long time no see yall, just popping in to say that i went to cassie’s event tonight and my friends and i got confirmation that zachary carstairs is named after brother zachariah :,)
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Imagine Alastair apologizing to the Lightwoods for all the things he said and did. And before he can even finish Sophie gets up and pulls him into a tight hug. And Thomas just leans in the doorway and smiles because he feels like the happiest man alive.
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Tessa: So, Will is no longer allowed to take the trash out at night.
Jem: Why?
Tessa: Because I've caught him trying to train raccoons to fight five times in a row.
Will, arms crossed and pouting: You'll be thanking me when the third raccoon battalion saves your ass.
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do u ever think about how will, on his literal deathbed, stayed alive until he could hear jem playing the violin for him one last time
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rereading clockwork angel and i’m thinking about the parallels between will/jessamine and tessa/jem.
will and jessamine: both come from parents who left the shadowhunter life, spending their childhoods in the mundane world. their behaviour is often rude, volatile, they shout and argue, both masking their pain by lashing out and rejecting the love charlotte & henry offer them (for wildly different reasons, but the outward behaviour is not dissimilar). they have moments of raw vulnerability before rapidly closing off (jessamine and her dollhouse; will when tessa sees too much of his real self). will and jessamine’s lives both make them hopeless — will because he cannot let anyone get close, and jessamine who says she’d rather die than live this life she never wanted. will chooses the shadowhunter life, because he cannot go home; jessamine wants nothing to do with it, but she cannot get out. they’re both desperate for their lives to change (though we see more of this from will in cp1).
and then you have jem and tessa: both travelled from different continents after basically losing everything, to arrive in london. both tortured repeatedly, forced to recalibrate to the world after. they feel out of place initially, yearning for the lives they had before everything changed, before they had to travel so far from home (which brings the most pain, as jem says). people see them as different for what they are, for things they cannot change — the “half one thing and half another, like me” conversation. they take on more nurturing roles, so in the rare moments when they do express anger, it hits extra hard. they both want something essential: jem to experience the kind of love his parents had, and tessa to know who she is, to not be alone in the world.
they all carry their histories in different ways, i guess is the point here, and it’s interesting how certain characters’ backgrounds/stories parallel others. this isn’t to compare either pair, rather i’m just observing the similarities — it’s always struck me how will and jessamine seem pretty similar at the start of clockwork angel, (which shows in the way they argue and shout at each other a lot) though obviously their needs/reasons/values are incredibly different. and then there’s jem and tessa, who are more shy and yet, contradictorily, more openly feeling, who i think because of their nature often have their pain overlooked (especially the fact that they were both tortured!!) and tessa representing a reason to hope for both will and jem but also jessamine, who later projects this onto nate, bec she’s desperate for a way out, while jem and will have a reason to not be resigned to their fates.
anyway stan tid for breaking my heart again!
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Cassandra telling us that jem is poor is basically a lie. How can u be poor and be able to maintain a whole castle in the middle of nothing? You must have a good income, and I’m pretty sure jem receives something from being not only a shadowhunter but a silent brother too. Also, Tessa must have money from all those years, like bffr 😭
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Okay but Tessas two families are so different and yet both so adorable.
Like, Tessa Herondale is the wife to Will Herondale and they are just so alike, they are both courageous and impulsive and their love for books is unmatched. And then their children continue that love, are big readers and writers, fight fiercely and strongly for the people they love.
And Tessa Carstairs is the wife to Jem Carstairs and they are opposites that match perfectly. Where Tessa is headstrong, Jem is understanding. Where Jem is soft, Tessa is hard. They share a decade long bond. Tessa still loves her books, but Jems passion is music and then they adopt a boy who's a total nerd that loves movies and modern technology. And their little girl who we have yet to find out who she will become in this big new world.
It's just so cute to me, how Will was Tessas mirror and their children were a lot like them and Jem is Tessas complement and their children are so different from both of them.
Yet they all love like there is no tomorrow.
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Jem: Mockery is the highest form of flattery
Will: MoCkErY iS tHe HiGhEsT fOrM oF fLaTtErY
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The way my favorite male names are William and James is SPEAKING
Cassandra knew what she was doing
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