#barbara lightwood

[moonyscoffeestains]

me every time i see a group of three lightwood siblings (one of them is doomed to die):

[culiehua]

tmi verse x onion headlines

part 1 — part 2 — part 3 — part 4 —

part 5 (jem!edition) — part 6

[drusilla-carstairs]

Cassie 🤝 making Lightwood siblings in sets of 3 and leaving them in sets of 2

[queenhelenblackthorn]

cassie is just killing lightwoods for sport now

[tys-kitty]

„I can find another maid; I cannot find another Sophie“

I may present to you Sophia Lightwood (née Collins)

[c-herondale]

You know how Lightwoods tend to come in threes and then one always dies super tragically?

Can we all collectively manifest that Alec and Magnus decide that two kids is enough?

[aleswiftgron]

The obsession that Cassandra Clare has with making 3 Lightwood children and then killing one off, like-

Anna✅ Alexander✅ Christopher💀

Eugenia✅ Thomas✅ Barbara💀

Alec✅ Izzy✅ Max💀

+(bonus) Gideon✅ Gabriel✅ Tatiana💀

Like why!?!?

[malecftmaxrafe]

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMAN’S DAY.

[livia-dovehallow]

I went to the Chain of Thorns tour tonight!

As promised, I saw Cassie today and wrote down her answers (paraphrased) to the questions asked to share here with you all -- and I asked her a question of my own, too!

It was a spoiler-free event, so those of you who have not finished or read any part of Chain of Thorns can read on safely :D

Question: Was it intentional that a Lightwood dies in every series? [referring to Max (TMI), Benedict (TID), Robert (TDA), Barbara (TLH)] Answer: No, it was not intentional and not planned to be that way. But there are so many Lightwoods. In retrospect, it sure looks like it, doesn't it?

Question: What was your process of creating Grace Blackthorn? Answer: Grace is a parallel of Estella from Great Expectations, as The Last Hours is a retelling of that story. I wanted a character to be an embodiment of "explanation not an excuse." I also wanted to give Estella the chance to tell things from her perspective, which is never revealed in Great Expectations. So Grace is that character who is able to display the other side of that situation through her point of view.

Question: How did you come up with the parabatai curse? Answer: It's a greek work and when I learned the meaning, I was immediately interested in exploring the power of non-romantic love. That's where the concept of parabatai came from. The curse then stemmed from expanding on what it means to be parabatai and who could and could not have one. That is where the curse came to be, and of course, how it became a focal point of TDA.

Question: How can I find a man like James Herondale? Answer: I asked myself the same question when I was younger: "Why aren't men like men in books?" I met my husband at a book club and we began sending books to one another that we liked. So my advice is to find a boy, girl, person who enjoys books, too.

Question: Who is your favorite parabatai pair? Answer: Will and Jem.

Question: Who in The Last Hours was the easiest to write? The hardest? Answer: The hardest characters to write were Grace and Matthew, as they both faced very complex problems that don't have an easy or single solution. The easiest characters to write were Cordelia and Lucie. Lucie, because she is also a writer and I very much had a passion for it the way I did when I was younger, too. Cordelia was easy to write because she was fun to write. (Bonus: The most fun to write is Magnus.)

Question: Who is your favorite character from each series? Answer: Didn't want to answer at first, but admitted the following: TID is Tessa. TLH is Lucie. TMI is Simon. No answer for TDA.

Question: Who in TLH was your favorite point of view to write from? Answer: Alastair, Thomas, and Lucie.

Question: Will we ever see Jace and Clary again in a prominent role? Answer: They will be in The Wicked Powers, but the story focuses on Ty, Dru, and Kit, so prominency will remain with them.

Question: How did you develop Ty [Blackthorn] and who was your inspiration for him? Answer: My stepbrother, who always said he looked for characters who exhibited similar characteristics as him, but it was never the same as having a character who was also autistic, and used the word, too.

