Archive Repost: Jace, belonging and low expectations

This is a repost of a previous meta post I originally wrote in August (or possibly September) of 2014, which was lost due to the accidental deletion of my tumblr account. Hopefully people who were looking for it will manage to find it :/

I’ve been wanting to write some meta about Jace for a while, tbh.

It was going to be a very angry post along the lines of “why does fandom buy into the idolatry of an abusive asshole?!”… but while I still think Jace is an abusive asshole and I still dislike him immensely, I also want to try and be fair to his character as much as I can… because to be frank, I wouldn’t mind him being an abusive asshole so much if someone, anyone, called him out on that once. Which no one does.

And regardless, I also tend to think it’s unfair to him that even the narrative of TMI disregards that aspect of him because it means ignoring why he is who he is, and therefore take away much of his literary depth and potential.

So, without further ado –but with the hope to interest at least one or two people beside myself, here’s an attempt at decoding Jace Herondale (/Lightwood/Wayland). At least somewhat.

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