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[series]: The Mortal Instruments
[character]: Clary Fray (Clarissa Adele Morgenstern/Fairchild)
[character history / background]: → ( City of Bones ) Clary is a young girl at the beginning of the series. She goes to a club with her best friend where she witnesses the murder of a demon in her local club. Nobody else seems to notice and she wonders if perhaps she’s going crazy. She continues to run into Jace - the "murderer" - but still no one can see him. He offers to explain to her by introducing her to his tutor, but before Clary can agree she receives a distress call from her mother. Clary, ignoring her mother's command not to return home, rushes back only to be attacked by a Ravener demon. She defeats the demon but injures herself in the process, leaving Jace to find her and take her back to the Institute. Clary wakes up and meets Hodge and Jace's adoptive siblings. This new world seems strange to her, but fascinating, and he seems to be the one port in a wild storm that she can trust.
The fact that she can see Shadowhunter world still remains a problem, so Hodge enlists one of the Silent Brothers to look into her mind and find out why she can see things, why she can see them. Brother Jeremiah finds a block on Clary's mind, something that keeps her very early memories sealed from her. Even when the Silent Brothers can't break the wall, Clary starts to see flashes of information, leading her to the warlock Magnus Bane. Magnus reveals that when Clary was a child her mother realised that she could see the monsters of her old world and enlisted Magnus to help cover them up. She never wanted Clary to be a part of this and hated that she might not have been able to protect her from it. Magnus tells them that removing the block would be too difficult, but now Clary is aware of the truth it would probably come back to her over time.
Clary then discovers her best friend is missing and with Jace's help, breaks into the Hotel Dumont to rescue him. They end up fighting for their lives, rescued by a group of werewolves who claim they want Clary in return. She, Jace and Simon escape in the midst of the fight. Clary, who’s mother is still missing, stays at the Institute. She turns sixteen and grows closer to Jace. This leads to Simon revealing his feelings for her. Later, to calm herself down, she ends up using her favourite pastime - her passion for drawing. It's then that she discovers where the Mortal Cup is, something her mother had apparently hidden (and could possibly be why they were attacked), and she and her four friends go to find it. It’s one of the many instruments that Shadowhunters have come from, part of their immense mythological background, and they know she needs to find it. They are attacked by a Greater Demon leaving Alec injured and in the care of Magnus. Clary and Jace take the Cup back to Hodge who then turns out to be working for a man named Valentine. Jace gets kidnapped, to be taken back to his “father”, and Clary goes to take out Hodge, only to get knocked unconscious in the process. She awakes later to discover her paternal figure and friend Luke is a werewolf, had known her mother long before she escaped. Clary finds out through this that Valentine is her biological father, that even though he "died" during the Uprising, he is here now and has Jace. During the attack on Valentine's lair, Clary and Luke get inside to Valentine and Jace. Valentine reveals that he is both Clary and Jace's father making them siblings and their budding attraction incestuous. Luke fights Valentine, along with Jace's help, but he escapes to the Shadowhunter capital, Idris, where he has now hidden the Mortal Cup. With this he plans to use the other Mortal Instruments to make an army of "pure" Shadowhunters and wage war once again on the Downworlders and anyone who oppose him.
→ ( City of Ashes ) Because her mother is still in the hospital and has yet to wake up, Clary is now living at Luke's house. Her emotions are further tangled when Simon abruptly kisses her one day at his house and begins calling her his girlfriend. She is still reeling from the knowledge that the person she really wants is actually her brother, trying to get over him and attempts to be the girlfriend Simon would like even though she doesn’t feel it.
Clary receives a text message from Isabelle; Jace has angered the Inquisitor of the Clave and has been imprisoned in the Silent City. They believe he is working with Valentine, but she knows the truth, knows he had no idea. Clary, Isabelle, and Alec then respond to a distress call with the City only to discover the slaying of the Silent Brothers. They find out that Valentine is responsible and has taken the Soul Sword, the second of the Mortal Instruments for himself in his bid to make his new race of Shadowhunters. Clary frees Jace, only for the Inquisitor to appear and accuse Jace of going along with the plan, as the sword was the only way to prove his guilt or innocence.
Magnus offers to keep Jace as a prisoner in his apartment, where he and the others try to figure out Valentine's potential plans. In order to prove Jace's innocence they all go to the Fairy Realm. However, Clary is tricked into consuming faerie food, and is only allowed to leave by kissing "whom she most desires". At first Simon offers to kiss her, however Clary is forced instead to kiss Jace in order to gain her freedom. He is what her heart wants and the Faerie Queen knows that. Clary later argues with Jace over their obvious feelings for each other despite being siblings. Jace suggests keeping the relationship a secret, to which Clary replies that it would eventually be discovered anyway and is unwilling to lie to their friends and family.
