Grumbling to himself Ty moved through the over crowded halls of the dorms, he pulled his headphones up over his ears and hit play on Ludovico Einaudi letting the soft notes ease some of the tension in his shoulders. Honestly why everyone had to hang out of doorways to talk to eachother he couldn't understand. As he walked around the corner to the stairs down a girl bumped into Ty, she giggled and fell around the hallway with her friend - Hazel Ty thought to himself. She was friends with Kit. Hazel burst into even louder laughter before darting back towards her friend grabbing her by the arm and tugging her away shouting behind her as she walked "Sorry Ty!"
Ty didn't respond since she was too far away now but he figured it had been an accident and accepted the apology mentally instead. Surprised that Hazel knew his name and rather hoping it was a good thing he continued on his way, half jogging down the stairs hands in his pockets. If Helen were here she would fret and tell him to keep his hands out of his pockets in case he fell and Ty almost ignored the thought before removing his hands from his pockets with a sigh.
"Ty! Tiberius!? TY!!" Startled Ty stopped in the middle of the stairs and turned back around to look back up the way he came only to see Josh Brown grinning down at him wiggling his fingers in a wave. He looked like a mess, his honey brown curls sticking up at all angles, t-shirt hanging out underneath his zipped up hoodie and an open backpack slung over his shoulders.
Ty barely held back his noise of annoyance and shoved his hands back into his pockets to fidget with the pipe cleaners he kept in his pocket. He hadn't liked Josh the first day they had met almost three years ago and his dislike had only grown over the years. Ty had done his best to be polite, at first.
Mark and Julian had made him cards as a child with examples of polite conversation topics for people he didn't like after he told one of their neighbours he didn't want to play with her because he didn't like her. Julian had painted lovely pictures to match each card, while Mark who was better at words wrote the phrases. Ty still didn't want to play with her, she shoved and would poke him to get his attention, but he didn't want to upset her either. But after that she no longer burst into tears when he said no.
Whenever Ty had to deal with Josh he had resorted to the phrases in those cards. Asking him about the sports he knew Josh followed and played until he realised Josh had a lot of very aggressive opinions on that topic and had switched to talking about homework and the weather even though they could both see it.
The class he and Josh both attended was one of the smaller ones Ty was in and so they often got paired together. So it really made sense to be polite. Even if Josh was irritating.
That was before The Kit Herondale Incident.
"Did you want something Josh?" Ty asked irritably.
"Huh?" He asked brightly "I didn't call you mate" he laughed. Ty sighed, of course he thought to himself rolling is eyes.
"Nah just kidding with you Ty, can I bum a light off you?" Josh asked rooting in his open bag for a pack of Benson's that looked like it had been run over. With yet another loud sigh Ty pulled a lighter out of his pocket and held it out to Josh.
Josh frowned as he stepped down the stairs closer to Ty "You alright mate you looked pissed?" He asked coming to a stop on the step above Ty hand outstretched to take the offensively bright pink lighter.
Ty was but it wasn't appropriate to say so. He just smiled and shrugged at the other man, hands moving back into his pocket as soon as Josh took the lighter from him. He shook his head as Josh tried to offer it back, a cloud of smoke already flowing around him.
"Keep it, I hardly ever need it" he told him. Josh put it in his back jean pocket straight away and thanked him with a wink. There was no point telling Josh that he couldn't smoke inside the building, the last time Ty had tried Josh had grinned cheekily and blown the smoke out directly into Ty's face.
Assuming they were finished Ty turned to leave just as Josh announced "So I heard a rumour about you Blackthorn".
Anyway my headcannon is that in the first two years or so after Jem stopped being a silent brother he had almost no emotional regulation. He’d cry over the smallest things, suddenly find himself furiously mad over something that would have normally mildly irritated him.
Fungus has done so much for humanity. Penicillin. Radiation cleanup. Delicious mushrooms. Deadly mushrooms. Psychadelic mushrooms. And now my boy RA has chosen the humble mold spores as his vessel through which to cure cancer.
One thing I will say about Cassandra Clare and early Shadowhunters stuff is she stood on business ten toes down when it came to her villains. No lame nature vs. nurture debates, no last minute cop out redemption arcs for the YA audience, just demon incest, Victorian Elon musk and demon STDs that turn you into an evil worm. 10/10 no notes.
Now I’m gonna think HOW TY LOOKS LIKE!! WHAT ARE HIS CLOTHES, WHAT FACE DOES HE MAKE, THE POSE, HIS HAIR, HIS WEAPON! HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO WAIT GOD KNOWS HOW LONG????
GUYS GUYS THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS THAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT KIT’S CHARACTER PORTRAIT BECAUSE IT MAKES SO FREAKING EXCITED FOR TWP.
Okay, so like, first: the sword. THE SWORD. AAJSJAJSHSJAJKSKSKSKAJ WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE HAS A SWORD?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE ARE GOING TO GET SCENES OF KIT FIGHTING WITH A SWORD?!! AJAJAHSHJSAJKSSSKSJ.
Then of course THE GUN. OMG I JUST KNOW HE’S GONNA LOOK SO FREAKING BADASS USING A GUN AS HIS WEAPON! (Also, if it IS Jame’s sword that would just make it a 100x better).
THE MILITARY BOOTS. GUYS YOU DON’T KNOW HOW CRAZY I AM FOR MILITARY BOOTS. AND NOW KIT HERONDALE IS WEARING THEM?! I AM TRULY GODS FAVOURITE.
THE OUTFIT AS A WHOLE IS AMAZING. I LOVE HOW THE SOFT LIGHT BROWN SHIRT LOOKS ON HIM (I really didn’t like the orange shirt sorry 😔)
HIS HAIR. HIS HAIR HAS ALWAYS BEEN PERFECT BUT HIS HAIR DRAWN LIKE THIS IS HEAVENLY AND IT’S THE ONLY WAY I AM IMAGINING HIS HAIR FROM NOW ON OK?
I love how older he looks here. Like, he doesn’t really look like a teenager anymore but a young adult.
The SMIRK. AHHHHHHHHHHHH. THAT SMIRK IS PERFECTION. AND THE LITTLE MOLE, LIKE. If we don’t get at least one scene of Ty kissing his mole I’m gonna sue.
Which brings me to my next point. I can’t even begin to IMAGINE how Ty must have felt when he saw Kit looking like THAT for the first time. Like, him gasping for air in a way he never has before in SOBH makes so much fucking sense.
Oh Ty Blackthorn what a fucking lucky gentleman that you are.
(I’m not even going to comment on the necklace because this post is already long enough).
kit seeing artwork of himself labeled as the sun (the tarot card meaning positivity, optimism, joy, etc) while he's having the worst time of his life being hunted by faeries for powers he doesn't know how to use, lying to literally everyone in his life, and going on a backpacking trip through europe with his estranged lost love:
