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Q&A's with Cassandra Clare for both MI and ID (may contain spoilers)
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Jan 11, 2012 01:13AM
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A - I don’t hate Jessamine! Not at all. I mean, I understand why you would, and she’s probably nobody’s favorite, but � no, I don’t hate her.
I think of Jessie as say, someone raised in a cult to believe all outsiders are evil and trying to trick you into going to Hell, who is suddenly yanked from her family and dropped into a foster home where not a lot of attention is paid to her, and meanwhile clinging on to these beliefs that her parents held, however misguided, is her only connection to them. So she’s surrounded by nice enough people who’d probably give her a chance � but on their terms. She has to come around.
And Jessie is very stubborn. In another situation, in another person, her stubbornness might be a valuable quality. In this situation it turns into self-destructiveness. I mean, not wanting to be a Shadowhunter is a perfectly valid choice. Will’s father chose it. The Shadowhunters can be very cold � they’re lawful good :D but that can come with a valuation of law over emotions that can be damaging.
She turns on Charlotte and the rest because she’s never really felt she belonged among them. This isn’t an excuse for what she does, just an explanation. Jessamine has a lot of anger, a lot of uncontrolled loneliness, a lot of fear. She thinks a mundane life will fix those things; it wouldn’t, and certainly Nate was no way out, but wanting a way out isn’t intrinsically evil.
Anyway, that said, it’s true, I can even think of a nice thing to say about Sebastian, if pressed, but I think when you’re dealing with characters, even villains � hell, especially villains � you have to be able to find something to like and sympathize with them about, or how do you write them? No one is the villain of their own story, after all.
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A - Oh, dear. The kind of weird criticisms female characters come in for sometimes can be disheartening a bit. The other day Clary was disobedient and didn’t listen to anyone, now she’s blindly following orders. Certainly it is difficult for people to take up against a decision made by someone they love, because you want to agree with the people you love, but when Clary thinks Jace is wrong, she tends to do the opposite of what he wants, even knowing full well he’ll be furious. Ex: making a Portal and going to Idris even though he’d deliberately left her behind.
But, you know, people are entitled to their views on characters � I think the fact that some people feel Clary is not cooperative enough and others think she is too cooperative shows the range of reader response possible even when people are reading the same text. You always bring some of yourself to it.
On the slightly more fun topic of What Do Clary and Jace Have In Common: it’s interesting because in fact they don’t like the same books or the same music, and Jace not only hasn’t displayed a massive interest in visual art, which is Clary’s ruling passion, but in fact doesn’t even decorate his room with anything, poor guy.
But there can be a big difference between what people like and what they are like. J&C may not like the same books but they both like to read. Not to sound like someone’s grandma but they share core values, which is interesting as they’ve been so differently brought up. They value bravery, straightforward honesty, absolute loyalty to family and friends, and making a positive difference to the world.
They are in fact an example of a couple in which each of them brings the other something they never knew they needed. Jace introduces Clary to a world she never knew about; in return, though, she does the same for him. He shows her magic, and doesn’t just display exceptional bravery but makes it clear he also thinks she is exceptionally brave � in fact makes it clear he thinks she is exceptional in all ways.
He had always thought she was strong. He had showed it in everything he did, in every look and every touch. Simon had faith in her too, yet when he’d held her, it had been as if she were something fragile, something made of delicate glass. But Jace had held her with all the strength he had, never wondering if she could take it—he’d known she was as strong as he was. � CoG
He gives her a world in which she has the opportunity to show her bravery and her exceptional talents. And she in turn shows him that he doesn’t need to shut his emotions off to function and that in fact turning them off doesn’t make you stronger; that love has the potential to shore up your emotional fortitude and thus make you stronger in every way � calmer, happier, more secure, more confident in your own beliefs about goodness.
