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Hey guys and welcome to the first post for the LGBTQ+ month I am hosting with my friend Ross over at theroyalbookshelf.weebly.com. We are both incredibly excited to have this as our first post because we both consider Cassandra Clare to be our favourite author and we love all of her works. Cassandra Clare created one of my favourite gay couples to ever enter the fictional world and that is Alec Lightwood and Magnus Bane from the Mortal Intruments. She has great excerpts which highlight their relationship further, especially in The Bane Chronicles, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy and City of Lost Souls.
The first excerpt is from City of Lost Souls, book 5 from the Mortal Instruments series. Alec dropped his witchlight. The light winked out, and he fell to his knees, scrabbling on the ground among the trash and the dirt, grit under his fingernails. At last something lit up before his eyes, and he rose to see Magnus standing before him, the witchlight in his hand. It shone and flickered with a strangely-colored light. “It shouldn’t illuminate like that,” Alec said, automatically. “For anyone but a Shadowhunter.” Magnus held it out. The heart of the witchlight was glowing a dark red, like the coal of a fire. “Is it because of your father?” Alec asked. Magnus didn’t reply, only tipped the runestone into Alec’s palm. As their hands touched, his face changed. “You’re freezing cold.” “I am?” “Alexander . . .” Magnus pulled him to his feet, and the witchlight flickered between them, its color changing rapidly. Alec had never seen a witchlight runestone do that before. He put his head against Magnus’ shoulder and let Magnus hold him. Magnus’ heart didn’t beat like human hearts did: it was slower, but steady. Sometimes Alec thought it was the steadiest thing in his life. “Kiss me,” Alec said, tipping his head up; Magnus eyes were sad and shadowed, and unreadable. Magnus put his hand to the side of Alec’s face and gently, almost absently, ran his thumb along Alec’s cheekbone. When he bent to kiss him he smelled like sandalwood. Alec clutched the sleeve of Magnus’ jacket, and the witchlight, held between their bodies, flared up in colors of rose and blue and green as their lips touched. The second excerpt is from the Bane Chronicles, "What To Buy The Shadowhunter Who Has Everything." It must have been raining a little outside. There were sparkling drops of water in Alec’s messy black hair. He was wearing a hoodie that Magnus thought he might have found in a dumpster, and sloppy jeans, and his whole face was lit up just because he was looking at Magnus. “I think,” said Magnus, pulling Alec in by the strings on his awful gray hoodie, “that I could be persuaded to clear my schedule.” Then Alec was kissing him, and Alec’s kisses were uninhibited and utterly sincere, all of his lanky warrior’s body focused on what it wanted, all of his open heart in it as well. For a long wild euphoric moment Magnus believed that Alec did not want anything more than to be with him, that they would not be parted. Not for a long, long time. “Happy birthday, Alexander,” Magnus murmured. “Thanks for remembering,” Alec whispered back. And finally! The last excerpt is from the Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, "Born to Endless Night." Simon fled across the hall and up the stairs, moving at a pace that would have amazed his evil Shadowhunter gym teacher. Scarsbury had never provided him with motivation like this. He knew that Magnus and Alec had put in a fancy suite up in the attics. Apparently there was even a separate kitchen. Simon just kept heading up, knowing he would hit the attics at some point. He reached the attics, heard murmuring and movement behind the door, and flung the door wide open. Then he stood, arrested on his second threshold of the day. There was a sheet over Alec and Magnus, but Simon could see enough. He could see Alec’s white, rune-scarred shoulders and Magnus’s wild black hair spread on the pillow. He could see Alec freeze, then turn his head and give Simon a look of absolute horror. Magnus’s golden cat eyes gleamed from over Alec’s pale shoulder. He sounded almost amused as he asked: “Can we help you?” “Oh my God,” Simon said. “Oh wow. Oh wow, I am really sorry.” “Please leave,” said Alec in a tight, controlled voice. “Right!” said Simon. “Of course!” He paused. “I can’t leave.” “Believe me,” said Alec. “You can.” I absolutely love Cassandra Clare with all of my heart and every time I read these excerpts I get chills. This couple is not just my favourite LGBTQ+ couple, they are one of my favourite couples in a YA novels by far. As Ross pointed out to me earlier, they are such a diverse couple. They are an interracial couple, they are in the LGBTQ+ community where one of them is gay and the other is bisexual, they are interspeciatal (?) is that a real word? A shadowhunter and a warlock! Do you like Malec as a couple? Have you read the Mortal Instruments? They are one of the best YA series and worlds to get lost in, in my own personal opinion and I highly recommend them for fantasy lovers. Thank you for reading and I will see you in my next post! Much love, Megan. x
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