if i had a nickel for every time i saw an uptight, closeted boy who was jealous of a girl who just entered his life because his best friend (who he’s in love with) has romantic interest in her get courted by a magical being with cat eyes, i’d have two nickels. which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice, right?
• Rafael uses Duolingo to reinforce his Spanish and has a streak of more than 500 days, every morning he sits at the kitchen table to review his notes and argues with his cell phone in Spanish, leaving Alec always confused.
• Max is a fan of everything that ir related to the water because when he was little he was convinced of being a water fairy, initially because of the faeries and later because he fell deeply in love with Silvernist (a character from the fairy world of Tinkerbell). In his adolescence he discovered Percy Jackson and the Olympians, so now he is a voracious reader of youth and fantasy literature.
• Alec isn't very good at showing physical affection or with his words, but that has never stopped him from making his family feel loved. Since they adopted Rafael he has studied Spanish disciplinedly and learned to cook Latin American and Indonesian food for Magnus and Rafe. In the evenings he spends time studying with Max his spells and listening to him talk about his special interests (now both of them are experts on whales).
• Magnus was terrified at the idea of being a father, specially a bad one, and he's still not sure if he's doing it right most of the time, so he signed up for mundane parenting courses that Catarina recommended to him and read dozens of books on child and adolescent development, parenting and healing your inner child in sicret, so as not to transmit his traumas to children.
• Chairman Meow now has a little brother named Mandarina, at the children's request, an orange cat who has come to test his patience. Even with that he wouldn't change his family.
some shadowhunter telling alec that it was a shame no one would inherit his blue eyes after he came out and then his and magnus’ son having blue eyes.. yep mhm thats right
Magnus keeps a very close eye on any reports about new flu outbrakes.
Because while most mundane diseases don’t have a strong affect on warlocks, the flu somehow is the exception.
And flu season means vaccines and vaccines means needles and Magnus... is not fond of needles.
Neither is he fond of the ever more creative and harrowing ways that Catarina finds to stick those needles into him when he tries to avoid his shots.
The very first time Alec witnesses Cat ninja stabbing his boyfriend in the neck with a syringe, he panics, thinking she has been brainwashed or something.
Thankfully his panic doesn't last long as Magnus grumbles about how she has gotten faster again
day 1 without ao3: i have gone through all 5 stages of grief multiple times and have invented a 6th. i will not disclose what the 6th stage of grief is.
I want them comfortably married and happy and bickering over their morning beverages and also I want them to fuck nasty on the living room floor because they can't wait another second