WE WERE ROBBED OF HIMBO LIGHTWOOD SIBLINGS!!! I mean, that jewelry business idea actually came from Izzy and Alec was like yOu tOlD hIm wE aRe jEwelLlErS??? We could have got so much more of that !! This is the disaster siblings due I strive for and himbo energy I aspire 😭
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!! YOU GET IT!!!! i wanted the dumbass lightwood shenanigans we deserved and the whole charlie thing was the PERFECT opportunity for that and instead we got nada!!! i wanted to see alec stealing all of izzy's braincells only to throw them all away along with his!!! we deserved it!!!
also lmao the whole jeweller thing works relatively well with izzy considering she's a weapons master but it does nOT for alec and panicked alec goes to her with a million questions and she doesn't have the answer and slowly her confidence starts to falter like shit!! shit i don't know either!!! fuck! cue the both of them going into intense dramatic research into Everything About Jewelry Making That Won't Actually Come Up In Conversation
(they have to be away from magnus for this because when magnus and izzy are together they neutralize alec's dumbness-inducing rays i think. they multiply each other's braincells at about the same rate that alec deducts them so it stays stable)
alec and izzy trying to "help" each other with their lies during their conversation with charlie except they inevitably only make it worse because they have completely different trains of thought and it simply doesn't FIT. their stories don't match at all and it's a fucking nightmare. or charlie asks a question and they both go "uhh" and then give COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ANSWERS at the same time. izzy tries to hide it by being like "lol what do you mean? no it was [her lie]" and alec turns to her with the most obvious wide eyes that literally scream IZZY IM TRYING TO LIE HERE and charlie is just like. hmm