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  Alec in the beginning really doesn't like Clary as he sees her as a direct threat to the Shadoworld as she has been hidden from this world by her mother and this is an issue as she is the daughter, of Valentine one of the evil Shadowhunter's that saw the head of the Shadowhunter's the clave, as failing in there duties to protect the world from demons and this to him included downworlders. So half mundane creatures, or have demon blood. So creatures like fairies, werewolves, warlocks, and vampires.  Valentine made a movement within the shadow hunters' world called the circle and recruited people to his cause. He saw that the "downworlders," were a threat and needed to be eliminated.  Clary's mother was married to him and didn't see the signs of as they point out in the show him being a psychopath.  So Alec from day one sees that she is a threat because she is Valentine's daughter, and his parabaiti, Jace is infatuated with him to the detriment of

What is it about how Magnus sees Jace, as information about Magnus comes out, through his relationship with Jace we see a vulnerable side that we hadn't seen in the first season?   We also see that Jace has the confidence to talk to Magnus when he is boarding with him as he doesn't feel welcome at the institute.  Jace is the typical Shadowhunter that sees Downworlders as second class, yet Magnus having the relationship with Alec in the second season is a great thing as we see that his parabaiti can sense he is happier it is alluded to that they have gotten physical.  Yet it is funny to me that this clip is Jace taking on the role of a big brother due to the way that the bond that they share is, they are bonded for life so essentially Jace can feel when Alec is unhappy and Alec can in the same way.  Jace can sense that Alec is happier, yet we can see how  Magnus is so tied to the Shadoworld and now navigating the relationship with a Shadowhunter as he has interacted with them in

Simon is Clarry's friend, has been there for him for years, and she drags him into the shadow world, where he is turned into a vampire. Raphaelle the New York clan leader return's him to the institute and she makes the decision to turn him into a vampire, he doesn't like the fact that he is a vampire and clary has dragged him into this world. He would rather be doing the normal things for his age like attending college and playing his music. There is a variation from the books to the show that in the books Simon has a full band, in the show, it is Maurine only.  He sees that Clary is in danger from the Shadowhunter yet Clary can't explain it but she knows that these are her people and that they can help her make sense of the world that she now is in, as she can see Jace and the others can't as Simon when he is turned into a vampire he doesn't really have anyone to turn to and Alec seems to always be digging him or Clary out of trouble.  Yet he starts to see his

Magnus is a warlock and has very complex relationships with the other down worlders these being the creatures that are in the shadow world but have demon blood in them and therefore are considered to be what the Shadowhunters call down worlders and they see the shadow world very differently due to being long-lived or immortal.  However, with Mangus, he has to play the long game due to his being immortal. He sees the long game as does the Seely queen. The queen has a very different relationship to Magnus in the books the current Seelie queen united the two courts, the Unseelie and the Seelie court they united to have a child.  This stopped the war that the Shadowhunters in Londen stopped due to one of the blackthorns being part Seele and we see that this does become an issue in the books we see that Mark and Kiren often are put between the two worlds due to this and we see that this can become an issue as well due to Mark being punished with having to join the wild hunt and it was the u

So Magnus I have written about before is a very complex character both in the books and in the show. He is the son of a demon and a prince of hell. He can perform complex magic as is seen as a threat by the other warlocks, because of his power's.  In the books he has a different life story to the show and there was a want from the actor that played Magnus to explore the charcters backstory and how this is amazing for the show if it was to be continued, in various ways.  ( This being Harry Shum jr)  Magnus being a very complex character in the books we don't seem to see much of in the show his powers but one thing is that his realtionship with mental health is an interesting one to look at as, he is immortal.  Yet this isn't over stated in the show, it is mentioned in two seems in the show that he has had struggles with mental health.  We see him as a very hedonist character and this changes when he meets Alec as he has a purpose in life again. He has an anchor to guide him.

Shadowhunters- 1x06- Clary and Simon bring injured Luke to Magnus- Clip- - YouTube    The question is how much Magnus knows about Luke, Joslyn, and the other Shadowhunters, and what they do. As he knows the Shadow World and where did the deep mistrust come from as in the books he has had Shadowhunters living with him and him actively working with the Clave in the past.  Magnus Bane | The Shadowhunters' Wiki | Fandom    In the show, Magnus seems to have a deep mistrust of Shadowhunters and isn't welcome in the institute, yet in the past when he was living in London, he references this in the show that he was deeply unhappy with where he was at. So he moved to New York, and started again, he seems to have a good relationship with Luke in the show, yet we see that Magus seems to know Luke and his history with Valentine and the Circle.  We also see how he became a Downworlder and this seems to be where Magnus's relationship with Luke has become more cordial as they are in the s

I am going to do a much more in depth look at how these situations can cause trauma and how they relate to real world. In other posts I have done a look at Alec and Magnus but this will be the start of a series on how these situations relate to the real world and how having trauma in your life can complicate things. The first thing about this relationship is that Alec and Mangus both in the books and show have a very complicated relationship due to the fact that Magnus is immortal, and he has seen the way the shadow hunters treated down worlders, before the accords. They treated downworlders like second class people and even hunted them for sport at times.   So we see this struggle of how to keep a relationship alive when there is prejudice on one side and a long history of relationships on the other and how to balance this imbalance of power in the relationship. There also  is the struggle of him trying to keep his business and private life separate for a reason, it seems that he i

  ALEC GRUMPY-CAT LIGHTWOOD - YouTube  - the hand movement is actually Matthew is a great portrayal from the books,  this is a great edit from the show and shows how Alec is actually the one who shoulders the responsibility of the Lightwoods, these are the family that run the New York institute.   This clip shows how Matthew Daddario the person who play's Alec nailed the role despite him not having blue eyes. He  notices that the  Shadow hunters are not very bright and their plans mostly fail and that this makes for great TV.  He shows the role by subtle but noticeable movements, that are mentioned in the books, things that stand out to me and others are,  The rolling of the eyes.  The rational mistrust of Clary  That he says what the others are not game to say.   Judging Mundane's, because they have a failure of imagination. There are also habits that Dom Sherwood has mentioned  during a recent podcast, that are both Matthew and Alec however it is mentioned that Matthews perso

So this post has been an interesting one to write, it seems to me that in the book Simon and TV Simon are very different and there are comic cons and things that explore this as well. This is because the TV show and the books are very different art forms and the way that they were adopted is a story in and of itself, as there was a movie made first but it didn't really do well.  However, the TV show did take some liberties with the plot lines however it has been made clear that it was to do with ratings and as I have said in other posts they have essentially made some of the more "controversial," relationships in the books healthy to the point the actors have won awards for their relationship on screen.  However, due to the show's cancelation, they weren't able to continue with some of the plots that they wanted to, with relationships, and continue with some of the plot lines of the books. In previous posts, I talked about Magnus being connected to Camille and how

 So this is a post that I have been wanting to write for a while, it is an interesting one to get into and I went deep down the rabbit hole that is the "Shadowhunter's fam". But there is so much in this show that isn't overt and one thing that hasn't really been explored in the Magnus and Alec relationship is that they both help each other heal from trauma. Psychological trauma - Wikipedia    Magnus is a magical warlock that presents as a male, who has been in an abusive relationship. While Alec has been brought up to suppress his emotions and in the TV series was willing to go into an arranged marriage to save his family name (a bead or lavender marriage). We see from the first season that Alec cares for Magnus and doesn't presume as the other Shadowhunters do that Magnus can use his magic to fix things. He realizes that magic can come at a cost to people and this cost can be on the person itself. This is an overreaching theme in the TV series but not so much