Ouch right in the feels. THIS ONE’S FOR YOU, sarahreesbrennan !!!!
So I got it in my head this morning to draw this scene. Where Valentine tells Sebastian why his mother is gone. I wanted it to be authentic so I got @CassieClare to write the dialog!
So.. totally canon scene right here. This is how it went down.
aka. holy crap Valentine could you be a worse father?
So Cassandra Jean has finished the complete Shadowhunter Tarot, so for the next … seventy-something days I’ll be posting a card a day (okay, maybe not every day — I tend to get distracted!) in order, from the first card to the last. Some will be under spoiler cuts; some you’ll have seen before — I’ll explain why each character has the card they have.
Valentine takes the Devil cup because, well, who else really. He is always comparing himself to Milton’s Satan, his last name is Morgenstern (which means morning star, as in How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how are you cut down to the ground, who did weaken the nations!) his motto is non serviam, etc and so on.
I like that Cassandra Jean has incorporated both the Mortal Cup and the chains that bind Valentine, because he really was always something of a reluctant embracer of evil. More a “ends justify the means” guy than the “burn down the world” villain Sebastian is.
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers lets us look deep into his eyes in his character poster for The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, provided exclusively to JustJared.com. … Read More Here …
“Cassandra, I am so upset that Jonathan Rhys Meyers is Valentine because he is SO HOT. Throughout the book I never thought of Valentine as attractive and now seeing the new trailer I’m like….dear lord. But I love Jonathan Rhys Meyers so seriously, top notch casting directors. — silktea”
Hee.
Valentine was always supposed to be attractive! :)
CoB:
CoG
199: “She was in a wine cellar, bare and clean, a single huge rune
scrawled on the stone floor. A man stood beside it; he held an
open book in one hand and a blazing white torch in the other.
When he raised his head, Clary saw that it was Valentine: much
younger, his face unlined and handsome, his dark eyes clear
and bright.”
387: “I was your age when I fell in love with him,” Jocelyn said. “I
thought he was perfect—brilliant, clever, wonderful, funny,
charming. I know, you’re looking at me as if I’ve lost my mind. You
only know Valentine the way he is now. You can’t imagine what he
was like then. When we were at school together, everyone loved
him. He seemed to give off light, in a way, like there was some special
and brilliantly illuminated part of the universe that only he
had access to, and if we were lucky, he might share it with us, even
just a little. Every girl loved him, and I thought I didn’t have a
chance.”
There’s a lot more, but yeah, Valentine was always supposed to be handsome. He’s always compared to Lucifer, who was supposed to have been the most beautiful angel in Heaven before the Fall.
So I guess it’s probably good JRM is playing him. :)
Valentine wants you! To, um, join his evil army.
Happy VALENTINE Day! You get it? So clever, I know. (Valentine from TMI written by @CassieClare)
Have a good one everybody~
“My name is Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern. I had a father but he is dead. I have a mother but she is dead to me. I have a brother and I will bind him to me. I have a sister and I will teach her to love me. My name is Jonathan, but everyone calls me Sebastian. And I am going to burn down the world.”
Valentine is glaring at you. 
