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Its coming up on a week since last made a COI theory post. I said that I was going to try to post all my theories on COI BEFORE it comes out next month, so this posed a problem. So mow I am going to give my input on one of the biggest Mystery’s for COI, Who is the Killer? So in COI Belial will have a new minion who will target the shadowhunters, manages to kill 5 of them (same number Tatiana needed for the ritual) and is difficult for them to apprehend because they are somehow able to disappear. CC has left some hints that the killer is actually another Shadowhunter that Belial has somehow managed taken Possession of, despite protection rituals that should have been placed on this individual at birth ( My theory on that is that since this book is called “Chain of Iron” we will learn that Belial controls all his pawns with “chains of iron”. All hidden on their persons and glamored to look like ordinary accessories.) Our synapse for the book says that James Herondale has been having strange nightmares and fears he may actually be the killer. In COI he will start to tie himself up to sleep at night. We all know its not James right? In mysteries like this you always throw out your first guess/ the obvious guess. I have seen a lot of posts theorizing on who the true identity could be. I have seen some theories do not make much sense to me and some that were really good.

One theory that seems off to me is the idea that the killer is actually multiple killers, more specifically a collection of the survivors of Belial’s illness. If you support this theory I get your reasoning:Belial was able to briefly posses these people before, and the illness may have left biological changes in them. But here’s where I am confused, the killer is implied to be a massive threat wielding enhanced dark magic. At the end of COA there are 30something cured shadowhunters released from Silent City. CC says that the killers body count will be 5. If Belial has 30something new pawns that he can posses, gift his terrible powers to, and send out to prey on shadowhunters, I feel like there should be a lot more than 5 victims. I know Beial is not yet at full strength from battling Cortana, but he should at least be stronger than that. I have also heard theories that it is one of the Blackthorns. This also does not make much sense to me, given that for one thing none of them have training, Tatiana and Grace already have established rolls in Belial’s plans, and while I know Jesse is a part of Belial’s plan I believe his part will be save for COT after he has been resurrected. IF Belial were using Jesse’s empty body to walk the earth, then wouldn’t he also need to stop anyone from trying to resurrect Jesse?

 I have heard many theories on Elias Carstairs being the killer. Many of them just want to make Elias out to be CC’s newest and most horrible monster parent, and absolve Alastair of any responsibility or need to apologize for the cruelty he has shown to our mains. If this is your reasoning for believing Elias is the killer than let me stop you right there. CC has written multiple series and her skills have evolved beyond the need to rely on such easy black and white tricks. But I also saw some people posting about how Elias goes home so late and stopped writing to his family. Some are theorizing that the real Elias Carstairs was intercepted and killed on his way back home and that the being that arrives in COI is actually an eidolon demon pretending to be Elias. This theory is AMAZING. It makes a lot of scenes, would give Belial another spy in a key place, and could potentially explain why Cortana starts acting so weird. I love this theory I do. I am just putting it t the side right now because I need the real Elias alive for other Carstairs family theories, and again have been working with the theory that the killer is a real shadowhunter whom Belial is controlling with another “chain of iron”. My theories are below.

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(So im doing normal music/ broadway)

(Since ik you're a writer and this is my go to writting song for my wip, it just TAKES ME)

(Anastatia music DESERVES A LOT MORE CREDIT OK-)

🌱= I cant cook to save my life (like I get to disctracted and the only valid things I can do is bacon rice and Pasta) but I am a very decent baker. Decent enough that I run a little side buisness in school selling chocolate pops ( I swear this is NOT the translation but I hope you get it). Whenever I need money for anything I just make chocolate pops and sell them, but it wasnt until a year I've been doing it consecutively . Besides chocolate pops my best works are vanilla cupcakes, polvorones (butter cookies? Im not sure what the translation is jaja) marshmallow stick (Jesus I cant traduct today that is not a thing zia-) ginger cookies and brownies.

- Tatiana Blackthorn probably will be Lucie mother in law

- Jesse Blackthorn and Cordelia will become Belial grandkids in law

- Matthew is Cordelia BROTHER IN LAW twice: first because Alastair used to date Charles and now because Cordelia will get married with James, his parabatai and brother in soul

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https://cassandraclare.tumblr.com/post/613303924989067264/matthew-and-luce

Hi! Let’s talk about Lucie and Matthew.

As much as I might not appreciate the Rosaline/Romeo/Juliet parallel on Cassie’s part because I feel it doesn’t really stand in comparison, I always refer back to that post in my daily conversations with my partner in crime @destinedtobemine when we’re analyzing relationships. I feel that t’s a very honest description of human feelings on Cassie’s part. I am in no way worried or relieved by that particular post because I don’t think it offers any hints of what’s to come other than that anything might. In that instance, Cassie was very diplomatic at not really steering the wheel in any direction but simply let us into her doylist thought process. 