Question: What made you decide to make Coredlia Iranian? Answer: I was born in Iran and Farsi was my first language. I can't speak it fluently now, but I wanted to make a character that incorporated that part of my life. To make her character and her family's characters, I had a group chat with my mother's friends, who were a bunch of 80-year-old Iranian women. They were very happy to help. Sometimes they argued amongst themselves about a question I had and who had the correct answer, and I would just sit back and watch it unfold while a little scared.

Question: Is there a plot line or detail you look back on and regret doing? Answer: THE FAMILY TREE. [She went on to explain that when she first made it, she had no intention to write any other historical book. But she got the idea for TLH while writing TDA, and suddenly the path and story she wanted to tell did not align with the already-published family tree. So basically, my theory was right and we have confirmation from CC herself that it's just a result of premature development!]

That was the last question of the night, but I saved the question I asked her myself for last! I asked her if Cecily and Gideon had official birthdays, and if so, if we would ever learn them, since we know the rest of the TID cast's birthdays from the 10th anniversary birthstone cards.

Her answer: I never told you guys their birthdays?! I have what I call the Bible and it contains everything about all the characters like their birthdays, star signs, etc. So yes, they do have birthdays. I don't remember them off the top of my head, but I'm sure it'd be no problem getting it out to you guys. There's no reason for not.

So, yes, they do have birthdays, and if she remembers that I asked, we might find them out very soon!

I had a great night and there were some hilarious answers to questions that weren't TSC-specific, but I simply just cannot write that fast.

[mattiloveskawoshin]

So, basically, if you are a Lightwood: you will have three children, one must die and other must be queer.

[thepictureofsdr]

idk what y’all are doing over here but i’m having a breakdown over barbara lightwood and oliver hayward i miss them so bad

[rinadragomir]

𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑳𝑨𝑺𝑻 𝑯𝑶𝑼𝑹𝑺: 𝑃𝑂𝑅𝑇𝑅𝐴𝐼𝑇𝑆 (𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕)

let me know what do you think🥺 and tell me who do you wanna see more in the next post - Malcolm or Belial?

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[tomriddleshoe]

Cassie try not to kill every Lightwood sibling challenge. GO!

Update: mission failed

[queenhelenblackthorn]

Gideon, Gabriel, Cecily and Sophie losing a child because of Tatiana

[margareturtle]

A moment of silence for the Underrated Tragic Shadowhunter Couples 😭

MARISOL AND JON (WHY MALCOLM WHAT DID HIMBO JON EVER DO TO YOU 😭)

THULE!LIVVY AND CAMERON (AFTER ALL THULE!LIVVY HAS BEEN THROUGH YOU COULDN’T EVEN LET HER KEEP CAM???CASSIE WHYYYY😭😭)—also unrelated but I’ve been rereading red queen and farley and shade remind me sm of thule livvy and cam and it ends the same way for both of them and I’m just sad 😔

BARBARA AND OLIVER (LOOK I UNDERSTAND WE LOST A LIGHTWOOD PER SERIES BUT 1) WHAT’S WITH BREAKING THE STATUS QUO?? COULD’VE BEEN BARBARA OR CHRISTOPHER BUT NOT BOTH!!! 2) BARBARA AND OLIVER WERE CUTE AND THOMAS DESERVES BOTH OF THIS SIBLINGS BACK!!!😭😭)

LADY NERISSA AND ANDREW (LOOK ANDREW SEEMS LIKE A SHITTY BROTHER AND FATHER BUT HE DID LOVE NERISSA AND SHE LOVED HIM FOR YEARS BUT THEN SHE HAD TO MAKE HIM FORGET AND MAKE IT SO HER CHILDREN ALWAYS THOUGHT OF HER AS EVIL 😭😭)

[tys-kitty]

„Gideon touched her cheek, lightly, with the tips of his fingers. “Did you know your name means ‘wisdom’? It was very well-given.“

I may present to you Gideon Arthur Lightwood