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Works which have used it as a tag:

• Epiphany by Anonymous

  Fandoms: The Shadowhunter Chronicles - Cassandra Clare  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Major Character Death
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  22 May 2025

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Robert Lightwood & Michael Wayland
  • Eliza Rosewain/Michael Wayland
  • Michael Wayland
  • Robert Lightwood
  • Valentine Morgenstern
  • Eliza Rosewain
  • Jonathan Wayland
  • Circle Era (Shadowhunter Chronicles)
  • Dark
  • Canonical Character Death
  • Infanticide
  • because Jonathan Wayland dies
  • actually kind of upset me to write so maybe be careful if you're sensitive to that sort of thing
  • not really a waywood fic
  • i mean it's there because of course it is
  • but i'm letting michael be the main character for once so it's not the focus
  • Death
  • Tragedy
  • Pre-Canon
  • unreliable narrator Michael Wayland
  • mostly at the end and he's unreliable because none of those things are true

  Summary

  Michael Wayland’s life in retrospect, beginning on the day he dies.
  Or, in other words,
  I beat this poor man to death with the tragedy that is his very short life, but then I revive him and put him through hell, where he’s forced to experience all five stages of grief in order for me to finally let him die <3 R.I.P. Michael, you’d hate me :)

  Series

  • Part 4 of The Secret Treasons

  Language:

  English

  Words:

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