Later Raphael shows up with Simon, who has been almost completely drained of his own blood and fed vampire blood. As the only way left to save him, Simon is transformed into a vampire. While discussing how to potentially tell Simon's mother about his new undead status, Maia is brought into the house with wounds too severe for Luke to treat. Magnus is brought to heal Maia while Jace, Simon, and Clary battle demons outside the house. Jace and Clary later go after the demons to finish them off, where Valentine offers protection for his friends if Jace joins him and comes back to Idris.
After Maia's kidnapping, Clary and Jace launch an attack on Valentines known whereabouts. She confronts him on the boat and after being kidnapped by one of his demons and brought to him, she fights, but falls in the water and is saved by nixies the Fairy Queen sent to help. It’s here that she uses a rune to blow apart the boat he’s using, further proving her power. The group escapes and after a talk with Luke about love and his regrets of not telling Clary's mother how he felt about her, Clary attempts to tell Jace of her feelings for him and her sudden change of mind to start a relationship needless of its consequences. However, before she can say anything, he tells her that he will only act as her brother from then on, breaking her heart. As Clary reels from this, she's then informed by a woman named Madeline that she knows how to wake her mother.
→ ( City of Glass ) Just before Jace and Clary are to leave for the city of Alicante, Jace lies to Clary in the hopes of tricking her into staying for the sake of her own safety. He asks Simon to meet him at the Institute to back him up but they are attacked and forced to portal through for safety. Clary discovers that they've gone and there's no way for her to get there. Without thinking, she draws the rune of a portal and aims to go through it, Luke grabbing on to her as they're pulled in. Because she has no idea where to “aim” for, they end up in Lake Lyn, causing Clary to accidentally swallow some of the water and to hallucinate and sicken. Luke carries her to his sister Amatis’ house and asks her to stay there.
She eventually sneaks away to find the others, only to find Jace and Aline kissing. This causes a fight between the two where Jace yells at Clary in order to drive her away and get her to return home. Clary leaves, heartbroken. Sebastian later catches up with her to help her with her plan to help her mother as she feels no one else will. The two go to Ragnor Fell's house the next day, where she is shocked to discover that Ragnor has been killed by demons and that Magnus is there in his place. He informs Clary that she must gain a spellbook disguised as a cookbook in the Wayland country home. She then travels to the ruins of the manor, where she and Sebastian share a kiss that she breaks due to it not feeling "right". This causes Sebastian to act aggressively towards her, sending off warning signals in Clary's mind. He eventually informs Clary that Simon is in jail in an attempt to drive a further wedge between her and Jace.
Clary returns to Amatis's house where Jace is waiting for her. He apologizes to her for his harsh words, but the two still fight violently about him not telling her about Simon held hostage. After they manage to calm down, they eventually travel (through a portal Clary made) to Wayland manor. It’s here they discover the remains of an experiment Valentine had been running on a half-dead angel. They learn through the angel that Jace has been given demon blood when he was a child. The two barely make it out of the house alive when it begins to explode and while lying on the ground together afterward, they end up entwined. Clary stops when things begin to go too far, accusing Jace of using her so he can hate himself as he says he blames his demon blood for his incestuous feelings for her. The two return to find Alicante in flames and under attack from demon hordes. It ends up being a battle to the death for many Shadowhunters and all involved are left reeling.
Clary gives the spellbook to Magnus so he can wake up her mother. Then Jace, Clary, and Alec leave to break Simon out of jail where Simon is kept along with Samuel. They find out that Samuel is actually Hodge, the previous keeper of the Institute. He informs them that the mirror, the last of the Mortal Instruments, is actually the Lake Lyn. Hodge is then killed by Sebastian, who claims that he did it to keep them out of danger. This causes the three to realize that Sebastian is a spy for Valentine, who then flees after a battle with them. They return to the Hall, to hear the news that Sebastian has killed Max. After Max's funeral, Jace sneaks into Clary's bedroom and tells her he loves her and always will. The two then fall asleep on her bed together, holding hands. The following morning, Jace leaves a note behind for Clary to find (along with his family's ring telling her in the note that he wants her to keep it) and sneaks off to find Sebastian.