If it’s Mucie you’re interested in, I wholeheartedly agree with the description Cassie gives there. Lucie is Matthew’s teenage crush and definitely not the only thing in his heart or on his mind. And she shouldn’t be. It’s a good thing she didn’t reciprocate his feelings at, like, age 13-16. It’s cute that Matthew crushed on her and it’s great that Lucie trusts him and adores him, but I never wanted them to happen right away. I want them to have their own experiences and adventures, solve their respective problems, and then maybe eventually realize they’re meant to be, but not before working on themselves first. They could have a love grown out of steadfast loyalty and mutual understanding rather than a fortnight of passion like it usually is in YA books. We always compare Lucie to Emma Woodhouse: a heroine who needs to blunder before she gets it right. 

Quoting something Cassie wrote in the post: 

“For Matthew and Lucie to work out, Matthew would have to come to care more about himself, solve his current problems, and he and Lucie would have to develop (or redevelop) romantic feelings for each other. It’s in no way impossible, but Cordelia isn’t the issue.”

YES. Again, their love would require their respective character development to happen prior to their coming together, not being a result of it.

In another post, Cassie wrote:

By the end of the book, Matthew isn’t interested in Lucie, either. That doesn’t mean there’s no hope for them. I do not think Matthew and Lucie of the beginning of Chain of Gold would be well suited, and I do not think — as I have seen suggested — that a story about how Lucie’s love cures Matthew of alcoholism would be either interesting or ethical to tell — that’s not how alcoholism works; people aren’t alcoholics because people don’t love them enough to fix them. It’s way more complicated than that.

Again, 300% agree. She goes on to say:

I don’t think you need to give up hope for Matthew and Lucie, because stories wend their way to varied conclusions. I would have said neither Simon nor Isabelle were romantically interested in each other in City of Ashes, and that ended up where it is. Matthew’s tale is a journey and I don’t think the destination can be guessed at now.

This is what we want. This is all we ask for. We don’t want to be able to guess now, especially with Matthew. Cassie compares the current Mucie situation to Sizzy (which by the way is very endgame): they were definitely flirting and had their first kiss all the way back in City of Bones, but would we have bet on them? (Okay, yes, I did) Not all hope is lost. We just want a chance for them to grow to be two people who could be together. A chance, nothing more. I wouldn’t want it to feel forced (as it would’ve been had it happened before or during Chain of Gold).

I'm gonna stop here, since I could go on rambling about Fairondale for an embarassing amount of time and that is not what you guys want trust me- but I am gonna leave with a last reflection: IF you're feeling a little down, we have something coming up for you to shed a little light on the dark and hopeless path the Fairondale seem to be at the moment ;).

As the awaited release date for Chain of Iron approaches and the fandom decends into pure madness, I want to put in my last two cents of overthinking before I stop having coherent thoughts

So we all know this is a second book, and second books bring the absolute pain in the shadowhunter chronicles. There is likely going to be a death from the mains considering the theme of this book, and I am here to throw my theory and reasons as to who I think it might be. Im here to sadly theorize about why I think Christopher Lightwood might not make it past the last hours

1. Tatianas revenge

Right now, Tatiana wants revenge after all our main families: the carstairs, herondales, fairchilds and both branches of the lightwoods. For the lightwood-collins theres barbaras death. For the herondales her daughter has been manipulating their son for over 6 years. Theres a theory that the fairy poison Mathew bought that caused Charlottes misscarriage could be traced back to her. And there are other theories that Elias dissaperance between chog and choi could have something to do with Belial. As of right now the only family who is yet to recieve any permanent damage or tragedy are the lightwood-herondales. Which is really ironic considering its the only family that has two bloodlines Tatiana wants to harm. Not only that, but theyre also the children of who Tatiana blames directly for her fathers death, Gabriel. It seems fishy to me there hasn’t been any permanent damage in their family, and I dont think that is gonna last for long

2. The family tree

The family tree states that Grace Cartwright (Aka Grace Blackthorn) marries Christopher Lightwood and theyre the ones who continue the line that leads to Alec and Isabelle. Now Cassandra has said varius times the family tree can be misleading, and I am a firm believer this is one of the misleading ends. Why this lie was created, I’m not sure, but lets analize some things. As of right now there are 5 lightwood children. At least 3 of them can pass down the lightwood name. Of those three, if we take into account that Thomas may not have kids due to being gay, that still leaves two branches of lightwood kids that may continue on. As of present time we only have word of one line, Alec and Isabelles. And Robert isnt said to have any cousins, theres no mention in the future of another lightwood line. So the idea that both Alexander and Christopher have kids is pretty unbelivable considering theres only one lightwood line in the future. Unless Alexander goes on to have only girls and Christopher has only one boy, it seems more likely the family tree is wrong. Isabelle and Alec are confirmed as of the bane chronicles to be decendants of Gabriel lightwood (Isabelle makes a reference to looking up her great great grandfather Gabriel Lightwood and telling magnus he was hot in the last story of the book)

