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Hey y’all! Myself and my friend noticed there was a big hole in the TSC fandom - namely, that there isn’t a Discord server for us all to come together and appreciate/freak out over our favourite Shadowhunters.
So we decided to fix it! Here is your official notice of the creation of The Downworld, a place for us to talk theories, go crazy over our beloved ships, worship those characters that maybe don’t get enough love fandom-wide, and of course, appreciate the absolute genius that is Cassandra Clare.
All we ask is that you be kind and respectful to each other, and agree to our server rules that’ll you see when you join. The server is also 18+ only, so unfortunately we won’t be able to allow minors to join.
If you’d be interested in joining, please feel free to reach out to me or @timesconvert and we’ll get the ball rolling - don’t be scared; unlike Jordan, we don’t bite!
I found a playlist of Kit so perfect that now I’m crying imagining him hearing it
Could it be Bat? 🤔😭😭
CASSIE JUST SAID THAT IN THE FIRST BOOK OF THE BOOK OF TWP WE SEE THE DEATH OF A CHARACTER WE HAVE KNOWN SINCE THE FIRST THREE BOOKS OF THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS!!!!!😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
kit and ty are going to absolutely serve the trope “someone who believes they are hard to love x someone who loves them like it’s breathing”
Kit entertains Mina with his faerie magic
because that’s totally something he can do…
Not my best work, but I think it’s cute.
Drawn in October of 2023
saw someone say that in the first chapter of LkoF Dru mentioned kit having picked up British isms? that's not in the version I found so is there another version or is that from sm else entirely? thanks!!
SOBS.
There is one random thought that just hasn’t left my mind since we discovered that Kit still dreams about Ty.
The last scene that Kit narrates in QoAaD where he is looking down at Ty and he says how he was away from all the noise, and the he said he hated himself in that moment because he wanted to go down there and protect Ty from all the noise. And I KNOW I just KNOW that he’s had at least ONE dream in which he went against his better judgement and instead of leaving with Jem and Tessa, he went down there with Ty.
WAIIIIIIITTTTT JUST ONE MOMENT
HUHHHHHHHHHHH
with a few different people posting about their predictions for twp, a common thread I've noticed is there's usually something regarding Ty finding out about Kit being the First Heir.... I see we've all forgotten about Ty being up that tree lmao
yall, quick. whos read paradise lost (and biblical mythology?). we need 'em here stat
Okay, I’m just ridiculously curious about if/how you’re going to portray Lucifer in the upcoming TSC books, and I’m wondering if you can give us any info, snippets, anything about him and/or the other Princes of Hell. It’s probably too spoilery, and probably too early, for much of anything, but I’m really fascinated with how you’ve incorporated the Princes of Hell into the TSC world, as well as the other dimensions. I’d just love to know more. Thank you! Hope you’re doing well! ♥️
Hmmm. I don't think I can say specifically, but I can say that TWP is something of a return to the biblical/demonic mythos of The Mortal Instruments. A lot of what happens turns on various pieces of biblical mythology (since we're dealing with Lucifer!) and references to Paradise Lost/Dante.
frrrrrr
Idk about you but I’ve got the whole tlkof planned in my head, Cassie ain’t doing shit so I have to do it myself 😔✊
parallels... parallels... its all about the parallels... save me from the parallels... theyre everywere... everything is parallels... you cant escape the parallels
can yall tell im going CRAZY rn over all my theories. im piling em alllll up in my drafts andandandand--. ive got too many theories yall. theyre consuming me.
the parallels are consuming me
when the whole fandom is just geniuses lol
random thought I had the other day but never shared but. Ty lowkey parallels King David. I was thinking about QOAAD & the Battle on the Imperishable Fields, and how it's kinda weird Ty is mentioned multiple times to be using slingshot because that's not a typical shadowhunter weapon we see. then it occurred to me that literally a battle where giants show up and Ty helps "slay" them so to speak. like David & Goliath, which is also previously mentioned in QOAAD by Emma
where Julian's words are equated to David's stones. and by the way, David is said to have five stone and who's the fifth Blackthorn to try & speak to Julian & Emma? Ty. and this is what happens when he does.
not only that but King David of David & Goliath fame is also the David of (biblical) David & Jonathan fame, which the parabatai law draws inspiration from. aka the thing actively going wrong at that very moment. Biblical Jonathan also dies btw. and you wanna know what the icing on the the cake is? David's dad's name is Jesse.
theres no way this isn't a purposeful reference but I have no idea if it's like. just CC having fun or something that had Implications. food for thought.
oh yeah how could i forget:
zara dies (please.)
manuel dies (im so upset (/lh) the only spanish character is evil. why. ill have to settle for gideon and thomas's visits to spain ToT)
honestly, most of the cohort centurions die
please theyre all bigoted dickheads
Predictions for twp: (this is basically just me manifesting, some random theories, and the occasional actual prediction)
Kit gives Jessa a heart attack (this ones a given)
kitty horrendously, hopelessly, completely and utterly fail to communicate for majority of the first book
dru forgets ash exists. again. x2.
kitty kiss in first book (pLEASE-)
morgenthorn kiss in first book (...am i pushing it a bit?)
