Jem Carstairs - Blog Posts
Hey y’all! Myself and my friend noticed there was a big hole in the TSC fandom - namely, that there isn’t a Discord server for us all to come together and appreciate/freak out over our favourite Shadowhunters.
So we decided to fix it! Here is your official notice of the creation of The Downworld, a place for us to talk theories, go crazy over our beloved ships, worship those characters that maybe don’t get enough love fandom-wide, and of course, appreciate the absolute genius that is Cassandra Clare.
All we ask is that you be kind and respectful to each other, and agree to our server rules that’ll you see when you join. The server is also 18+ only, so unfortunately we won’t be able to allow minors to join.
If you’d be interested in joining, please feel free to reach out to me or @timesconvert and we’ll get the ball rolling - don’t be scared; unlike Jordan, we don’t bite!
the fact that jem's capacity for love is so strong that he can't be a normal silent brother makes me want to kill myself actually
i am pointing and laughing at anyone who says cassie doesn't like jem
that euphoric feeling when artists actually make jem look chinese
will and jem invented soulmateism
you can be a hater all you want but he's so pretty she thinks it looks weird when he eats toast
Memories were like love: wound and cure, both at once.
Ghosts of the shadow market, Cassandra Clare
oh no he deffo just disappears. goes poof. hell be on his roadtrip w ty, chilling (as much as he can considering, yk. everything), and back home jessa will be freaking tf out, thinking hes been kidnapped (or kitnapped- k ill go see myself out) or smth
You know what I’m really curious about? How the fuck will Jessa let Kit go with Ty?? JUST LIKE THAT??? They’ve been protecting him for years with all the wards and stuff and they will just agree to let him go for probably a crazily dangerous (for him at least) mission??? There has to be smth to it, either Kit just disappears from home or idkkkkkk
if we get Kit calling Jem dad in tlkof i will be sobbing
nvm yayyy tians actually a good guy!
(unless-) (jkjk) (but wait-)
i KNEW tian was going to betray them. he was being too quiet!
im just so sad that one of jems relatives is a traitor :(
i KNEW tian was going to betray them. he was being too quiet!
im just so sad that one of jems relatives is a traitor :(
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
THE MEMORIESSSSSS
I see what you did there, @cassandraclare.
never underestimate a herondale in love
You know what I’m really curious about? How the fuck will Jessa let Kit go with Ty?? JUST LIKE THAT??? They’ve been protecting him for years with all the wards and stuff and they will just agree to let him go for probably a crazily dangerous (for him at least) mission??? There has to be smth to it, either Kit just disappears from home or idkkkkkk
randomly reminding that i'll read Ty's pov for the first time ever in twp
miss rabbit fainted
randomly reminding that Herongraystairs will finally happen in twp
miss rabbit fainted again
Tragic Ships Tournament Round 3
Propaganda under the cut!
Herongraystairs:
"Hey is it polyamory if you and your buddy are both in love with the same girl (and each other)? Is it polyam to die of old age and only have your wife and the guy you were platonic married to as a teenager in your final moments? Is it polyamory if you constantly bring up your wife's dead husband and make it clear you're also deeply in love with him?"
Lawrence and Adam:
No propaganda submitted however I think everyone should read this giant essay written by the submitter
"Okay so our buddy Jigsaw here, John to his friends, puts Adam and Gordon in a trap in the so-called Saw Bathroom.
Adam wakes up from unconscious in a full bathtub and gasps for air trying to get out. In doing so, he inadvertently pulled the plug. It is pitch black in the room. A voice calls out from the other side of the room.
The voice is Gordon. His name is Lawrence Gordon, he's a doctor. For a few moments his voice is all there is until Gordon turns on the light. They are both chained to metal pipes in opposite corners. They introduce themselves. There is a dead body in the middle of the room.
Neither man trusts the other. In attempts to escape, they find clues: a clock that is brand new and as such the opposite of the rest of the room; an envelope with a cassette in Adam's pockets; and a casette, a key and a bullet in Gordon's. The key opens neither man's chain.
But there is a casette player in the hand of the dead man in the middle of the room.
