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Character Name: Clarissa "Clary" Fray
Series: Shadowhunters
Timeline: End of Season One
Canon Resource Link: Here
Character History:
When Clary was born, her mother, Jocelyn Fairchild, had fled from her father, Valentine Morgenstern, and had gone into hiding in New York. Her mother was a Shadowhunter, part angel and tasked with protecting the human world from the demons of the Shadow World, and a member of the Circle, a rebellious group of Shadowhunters led by Valentine. Once she realized how sick and twisted her husband had really become, she and his best friend fell in love and betrayed him, and both went into hiding to protect Jocelyn’s unborn child.
In order to protect her daughter, Jocelyn changed their last name from Fairchild to Fray and kept her lineage and abilities from her. When Clary was attacked by a demon, her mother even went so far as to have a warlock named Magnus Bane wipe her memories.
However, her Shadowhunter abilities would start to manifest around her eighteenth birthday, the night when her life would change forever.
Clary’s life was headed down a pretty awesome route for a recent high school grad. She’d just been accepted into art academy when things quickly began to fall apart. She began to see people and things that others couldn’t, running into several Shadowhunters and Magnus Bane himself at a club on the night of her 18th birthday. She witnessed a fight and subsequent death of several demons, and after running home suitably freaked out, several men arrived at their home. Clary’s mother shoved Clary through a magical portal after putting a necklace around her neck and told her to find Luke, her father figure and local police officer.
Thus began a long journey of discovering herself, becoming part of an entirely new family, trying to save the world, and rescuing her mother.
When she spies on Luke apparently in league with the people that hurt her mother, Clary returns home again only to immediately be attacked by a demon. One of the shadowhunters from the club, Jace, saves her and brings her back to the Institute, one of the Shadowhunter strongholds. There, he inscribes her skin with her first rune, which heals the demonic poison in her veins from the attack.
Clary, just now discovering her true ancestry and the true identity of her father, begins to try and understand what it is to be a Shadowhunter, while her poor best friend, Simon, is dragged along with her. When he’s kidnapped by vampires, Clary is stubborn and adamant that they rescue him immediately, convincing Jace and having him bring along several of his friends as well, namely Alec and Isabelle Lightwood. It quickly becomes apparent that, when it comes to the people she loves, there aren’t very many things Clary isn’t willing to do, up to and including putting herself in mortal danger, and that she rarely takes no for an answer. While Shadowhunters live by a set of strict laws, Clary seems wild by comparison, breaking their rules left and right and following her emotions and moral judgements instead of their more logical structure.
Not surprisingly, this starts to get those she takes with her in trouble with their leadership, the Clave.
It becomes clear that most of the Shadow World, as well as Valentine himself, are searching for Clary, as they believe she is the only person who might know the location of the Mortal Cup, an object that can both control demons and create new Shadowhunters. After an altercation with the local werewolf pack, Luke arrives to save Clary, revealing himself to also be a werewolf, and becoming the new pack leader in the process after killing the previous alpha.
Clary’s life quickly turns into a race to save both her mother and try and find the Mortal Cup, which she believes she can use as a bargaining chip with Valentine to get her mother back. In order to try and stir Clary’s memories, Luke tells her about the past. While her memories don’t return, it does prompt her to discover a strange ability of her own in which she can hide objects in paper in the form of a drawing. This allows her to recall a specific tarot card of her mother’s, the Ace of Cups, on which a perfect replica of the Mortal Cup was drawn.
While trying to retrieve her mother’s deck of tarot cards from the police station, Clary starts ignoring calls from Simon, who is becoming increasingly sick and agitated. It’s also around this time that Clary and Jace confirm their feelings for one another, which they’ve been ignoring for the most part up until this point. It isn’t until after they finally get the cards back that they realize how dire Simon’s situation really is, and by then it’s too late. Not only does he believe he’s turning into a vampire, but his sire Camille has also murdered him, leaving Clary with only two options; either let him die a human, or bury him and have him return to life as a vampire.
Clary gives the Mortal Cup, still hidden inside the tarot card, to Alec for safe keeping in the Institute while she struggles with the decision of what to do about Simon. In the end, she wants to give Simon the chance that Luke was given, and promises to be by his side as he tries to transition into being a Downworlder, a part of the Shadow World. Simon initially refuses her help, which devastates Clary, but eventually they come to a sort of understanding, and they begin to try and rebuild their friendship.
