How are Jace and Alec still even bonded after they’ve been separated twice in the books? With Jace dying then coming back and then a crazed lunatic having Jace under his spell. Poor Alec felt losing his Parabatai twice and we never really get to witness his reaction first hand when it happens. I hope they will in the show, Parabatai bonds are so freaking strong lol.
Yeah, apparently being dead for “only a few minutes” doesn’t count and since Alec was in the heat of a battle in that moment, he felt “something” but he just dismissed it. He simply dismissed his fucking parabatai bond beginning to break? Just like that? He didn’t even know Jace was dead? Jace had to TELL him? Oh yeah, their bond is “normal” and not “speciul!!1!!111!” like Jem and Will’s, so why the FUCK not, right?
What the EVERFUCKING FUCK, CC! Pardon my French but this is such a shitty piece of terrible writing!
And yeah, Jace being consumed by the heavenly fire? Yup, no effect either, pft! By that point I wasn’t even surprised anymore. Dear God, this makes me still furious!
tbh honest Alec is so badly written in those books - and I don’t mean badly as “he is a bad/boring character” but as “the author never gave much thought or really developed him the way he should have been”, especially considering he was “supposed” to be Jace parabatai, but this has in fact no impact in the books nor is it even clearly visible at any point?
Yeah, but Jace was SPECIUL, didn’t you know? His SPECIULNESS made the bond superfluous because nothing could stand up to his GOLDEN ANGELIC SPECIULNESS!!!11!1!!! And Alec was TEH GHAY and that was enough, and when he couldn’t be TEH GHAY, he was useless, because his character was all about TEH GHAYNESS!!!11!1!!!
Seriously, the parabatai bond and Malec are the perfect examples of fandom picking up something and running with it DESPITE the author’s best efforts to squash it.
omg you made me laugh so much - especially when it’s sadly enough pretty much the level of character development we get in the actual books for both of them haha