love love looove kit and julian getting a read on each other in LoS. we mostly see this insight on jules emotions from emma, but kit cracks it barely a day into knowing him
and julian recognizing the same kind of anger reflected in someone else. kit who is angry at the whole world and not a single person around him has picked up on it before
and both are lying liars who lie. just kit lies to protect himself and julian lies out of the need to protect his family. beautiful.
Cordelia Carstairs my best friend Cordelia Carstairs.
I love Daisy for many reasons, but I especially enjoy how clear-sighted she is. She can see what's wrong with the world, so she'll do whatever she can to save it. In this particular instance, we also see that she craves power specifically so that she can do the most good for the world without worrying what anybody else has to say about her (a brown girl) daring to act decisively. This leads to her making some impulsive decisions, but it all comes from the knowledge that she needs to make decisions for herself or else risk others making the decision on her behalf. Cordelia never waits to earn approval, she just goes out there and starts saving lives, and that's what makes her a hero.
i think the way CC pushes the whole 'herondales owe carstairs" in your face is doing a bit of disservice not only to will and jem but to the other people in their family line, but kit seeing emma for less than two minutes and feeling confident enough to call her for help in the time of need and emma being the one to save his life is actually very poetic to me
if asked, julian blackthorn would never admit that he has a favourite child but the more i get back into tda the more i am sure his favourite child is ty. one hundred percent.
so refreshing to me to have a protagonist who needs to be dragged kicking and screaming to their magical world-saving destiny, usually the main character is like, yes i accept this great power and responsibility i'm ready but kit said actually i would rather take algebra than deal with this don't contact me lose my number bye πβοΈ
Jace asking Clary if he wants him to tell her a bedtime story and then proceeding to trauma dump on her...he's never been serious a day in his life actually.

