#the circle

Brennan Lee Mulligan is A Bug With A Big Ass 🍑

If nothing else, Sebastian sure inherited his father's misogyny.

In all seriousness, I think it's fascinating how he's trying to make Clary think that she and Jocelyn are just as bad as him and Valentine by completely decontextualizing their actions. Sure, Jocelyn manipulated Valentine by pretending to be in love with him because he had been drugging her against her will, doing evil science experiments on living beings in the basements, and plotting to take over the world. She's the villain for arranging consequences to his genocidal actions.

Jocelyn is ruthless, and that's one of my favorite things about her. She was in an abusive relationship for years and systematically isolated from any sort of support network, but she still gathered her resources and did whatever the hell it took to bring Valentine down. She stayed in that house even after knowing what a monster he was, because she knew that she was the only one with the tools to stop him before it was too late. Most importantly, she was willing to let her friends pay the price for their actions. After years of the Circle supporting each other through increasingly atrocious actions, Jocelyn finally decided that some things can't be ignored. Friendship is enough to make many people turn a blind eye, but Jocelyn set those personal connections aside and was able to recognize that the Circle was a dangerous cult whose members (no matter how she felt about them as individuals) were dangerous to the world at large.

Valentine - iredeemable asshole who ruined everyone's lives. I wonder if the demons were at least impressed with the lengths of evil that he did

Jocelyn - fell in love with the charismatic fascist and then gave birth to a demon and angel. Believed her son was dead and mourned him all her life but eventually got her HEA late in her life

Luke - cast away by his parabatai, was told to khs, and also had to see the love of his life married to devil reincarnate. Eventually got his HEA

Maryse - had a weak relationship with her husband but had 3 beautiful children and an adoptee. Burdened her young daughter about the secret of Robert's affair. Living her best post divorce life caring for her grandchildren

Robert - blamed his wife for their exile, had an affair, was a complicated homophobe to his parabatai. At least understood where he went wrong with his family and parabatai and almost helped 2 parabatai who were in love

Michael - had his and his son's identity taken after getting killed

Hodge - confined to the institute as his punishment. A loyalist until it was too late, betraying everyone for his own gain despite knowing and caring for all of the kids

Stephen - spineless herondale who chose to give in to peer pressure over the love of his life (tho we are grateful for the existence of jace, will and james would have never done what he did!)