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The Shadowhunters and the start of a changing of the Gard.

  The younger shadow hunters see the law very differently and don’t understand why some of the laws are in place and the role the accords play in this as well as we see that they don’t get what people are doing and are doing it because it is the law but at what point do they realize that they are part of a system that needs to change and we see that it will change and how it changes deserves its post as we see that people can see links to real-world historical events and how we see that the shadow hunters are blindly following the laws or in the case of the lightwoods, not following orders of the Clave but this at times is the morally right thing to do and this is quite interesting in a way that we see that it shows that the younger lightwoods including Alec at times are aware that the Clave is very self-serving and doesn’t want to change.   We see that the consul is elected by the clave and lives in ideas and has the power to imprison people without trial and we see that they don’t

The Lightwoods family disfunction. Izzy lightwood. Part one

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( please be aware that this post contains a discussion around family trauma and eating disorders) I have written about the lightwood being a dysfunctional family even in a Fantasy show and this show during its run on free-to-air TV in the USA and now on Netflix ( depending on the country and if you have access to a Vpn (a virtual private network). It didn't shy away from talking about difficult real-world issues. Such as Addiction, Same-sex relationships, politics, and even trauma. Izzy Lightwood her full name is Isabelle Sophia Lightwood, is the youngest of the genetically related lightwood family, siblings. They also have Alec (Alexander Gideon lightwood) Max lightwood and Jace that is Adopted into the family at the age of 10 and become Alec's Parabaiti.  However, this series will focus on the show character played wonderfully by, Emeraude Toubia   Emeraude Toubia - Wikipedia   Her character in the show about the lightwood being a dysfunctional family is that she fits into b

Shadowhunters the lighwoods Alec and Izzy

( Please be aware that this contains and talks about serious mental health issues and  Suicide  )  Alec Lightwood at the start of the show is very repressed we also see a very dysfunctional family that realizes how dysfunctional they are when they are under a spell that makes them see their worse fears play out and we see that Alec internalizes a lot and blames himself for things that he isn't responsible or he doesn't have the training to deal with.   Things like letting a demon into the institute result in a large number of Shadowhunters being harmed or killed.  His sister Izzy is one of them that ends up  possesses as well as himself and he ends up killing  Clary's mother ( this is a deviation from the books and was used as a plot device to have Clary come of age more dramatically)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqtbY89QfL8 We start to see the mental health burden on Alec that years of being told he isn't good enough play out in reality.   https://www.youtube.com/