Headcanons about Magnus’s relationships & Malec’s marriage

Does anyone else ever think that the reason why Magnus has so many lovers, beside his natural flirty nature & abnormally long life span, was because of some complex from childhood trauma? Like he always wanted to feel loved & constantly need somebody to love him because no one love him when he was a child?

And the reason why he never get married? I don’t think he never thought of it. But he kind of thought that people wouldn’t want to stay with him when they got old & he is not. In fact, many lovers did choose to leave him when they aged. So even if he wanted to marry someone, he never do anything about it, never think of proposing. And that habit remains even when he is with Alec. He believed Alec will stay with him until the end, but he assumed that they will just be together like this, as boyfriends/lovers for the rest of ~~their~~ Alec’s life. Then one day Alec proposed to him & he was speechless, because no one had ever chose to stay with him & no one had ever thought of spent their entire life with him & he was never been proposed in 400 years of his life so for the first time in a very long time he kind of don’t know what to react.

Lots of people think Magnus will be the one who proposed, because he is the romantic one, but I prefer a proposal from Alec. Opposite to people’s belief, Alec can actually take initiative in their relationship & in fact he did that a lot.

Someone might said “But they live together everyday, it isn’t important that they are married or not”. Let me tell you why it is important.

I once read a manga, where the boy is a warrior who went to dangerous battle everyday. He wanted to marry a girl who is in higher rank in society than him, which is difficult but not impossible, only it would cause not himself but his commander & teammates a lot of troubles. And his teammate asked him “Is it necessary to marry her? You two can remains lovers for the rest of your life. Isn’t it enough?” and the boy answered “It’s important because if we get married, she will be the first person who get the information if I die in battle. We live this dangerous life where nobody know when we are gonna die, this is the least I can promise her”.

Imagine if one day Alec died in his mission & they weren’t married, even if everyone knew they are together, the Clave will still tell his family first & let them tell Magnus later. But if they were officially married in Clave’s ceremony, Magnus will be Alec’s priority contact & get the straight information. Sometimes title is very important.

Headcanon time

I watched a science documentaries called “Can you live forever” & they said, your brain is like a hard drive, it has limited capacity storage, so if you live forever, some day your brain will be full & you can’t remember new things. So what if Magnus actually just has … bad memory, after 400 years of living, especially when it comes to people’s names. Not that his brain is full, but like he developed a habit of not remember names of ones he is not interested about, because he need space for more interesting things in his brain.

Also, people usually said “Once you name it, you get attached to it”. Magnus is careful about getting attached to people, because he lost so many already. So Magnus doesn’t remember, or doesn’t want to remember others’ names is just a way to defend himself from getting hurt again.

Malec post COHF :)

particlenumber13:

reallygayspider:

“ALEC WAS PAINTED WITH STREETLIGHTS AND MOONLIGHT, SHADOWS CURLING AROUND HIS BICEPS AND THE SLENDER INDENTATIONS OF HIS COLLARBONES, HIS TORSO ALL SMOOTH, SLEEK, BARE SKIN UNTIL—”

"STOP THAT THIS INSTANT ALEXANDER LIGHTWOOD I SAID SPECIFICALLY NOT TO READ THAT PART OUT LOUD FOR THE ANGELS SAKE—”

“HE LOOKED LIKE A PIECE OF ART—” Magnus periodically threw pillows at the shadowhunter for another paragraph before preceding to hide his face upon Alec’s cry: “AND THE ANGEL DESCENDED FROM ON HIGH AND GAVE HIS CHOSEN ONES FANTASTIC ABS.”

Yes.

Because we know Magnus wrote TBC for Alec.

TMI head canon

particlenumber13:

Okay, Alec turned 18 somewhere between COB and COA. And THB covers his birthday. I did get the feeling that birthdays were not exactly important events in nephilim society, but 18 was a big year because they turned adults. Alec is also known to avoid any kind of special attention.

Magnus was not expecting to see Alec that day; Alec was supposed to spend it with his family. What if Alec ditched them because Simon and Clay were there? And not necessarily because ew, mundanes are ruining my party. But rather, Alec felt really self-conscious that these strangers were around. And I wonder if his birthday was the only day Alec found it socially acceptable for him to be somewhere near the centre of attention, but instead there were these strangers in his home instead.

But what if he actually just wanted to see Magnus? Like … they’re supposed to have a celebration for him and Alec always stays home at his birthday so now he can’t think of any reason to sneak out & he thought birthday is a day you should spent with family so he told Magnus he wouldn’t come to Magnus’ house that day. Then Isabelle, after meeting Magnus, went back to the Institute & saw Alec sitting around rather sad at home because he wanted to see Magnus, so she helped him by made up some stories & asked everyone to celebrate his birthday the day after.