#let's ignore the fact that book!alec is white and show!alec is just vaguely spanish/latin alright

[rapha-reads]

If I had a gold coin for every time I became obsessed with a dark-haired Latino-American boy whose first name is Alexander and second name starts with a G, in a position of power due to his parents' own position and under a lot of pressure to uphold some standards, who goes through a queer identity crisis when he meets the love of his life who happens to be from an old royalty dynasty, and decides to be true to himself while looking flawless doing it, I'd have... two coins, but the fact that it happened twice is a bit weird.

... Don't get me started on the parallels between Magnus and Henry...

#alec lightwood #alex claremont diaz #shadowhunters #red white & royal blue #sh #rwrb #if i had a penny etc etc #latin american queer boys called alexander just... grow on trees i guess? #let's ignore the fact that book!alec is white and show!alec is just vaguely spanish/latin alright #otherwise the joke doesn't work (also i've only read the first book of mortal instruments so there's that too) #but anyway petty details aside you can't tell me that alexander gideon lightwood and alexander gabriel claremont-diaz (wow that's a lot) #aren't cut from the same cloth. like. just look at them. #anyway i've had this parallel running loops in my head since last night enjoy my sleep-deprived dumb stuff