Matthew Fairchild and James Herondale appreciation blog. Requests for fics and aesthetics are OPEN and the askbox is also always open for questions and chatting!
Hi! My name is Nanda and this is my blog dedicated to The Last Hours, by Cassandra Clare, specially the relationship between James and Matthew (heronchild) or, on occasion, James, Matthew and Cordelia (heronchildstairs/heronfairstairs).
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Will we learn more about Andrew and Eleanor Blackthorn in TLKOF? Will Ty or Dru be thinking about them as they go on their adventures?
A very little. In the scenes in TLKOF from Ty's perspective, there is no room or reason for him to think about them. Dru wears her mother's gear and thinks briefly about her father, but he died when she was eight, and Eleanor when she was even younger. To her, her parental figure is Julian, who she thinks about a lot, as does Ty.
svnshinee9 asked:
I was just wondering, since it's mentioned quite a few times, does Ty's hair and eye colours (different from the rest of the other blackthorn siblings) hide a piece of information we're still missing??
Nope! It is meant to be a fun piece of business tying him back to Jesse and the other Blackthorns of that time. That's all.
izzylightwoodfledaway asked:
Hey Cassie, I know we've just got A Sea of Change where we saw what happened to Mathew Fairchild after the TLH. And we sort of know that James and Cordelia lived happily ever after TLH but are we gonna see them later in their lives? Maybe James or Cordelia or Lucie could even get mentioned in the TWP? Maybe their ghosts could make a cameo? Or their story ended at TLH?
The forward progress of their stories ends with TLH. They do not live on forever or return as ghosts. We may hear bits and pieces about their lives, as history (Matthew's apartment in Paris lives on). It's not to say someday there might be a short story or something, who knows?! — but not in TWP.
laamedusa asked:
Hi Cassie!
I was wondering, does Ash remember or have any memories of Nene? I totally get if you can’t answer this but I loved their short story and would love to see more of them!
He does! He remembers her well though he won't necessarily admit it at first. She certainly changed him, as he has only known otherwise terrible role models.
smrxlmn asked:
Will we get any boyfriend moments in the first book? I know it's too spoiler, but.. but...
I don't know what that means! — and googling did not help me. Google did tell me that boyfriends should go canoeing or kayaking together, though I am not sure they would like that. You will have to clarify next round. :)
maryheronthorn asked:
hi cassie!
i was wondering if we are going to see a little bit of the sill on-going beef between emma and zara. i remember zara still being super angry and promising to kill emma when she got out of idris soooo maybe IF she gets out… will we see round 2? 👀 or is zara over it?
Zara is never over anything, but she also has beef with a lot of people. You'll definitely see her though she has bigger problems than Emma in TLKOF.
heronstairs asked:
hey Cassie, i'm super curious to know if we learn why the runed gun only fires for James & Kit during the plot of twp. it's been haunting me. very excited to reenter the shadow world in tlkof!! <3
We already know why it fires for James, but we will indeed find out why it fires for Kit, too, in TWP. Ty figures it out.
iveneverbeenanaturalt asked: Will Maryse’s brother be in TWP? any chance we'll see them reunite?
We will definitely see Max. (Max 2? Max 3?) His knowledge proves invaluable. Maryse and Max reunited before TLKOF so that would have to be in special content or a deleted scene. (For those of you who have not read Better in Black, you will find out who Max is!)
ecairis asked:
Are Emma and Julian planning to expand their family?
I didn't have time to write a whole new thing, so this is a new and improved version of this fic to include Sylvain in my ever-expanding "Matthew deserves all the love in the world" universe and also as an entry for @fourormore's Pride month event.
Wish you lovelies all the love, happiness and acceptance this Pride month and forever <3
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“Is it done yet?” Matthew asked her, barely able to keep himself still in his seat.
“Almost. Now don’t talk or I’m going to mess it up.” Cordelia chastised him, but kept focused on her task. “Just one more line, aaaand… done! You can look at my masterpiece now.”