With some difficulty, Adam is able to reach it so that he can play his tape which detailed his crimes (as according to John) and how he will either watch himself die or do something about it. This is a poetic trap on John's part as Adam is a voyeur and is paid by various people to follow others around and takes photos on them. As for Gordon? Well, first he sends his tape to Adam to hear first before hearing it himself. His crime is that as a doctor (his name is Lawrence Gordon, he's a doctor) he spends his days telling people they're going to die, giving them their death sentence. Now he must carry out that sentence himself. He must kill Adam by 6 o'clock or Gordon's wife and daughter will die.
The dead man in the middle of the room was one of Gordon's patients.
The recording gives them several other clues and soon they find a plastic bag in the toilet with two hacksaws and a bag of photos inside. Adam throws one to Gordon and immediately begins on his own chain. The saw breaks.
In anger, Adam throws it at the mirror which smashes. Gordon realises the saws are not for the chains but for their legs. This is when they realise they've been abducted by Jigsaw. Gordon mentions that Jigsaw had previously tried to frame him for murder by leaving his penlight at the scene of one of Jigsaw's crimes. Adam grows distrustful of Gordon because that's a weird detail to mention, huh? And in a fit of panic and anger, he takes the broken mirror shard and threatens to kill our boy Gordon (Lawrence Gordon, he's a doctor) unless he explains what the hell is going on. Then he notices that the mirror is a one-way mirror. He smashes the rest of it until he's cut through the glass and they see a camera.
A camera watching their every move. Adam soon learns that the camera is protected by another pane of glass, this one shatterproof.
Gordon, bless his heart, is able to calm Adam down and he begins to tell Adam about his family. He has a wife named Alison and a daughter called Diana. Adam asks if he wants more children, Gordon replies no as he doesn't think Diana gets enough time with her parents as is.
This nice conversation is ruined when Gordon tossed Adam his wallet so Adam can look at the picture of them in his wallet. That picture isn't there; instead, there's a picture of them tied up and gagged in their apartment. Adam doesn't want to worry Gordon so he quietly pockets it and just says the photo isn't there. This photo also has a clue that leads to Adam asking Gordon to turn off the light at which point they see a glowing X and are able to get the next puzzle in the trap. (It's a very drawn out trap compared to Jigsaw's more oftenly used one and one em traps) Gordon retrieves a box with a lighter, two cigarettes, a note saying the cigarettes arent poisonous (factually untrue consideeing lung cancer but John's an engineer not a doctor) and a phone. The phone can't be used to make calls so no 911 can save these white boys right now.
Adam, who doesn't know about the note, asks for a cigarette. Gordon says no.
Gordon asks Adam how he knew to turn off the light. Adam tries to lie, like a liar, and fails, like a failure, and is forced to reveal the photo. This is how Gordon (his name is Lawrence Gordon, he's a doctor) is able to come up with his big plan. He, having figured out it was poidonous, dips one cigarette into the blood of the dead man in the middle of the room. He turns off the light again. He explains his plan to Adam.
Lights come back up, Gordon gives Adam a cigarette and a lighter. Adam takes a drag. Suddenly what? Oh no? He's dying? Never mind, he's being electric shocked through his chain because boy howdy can that boy not act.
Also, when you turn off the lights, people can't see you. They can still hear you.
Gordon points his anger at Adam for the failure of the plan though again, he did just tell Adam the plan by talking. Like that's not that secure. But the electric shock triggers something in Adam. He remembers his abduction and having no one else in the room to talk to (besides the dead body), he tells Gordon about it. Their traumas are entwining. Then the phone rings. It's Diana. She begs her dad to save them. Then the phone is given to Alison who tells Gordon that he can't trust Adam and that they've known each other for a long time. Gordon confronts Adam. Adam admits that he's known who Gordon was for a few days. He'd been paid to follow Gordon around and take photos of what he was doing. Adam shows him the photos. Which photos, you ask? The ones in that bag that were in the plastic bag in the toilet. I'm sure you've forgotten about them now. They argue and Adam admits he followed Gordon to a hotel where Gordon was meeting up with one of his students, Carla. They were about to start an affair. Adam knows about this. As does John. That's the real reason Gordon is in this trap. A Welcome Home Cheater sign? No, no. This one gets the Saw Bathroom.
Convinced that whoever hired Adam must be Jigsaw, Gordon presses him on it. Adam relents. It's not Jigsaw. It's a detective who's convinced Gordon is Jigsaw.
