Michael Wayland - Blog Posts
THE WAY I DIED.
Did Michael really like Maryse, maybe as a friend? Or was it part of the charade? HOW ON EARTH CAN ROBERT BE SO BLIND????
Here's my head canons that literally nobody asked for, but I don't care because I spent all of last summer thinking nobody was invested in the circle and I have pent-up fangirl energy 😌:
Robert is a fictional adult who needs some love: Is he one of the oldest? Yeah. But since he got abused by his dad and he felt like a disappointment for not being able to bear the runes (allergy) he's an insecure little bun, k? K. Also Maryse absolutely understands that, and although she's like super cold and icy and murderous she has a big heart (she's a silver girl, k?) and is always there for him at his lowest. Also, screw Shadowhunters and their smooth skin. Him and Alec? SCARS. That's it. Scars, actually, scars on all Shadowhunters, and also on Maryse, one that runs from the bottom of her ear, down her neck to her collarbone. How? (she's a Shadowhunter, ppl)
Maryse's mom was TRASH, and she has a fear of commitment: Why do I say that? IDK. I like characters with family issues (y'know Robert's got it w his dad, she as it w her mom). AND. She felt alone, which is how Valentine got to her. She was really close to her brother, and him getting stripped of his runes and exiled left her alone with parents that didn't care for her and too many close friends because of her cold (sarcastic queen) attitude. At the end of the day, she felt abandoned and, leaving her with a fear of getting close to anybody because they might leave her as well.
Miss ma'am passed her absolute need to perfect to Alec: If you've read TMI it's hard for people to not know that Alec is definitely the fake it til you make it, wake in the same shoes until you bleed and work on it until it glistens. So while I do firmly believe that he got some of Robert's personality, he did get his loyalty and bravery? From Maryse, all together with the constant urge of being perfect, which she got from her parents' constantly pushing her to be perfect and her need to prove the man in the academy that she deserved her place there.
Maryse and Robert might have been in love, they might not have known what that was: They both come from pretty toxic families where love was ehm...not a thing? So when they met, it was obvious that all these intense feelings of "I would kill for you" would get confused (maybe) for love. I do still that they fiercely loved each other like one loves its first partner. Deeply ad burning, that in their hearts, they were each other's other half. But I do also think that them insisting on staying when that love melted into pure raw platonic love (care? Do remember Maryse cried at his funeral and Michael's ghost touched her shoulder). Which brings me to my next point.
Michael and Maryse: Friends. That's it. The typical gay and bi power friendship.
Celine/ Maryse/ Michael: Trio of friends. Izzy/Jace/Alec but a cultist version of it.
Waywood?: Real. Maryse's relationship w Robert had faded into a pure friendship which lead to him realizing that he was in love w Michael (whether he acted on it or not, that idk)
Eliza and Maryse?: A thing. Hell yeah, she did act on it, which leads me to the belief that Maryse did know that Robert was in love with Michael and that he knew that she was in love with Eliza. Think of it, a lavender marriage out of fear of being stripped of their runes by the clave.
Eliza: I am calm, I am relaxed, I am a happy tree.
The circle: *being the circle*
Eliza: YOU ARE MAKING IT VERY HARD! TO BE A HAPPY TREE!
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Stephen: Ok, I need you to swear-
Celine: Fuck.
Stephen: Swear as in promise.
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Michael, about Valentine: Have you ever looked at an authority figure in your life and thought, "Wow, I respect a well-grilled hot dog more than I respect you?" ———————————————— Lucian: Your friends are counting on you! Valentine: Well that's their falt. I've carefully cultivated a persona that screams, "You're on your own!" ————————————————
Robert: What the hell are you smiling for?
Valentine: Am I not allowed to be happy?
Amatis: Of course you are… it’s just that you being happy, usually means someone’s lost their life… or a limb.
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Celine, first joining: I know we technically have permission to do this, but this all feels highly illegal.
Stephen: That’s half the fun of it.
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Stephen: People say I have a unique way of lighting up a room.
Amatis: It’s called arson and those people are witnesses.
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Celine: Robert and I are getting closer. The other day he gave me half his sandwich.
Robert, whispering to Maryse: I mistook her for a garbage can
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Robert: I tried to write “I’m a functional adult” but my phone changed it to “fictional adult” and I feel that’s more accurate.
my toxic trait is thinking i would be immune to valentine's manipulation tactics and able to see through his bullshit and not be brainwashed into joining his cult
i know full well the guy would be able to clock my trauma from a 10 meter radius and he would exploit the fuck out of it but a girl can dream