3b is succeeding in one thing: it’s actually making me care about Malec again, as my heart keeps breaking for Magnus. This vid encapsulates everything, all the pain and love and sacrifice for both of them.
If Magnus is going to love Alexander (which of course he is) then he’s going to have to understand his parabatai and their bond, at least a little bit better than he does now. But he’s not entirely sure how or where to start…
Becoming parabatai takes practice. Training before the ceremony itself, physical and mental, meditation and sparring, how to move together, think together, read each other’s cues even before you can feel them.
How to live together, because if you can’t even handle being classmates, roommates, compatriots, partners, you’ll never survive being soulmates.
You have to prove you’re practically soulmates on your own before they’ll let you take the rune and make it real.
Magnus wants to know all of Alec. Even the parts that are Jace. This is stunning, a gorgeous exploration of the parabatai bond. With a helping of Michael Wayland that makes me heart hurt.
How I wish the Malec reconciliation in 220 had gone. Alas.
“It’s in the past,” Magnus says, waving away his apology.
But Alec shakes his head. “No, I should’ve told you about the sword. You had every right to know about its disappearance, it could’ve had a direct impact on the safety of your people.” He sighs and takes a step closer. “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you.”
A “what-if” set in ep 220. Alec reacts to Jace’s death. Or, how it could’ve happened. Hey, I was full of… feels, sue me! A parabatai & Malec ficlet.
When Alec’s side’s seized with sharp, stabbing, breath-stealing agony, he immediately knows what’s happening. There’s no doubt, not a moment of confusion, just a terrible certainty. Jace.
They’re inseparable, Jace and Alec, Jonathan and Alexander, the Sun and the Moon, they drive their chariot carved from pure adamas and drawn by lustrous white horses across the sky, day after day, year after year, ever since the world was created.
And then Alec falls for a mortal, Magnus Bane, an alchemist, a philosopher, an observer of things that are, who first truly sees the Moon riding across the sky the way the Sun’s always been seen by all the people on earth.
Teen, mythology AU. Melding two of my very favourite things (Shadowhunters and Greek mythology), this is lyrical and perfect. Also, it’s a Malec ficlet that acknowledges the importance of Jace & Alec’s relationship, which always makes me happy.
