Why I love Tessa Gray Herondale Carstairs:
Inspired by @lucelias and @carstairsmina
-I feel like most people overlook the fact that she was totured for weeks by the dark sisters and she didn't try to escape because she considered her brother's life more important than her physical and mental well-being
-she agreed to help the shadowhunters she just met with their investigation and use her shapeshifting, even though they didn't force her
-she felt emapathy towards camille, even thought camille was a bitch and barely helped her at the ball
-she gave will the holy water, helping sophie
-she is a bookworm who defends her taste in books in front of assholes like will
-she makes her own choices
-she didn't tell jem about her history with will in order to protect his feelings
-she was kind to cecily and treated her fairly
-she always treated sophie as a friend, despite sophie being a servant
-she always helped charlotte in times of need
-she understood that henry was a genius and told him things (about charlotte) he didn't find obvious
-she defended the institute in front of gabriel, but she also acknowledged him as a good fighter and teacher
-she told sophie to be careful around gideon but after being told to mind her own business she stopped saying anything
-she turned into an angel and saved her friends
-she always wore the jade pendant and pearl bracelet to honor her two husbands
-she understood their love for each other and the fact that she loved both
-she was a good mother and felt responsible for her children's demonic heritage
-she sided with the shadowhunters when she found out what kind of man her brother was
-she pitied mortmain for being an orphan
-she understood jessamine's trauma and was good to her yet just and serious in times of despair
-she was a good friend to magnus
-she helped jocelyn with clary's protection ceremony, in spite of jocelyn being the wife of a racist maniac
-she took kit in
-she lived, while everybody she loved died and still accepted the idea of forming a family with jem