“And then I met you. You were a mundane. Weak. Not a fighter. Never trained. And then I saw how much you loved your mother, loved Simon,
and how you’d walk into hell to save them. You did walk into that vampire hotel. Shadowhunters with a decade of experience wouldn’t have tried that. Love didn’t make you weak, it made you stronger than anyone I’d ever met. And I realized I was the one who was weak.� � Jace, CoG.
Jace opens up Clary to the idea that she is spectacular and brave; Clary opens up Jace to idea that it’s okay to have a loving nature and even to show that; that a network of healthy relationships is better than getting drunk in werewolf bars, alone, no matter how badass that makes you. They each are better people for the other one’s existence, even if they don’t always agree on everything.
Now, saying that they each bring important things to the other is not the same as saying they are incomplete without each other. Any therapist worth their salt will tell you a good relationship (good friendships and good family relationships too) are not antiethical to a complete personality. Jace and Clary have both been very clear that should something happen to the other one, despite feeling incredible grief, they would keep on living and trying to make a positive difference to the world they live in. (“I’d live, and I’d try to make something out of my life.� � Jace, CoFA) There is a wide difference between being dependent and being okay with depending on someone. If you cannot do the latter, it is not much of a partnership, is it?
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A - WHAT INDEED.
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A - POSSIBLE CLOCKWORK PRINCE SPOILERS.
Well, here’s what I don’t want people to get out of the fact that Alec resembles Will. I don’t want anyone to think that Magnus has been lurking around the Shadowhunters for generations, hexing people into marrying each other in the hopes of producing a dude who looks like Will. MUAHA, Magnus thought when Alec turned up. MY EVIL PLAN HAS COME TO FRUITION. ALSO, HOPEFULLY HE IS GAY. ANYWAY, THERE ARE NO STRAIGHT MEN, ONLY MEN WHO HAVE NOT MET � MAGNUS!
I do think Magnus likes the blue-eyed, dark-haired combination � so do many! I think he was clear he always thought Will was very attractive, without really actually being all that attracted to him. I don’t think his and Will’s personalities would have suited, and I think Magnus felt protective of what he saw as Will’s brokenness and vulnerability. That in itself is a sort of love, but it is not romantic love.
I think Alec may stir in Magnus on occasion a remembrance of the past, but I don’t think Magnus is trying to recreate anything: whatever Camille might say (and now we know why she thinks, wrongly, that there might have been something there) there isn’t anything to recreate. And Alec does not require piecing back together the way Will did, which is good, because Magnus has something of a savior complex. And the longer Magnus knows Alec, the more Alec does and will remind him of nobody but himself.
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A - About Magnus� dad. First, the unspoilery part:
“It also got me wondering, do demons normally have anything to do with their children? And why do they have kids in the first place? To cause chaos? To have a pawn to use on Earth? Because they fell in love with a human? (Sorry, I know this is a lot of questions.) �
Demons don’t really fall in love with humans. They don’t feel love (as Jace says in City of Glass.) With the exception, perhaps of the Princes of Hell and creatures like Lilith: demons who were fallen angels, or have a specific mythology to them.
However, the vast run of demons are not of this ilk. And most warlocks are offspring of incubi or succubi (sex demons, basically, who can shape-change) and humans. The demons are just having fun, and are not interested in their offspring. Or (ickily) it is rape, as in the case of the demon that tried to rape Aline in City of Glass.
The unfolding of the story around Magnus� father continues through TMI and TiD, so you will have to wait � but I wouldn’t have brought it up if there wasn’t a interesting answer!
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A - It’s one of those things where we know a rule exists, but we don’t know why. Like the rule about parabatai not falling in love with each other. The deeper meaning is “I reserve the right to reveal this information when it will be most effective.� :)
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A - In Dark Artifices, there is a boy-girl parabatai pair; and in Clockwork Prince there are a pair of parabatai mentioned where the gender of the second is unspecified; we don’t know if Silas Lightwood’s parabatai was male or female.