Matthew almost fell from the vanity seat from turning around so fast, but he caught himself on the table and turned his face from side to side in front of the mirror. Two colourful hearts were painted on his cheeks, one with the colours of the bisexual flag and the other with the colours of the polyam flag.
“It’s perfect! Cordelia, you’ve outdone yourself. You are a true Van Gogh. No, Picasso. No, Frida Kahlo!” He exclaimed his praise with his finger high in the air when he found the right metaphor, then turned back around and pulled her for a kiss.
“You’re welcome, Math. Now move, I need to do mine next. You can go help Jamie put on his shirt without smudging the paint.”
“No need. It dried a while ago, so I already put it on. I can help you, though, if you want,” he added towards Matthew.
Matthew joined James sitting on the bed and beamed at him. Matching hearts to his own were painted on his cheeks and Jamez already had on the shirt that read “I’m with them” with an arrow pointing to the right, a mirror to Matthew’s one. They had argued over who would get to stay in the middle, but in the end Cordelia had won the rock, paper, scissors.
“Can’t believe I have the honour to take you both to baby’s first pride,” Matthew said after his shirt was over his head, wiping a fake tear from his eye. “Let me introduce you to a world of love, acceptance, hope, and, not less important, debauchery, beyond your wildest dreams.”
“Hey, I’ve been to pride with you before!” James said.
“You have been as an ally, now you are part of the club, Jamie. You get to sit with the popular kids now.”
“Pride sounds an awful lot like high-school, I’m not sure I want to go anymore,” he teased.
“Too bad,” Cordelia interrupted, “our shirts don’t work unless we are all together so you have to go now.”
“Hmmm, fair.”
“Plus, if you don’t go, I’ll cry. You don’t want your beloved Math to cry, do you?”
“Eehhh…”
Cordelia saw Matthew hit him across the head with a pillow through the mirror and James laughed.
“I don’t! I don’t! Careful with the paint!”
“That’s better. I’ll go get Oscar ready.”
He left at the same time Cordelia finished her own make up and got up. One of her hearts had the polyam flag that matched theirs and the other the queer pride flag.
James helped her put on her shirt with “I’m with them <–->” on it and then she did a twirl.
“How do I look?”
“Gorgeous. And happier than I have ever seen you, my Daisy.”
“We all are, I believe. And that’s also what today is about. Let’s celebrate our happiness and the light we found in each other after so long beating ourselves up over something so simple.”
“You’re absolutely right.”
James kissed her until the sound of the doorbell ringing and Oscar barking startled them out of it.
"I'll get it!" Matthew screamed from the other room and then his quick steps drummed down the stairs, followed closely by Oscar's.
"Must be Sylvain," Cordelia smiled and fixed her hair in the mirror. And sure enough, Matthew's excited voice could be heard all through the house until he burst through the door a few moments later, pulling the French boy along by their interlocked hands.
"Look who I found!" he announced and Sylvain tilted his head to the side.
"But I am the one that came over, so wasn't I the one that found you?"
"Tomato, tomahto." Matthew waved away the comment, then clinged to Sylvain's arm in a sudden burst of theatrics. "Can you believe Jamie said he would not care if I cried? On Pride day? That's why you are my favourite, mon chou."
James rolled his eyes.
"Sylvain, can you please tell your boyfriend he is being an over-dramatic drama queen and that's not what I said?"
"Cordelia, can you please tell your husband that he is mean and the angels will punish him for slighting me so?"
"Sylvain, can you please tell my husband and my boyfriend that if they continue to be ridiculous and ruin my first pride, I'll feed them both to the ducks at Hyde Park?"
Sylvain nodded solemnly.
"You heard her, gents. But, fatally, I'm French, I can not live without a bit of drama." That was not a very helpful comment, but he tilted Matthew's chin up and distracted him with a kiss before he could claim his victory against James and start any more ridiculous fake fighting, which Cordelia approved.
Sylvain was a more recent addition to their dynamic, fruit of Matthew's latest cruise trip and a well-timed exchange program in England, and she was pleased to see how well it all had worked out in the end and how they all got along in their own way. Specially, she liked seeing how pleased it had made Matthew, who had been so worried at first, and how their happiness just seemed to be multiplied instead of diminished the more love there was to go around.
