(sadly, because I think Matthew and Lucie had potential as a couple). Matthew did the same thing, but in reverse and in the opposite way. He liked Lucie in the beginning, but Lucie repeated several times that she didn’t like him that way, thus nothing romantically ever happened between them. Well, truth be told, Alastair always seemed to have had a soft spot for Thomas, but perhaps he never thought he would like “like” him. Alastair loved Charles but then he figured that he was an ambitious man and he had no place in his heart like he wanted, and liked Thomas more. He also is 50/50 like this with Thomas, because in Paris he spent time with him and when they were working on the antidote, Alastair lowered his guard again, trusting Thomas. During their scenes we see that Alastair is different, more open, more vulnerable. They both carry guilt and drown their sorrows in two opposed ways: Alastair runs head on to his issues by aggravating them because he’s passive-aggressive and Matthew runs from them by getting drunk.Īlastair loved Charles, Matthew’s older brother. They both seem to act as if the world is their playground in different ways: Matthew flaunting his eccentric clothes, Alastair being overly rude - but truth is they are both insecure. See, even here Alastair’s specular character has the same issue as his father Elias. Unlike Alastair who covers his true self with bullying, Matthew covers his true self with alcohol. Who is the real Matthew Fairchild? We still don’t know. He doesn’t have many friends, and even his closest friends, including his parabatai James, don’t really know the real Matthew. Matthew is not a bully but he is also rude, and doesn’t easily trusts strangers. Which means the real Alastair is someone else, someone who is afraid of showing the world who he truly is. He said that he chose to be the bully to feel powerful and not stomped on, which means that despite the bad things he did, deep down he is redeemable. The one thing that seems impossible for them to get: they want to be loved.Īlastair was a bully. but when they take their masks off - they both wear masks - they are loyal and protective and they just want one thing in return, even if they don’t dare to voice it out loud. lol.Īlastair and Matthew are those types of characters that are often described as rude, difficult, arrogant, etc. So in the next book I hope he realizes that he needs help with his drinking problem before it’s too late, because it is a serious matter. As for Matthew, he still carries his guilt for having unwillingly killed his sister in the form of a small flask in his vest. Now what I think? I believe that we’ll indeed discover more about Alastair’s heritage and we’ll probably seem him trying to come to terms with it and with everything he’s done, and I’m up for it, because Alastair has a great potential. This is a plot device, and it is also a strong reason for Matthew to despise Alastair. It’d be easier to believe that Charlotte and Henry weren’t tight because in TID it is what some people of the Clave think too. While Matthew’s parents don’t have blonde hair).
No one would believe their parents to be unfaithful to each other (well because they are identical to their parents and you can’t question they are their parents’ kids, it would be crazy. perhaps he hurt Alastair and he was indirectly hurting Matthew in return? Because he couldn’t hurt James and Christopher.
Why Matthew? For one, he is Charles’ brother, and I think at the time of the rumor Alastair was already in love with Charles. Perhaps he did it to transfer his pain and anger to another person, even if by doing this he didn’t just hurt Matthew, he also hurt Thomas. Alastair spread a rumor about Matthew (that wasn’t true) that could apply to himself, maybe because Alastair already suspected he wasn’t his father’s son. Matthew lost a sister, while Alastair’s mother is pregnant. Meanwhile, Matthew used to be paranoid about his mother because Alastair (it isn’t casual that was him, my friends) spread the rumor that Matthew was the result of an affair between Gideon and Charlotte, thus making him resent his mother without knowing for sure if what Alastair said was true. It surely is a traumatic experience to discover you are not who you believed you were.
These are just smoke screens that probably cover theory that Alastair isn’t Elias’ son and that he hates his father and probably his mother as well for lying to him. Alastair doesn’t seem too close with Elias at the moment, and the reader is led to believe that it’s because Elias was an alcoholic and Alastair always had to clean after him and he’s tired to play the “father” because he’s the older brother. Both Matthew and Alastair have/had problems with one of their parents.
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