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A - Guilty? No. Possibly because I am a deranged psychopath, but I don’t think so. I think it is because I do not feel, when I am writing, as if I am “inflicting� these things on the characters. I feel as if I am discovering what happened to them, and the job given to me is to describe it.
Some things are more difficult or painful to describe. Sometimes they can make me feel sad, because the emotions the characters are experiencing are painful and it is difficult (and probably not ideal) to describe pain without feeling any of it. What happens with Will and Tessa and Jem at the end of Clockwork Prince was painful but it also felt true, as if I had discovered the only and inevitable thing that could possibly happen to them. I felt the same about Max’s death and what happens to Jace at the end of Fallen Angels.
Carbon plus the right amount of pressure makes diamonds. Characters under pressure show who they really are. When Will stands up to toast Tessa and Jem’s engagement at the end of Clockwork Prince that tells us something about him that we need to know; more importantly, it tells him something about himself.
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A - Parabatai can be boy-boy, boy-girl, or girl-girl. They must choose each other before either of them turns eighteen. There’s no other requirement. They just have to choose each other. There is a ceremony. It is generally done in the Silent City or Idris, but can be done in an Institute. You can have only one parabatai in your life: the only way to break the bond is death, or one of you becoming Downworlder or mundane (or both). You can’t have a romantic relationship with your parabatai. It’s against the Law. Yes, there’s a reason, but Shadowhunters by and large don’t know it (the Silent Brothers do.) You do each get a parabatai rune: it can go anywhere. Most runes, aside from the Voyance rune and the marriage runes, can go anywhere.
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A - Ah, from the serious to the not so serious. I have to admit, I hadn’t thought about it, though there is a great fuss in City of Lost Souls about Magnus and Alec having the same sandalwood-flavored body wash. It’s the little things.
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A - More LOVE stuff. Jem! Will! Tessa!
Every time I blog about the love stuff I feel an urge to sing the Love Boat theme song. “LOVE…exciting and NEW…�
Anyway.
I feel as if I have answered this, or some form of it before, so I apologize to anyone if I have. I do not mean to bore. And like I said before, I have been slowing down answering questions about the love triangle just because I think healing time must start soon. :) And I also apologize to the asker of the question if I did not get back to your questions sooner. My ask box is somewhat backed up.
But that said: Tessa did not choose Jem over Will. When Jem proposed to her, she had given up on Will as a romantic option. He said he wasn’t interested. He gave signs he was sexually attracted to her, but she knew that anyway, due to the fact that at the end of CA he offers to have sex with her, no strings attached (I suppose she could have taken him up on it, but � God knows what Will would have done since he wasn’t expecting that AT ALL and I think we can all agree it’s a good thing Tessa has more self-respect than that) � but he’s been crystal clear he’s offering nothing beyond that.
The scene in the infirmary, in which he holds and comforts her, is something she thinks she dreamed. “If only Will was like this in real life, not just in dreams.� The fact that Will is offering love and comfort and genuine tenderness is something that convinces her she’s dreaming: Will has successfully made her believe that he is not going to be that way toward her, something which he worked very hard to do. If she had not been so sure she was dreaming (a combination of the sleeping tisane, shock and exhaustion) that experience might have affected her decision-making later, but as it was, it was irrelevant until too late.
There is simply no option in which she “chooses Will� and things are all right here. Let’s break it down:
Option 1: Tessa breaks things off with Jem. Jem is miserable. Will is miserable because Jem is miserable and it’s his fault. Will does not start a relationship with Tessa, because stealing your dying friend’s fiancee is the kind of lowlife scummy underhanded move that people find revolting, because it is revolting. I knew a woman whose husband ran off with her oncologist while she was undergoing cancer treatment. No one thought her husband was a good guy for doing this. No one cared if he genuinely loved the oncologist. He was still scum and no one ever spoke to him again. Will does not want to be that guy. Tessa does not want to be the oncologist, either. [Yes, there was a brief moment during which Will, in shock, said “But Jem would understand …� He’s hoping there that Jem’s feelings about Tessa aren’t that serious. Once Tessa gives him to understand that they in fact are, Will drops that, never to return to it.]
