Okay But Jace And Simon’s Friendship Is Literally So Iconic?? They Go From The Enemies To Awkward Allies

Does anyone else wonder how Izzy’s alcoholism-adjacent habits will play out in her relationship with Simon, whose mother was an alcoholic? He spend his formative years around alcohol abuse, I wonder how the dynamic will affect him and how the two of them deal with it. I would request a fic but I unfortunately do not know where to do so (despair, sadness).

Like at first he'd be scared but after a while he'd just be really chilled about it, and the kidnappers would get so annoyed.

Kidnapper: If your friends don't give me the i formation i need, I'll break that pretty little face of yours-

Simon: aw you think I'm pretty?

Kidnapper: you won't be talking like that when i break your fingers one by one, cut them off and feed them to you. If they dont come soon-

Simon: dude, i get it. You'll kill me. Unless i die of boredom first. Do you ever stop talking? I mean I've been told i never stop talking but jeez, you're getting a bit much.

Kidnapper: I -

Simon: do you ever wonder why you exist? I mean, I know I was conceived, but why am I actually here? How many random events occurred to create me? What if i were to just dissapear. Would people notice? Would they cry? Being kidnapped gives you afew perspectives on just how terrifyingly random life is. I wouldn't have ever been able to read lord of the Rings. Oh. You look confused. You've never read it? That's ok, I'll tell it to you, we have all the time in the world. So it starts with this...

Kidnapper: * unties him*

Simon: what are you-

Kidnapper: just.. Just go.

Kidnapper: we have your vampire friend.

Izzy: Simon?

Kidnapper: Yes. And if you want him back, we want all information on Valentine and the Mortal Cup.

Clary: Trust me, that won't be necessary.

Alec: Yeah, you took Simon. Good luck with that.

Kidnapper: Wha-?

Call hangs up

Kidnapper: ...

Simon: So, have you watched Star Wars?

Kit: So you became a vampire, and then a Daylighter, and then back to a mundane, and now a Shadowhunter?

Simon: Yep

Simon: Before all that, I spent a few hours turned into a rat. Was a weird day, but well, it was an experience.

Kit: THAT'S SO COOL, YOU'RE SO COOL

Jace: SAY WHAT NOW

I love this so much

Carstairs-Gray family Headcanons!

They’re all super close and enjoy spending time together

Kit practically WORSHIPS Tessa

Jem spends a lot of his free time just singing, because his lungs are finally able to support all that air

He sings beautifully, which made Kit make so many remarks on how Mina will inherit his singing voice, which she does not

She does have an incredible voice, but it’s nothing like Jem’s; it’s Tessa’s, but they don’t know that because she never sings

Jem keeps denying Mina’s physical similarity to him, on the account of “she’s so beautiful, who could she POSSIBLY look like besides Tessa?”

Kit picks up painting, and since his bedroom window faces the garden, it’s perfect inspiration

Kit introduces Jem to rock and metal, and to everyone’s surprise, he loves it

Mina is besties (and eventually Parabatai) with Clace’s future kid, creating the next Carstairs-Herondale duo

Kit secretly learns Mandarin to surprise Jem, but he sucks at keeping it secret so Jem has to pretend to be surprised

Kit still has no idea he knew

The moment Jem and Tessa realize that Kit was deprived of love as a child, they shower him with love and do their best to give him the childhood he never had

A part of that is Tessa reading to him and Mina before bed (‘The Beautiful Cordelia’ anyone?)

The first time Kit calls Jem ‘Dad’, he cries

Tessa doesn’t cry when he calls her ‘Mum’, but she comes very close to it

Jem teaches Kit how to play the piano, because Kit thinks the violin is too hard (he’s right)

Mina, however, LOVES the violin

Kit buys her a violin of her own for one Christmas, and he manages to do so without complaining about the prices

Jem is a surprisingly good cook

Tessa is not

Always a good day when Clary and Jace show up

Mina has a period where she tries to learn every language she can; Mandarin from Jem, Welsh from Will’s ghost (because obviously he’s there), Indonesian and Spanish from Magnus, Hebrew from Simon

Simon loves hanging out at their place because of all the books Tessa has

Kit takes Jem to a ‘Sabaton’ concert once, and manages to convince him that ear protection won’t stop him from hearing the music

Jem enjoys every second of it, and also enjoys not having any damage done to his hearing

Mina loves climbing trees

She chooses to fight with a spear, and not even she is sure why, but she enjoys it

She also gets really, really good at it

Jem tends to tell her ‘use your voice. Sing, scream, talk, lecture. Because you might not always have it.’ And she takes him seriously and never hesitates to speak her mind

She’s the flower girl when Kit and Ty inevitably get married

Jem gets introduced to cars, and is absolutely terrified of them despite Tessa being an excellent driver

Kit tries not to laugh at him for it, but kinda fails

Jem doesn’t mind

Kit wants to study abroad, but Tessa doesn’t allow it

He goes to a university in London instead

Feel free to add more!

"oh i really love xyz character-" really? outside the context of shipping?

it's so important to me that simon took guitar lessons for most of his life. that he'd been planning to go to music school after he graduated. that he had dreams of making a life for himself with his music. that music is so intrinsically a part of him.

simon has been a mundane and a vampire and a shadowhunter. but he'll always be a musician

Jace being so randomly over protective Simon is sooo funny to me because Simon did NOT ask for that 😭😭

Like in GOTSM when Lily was talking abt how Simon bit Jace badly and Jace was like “he did great actually 🤬🤬🤬” or city of fallen angels when Simon was like “I have a roommate” and Jace was like “I’ll fight him” and Simon was like “…okay…”

Jace;

Am experiencing withdrawal symptoms.

I’m in a sizzy drought i need content 😩

COME HOME SIZZYYYYYY 😭😭😭😭 I miss them so bad. Also like…. I need better in black to come out by TOMORDOW

Simon lovelace headcannons because I'm a lovelace stan and very bored.

Just.. Simon and Alec and comic books. Thats all I'm gonna say.

Simon and izzy tease eachother 24/7. Teasing is izzy's love language and it became a thing they do.

Simon playing make believe with max and rafe (and showing them the wonderful world of pirates, wizards and knights)

A bit random but i think he'd very unironically listen to bohemian wapsody and just any wap remix.

Simon is a viner. Case closed.

Simon has a feminine side that just kicks in at certain times and its just the cutest. Izzy doing his makeup, painting his nails and simon braiding her hair.

Simons a surprisingly good cook

I always thought that he'd have problems discussing his emotions, or just bottle it up entirely until he breaks. Thats kinda the way he was portrayed in the books, not wanting to make himself a problem for others so it seemed to me that he was kinda depressed and not willing to show it (in my opinion).

Simon being really good at cards (again, random, but it seems to fit).

He's a lot better looking than he thinks he is

Anyways. I'm new here so idk if this is a standard post but here you go.

anyway i just think that if simon dove into fantasy worlds as a way to cope with the grief and heaviness after his father died, and followed clary so readily into a real-life fantasy world in part because of his affinity for them, and then forgot about the reality he found among the fantastical, and then was reintroduced and found a new family that he established formative memories with only to lose one of those new cornerstone members of his life just as he's claiming the fantasy world as his own.. where is he to go from there. he can't escape back into reality when the reality of grief has caught up with him, here in this world so like the ones he'd learned to hide in as a kid.