Clary manages to convince the Clave to fight with the Downworlders and teaches them a binding rune that the dying angel showed her. It is during this time that she discovers after talking with her mother, who had finally awaken from her coma by Magnus, that she had received angel’s blood while in her mother’s womb and that Jace is actually the son of Stephen Herondale, meaning they are not siblings after all and Sebastian is actually Clary's brother. Clary continues with her binding rune, then marks Simon with the Mark of Cain, a powerful protection spell, with the intent of saving him from Raphael. Clary then portals to Lake Lyn to stop Valentine from summoning Raziel, only for Valentine to capture her before using a spell to paralyze her body and voice. He then reveals to her his intent of using her as a sacrifice to complete his plan. When Jace arrives to rescue her moments before Valentine is about to slash Clary's throat, he fights Valentine who instead uses Jace's blood for the sacrifice, fatally stabbing him, and successfully summoning the angel. However Clary manages to put her name on the Binding runes instead of her father's, Raziel sees through Valentine's schemes and kills him. When Raziel offers to grant Clary one wish, Clary asks for Jace to come back to life. Raziel then fulfills Clary’s wish.
[character abilities]: Clary spent the vast majority of her life thinking she was an ordinary and boring human. It's throughout the books that she discovers that she had been born a Shadowhunter, one of the nephilim. Her mother, a runaway, had spirited her out of Idris at a young age and wiped her memories simply to keep her safe. She'd wanted Clary to grow up "normal" but Clary could see things that other people couldn't, could fight against the incantation placed on her young mind. She could peel back the glamours placed on her world and see something "other". In this case, it would be snatches of images from the Downworlder world. Faeries in the backyard, the boy in Pandemonium. Clary also has the inate nephilim abilities: superhuman strength, agility, stamina and coordination, though she has to train to get the hang of them as Shadowhunters are supposed to have been trained from early ages. Her fighting skills are not as powerful as Jace or Alec or Isabelle, but throughout the books we see she's able to hold her own against demons, as though tapping into the power under her skin. Anything can be a weapon to the Shadowhunters, so we see a cleverness, a thing that needs quick thinking and the ability to act on the spot.
Clary is part angel. Her father, Valentine, fed her pregnant mother the blood of the angel Ithuriel whom he kept captive under the Manor in which they lived. It's been said this was to defeat Jocelyn's depression after he poisoned her first born with the blood of a demon. He had no idea she'd been pregnant a second time. This has led Clary to have her own unique power over magical runes. Runes to the Shadowhunters are markings given to them by the angel Raziel to assist them in fighting demons. The runes range from anything to the wearer being soundless or to be healed of injury. Clary is able to see runes she's never encountered before - in a sort of vision state, they come to her and if she doesn't know exactly what they do, she gets a sense of what they can achieve. Her power is one pretty much unmatched. She's able to create runes even the people who have know this their whole life have never seen before. Such as the Alliance rune. In City of Glass, she creates this rune to join Shadowhunters to another downworlder to share each other's powers and help fight against Valentine's army. She was also able to create a rune that made the bearer fearless which she used on Alec Lightwood for the first time. We also see how strong her power is when she brands her best friend Simon with the Mark of Cain, a mark which shocks people as only those of heaven should be able to impart a mark of heaven.
Clary is also able to use a stele - the Shadowhunter weapon of choice. They must be summoned, and can be used to draw the marks the Shadowhunters wear. They are crafted with adamas by the Iron Sisters and vary in design. Clary uses her mother's and it can be given the form of a weapon.
[character personality]: Clary's main characteristic is her ability to love. Throughout the books that remains a constant. She would go to great and desperate lengths for the people she cares about; her mother, Simon, Jace. This willful urge to protect often gets her and the people around her into serious trouble but it's the one thing she doesn't temper down or try to change. It's a thing that defines her, the love and loyalty to those she holds dear. She tries to bring her mother back to her, and when she is given a choice of anything in the entire universe, she chooses for Jace to be returned to her, as though the idea of simply living without him is unbearable. This love is her strongest trait. It gives her courage. She's willing to walk into a nest full of vampires for her best friend despite how the outcome could hurt her.
But with that we also see her stubborn and willful side. Jace becomes her whole entire world throughout the books, a dependency that sticks even though she can take care of herself. Her emotions get the better of her most of the time, especially when her triggers are pushed. She is passionate and rash, jumping into things when her safety net is threatened. In the last book we see that her passion can sometimes consume her, that when she's with a Jace who is possessed, she struggles with keeping her thoughts clear and on track, because it's everything she's ever wanted, to have him all to herself. She tries to keep a clear-head, she tries to be above her emotions sometimes, but she's still a teenage girl and it's obviously hard for her to be rational. She tends to act first - which we see from the various points where she keeps information from the "adult" figures of the book in case it jeopardizes the plans she and her friends have concocted. Her sense of responsibility is an immense thing, she blames herself for what happens to the people around her.
She finds it hard to let go. Even when she "discovers" that Jace is her brother, she can't seem to get over it and become just friends with him. She constantly fights with herself on the issue, torn between wanting and knowing that she shouldn't. She gets angry when he tries to put a gap between them, acting on her own stubborn streak and doing what she thinks is best even though she doesn't have the first clue of the Shadowhunter world. It gets her hurt (portaling into Lake Lyn instead of Alicante) but it doesn't change the way she behaves when she thinks she's being put down for being a child, or for growing up a mundane, or just whenever someone thinks they know more than she does.
