Malec's Wedding Vow - Some Thoughts
After much research and consideration, I believe that Malec's wedding vow is a perfect celebration of their relationship, the lows and highs, the triumphs and peace.
The questions
“Alexander Gideon Lightwood. Hast thou found the one thy soul loves?”
“I have found him,” Alec said. “And I will not let him go.”
“Hast thou gone among the watchmen, and in the cities of the world? Hast thou found the one thy soul loves?”
“I have found him,” Magnus said, gazing at Alec. “And I will not let him go.”
Inspiration
Song of Solomon 3:3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? Song of Solomon 3:4 It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go.
How they have found each other despite all odds and are holding on with all they might.
2. Alec's vow
“Love flashes out like fire, the brightest kind of flame. Many waters cannot quench love, nor can the floods drown it.”
“Now place me as a seal over thine heart, as a seal over thine arm: For love is strong as death. And so we are bound: stronger than flame, stronger than water, stronger than death itself.”
Inspiration
Song of Solomon 8:6 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord. Song of Solomon 8:7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it.
They speak of Alec's devotion, the lengths he would go through for his love, for Magnus. He loves one man so much, he changes the world for him. And he will continue to do it, again and again, as no flood can drown Alec's love.
3. Magnus's vow
“Aku cinta kamu,” Magnus read out, gazing at the interior of the ring, and he smiled at Alec, a brilliant, world-spanning smile. “My love for yours, my heart for yours, my soul for yours, Alexander. Now and for all time.”
Catarina smiled at what must have been familiar words.
Catarina smiling at Magnus's words may mean it is a warlock vow. Magnus's vow is a bit more interesting, since it is not a direct reference or interpretation from the same source as Alec's vow. However, I did find this one inspiration that came very close
Luca 10:27 - And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
And who is Magnus's Lord, do you ask?
Alec had given him the gift of faith, a faith that Magnus was strong enough to make not just Alec happy, but a whole family happy. And in their happiness, Magnus had felt himself not just free, but surrounded by an unimaginable glory.
Some might have called it the presence of God.
Magnus just thought of it as Alexander Gideon Lightwood.
It also ties into Magnus's journey, how immortality, a seeming gift and privilege, slowly becomes a burden to him, is now something worth cherishing, loving, and worshipping. Despite Alec's mortality, Magnus's love for him will stay.
Does a god need physical remnants to become one?
4. The implication
The simple exchanges of vows, nephilim's and warlock's, mark the changes of the world surrounding them, something they also started. It's why Magnus doesn't want to marry until they can marry in gold and blue as they deserve.
I also like to imagine they exchange another set of vows later in private, after Alec's Wedded Union rune got drawn over his heart. Vows written by them and belong to them alone.
