I RETURN WITH MORE MALEC HEADCANONS
Once again, I am here to make and ruin people’s day. But overall make mine better.
Some of these are based off of TV canon, some based off of book canon, some just based takes. If you want to see part one go skidaddle on over to this : 1
Alec’s hands are typically wrapped in medical tape and bandaids, partially from always cutting them up from prepping more arrows or too many hours in the training room, but also they help if he doesn’t have time to grab his gloves on an emergency shift. But sometimes Magnus and his siblings jokingly swap out his stash for hello kitty bandaids and hot pink medical tape.
Magnus won’t admit it but he’s a bit of a stationary snob. A habit formed from being around long enough to see a decline product quality.
The two have white board in Magnus’s office with a running tally of the amount of times people have invited them for a…uh…group wrestling match….its a lot…
As much as he denies the idea that his warlock mark affects anything but his eyes. Magnus does have a habit of adapting cat like movements when he’s relaxed or exhausted. Bored? He’s tipping that empty cup over. Lazy? He’s slinking around. Tired? Curled UP.
Chairman Meow and Alec take catnaps together.
Magnus still has a flat just outside of Oxford that him and Alec reside at when they want a weekend away from the city.
Magnus likes to do yoga on the balcony before Alec gets up but sometimes Alec will follow him out there to stay together and watch but ultimately will fall back to sleep on the lounge chair.
Magnus wears skirts, not like mini skirts but rather the sort of long flowing skirts that he can layer with different patterns or with a pair of pants underneath.
They both like to steal each other’s clothes so Magnus magic’ed their closest to be a sort of “one size fits all” type of deal where all of their clothes will form to fit each other perfectly.
Because they live in Dumbo, Magnus enjoys taking the ferry to Manhattan and back.
Magnus imbues his magic into jewelry and gifts it to Alec. Currently Alec wears a tumbler cage necklace full of small crystals for protection, health, and more underneath his shirt and also a few bracelets.
Magnus’s muscles aren’t just for show, he can lift Alec up and the first time he did it, Alec lowkey blacked out.
Alec will complain about beard burn but whenever Magnus offers to clean shave, Alec says no.
When Alec gets busy and allows himself to grow out his own beard a bit, Magnus’s brain sounds a little bit like a fax machine.
Magnus doesn’t like bitter melon. In fact he actively and vocally hates it.
If you steal a drink from Alec’s coffee mug there’s a 50/50 chance you’re about to take a sip of black coffee or miso soup.
Magnus prefers waffles, Alec prefers pancakes.
Despite being a picky eater, Alec does have a spice tolerance and will typically be the one who makes the spicy broth concoction when they all get hotpot.
To Magnus, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. To Alec, a slice of toast with butter goes crazzyyyy.
(it took me a few tries to write this next one because i couldn’t stop laughing)
The first time Magnus ever got the ick with Alec was when he found out Alec liked pineapple on pizza.
When Max was a baby he was really fussy with food and many times refused to eat his dinner until Magnus or Alec had tried it first and shown that it “was safe” and Magnus typically has to do the taste testing because the first time Alec did it he almost threw up (it was mushy peas).
Alec LOVES tiramisu so when he found out that a specialty tiramisu shop opened in the east village he damn near dragged the entire gang there opening week.
Their favorite date night meal is sushi, Magnus will typically just order them a variety plate of fish since Alec prefers plain nigiri or maki rolls anyways.
Magnus got rid of their microwave after finding Alec using it to heat up water while making tea.
In order to bond with each other’s significant others: Magnus and Jace go record stores, Alec and Clary get tacos at Super Burrito in the West Village.
Magnus and Izzy have bonding nights together and if Alec ever accidentally interrupts them he’s invited to join but he’s also leaving with his nails painted (he prefers all black).
As blessed as they feel to have a village that loves and cares for their kids, they actually had to ask their family and friends to dial back on babysitting requests at one point because they feared they weren’t seeing their own children enough.
Alec and his siblings picked up smoking when they were teens with Jace and Izzy always partying and long night shifts during the winter and Magnus over the centuries. They all work to not make a habit of it but sometimes during a night out if they are all at a bar, they will share a pack.
Alec is lowkey (highkey) a little shit that loves to gossip and so while everyone was happy that he started to be friends with Lily and Maia, everyone fears to end up the topic of the trio’s group chat.
Speaking of gossip, Alec and Izzy gossip in Spanish, Alec and Jace in french. Magnus and Caterina in German, and Magnus and Alec in Indonesian (Magnus is teaching him)
Magnus no longer has an open door policy after the entire gang barged in during a date night and left all of them collectively traumatized for various reasons.
Sometimes Magnus and Caterina will disappear for a few hours and come back having broken a handful of laws (to this day no one knows what happens during their adventures)
Alec and Simon don’t have a lot in common, but they are friends on Chess.com and play rounds together.
While Magnus hates the idea of Harry Potter, he made a magic wand for Rafael to feel included during his magic sessions with Max. All it does is change the color of objects, levitate small items, and emit light.
On the other hand, Alec enlisted Clary to help make a clay casing around a washable marker to make it look like a stele so Max could draw runes on himself while Alec trained Rafael.
They have broken Alec’s bed at the institute HAHA.
Alec struggles with chronic migraines, so whenever people come into his office and see the deadly combo of a Coke and French fries they know to tread lightly.
Alec plays stupid a lot. Not for attention but actually quite the opposite. He feigns cluelessness about pop culture and the like in hopes that people stop trying to talk to him. But he grew up in New York in the age of the internet. He 100% knows who Sabrina Carpenter is and has seen the trailers for the new hunger games movie, he just has bigger fish to fry. But the first time his “play stupid” facade slipped in front of Clary and Simon while they were talking about Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” performance at the Grammys, the other two almost had a stroke.
After the war and with Max and Madzie now in their lives, Magnus, Caterina and few other warlocks worked together to open an orphanage for downworld children. Magnus still goes a few times a month to help teach magic.
Following a pretty bad relapse and with some convincing, Alec agreed to go to therapy. Caterina hooked him up with a mundane therapist with the sight in Queens and he’s doing better now. He still goes to monthly sessions.
Magnus’s favorite author is Dostoevsky, Alec’s is Oscar Wilde.
When Magnus gets bored he changes up the apartment, but recently he’s been limited to interior design only after Alec sleepily walked into a wall one night that wasn’t there the day before (he just wanted a glass of water).
Caterina describes Alec as a farmer, if he voluntarily checks into the infirmary or asks Magnus for help, he gets popular really fast.
Magnus has done and still does psychedelics every once in a while.
They both have a competency kink OK BYE
