I really wish to have Mina Carstairs content without being linked all the time to Kit or Will's Herondale memory. Nobody had though of Lucie and James because they had a link to Jem, because in fact in the 90% of the TSC fandom doesn't really care about Jem.
And they only care about Mina now is because of Kit. If Cassie never brought Kit to the Carstairs family, that 90% of the TSC fandom wouldn't care about her or Jem at all.
They are the same who keep thinking of Will when they read about modern Tessa's life. Even the author keep doing it. To her, and fans, Jem and Mina only matters when is to make it about Will and all the Herondales (Kit, Jace and so on...)
And as a fan of the Carstairs characters since I read The Infernal Devices is so tiring. This thing doesn't happen the other way around. The Herondales are loved by the fandom bc of their own, not because of their relationship with other shadowhunters families. This thing never applied to Jem, Mina, Cordelia and even Emma. They all had to be somehow linked to a Herondale to being "noticed" by readers who didn't care about them in the first place.
Is so tiring. BTW. I love Jem and Mina of their own. I really wish to see them shine on the because and being loved because of their individuality. But that will never happen.
this put into words exactly how i feel.
i want jem's feelings about fatherhood and more of him talking about his roots and life to mina. i want to see mina find her place in the shadowhunter and mostly warlock world! (i hate that cc took away the fact that she could have warlock abilities)
there is so much more to them than their relationship with kit.