Option Two: Tessa breaks it off with Jem but refuses to say why and refuses to be with Will. Everyone’s miserable. Jem dies. Will, crushed with hideous guilt over the fact that he made his best friend’s last days pointlessly sucky, goes off to be a monk somewhere.
Option Three: Tessa stays with Jem. Will is miserable. Tessa is confused. Jem is happy because he doesn’t know not to be. Will at least gets to be happy that Jem, who he genuinely loves, is happy.
(Now I am not saying no aspect of this situation will ever change. The series is not over. But that is the situation as it exists at the end of CP.)
When I say Tessa was being self-sacrificing, I mean she was trying to choose the option that had the greatest chance of making the most number of people happy. In this case, Jem (and she is hoping that Will will be able to move on and be all right in the future) but that’s better than everyone being deathly miserable which is the only other option. Tessa is not happy but confused, because Will, a man she felt strongly for and who she had to accept did not exist in the form she needed him to (loving, respectful, caring) and move on from� turns out in a shocking turn to exist, but she is with a already with a man she does truly love and this is the only way for her to not just act with honor but to preserve everyone else’s.
She can’t choose Will. You can’t choose someone who won’t be chosen. She does not like hurting Will. It is why she burns her hand on the poker. But if she made any other choice she would not be the girl he loved. If she did not really love Jem, she would not be the girl he loved. And if he did not really love Jem, enough not to be able to be blithely happy at Jem’s expense, he would not be worth Tessa’s love. That is the terrible paradox of their situation.
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A - You know, this is one of those things where I’ve told the story so many times the details blur in my memory. I can remember the story and telling it but not the source so well. So I apologize for any errors.
I was watching a TV program (I want to say documentary, but again � details flee me) about two people who were both adopted. I believe they met in a support group for the adopted. They fell in love, got married, and because they didn’t have their family medical records, went for genetic testing when they decided to have a child, so as to make sure they weren’t carrying genes for various inheritable diseases.
What they did find out from the testing was that they were brother and sister.
It was all very messy and sad after that, and what I mainly remember is that they wanted to stay together, but I believe the “consanguinity� nade their marriage invalid, and it was really tragic etc. But also quite riveting. I mean here were these people and it genuinely wasn’t their fault what had happened, but they probably weren’t going to be able to stay together and really, who has a forbidden love in the 21st century? So I let it roll around in the back of my head for a while before it developed - with many differences of course - into Clary and Jace’s story.
I don’t know what happened to the original couple from the TV program but I have been told there is a recent Private Practice episode that basically covers their story, which is v. common; most medical shows take their plotlines from actual cases.
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A - Ah, Silent Brotherhood. I am beginning to worry it is being seen as a quickie solution to all problems. :)
Their origins go back to the birth of Shadowhunters: Silent Brothers keep the archives, Iron Sisters make the weapons. They live longer than your regular Shadowhunters, but they are not immortal. The Silent Brothers� mutilations have to do with the runes they have to use to prolong their lives and the magic they do. You have to be eighteen to become a Silent Brother. It is rather a big decision, after all. It is definitely not the fate that awaits surviving parabatai. Otherwise Robert Lightwood would be one.
* No, Silent Brothers/Iron Sisters can’t have sex. It’s a ‘channeling all energy into the magic� kind of deal. What can I say? Someone asked.
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A - I reserve the right to write their first date as a short story!
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A - CP SPOILERS. THOUGH MINOR.
“Wo ai ni, Tessa,� he whispered. “Wo bu xiang shi qu ni.�
I love you in Mandarin is still I love you.
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A - Well, we have so much time to get to know Sebastian in the future �
Well, first off, mostly he did it because Sebastian thinks he is an extremely charming mofo who is deadly with the ladies, and he wanted her to give him the Book of the White. A little flattery and seduction seemed a fast-track to getting it. There is no reason he’d care she was his sister. They’ve never met before, so the Westermarck effect isn’t going to mean anything to them, and Sebastian has no innate morals that are going to tell him you shouldn’t kiss your sister. If anything he thinks it’s hilarious.
