So, guys. I know we’re all wondering what’s going to happen in CoT, and that we’re wary about what CC might have done with Thomastair for good reasons. But, I’m actually hopeful?
You’re right, it’s foolish. And yet, I can’t help thinking that all the Thomastair snippets we’ve been given lead to the two of them sorting things out by CoT’s first half.
Of course, I don’t think all will be fine by then; rather, that Thomas and Alastair will have talked it out, and moved on to dealing with the Merry Thieves.
Why do I think that? Well, my brain’s been mulling over the snippets since they got out, which means you now have to hear my interpretation of them.
A warning: I won’t be posting spoilers about CoT’s leaked chapters, but there’ll be clear references for those who read them.
CoT was always starting in conflict considering how CoI ended, and that became even more evident when Thomas’s note - because it’s his note, let’s be honest - was released.
With its tone, the note mirrors Alastair’s to Thomas before the Townsend Musicale, back when the roles were reversed. It expresses care and longing; the need to be with the person you love.
Now Thomas’s in that position, and all the while having to figure out what’s happening between Alastair and Charles.
He’s with Kit when Alastair visits Charles, and he’s distracted by the ruckus upstairs. The scene is clearly from early CoT, as shown by the lack of communication between him and Alastair.
How do we go from them not communicating to sorting things out, though?
There must be at least one meeting - most likely accidental - in between the encounter at the Fairchilds’ and Thomas and Alastair’s eventual reconciliation. The snippets say so:
This means that Thomas and Alastair meet exactly one day after Alastair visits Charles. It’s really too short of a time for them to have sorted things out, and Thomas clearly doesn’t know anything about Alastair and Charles yet.
After that, it’s all left open to interpretation, but Thomas and Alastair meet again - this time in a carriage - not much later. And maybe, it even happens because Alastair gets Thomas’s note.
Regardless of the reasons, the carriage meeting will presumably represent the turning point in Thomas and Alastair’s relationship.
They meet, share a blanket, talk. They, believe it or not, discuss Charles. And while bringing him up will likely be related to something he did, it’ll also help Thomas and Alastair sort things out.
They’ll be forced to face their feelings, and between that and their newfound proximity, they’ll kiss. It’s only natural, and there’s an art which confirms it.
There are good chances, then, that the carriage meeting will bring major changes to Thomas and Alastair’s relationship.
While making them kiss doesn’t necessarily have to mean anything, it shows that Alastair is faltering; that he’s rethinking his position.
Having talked to him, there won’t be much left for Thomas to do outside of clearing the air with the Merry Thieves - with Matthew.
The only other Thomastair snippets CC gave us either see Thomas and Alastair being happy - the mistletoe, hopeful Alastair - or them effectively dealing with Matthew.
And to be frank, getting him to support their relationship will probably be Thomas and Alastair’s greatest challenge in CoT’s second half.
They’ll be talking about it when Matthew asks Thomas if he loves Alastair, and he’ll accept it throughout the course of the book.
Maybe not immediately, but eventually:
It’ll take a moment of great emotional or physical distress, but Matthew will come around.
This is for all the people who read the first chapter on CHOT
Spoilers Ahead:
So I was thinking about Ariadne and how she found information her father had written about the Herondales and Lightwoods. And how her mother acted when she was in Maurice’s office: no longer warm like she was earlier. I think this confrontation will end one of two ways:
1. Ariadne’s mother kicks her out of the house. Either as punishment for snooping and seeming “untrustworthy”, or bc Ariadne defends her friends against her parents’ prejudice. OR
2. Ariadne chooses to leave the house on her own accord. She’s lonely and her mother is hostile, so why should she stay?
Either way, that brings her to Anna’s doorstep because she feels she has nowhere else to turn. She can’t go to the Institute bc that would look bad on her family and she still cares about them. So she goes to Anna, who ultimately lets her in bc of the information Ariadne has. And then they’ll rekindle their relationship after some angst and tension
We know someone important will die because Cassie said it in an Insta real (here) and all things point to Matthew (or like- lots of people's intuition point to Matthew). There was also a theory of Matthew becoming a downloader which I don't really know where it comes from, but THERE IT IS. SO: What if Mathew dies, and then comes back to "life" as a Vampire?? The chapter title sounds so much like that: Exiled from light. Who is exiled from light? VAMPIRES. Or if it's not Matthew, someone is getting turned into a vampire.
