Jem Carstairs

James "Jem" Carstairs (November 8, 1860) is the son of Jonah Carstairs and Ke Wen Yu, the second husband of Tessa Gray, a distant relative of Emma Carstairs, one of the protagonists of The Infernal Devices and a supporting character in The Mortal Instruments',' both books by Cassandra Clare.
Jem was born in Shanghai, China to Shadowhunters Jonah Carstairs (who was British) and Ke Wen Yu (who was Chinese) and was raised in the Shanghai Institute. When Jem was twelve, a Greater Demon named Yanluo broke into the Institute and killed Jonah and Ke in vengeance for Ke destroying its nest and also tortured Jem by poisoning him with a demon drug called yin fen. By the time the Shanghai Enclave arrived, Yanluo had escaped and Jem had become addicted to yin fen. After being rescued, Jem discovered that his independence on the drug could not be cured and had to keep taking it in order to continue to survive but it would give him a slow death.
Jem eventually was sent to live in the London Institute where he was cared for by its head Charlotte Branwell and also met her husband Henry and the other wards Will Herondale and Jessamine Lovelace. Will (who believed that he was cursed to cause death to those he loved) tried to stop Jem from befriending him but it didn't work and soon learned of Jem's illness. The two boys trained together and eventually became parabatai.
In 1878, Jem (now 17) met and befriended a 16-year-old half Shadowhunter/half Demon named Tessa Gray and eventually fell in love with her and proposed, which she excepted. But on the run-up to their wedding, Jem fell ill after ran out of yin fen and couldn't get anymore (due to their enemy The Magister buying it all). But luckily, Jem found a way to stop dying from his illness which was to become a Silent Brother and so he did and changed his name to Brother Zachariah, but because of this, Jem had to end his engagement with Tessa as Silent Brothers cannot marry. But the two met with each other on Blackfrier's Bridge in London once a year.
However in 2007, after being a Silent Brother for 129 years, Jem was finally cured off his illness when the yin fen in him was burned away by the heavenly fire in Will's descendant Jace Lightwood and became mortal once again. He eventually rekindled his relationship with Tessa and they eventually married at Blackfrier's Bridge.
==Appearance==
Due to his illness, Jem's hair and eyes were silver, but when cured of the illness, his hair became black, although with a silver streak remaining. His eyes also changed back to being dark brown with golden flecks once cured. Jem is approximately 5'11/180cm.
==Gallery==
imagetidjatobbi1878.jpg|Jem and Tessa at Blackfriars Bridge in 1878 
imagetidjatibbi2008.jpg|Jem and Tessa at Blackfriars Bridge in 2008
==Trivia==
*Of the two parabatai, Jem was the oldest being three months older than Will, of which he was also the tallest.
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