Despite how she reacts to the Clave, Clary does have a sense of justice that seems deep seated in herself. She rallies against the motto the law is hard but it is the law, but she is not above anger herself. Clary's sense is very black and white, good versus evil, in a way that she would find it difficult to forgive someone who acted cruelly and maliciously within their own frame of mind. Her reactions to Sebastian, her hatred and her disgust are pure things, suggesting that she has a little bit of naivety in her. Although, as time progresses, Clary seems to lose that particular trait a little - especially when it concerns who she loves. She goes to the Seelie Queen to try and bargain for a way to get Jace back. The distrust and dislike of the Faerie Queen isn't something any of the characters hide, but because Clary is desperate and in need of any way to get the love of her life back, she swallows down her own sense of right and wrong to get a result.
Even with this, Clary is naturally trusting. She would rather see the good in someone than the bad. She tends to be encouraging and believing of the people around her more often than not. People deserve second chances. This doesn't mean that anyone within her inner circle is beyond reproach though. Clary is feisty, she is happy to argue with Jace when she thinks he's being stupid, when he takes risks. She can fight with him over the important things while letting the little ones slide.
Her sense of humour is also another point of her characterisation that needs to be mentioned. She jokes like any teenage girl would, pop culture references and the varying hints of sarcasm. It's all very light hearted, a back and forth between the people she's comfortable with that makes her come across as friendly and cute.
[point in timeline you're picking your character from]: End of City of Glass.
[journal post]: [ The deities remind her of the Clave, in some ways. They feel like the same all-powerful organisation hellbent on passing down their laws and rulings without any thought on what it would do to those on the grounds. But Clary prefers things "on the ground", she likes seeing everything at a normal level. Which is why she's on the network today, hair pulled up into a messy bun and secured there by a paint brush. ]
Day three of being uncursed and I can't help feeling we're stuck in one of those nature documentaries. You know the ones with the hushed narration and the tense music in the background because the lion is stalking the innocent lamb -- oh god, I can't believe I just made that metaphor. I think the ticking's making me crazy.
Well, more crazy.
[ A huff as she's blowing her hair out of her face and smiling again. If Jace were here, he'd distract her with a glib joke about how his life should have a documentary based on it. If Jace were here she wouldn't feel so lonely. ] Anyway, I wanted to know if anyone would let me draw them? Or paint them? Or even do one of those weird caricatures you find on the streets. I need to stretch my artistic side and it'll stop me thinking about what's coming next. Whether I'm going to wake up with a balloon head tomorrow or not. And it'd help me get to know people better too, I guess? Any takers.?
[third person / log sample]: It's strange to think that this time last year, Clary had been like any young teenager. Obsessed with music, video games, anime, anything that people threw themselves into because their identities hadn't been formed yet. Anything that had interested her and Simon, sci-fi marathons and new bands and coffee shops with new flavours. This time last year and it had just been her and her mom and best friend. There were no monsters, no nightmares, no Jace.
She thinks about Jace often, more than she should maybe, but it's hard not to. The boy she loved, the boy who could have been her brother, the boy who's stolen her heart and her thoughts. The City is so full of diverse people, characters from stories and fairy tales, magical and mysterious people, and yet Clary thinks about him the most. What he'd think, how he'd react to this kind of place. She has to laugh to herself, knowing Jace he'd cause the biggest fight known to man here and then blame it on the other guy. He has a stubborn streak a mile long, but she thinks that's okay too, they match. Like two roughly cut off pieces that make a perfect whole. She imagines them both being here together, and the mischief they could get up to, the things they could find out and work through. The library, the zoo, the little nooks and crannies of an impossible place to explore.
Her throat closes painfully, pencil stilling on the page and her thoughts caught with everything they've gone through recently. The angel had brought him back and then Clary had wound up here, too far away from the one person she wanted to see and unreachable. Her drawings are all of him, half formed and still wrong no matter how much effort she puts in. She just can't seem to get his face right, to capture the Jace-ness of him in paper and pencil. She wonders if that's because he's so much more than a beautiful face, fluid in motion, a warrior with a heart of pure gold.
She knows the Nephilim are part angel but she would have imagined Jace being sent from heaven anyway.
Sighing, she packs up her sketchpad, tucks the pencils neatly into her case and leans back against the window pane. The City stretches out in front of her and she thinks of the curses and the people below, the worlds they've seen. As much as she wants to mope, to mourn her lost chance at love, she can't let the days pass by without at least trying. It's an adventure, and how many times has she craved one of those? How many times had she wished for excitement before her real life had come about?
She can't miss this.
