#tessa herondale

[hanelizabeth]

‘One must always be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.’

will, tessa, james & lucie - the sweetest little family of bookworms 📚

characters by @cassandraclare 🤍

[booklovingturtle]

You don’t understand…they are EVERYTHING to me

Artist: @charliebowater

[paraheronstairs]

herongraystairs never had one bad track

"You think she's pretty?" Will was surprised; Jem rarely opined on this sort of thing.

"Yes, and you do too."

"I hadn't noticed, really."

"Yes, you have, and I've noticed you noticing." BANGER

“Tessa was only halfway down the corridor when they caught up to her- Will and Jem, walking on either side of her. "You didn’t really think we weren't going to come along, did you?" ICONIC

“Perhaps she's a girl who's fallen madly in love with me and persists in following me wherever I go."

"My talent is shape-shifting, Will, not acting," said Tessa, and at that, Jem laughed out loud. Will glared at him. SURREAL

AND DON’T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON "What you said before, she asked. "That Jace Herondale loves Clarissa Fairchild more than anyone you've ever known except someone - you never finished the sentence. Who was it?"

"I was going to say you and me and Will”

[incorrect-tsc-quotes]

Will, about Tessa: I just think Tessa's cool. It's not like I lay awake at night, thinking about her...

Will at night:

Will: fuck

[layla-carstairs]

thinking about Tessa hearing slipping through my fingers by abba for the first time. like that song is emotionally devastating for people who didn't watch their baby girl die of old age I cannot imagine what it's like for her :(

[belle-keys]

Dearest James Herondale, are you absolutely sure your father has never ever been angry with his parabatai in his life? Are you super sure? Are you doubtless? Are you certain? By chance, have you, uh, tried asking your mother? Just by chance?

[lilasprincesse]

Am I the only one who hopes Dru won't be a swordswoman? because as all the main female characters (except Tessa) are swordswoman, it's a bit boring in the long run

[readwithlivvy]

rating the shadowhunter main girlies by how horny they are

clary:

was kinda incest-y with multiple guys so that has to count for something

banged jace for the first time in a CAVE in HELL

created the birth control rune😭😭

overall 7/10

tessa:

found out her fiancé died and decided to fuck his best friend on the same day!!

still managed to wait for marriage with will though (which i find sliiiiightly unbelievable)

not incredibly horny because it is the victorian era and she would've been stoned or whatever idk

5/10

emma:

the first shadowhunter girlie not to lose her virginity to the love interest 🎉🎉

attempted to do the tango with julian right afTER HIS SISTER DIED?!?!

they also fucked in the first book which is record speed for shadowhunters

feels like 9/10

cordelia:

hehehe did some light bondage on james

made out with matthew on the streets of paris and was fully prepared to have sex if james didn't show up

always thinking about james' hair and eyes in a way that has some sexual undertones?? am i the only one seeing it like that??

overall 7/10

[graylxvee]

Fuck all romances except the one of the dreamy booknerd lady, the sarcastic welsh and the soft violist boy

[aestridashryver]

Is it just me or is Tessa’s trauma severely overlooked? Like I feel like barely anyone mentions that she lost everyone she had ever known and went to live with her brother only to get kidnapped and then tortured like I feel like people forget that part of her story sometimes but maybe I’m just not seeing those posts. But still, remembering that and seeing how Tessa still chooses to act makes my respect for her grow more and more.

[herondalegfsblog]

wait, you’re telling me that since will herondale believed he was cursed, then to him, the fact that all his friends were still alive meant that they didn’t love him???

he believed that if anyone loved him they would die, so if they were alive, then he just went on believing that they didn’t love him.

IM CRYING OH MY GOD

[hanelizabeth]

just jem and tessa sat doing their favourite things by the window at cirenworth 🤍

characters by @cassandraclare 🫶

[julianblackthornspancakes]

[daisymylove]

I sincerely don't know if Im alone on this one, so I want to know what yall think. Again, I may get some heat for this, but it’s my honest opinion.

Something I noticed in my reread is that I grew a slight dislike for lucie in chot, and as someone who had always previously rooted for her, I’m currently annoyed at myself.The thing is, Lucie IS a very privileged and sheltered girl.She was born into a wealthy, loving family and, because of her apparent “normalcy”, never suffered the brunt of the shadowhunter prejudice like Tessa and James.