Sylvain's "I'm with them, but specially with him" shirt had to be custom made, but it was a perfect way to complement their little joke. Though she knew their perfect line was bound to devolve into chaos sooner rather than later as they moved through the crowd.
James' phone buzzed, and he fished it out of his pocket.
“It’s Anna, they are all already waiting outside. We should go.”
“Let’s. Last one to the door is a slowpoke.”
Matthew bolted out the door, James rushing right behind him and complaining of him cheating. Cordelia and Sylvain looked at each other in shared amusement, before he motioned to the door and stepped aside.
"Ladies first."
Matthew already had his hand on the doorknob and was bouncing in place when they got downstairs. Now that Cordelia actually had time to look, she could see Oscar would have made his namesake proud, with a bandana and leash covered in rainbow colours.
Her eyes went from Oscar to each of the boys, and it made Cordelia so happy, her eyes filled with tears.
“Come over here for a second, you two.”
She hugged James and Matthew tight, then pressed their foreheads together.
“I love both of you so, so much, and I am so happy we are together.”
“Me too,” they murmured back at her. She looked over her shoulder and motioned for Sylvain to come closer. "And I am so thankful for you, too. For accepting us, and joining us."
Sylvain came over, passing his arms over Matthew to join their hug and smiling. "It's my pleasure to be here."
They stayed there for a moment, basking in themselves and their warmth, until Oscar whined.
They all stopped to give him pets.
“We love you, too, of course, Oscar.”
Matthew opened the door and past their small yard all their friends and family were already waiting, many of them decked in their own pride colours themselves, the others carrying rainbow flags and happy to display the pride and love they all had for each other.
Cordelia started crying again, overcome with such joy and love she could not contain it. This was what being part of a community meant, this was what being surrounded by people that loved and accepted them meant.
Hate may try to rear its ugly head up from time to time, but love and joy would always win in the end, because they were the strongest forces the human race had ever known.
She took her place in between James and Matthew with a smile full of delight, winked at Sylvain on the other side of Matthew, and all together they walked and all together they marched, towards an always brighter future.
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Andrew Minyard. Laurent of Vere. Will Kempen. Jace Herondale. Will Herondale. Andrew Perrault. Nico Di Angelo. Peeta Mellark (after Mockingjay). Matthew Fairchild.
“I want to love you for the rest of my life”
Neil Josten. Damianos of Akielos. James St. Clair. Clary Fairchild. Jem Carstairs, Thomas Rye. Will Solace. Katniss Everdeen. James Herondale
James likes football, however he has only a circumstantial allegiance to England. He circles between cheering for Wales, the US and England (or if it's an universe where he is with Cordelia, he also adds cheering for Iran with her).
Matthew is very "go sports!", he does not care about football and does not know any players or stats, but he likes the W.orld Cup because of the parties and the general atmosphere of the time. He cheers for all the underdogs simultaneously because he says it makes it more exciting.
They both do like cheering with their friends and the whole atmosphere of it all, though, so they and their friends take turns hosting watch parties or they arrange to go out and watch the game together at a pub or street fest. Matthew likes making different finger foods whenever he is helping host the watch party and James is in charge of the decor and drinks.
(Also, as a bonus, I think Thomas would be a huge football fan and would want to strangle them both for their half-hearted attitude and Matthew actively cheering against England lmao)
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the characterization of james in anna's and matthew's short stories make me a bit sad particularly because i wish that CC would lean more into "nerd trapped in a hot body" when she was writing him throughout TLH
James let out a short breath. “You may refer to her only as Lady Blackthorn.”
“Apologies,” Matthew said half-heartedly. “You see, in Idris, we believe that love, no matter the suffering it brings, should still be worth it. Worth fighting for. Is she worth it?”
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occasionally, you will discover an artist who drew roughly 300 beautiful pictures of your favorite characters over the course of a month and then never touched them again. you must accept this as a gift.
