Mangus Bane and decision making and the links to disablity.
So I recently was backing up my blog and saw some early content that I am going to revisit due to the fact that I have more information and experience in this area and we see that people are able to understand Magnus’s a lot better due to having much more background information, due to reading the source material, the books by Casandra Clare and these books are what the Movie and TV show are based on, but I did a post on Mangus and disability as in the show he loses his magic through choosing to save Alecs [i] Parabatai, and we see that there was a domino effect that happened around this in what happened after woods being some really bad decisions that led to him not having his apartment, that he has lived in since he moved to Brooklyn and we see that in the show and we need to remember that the show and books are two very different things, as book to screen adaptation can be tricky due to the fact that there was issues over copyright and that we had to movie that was true to the book, and it flopped so they aged up the charcters, however we need to be aware of Magnus as he mentions that his landlord has been dead for over a century as we see that he makes some decisions that aren’t great for him in that he loses his magic and he says that is what makes him “whole,” that he felt lesser without it and for some people with a disability we need to be aware that this is how they can feel, at times as a lesser being, due to the way that society talks and thinks about disabled people and how they see that we need to pipe down or we need to be fixed, to be worthy of being in society, and we see that this is a massive issue due to the fact that people despite, having the NDIS and other care programs we see that they are often talked about in a negative light it only seems to be when there is money to be made that disabled people are included in the conversation, and we need to remember that Manguns is immortal and for him losing his magic is akin to becoming disabled later in life as he becomes dependant on Izzy and Alec for help in rescuing him as he becomes what they call a mundane, and this is used to describe people who don’t have the sight by the denizens of the “Shadow world,” and we see that this almost becomes a slur but is used mainly as an abjective. [ii] so we also see Magnus as a narrator and we see that he would have seen this world usage change over time but we see that people are often, hesitant to use the world. But this is how a lot of people feel about person cantered language, as it is often tokenistic and belittles the reality of the systemic issues that people with a disability face on a daily basis, in magnus making the decision to save alec’s parabatai, we see that he gives up his magic to his father Asmodeus, a prince of hell, as we discover in season two that Asmodeus is magnus father and where his magic comes from and we see this as a massive issue as he is up until this point the most powerful warlock that the shadow hunters have seen and also we have to question what information they have on him as in the books they don’t have much information and the institute is a place where technology won’t work due to it being in the shadow word, but we see in the TV show that they have it a lot more technical, the shadow hunters just prefer to do things screen free and have their missions a lot more, involved and they plan a lot more in the books, but in saying that how much does the clave know about magnus or has what they know been lost to time as he seems to want to help the shadow hunters escape a world that they can never escape from due the very nature of being a down worlder and we see that in the second series that Magnus losses his position as high warlock and we see that it’s more a political position with consulting, more than a actual position as I wrote a Patreon post, about magnus and the social contract, and I realised that he was the only one of the warlocks that didn’t have a “traditional,” mundane job, we see that Dot runs the antiques store that clary and her mum live in and in, Caterina loss works as a nurse, Iris rose ( an invention for the show) has a practice as a physician, and Raynor fell as a farmer, in the books the apartment is not torched it is used as a safe house more than the institute as we see that the shadow hunters, don’t really want her in the space and they are rare so they don’t really use the institute as much they let clary stay there but then we don’t actually know what happens to the apartment, but we see that it’s actually used a lot more and this is where Mangus gets involved as he realises that if he doesn’t intervene that they could have another James Herondale situation on his hands where he needs to recover the shadow hunter from some of the demonic realms, if he doesn’t intervene sooner and we see that this is where Magus, is hesitant to help the shadow hunters and I have said in previous blog posts that he has the luxury of time when he is immortal but we see that he doesn’t have it when he loses his magic and this is very similar to when people with a disability lose function or are dependant on a support worker, to help them and they don’t get the level of help they need to function at an optimal level, and we see that this can be interesting in that people want to help and are well meaning but we see that people, often decide to make decisions for the person and not with the person and we see that there needs to be self-advocacy here as well, so we see that Mangus not feeling whole goes for a magic transfer, and we see that it makes him sick, to the point that he need to have it taken away.
[iii] This for him is the only way we see him become well and this is a massive issue for him we see that people are making decisions for him and not with him as he knew the risks Lorenzo did warn him but at the same time did take advantage of him because the warlocks don’t bargain fair and Lorenzo price was his apartment, and we see that this leaves Magnus homeless and alec has him staying at the institute and this creates some friction, ( I am talking about TV show Mangus here) as we see that he is willing to give it up just to stay whole.
It shows the very real risks that people will take to “cure,”
themselves of a disability or chronic illness, and we see that at times it’s
due to the pressure that people put on them and they feel that they don’t have
a choice, to do so.
In the next post, I will talk about the fallout from some of the decisions that Mangus makes as it has some really horrific consequences, for everyone in his life.
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