Manipulations, betrayals or whatever
It’s really bothering me the fact that some people are comparing what the Blackthorns did to kieran (not telling him about the memory loss so he could testify) and what kieran did through the books as it was the same thing. It’s okay to like characters and wanting to “defend” them, but let me remind you of some things :
Mark went to Faerie to save kieran even tho he knew that he was still not “accepted” among the rest of the shadowhuners (the awful ones ofc) and was going to get in trouble with the clave.
Julian, emma and cristina went there to help him save the guy despite not being really “fond”of him (for obvious reasons).
Julian confronted the Unseelie king to SAVE the life of a guy that betrayed his brother, tried to take him away from them AND who got Emma and him whipped (almost killing her).
Emma fought the Unseelie king’s knight, even when she was at a disadvantage, to save this guy´s life.
Cristina helped him get over the fence when they were being chased by the riders (then being attacked several times by them through the book, and because of what? saving Kieran). They carried him even when he was unconscious.
If it wasn’t for all these things, he would be DEAD by now.
And in that moment there was NO bargain made with the Seelie Queen yet, there was nothing beneficial that they could get by helping kieran, but they still risked their lives and safety for him. That’s seems pretty selfless to me.
They didn´t know about the memory loss, except for Mark, then he tells Cristina about it when they are in the seelie court taking care of him, Emma and Julian still didn´t know about it.
Their initial idea was to brought him back to the hunt, but the seelie queen made them bargain with her, she decided to make him, Kieran, her envoy, it was her idea to make him testify. They didn’t want it. Mark tells Kieran that it was going to be his choice if he accepted or not, and HE agreed to it. Not them.
When they arrived at the London Institute it’s when most of them are informed about kieran´s memory loss and we constantly see Mark feeling really bad about having to lie, he tried to talk to him many times and make him realize that they needed some time to rethink about their relationship, but kieran was the one who didn´t want to listen, it wasn´t like Mark was acting all lovey dovey with him pretending everything was okay between them. Also, it’s important to remember that there is much more at stake than the blackthorns well-being with kieran´s testimony, there´s the downworlders safety too (especially faeries), the Seelie Queen´s plan to kill the Unseelie king (which is obviously beneficial to kieran since the king wants him dead), AND, the most important thing, the end of the Cold Peace. By not telling him the “truth” about the situation and what he did, he gained the protection of the shadowhunters, protection that he didn´t deserve (I assume there´s no need to explain why) he gained not to own and suffer for the consequences of his previous acts, he gained time to make up for the things he did (even tho at the end he still didn´t make up for anything), etc. so, If we are being honest, we can admit that he benefited the most from all of this. He was not doing them a favour out of kindness, he was doing what he agreed to do in the Seelie Court, he was doing what, in some way, owed to the blackthorns, and yet after all that the sahdowhunters NEVER pushed or pressured him to it. Cristina never wanted to “order” him to do something, even tho she could have done it. Mark tells him that he didn´t have to testify if he didn´t want it, knowing that it would signify not only being threatened by the Unseelie king, but by The Clave and now the Seelie Queen too for breaking their deal… How manipulative of them, right?
And finally, at the end of the book when it´s supposed that kieran has to testify and accomplish his “task” (and the reason he was in the book for) guess what happened? He didn´t do it. Nothing. At all (and cc knew from the beginning that he would not be able to make it, so why include him if his prescence in the book was going to be pointless? if he was not going to, sort of, pay his debt to the blackthorns? just to further the triad arc?), But somehow, he still ended up protected by the shadowhunters and taken to the Scholomance. So, excuse me, if I think that comparing the blackthorn´s actions and kieran´s ones, that were mostly for his personal benefit and interest, a huge, HUGE, ~reach~.
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