Hey Cassie, in Los it is mentioned that Downworlders can marry Shadowhunters but in TLIL Alec says he and Magnus can’t, why? Would the Clave see their marriage as less valid?
Magnus and Alec discuss this in-depth in Born to Endless Night. Downworlders and Shadowhunters can (and do) marry in mundane or Downworlder ceremonies, and the TDA characters know this, as Alec did in BTEN when he brought up getting married.
But Downworlders and Shadowhunters aren’t allowed to marry in Shadowhunter ceremonies, wearing gold and with wedding runes and a suggenes. Shadowhunters would be like “perfectly reasonable, it’s a different thing, Downworlders cannot wear wedding runes.” But Magnus has been around a while and he’s seen Shadowhunters treating such marriages as meaningless, saying they can be disregarded and the Downworlder spouse discarded, as Downworlders are often in a variety of ways mistreated by Shadowhunters: he is indeed aware the Clave regards such marriages as less valid.
He isn’t in any way worried about Alec’s commitment, but the Law as it stands reminds him of the way Downworlders are perceived: lesser, corrupt. Magnus tells Alec in BTEN, “"I know any promises you made to me you would keep” but also that he desires full equality: “I do not want to get married until we can get married in gold.” As we see in TLIL, Alec is longing to marry Magnus, but as we also see in TLIL he’s of Magnus’s way of thinking: as a father to a warlock child, and as someone with an immortal partner, he wants the future to look very different from the past. He feels that a ceremony other Shadowhunters would regard as lesser would be an insult to Magnus. They have agreed to wait until the Law is changed, with love and faith that the Law can be, and so changing the Law is an intensely personal goal for Alec as well as a political goal: it’s his heart’s desire.
Cassandra Clare has dropped so many hints, the biggest being the Ghosts of the Shadow Market story, The Wicked Ones. I had to lay it out to get it straight in my head.
Here is what I came up with for a theoretical family tree for Kit:
I know there are some who think the generation of unknowns might not have existed, that Roland and his wife hid in Faerie or something, altering time for them, and it’s a reasonable supposition, but I’m not in agreement with it for a few reasons:
They were running from faeries (my theory for why here), so I find it difficult to believe they would then go to Faerie.
Altering time, explaining a missing generation, etc… This takes time, pages, and words in a book that we already know will be long and that the author (I’m sure) was told many times to shorten.
Rosemary had no visible signs of faerie blood when Jem (a silent brother) encountered her. In this series where looks are inherited several generations down (Alec has Will and Cecily’s eyes), I don’t buy that Rosemary is half fey and not one thing about her fey heritage is discernible to a silent brother!
How is Roland’s wife this First Heir who was supposedly dead?
When someone says, “So the story goes” I suddenly don’t trust the story.
And the author pretty much confirmed the last heir is an ancestor of Kit’s here:
“But of course the First Heir is dead. That’s why the Unseelie King wanted the Black book, to bring him/her back,” you say? Yes, that is a possibility. Or not. There are other motivations for obtaining it:
Already there are blights in the Unseelie lands, as well as Brocelind Forest. Likely, the Unseelie King is using dark magic already and wants more power. Besides, Magnus seems like he’s having one of his “I know something” moments, and I trust Magnus.
I just had a thought about Qoaad. Okay. You know how Cassie said nothing that we would expect to happen, happens, and also how she said that how we felt about the end of TDA would depend on how attached we are to the Shadow world?
WELL. MAYBE THE SHADOW WORLD CEASES TO EXIST ALTOGETHER.
Hear me out.
It’s not that I think everyone is going to die; it’s that I think everyone is going to become mundanes. The Seelie Queen, when she told Julian that he could, at once a) break hos parabatai bond, and b) break all the parabatai bonds, never said HOW the bonds would be broken. I think it’s possible that the bonds may be broken by unmaking the Shadowhunters Nephilim, since mundanes can’t have parabatai.
It would make sense. For one thing, we know that in TWP the Shadowhunters are going to have to face the “greatest evil they have ever faced.” I think it’s possible that this is both the Clave (as it was and as it is trying to reconstruct itself) and the lack of a Shadow world in and of itself…
It was late, and someone was trying to break into the High Warlock of Brooklyn’s apartment.
Magnus Bane, the High Warlock in question, felt this behavior was rash and foolish. He’d been passed out on his still-made bed, too exhausted to slip under the burgundy and emerald sheets, or even take off his robe, when he heard the noise of his window sliding open. He was grateful for the robe. He felt it would be demoralizing to face housebreakers in nothing but silk pajama bottoms.
Also, the housebreakers had done nothing to deserve such a sight.
I think my favorite experience with an American was when I said “I’m from Finland” and she said “Oh so do you speak Scandinavian?” and I swear to god nothing will ever surpass that moment
Actually I fucking lied I’m pretty sure to peak was when my mother was telling a cashier in a target that we couldn’t wait two weeks because we were on vacation and we lived in The Netherlands and she said “The Netherlands? you mean that peter pan place?”
i went to summer school in england when i was like 14 and there were some american people and when i said i was italian they started speaking spanish, and when i was like “hey i don’t know spanish can u pls speak english” they were like “but…. you’re from italy… do you not speak spanish in europe?” “No, we speak italian in italy” “oh, that’s a language?”
reminds me of the sheer number of times I’ve had to explain that the NS regime and the Berlin wall did not happen at the same time
i’m in a point in that i don’t give a fuck if you’re a blackthorn, a herondale, a carstairs, a rosales, a penhallow, a lightwood, etc., because if you touch or if you tell something rude to Mark Blackthorn, suddenly i’m going to hate you.
Movies Meme: [2/5] Female Movie Characters → Kat Stratford (10 Things I Hate About You)
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