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[series]: The Mortal Instruments
[character]: Clary Fray (Clarissa Adele Morgenstern/Fairchild)
[character history / background]: → ( City of Bones ) Clary is a young girl at the beginning of the series. She goes to a club with her best friend where she witnesses the murder of a demon in her local club. Nobody else seems to notice and she wonders if perhaps she’s going crazy. She continues to run into Jace - the "murderer" - but still no one can see him. He offers to explain to her by introducing her to his tutor, but before Clary can agree she receives a distress call from her mother. Clary, ignoring her mother's command not to return home, rushes back only to be attacked by a Ravener demon. She defeats the demon but injures herself in the process, leaving Jace to find her and take her back to the Institute. Clary wakes up and meets Hodge and Jace's adoptive siblings. This new world seems strange to her, but fascinating, and he seems to be the one port in a wild storm that she can trust.
The fact that she can see Shadowhunter world still remains a problem, so Hodge enlists one of the Silent Brothers to look into her mind and find out why she can see things, why she can see them. Brother Jeremiah finds a block on Clary's mind, something that keeps her very early memories sealed from her. Even when the Silent Brothers can't break the wall, Clary starts to see flashes of information, leading her to the warlock Magnus Bane. Magnus reveals that when Clary was a child her mother realised that she could see the monsters of her old world and enlisted Magnus to help cover them up. She never wanted Clary to be a part of this and hated that she might not have been able to protect her from it. Magnus tells them that removing the block would be too difficult, but now Clary is aware of the truth it would probably come back to her over time.
Clary then discovers her best friend is missing and with Jace's help, breaks into the Hotel Dumont to rescue him. They end up fighting for their lives, rescued by a group of werewolves who claim they want Clary in return. She, Jace and Simon escape in the midst of the fight. Clary, who’s mother is still missing, stays at the Institute. She turns sixteen and grows closer to Jace. This leads to Simon revealing his feelings for her. Later, to calm herself down, she ends up using her favourite pastime - her passion for drawing. It's then that she discovers where the Mortal Cup is, something her mother had apparently hidden (and could possibly be why they were attacked), and she and her four friends go to find it. It’s one of the many instruments that Shadowhunters have come from, part of their immense mythological background, and they know she needs to find it. They are attacked by a Greater Demon leaving Alec injured and in the care of Magnus. Clary and Jace take the Cup back to Hodge who then turns out to be working for a man named Valentine. Jace gets kidnapped, to be taken back to his “father”, and Clary goes to take out Hodge, only to get knocked unconscious in the process. She awakes later to discover her paternal figure and friend Luke is a werewolf, had known her mother long before she escaped. Clary finds out through this that Valentine is her biological father, that even though he "died" during the Uprising, he is here now and has Jace. During the attack on Valentine's lair, Clary and Luke get inside to Valentine and Jace. Valentine reveals that he is both Clary and Jace's father making them siblings and their budding attraction incestuous. Luke fights Valentine, along with Jace's help, but he escapes to the Shadowhunter capital, Idris, where he has now hidden the Mortal Cup. With this he plans to use the other Mortal Instruments to make an army of "pure" Shadowhunters and wage war once again on the Downworlders and anyone who oppose him.
→ ( City of Ashes ) Because her mother is still in the hospital and has yet to wake up, Clary is now living at Luke's house. Her emotions are further tangled when Simon abruptly kisses her one day at his house and begins calling her his girlfriend. She is still reeling from the knowledge that the person she really wants is actually her brother, trying to get over him and attempts to be the girlfriend Simon would like even though she doesn’t feel it.
Clary receives a text message from Isabelle; Jace has angered the Inquisitor of the Clave and has been imprisoned in the Silent City. They believe he is working with Valentine, but she knows the truth, knows he had no idea. Clary, Isabelle, and Alec then respond to a distress call with the City only to discover the slaying of the Silent Brothers. They find out that Valentine is responsible and has taken the Soul Sword, the second of the Mortal Instruments for himself in his bid to make his new race of Shadowhunters. Clary frees Jace, only for the Inquisitor to appear and accuse Jace of going along with the plan, as the sword was the only way to prove his guilt or innocence.
Magnus offers to keep Jace as a prisoner in his apartment, where he and the others try to figure out Valentine's potential plans. In order to prove Jace's innocence they all go to the Fairy Realm. However, Clary is tricked into consuming faerie food, and is only allowed to leave by kissing "whom she most desires". At first Simon offers to kiss her, however Clary is forced instead to kiss Jace in order to gain her freedom. He is what her heart wants and the Faerie Queen knows that. Clary later argues with Jace over their obvious feelings for each other despite being siblings. Jace suggests keeping the relationship a secret, to which Clary replies that it would eventually be discovered anyway and is unwilling to lie to their friends and family.
