Twitter Tuesday - Cassie Clare

So, let's talk about IT, Mundie Moms. And by "IT", I know that some of you already know what I'm talking about. The last few days, Cassie has been tweeting about a topic that seems to have a life of its own and simply won't go away.

- S P O I L E R A L E R T for C I T Y O F G L A S S -

The MMs Admin team thought that, perhaps, it was time to put this to bed, so to speak.

Here's the general theme of the questions that Cassie has been asked: Did Jace and Clary do IT (we're trying to keep this blog PG rated in case little eyes can read over their Mom's shoulder) at the end of City of Glass?

And here's a collection of Cassie's tweets. We've replaced a certain word with the phrase "you-know-what":

I've decided I've figured out what the problem is. The scene in question ends with them kissing on some steps. The next scene begins "After some time they came down the stairs and into the square, where a crowd had begun to gather." Obviously people feel that the crowd was gathering in order to watch them have acrobatic [you-know-what] on the staircase. It was very nice of everyone not to mention it when they rejoined the party! :D

Like I said before if the fact that J&C *haven't* slept together wasn't something that comes up in COFA, I probably wouldn't bother clarifying at all. But keeping that first scene and the next scene located firmly in a public place *was* something I did so people wouldn't think they'd had [you-know-what] -- obvs. didn't work as well I thought it would. :)

Cassie does give us a glimpse into, in particular, Jace's mindset at the end of City of Glass:

Q. "I actually thought Jace seemed strangely detached for some1 who could finally be all over his girl, because she was no longer *forbidden* ..."

A. It was actually an interestingly difficult scene to write, because while I don't really think of Jace as ever being "all over" anyone :D, certainly "unbridled joy that Clary is not his sister" is not a weird thing to expect. And note, Clary herself is concerned that he seems detached, and asks him about it. But he does explain - he feels completely lost as to who he is - and even the things he doesn't state out loud hang in the air: he's just survived a war, his little brother is dead, the man he thinks of as his father is dead, death and loss are all around them, mixed in with the celebration. The scene had to be bittersweet; unbridled joy just wouldn't have worked.

Q. "but then I assumed that's precisely why they still have relationship issues in CoFA, still working things out."

A. Not really; their relationship issues in COFA are of a very different sort. :D

So once and for all, nope, they didn't do it. Not at all. Not on the steps. Not during the fireworks. Nope. We here on Mundie Moms, truly hope that questions along these lines will stop. For us, the TMI series is not a coming-of-age story (like a Judy Blume's Forever-style-book) but it's more than that -- it's about finding yourself when circumstances are beyond difficult and having the courage and will to do what is right in the end. We hope that Cassie gets asked more questions about the Shadowhunter world, their biases, character studies, future plot lines -- truly anything but this.

Now, we really hope that this line of questioning is finished and we can all look forward to our favorite characters' further adventures in City of Fallen Angels as well as anticipate their ancestor's stories in Clockwork Angel.