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thinking about how if Henry is Christopher's godfather that means Gabriel and Cecily snubbed one of their brothers for the role & that's so funny to me. I wonder who it was?? actually that's a lie I know it was Will. His own sister picked Henry to be godfather over him lmao

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Gabriel absolutely hatred of Will will never not be funny to me. like he wants him dead and I support him <3

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Wait can I ask you to explain about the Gabrily and Gracetopher parallels? I would like to know <3

THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME AN EXCUSE TO RANT! I've been waiting for this opportunity 😈

For me, Grace is Gabriel and Christopher is Cecily, and here's why:

Grace comes from a shitty parental figure (Tatiana), but also has a supportive older brother who is willing to protect her when he can. Gabriel had Benedict as a father and he had Gideon, his older brother, who did everything in his power to protect Gabriel from benedict, much like jesse did with grace

Their older brothers leave for a certain amount of time (gideon to spain, jesse to...partial death?) and Gabriel and Grace have to fend for themselves. In a way, their shitty parental figures have a love-hate relationship with them; tatiana likes grace because of her powers and beauty, but also abuses her and treats her like garbage. Meanwhile Benedict seems to ignore Gabriel until gideon leaves for spain, and then begins giving him attention, but even then it's sort of passive aggressive, from what we see in TID

I've always thought young Cecily and Christopher were super alike, because we can see in CP, Cecily has this sort of hunger to prove to everyone that she can be a hero. Essentially, she wants to bring back her brother and "fix" her family. Kit is similar: from his short story in the penultimate hours, we know that he wants to help people, to be able save shadowhunters.

What I find so interesting about Cecily and Kit is that they both want to help others, even though their sort of disconnected from everyone else. Cecily doesn't fit in with the shadowhunters at the institute initially and is constantly being undermined and sometimes even ignored by everyone else. Like, did anyone other than Gabriel make a valid attempt to get to know her? No. (this is important for later) Then we have Christopher who doesn't fit in with the shadowhunter community either. Thankfully, he has his friends, but they don't really understand him, other than Thomas (though, in his pov, Kit mentioned that Thomas only gets him sometimes)

Cecy and Kit also both have an older sibling that wants to protect them and is always looking out for them (Will and Anna). The difference is that while cecily always hated will's protectiveness, kit didn't seem to notice Anna's (lol I love kit)

Cecily is described as an observer; she's constantly analyzing the room and the people around her. I think the fact that Kit is a prodigy scientist is basically all the evidence we need to describe were the resemblance lies

Now, let's talk about them coming together:

Before meeting, both cecily and christopher have heard bad things from gabriel and grace (both are surrounded by people who hate them, witht he exception of gideon in cecily's case). Despite this, neither of them take this into consideration when they meet them: both cecily and christopher basically say FU to previous knowledge they had about Gabriel and Grace and open themselves to get to know the other.

Here's my favorite parallel: CECILY IS THE ONLY ONE WHO UNDERSTANDS GABRIEL IN TID AND VISE VERSA. AND IN TLH CHRISTOPHER IS THE ONLY ONE WHO UNDERSTAND GRACE AND VISE VERSA (the kit and grace one is even confirmed explicitly in choi)

Cecy gives gabriel advice on how to change, kit encourages grace to keep trying to change for the better

Both Cecily and Kit give Gabriel and Grace the push they need to overcome their past

this one is an intuition of mine, but I love it sm I can't not include it: Cecily is gabriel's ticket into becoming accepted into the tid gang, but we can also see that without Gabriel, Cecily wouldn't have initially stuck around because as I said before, she wasn't able to make significant friendships with the others before meeting Gabriel. In a way, the reason Gabriel and Cecily fit into the tid gang is because they have each other as well and I think that would have been the case for Grace and Christopher as well (we can, however, already see that some tlh characters—Anna and Henry— seem to take grace under their wings, and I don't think it's a coincidence that they were both close with Kit). In a way, Kit is the reason that Grace belongs (Not jesse—in gabriel's case, gideon isn't the reason he fits into the tid gang either)

Their connection/relationship only blossoms in the last book of the series (I say connection because I'm a firm believer in ace-gracetopher)

The fact that both Gabriel and Grace run to the institute after being attacked by their shitty parental figure and find refuge there

They all find comfort with their pair (Gabrily being together during Jem's "death"; gracetopher on christmas)

They initially have one topic in common that leads to their strong bond: Gabriel and Cecily love fighting and training (more specifically distance weaponry) while Grace and Kit bond over their love for science.

