Sorry guys this isnt a new story or chapter. I’ve been reading this book Chain of Gold from Cassandra Clare’s book collection of the Shadowhunters.
I havent finished it… but this may spoil stuff for some people. Idk
So like I’m pretty sure James Herondale ends up with Cordelia Carstairs… but we still get Emma Carstairs later down the line. This means Alastair (Cordelia’s brother) gets married and has kids. As of right now I’m not sure how I feel about Emma being a decendent of his
Still us only book one. Guess we’ll see how this plays out
Here’s a portrait of Lucie Herondale from @cassandraclare’s The Last Hours series! Lucie is 100% thinking about the next The Beautiful Cordelia chapter she’s going to write in this drawing.
This is part of a series I’m working on of Chain of Gold portraits based on the beautiful sketches by @cassandrajp.
“Estábamos diciéndole a Thomas que no debería patrullar”, dijo Lucie seriamente.“Al menos no solo. No después de lo que pasó,” dijo Christopher. “Dos muertes en tan poco tiempo, ambos muertos en la patrulla, parece razonable que puedan estar conectados.”“O podría ser sólo mala suerte.” Thomas levantó los brazos. “La patrulla siempre va a ser peligrosa. Es parte del trabajo, como los demonios y Alastair Carstair…"Se detuvo bruscamente poniéndose rojo brillante. "Ah, Cordelia, yo, ah-"Sonrió agradablemente. "¿Acabas de recordar que Alastair es mi hermano?
Sí. No”, dijo Thomas. Miró a su alrededor a sus amigos suplicando. “Oh, no”, dijo James. “Tienes que salir de esta, Tom.”
those black things behind james..are they shadows???? and what is that tower?? and those flying things in the sky are they demons???? oh and he’s wearing a cloak
also these buildings are supposed to be london?(asking ‘cause i have no clue if that’s supposed to be london..it looks like it)
Cassie’s Chain Of Thorns Cover Reveal Insta Live Summary
when in paris Cordelia is going to encounter a ghost of someone important in her life who’ll tell her a terrible danger is coming her way
JAMES IS GOING TO SHOW UP IN PARIS (at a bad time) and J, M & C will go back to London together because of tatiana’s escape and belial.
cover- grace, blackthorn hall, thorns, roses.
C- which character would cc like to embody from here on to end if she had to live one of their life, who would it be? CC- Lucie! (it does not mean whether she’ll live or die in tlh)
Lucie gets mad at Cordelia and ends up writing a book called “The Wicked Queen Cordelia” in COT. (jdjsjwjsjs i didn’t get what she said after that because of the laughing i heard “jess/just- djsksknsbd”)
CC only mentioned being able to speak to dead when talking about Lucie’s power ( we know there’s more)
Also Lucie can not control Vampires ❌
K- last hours road trip C- a description of the characters being chaotic. some dogs & cats discussion.
N- how will the fans feel about where everyone in the series ends up(?) CC-complicated feelings. happy about some characters, some “it’s just good that you survived”, some individuals (characters) whose story might not make people happy.
“When i first went into writing this book, these books, they were gonna have a really tragic ending like really really tragic and then with the pandemic i couldn’t do it. I actually softened the ending up. Because i was like there’s so much sadness, so much Grief, so much terrible stuff happened in the past couple of years that i don’t feel like i can sustain writing something that that’s sad.” “There definitely will be places in which you think people will be sad- well they’re gonna be a lot of less sad than they would’ve been”
optimism ✔️
Z- hates grace. wanted to ask if matthew gets his happy ending. (i love her). but since it’ll be spoiler we obviously can’t know :(
Z- instead, something abt him we don’t know. CC- matthew is kind of like a open book except for that one big secret. mostly truthful but likes making up complicated stories. some are true. some are not.
for example he tells Cordelia a story in beginning of cot which might or might not be true (a silly fight story in paris)
E- the number one song for chain of thorns CC- Lilith by Halsey (idk why CC said her playlist is not public yet because it is???has been for quite some time now..)
cc made playlists for her friends during pandemic, holly was one of the victims
hear me out. sad beautiful tragic by taylor swift is literally the end of chain of iron. i shall explain.
I won’t discuss all of the lyrics– i’ll skip a lot but, you can look up the lyrics if you are interested.
“long handwritten note, deep in your pocket”
James has the letter that Math wrote him with him when he goes to the train station to get Cordelia to come home and sort out the miscommunication. Handwritten note is Math’s handwriting and its deep in his pocket because he let them go and is abandoning hope (for now).
“Words, how little they mean When you’re a little too late”
COME ON. James had everything to say to Cordelia but in the end it didn’t matter because he was too late and she had already left with Math to go to Paris.
“I stood right by the tracks Your face in a locket Good girls, hopeful they’ll be and long they will wait”
please… so obviously this is referring to the train station at the end of the book when James sees Cordelia and Math inside the train but he decides to let them go, because Will finds him and tells him to stay because of Lucie. The locket line doesn’t relate directly but lockets are relevant to the series, because of the Blackthorn locket that contained Jesse’s last breath. Now, the next line is referring to how Cordelia was hopeful about her marriage with James and had the patience to wait to see if he would return her love.
“We both wake In lonely beds In different cities And time Is taking its sweet time erasing you And you’ve got your demons And darlin’ they all look like me”
So we know that they normally sleep in different beds, much to Cordelia’s disappointment, but we also see in different cities BECAUSE CORDELIA WENT TO PARIS WHILE JAMES WAS LEFT IN LONDON. Also the reference to demons could be how James sees himself as a burden to his friends because of his connection to Belial, so he says all her demons look like him.
“Distance, timing Breakdown, fighting Silence, the train runs off its tracks Kiss me, try to fix it Could you just try to listen?”
So this is kind of just the whole ordeal at the end– they were having a lot of misunderstandings regarding grace. But i just think the line “Distance, Timing” just perfectly captures the problems in communication they were having. After what happens Cordelia needs her space– Distance. The timing of everything was so horrible– If grace had showed up at the house even a little bit later maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess. Or maybe if Will hadn’t found James before he got to the train he would have been able to stop her, but the timing didn’t work out. Breakdown is Cordelia finally snapping and running out of the house to Matthew’s house. Fighting is their arguments about grace. THEN THEY MENTION THE TRAIN AGAIN. and lastly “Could you just try to listen” is James asking Cordelia if she would just hear him out before everything went to shit.
Anyways that was my incoherent song analysis. Someone please tell me this makes sense.
“James wanted to throttle Matthew. He also wanted to spill out the whole story of the bracelet to him, to beg his forgiveness for everything he had not noticed for all these years, for the fog that had clung to his every emotion, his every thought, blunting them all. Matthew needed so much, and James had not been there to provide it.”
So I’m sitting in my bed peacefully reading when out of nowhere it hit me, we have only 3 trilogies left in the Shadowhunters chronicles just THREE my heart honestly clenches at the thought because imagine this, your sitting in your favorite reading spot holding the last book as if holding on to dear life, crying your soul out (because let’s face it, it’s Cassandra Clare we’re talking about), you turn the page and there’s a dedication to the fans and that’s it. No more witty remarks from Alec, heartache from Magnus’ kindness, heartwarmth from Jem, Tessa, baby Jessa, absolute love and devotion from Julian to his family, stunning badass moments from Clary and Isabelle, love quarrels between Jace an Simon, and every other character we came to know and love with all out hearts. I really can’t and don’t want to comprehend that though.
