are both musically talented and basically the gay best friends of the faculty, Cordelia is a free spirit who takes no one’s shit, does fencing in her free time and runs the chess club. Matthew is the messed up rich kid studying art history, even though his parents are accomplished in politics and science and he’s got major issues about being the black sheep of the family. The Herondales are a really sweet middle class family, Tessa is a respected professor and Will is the principal of a local high school and all the kids love his PE classes. Their children both love books, though James is more into the classics while Lucie is a cottage core queen who wants to become a writer. She recently started dating Jesse, who began working after he got his GSCE to support himself and Grace, because they moved out together to escape Tatiana’s abuse. He supports her education and always says that Grace is the smarter out of the two of them, and will be a great scientist one day. She meets Kit through the Herondales, and James meets Matthew through Thomas and Kit, and we get a ton of Heronchild and Gracetopher content.

It’s just that this would take so much time, I’d have to start once finals are over but then I would have all summer and could see were the story takes me. Someone please tell me to do this🙏🥺

If the TLH gang went ice skating

James and Lucie went so many times with Tessa and Will they’re pretty skilled at it. Impressing Jesse and Cordelia, who both have to learn from the ground up.

Matthew of course is elegant af on ice, but still falls all the time because of his antics, starting squabbles with everyone and racing around recklessly.

No one knows why, but Grace absolutely slays, basically looking like an ice princess. She tries to help Kit even though he struggles, constantly falling over his own feet. He pulls her down by accident at one point and apologises profusely, but she just starts laughing and throws a snowball at him.

Alastair is fucking terrified, but Thomas, who used go go ice skating with his sisters, convinces him to at least try. Alastair doesn’t let go of Thomas for almost the entire time they’re on the ice. Thomas valiantly fights off Matthew for him.

Anna is practiced and elegant, and patiently teaches Kamala, occasionally catching her in her arms whenever she falls.

Lucie and Jesse can’t stop being silly and end up rolling around the ice half the time.

Matthew initiates squabbles with James until they’re both soaking wet and panting, but is at his best gentlemanly behaviour with Cordelia.

Cordelia doesn’t have any practice but puts her mind to mastering it anyways, and she manages to almost outrace James by the end of the night. He wins, but turns around and catches her in his arms at the last second.

I finally have access to an iPad, so here’s my first ever Procreate sketch. Of course it’s Heronchild.

James drew back enough to smooth Matthew‘s hair away from his forehead. „Have you wished me gone?“ he said teasingly.

„No. Only I wish myself gone sometimes,” Matthew said in a whisper, and it was that rarest of things where Matthew was concerned, an entirely true statement with no mockery or teasing or humor to be had.

„Never wish that,“ James said.

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