...herongraystairs??? (pleasepleaseplease)
Thule!Ty (i saw this cool post abt thule being a 'cracked mirror' of the og world, so livvy mightve tried to revive ty instead of vice versa?), OR
Lucifer somehow possesses Ty (honestly considering the dream this seems more and more likely...)
In relation to that, maybe ty reviving (reghosting?? re-kinda-viving?) livvy opened up a way for lucifer to enter their world, or possess ty? maybe it left him 'unprotected', maybe it made a tear in the divide between worlds, smth like that (based on this)
Too many serious ones, time for some sillies: clace and/or sizzy wedding (this ones more 'light-hearted' than 'silly', but eh)
alec is completely done. hes so over it. sick of their bs.
magnus is also done w the sh's bs, like he is in every book, and like in every book he contradicts his most recent claim that he will not deal with whatevers next and helps. and then says again that hell leave them to deal with whatevers next themselves. which he will definitely not do.
Magnus shows up (again) (guaranteed) (true main character tbh) (hes shown up in every. single. book. yes, even the companion books) (cant complain tho <333)
This post. ive gotta include it. its a pattern by now, and theyre gonna be in faerie, sooo....
kitty angry first kiss. imagine. like, "u hate me, you dont love me back!" "ffs i do!" *smooshes faces together* (can yall tell im tired??? im going craaazyyyyy)
ohh yeah and... ash and jamie rivalry-ish, except its a bit one-sided and ash is deffo more determined than jamie
cc is gonna leave us on a cliffhanger for one duo and then switch to the other. from morgenthorn to kitty to morgenthorn to kitty again and again at the most inopportune moments. well b on the edge of our seats the entire time istg
I... think thats it??? anyways stay tuned for the part two thats probs coming
Predictions for twp: (this is basically just me manifesting, some random theories, and the occasional actual prediction)
Kit gives Jessa a heart attack (this ones a given)
kitty horrendously, hopelessly, completely and utterly fail to communicate for majority of the first book
dru forgets ash exists. again. x2.
kitty kiss in first book (pLEASE-)
morgenthorn kiss in first book (...am i pushing it a bit?)
...herongraystairs??? (pleasepleaseplease)
Thule!Ty (i saw this cool post abt thule being a 'cracked mirror' of the og world, so livvy mightve tried to revive ty instead of vice versa?), OR
Lucifer somehow possesses Ty (honestly considering the dream this seems more and more likely...)
In relation to that, maybe ty reviving (reghosting?? re-kinda-viving?) livvy opened up a way for lucifer to enter their world, or possess ty? maybe it left him 'unprotected', maybe it made a tear in the divide between worlds, smth like that (based on this)
Too many serious ones, time for some sillies: clace and/or sizzy wedding (this ones more 'light-hearted' than 'silly', but eh)
alec is completely done. hes so over it. sick of their bs.
magnus is also done w the sh's bs, like he is in every book, and like in every book he contradicts his most recent claim that he will not deal with whatevers next and helps. and then says again that hell leave them to deal with whatevers next themselves. which he will definitely not do.
Magnus shows up (again) (guaranteed) (true main character tbh) (hes shown up in every. single. book. yes, even the companion books) (cant complain tho <333)
This post. ive gotta include it. its a pattern by now, and theyre gonna be in faerie, sooo....
kitty angry first kiss. imagine. like, "u hate me, you dont love me back!" "ffs i do!" *smooshes faces together* (can yall tell im tired??? im going craaazyyyyy)
ohh yeah and... ash and jamie rivalry-ish, except its a bit one-sided and ash is deffo more determined than jamie
cc is gonna leave us on a cliffhanger for one duo and then switch to the other. from morgenthorn to kitty to morgenthorn to kitty again and again at the most inopportune moments. well b on the edge of our seats the entire time istg
I... think thats it??? anyways stay tuned for the part two thats probs coming
oh no he deffo just disappears. goes poof. hell be on his roadtrip w ty, chilling (as much as he can considering, yk. everything), and back home jessa will be freaking tf out, thinking hes been kidnapped (or kitnapped- k ill go see myself out) or smth
You know what I’m really curious about? How the fuck will Jessa let Kit go with Ty?? JUST LIKE THAT??? They’ve been protecting him for years with all the wards and stuff and they will just agree to let him go for probably a crazily dangerous (for him at least) mission??? There has to be smth to it, either Kit just disappears from home or idkkkkkk
if we get Kit calling Jem dad in tlkof i will be sobbing
everyone panicking over Cassandra Clare saying a character we met in the first three tmi books will die in the first twp book 😭 which is understandable but I felt like we should keep in mind the book is literally called The Last King of Faerie and we first were introduced to the Seelie Queen in City of Ashes.... like shes kinda doomed it has to be her I fear
yk ive seen lots of jokes abt how kit would describe ty as beautiful, (mentally) write flippin poetry about how he looks, assist in necromancy for him, and yet still think theyre just good friends. which i love, its hilarious, BUT.