They fall silent again. They figure out one of Jigsaw's henchmen is a guy called Zep who's an orderly at the hospital. The time runs out. The phone rings again. It's Alison! She's broken free! They're saved! Gunshots. Diana screams. Gordon cries. The chain electric shocks Gordon into unconsciousness. Adam immediately tries to wake him up, terrified Gordon is dead. He's not. But he's broken down. And when he was being electrocuted, he'd chucked the phone out of reach. Out of all other options, Gordon (his name is Lawrence Gordon, he's a doctor) uses his shirt to stanch his leg and begins to cut his foot off. Adam begs him not to and to just calm down, but Gordon's too far gone. When the deed is done (which you don't see in the film by the way, the first Saw was very tame when it came to gore surprisingly enough), he crawls to the dead body in the room and takes the gun out of the man's hand. He loads the gun with the one bullet he has. He shoots Adam. Adam falls back like he's in Looney Tunes. Gordon screams at the camera and begs them to save his family. And then Zep comes in. He was the one holding Gordon's family hostage. Gordon tries to shoot him. Gordon had one bullet in his gun. His shots are unsurprisingly ineffective. Zep is unimpressed with this. It is just a rapidly paling man missing a foot shooting an empty gun like he's in a water pistol battle in a county undergoing a drought. He decides to kill Gordon as he didn't kill Adam by 6 o'clock. And Zep is from the county over and has plenty of water to spare. He aims his gun at Gordon.
But he forgot about Adam. Like a Bugs Bunny reborn, Adam comes in from behind with the toilet tank lid. In his fear and pain and anger, he beats Zep over and over and over with the lid until Gordon is able to calm him down. They stare at each other like sad gay men. Gordon tells Adam that if he doesn't get out, he'll bleed to death here. Adam begs him to stay. Gordon promises to come back for him. Adam begs him not to leave him. Gordon crawls out the room. Adam is left alone, a bullet in his shoulder and his heart crawling away. He's all alone. Apart from John Kramer. He was the dead body in the middle of the room this whole time. He stands up. He tells Adam that the key to his chain was in the bathtub. The one that Adam had accidentally pulled the plug out of. He leaves the room. Game over.
Adam will die in this room. It was always going to end like this. One of them was going to die in that room. If Adam lives, Gordon must die. If Gordon lives, he must kill Adam. There is no way in the world for these two to survive, not together. There was always going to be a dead body in that bathroom."
rip will herondale you would’ve loved polyamory and gay marriage
Chose your character
Mine Jem
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Let’s be honest we all wanted to be Tessa when this happened
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I got Jem 😊☺️☺️😊
Take my quiz!! Which Carstairs are you??
Finally got COG 🤩 Think I’m in love
Also if y’all are into reading on Wattpad I just started writing a book about another Carstairs called Angels of Ash
ehcvjhervcuervcherwvhcukecfkhudvhujfehv huefh- these head cannons! I fucking loved them! Especially the “Sex with a ghost one”! Like where do you get there fantastic ideas?! Also about the sex with the ghost head cannon I have tried to write it and extend it-
Lucie smiled as she looked at her husband. His Blackthron green eyes reflected the sunlight coming from the window, turning his face a shade paler. He looked beautiful as always, with messy black hair and his enchanting smile. He caught her looking at him and pulled her closer, kissing her lips as he did so. Lucie put her arms around his neck, into his soft raven hair and started ruffling it. He wrapped his arms around her waist and soothingly rubbed her back. She loved it when he did that, it calmed her down, made her feel wanted.
“Happy Anniversary, love,” she muttered gently into the kiss. It was their first anniversary, and Lucie being Lucie had even wrote a short story on how she expected it to go. She hoped Jesse hadn’t found that story, cause he would have tried his best to finish all of the things on Lucie’s list. Which also included writing ‘L+J’ on the moon with gold chains. She really hoped Jesse hadn’t done that, and even if he had, how had he done it?
“Happy anniversary, Princess Lucinda,” Jesse said mockingly, but still with his usual warmth of affection. Lucie couldn’t help to prevent the blush on her face. She used her willpower to pull back from the kisses and said, “Oh thank you, Sir Jethro. What should I do, on this auspicious day, to amuse you, my dear?”
Jesse didn’t answer, just pulled her closer again, and showered her with more kisses, moving from her forehead to the bottom of her neck, where she still wore the chain of gold, that used to store Jesse’s last breathe. “Just be there for me,” Jesse said, and kissed the chain of gold, “Until my last breathe.”
