#matthew fairchild
Eyes such a dark green they almost looked brown
“Love is not always a lightning bolt. Sometimes it is a creeping vine. It grows slowly until suddenly it is all that there is in the world.”
The KitTy minicomic is taking more time than I thought, but it’s pride month and I cannot let it go without drawing our iconic lgbtq+ characters.
Let’s start with Matthew Fairchild and the longing that’s such a deep part of him
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James: You lying, cheating, piece of shit!
Matthew : Oh yeah? You’re the idiot who thinks you can get away with everything you do. WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD
James: I’m leaving you, and I’M TAKING CHRISTOPHER WITH ME
Thomas , picking up the monopoly board: I think we’re gonna stop playing now.
James: You know those things will kill you, right?
Matthew , pouring another glass of whiskey: That’s the point.
Thomas, smoking a cigarette: We’re trying to speed up the process.
Christopher : *Nods while eating raw cookie dough*
James, Matthew , and Thomas are sitting on a bench
Christopher : Why do you guys look so sad?
James: Sit down with us so we can tell you.
*Christopher sits down*
Matthew : The bench is freshly painted.
Thomas: Do you ever want to talk about your emotions, Alastair?
Alastair: … No.
Matthew: I do!
Thomas: I know, Matthew.
Matthew: I’m sad!
Thomas: I know, Matthew.
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
- June 2nd the reverse cover by Charlie Bowater.
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.”
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Chain of Iron question!!!!!
For a while the book was out of stock for preordering on Amazon US and I don’t know if this was due to where i live or what but now it’s in atock and I preordered my copy but my question is does that mean that the book will not be a first edition and won’t have the extra stuff?? Or are any preorders will be first editions even after they were out od stock for a while!!!!