Beyond that, I actually do think of Sebastian as someone very lonely. He says to Valentine “I thought she would be like me,� about Clary. He is clearly hoping for some sort of connection, someone who will be at least a little like him. It is a lonely thing to be unique in all the world. He may have been seeking connection. He may still be. :)
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A - Yes. Several. Some obvious, some not so obvious�
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A - There will be more Sophie and also Gideon in Clockwork Princess. Things have been set up with them that have to resolve in some way. They will continue their character arcs, whether separately or together.
Also, look out for � SCONES.
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A- Clockwork Princess starts up about two months after the end of Clockwork Prince. Not enough time to see Charlotte’s baby (which is a boy!)
if you’ll follow in the MI set and add a few more books, or even if you’ll pull a Scott Westerfeld and suddenly forget the meaning of a trilogy.�
Well, I’ve done it before, expanding the Mortal Instruments series � and I blamed Scott for it, too, though that may be unfair as there is a long and storied tradition in fantasy writing of trilogies turning into four, five, six, eleven books. That did teach me to never say never, because if you do, and then you change your mind later you just look like a prat. I will say that I don’t currently have intentions of expanding it. It doesn’t end with a lot of dangling threads like MI did, that could be expanded on.
I had lunch with my publisher last week and Jon, who heads up the children’s section at Simon and Schuster, asked me if I was going to write more Infernal Devices books. I said I didn’t think so, and my editor, who was sitting next to me, put down her fork and said:
“No, she won’t.�
Jon: She won’t?
Editor: Not with that ending.
So there you have it � I’d never say never but I will say “unlikely.� I have other projects in the works though and hope that you’ll trust me enough that you’ll have faith you’ll love those characters too.
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A - Jace’s POV of the alley scene is going into one of the special editions of City of Lost Souls, but I don’t know which yet. There will also be an Alec scene, and a letter from Stephen Herondale to Jace that he wrote before he died. But - ask and ye shall receive (some of the time. :)
I love you. He can’t say it, so he tries to tell her with the pressure of his lips and his body and his hands; they are around her waist, lifting her, and he had forgotten: she isn’t fragile; she is strong.
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A - Jace: I was injected with angel blood before I was even born to make me a super-soldier. I can jump forty feet in the air, fall off twenty-story buildings and survive, and climb trees without using my hands. I’m the best Shadowhunter of my generation. What are you good at?
Will: Angst.
Jace: I also excel in that arena.
Will: I’m half an inch taller.
Jace: It’s the little things with you, isn’t it.
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A - Well, Will makes an effort to not push people away so much as of Clockwork Princess. We do pick up two months down the line, so he’s trying to find equilibrium. He is in a situation where he thought he’d put aside acting, but he does still need to act, because he needs to behave as if he doesn’t mind about Jem and Tessa, and he is trying to not mind. He also is in a position where he’s spent five years building a persona for one purpose, but once that purpose is gone, who is he actually? The last time he was really totally genuine he was twelve, now he’s seventeen. Who is seventeen year old Will Herondale? That’s what he’s trying to figure out.
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A - ———�- Carstairs
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A - You’ll find out in City of Lost Souls.
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A - Sadly, the Dirty Sexy Ointment Scene has never been written. So much ointment, so little time�
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A - Jace: Is she your sister?
Will: No.
Jace: Doesn’t seem like that big a problem to me.
Will: It’s a PROBLEM.
Jace: Complain, complain.
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A - Jace spends most of City of Fallen Angels possessed. Nothing useful about his attitude toward Alec can really be gleaned from his behavior in COFA. He’s basically drowning with the occasional moment above the surface.
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Writing the scene where Will and Jem meet first.
