the last line of gotsm ⁉️ how could i forget. they stressed it SO heavily. ALSO!!! when jem first brought up the line, something kinda struck me (maybe im late to the party)
the riders of mannan have bronze skin and hair. it cant be coincidental. i dont know where else to take this i just NEED to see if anyone else realized
aziraphale was so flirty when crowley gave him a ride after the 1941 church scene. ‘ooooooo crowley you just saved me and my silly little books. that was sooooooooo nice of you. so nice and sweet and i wonder……what can I do for you in return….? could be anything seriously anything at all. wink wink wink’ but crowley was grouchy and fumbled the bag
not even five minutes in and there’s tears in my eyes bc 1. aziraphale has had a crush on crowley since the beginning of the universe 2. aziraphale inadvertently planted the seed in crowley’s head that would lead to his fall 3. all crowley wanted was for someone to appreciate his stars
thinking about the ntn indirect griddlehark kiss... okay imagine you're kiriona, right. and you're having the worst six months of your existence. the girl you love and who you sacrificed everything for is missing and you have no idea where she is. you haven't actually seen her in the flesh in almost two years. then you open your eyes and there she is, and you haven't heard from her in six months, and you look at her in such mute helpless appeal that she KISSES YOU and then you realize it isn't even HER, it's just some girl who's possessing her body and now there's this girl who's in her body but it isn't her and you have to watch her walk around and talk with her voice and laugh with her laugh. i would kill myself. i would give anything to read her pov.
I can't believe Thomas kicks himself for thinking of twittering birds and Persian princes when Alastair is right there reciting damn poetry while they're making out
“Heroes aren't always the ones who win. They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.”
lucifer helped alec survive the svefnthorn - a theory
story time! i was ranting to @dustandducks about how i can't believe alec survive being stabbed by the svefnthorn (he stabbed himself but same sentiment) which was attuned to sammael at the time. sammael who, you know, is a literal prince of hell, with power only second to lucifer himself. and to add more onto this.
it is stated that only a warlock can survive being stabbed by the svefnthorn and nothing can reverse its effects. no other magical creatures in the shadoworld stand a chance against the svefnthron, except the warlock. pretty terrifying right? but this happened
alec survived being stabbed by the svefnthorn. not only did he survive, not only did there was no blood or injury or visible scar from the stabbing, but he was also able to call the thorn's power to him and used that power to help magnus. but why? how could that happen? we already established the power of the svefnthorn, and it was clear alec was not meant to survive it. i love alec, i would absolutely do something that ends me up on national news if it would make him happy, but i know his ability. he doesn't have extra angel blood or any blessing from the angels, or any secret gift that makes him exceptionally powerful, he's just your normal level shadowhunter
even alec himself was surprised when he realized he was not burnt to a crisp due to his 300 IQ decision-making skills. and i know we have the explanation about the alliance rune smoothing the thorn's demonic magic and alec's angelic magic to work together, but once again, how? we don't have a clear exposition for this, even from characters in the story
alec didn't know it would work, magnus didn't know why it worked. everybody's best guess were fate taking it easy on them. and for sammael-
he just...left, like how corporate taking down their pride flags the second pride month is over. no rage, no murder, nada, just disappeared into space. he also seemingly non fazed by the fact that alec survive a thorn with clearly anti non-warlock embedded to its manual.
@dustandducks raised a really good point, what if someone else, some higher power meant for alec to survive. the usual, and maybe logical answer would be angel looking out for their descendants, cause alec need to fulfill a greater destiny in the future. im going to play the devil’s advocate here and suggest that lucifer popped up and gave alec a little demonic magical assistance. this conspiracy somewhat tied up the loose ends in the lost book of the white and built some interesting story beat for the wicked power and the black volume of the dead
the twist fitting to what we already known from tlbotw
maybe the reason why sammael didn’t snatch alec up and put him in some demonic science lab in his realm is because he sensed lucifer’s presence and decided not to mess with anything lucifer was cooking up. (as lucifer is more powerful than him, which is also stated before the stabbing scene in tlbotw) it can also tied in sammael’s motive of gathering other princes of hell to talk about lucifer in the epilogue. tlbotw was setting up the grounds for tbvotd, magnus escaped becoming a greater demon’s minion leading to alec becoming the minion of a greater greater demon
how the twist affect the future events in the tsc universe
one might be thinking, why would lucifer saved alec, he just a normal shadowhunter, why would the literal mega ultimate OG devil care about him? as much as i would like to say it’s because everything revolve around alec and everyone love him (as they should), i know it’s not the case.
many have speculated that in the final series, there will be a showdown between demons and the shadoworld. and what if lucifer wanted to infiltrate the enemy’s side, wreck them slowly from the inside and make them suffer at the hands of their kind. his spy should held high position, a major voice among the children of the angels and has a connection to the downworlders, and someone who wouldn’t pose as potential suspect easily.
enter alec who fit all these criteria and more. who would think their consul is under the control of lucifer and is working against them? if alec under the influence of lucifer wreaked havoc from the shadow, it could create more base for the cohort to claim that they were right and the clave in exile would suffer under an incompetent lead, causing animosity and conflicts in the already tense political situation. and when the truth comes out? chaos everywhere. lucifer didn’t even have to lift a finger to see the shadowhunters crash and burn
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the fact that gideon’s first reaction to thomas saying he’s gonna spend the rest of his life with alastair was “i didn’t think you even liked alastair” is soo in character 😭 he has no idea whats going on but tries his best
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