Just before the events of The Mortal Instruments, curiosity is sparked on both sides…
This is gorgeous!
Taking a break briefly from the tarot card project, I asked Cassandra Jean to draw the four seasons as the four Shadowhunter series I have either written or planned right now — The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices, the Dark Artifices, and The Mysterious TLH.
Here The Mortal Instruments takes the season of fall. From left: Maia, Simon and Isabelle, Sebastian (lurking darkly on a bench) Jace and Clary, Luke and Jocelyn, Alec and Magnus, and Jordan, all in Central Park on a fall day.
So Cassandra Jean has finished the complete Shadowhunter Tarot, so for the next … seventy-something days I’ll be posting a card a day 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.
The Lovers card! Its meaning is pretty self-explanatory. I thought I’d attach the first version we did, which was just Jace and Clary. For whatever reason it wasn’t working for us. Maybe because Jace looks slightly evil? :) Also I felt like there are so many characters whose relationships could represent unity and love. So we decided to make it a flippable card, which worked either way up, and have Magnus and Alec represent love as well.
“I think Jamie is just very cavalier. He just sort of walks like the guy I want to be around. There’s a sort of coolness about him. So for me, the way Jamie is naturally, he’s just very naturally charismatic. Jace has that and he (Jamie) has all the emotional traits that Jace has.”
As we were getting off the stage, some girls came running up to the front asking if they could touch Jace’s mango. Jamie looked very befuddled so I told him “You are going to have to get used to that one.”
““Are we going to see a Jace and Alec card?”
Ask and ye shall! From Cassandra Jean’s Shadowhunter Tarot.
“will there be a jace and clary shadowhunter tarot? just the two of them? :) — jacefrayed”
Well, I can’t always say “ask and ye shall receive” because some cards from CJ’s Shadowhunter Tarot don’t exist. This one does, though! Clary and Jace in the scene from City of Glass where they sleep in the same bed but don’t touch except for their hands. The Eight of Wands/Steles, which can mean headlong progression. I liked it because I felt like this was the moment in which they fell in love, that there was no going back from.