Later Raphael shows up with Simon, who has been almost completely drained of his own blood and fed vampire blood. As the only way left to save him, Simon is transformed into a vampire. While discussing how to potentially tell Simon's mother about his new undead status, Maia is brought into the house with wounds too severe for Luke to treat. Magnus is brought to heal Maia while Jace, Simon, and Clary battle demons outside the house. Jace and Clary later go after the demons to finish them off, where Valentine offers protection for his friends if Jace joins him and comes back to Idris.
After Maia's kidnapping, Clary and Jace launch an attack on Valentines known whereabouts. She confronts him on the boat and after being kidnapped by one of his demons and brought to him, she fights, but falls in the water and is saved by nixies the Fairy Queen sent to help. It’s here that she uses a rune to blow apart the boat he’s using, further proving her power. The group escapes and after a talk with Luke about love and his regrets of not telling Clary's mother how he felt about her, Clary attempts to tell Jace of her feelings for him and her sudden change of mind to start a relationship needless of its consequences. However, before she can say anything, he tells her that he will only act as her brother from then on, breaking her heart. As Clary reels from this, she's then informed by a woman named Madeline that she knows how to wake her mother.
→ ( City of Glass ) Just before Jace and Clary are to leave for the city of Alicante, Jace lies to Clary in the hopes of tricking her into staying for the sake of her own safety. He asks Simon to meet him at the Institute to back him up but they are attacked and forced to portal through for safety. Clary discovers that they've gone and there's no way for her to get there. Without thinking, she draws the rune of a portal and aims to go through it, Luke grabbing on to her as they're pulled in. Because she has no idea where to “aim” for, they end up in Lake Lyn, causing Clary to accidentally swallow some of the water and to hallucinate and sicken. Luke carries her to his sister Amatis’ house and asks her to stay there.
She eventually sneaks away to find the others, only to find Jace and Aline kissing. This causes a fight between the two where Jace yells at Clary in order to drive her away and get her to return home. Clary leaves, heartbroken. Sebastian later catches up with her to help her with her plan to help her mother as she feels no one else will. The two go to Ragnor Fell's house the next day, where she is shocked to discover that Ragnor has been killed by demons and that Magnus is there in his place. He informs Clary that she must gain a spellbook disguised as a cookbook in the Wayland country home. She then travels to the ruins of the manor, where she and Sebastian share a kiss that she breaks due to it not feeling "right". This causes Sebastian to act aggressively towards her, sending off warning signals in Clary's mind. He eventually informs Clary that Simon is in jail in an attempt to drive a further wedge between her and Jace.
Clary returns to Amatis's house where Jace is waiting for her. He apologizes to her for his harsh words, but the two still fight violently about him not telling her about Simon held hostage. After they manage to calm down, they eventually travel (through a portal Clary made) to Wayland manor. It’s here they discover the remains of an experiment Valentine had been running on a half-dead angel. They learn through the angel that Jace has been given demon blood when he was a child. The two barely make it out of the house alive when it begins to explode and while lying on the ground together afterward, they end up entwined. Clary stops when things begin to go too far, accusing Jace of using her so he can hate himself as he says he blames his demon blood for his incestuous feelings for her. The two return to find Alicante in flames and under attack from demon hordes. It ends up being a battle to the death for many Shadowhunters and all involved are left reeling.
Clary gives the spellbook to Magnus so he can wake up her mother. Then Jace, Clary, and Alec leave to break Simon out of jail where Simon is kept along with Samuel. They find out that Samuel is actually Hodge, the previous keeper of the Institute. He informs them that the mirror, the last of the Mortal Instruments, is actually the Lake Lyn. Hodge is then killed by Sebastian, who claims that he did it to keep them out of danger. This causes the three to realize that Sebastian is a spy for Valentine, who then flees after a battle with them. They return to the Hall, to hear the news that Sebastian has killed Max. After Max's funeral, Jace sneaks into Clary's bedroom and tells her he loves her and always will. The two then fall asleep on her bed together, holding hands. The following morning, Jace leaves a note behind for Clary to find (along with his family's ring telling her in the note that he wants her to keep it) and sneaks off to find Sebastian.
