i’m in my re-reading (and reading) shadowhunters phase, and i’m realizing that the story of tessa, jem and will is the most tragic happy ending i’ve ever read.
they all find their happy ending, but never all together:
- tessa finds love two times and both love her and make a family with her, but she has to lose both of them;
- jem survives his illness and (eventually) gets to have his family, but loses his parabatai and can’t be with him like they promised;
- will survives his curse, finds love and makes a family, but lose his parabatai, not to death, no, he knows that he’ll live a different kind of life, a solitary life; he also dies knowing his wife will be alone (well, she has immortal friends, but still loses most of her friends and family); his love and parabatai then find each other again, but this time he isn’t there with them.
so yes, they all find happiness, but not together; they all have their happy ending, but it isn’t a complete happy ending, because someone is always missing, so is a tragedy. but it’s a tragedy also because they couldn’t have had a different happy ending, if they were all together it wouldn’t have worked and they all would have suffered.
is a tragic happy ending: they are always in each other’s life, influencing and guiding each others no matter what, but at the same time they can’t actually be in each other’s life.
so, yes, a tragic happy ending, that’s the only way i can describe their story
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