Shortly thereafter, the Institute is attacked by a few of Valentine’s experiments, leaving everyone on high alert. When Isabelle’s Seelie romantic entanglement, Meliorn, is going to be sent away for intensive questioning, Clary decides to help and save him, after which he divulges that he can help Clary find her father, and thus the mother he’s holding captive in a sleeping spell she placed upon herself. The necklace that her mother gave her holds a portal shard, one that has let her see her mother when she holds it, but was originally part of a portal in another dimension. He offers to open a portal to this other dimension so that she can reunite the shard with this other portal, which should take her straight to her father.
Clary agrees easily and is transported to this alternate dimension where demons and Shadowhunters no longer exist. It quickly becomes confusing to her as she slips into this new life, gradually losing a hold on her real one, but eventually Jace joins her and, with Magnus’ help, find the portal and are sent to Valentine’s lair.
Unfortunately, it appears he’s already left, and instead they find Jace’s father, Michael Wayland, who he thought was dead, held captive in a locker. Clary quickly realizes that something is off, based on the information that Michael gives him, and when they go to confront Valentine and retrieve Clary’s mother, Michael asks for the cup to defend against the demons before he reveals himself to be Valentine in disguise, seemingly triumphant in tricking them.
However, the cup Clary gives him is a fake, and the escape with the true cup. But Valentine gives them some devastating information before he departs, telling Jace that Valentine is his real father, that he raised him while disguised as Michael Wayland, and that he and Clary are brother and sister. This obviously rocks their entire world, considering their romantic feelings for one another. In addition, Jace starts to believe that Valentine did something to him, raised him to be evil, and that there’s something wrong with him. Clary adamantly refuses to believe this, tries to convince him repeatedly that he’s a good person, but it’s clear that Jace doesn’t believe her as he starts to act more and more erratic.
Still, they need to find an antidote to the spell keeping their mother asleep, which they eventually acquire through Ragnor Fell, a warlock friend of Magnus Bane and Simon’s sire, Camille, who possesses and artifact called the Book of the White. It’s during the retrieval of this book that Valentine attacks again, and in order to save Clary and his friends, Jace agrees to leave with him.
Clary is positively devastated by this, but she knows that the only way to potentially stop Valentine and get Jace back is to wake her mother, which Magnus Bane is able to do with the Book of the White in his possession. Finally, Clary is reunited with her mother for the first time since her birthday, and it’s clear that they both have a lot of catching up to do.
Abilities/Special Powers:
Clary is tattooed with an assortment of Shadowhunter runes that give her various special enhancements when activated by a stele, a sort of magical wand that Shadowhunters use. Specifically, there are runes for healing, speed, enhanced sight (like binoculars), night-vision, and strength, among many others, though the ones mentioned are specifically mentioned in canon. Normal humans die when branded with these runes. Clary’s stele was given to her by her mother on her 18th birthday, though she didn’t know what it was at the time.
As a Shadowhunter, Clary is also capable of properly using special angel blades which only activate in the hands of someone with angelic blood. She usually carries around a smaller angel blade, which is slightly longer than a dagger.
Specific only to her and her mother, Clary can hide objects within drawings as well as retrieve them. They look like perfect 2D representations of the objects, though they are unreachable and unusable by anyone until properly retrieved.
Clary also has something called The Sight, which allows her to see past the magical glamours that hide the Shadow World from the human world. Without it, she would not be able to see any of the shadowhunters, downworlders, or demons that inhabit that world.
Third-Person Sample:
Clary had never hugged her mother so tightly in her entire life, and that was saying something.
She was aware that people were watching them, but she couldn’t bring herself to care in the slightly as she clung to her mother’s form, as if to reassure herself that this moment was actually happening, that her mom was solid in her arms, that she wasn’t just going to lose her in the next moment and be completely lost all over again. Instead, she could imagine that in this split second, everything was going to be okay.
Unfortunately, everything was far from okay, and there was no way to deny that, no matter how hard Clary tried to hide in this simple gesture. Jace was gone, ripped away from her by their father, thinking that he was some sort of evil person, when that was simply impossible. Simon was a vampire, still struggling with his bloodlust, and he’d been branded a traitor amongst the rest of his kind. And her mother…
...well, not everything was fine there, either. It was impossible to forget that she’d been lied to for her entire life, that her memories had been wiped, that she’d been left in the dark about the blood running through her veins. And while the words came out that it didn’t matter, that what was important was that they were together again, she still had to deal with the fact that she’d been left to deal with this alone.