Clary manages to convince the Clave to fight with the Downworlders and teaches them a binding rune that the dying angel showed her. It is during this time that she discovers after talking with her mother, who had finally awaken from her coma by Magnus, that she had received angel’s blood while in her mother’s womb and that Jace is actually the son of Stephen Herondale, meaning they are not siblings after all and Sebastian is actually Clary's brother. Clary continues with her binding rune, then marks Simon with the Mark of Cain, a powerful protection spell, with the intent of saving him from Raphael. Clary then portals to Lake Lyn to stop Valentine from summoning Raziel, only for Valentine to capture her before using a spell to paralyze her body and voice. He then reveals to her his intent of using her as a sacrifice to complete his plan. When Jace arrives to rescue her moments before Valentine is about to slash Clary's throat, he fights Valentine who instead uses Jace's blood for the sacrifice, fatally stabbing him, and successfully summoning the angel. However Clary manages to put her name on the Binding runes instead of her father's, Raziel sees through Valentine's schemes and kills him. When Raziel offers to grant Clary one wish, Clary asks for Jace to come back to life. Raziel then fulfills Clary’s wish.
[character abilities]: Clary spent the vast majority of her life thinking she was an ordinary and boring human. It's throughout the books that she discovers that she had been born a Shadowhunter, one of the nephilim. Her mother, a runaway, had spirited her out of Idris at a young age and wiped her memories simply to keep her safe. She'd wanted Clary to grow up "normal" but Clary could see things that other people couldn't, could fight against the incantation placed on her young mind. She could peel back the glamours placed on her world and see something "other". In this case, it would be snatches of images from the Downworlder world. Faeries in the backyard, the boy in Pandemonium. Clary also has the inate nephilim abilities: superhuman strength, agility, stamina and coordination, though she has to train to get the hang of them as Shadowhunters are supposed to have been trained from early ages. Her fighting skills are not as powerful as Jace or Alec or Isabelle, but throughout the books we see she's able to hold her own against demons, as though tapping into the power under her skin. Anything can be a weapon to the Shadowhunters, so we see a cleverness, a thing that needs quick thinking and the ability to act on the spot.
Clary is part angel. Her father, Valentine, fed her pregnant mother the blood of the angel Ithuriel whom he kept captive under the Manor in which they lived. It's been said this was to defeat Jocelyn's depression after he poisoned her first born with the blood of a demon. He had no idea she'd been pregnant a second time. This has led Clary to have her own unique power over magical runes. Runes to the Shadowhunters are markings given to them by the angel Raziel to assist them in fighting demons. The runes range from anything to the wearer being soundless or to be healed of injury. Clary is able to see runes she's never encountered before - in a sort of vision state, they come to her and if she doesn't know exactly what they do, she gets a sense of what they can achieve. Her power is one pretty much unmatched. She's able to create runes even the people who have know this their whole life have never seen before. Such as the Alliance rune. In City of Glass, she creates this rune to join Shadowhunters to another downworlder to share each other's powers and help fight against Valentine's army. She was also able to create a rune that made the bearer fearless which she used on Alec Lightwood for the first time. We also see how strong her power is when she brands her best friend Simon with the Mark of Cain, a mark which shocks people as only those of heaven should be able to impart a mark of heaven.
Clary is also able to use a stele - the Shadowhunter weapon of choice. They must be summoned, and can be used to draw the marks the Shadowhunters wear. They are crafted with adamas by the Iron Sisters and vary in design. Clary uses her mother's and it can be given the form of a weapon.
[character personality]: Clary's main characteristic is her ability to love. Throughout the books that remains a constant. She would go to great and desperate lengths for the people she cares about; her mother, Simon, Jace. This willful urge to protect often gets her and the people around her into serious trouble but it's the one thing she doesn't temper down or try to change. It's a thing that defines her, the love and loyalty to those she holds dear. She tries to bring her mother back to her, and when she is given a choice of anything in the entire universe, she chooses for Jace to be returned to her, as though the idea of simply living without him is unbearable. This love is her strongest trait. It gives her courage. She's willing to walk into a nest full of vampires for her best friend despite how the outcome could hurt her.
But with that we also see her stubborn and willful side. Jace becomes her whole entire world throughout the books, a dependency that sticks even though she can take care of herself. Her emotions get the better of her most of the time, especially when her triggers are pushed. She is passionate and rash, jumping into things when her safety net is threatened. In the last book we see that her passion can sometimes consume her, that when she's with a Jace who is possessed, she struggles with keeping her thoughts clear and on track, because it's everything she's ever wanted, to have him all to herself. She tries to keep a clear-head, she tries to be above her emotions sometimes, but she's still a teenage girl and it's obviously hard for her to be rational. She tends to act first - which we see from the various points where she keeps information from the "adult" figures of the book in case it jeopardizes the plans she and her friends have concocted. Her sense of responsibility is an immense thing, she blames herself for what happens to the people around her.
She finds it hard to let go. Even when she "discovers" that Jace is her brother, she can't seem to get over it and become just friends with him. She constantly fights with herself on the issue, torn between wanting and knowing that she shouldn't. She gets angry when he tries to put a gap between them, acting on her own stubborn streak and doing what she thinks is best even though she doesn't have the first clue of the Shadowhunter world. It gets her hurt (portaling into Lake Lyn instead of Alicante) but it doesn't change the way she behaves when she thinks she's being put down for being a child, or for growing up a mundane, or just whenever someone thinks they know more than she does.
