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When you read a Cassandra Clare book do you not give a crap about the plot or are you normal?

Cassie Clare: In this book there’s going to be a serial killer who’s hunting Shadowhunters

Me: That’s great! Is Kit happy? Are people being kind to him? Is he appreciated?

CC: Well there’s also Belial (or something idk)-

Me: Yeah, is Alastair going to have friends? Thomas and him are going to confess their love for each other, yes?

CC: So about the bracelet-

Me: Matthew and Cordelia are going to make out. Like that’s gonna happen right??? (And Matthew will get some therapy ofc)

Chain of Iron theories: Who is the Killer

Its coming up on a week since last made a COI theory post. I said that I was going to try to post all my theories on COI BEFORE it comes out next month, so this posed a problem. So mow I am going to give my input on one of the biggest Mystery’s for COI, Who is the Killer? So in COI Belial will have a new minion who will target the shadowhunters, manages to kill 5 of them (same number Tatiana needed for the ritual) and is difficult for them to apprehend because they are somehow able to disappear. CC has left some hints that the killer is actually another Shadowhunter that Belial has somehow managed taken Possession of, despite protection rituals that should have been placed on this individual at birth ( My theory on that is that since this book is called “Chain of Iron” we will learn that Belial controls all his pawns with “chains of iron”. All hidden on their persons and glamored to look like ordinary accessories.) Our synapse for the book says that James Herondale has been having strange nightmares and fears he may actually be the killer. In COI he will start to tie himself up to sleep at night. We all know its not James right? In mysteries like this you always throw out your first guess/ the obvious guess. I have seen a lot of posts theorizing on who the true identity could be. I have seen some theories do not make much sense to me and some that were really good.

One theory that seems off to me is the idea that the killer is actually multiple killers, more specifically a collection of the survivors of Belial’s illness. If you support this theory I get your reasoning:Belial was able to briefly posses these people before, and the illness may have left biological changes in them. But here’s where I am confused, the killer is implied to be a massive threat wielding enhanced dark magic. At the end of COA there are 30something cured shadowhunters released from Silent City. CC says that the killers body count will be 5. If Belial has 30something new pawns that he can posses, gift his terrible powers to, and send out to prey on shadowhunters, I feel like there should be a lot more than 5 victims. I know Beial is not yet at full strength from battling Cortana, but he should at least be stronger than that. I have also heard theories that it is one of the Blackthorns. This also does not make much sense to me, given that for one thing none of them have training, Tatiana and Grace already have established rolls in Belial’s plans, and while I know Jesse is a part of Belial’s plan I believe his part will be save for COT after he has been resurrected. IF Belial were using Jesse’s empty body to walk the earth, then wouldn’t he also need to stop anyone from trying to resurrect Jesse?

 I have heard many theories on Elias Carstairs being the killer. Many of them just want to make Elias out to be CC’s newest and most horrible monster parent, and absolve Alastair of any responsibility or need to apologize for the cruelty he has shown to our mains. If this is your reasoning for believing Elias is the killer than let me stop you right there. CC has written multiple series and her skills have evolved beyond the need to rely on such easy black and white tricks. But I also saw some people posting about how Elias goes home so late and stopped writing to his family. Some are theorizing that the real Elias Carstairs was intercepted and killed on his way back home and that the being that arrives in COI is actually an eidolon demon pretending to be Elias. This theory is AMAZING. It makes a lot of scenes, would give Belial another spy in a key place, and could potentially explain why Cortana starts acting so weird. I love this theory I do. I am just putting it t the side right now because I need the real Elias alive for other Carstairs family theories, and again have been working with the theory that the killer is a real shadowhunter whom Belial is controlling with another “chain of iron”. My theories are below.

1.) Lucie Herondale is the Killer

 I am working with he theory that all Belial’s pawns have “chains of Iron” on them, which means all three blackthorns have them. In old art CC released of Grace she is seen wearing a pearl necklace that I was convinced had to be her’s. Tatiana’s (who probably consented to wearing hers) could be anything, maybe that stupid, creepy bird, she wears in her hat. Jesse... is mentioned several times to wear a locket.... that we know is connected to Belial.... and was weakened when he took it off to give to Lucie... who is wearing it now. Do you people see where I am going with this? It can also be noted that one of the parts of Lucie’s arc is that she is frequently overlooked in favor of James and how that is a mistake on peoples parts.  Everybody knows that James has powers, he has had 4-5 years of people helping him figure out what they are and how to control them. Nobody but ghosts know that Lucie has powers, she has no training, and is only starting to understand what they mean. James is vulnerable but so is Lucie. I do not want her to be the killer. Lucie is such a fun character, and I was so happy to finally have a female Herondale play a role that was close in size to her male relative’s. I truly feel that Lucie deserves better than to be just a tragic character in the story. I want her to be that plus a hero, but I cannot deny that she is a possibility.

