Oh, my heart
Okay, so Alec and Clary had a genuinely terrible relationship at the beginning of the Mortal Instruments. Which was fair enough, because to Alec, Clary was an intruder and to Clary, Alec hated Downworlders and was just, like, plain rude to her.
But Alec hugged Clary - I literally ran around the room jumping up and down in excitement - after she and Jace put his Heavenly Fire in the sword, and The Land I Lost had excellent Alec and Clary friendship content.
But their relationship was genuinely hostile enough that it was one of the first things Simon remembered.
And then. . . Clary's worried because Alec likes to believe the best in people?? Can you imagine City of Bones Clary ever thinking like that??
Their friendship and dynamic is so awesome. People think Mortal Instruments was a lot worse than Clare's other works but the relationships - including the obvious romantic relationships - are so well done. Clary and Simon, of course, are BFF goals, the Lightwood siblings are sweethearts the few times we see all four together, Jace and Alec's parabatai relationship, Alec and Izzy's big brother little sister dynamic, Clary and Maia's slow moving acquaintance to friendship, Clary and Luke's father-daughter relationship, Simon and Luke and Jace and Luke for that matter, Simon and Maia's friends to lovers to friends, Clary and Isabelle's burgeoning friendship, Simon and Jordan's mentor-mentee to friends relationship with the thrown in Jace, Alec and Clary's annoyance to affection journey and Simon and George and Simon and Jace's friendship and brotherhood in Tales from Shadowhunter Academy.
Alec's character arc is genuinely so freaking amazing, and I'm crying about it. From the mostly hostile introvert in the closet to a loyal and quiet but friendly parabatai, brother, husband, father, friend and Consul.
"Alec is actually at the start the most conservative of the Lightwoods. As Alec progresses through the books, he does become less and less like that — he insults vampires in CoFA and then brings himself up short — and in the Bane Chronicles we do see him confronting his feelings about Downworlders seriously, but also for the first time (both with Magnus and the werewolf he meets later in the club). Obviously his relationship with Magnus has a lot to do with him realizing that you can’t force the prejudiced to accept you (though you can hopefully enforce change through changing laws) and you need to accept yourself, be proud of yourself and love yourself. Which I think has been Alec’s arc all along."
And I think we love Secrets of Blackthorn Hall so much that we forget its actual format. Emma actually trusts Cristina so much that she writes about a private conversation with one of her dearest friends and confidants. And Clary and Isabelle and Isabelle and Maia and Lucie and Cordelia and Clary and Maia and Tessa and Sophie and Tessa and Cecily are amazing but this is probably the truest and easiest female friendship dynamics in The Shadowhunter Chronicles.
From City of Bones, from Clockwork Angel, from Bane Chronicles, from Tales from Shadowhunter Academy, from Lady Midnight, when we were introduced - or re-introduced - to these incredibly real-life, multi dimensional and beautiful characters, they're all mostly adults and figuring their way out through life after all the terrors they've been through with these wonderful relationships.
My heart<3
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hello! 😍😍😍
just wanted to say something: YOU ARE IMPORTANT TO ME AND I LOVE YOU!
you are my precious person and people can call you gen, but you are actually A GEM. never forget. we love having you here and the world is a better place just because you exist ♡
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nikka i just saw this 🥹 YOU'RE THE BEST 🗣 and so nice to me wksjdjsjdjd 🫶🏿🫶🏿🫶🏿 that gif omfg I LOVE U SOOO MUCH
tried to find better gifs but the gifs of leo blowing a kiss is very limited in quality ☠️ skdjssjjd u deserve better. 🥹🥹🥹 nikka you're such a beam of actual sunlight. thank you so much, u make me feel so welcomed it's crazy and insane. plus sooo overwhelming in the best way possible??@?@ if that makes sense. I LOVE U SO MUCHHH i can't say enough about you man. the people around you are so blessed 2 have someone like u in their life, you're such a motivator, someone to look up to. mwah mwah mwah
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HE SANG SOMEBODY AND IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL
I'M IN TEARS THAT WAS <///3 🥹
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What the actual? I had my 400 followers post like a few days back and I’m so close to the next milestone already… seriously, I don’t get it?
I love every one of you lovely people, it really lights up my day to interact with you all and put out content that you enjoy.
So, do I do an event for 500? I’m nervous… what if no one cares?! Eeek!
Tell me, do you want an event? Any suggestions of what to do? I need all the help I can get - for real! (╥﹏╥)
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