#how is jace noble at all if the blood of ithuriel is what made him that way

[vulcandyke]

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#not to take these shitty books seriously but like. i fucking hate the whole jace has demon blood no he doesnt thing #bc the big reveal that he doesnt have demon blood is like. surprise you actually arent evil #as if being good or evil is predetermined literally before birth in this instance #the idea that your blood or your dna can be inherently evil is so fucking wrong #also like. i know clary says the whole 'even tho they were difficult choices you still didnt choose to side with valentine' #but the aspect of free will is gone at that point. it's not interesting that the man who's part angel did the right thing #if the idea is that your morality is predetermined by your blood #how can sebastian even really be evil if he never had a choice to be good? #how is jace noble at all if the blood of ithuriel is what made him that way? #it's way more intriguing to say yes this character was created to be evil. yes he was trained from before birth to be that way #but he still chose to do the right thing in spite of it #bc as it is clare's statement here is 'oh it's okay bc he's a changeling! he's not ACTUALLY a bad guy bc he isn't actually part monster #this idea that monstrosity or otherness in general is inherently evil is dangerous and also frankly lazy writing. #it would've been way more interesting if valentine had been giving celine demon blood instead #also like. the dichotomy of jace/clary wouldve been way more intriguing if jace didnt also have the extra angel blood #the quasi-incest is fucking weird regardless tho. was that really necessary cassandra. really. #rambles #i have no idea if this is coherent im just thinking about how much i hate the idea that monster=evil and that your initial circumstances #define your whole life