Well, not entirely alone. She’d had Simon, but look how that had turned out.
No, she would have to talk to her Mom about this. Clary wouldn’t be able to move past it until she really understood where her Mom had been standing when she’d made all these decisions, no matter how much Luke had tried to make her understand already. She wanted to hear them come out of her mother’s own mouth, hear her apologize, and really try to accept what had happened, how she could have done this.
It wasn’t enough to just think she knew.
And she’d have to tell her about the son she thought was dead. The one she loved-
Her heart seized up in her chest, painfully and abruptly. What would her mother think? Clary didn’t blame herself, they hadn’t known, but imagining what others thought was horrible and exhausting in the same moment.
They hadn’t known, and yet she knew all too well why Jace had been avoiding her. Knowing the truth hadn’t changed anything, and it was confusing for both of them. And while Clary tried to acknowledge it, try to figure out what to do with it, it only made Jace angry and push her away.
But they couldn’t fix anything if they didn’t find him and put a stop to Valentine’s insanity, which brought them right back around to Jocelyn, the person that tied them all together.
Clary pulled back a bit, looking up at her Mom with wide eyes, the eyes of a girl who had to suddenly grow up way too fast, and all she could think about was that now that Mom was here, things would start to get better again.
She had to believe that.
First-Person Sample:
Alright, first of all, to those of you that aren’t totally crazy, my name’s Clary, and I’m new around here. [She’s aware that she’s not the only person here against their will, so they should probably work together. She’s screwed if she doesn’t make some allies or friends.] If someone could let me in on what exactly is going on around here, I’d really appreciate it.
Second of all, this isn’t the first time I’ve had to deal with this alternate-dimension thing. [She’s trying to sound ultra-confident about this, and she’s mostly successful, though there’s still a sense that she’s agitated and confused.] So whoever’s responsible for this? I’m not just going to sit around and take it. You can’t keep me here, not when the people I love need me.
And third, if you think giving me a bunch of free clothes and a nice room is going to make everything okay, you’re out of your mind. [Her attempt at being intimidating falls slightly short, considering she doesn’t even know who exactly she’s supposed to be addressing in regards to all this.] This is still kidnapping, no matter how you try to spin it. I’m not about to thank you and turn into some stockholm syndrome case.
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Character Name: Clarissa "Clary" Fray
Series: Shadowhunters
Timeline: End of Season One
Canon Resource Link: Here
Character History:
When Clary was born, her mother, Jocelyn Fairchild, had fled from her father, Valentine Morgenstern, and had gone into hiding in New York. Her mother was a Shadowhunter, part angel and tasked with protecting the human world from the demons of the Shadow World, and a member of the Circle, a rebellious group of Shadowhunters led by Valentine. Once she realized how sick and twisted her husband had really become, she and his best friend fell in love and betrayed him, and both went into hiding to protect Jocelyn’s unborn child.
In order to protect her daughter, Jocelyn changed their last name from Fairchild to Fray and kept her lineage and abilities from her. When Clary was attacked by a demon, her mother even went so far as to have a warlock named Magnus Bane wipe her memories.
However, her Shadowhunter abilities would start to manifest around her eighteenth birthday, the night when her life would change forever.
Clary’s life was headed down a pretty awesome route for a recent high school grad. She’d just been accepted into art academy when things quickly began to fall apart. She began to see people and things that others couldn’t, running into several Shadowhunters and Magnus Bane himself at a club on the night of her 18th birthday. She witnessed a fight and subsequent death of several demons, and after running home suitably freaked out, several men arrived at their home. Clary’s mother shoved Clary through a magical portal after putting a necklace around her neck and told her to find Luke, her father figure and local police officer.
Thus began a long journey of discovering herself, becoming part of an entirely new family, trying to save the world, and rescuing her mother.
When she spies on Luke apparently in league with the people that hurt her mother, Clary returns home again only to immediately be attacked by a demon. One of the shadowhunters from the club, Jace, saves her and brings her back to the Institute, one of the Shadowhunter strongholds. There, he inscribes her skin with her first rune, which heals the demonic poison in her veins from the attack.
Clary, just now discovering her true ancestry and the true identity of her father, begins to try and understand what it is to be a Shadowhunter, while her poor best friend, Simon, is dragged along with her. When he’s kidnapped by vampires, Clary is stubborn and adamant that they rescue him immediately, convincing Jace and having him bring along several of his friends as well, namely Alec and Isabelle Lightwood. It quickly becomes apparent that, when it comes to the people she loves, there aren’t very many things Clary isn’t willing to do, up to and including putting herself in mortal danger, and that she rarely takes no for an answer. While Shadowhunters live by a set of strict laws, Clary seems wild by comparison, breaking their rules left and right and following her emotions and moral judgements instead of their more logical structure.