Keep thinking Poor little boos, you have no idea what you’re in for..
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A - Thanks!
It’s interesting how Jace’s comment in City of Bones gets construed. Here’s what he actually says.
”There have always been women in the Clave—mastering the runes, creating weaponry, teaching the Killing Arts� only a few were warriors, ones with exceptional abilities. They had to fight to be trained. Maryse was a part of the first generation to be trained as a matter of course.�
He in fact explicitly states that women have always been warriors, but that they had to insist on being trained rather than being required to do it. This is why Jessamine isn’t trained; this is why there are many fewer women in the Enclave scene than men, and this is why there are many fewer (probably three among fifty) women in the vampire fight scene than men. There were women Shadowhunters who fought before the present day. They were simply fewer, and had to fight harder to get training and be accorded respect. Jace is actually extremely clear that there were fighting women Shadowhunters in the past, but I think we’re so used to reading narratives of women being kept out of various professions � soldiering, doctoring � that it gets read as “No women in the Clave before.�
And this: “creating weaponry� is an early reference to the Iron Sisters.
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A - Warlocks can die. Just like Ragnor Fell was killed in City of Glass, and Blackwell says in City of Bones that he and Pangborn killed two warlocks, Magnus is immortal, but not invulnerable. If you cut off his head, he’d die. Though he would think it was very rude behavior. As for ageless, warlocks settle at a particular age and there they remain. It isn’t their choice: it’s dependent on what kind of demon their demon parent was. *My ask box is off until the middle of March when I get back from Mexico, but I will answer some old questions, etc.
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A - I always thought the Twilight issue wasn’t just that Bella was mortal and Edward wasn’t, but that Edward was pretty clear that he was going to kill himself when Bella died � which, inevitably, she would. Which is indeed a tragic ending for a love story.
But the fact of real life love is that most couples, unless involved in a plane crash, do not die at the same exact time. It matters who Tessa chooses because people want to know who Jem or Will are going to spend the rest of their lives with, whether that is five, fifty, or five hundred years. It matters because to say otherwise is to say that it is not the quality of the time we have with our loved ones but the quantity: that it doesn’t matter whether you are happy, or build a family, or leave great legacy, but only that you both live the exact same amount of time. It matters because none of us get forever; we all get a lifetime. It matters because to say that it does not matter is to say that no life that ends matters, which is to say that nobody’s life matters at all.
IMHO, anyway.
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As for the book covers � Jem is not the clockwork prince. The clockwork prince is Mortmain. P. 156 of CP, in the flashback of Mortmain’s childhood:
The man laughed, and set the boy down on the ground, ruffling his hair. “My little clockwork prince …�
There is no real secret hidden meaning about who is on what cover, except that the marketing department didn’t want a boy on Clockwork Princess. They may perhaps have been worried that everyone would think Will’s dark secret was that he was a transvestite and was always stealing Jessamine’s clothes.
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A - 1) Well, Tessa is already staying away from Will. It’s not as if she decides that the solution to their problem is for her to spend a lot of quality time with him � some problems you can’t fix, so she gives him space. I am not sure you can yell at someone to do something they’re doing anyway, unless Cecily expects Tessa to move back to America.
2) Is she mad at Tessa for breaking Will’s heart? I’m a little wary here. I think there’s a lot of readerly anger toward Tessa for hurting Will, which is emotionally valid, but within the logistics of the story is maybe not so much so in terms of other characters� views on the situation. I’ve seen people say that a girl that breaks boys� hearts is a bad person, but if two boys walk up to you and go “We both love you. Say yes to one of us. The other one will be heartbroken� your options are 1) break someone’s heart 2) blow your own head off with a shotgun. Not to say that Tessa never makes mistakes, but ladies get a lot of dressing-downs in books � from men, from other women, for behavior men never get blamed for; I try to save the dressing-downs for when they’re either really needed or revelatory about the situation somehow.