Subconsciously, Lucie reached for his pulse, by placing her hand on his heart. He is still here with you, Luce she comforted herself, still alive, breathing.
While one part of her busy reminding her Jesse was safe, the other part was forming an idea. A very good one indeed. Lucie mentally made a note to visit her parabatai’s brother, Alastair Carstairs.
* * *
“Good Evening, one and all,” Will Herondale announced, “Today as we all know, we are here for my daughter, Lucie’s first marriage anniversary with Jesse Blackthron!” The audience erupted with applause as Jesse kissed Lucie on the forehead, receiving a stare from Will and James and a kind smile from Tessa and Cordelia.
The audience wasn’t a really big one, just the close relatives- the Herondales, the Lightwoods, the Fairchilds, the Carstairs, Grace, Brother Zacharich and Ariande.
Jesse felt Lucie move away from him. He scrunched his eyebrows at her. She gave him a comforting smile and winked, “A surprise for you, Sir Jethro,” and she walked away to the stage. She took her place beside Alastair Carstairs, who Jesse hadn’t noticed was waiting on the stage with a piano. He couldn’t blame himself, the only person he noticed was his Lucie.
“Hullo everyone,” Lucie gave a small bow with a wide smile, “Since it is my first anniversary, I am going to perform a song that I myself have written and thanks to Alastair for the help with the piano,” she turned her head in an appreciative gesture towards Alastair, who smiled kindly.
“This one’s for you, love,” Lucie gestured to Jesse, who blew a fake kiss at her.
Alastair started playing. Lucie followed and started singing, “I'm getting hickeys from my bed bugs,”
Alastair gets nervous like “This is not what I signed up for”. Will and James get the questioning look on their face. Meanwhile Lucie ignores all this, not moving her gaze from Jesse she continues,
”I'm getting busy with a bad perfume I'm sticking kisses to a pen drug I'm making friction with a sad vaccuumI'm getting jiggy with a rifle I'll pull the trigger with my eyes closed Hoping to hit you somewhere vital And when I miss, you come and kiss me with a smile,”
At this point, James and Will were moving towards Jesse to kill him but thank the angel for Uncle Gideon and Uncle Gabriel, who held them down.
Then there is a few seconds of Alastair playing the piano and Lucie sings in high pitch, “I'm having sex with a ghost, 'cause he knows I'm alone He's a freak in the sheets, play it cool I'm sleeping with a Sex with a ghost, 'cause he knows I'm alone He's a freak in the sheets, play it cool I'm sleeping with a ghoul,”
Will, James, Gabriel, Gideon and Thomas were mortified while Tessa, Cordelia, Anna, Matthew, Ariadne, Jem and Grace were laughing their asses off. Christopher wasn’t really paying attention to the lyrics, he just thought it was nice of Lucie to write a song for her love. Gideon and Gabriel are holding James and Will back to prevent them from strangling their nephew. Jesse had no idea what Lucie was doing, but he definitely knew this was some masterplan of Lucie’s to make her dad and brother kill Jesse.
Ignoring all this and looking at Jesse with a smirk, Lucie continued, “ The only time I ever see him Is when he's behind me in the mirror Even from a distance I can hear him Try to listen, but his whispers make my ears hurt,”
Will and James finally broke free of the Lightwood brother’s grip as they lunged towards Jesse and landed on top of him.
“Thank you,” Lucie bowed and rushed to grab her second best bonnet.
(The song above was “Sex with a ghost”)
Ghostwriter/Blackdale Headcannons
As promised, in honour of my birthday here is a master list of all my Lucie and Jesse headcannons.
CHAIN OF IRON SPOILERS AHEAD
DISCLAIMER
If you’ve seen the same/similar headcannons to these it’s likely that someone has had the same idea and posted it immediately rather than add it to a list to be posted 2 weeks later. I promise I’ve not copied or stole from anyone, these are all straight from my brain as soon as the thought occurs.
Cannon Time Period
For a long time after Chain of Iron Jesse struggles to sleep because he’s scared of being possessed again and because he gets nightmares of murders.
·When they get to Cornwall Jesse refuses to go outside or open any windows until Lucie wakes up because he doesn’t want to see the sun without his light
As soon as he gets the chance Jesse goes to meet his uncles officially. He doesn’t ask Grace or Lucie to come because he feels his family is something he must face on his own. There were many tears, many desperate hugs, and many stuttering sobs.
