thinking about how Jace is Cordelia's descendant always throws my head into a loop like. what do you mean he's related to Mina through both Tessa and Jem 😭 his great great great grandma and first cousin four times removed married each other and had a kid and also adopted his 7th cousin...
I think the reason why TID’s found family aspect feels so intense to me is because most of the main characters really had NOTHING else in the world. Tessa was orphaned with a missing brother, Jem was orphaned, for most of the series Will might well have been an orphan, Jessamine was an orphan, Charlotte if I recall correctly was also an orphan. The London Institute was all they had. Hits hard when you think about it.
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tessa living thru the massacre is evil by the way. do you think she screamed. do you think she grabbed J. do you think she tried to open the door tried to get people out and tried to snap her friends out of it. do you think she called for n or v or anyone who could help her. do you think she cried over her mother despite it all. do you think she asked everyone who talked to her where N was. where any of them were. if they knew what happened. how her mother was.
I dont think I've ever mentioned this before but we have chickens right? Around 50 rn. We keep a scrap bucket for the chickens to have. Like almost expired leftovers that we won't eat and stuff. Well my dad's cat Timmothy, (known by many names, Timmy, Timbles, Tim-Tim to name a few) likes to as we are bringing it out to the chickens, knock the bucket out of my parent's hands. He then will choose a random item from the bucket and scarf it down. He's done this so often that at this point we just lower the bucket to him so it doesn't make a giant mess. We call it the Timmothy Tax. Well now my cat Asher has decided that he wants in on Timmothy Tax. He grabbed a slice of bread from the bucket the other day and then proceeded to play with it a little before abandoning it, then Timmothy promptly roomba'd it up. Tessa could care less except for the one time that Timmothy grabbed watermelon and then decided he actually doesn't like watermelon. Tessa ate it instead.