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Queen of Air & Darkness Q&A: Kitty

(spoilers for Queen)

onomatopoeiasuga said: Throughout LM and LOS, we’ve seen Ty caring so much about Kit. He slept by his door every single day when Kit first arrived in the Institute, he tried to include him in his and Livvy’s activities, tried to make him feel safe and welcomed and just helped him adjust to his new life. But in QOAAd Ty seemed so distant and negligent, it’s almost like he didn’t care at all about Kit and he was so unfazed by the fact that Kit left. Was it an aftermath of losing Livvy or maybe he just never cared all?

Well, I said I’d answer the opposite of this question here, so let’s go!

Ty isn’t distant or negligent in Queen. He’s fractured by an immense grief. Losing a sibling is terrible; losing a twin is a unique kind of hell that many people don’t survive. There’s a specific term for someone who’s twin has died: Twinless twin, and there are support groups and special therapies to deal with the profound loss. 

Profound grief affects people differently. In Ty’s case he focuses entirely on the idea that he can save Livvy and bring her back — that he hasn’t lost her at all. Sometimes that belief frays at the edges (causing him, for instance, to tear up his room) but mostly he hangs onto that as a survival mechanism. That simply doesn’t leave him a lot of emotional capital to spend on Kit. Again, that’s not negligence and it’s not lack of caring. Ty is in incredible pain. That he wants Kit around so much while he goes through trying to get Livvy “back” indicates how much he does care for Kit; he’s leaning on him because he no longer has the emotional strength to be someone Kit can lean on, but he’s also leaning on him because he trusts him. The worst thing that has ever happened to Ty in his life has just happened to him. It’s not at all strange he can’t think about how he should be there for other people. He can barely be there for himself.

Nor is he unfazed by Kit leaving. He asks repeatedly if he can see Kit.

“Where’s Kit, really?” Ty said… “I keep asking, but no one will tell me.”

Magnus looked up, his cat’s eyes hooded. “Kit’s all right. He’s with Tessa and Jem. He’s going to be living with them.”

Ty begs to be allowed to say good-bye to Kit.

“I know,” Ty said. “I know, but—can I say good-bye to him?”

“He’s already gone,” Magnus said. “He didn’t want to say good-bye to you.”

It’s made very clear to Ty, by Magnus and others, that Kit doesn’t want to see him. So keeping on pushing would only be disrespectful of what has been stated to him to be Kit’s wishes; it wouldn’t be a sign he cares about Kit, but rather the opposite. The smallness of Ty’s request — that he be allowed to say good-bye to Kit — and the fact that it gets turned down, is one of the saddest outcomes of the whole mess, to me, though again, it is no one’s fault.

It’s totally normally when something happens between two people in a book that’s sad — like two people breaking apart when you hoped they’d get together — there’s a desire to blame one of them. But no one is at fault in this situation. These are two people who are not in the same emotional place at a crucial time: that doesn’t mean they never will be, or that either of them did anything wrong.

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Illustration of Livvy in the ninth GHOSTS OF THE SHADOW MARKET story, THE LOST WORLD, by me and Kelly Link. Art by @dibadavood. Book coming to bookstores in June!

A snippet:

“Boo!” she said, and Kit fumbled the mug, spilling liquid all down his pants.

“Livvy?” he said.

“That’s right,” she said, pleased. “You can see me. It gets really, really boring being invisible to everyone.”

“What are you doing here?” Kit said. Then, “Is he okay? Ty?”

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“I love you Ty, I love you!”

The scene that broke all our hearts 💔

Ty and Kit from The Dark Artifices series by @cassandraclare

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your daily reminder that this is a thing that happened and since then the world has become a better, more beautiful place

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kit and ty playlist: the night we met - lord huron

When the night was full of terrors And your eyes were filled with tears When you had not touched me yet Oh, take me back to the night we met

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when kit gave the middle finger to that phouka and ty just laughed and grabbed his sleeve,,, that was a classic a CLASSIC

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“[Ty] didn’t look like he was cosplaying an eighties music video star; he looked icy and striking and- beautiful elegant.”

Honestly what an iconic moment from Kit’s brain. Thanks so much @cassandraclare (also i’m sorry about the gif resolution, there’s a better version on my instagram and twitter!)

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kit herondale ↔ ty blackthorn, queen of air and darkness

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kit herondale and ty blackthorn a very late secret santa for @kittrook

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Kit: …so then I told him I loved him…and he didn’t say it back. naturally I moved to another country the first chance I got. but idk I still can’t stop thinking about him. what do you think I should do?

Baby Carstairs: *incoherent baby noises*

Kit, sobbing: ur so wise

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He grinned, and the grin changed his face completely. Ty when he was still and expressionless had an intensity that fascinated Kit; when he was smiling, he was extraordinary.

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Ty: *exists*

Kit:

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Some of you have never tried to raise your best friend’s sister from the dead and realized along the way that it was a terrible idea but couldn’t stop because you were falling hopelessly in love with said best friend and admitted your feelings to them when you finally tried to stop the necromancy but got ignored so chose to leave your best friend without saying goodbye and it shows

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He thought, how beautiful

↳ Kit x Ty

He grinned, and the grin changed his face completely. Ty, when he was still and expressionless, had an intensity that fascinated Kit; when he was smiling, he was extraordinary.

 kitty aes 1 | kitty aes 2   | kitty edit

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kit herondale and tiberius blackthorn: the wicked powers

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tsc meme: ten scenes [1/10] ⟶ kit meets ty

❝Kit had imagined before what he’d do if a Nephilim ever grabbed him. How he’d stomp on their feet, break their bones, snap their wrists, spit in their faces. He did none of those things, thought of none of those things. He looked at the boy with the knife to his throat, the boy whose black eyelashes feathered down against his cheekbones as he glanced away from Kit, and he felt something like a shock of recognition pass through him.❞

—lady midnight, @cassandraclare