Jesse makes a point to get to know his cousins. He tries to help Christopher with some of his experiments, he lets Anna take him shopping and Thomas helps to teach him Welsh. He asks Cecily and Gabriel if he can babysit Alexander sometimes and Eugenia takes him out for tea while teaching him modern etiquette.
Jesse moves in with Gideon and Sophie and they love and nurture him like his mother never did.
When celebrating her birthday Jesse always gets Lucie something pertaining to writing (new pens, a notebook, typewriter accessories etc.) then takes her some place beautiful so she can write about it in one of her books. He once took her the highest point of Idris where they could look down on Alicante and see Lake Lyn simultaneously; He also took her to an abandoned mansion on the outskirts of London which she thought would be a well-suited environment for a fight scene
At their wedding Jesse gives part of his vows in Welsh both to surprise Lucie and appease Will
Lucie gifts Jesse his first set of gear and gives him a custom sheath for the Blackthorn sword as an engagement present.
Lucie gives Cordelia the final instalment of The Beautiful Cordelia for their parabatai ceremony. In the instalment Cordelia discovers that Lord Hawke - her lover she’s been trying to reunite with this entire time - was actually Cruel Prince James all along, and he may not be as cruel as he seems.
After finishing The Beautiful Cordelia, Lucie begins writing a spinoff novel titled: Princess Lucinda and Her Adventures with Sir Jethro.
When they’re sleeping/cuddling she rests her head on his chest and her hand on his throat to feel his pulse.
Lucie inherited the Quiet Look and is often found gazing at Jesse from across rooms, much to the disappointment of those trying to have a conversation with her
As we know Alastair can play the piano so I got the idea that for their wedding anniversary or Jesse’s birthday maybe Lucie enlists his help to create the song “Sex with a Ghost” (this song is pretty funny if you imagine Lucie singing it). She writes the lyrics and Alastair does the backing music. The catch is she doesn’t actually give him the lyrics, so when the time comes Alastair along with Jesse, Will, James, and Thomas are all mortified while Tessa, Cordelia, Anna, Matthew, Ariadne, and Grace and laughing their asses off. Christopher isn’t really paying attention to the lyrics, he just think it was nice of Lucie to write a song for her love. Gideon and Gabriel are holding James and Will back to prevent them from strangling their nephew.
When Tatiania goes off on one of her anti-Herondale/anti-shadowhunter rants, claiming Lucie stole her son and that she’ll have her revenge, Lucie interrupts her by simply knocking her out with a punch then letting the Silent Brothers deal with her.
After all the chaos is sorted Jesse regularly wakes up at the ass-crack of dawn as to not miss a moment of sunshine. The first thing he does is look at Lucie and silently thank her for giving him life again. He doesn’t wake her up because he knows she lost many hours of sleep just to stay up at night with him. Instead he makes tea and reads by the window or on the balcony. If Lucie does wake up to join him she writes in her notebook next to him or they discuss they’re plans for the day.
It becomes their nightly routine to talk about their day while Jesse brushes Lucie’s hair before they go to bed
When they trained together for the first time Lucie was very surprised that Jesse could hold his own against her. That was until the sun shone through the glass panes, illuminating Lucie’s pale eyes and making her hair shine all the different colours he loves. This caught Jesse off guard and Lucie used the opportunity to knock his feet out from under him. In turn Jesse sweeps her off her feet so she lands on top of him and captures her in a kiss.
Lucie chooses Cordelia to be her suggenes and Jesse chooses Grace
Modern/human AU
Their respective clothing styles are lazy cottagecore with a touch of academia for Lucie and soft boy-next-door also with a pinch of dark academia for Jesse. Lucie drinks ice coffee out of a metal straw, wears baggy sweaters, has pencils in her hair, always carries a notebook and is constantly bumping into people. Jesse likesthe piano, black coffee, old converse and crewnecks and candid photos
Lucie steals sweaters from basically all of her friends. She took Jesse’s green one, Cordelia’s yellow one and a brown one from James
They’re both English majors which is how they meet but Lucie has a focus on creative writing and Jesse has a focus on literature. Jesse also does a minor in business to please his mother.
After they get married they open a publishing company where Lucie releases The Beautiful Cordelia and many others. Jesse is her editor.
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