the amount of people who don't get the depth of simon and clary's the parabatai bond throws me off tbh. i get that some people don't like it because our first introduction to their dynamic was the unrequited love trope but to think that there's someone else out there that could be clary or simon's parabatai that not each other is so ?? when have any of their relationship with other characters made you feel like it was on a parabatai-level? clary and izzy certainly were not parabatai material, not even close, and as much as i love simon and george, neither were they. clary and simon are one of the most parabatai-ish duos out there, especially for the fact they've been living by the oath before swearing on it. entreat me not to leave thee / for whither thou goest, i will go / where thou lodgest, i will lodge ??? simon and clary have been each other's family since they were six, to the point were their own blood family would refer and treat them as such. everything that happened with simon in tmi was because he went with clary to wherever she went and didn't leave. the pain clary felt when she came back from edom and realized simon was truly gone and how she felt a part of her had died is literally how it feels to lose part of your soul. their parabataism is overlooked because the oath doesn't take place on a main book and we don't see much from them as a parabatai duo (also, cc should be blamed for barely showing them as parabatai on the few scenes they shared in tda), but the context and the evidences are in the books. i have my complains about how climon was written and how they were downplayed in favor of the romantic, end-game couples, but everything pointed to them being parabatai and it makes sense.

TL;DR: climon are the second best parabatai duo in tsc and could probably beat heronstairs if 1) we weren't all emo bitches who like crying over heronstairs and 2) we had see more of them working as parabatai.