Not surprisingly, this starts to get those she takes with her in trouble with their leadership, the Clave.
It becomes clear that most of the Shadow World, as well as Valentine himself, are searching for Clary, as they believe she is the only person who might know the location of the Mortal Cup, an object that can both control demons and create new Shadowhunters. After an altercation with the local werewolf pack, Luke arrives to save Clary, revealing himself to also be a werewolf, and becoming the new pack leader in the process after killing the previous alpha.
Clary’s life quickly turns into a race to save both her mother and try and find the Mortal Cup, which she believes she can use as a bargaining chip with Valentine to get her mother back. In order to try and stir Clary’s memories, Luke tells her about the past. While her memories don’t return, it does prompt her to discover a strange ability of her own in which she can hide objects in paper in the form of a drawing. This allows her to recall a specific tarot card of her mother’s, the Ace of Cups, on which a perfect replica of the Mortal Cup was drawn.
While trying to retrieve her mother’s deck of tarot cards from the police station, Clary starts ignoring calls from Simon, who is becoming increasingly sick and agitated. It’s also around this time that Clary and Jace confirm their feelings for one another, which they’ve been ignoring for the most part up until this point. It isn’t until after they finally get the cards back that they realize how dire Simon’s situation really is, and by then it’s too late. Not only does he believe he’s turning into a vampire, but his sire Camille has also murdered him, leaving Clary with only two options; either let him die a human, or bury him and have him return to life as a vampire.
Clary gives the Mortal Cup, still hidden inside the tarot card, to Alec for safe keeping in the Institute while she struggles with the decision of what to do about Simon. In the end, she wants to give Simon the chance that Luke was given, and promises to be by his side as he tries to transition into being a Downworlder, a part of the Shadow World. Simon initially refuses her help, which devastates Clary, but eventually they come to a sort of understanding, and they begin to try and rebuild their friendship.
Shortly thereafter, the Institute is attacked by a few of Valentine’s experiments, leaving everyone on high alert. When Isabelle’s Seelie romantic entanglement, Meliorn, is going to be sent away for intensive questioning, Clary decides to help and save him, after which he divulges that he can help Clary find her father, and thus the mother he’s holding captive in a sleeping spell she placed upon herself. The necklace that her mother gave her holds a portal shard, one that has let her see her mother when she holds it, but was originally part of a portal in another dimension. He offers to open a portal to this other dimension so that she can reunite the shard with this other portal, which should take her straight to her father.
Clary agrees easily and is transported to this alternate dimension where demons and Shadowhunters no longer exist. It quickly becomes confusing to her as she slips into this new life, gradually losing a hold on her real one, but eventually Jace joins her and, with Magnus’ help, find the portal and are sent to Valentine’s lair.
Unfortunately, it appears he’s already left, and instead they find Jace’s father, Michael Wayland, who he thought was dead, held captive in a locker. Clary quickly realizes that something is off, based on the information that Michael gives him, and when they go to confront Valentine and retrieve Clary’s mother, Michael asks for the cup to defend against the demons before he reveals himself to be Valentine in disguise, seemingly triumphant in tricking them.
However, the cup Clary gives him is a fake, and the escape with the true cup. But Valentine gives them some devastating information before he departs, telling Jace that Valentine is his real father, that he raised him while disguised as Michael Wayland, and that he and Clary are brother and sister. This obviously rocks their entire world, considering their romantic feelings for one another. In addition, Jace starts to believe that Valentine did something to him, raised him to be evil, and that there’s something wrong with him. Clary adamantly refuses to believe this, tries to convince him repeatedly that he’s a good person, but it’s clear that Jace doesn’t believe her as he starts to act more and more erratic.
Still, they need to find an antidote to the spell keeping their mother asleep, which they eventually acquire through Ragnor Fell, a warlock friend of Magnus Bane and Simon’s sire, Camille, who possesses and artifact called the Book of the White. It’s during the retrieval of this book that Valentine attacks again, and in order to save Clary and his friends, Jace agrees to leave with him.
Clary is positively devastated by this, but she knows that the only way to potentially stop Valentine and get Jace back is to wake her mother, which Magnus Bane is able to do with the Book of the White in his possession. Finally, Clary is reunited with her mother for the first time since her birthday, and it’s clear that they both have a lot of catching up to do.