Despite how she reacts to the Clave, Clary does have a sense of justice that seems deep seated in herself. She rallies against the motto the law is hard but it is the law, but she is not above anger herself. Clary's sense is very black and white, good versus evil, in a way that she would find it difficult to forgive someone who acted cruelly and maliciously within their own frame of mind. Her reactions to Sebastian, her hatred and her disgust are pure things, suggesting that she has a little bit of naivety in her. Although, as time progresses, Clary seems to lose that particular trait a little - especially when it concerns who she loves. She goes to the Seelie Queen to try and bargain for a way to get Jace back. The distrust and dislike of the Faerie Queen isn't something any of the characters hide, but because Clary is desperate and in need of any way to get the love of her life back, she swallows down her own sense of right and wrong to get a result.
Even with this, Clary is naturally trusting. She would rather see the good in someone than the bad. She tends to be encouraging and believing of the people around her more often than not. People deserve second chances. This doesn't mean that anyone within her inner circle is beyond reproach though. Clary is feisty, she is happy to argue with Jace when she thinks he's being stupid, when he takes risks. She can fight with him over the important things while letting the little ones slide.
Her sense of humour is also another point of her characterisation that needs to be mentioned. She jokes like any teenage girl would, pop culture references and the varying hints of sarcasm. It's all very light hearted, a back and forth between the people she's comfortable with that makes her come across as friendly and cute.
[point in timeline you're picking your character from]: End of City of Glass.
[journal post]: [ The deities remind her of the Clave, in some ways. They feel like the same all-powerful organisation hellbent on passing down their laws and rulings without any thought on what it would do to those on the grounds. But Clary prefers things "on the ground", she likes seeing everything at a normal level. Which is why she's on the network today, hair pulled up into a messy bun and secured there by a paint brush. ]
Day three of being uncursed and I can't help feeling we're stuck in one of those nature documentaries. You know the ones with the hushed narration and the tense music in the background because the lion is stalking the innocent lamb -- oh god, I can't believe I just made that metaphor. I think the ticking's making me crazy.
Well, more crazy.
[ A huff as she's blowing her hair out of her face and smiling again. If Jace were here, he'd distract her with a glib joke about how his life should have a documentary based on it. If Jace were here she wouldn't feel so lonely. ] Anyway, I wanted to know if anyone would let me draw them? Or paint them? Or even do one of those weird caricatures you find on the streets. I need to stretch my artistic side and it'll stop me thinking about what's coming next. Whether I'm going to wake up with a balloon head tomorrow or not. And it'd help me get to know people better too, I guess? Any takers.?
[third person / log sample]: It's strange to think that this time last year, Clary had been like any young teenager. Obsessed with music, video games, anime, anything that people threw themselves into because their identities hadn't been formed yet. Anything that had interested her and Simon, sci-fi marathons and new bands and coffee shops with new flavours. This time last year and it had just been her and her mom and best friend. There were no monsters, no nightmares, no Jace.
She thinks about Jace often, more than she should maybe, but it's hard not to. The boy she loved, the boy who could have been her brother, the boy who's stolen her heart and her thoughts. The City is so full of diverse people, characters from stories and fairy tales, magical and mysterious people, and yet Clary thinks about him the most. What he'd think, how he'd react to this kind of place. She has to laugh to herself, knowing Jace he'd cause the biggest fight known to man here and then blame it on the other guy. He has a stubborn streak a mile long, but she thinks that's okay too, they match. Like two roughly cut off pieces that make a perfect whole. She imagines them both being here together, and the mischief they could get up to, the things they could find out and work through. The library, the zoo, the little nooks and crannies of an impossible place to explore.
Her throat closes painfully, pencil stilling on the page and her thoughts caught with everything they've gone through recently. The angel had brought him back and then Clary had wound up here, too far away from the one person she wanted to see and unreachable. Her drawings are all of him, half formed and still wrong no matter how much effort she puts in. She just can't seem to get his face right, to capture the Jace-ness of him in paper and pencil. She wonders if that's because he's so much more than a beautiful face, fluid in motion, a warrior with a heart of pure gold.
She knows the Nephilim are part angel but she would have imagined Jace being sent from heaven anyway.
Sighing, she packs up her sketchpad, tucks the pencils neatly into her case and leans back against the window pane. The City stretches out in front of her and she thinks of the curses and the people below, the worlds they've seen. As much as she wants to mope, to mourn her lost chance at love, she can't let the days pass by without at least trying. It's an adventure, and how many times has she craved one of those? How many times had she wished for excitement before her real life had come about?
She can't miss this.