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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…

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)

Well it's late and my brain is asking a question and now I can't sleep without having the answer so I need your opinion for you if Emma and Cordelia would have been at the same time for you Cortana would have chosen which one two to be its carrier?

you are the only one reading the detrition 😭😭😭 because the other people who we republish talk about Kit as a carrier while I had made it clear that I was not talking about Kit as a Cortana carrier 😭😭😭

so thank you very much for reading the detrition 😭😭😭 it took me 1h25 to have done it to try to be precise on things 😭😭😭

I have a question as Kit was adopted by Jem and Jem is a Carstairs, does that mean that « Kit became a Carstairs » and can use Cortana ?

(I'm not talking about Kit as a Cortana carrier but that at one point he is in danger and Cortana appears to give him help because he is a « Carstairs »)

Am I the only one who would have liked to see basic characters who are in families other than The Herondales, Fairchild, Lightwood, Carstairs, Blackthorn?

I warn you, I love his families but I wanted to know more about the other Shadowhunters families because for me it could have been interesting to know more about the other families

on a bit of the same thing am I the only one who wanted to see more weapons created by Wayland the Blacksmith often used by the main characters

because the only weapon made by Wayland the Blacksmith that we have often seen used by the characters are Cortana and Phaesphoros and Heosphoros

hello I had a question, for you, is it possible for a shadowhunter to have dysphasia and multi-dys?

(Because I'm writing a Parabatai Jonathan Morgenstrern fanfiction)

Ok now I must admit that the poll "For you, is it possible for a Shadowhunter to have dysphasia and multidys ?" is such that when I ask a question for this poll, I would not have people insulting me for having said that there could be dys shadowhunters

now the real question that interests me

Do you think dysphasia shadowhunters use the language rune to be understood when they are young ?

BE CAREFUL I EXPLAIN MYSELF : I have dysphasia and when I was little when I spoke it was for other people as if I was speaking another language and no one understood me whereas for me the words or the sentence were normal but now I am understood even if there are still some difficulties

I hope I explained the question well and why I ask it

(thank you for answering the survey it's for a parabatai fanfiction Jonathan)

Hello I had a question “can we steal Jessamine’s parasol? and if so will Jessamine stay at the London institute” because my friend thinks «yes we can steal her parasol and she will stay at the London institute because Jessamine's ghost is not attached to the shadow but to her doll's house because she had broken her first parasol and her current parasol, she had not yet had a strong enough line to be attached to the parasol»

thank you for answering it's for fanfiction

English: Me: What is Jesse's age at the start of the last hours? My friend: I don't know but he's probably 17 because like Lucie is 16 and he's flirting with her We who go to the wiki to find out his age in the last few hours and discover that he is between 24/25 years old while Lucie is between 16/17 years old: My friend:Ok but since he died at 17 then it’s okay Me:He continued to live 7 years like a ghost so he lived 25 years but he flirts with a 16/17 year old girl

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French:

Moi:Quel est l'âge de Jesse au début les dernières heures ? Mon amie:Je ne sais pas mais il a surement 17 ans comme Lucie a 16 ans et qu'il la drague Nous qui allons sur le wiki pour connaître son âge dans les dernières heures et qu'on découvre qu'il a entre 24/25 ans alors que Lucie a entre 16/17 ans : Mon amie:Ok mais comme il est mort à 17 ans, ça passe Moi:Il a continué à vivre 7 ans comme un fantôme donc il a vécu 25 ans mais il drague une fille de 16/17 ans

Hi I had a question for you, if Jonathan/Sebastian wasn't evil because of his demon blood for you? he would have had magical powers and would have been immortal like Tessa (half warlock and half shadowhunters) or he would have been like James and Lucie, a shadowhunters with a capacity

if Lucie and James lose their power then Tessa should also have lost her magic powers because Lucie and James' powers come from Tessa who got her powers from Belial

but hey it's just another inconsistency of the last hours in the shadowhunters universe (the last hours have so much inconsistency)

no matter how many times she explains it I don't think me and Cassandra Clare will ever be in agreement about James and Lucie losing their powers. like its just not a satisfactory explanation to me im sorry

Am I the only one who hopes Dru won't be a swordswoman? because as all the main female characters (except Tessa) are swordswoman, it's a bit boring in the long run

I finally finished CoI and all I can do is wait in anguish until Chain of Thorns!!!

I’ve seen all these posts about how “James Herondale is boring” and I just don’t get it. So this is a James Herondale appreciation post because he deserves love

Finally finished Chain of Thorns… I’m both happy and sad all at the same time… that being said it was great and I’m now emotionally drained

I understand why people were disappointed with Chain of Thorns, but I personally enjoyed the book. I respect other people’s opinions, I just also thought it was a nice story. Now that might be because I love James and I just wanted him to live, but you know to each his own.

Matthew Fairchild. My soul. My heart. My love. Eu amo você mais que todo no mundo inteiro.

TID: Will & Charlotte

TLH: Cordelia & Christopher

TMI: Alec & Magnus & Maia

TDA: Emma & Mark

Favourite character from each TSC series? (try to choose one, maximum 2)

tag people if you want idk

Here goes:

1. The Infernal Devices - Jem Carstairs (cannot choose between will and tessa for 2nd😭)

2. The Last Hours - Alastair Carstairs, Lucie Herondale

3. The Mortal Instruments - Alec Lightwood, Simon Lewis

4. The Dark Artifices - Emma Carstairs, Kit Herondale (3rd and special mention - Kieran)

@revvs-trash @jurdan-my-beloved @niastormsanctuary-bolastairkanej @reyna-herondale @willothewhisper @gods-shadowsandcrows @whiteuselesscrayon @coffee-fandoms-and-chaos @anyone!

Petition to start calling Lucie Herondale the Ghost Queen

The full Shadowhunter family tree, as we currently know it

| Red line = romantic affiliation

| Yellow line = siblings

| Green line = parent/child relationship

| Dotted line = relationships we haven't seen happen yet but exist

| Dark grey boxes = dead characters

| Blue boxes = Immortal characters