So its already confirmed they’re a) the last decendants of the lightwood line and b) that line stems from Gabriel. If we based ourselves solely on the family tree and Christopher being the one carrying the line, that would have been believable enough not to raise any red flags. Christopher IS the son of Grabriel Lightwood, able bodied and seems to have a general attraction to women (I mean, we all know hes aro/ace but lets stick with canon). There isnt anything pointing to him not being able to marry and have kids. Where the red flags raise for me is with Alexander

Alexander wasnt in the original plans for the family tree, he was added when Cassie started writting the last hours. If you take into account his role in chog, there really was no reason to add Alexander Lightwood. He doesnt seem to do anything, hes a 3 year old kid, you can very well delete him from the narrative and nothing would change. So why did Cassandra add him?? Why did she decide to make Cecily and Gabriel have another kid ?

To me, it seems a lot like the baby carstairs situation . The family tree says Alastair carries the carstairs line, Alastair is a gay man so he cant have biological kids, theres another unplaned baby to carry the line. It seems to me Christopher carrying the lightwood line is a lie, and Alexanders role is to carry it in his place. I even found a little info from an ask wayy before chain of gold came out where it said Alexander had green eyes, but in the book she changed it to blue eyes. The exact same shade the modern day lightwoods seem to have. A trait hes more likely to pass down than his lavender eyed brother who supposedly “marries” grey eyed grace

3. Character Arc

Characters in literature need goals, things to work for or work towards through the story in order for them to develop. We call those things character arcs, and it seems we have all ignored how christophers may have indirectly ended. If you read his short story, or just overall analize his character, his main goal is simple. He wants to create something that will help the nephlim through science. His personal character arc is that he wants to prove himself and his skill to the clave using his passion to be a hero.

An arc that could have been expanded all through the series, and ended with him using his skills in the end to defeat belial in some way, proving his passions worth. Through the story we could have had a glimpse at his struggles, how he was put down, the failed attempts, fustrations etc. This all could have rounded christopher as a character, and brought more satisfaction to the end goal of his arc which is proving the value of his science. But instead, his arc in book seemingly already ended? Because he did it, he figured out a way to combine science with his duty and saved the entire enclave from the demon poison. He is now acclaimed a hero for his skills. All the other characters have things to finish going into chain of iron, Christopher doesnt. Why would she end an arc that could have taken through the entire series in just one book? Christopher is the only secondary character with a defined personality and a lack of arc to look foward too in following books. This could all point that his arc was rushed because it was being cut short

4. Lightwood blood

There has been a lot of theories going around about Thomas being the one who gets killed in this book, which is resonable considering the unerving amount of forehsadowing we’ve had to him getting himself caught up in something. But I raise you this, why would CC be giving us so much assurance that Thomas was going to get hurt if she was going to kill him? Not only would she be reaveling one of her most devastating murders, she would basically be spoiling a very big part of her own book. Thomas death would affect everyone, if she WERE to kill him she wouldnt be indulging us in our Thomas death theory as much as she has. Itd be too expectable, I actually believe that by giving us all the info she has she has more or less confirmed he wont die.

I believe this is all a decoy. Shes giving us foreshadowing towards something bad happening to Thomas, to cover up the very big reality shes planning to kill someone else. Theres a very big chance that for the resurection, theyre gonna need Jesses families blood. Same way Malcom needed blackthorn blood to raise Annabel. As of rightnow there arent any blackthorns (by blood) left alive, the only blood relatives Jesse still had are the lightwoods. So we already know Thomas gets captured by the murderer (referenece to the art), but it is most likely he gets rescued. People speculate he most likely got captured for the resurection Tatianas trying to do, because of his lightwood blood. But if Thomas escapes, Tatiana still needs her families blood. And I’d like to point out this is also where the fact she hasnt taken permanent revenge on the lightwood-herondales would come in. Theres a good chance that if the murders are releated to her, and she cant have Thomas, she wont stop at just Thomas.

5. Story relevance

In all sense of story, Christopher is the perfect candidate to kill. As hard as that is to say: he’s a secondary character, who has a well defined personality, loved enough by the fans that there would certainly be a shock factor following his death, important enough to the story that there would be a big impact to the narrative, and interwined enough with the main characters to cause emotional distress in the story. His arc is indirectly done, this author has a history of killing lightwoods, there isnt much to discourage the possibility he might be killed besides the faulty family tree. And as I said, that tree has been stated multiple times to be misleading

Bonus prove

6. Christophers cut-out

Same way were analizing the hell out of a broken spear, why are we not talking about the skull on christophers?

(Sorry couldnt get better quality pics)

The truth is, I hate this theory as much as everyone, Im genuinly hoping chain of iron proves me wrong. But there are 5 deaths comming, and not all of them can be side characters. Cordelia Lucie and James all have main character protection. I already explained why Thomas dying is unlikely. Anna, Ariadne and Alastair have gay protection (and I think some asks about Alastair dying were pretty much answered with a discreet no)

“James?” she whispered.