2.) Charles Fairchild is the Killer

I have seen Charles name appear on multiple lists of theory’s on the killer’s identity. People never really give reasons as to why they believe he is the killer. They are just mad at him for choosing to put his career higher on his list of priorities than his relationship with Alastair, or him being the killer would hurt less because he is not written to be a fan favorite. If you are someone who wants the killer to be Charles, but are unsure how likely it is your in luck. Because I can give you a whole list of reasons it is likely

Charles is already acting strange. We know he made some kinda screw up in Paris and had to come home. Apparently Charlotte is sending Tessa and Will to Paris to Start the fix up and Charles will go back afterwards. Well based on what we have gotten on Charles making a mistake like that is unlike him. Casting Long Shadow’s reveals that Charles has been working as a politician since he was 13 and is normally known for being very dependable and reliable. That’s part of the reason he is considered such a shoe-in for Counselor once his mother retires.??? I have theories on Charles mental state (which I will address in a later theory post that will be centered around the Fairchild’s) and do consider the possibility that he was sett off by fear over the outbreak or grief over losing Alastair... But this sudden change could be from other things as well

As of COG2 Charles is engaged to Grace Blackthorn, who controls him like a puppet. Grace herself is the puppet of Tatiana Blackthorn, who is the puppet of Belial. So Charles is now part of a very dangerous carnival. Charles decade of study and knowledge of clave politics at the top could be very useful to Belial in taking them down. Also previous short stories say that Charles spends most of his time in Idris for work and when in London usually stays at home going through law books and records. So I could easily believe he does not completely  know his way around London and (like the killer is hinted to) would need to use a map to get around.

Now on to my biggest reason for theorizing Charles for the killer. Charles and Matthew’s relationship with each other. Charles and Matthew do not get along, like at all. They did once, but that was a real long time ago. A lot of the reasons they don’t get along is dumb sibling stuff: Charles calling Matthew an immature child, kicking him and his friends out of rooms in their house, and lording his increased age over Matthew. Matthew making more noise to annoy Charles, telling everyone Charles embarrassing middle name, and regularly sneaking into Charles room to steal his cologne instead of just buying his own. We are not hear to discuss any of that. All of that has me laughing because it is peak sibling rivalry. Rivalry aside Charles and Matthew model  the old dynasty trope for Ssons with Charles being “the Heir” and Matthew being “the Spare”. The Heir’s life is decided for them as soon as they are born, they will succeed their parent and continue their legacy. The Spare is just that, a back up plan kept around should the heir die, become disabled, never marry, or turn out to be infertile (happens way more than people like to think about). Charles struggles with the weight of his parents expectations. Matthew is more or less the Black sheep of his family, living his life day by day with no grand plan. Because of this he is cut off from them in a way, and goes through a lot of loneliness and isolation in his own house. Neither brother see’s the others hard time; the other has what they themselves want: Charles has attention, Matthew freedom, so they wrongly assume the other must be doing fine. This is a lot like Matthew and James relationship in Dust and Shadows. Matthew and James talked things over with each other and were good after. Matthew and Charles stay apart and ignore each other when they cannot. They will not just talk and be good after. So maybe if put on different sides they will fight out their issues with each other? On the subject of Matthew having to fight Charles, lets say hypothetically Charles is the killer and is possessed. We know from previous books that clave protocol is to place a kill order on possessed members. If that becomes the case do you think Matthew would be able to follow through with those orders? Be able to hunt, fight, and kill his older brother? No. No matter how rough their relationship I doubt Matthew would ever be able to do that. It would be to much for him, to similar to his “sin”. He would want to catch Charles, then try to find a way to free him from possession. Maybe if Mathew could successfully accomplish this then maybe he could forgive himself for his “sin”. If Matthew tries to save him and fails than at least this time other people would know and could potentially get him some help.  

3.) Filomena DI Angelo is the Killer.

Ahh our upcoming new arrival from  Italy. Why are you coming to London girl? Haven’t you heard about all the crazy things that happens there last fall? What possible role could you play in the story that couldn’t be filled by one of our many already existing characters from COG2? (Do you even know your way around?) How suspicious that Filomena should show up around the same time as this killer? Wouldn’t it be great for the story if the killer came from a different country? Wouldn’t that do wonders for showing how powerful a threat Belial is? His dark influence stretching across country lines, maybe even across oceans! We have already been told that TLH characters will need to travel to other countries. How the villain is less one person and more a force. Filomena could start that. She could provide reason to search countries besides London for Belial’s influence. Proof of it being so wide spread would definitely make Belial feel more like a force. Oh but wait, cheesecake wait. Filomena cannot be the killer! That would make her evil, and CC said she was a nice girl! Oh I am sure Filomena is a nice girl, but people tend to change when under demon control. But she is a girl and the killer is hinted to be a male shadow hunter! Are we sure the killer isn’t presented as male because Belial is presented as male? Is it impossible that while on the hunt as the killer Filomena DI Angelo dress in men’s cloths in order to more safely move through the streets? I feel like we have saw that trick once before in TID.

