Clary grieves via art and demon-hunting, grows a very inconvenient crush, and finds a way under Isabelle’s cool and collected facade. Or, a love story in charcoal and good intentions.
Following the loss of his brother, florist Alec Lightwood wants to do something to remember him by. Enter tattoo artist Magnus Bane who brings beauty and love into his life. What starts as a one-time thing blooms into an expression of love for all the important people in Alec’s life.
“Why did you choose a bow and arrow as your weapon?” Clary asked. Alec pinned Clary with a glare, the effect of which was somewhat undercut by the fact that he was holding a sandwich halfway to his face. “We’re not doing this.” or Alec teaches Clary how to use a bow, and it goes surprisingly better than expected
Isabelle fumes at Max being failed on a test and it’s left up to Alec to teach his little brother the most important lesson of being a Shadowhunter. Clary just happens to learn something as well.
You miss me when I’m gone, but you don’t know how to be close when I’m there. Alec sees the weight of recent events on Magnus, but is stymied by exactly what to do. Going on a mission with Clary provides not so much a solution as a way forward.
After Morning Star. Alec and Clary are having trouble sleeping with everything that’s happened, and by chance they find themselves opening up over ice-cream.
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“Looks like you got here just in time,” Jace the Personal Trainer says, gaze dragging up from the soles of Simon’s ratty Converse to the fluff of his un-brushed hair. “You know video games aren’t cardio, right?”
Demons have disappeared from the city and the local Shadow World has discovered the hard way that the only thing worse than demons is an institute of Shadowhunters with no demons to fight. But that situation is (hopefully) temporary. The whole thing with the parabatai bond being weird is something else entirely.
Valentine has hidden the Mortal Cup in another dimension. Clary, Simon and Jace go after it, and find themselves stuck in an era of underground clubs, rivaling gin runners, and an upcoming wedding. (A Roaring 20s Speakeasy AU)
Monsters by la_muerta (Magnus/Alec; Jace/Simon; Clary/Isabelle; Supernatural-verse AU)
The Lightwoods have been on the road hunting since their parents and youngest brother died in a mysterious house fire – a fire started by a man with yellow-green eyes, like a cat’s. They hunt the thing that started the fire, the thing that tore their family apart. They’ve been on the road for a year now, but they’ve finally got a name for the monster – the Prince of Hell, Magnus Bane. What Izzy and Jace don’t know, of course, is how Alec got hold of that name.
When Magnus Bane bought the space for his dance studio, Pandemonium, he had no idea that the wall between it and the MMA Training Gym next door was so thin. Neither did he realize that a dispute over the loud music would lead to him becoming involved in the world of MMA and, more importantly, guide him to the man who would end up changing his life.
The worst part is, Jace can’t regret believing that particular lie.
Closed Doors Don’t Lie by RedOrchid (canon pairings and references to past Alec/Jace – but no romantic Alec/Jace in the fic itself; Parabatai bond)
When the summoning of the Memory Demon reveals that it’s not only Clary’s memories that have been meddled with, Alec finds himself being pushed off the path set out for him and onto a different one.
Alec Lightwood has always been an artist. When he was a child, he’d draw all over his hands and arms. As an adult, if he runs out of paper, he crosses onto his arms. But the best things he writes on himself are the words he exchanges with a faceless, nameless stranger, who lives halfway across the world. His soulmate. Or: In which Alec has a soulmate, Jace is a good brother, and the world really seems to be out to make this whole thing difficult.
Spare Key by cinnaluminum (canon pairings; episode tag: s02e06 Iron Sisters; parabatai bond)
It takes a rare kind of courage to be so explicitly vulnerable, and it’s not the kind of courage Jace has ever specialized in. He knows it when he sees it, though, every time Magnus stands in front of Alec with his big, glittery heart on his sleeve.
Every beat of his heart is Clary. Clary. Clary. Dead. Dead. Dead. Jace thinks it might kill him, so he shoves it down, shoves it within himself as far as it will go, and he stumbles, like a man no longer possessed, back down to the street, ignoring Izzy and Luke and Simon and the world. He needs Alec. It’s the only thing he can let himself think about now. Alec is still breathing. Alec is alive, and that is going to have to be enough for right now.
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…
After Alec’s confrontation with the Seelie Queen puts his life in danger, a desperate attempt to save him has consequences and repercussions the likes of which the Shadow World has never seen.
Children of Nyx – orphan account (canon pairings; non-romantic Jace/Alec; dark fic – read the tags)
There’s a reason parabatai are forbidden from sharing physical intimacy. It’s the reason Alec convinced himself he loved Jace for so many years. The consequences are said to be catastrophic. In the fallout from Lilith’s rampage, Jace accidentally triggers an ancient weapon and sets off a chain of events that threatens to destroy everything: his bond with Alec, Alec’s relationship with Magnus, and the very foundations of the Clave itself. AKA the fuck-or-die fic in which the fucking is somehow the least of everyone’s problems.
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Our messiest round up to date (and doesn’t that just fit in with this half season) however eventually we do discuss Conjecture, Causality, Consequences and Conclusions (or, if you believe auto correct: Concussions and also Con-Couscous).
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June and Jilly’s Clizzy Discussion
look @F_F_Podcast I am very fond of you both but I will fight you on the point that Clary and Isabelle deserved that scene where they talk about becoming parabatai and I 100% don't care that it is fanservice (because it is, but I get few enough crumbs of these two as it is)
In which we discuss the end of Shadowhunters and Michelle only almost nearly cries about 8 times while podcasting and Ruth doesn’t know what the slug is going on…
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Episode 52 of The Descent Is Easy discusses Alliance, Episode 21 of Season 3 of Shadowhunters.
In which our gang quips their way through the apocalypse and we are in love!
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