im p sure he Knows™. like, he vaguely refers to his feelings not being fully platonic throughout qoaad. most notably, when he thinks abt the reasons why he no longer thinks abt being parabatai w ty, and at the end hes like, "maybe it was something else, but he pushed away from the thought"
which, yk. what else, kit? 👀 what else? 👀👀 kinda sus yk 👀👀 i mean whats the primary reason ppl cant b parabatai 👀👀 one u dont want to think abt 👀👀 what the smth else, kit? 👀👀👀
I feel bad after that last post, so let’s talk about something happy that Cassandra also said in that live. Thais Pedroso is confirmed to be pansexual AND she has a love interest in the TWP. Also, she said that it may or may not be someone we already know. 👀
Make your guesses.
PLEASE.
Give me Tiberius Blackthorn gay panicking over Kit or give me death
I NEED his reactions to older brother Kit, softened by love Kit, denim jacket Kit, finally eating well and getting sunlight Kit who probably looks even better than when Ty first fell in love Kit
GIVE ME GIVE ME GIVE ME
im gonna kms /j
CASSIE JUST SAID THAT IN THE FIRST BOOK OF THE BOOK OF TWP WE SEE THE DEATH OF A CHARACTER WE HAVE KNOWN SINCE THE FIRST THREE BOOKS OF THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS!!!!!😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Sammael laughed. [...] the greatest of all demons!”
“Second-greatest,” said Ragnor quietly.
The Prince of Hell narrowed his eyes. “Well. We don’t talk about him.”
HES TALKING ABT LUCIFER ISNT HE???
twp is gonna be WILD man. like, damn
why. why.
friendly reminder that Ty cried for the first time in a long time when Kit said he wishes he never met him
yall. i was going through some of cc's old newsletters, and on the one of april 8th (for me, might be like 9th or 7th for yall??) last year (2024), so exactly one year ago, she was talking abt when shed get the books she was working on released. she also mentioned how itd been sold tot the publisher around october the year before that (which is when she was able to get started writing). and one thing she said was that it takes at least 1 year to write a book. its been a year since she said that.... over a year since she was able to get started....
so, in conclusion, cc is, at the very least, relatively close to finishing tlkof.
now, i saw another post point out that the tsc books have had a trend of the main ship(s) kissing in the first book (dont quote me on this, i havent checked, im just trusting the post.)
(can u see where im going with this?)
all of this together means that....
DRUMROLL PLEASE......
CHANCES ARE, KITTY AND/OR MORGENTHORN'S CANNON FIRST KISS SCENE(S) MAY ALREADY BE WRITTEN
never underestimate a herondale in love
You know what I’m really curious about? How the fuck will Jessa let Kit go with Ty?? JUST LIKE THAT??? They’ve been protecting him for years with all the wards and stuff and they will just agree to let him go for probably a crazily dangerous (for him at least) mission??? There has to be smth to it, either Kit just disappears from home or idkkkkkk
YES.
Does Kit qualify as a simp for Ty? (not in a bad way, I love simps)
randomly reminding that i'll read Ty's pov for the first time ever in twp
miss rabbit fainted
randomly reminding that Herongraystairs will finally happen in twp
miss rabbit fainted again
god. dont remind me
i just wanna read twp already 😭😭😭
Do you all understand that we will live with this 2nd chapter theories for another fucking year….
You don’t even know what type of a celestial being I will turn into while reading Ty’s pov for the first time, you do not know
Count the hours count the days count the years I’ll spend in that place
Do you think Kit Herondale has ADHD? and do you think that because Ty is autistic, his POV is very different when he writes?
I guess I'd say that if you as someone with ADHD relates to Kit, that is cool. Like I said, there's not a wrong way to relate to a character. But I didn't write him consciously as someone with ADHD because if I had I would have done what I did writing Ty — months of research and not writing the character without consulting with sensitivity readers who themselves were people with autism. I wouldn't have felt I was doing a character with ADHD justice without doing all those things.
I do think Ty's neurodivergence would impact his narration of a story, yes, so I won't be (and am not currently) going to be writing any parts about Ty (whether he narrates them directly or not) without multiple sensitivity readers consulting before they're edited. That is why you have not seen much from Ty snippet wise from TWP. I would not even want to post a first draft publicly without consultation, given the possibility of hurting or upsetting someone with representation that doesn't feel right.