MUSE OUTLINE | HEADCANON EDITION!
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NAME OF YOUR MUSE: alec lightwood.
ONE HEADCANON YOU HAVE FOR YOUR MUSE YOU NEVER/SELDOM TOLD ANYONE:
i kinda ... tell everyone my headcanons always dklfdk but one meta i haven’t written up yet is just how important alec’s bow is. he’s most proficient with it, sure, and has shown commendable skill with it, something he takes great pride in, but i think it also serves as an anchor, a coping mechanism. the bow is his pride and joy, and i don’t doubt when it gets broken, its replacement doesn’t feel quite the same, not until he’s amended it to his preferences, spent hours personally maintaining it himself, hard at work with his stele. alec’s weaponry, and likely all his other possessions, are highly personalised to suit his needs, and his bow is the most reflective example of that.
THREE THINGS THAT YOUR MUSE LIKES DOING IN THEIR FREE TIME:
➼ TRAINING. as crucial as this facet is to every shadowhunter’s schedule, alec often resorts to training as a distraction and coping mechanism as well as his daily routine. alec struggles with seemingly meaningless hobbies, and would rather spend his time feeling like he’s doing something worthwhile than indulge in pastimes that provide little purpose other than enjoyment. training is a necessary stepping stone to improvement, but alec also finds the activity somewhat calming if done alone, often waking up early just to have the training room to himself.
➼ READING. reading is quiet, independent, and filled with variety, with a wide array of genres and books at his disposal. mostly, he brushes up on demonology, on historical books plucked from the institute’s library, but occasionally fiction will make its way into his hands —— always well known authors, always the classics, and always with a strong opinion on the characters within. he gets absorbed in the lives of these fictional people, asks questions nobody else would and thoroughly enjoys most of the novels he reads.
➼ ARCHERY. in a similar vein to training, archery serves a purpose. but there’s more to the bow and arrow than improvement alone, a certain pride taken in the lightwood’s precision to a meticulous degree. his hands are deft, his certainty on his abilities shining its brightest when he has an arrow lined up to his target. more often than not, he’ll aim shot after shot until his hands are raw with wear and tear, relishing the peace and quiet aside from the sound of the bowstring.
SEVEN PEOPLE THAT YOUR MUSE LOVES/LIKES/TOLERATES:
the lightwood family and magnus. xo
TWO THINGS YOUR MUSE REGRETS:
➼ MAX. his little brother’s death will always hold a very rigid place in his heart, arguably the most undeserving of that fate, being by far the youngest. alec will always question his decisions, his perception, wondering if sebastian may have been easier to recognise as a fraud if alec had been more observant. while isabelle carries the direct weight of having been there, alec only wishes he’d anticipated it sooner.
➼ REPUTATION. the lightwoods garner a broad notion of exactly what they are like : arrogant and snide, and alec has never really fit that mold fully. he can be, and often is close-minded, particularly towards downworlders and mundanes alike, and his wealthy upbringing, while not as thoroughly embraced as those who indulge in luxurious clothes and accessories, he’s still a lightwood, and will wear the consequences of that like a badge for as long as he lives.
TWO PHOBIAS/FEARS YOUR MUSE HAS:
➼ ARACHNOPHOBIA. this goes as far as canon, because when they want to test the fearless rune, alec suggests spiders. i always laugh at the irony, a) because the big bad shadowhunter that vanquishes demons on the daily is stumped by tiny spiders of all things, but also b) because there are spider demons, and i wonder if arachnophobia is a direct result of those or if he feared spiders all along and it’s just experienced to a further degree with these ones of a larger scale.
➼ FAILURE. alec’s had a huge bar of expecation set for him from a young age : he’s a shadowhunter, a lightwood, and the eldest at that. when something goes wrong, it’s down to him to set it straight, when someone makes a mistake, it’s down to him to take the fall. responsibility to this extreme, and no doubt the ramifications that came with not upkeeping it to the standard required, leave him with a dire sense of dread whenever he feels he may not be able to reach the mark — which is often, considering he doesn’t bear the confidence his parabatai does.
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