2) Cecily is Will’s sister, which would in a lot of ways naturally put her on Will’s side, but she’s also someone Will left; she’s missed him for years and she wants to know why he ran away from home. She has all sorts of issues of trust. For me Will is a very interesting topic for Tessa and Cecily to talk about as they doubtless both have revelations for each other.
3) Jem and Cecily: I believe everything I’ve posted has been from the beginning of the book so it’s hard to say how their relationship plays out over the whole thing. You know I hate to squash a theory. :D
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Just a quick up date on IM news, DA news and movie news
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A-Writing Clockwork Princess.
When it is done, I start City of Heavenly Fire.
The Shadowhunter’s Codex will be a published book.
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I'm so excited for CP2 and CoHF and now I have the Codex to look forward to? I think I just fainted!
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A small interview mostly about Jace and Clary with Cassandra Clare
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� Magnus can speak a bunch of languages. He does speak Indonesian. He speaks it to Alec in City of Lost Souls on the dread PAGE 511.
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so first of all I love your books!!Just one question, are the bind to runes (for parabataii?) supposed to be permanent or do they fade?
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Parabatai runes are actually the Friendship rune rather than the Alliance rune � they are permanent though funky stuff can happen to them if one of the parabatai dies, is exiled, or becomes a Downworlder.
Hannah wrote: "Q - I'm a huge fan of both The mortal instruments and the Infernal devices,(especially Magnus :) ) and i'd like to know who you think the better fighter is out of Will and Jace?A - Jace: I was in..."
I so so wish there were more scenes of these. With "fake" interactions between Will and Jace! :)
Hannah wrote: "Q - “A bit confused since no ones seems to realise that no matter who tessa ends up with they’re still going to have a whole twilight issue since she’s immortalA - I always thought the Twilight i..."
that response nearly brought be to tears! ;'( Beautiful.
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Q-Which are you more nervous about City of Heavenly Fire or Clockwork Princess?
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� In terms of “when they come out, how will people react?� I guess Clockwork Princess, because the ending gave my critique group a lot of “AAAAA!� (although everyone agreed it was the only way it could end, but I still rewrote it about 1,000 times) whereas CoHF isn’t finished. So without myself knowing exactly how the ending plays out, even if I do know what happens, I can’t guess how people might react. Mostly people react to the execution of something rather than the idea.
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Oh, yes. Did I forget to mention I was going to have an announcement on Monday? I think you will like it. It is not movie related. It is Shadowhunter-related though. And it a SURPRISE.
*And Maureen has written a beeyootiful poem about it.
* And someone else with the initial M may be involved.
Oh, look! Oh look! Who’s over there?
Why, it looks like Cassie Clare!
And over there? Holding that hen?
Why it’s Sarah Rees Brennan!
What are they doing? Am I doing it too?
Is this a riddle? This is a clue?
What’s it about? I cannot say �
But all will be revealed MONDAY.
We have got a secret we haven’t told to you
We have got a secret (have you heard? yes it’s true)
I have two tiny people MJ & Cassie Clare,
& we have a secret—it is quite a grand affair!
Do not be despondent! All the answers that you seek
Lo they shall come unto thee! � You know. Next week.
Oh gees who know what this could be?
Okay so here it is.Family Tree:
Starkweather: Is Tessa's maiden/shadowhunter name although she originally thought it to be Gray. Also Hodges last name. That means they're are related.
Herondale: Is Will's last name and also Jace's last name. So that makes Jace a descendant of Tessa and Will's.
Lightwood: Was Gabriel's last name and later Alec's, Isabelle',s and Max's. So that makes them Gabriel's decedents.
Fairchild: Was Charlotte last name and when she had her son she gave him her maiden name. Fairchild is also Clary's last name, that makes her a decedent of Charlotte's.
My guess? :
I think that now that Jem is mortal again, he is going to tell Tessa about his time spent helping Jace (her decedent) and Clary as Borther Zachariah. And that Tessa is going to show up in City of Heavenly Fire, trying to help them.
