*Stephen Herondale actually is James and Cordelia great grandson (his dad is their grandchild) but since I don’t like Stephen, I consider Jace the real great grandchild of Jordelia!
James “the hometown skeptics called it champagne problems” Herondale and Cordelia “it was real enough, to get me through” Carstairs and Anna “long story short, I survived” Lightwood and Ariadne “My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand, taking mine, but its been promised to another” Bridgestock and Alastair “I made you my temple my mural my sky, now I’m begging for footnotes in the story of your life” Carstairs and Thomas “guilty guilty reaching out across the sea. That you put between you and me” Lightwood and Matthew “the skeletons in both our closets plotted hard to fuck this up” Fairchild and Lucie “did you hear about the girl who lives in delusion?” Herondale and Jesse “what died didn’t stay dead” Blackthorn and Christopher “i don’t like that falling feels like flying till the bone crush” Lightwood and Grace “hes got my past frozen behind glass, but I’ve got me” Blackthorn and-
Okay, but if my man doesn’t love me so much that he BREAKS the bracelet enchanted by a Prince of Hell meant to keep him in love with someone else then WHAT IS THE POINT
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.
Here’s Matthew Fairchild! His hair is so big because it’s full of ✨secrets✨ This is based on @cassandrajp’s sketchbook series of @cassandraclare’s characters from The Last Hours series.
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.
A while back Cassie posted this unidentified snippet:
with this illustration by Cassandra Jean:
I have come to the conclusion these are probably Alastair and Thomas. Alastair dies in Thomas’ arms. Thomas devastated enrolls in the Scholomance, but while in there he regrets it. Long ago, Cassandra added this to her “TLH” pinterest board, with the caption “Thomas”:
In the Ghosts of the Shadowmarket short story called “The Lost World” Livvy finds a carving on Ty’s bedroom: “I did not choose this life” with a date: 1904 (remember Chain of Gold takes place in 1903)
What do you think?
I will not accept this no no no no!!!! She can’t make us love him like that and then do this!!!
I’m only posting this so you can see the two arts together side by side Again, I know the colors of the chess pieces are wrong, I’m so sorry for that lmao, hope you like it anyway! @cassandraclare
There was only one boy who called her that. She looked up incredulous, to see James standing in front of her ~ Chain of Gold
I’m finally donneee this took hours! I used a scene from ‘Becoming Jane’ as a reference because i couldn’t resist. I love that movie!! It’s heartbreaking