Abilities/Special Powers:
Clary is tattooed with an assortment of Shadowhunter runes that give her various special enhancements when activated by a stele, a sort of magical wand that Shadowhunters use. Specifically, there are runes for healing, speed, enhanced sight (like binoculars), night-vision, and strength, among many others, though the ones mentioned are specifically mentioned in canon. Normal humans die when branded with these runes. Clary’s stele was given to her by her mother on her 18th birthday, though she didn’t know what it was at the time.
As a Shadowhunter, Clary is also capable of properly using special angel blades which only activate in the hands of someone with angelic blood. She usually carries around a smaller angel blade, which is slightly longer than a dagger.
Specific only to her and her mother, Clary can hide objects within drawings as well as retrieve them. They look like perfect 2D representations of the objects, though they are unreachable and unusable by anyone until properly retrieved.
Clary also has something called The Sight, which allows her to see past the magical glamours that hide the Shadow World from the human world. Without it, she would not be able to see any of the shadowhunters, downworlders, or demons that inhabit that world.
Third-Person Sample:
Clary had never hugged her mother so tightly in her entire life, and that was saying something.
She was aware that people were watching them, but she couldn’t bring herself to care in the slightly as she clung to her mother’s form, as if to reassure herself that this moment was actually happening, that her mom was solid in her arms, that she wasn’t just going to lose her in the next moment and be completely lost all over again. Instead, she could imagine that in this split second, everything was going to be okay.
Unfortunately, everything was far from okay, and there was no way to deny that, no matter how hard Clary tried to hide in this simple gesture. Jace was gone, ripped away from her by their father, thinking that he was some sort of evil person, when that was simply impossible. Simon was a vampire, still struggling with his bloodlust, and he’d been branded a traitor amongst the rest of his kind. And her mother…
...well, not everything was fine there, either. It was impossible to forget that she’d been lied to for her entire life, that her memories had been wiped, that she’d been left in the dark about the blood running through her veins. And while the words came out that it didn’t matter, that what was important was that they were together again, she still had to deal with the fact that she’d been left to deal with this alone.
Well, not entirely alone. She’d had Simon, but look how that had turned out.
No, she would have to talk to her Mom about this. Clary wouldn’t be able to move past it until she really understood where her Mom had been standing when she’d made all these decisions, no matter how much Luke had tried to make her understand already. She wanted to hear them come out of her mother’s own mouth, hear her apologize, and really try to accept what had happened, how she could have done this.
It wasn’t enough to just think she knew.
And she’d have to tell her about the son she thought was dead. The one she loved-
Her heart seized up in her chest, painfully and abruptly. What would her mother think? Clary didn’t blame herself, they hadn’t known, but imagining what others thought was horrible and exhausting in the same moment.
They hadn’t known, and yet she knew all too well why Jace had been avoiding her. Knowing the truth hadn’t changed anything, and it was confusing for both of them. And while Clary tried to acknowledge it, try to figure out what to do with it, it only made Jace angry and push her away.
But they couldn’t fix anything if they didn’t find him and put a stop to Valentine’s insanity, which brought them right back around to Jocelyn, the person that tied them all together.
Clary pulled back a bit, looking up at her Mom with wide eyes, the eyes of a girl who had to suddenly grow up way too fast, and all she could think about was that now that Mom was here, things would start to get better again.
She had to believe that.
First-Person Sample:
Alright, first of all, to those of you that aren’t totally crazy, my name’s Clary, and I’m new around here. [She’s aware that she’s not the only person here against their will, so they should probably work together. She’s screwed if she doesn’t make some allies or friends.] If someone could let me in on what exactly is going on around here, I’d really appreciate it.
Second of all, this isn’t the first time I’ve had to deal with this alternate-dimension thing. [She’s trying to sound ultra-confident about this, and she’s mostly successful, though there’s still a sense that she’s agitated and confused.] So whoever’s responsible for this? I’m not just going to sit around and take it. You can’t keep me here, not when the people I love need me.
And third, if you think giving me a bunch of free clothes and a nice room is going to make everything okay, you’re out of your mind. [Her attempt at being intimidating falls slightly short, considering she doesn’t even know who exactly she’s supposed to be addressing in regards to all this.] This is still kidnapping, no matter how you try to spin it. I’m not about to thank you and turn into some stockholm syndrome case.