All we really know about Filomena is that she came to London, will interact with some of our established characters, and she will get a crush on someone we know, thus presenting herself as a possible love interest. Matthew was my first guess, hey he was every bodies first guess. CC shut that down, Filomena is not being brought in to fix the love triangle between James, Cordeila, and Matthew. Matthew is one of the only ones to not have at a least semi-confirmed endgame ship. So this means that Filomena will probably not be endgame with her crush. Why?   My next guess was her crush was on Anna. Ariadne is shown to be relentless in her attempts to “win Anna back” and Anna is not having it. Tweets time and time again depict her basically telling Ariadne “Its not going to happen. Give up and leave me alone”, but falling on deaf ears. So maybe Anna will try to get a new girlfriends and keep her around until she is ready to forgive/ go back to Ariadne. Well Anna is more a secondary character, a loving big sister figure to our mains. She gets less page time because of this. We already know she will spend time with Cordelia, Lucie, Ariadne, Eugenia, Thomas... not much page time left for Filomena. After further analyses I have theorized that Filomena must have a crush on Thomas.

A quick google search on the name Filomena shows that it is an Italian name that means “loving friend” “strong friend” and “lover of music” all these sound kinda like Thomas. (Filomena is also the name of a character in the 14th century Italian collection  of short stories called the Decameron, who liked to make stories up about plagues... or so some digging around google told me ). This could fit quite nicely into Thomas’s story. First of all to everybody who has been calling Thomas “gay” please wait a moment to be sure. Thomas does not yet publicly or self identify as gay. He clearly has an attraction to one man, but CC says that he has not yet realized his sexuality and will spend TLH figuring out. He might be gay, but he could just as easily turn out to be bi or pan. For the sake of this theory lets assume Thomas is Bi. Thomstair is definitely endgame. We know Alastair is gay, and CC usually likes to pair gay characters up with bi characters in queer ships, see Malec and Heline. Should Thomas be bi, should he start to become close and develop feelings for Filomena, it will have to go wrong. More wrong than he considers his feelings for Alastair at the end of COG2 (Filomena do not hurt this boy, he has been through enough). We got a tweet that suggests Thomas is interested in the killer, and a hint that he is planing something big. We got a kinda frightening picture that suggests the Killer may be very interested in Thomas.

If Lucie is the killer she will somehow be freed from Belial’s control,. I can 100% guarantee it, Charles I feel will have a 50/50 chance, Filomena will die from it. It would be a herculean task to free her, and she is not important enough to the mains for them to actively try and do anything more than give her a merciful death. Should she and Thomas become close than it will break his heart. But if Alastair is there for him afterwards, able to emphasizes and offer him comfort that will go along way to redeeming Alastair to Thomas. The whole experience could be love is hard, both men and women have the ability to hurt you. but the right person will make it up to you and it is good to forgive them when they do. I personally think that would be a pretty cool direction for Thomas’s arc to take.

BATIM oc anyone? This is Matt Marsh I had reccently updated his disgen/refrence sheet witch is this. And I’m pretty proud epsically sence the other one looked....grosss very very gross.

For summary for this oc if someone doesn’t know who he is. Matt is a voice actor for the charater Beial, who is a owner of a store in the show. Matt is friends with Susie, not the best Freind just a normal old friend. He also has a crush on Sammt Lawrence (fun fact I didn’t actally chose that, I had a poll on that and Sammy won)

Matt Marsh is a gay man living in the Golden ara of animation witch wasn’t the most friendly to people like him as most people know. So I dissied to not let him have Sammy for one. Not to be stereotypical, and two, Becusse I just didn’t really want too. But anyways that’s the basic idea for him if you like him like this and I may do more with him on here!

//normal people: make their pinned post about useful things to know about their blogs, useful links and stuff.

me: ng, gacha.

//joke aside let’s be friends on any of those apps o:

pkmn masters:

feh: (sorry you get the jpn version bc i was too lazy to go on my phone)

opera omnia:

crestoria:

i forgot gbf: ( i don’t play it enough to be interesting for anyone, but i have beial as a support summon, just for hosoyan :) )

//i’m a filthy casual tho, and i’m only playing for the story, but if i can be of help! (but i never played pkmn masters with friends lmao, you need to be online at the same time ): ).

Jak Tripper & Veto Mega - Hours of horus

Hour of Horus by Jak Tripper & Veto Mega from the new album Belial.

