#thomas tanner

Let's pause and give Cyril Tanner some credit for being a real one. Constantly woken up in the middle of the night to take Will, Jem, and Tessa on suspicious outings that Charlotte definitely doesn't know about, and he never even questions their bullshit coverup stories.

mikey murphy as simon lewis

ricardo de rinaldis as george lovelace

ross & rocky lynch as thomas & cyril tanner

eleanor tomlinson as bridget daly

unknown models as axel mortmain and nate gray

remember, these are all my opinion and in no way reflect every aspect of every character’s traits

Sometimes Will could not help remembering Thomas as he had first come to the Institute [.....] at that time he’d still been so small that he’d looked barely nine.

Will had made fun of Charlotte for wanting to employ him, but had secretly hoped he would stay so that there might be another boy his own age in the house.

And they had been friends of a sort, the Shadowhunter and the servant boy—until Jem had come and Will had forgotten Thomas almost completely.

Thomas had never seemed to hold it against him, treating Will always with the same friendliness with which he treated everyone else, albeit with a small amount of sadness.

I really like this because it illustrates the difference between Jessamine's mundane values vs. the Shadowhunter ones that Sophie already held long before ascending. (Sophie is unequivocally correct, btw - but it's so interesting to note this and an interesting character detail.

I hate that Thomas Tanner basically gets nuked ...

...but I do feel like it illustrates what it means to be a mundane in the world of the Shadowhunters, devalued in some way even if you fight and hold the same values as a Shadowhunter. Imo this is a huge reason that Sophie felt such a drive to Ascend in the end - like Thomas, she knew that she could not fight as well as a Shadowhunter as a mundane. But rather than accepting this (which is completely reasonable) Gideon pushes her to follow her dream.

And then we have this odd world building snippet, too. Lots of world building surrounding this battle. This seems really fucked up since the servants were Sophie's friends and died saving Tessa.

(Also, does this mean that Tessa was eventually barred from Will's funeral? I would ask if Magnus would be barred from Alec's, too, but laws are changing.)

In another life, a life that's not this one where Sophie and Thomas served the Nephilim, I actually think they would probably have made a great match. While Sophie obviously belongs with Gideon, everything surrounding Thomas Tanner is incredibly sad, but ultimately necessary for the world building of The Infernal Devices as well as a catalyst for Sophie's growth.

Grace