#the gracelet

[sitaron-ka-taraanaa]

I swear to every single god that humans have decided existed, if James is the ghost I‘ll revolt.

[naerysthelonesome]

The amount of PAIN in this one paragraph. This book is BREAKING me.

[originalwinnercheesecake]

Grace and Jesse Spoliers

Cassandra Clare released us a very large sneak peek of COI “like almost a whole chapters worth” surrounding the TLH Blackthorns: Grace, Jesse, and Tatiana. Honestly tea spilling over these three and their dynamic is one of the things I am most excited for about Chain of Iron, (also I really like Lucie x Jesse. Jesse is rapidly moving up as a favorite character) and I am already readying a nice rent free apartment complex for them (at least for Jesse an Grace) in my mind. So I was very interested in the excerpt and a few things jumped out at me.

Grace

Grace was 7 when her parents died. I feel CC has changed that age before, like wasn’t it 10 at first? Then 8? But now she seems to have settled on making Grace 7.

Grace’s birth Parents did her first rune ceromoney with her before they died. HOW IN THE WORLD WAS A 7 YEAR OLD RUNED!?!?!? Shadowhunters get their first runes between 10 and 12 depending on how much training they have had. Getting them any younger has the potiental to cause serious harm. Was Grace once some total Prodigy who got her runes 3 years early because she was just that ready? FYI I am pretty sure I CC wrote an extra once where Jace says he got his around 9 and it still broke his arm. Or, where Grace’s biological parents bad parents too, and the runed her so young without caring about what it could do to her?

It was tragic to read about Grace’s first interactions with Tatiana. How she felt sympathy for how lonely she had been and wanted badly to love her, but eventually learned, through hystrics and abuse, that Tatiana had no intrest in anything except Grace’s loyalty. Brings me back to the Cartwright motto “Loyalty Binds”

I also find it intresting that one of the few things Grace remembers abotu her old life is that her family lived in a small house and weren’t considered that important. This lines up pretty well with Estella who was the child of a conman and a gypsy women, married only by common law. In Great Expectations Estella’s parents don’t die, they just get in some trouble with the law and lose her. Her father actually still loves her very much and wishes he could have raised her. Pip befriends Estella’s father, but is very reluctent to mention Estella to him as he belives she is better off with the more wealthy and socially higher up Miss. Havisham. I am seeing more posibility that the remaining Cartwrights could, like Estella’s father, still care about her and mayby, unlike Estella, she can be reunited with them.

I also am banking more on my theory that Tatiana once gave Grace her own “chain of Iron/Gracelet” and that is what is messing with her memories and compeling her to do her mothers biding. Like people have said Grace’s reasoings in the exert sound very similar to James’s whenever he thinks of Grace.

Jesse

Yeah I had called that he had to have been a great big brother based on hw much she cares about him. I also had theories that he had helped her gather flowers and read to her.

I did not theorize that he liked philosophy, or that he had taught her french. Jesse is very smartas well as a sweet heart.

Also we now have confirmation that Grace has training. The person who trained her was Jesse, after secretly training himself underneath Tatiana’s nose for many years. WOW.

That brings me to one more thing I noiced. Throughout the whole recount their is never anything to sugest Jesse is anything other than Healthy and Strong. The whole story is about Jesse taking care of Grace: Jesse playing with Grace, Jesse teaching her to fight, Jesse putting Grace to bed at night and reading to her in her room. There is no mention of Jesse having bouts of fever, or periods of time he feels weak. Grace never has to spend days sitting by his bedside. She never worries that training may over excert him. Was Jesse ever actually sick? We know Tatiana made up several false stories surrounding her familys life. Was her son’s poor health one of them?

IF so why did he die the night of his first rune ceromoney. I have heard theories that, because hse had the locket ready, Tatiana knew that he would die, and may have infact been responsible for his death That she sacrificed Jesse as part of some deal she had with Belial. I did not wnt to believe that Theory. I wanted to believe that she really did love Jesse to much to do something like that. That maybe with his supossed “ill health” she was afraid of losing him soon and had already been looking into ways to prolong his life, hence the aquirment of the lockate. But I do not know anymore. We know the story she told Magnuson how he died was a lie. If his health issues were too... What’s the truth?

Tatiana

You whitch women, what did you do to your children?

[kiespogues]

Will: Repeat after me - Cor-

James: Cor-

Will: Del -

James: Del-

Will: Ia-

James: Ia-

Will: Cordelia

James: Grace

[ceoazula]

[image id: A picture of a man looking at a woman walking down the street. The man is labeled James and the woman is labeled Cordelia. Below that is a picture of the man trying to walk towards the woman, but being stopped by a different man. That man is labeled the gracelet. end image id]

[lifewouldbebetteronmars]

SPOILERS FOR COI

*SPOILERS AHEAD*

CORDELIA NOTICING JAMES WEARING THE GRACELET BROKE MY HEART

[theherondalesownmyheart]

Soo, I did the Hunger Games simulator thing with the TLH characters... A lot of them were weirdly accurate, so I felt like sharing:

And bonus cause this one sparked joy:

[princesafilomena]

I kinda hate the gracelet lol. as a thing, sure, it's manipulative and creepy, but mainly as a plot device and an excuse

“I respect James as a person, but as a character he feels very boring and plain and-”

What about the gRACELET HUH???

“Matthew's and James's parabatai bond seemed very weak, I don't understand why-”

BUT JAMES HAS A DEMONIC BRACELET ON REMEMBER???

“I don't exactly love Grace, but she seems like an interesting and complex character and I'm excited to know more abo-”

bUT THE

🎉 g r a c e l e t 🎉

like I get it lol CC could't bother to write a proper mc so she threw that shit in there, get out of my house