manifesting the Blackthorns have the nastiest, most nauseatingly angsty epic train wreck of a fight in TWP. perhaps in the second book or whenever they all find out about Livvy. like it's awful and you can't look away as they're all at their worst with the people they love the most, who they would do and have done anything for. it's the bloodiest fight any of them have ever been in and there wasn't even any weapons involved, just words they didn't mean and cannot take back. like they all care so much about one another but things have changed and none of them cope with it at all so instead it all just. blows up. like Ty only ever wanted to keep everyone together and go back to how things were, but instead he's the one who inadvertently fractures them; the unavoidabe fate of Blackthorns siblings.
So, we all know that when Alec and Magnus adopted the kids the last name was "Lightwood-Bane". What would it be for Aline and Helen? Penhallow-Blackthorn? Blackthorn- Penhallow?
Ok, but can you imagine the last book in the Shadowhunter Chronicles ends with an epilogue where Magnus & Tessa meet up and watch over the future Heronadale, Fairchild, Lightwood, Carstairs & Blackthorn generation because they are the only two left…
reading tftsa is always an emotional experience especially when you get the short stories focused around the Blackthorns because the absence of Mark just bleeds out. like when you read about Julian being Helen's suggenes and Simon being the witness to Julian's parabatai ceremony you are just burdened with the knowledge that that's not who they would have picked if the circumstances were different. in a different life it was Mark.