There are also parallels between gabriel/kit and grace/cecily, like the fact that gabriel and kit are already familiar with the shadow world and are well immersed into it, while cecily and grace know nothing about the shadow world and have zero training at the beginning of their respective series'

Gabriel teaches cecily everything he knows about training and tutors her because he has faith in her and her natural skills. KIT TEACHES GRACE ABOUT SCIENCE BECAUSE HE SEES HER INNATE TALENT FOR IT!!

Cecily describes gabriel as weirdly attractive upon their first encounter and Grace does the same with christopher

Y'all, there's sooooooo much more, but I'm forgetting everything haha I also need to read like 100 pages for tomorrow so I should probably get to doing that, but if I think of any more, I'll reblog and add them

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Gabriel's introduction everyone cheered.

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I have to post about it more concretely bc actually. It kind of sucks a LOT that we didn’t get ANY scene of Gabriel and Cecily learning about Christopher.

Gabriel and Cecily have always obviously been the least favorite couple from The Infernal Devices—I mean, Cecily overall was barely thrown into Clockwork Princess and has never had any real character development. But when making TLH, CC had a chance to rectify that and expand upon these legacy characters that she has.

But of course, throughout Chain of Gold and Chain of Iron, both Anna and Kit were more secondary characters than main characters, and Cecily and Gabriel were not worth page space. Which would be fine enough alone, not everyone has to be a fan favorite or even important character.

But CC made them important when she decided that Christopher would be the big sacrifice in Chain of Thorns. Now there’s no build up, so there can’t be pay off with Gabrily. Christopher’s death is now a tacked on shock factor for all of 20 pages.

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everyone says to go to Anna for clothing advice but Cecily and Gabriel got her her first suit and I don’t see anyone going to them for fashion problems

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Justice for the Gideon and Gabriel girlies!!

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Characters who didn't deserve to die. Characters who deserved more than a useless death

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Magnus: Why do you all still live together? You obviously hate each other.

Gabriel: We don’t all hate each other, we just all hate Will.

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Chain of Thorns spoilers

Natasha Romanoff 🤝 Kit Lightwood

Us not getting to see their funeral even tho they saved the world (more than once)

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yknow what. the lightwoods should have been more important to the overall plot of tlh then they were. if every single previous series, the main villians/antagonists have had a very personal connection to the main characters; Clary -> her dad and brother (+ Jace also has a complicated relationship with them), Tessa -> the guy who manufactured her birth & her brother, Emma -> the guy who murdered her parents/Julian -> said guy who also hates his whole family & his long dead ancestor. like Belial is James & Lucie's grandfather but he A. does not give a shit about Lucie and B. only really appears at the end of the book.

Tatiana is the more front and centre villian of tlh, and yet none of the mains actually have that much of a relationship with her. like yes there's Grace & they have relationships with her but that's not the same to me?? plus Tatiana seeming hates all their families equally which is also weird to me too; she barely knew Jem for example. but with her brothers, that's personal!! & a much more compelling and complicated situation.

and the flash fictions did set some stuff that could've been interesting! like Gideon worrying that both Jesse and Thomas being sick could be connected, and telling her as much. and then she basically tells him his son gonna die & her's won't; like that has to sting now, since Thomas is older than Jesse ever was. and Christopher says one of the reasons he turned to science was because Jesse died! and there wasn't anything anyone could do to save him!! like that's their aunt and cousins!!! the plot entirely hinges on them & their decisions!!

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I meant to post this in June.. of last year..

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remember when grace held magnus at knifepoint? yeah me too