Fun party tricks across the board

Everyone in this family is fucking insane

Some Adris & company from today. Doing hot girl shit (incomprehensible)

BEIAL IS BACK??? MY LITTLE CHAMP!!!!! THE BOSS!!! AAAAA

YES!!!! we cant have a fucked up headworld with no permadeath without the dogboy manlet short king who is able to hand out death indiscriminate and who also owns and works at the shitty bar that 50% of the characters go to gamble all their savings away at

Currently sketching the piece I was thinking of but I wonder; would Beial share a drink with a customer? As much as having them fight sound so awesome, i feel like theyd probably just pour some drinks and relax while Adri is killing some poor soul outside lol

Oh absolutely!! That probably happens a fair amount of times, whether the customer knows about it or not. Whenever Adri gets to "escort someone out" on working hours, the bar keeps functioning as normal and the customers are none the wiser (unless ofc they know about the whole deal in which case yeah theyd be sharing a drink while someones getting annihilated out back)

apologies if this is a weird ask but do you still have that post where you posted the headshot lineups of all of your characters from your different stories ..

Not weird I think? Here it is

I will say this is outdated currently 😅

What if i put david midas set and engel in hollowridge. Thonking about it.

They're ocs made for violence so I could totally do it. And Even david w his wings would fit in as one of the physically altered people like beial which i also need more of in the setting

And they'd all be on richards side for sure so i can have fun fights (and ideologically they fit)

Alright, swinging in for a second round of Hollowridge asks: 1) Just because he's a personal favourite. How is Beial doing? 2) Richard is the big bad cult boss, right? (once again just trying to rummage together what I can glean from your blog). Does he have a design? 3) I honestly just want to know more abt Dragonfang, are they also some form of array/machinery?

YES!!! I'm so excited

Beial is fine!! He's back in his bar, and said bar is back in Hollowridge :) He's the boss there (and coincidentally, Adri's boss now too. Because he works there now. You can see this very briefly here) Bei doesn't have a specific take on the main story, or at least not at the moment (he's pretty uninterested), he simply runs his place like a businessman (businessdog) and is around to cause mischief and make money. The gang uses the place as a main hangout. It's basically like, he's a morally corrupt bar owner, the main squad ends up hanging out there to plan their horrid little war crimes and Bei is in the bg offering his two cents occasionally and letting them plan war crimes in there

YES Richard is the Big Bad Guy, Leader of the Van Riel machine cult (I mean. The cult is named after him and everything) And he does have a design! I never shared it online before but I have been drawing him for a while x) I doodled him really quick though so I had some up to date art of him

Guy who is so horrid for real

3. Yeah, Dragonfang is a mimic! All mimics are rogue nanomachinery that parasitize things in different ways, dragonfang is a small nanomachine swarm that's using Adam as a host to keep itself operational, and in exchange Adam gets his arm back and can summon a cool sword at will. Dragonfang is also sapient but cannot speak, she communicates through emotions only (literally beams them directly into Adam's spine)

Ok lil post for all the characters currently in Hollowridge:

Adriel - Nanoswarm pretending to be a guy. Was freed by Knife for revenge purposes. Evil as fuck. You know him (and if you don't then you will soon enough)

Knife - Techie wiz girl with scythe arms and a horrible attitude. Escapee from the cult. Adam's sibling. Also roomies/besties with Adri.

Adam - Edgy emo boy with a sword. Knife's sibling. Adri's adventure companion outside of city bounds (read: babysitter against his will)

Dianne - local Witch, owns an incense store and has insane knowlegde abt old machinery. Kinda the mom friend of the bunch

Nirven - Dianne's raven familiar. #pranks4lyfe or some shit equivalent

Beial - dogboy with a business degree. he owns a bar! The main gang hangs out there a lot.

Richard - Big Bad Leader of the cult. dictionary definition of nutcase. Dianne's father.

December - Richard's other daughter, so Dianne's sibling. [redacted]

Ramiel (You may know her as 'qb') - One of the array's under Richard's control

Other Arrays - (there's a couple of em.) [redacted]

So you've mentioned that mimics such as Dragonfang need to link to someone to survive. Is it the same scenario for Nirven that he relies on Dianne to survive? And how about Belial? Is he a mimic too or what's his case? Just a funky dog dude?

Yes! Mimics need power sources to function so they are mostly parasitic, thought the power source can vary. In Nirven and Dragonfang's case they are both linked to people as energy sources. In Nirven's case, he needs Dianne to keep functioning, but Dianne also needs Nirven to stay alive :)

And, I actually have not fully decided on Beial's deal with the new lore, but the broad strokes is that he's at least been altered. He does not suffer any parasitism but whatever is latched onto him is permanent and is also what gives him his powers