𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐝.

ok im way too lazy for proper intros (which i applaud all of you for), so, here are just some bullet points for those who aren’t familiar with jace yet:

jace wayland-lightwood-morgernstern-herondale. it’s complicated—what matters is that his real family is the herondales, but he doesn’t know that yet and thinks he’s a morgernstern.

basically, no one wants to be part of the morgernstern family. they’re looked down upon because of valentine, who is like voldemort, but hotter. he wanted to create a shadowhunter army to erase all vampires, werewolves, seelis, anyone with demon blood out of existence ( called downworlders ).

he had basically kidnapped jace and forced him into a ~partnership~ with him in creating that army because who doesn’t love family bonding time? 

thankfully, he’d escaped, but then was imprisoned because the boring, stuck-up shadowhunter politicians accused him of treason, so, pretty much, he didn’t really get to catch a break. 

of course, things couldn’t stop there. there was this magical mortal sword that once wielded by someone with Pure angel blood, it would yeet all downwolders into the oblivion.

so, what did jace do? you guessed it. in his defense, he thought he had demon blood when in reality, valentine had coerced him into believing he didn’t have pure angel blood because he was his son ( news flash: he’s not. does he know it? no ).

the exact moment after he got a fun moment to relish what he’d done—massacring a whole room of downworlders—he got pulled from his dimension and dropped here. in the show, he found out valentine wasn’t his father and clary wasn’t his sister moments after, but we love pain and angst, so, i’m not giving him that knowledge yet xoxo