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Veronica wrote: "She married jem?"Sorry if this is a spoiler for you. There's a comic strip at the back of my City of Heavenly Fire edition, that depicts Tessa and Jem getting married on Blackfriars Bridge in 2009. Will was there too as a ghost, telling Jessamine that seeing them happy together gave him peace.
Oh. I did not have that. But thanks for sharing.:)
I think if they were immortal love would be different for them. Tessa loved Will its not like she married Jem right after Will (view spoiler) she got with him a century later.
do warlocks have ghosts/souls?, because you know, when they all have to pass into the "afterlife"...
AgCl wrote: "do warlocks have ghosts/souls?, because you know, when they all have to pass into the "afterlife"..."Demons can be killed without remorse because they are born from a hellish dimension, and are without souls. Downworlders all have souls, which is what makes it wrong to kill them. Shadowhunter Chronicles don't really go into afterlives, do they? I don't know, it's confusing.
Shadows wrote: "AgCl wrote: "do warlocks have ghosts/souls?, because you know, when they all have to pass into the "afterlife"..."Demons can be killed without remorse because they are born from a hellish dimensi..."
yeah i'm confused too, but they have a hell of sorts and i suppose a heaven too (though i'm not sure if anyone's allowed there except the angels) and they have ghosties as well.
When a spouse dies, the bereaved partner eventually may find love again. Being immortal just means this happens to you even more than normal.
So I agree. I feel as a reader, even if you were a "team Will" or "team Jem" shipper, you should at least be able to appreciate the fact that mortals DIE. Tessa was with Will for the span of his life, her love never wavered. One main theme through the whole book is this equal love shared between the three. Do I think the average person can love two people at the same time completely equally? Nope. But this trio is anything but average, and I DO believe that they share a love for one another that is all their own. Their is no jealousy or malice between them...ever. Jem accepted that Tessa was to be with Will, because he loved them both. Just as I feel (not having seen the wedding comic strip) that Will would be please to know that Tessa was not alone, that her and Jem had found each other.
It's not like Will dies and two days later she was shacked up with Jem, I think we need to look bigger picture on this and remember Tessa will live forever. Watching all those she cares about die. She deserves this. To have them both. At different times. In different lives. I think it was a PERFECT way to have the story end, because honestly I couldn't ever pick between the two.
I didn't so much mind that Tessa got to be with both boys - I felt that "Clockwork Princess" did a phenomenal job at showing just how deep the relationships between the 3 of them went, and for Tessa, each brought her a different sense of love and peace. With Will, she obviously had a life filled with laughter and stories, and when Jem and Tessa had originally been dreaming about their future together, she had imagined a life filled with music that told more than emotions and words ever could. People change over time, and both outcomes are beautiful. If she'd been able to marry Jem first, and he died only a short time later, I can only imagine that Tessa and Will would have been far too brokenhearted to ever approach the other with love again - possibly be hardly able to look each other in the eyes again. I can't imagine how that would have affected Tessa in the long run. As in, the intense love they both had for Jem, and the loss that they felt, may have pushed them away from each other, because they're both so lost in their own sorrow.
What I didn't quite understand was the reunion between Tessa and Will, right after Jem had "died." I completely understand the argument of expressing grief in different ways - being so wrapped up in the fear of the unknown, the very real possibility of losing someone else you love the next day, etc. etc. - however, it just seemed so very out of character. The scene was beautiful, but it wasn't what I was expecting, and when I re-read it I still don't know exactly how I feel about it.
Ashley wrote: "I didn't so much mind that Tessa got to be with both boys - I felt that "Clockwork Princess" did a phenomenal job at showing just how deep the relationships between the 3 of them went, and for Tess..."Love your take and agree ;)
Ashley wrote: "I didn't so much mind that Tessa got to be with both boys - I felt that "Clockwork Princess" did a phenomenal job at showing just how deep the relationships between the 3 of them went, and for Tess..."I agree. As tragic as everything had been - Jem being confined to the Brotherhood etc. - it was all for the best. It was the only way in which both boys would grow old with Tessa by their side.
The reunion between Tessa and Will. They both thought they were going to die. Tessa thought that Jem was dead, and that she and Will would die soon too. And she was racked with the guilt that Jem died because he wanted to show her his love, and that Will would die hollow and heartbroken, saving the girl who didn't give him the love he deserved. She obviously thought the one thing she could do before she died, was to give Will the one thing he wanted most - the one thing, in the darkest corner of her heart, she wanted most. And since they were all going to die, she figured there's nothing to lose. That's what I think.
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Tessa's already crossed the line. Like Magnus said, warlocks all loved and lost, but none are as hopelessly faithful as she is. Will and Jem are the only people she would ever be in love with. She has the rest of an eternity to spend alone, after Jem dies.
Now those of you who questioned Tessa's faithfulness because she married Will after breaking her engagement with Jem, and married Jem almost a century later, ask yourself this: an immortal girl has devoted herself to two mortals, willing to spend the rest of eternity alone, what more can you ask?