None of this is a problem in itself, but my point here is that there were always other people protecting, thinking and worrying for her, so I think not only she never realized how precarious her family’s position actually was, but also has no true understanding of consequences and how the “real world” works.She knew in some level that what she was doing regarding jesse was dangerous, but was never truly afraid of repercussions, bc unconsciously she knows there will be someone to catch her . And while I do like to see a character become aware of its own privileges along the narrative, there’s no growing here.She finished the book without ever realizing it, because everything was just SO easy and convenient, and that bothers me greatly.

In all fairness, how could she? she does whatever she wants with no consequences.

I feel so conflicted bc while I actually cheered when she brought jesse back in choi, and always shipped them, I find the outcome of her actions to be low-key infuriating.Lucie wasn’t willing to give Jesse up, but also never seriously considered giving up her comfortable life to start over with him somewhere.That ludicrous and set to fail jeremy blackthorn plan wasn’t even her idea, it was the people around her finding a way to fix her “mistakes” to save all of their asses from jail.

Lucie could’ve had her marks stripped, her father could’ve lost the institute, it could’ve costed Tessa’s life.Those guys had been waiting 25 years for the slightest opportunity to pounce on her, does anyone seriously believe they wouldn’t all automatically think the warlock mother was involved? How come there was some major necromancy going on under her roof and she had no idea?  we know she didnt, but still   All of this was severely downplayed and there was little to no conflict regarding it, and anyone can correct me if im wrong, but none of that ever dawned on lucie.She never fully thought about how her family would be implicated, and nobody brought that up to her.Zero confict just chill, I guess this is our life now .Dont get me wrong, I dont want that shitstorm to actually happen,I just wanted her to become AWARE of it

 she literally brought home this complete stranger to them all (we know jesse, the characters dont) that was 8 years her senior (it doesnt matter his body was frozen for 7 years, mentally jesse is 24), Tatiana’s son, and had been dead up until last tuesday, but nobody save perhaps jessamine, and god it pains me to agree with jessamine had a problem with that.Instant acceptance, no resistance, no objections at all.All it would take for that lie to crumble would be ONE trial by the sword at any point of their lives and everybody was as chill as chicken joe from surfs up

Her fight with Cordelia pissed me off too. Lucie meddled on something she had no right and no knowledge of,and demanded things of Cordelia without even being willing to hear her out. ”oh the poor thing is suffering so much bc of you, why can’t you just take him back?” GIRL, FOR ALL SHE KNOWS, UNTIL A WEEK AGO, HOME BOY WAS SWEARING UNDYING LOVE AND BURNING DOWN MANORS FOR GRACE BLACKTHORN. 

WE know poor james was ensorcelled and fighting it, but what was cordelia supposed to think of it? How dare she assume that Cordelia “took advantage of James going to Cornwal to run away with matthew”? 

The demon of secrets in edom scene was plain ridiculous.”yo I had a childhood crush on your brother, sorry for never telling you, I was embarrassed” is not a big deal.The fact that they needed demonic intervention for THAT so late in the book baffles me

While I do think most characters were severely nerfed on this book and behaved ooc on several occasions (swear to god I have some mild ptsd from all the times cordelia ran and did unhinged things) , my conclusion about Lucie’s arc is that she took her good life for granted, endangered her entire family, didnt grow from the experience, but still got everything she wanted with no consequences or sacrifices.She lost a cousin along the way, but who cares about that guy? what was his name again? Its my understanding that Lucie never even faced a trial.Thats unrealistic and bad writing, if you ask me.When I think it over, the word that comes to me is...spoiled.

And dont get me started on the fact that she found out Malcom was planning on doing full blown necromancy and didnt do anything about it.How that had no repercussions AT ALL still blows my mind.

 The worst part for me is that I genuinely believe Lucie deserved better you know? 

If lucie and cordelia hadnt been allowed to become parabatai, and jesse had received some other minor yet life changing punishment, and we had seen a trial scene I would’ve been satisfied, because at least it wouldn’t have been nothing.

[allthestories]

“So American” by Olivia Rodrigo but make it Will and Tessa Herondale.

[layla-carstairs]

most unrealistic part of tlh actually is there being no scene where someone opens a door & discovers everyone's parents trying (& failing) to pretend they all didn't have their ear pressed to the door 1.5 seconds ago