I just note down some details for I cannot remember all until CoT releases
Belial didn’t give James the visions (his dream of the attacks), so who did? Or he had for his own ability (the demon blood that connects with Belial)? And why he kept openning his window during his dream?
The way to Belial’s realm (the one he stole from Lilith) had been blocked by a chess table -> Daisy would absolutely break into his realm by winning this chess game, but I think the chess-man ♟ would be real person (like in Harry Potter 😃); and of course there would be scrifice (if I understand Cassie’ style well). Man this gonna be good 😌
Belial got 2 wounds, one more may end his life but a Prince of Hell cannot be killed right? For he still appears in the shadow market years later TLH and owns Jem a favor, and he can walk on Earth 🥲🙃🙂. I don’t think that Cordelia would loose in the battle, but anyway Belial still got what he wants after all.
Daisy said if James want to know who she has feelings for, he must win a chess game; then, after her father’s death, she owned him an answer, for she asked him to tell her the truth about her father -> in CoT James would 99% ask her who she is in love with and she must tell him the truth 🙂 -> Boommm -> the second wedding rune 😁
The globe pendant and what inside it. Maybe a ring? A stone? What can u hide in such a small thing?
I hope we can meet Wayland the Smith (the real one), and Daisy would be his paladin, and kick Lilith’s ass 😎
Matthew is in love with Daisy, by the Angel, but I don’t think he would go away or be a Silent Brother, because in Lord of Shadow, when Emma stayed at London Institute, she found some pictures of them, and Matthew was with James in most pictures -> I gusse Matt will move on after his unrequited love for Daisy and stay around them as a friend, and have no other love.
I still wonder who was the Inquisitor Blackthorn in all the history (mentioned in qoaad that there was); I wonder it could be Jesse or the children of him and Lucie
Lucie resurrected Jesse, but to me it seemed a little easy right? I know it’s one of her talent but it’s still easy somehow, and I believe there’s a consequence for this, since Jesse didn’t ask her to command him to live. We don’t know why Lucie must have ghosts’ permission to command them. Anyway Jesse is alive and I cannot guesse what is going to happen next.
We haven’t seen Church so far. Please let him play the cameo role in CoT
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Leave a comment if you have any other thoughts and theories 🥸😎😛
I hope think The Merry Thieves will all go their sperate ways at the end of TLH, and it'll be healthier then if they stay together.
See:
Christopher: If him and Grace end up together, I highly doubt James would be okay hanging around him still. And he has every right to.
Matthew's and Thomas' kinda go together.
Matthew: Matthew needs to heal, and to stop blaming Alastair for everything bad that has happened in his life, so I think that he'll leave to do that. To separate himself. Also, if he's in love with Cordelia, then he won't want to stick around. (C'mon people, we know Jordelia will be endgame.)
Thomas: Nothing much, but I think him and Alastair might live in Paris after everything, and because of the Matthew thing.
James: Honestly, after everything he's been through and is going to go through still? This boy deserves a BREAK-
Also, I think him and Cordelia are gonna travel the world together.
I know for the pass few weeks, we all been questioning the effectiveness of Ty's gohst sensor. and I have a thought, but I don't like it. So I am putting it out there and making it a you problem.
So what if the ghost sensor is working a little too well, and it wasn't just paking up ghost, it was also picking up dark magic too. In particular ghost created by dark magic. Which leads to my next point. Is it possible for Tatiana to trap parts of everyone's souls inside those objects? It doesn’t even have to be when they were alive. She and Belisle could’ve set it up, so that the curse automatically trap their spirits inside the objects when they die.
It will make a lot of sensed for TWP too. bc "Shadowhunters from the past and present" does not limit ghost. so it’s completely possible that the spirits of the TLH gang, can play a part in TWP. It will Connect the two series too.
I ended up going down a bit of a rabbit hole on the TLH wikia pages and I found this 7 year old concept art from Cassie’s Tumblr:
I know stories change a lot in 7 years but its interesting that initially Alastair was the one who got Cortana. Based off of this, I don’t think Cordelia ends up getting Cortana back at the end of CoT and instead Alastair keeps it and eventually passes it on to Emma.
Also, apparently at some point Will wanted Lucie to marry Alastair and not Jesse. You can find the concept art for all the characters here.
