Disclaimer: fanfiction.
So I'll start it off with Magnus Bane. That should've been obvious, seriously.
10 Things You (probably) didn't know about the M.I Characters.
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10 Things You Didn't Know About Magnus Bane
1. The moment his eyes opened and his mother saw them , she almost dropped him. But she pulled him close to her chest and whispered the words he often hears in his dreams: My wonderful baby boy.
2. The night his mother hung herself, he didn't weep. All he could think of was how she was a dirty, rotten liar. She had called him her little miracle.
Mortals are liars.
He's learned not to trust human beings so much after that.
3. When water started to fill his lungs, all he could see was the light in front of him. And he walked to it – only, he was pulled back. The image of his dead mother came to his mind, and he didn't want to be with her, in the Afterlife. Instead, he pulled away from his father and snapped his fingers.
The man he had admired, had wished would love him like a father loves his son, burned in front of his eyes.
And he did not avert his gaze, he watched as the scorched body sunk into the lake.
He specifically avoided lakes after that.
4. Often he goes to the Pandemonium and leans against a wall, sipping a pink drink. He hasn't told the group yet, but he was there the night Clary discovered she was not just a mundane.
He recognized Clary. But his eyes focused on the one dark haired boy – the same boy he'd seen from the previous nights, where he stood against the wall and sipped his pink drink. Every night.
The thought has never occurred to him. And he'll never tell them, because Alec would only look at him with judging blue eyes.
Because, really, if he told the Shadowhunters he hung around the Pandemonium, every single night, just so he could catch a glimpse of the blue eyed Shadowhunter, they'd think he was pathetic.
And he was.
Only, he didn't want to tell them.
Because he was High Warlock of Brooklyn.
High Warlocks weren't supposed to get weak in the knees when a cute Shadowhunter – of all kinds – passed him by.
5. It's not because he and Chairman Meow hold the same eyes that he adores the cat. It's because, while walking on the mundane filled street, he witnessed what could only be a ganging up scene. For the tiny cat was pushed against the wall, and was slowly bleeding to death.
He snapped each of the oppressor cat's necks, one by one, and took the small cat in his palms, where warm energy started to seep through the fur, and close its wounds.
It was the first time in the century that Magnus Bane felt a draw to something.
It would not be the last.
6. When a group of Shadowhunters trespasses on his party, all he could think was that: "It has to be them."
And sure enough, it was his little blue-eyed Nephilim (with his little Nephilim friends), the same blue-eyed prince that visited him in his dreams.
7. He had to be more than unwelcoming when he first faced Jace Wayland, because, the way Alec Lightwood looked at him – it made Magnus want to burn him, the way he burned his father.
8. The first time he really held Alec was also the first time in a century that tears rolled down his cheek.
"...Magnus?" Alec asked him, but Magnus jut closed his eyes and runs his fingers down the Shadowhunter's cheek.
It hurt him, knowing that the man in his arms loved someone else.
It hurt him even more when Alec hesitated.
Every time he hesitated, something broke in Magnus.
Every time.
9. When Alec Lightwood fell into the lake, trying not to drown, all thought of hate for the water left his mind. He drove straight through and hauled the Shadowhunter onto the truck.
He wasn't like a cat, because cats don't like water. And Magnus had dove through the freezing water just to save the one man he wished would open his eyes to what was really there.
After that night, he went to visit the same lake.
Alone, but he found it even more beautiful than himself.
It wasn't magic.
It was something else.
And he visited it every single day.
Though, the visits were cut short when one Shadowhunter would visit him in his little loft.
He thinks he's not missing the beauty in life that much.
10. Magnus Bane never felt like he truly belonged. The parties might be a sign of a lot of contacts, of friends, but it was always his way of reassuring himself that people still needed him, that people wanted to be in his company.
He might not look it, but he just starves for attention.
When Alec Lightwood pulled him into a kiss, in the center of the Accords Hall, with all the Downworlders and Nephilim children present, all he could think of was that he would never starve for anyone else's attention but Alec's.
He hesitated, but kissed the boy back.
It was the first time he felt like he belonged.
Wrapped around in Alec's arms.
For the second time in a century, Magnus Bane felt a draw.
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Why can't you see?
That I'm starving for your love
And I need attention
- Tokio Hotel, Attention
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I'm gonna go on a whim and do all the characters. :)
Well, try to, anyway.