Jocelyn Fairchild

**Jocelyn Fairchild**, also known as **Jocelyn Fray or Jocelyn Morgenstern**, was the mother of Clary Fray and Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern, and estranged wife to Valentine Morgenstern.

Jocelyn was originally an active Shadowhunter and a member of the Circle with her husband, but she abandoned the cause when Valentine threatened her child's and her own safety. Jocelyn escaped the life of Shadowhunters to live a safe mundane life in New York with her daughter, Clary.

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## Biography

#### Early Life

Jocelyn Fairchild was born to Adele Nightshade and Granville Fairchild II. She grew up an only child in the Fairchild manor in Idris, where she developed a close friendship with Lucian Graymark, as well Lucian's older sisters, Amatis and Cleophas.

When they were old enough, she and Lucian went to Alicante to attend Shadowhunter Academy and complete their training. Jocelyn was a natural Shadowhunter.

### Valentine

When Valentine's father died, Jocelyn and Valentine grew closer. Soon after she turned eighteen, Valentine gifted her with a weapon as promise of future engagement and marriage, as is traditional in Shadowhunter culture. The weapon was a kindjal, one of a pair of blades made for them, Valentine wielding the second one, nicknamed Demon-biter. The pair got engaged soon after and married when she was eighteen, or nineteen, after school. Though her parents were still slightly disappointed that she opted to marry so early, everyone was still happy for her, as they thought Valentine was a good man.

The couple moved into her family's manor and lived happily for the first few years of their marriage. Circle meetings continued, and through it all, Valentine told Jocelyn that he needed her presence and opinions in the group; though she knew Valentine was merely flattering her. Eventually, she became pregnant, and both were thrilled. She was also apparently quite close to Hodge Starkweather.

Jocelyn stayed by her husband, believing that the Circle was working towards noble goal. She eventually came to see that Valentine's goals had become increasingly extremist, and that he and his comrades constantly broke the Accords in brutal acts against Downworlders.

### The Uprising

When Jocelyn started to realize she might not be safe, Jocelyn and Luke both tried to control the situation and help Valentine, but both were vehemently ignored. Their efforts brought them closer, and the pair fell in love. Though neither acted on their feelings because of their love for Valentine, Luke still felt that part of the reason Valentine's personality took a drastic turn was because he noticed their bond and suspected that they were having an affair and that he began experimenting, injecting himself with Downworlder blood, to earn Jocelyn's heart back.

In time, she and Valentine had a son, whom they named Jonathan Christopher. Unbeknownst to her, Valentine had given their unborn sons injections of demon blood through her womb. Jocelyn quickly saw the effects in her son even as an infant.

After the Uprising, Jocelyn finally acted against Valentine and took the stolen Mortal Cup while Luke confronted him. She disappeared from trace for a long while that even Luke thought she'd been killed. Valentine even went as far as burning down the Fairchild manor and leading her to believe that their son was dead. She took what remained of Jonathan's baby things and kept it in a box that had his initials, J.C., on it.

### Mundane Life

While on the run, she eventually gave birth to another child she'd conceived with Valentine before their falling out—a daughter, whom she named Clarissa—and she changed their last names to Fray. In doing so, she turned her back on the life of Shadowhunting to raise her daughter away from the dangers of their world. She and Luke were eventually reunited, and the pair remained friends and parts of each other's lives.

For eighteen years, Jocelyn was able to evade capture by the Circle. Still in hiding but finally settling down in New York, Jocelyn opened a store, Greenpoint Antiquities, and hired the warlock Dot as her assistant. As Clary grew older, Jocelyn realized that hiding her past from Clary may not be so easy with her seeing the Shadow World for what it was. After an incident with a water demon, she took the young Clary to the High Warlock of Brooklyn, Magnus Bane, and had him remove all memories of the Shadow World. She has since kept the secret from her, much to the disapproval of Magnus and Luke. She also concealed the identity of Clary's father, telling her that it was a man named Jonathan Clark.

Though it was at first difficult for her to accept the fact that Clary was a lesbian, she eventually came around and supported her daughter.

### Abduction

On Clary's 18th birthday, however, Jocelyn finally accepted that it would be more dangerous and unfair to Clary to keep hiding their past from her. She had planned to talk to her about it and got to give her a Fairchild stele before Clary left with her best friend, Simon, abruptly.

When Clary returned home from Magnus's club later that night, Jocelyn was distraught to hear that she encountered Shadowhunters and demons. Jocelyn tried to explain it to her, but Dot arrived to tell her that the Circle had finally caught up to her. Jocelyn then sent Clary through a Portal, to Luke at the station. Jocelyn confronted the Circle members and, before she could be taken, drank a potion that put her into an indefinite dream state.

Jocelyn was brought to Valentine's hideout in Chernobyl. Valentine took to watching over her in his spare time and talking to her, taking extreme offense if any Circle members spoke unfavorably about her. Meanwhile, Clary and Luke frantically worked to find and get her back.

Eventually, Valentine "let" Clary retrieve her mother's body, telling her that it had always been his intention to allow them to reunite and wake Jocelyn, and that they would eventually join him.

She was awakened by Magnus with a spell from the Book of the White, and she was reunited with Clary and Luke.

### Hunt for Jace

Upon waking, Jocelyn shared a brief happy reunion with Clary, Simon, and Luke, during which she learned that Simon had become a vampire, and that her son, Jonathan, was alive and had been taken by Valentine. After this, she immediately clashed with Clary and Alec, about how to deal with Jace.

She tried to kill Jace the first chance she got, believing Jace to be innately evil, angering the others further.

When Jace was on the run from the wolves, the Clave and Valentine, she went to Magnus Bane for help, asking him to portal her to the wolves. He refused and they had an argument. Despite Magnus' efforts to show her the problems in her behavior, she broke into the Armory, took a stele, a seraph blade and her old kindjal.

She ended up finding Jace and helping him get away from Maia Roberts, but it wasn't enough for him to start seeing her as his mother, and trusting her, despite her best efforts. He was then arrested by Izzy and the Clave.

### Loyalty in Question

After some time, the Council decided that Jocelyn's loyalty was still in question, particularly due to her involvement with Valentine and the disappearance of the Mortal Cup. They reassigned her to Idris and, tired of running, Jocelyn simply agreed. She invited Clary to go with her, and though she considered it, she eventually turned her down.

Before she could leave, a new demon created by Valentine infiltrated the Institute and began possessing other Shadowhunters to kill their own. When the demon possessed Alec, it fed on the feelings of anger he still harbored for Jocelyn's recent decisions and made Jocelyn his target. The possessed Alec killed her, and she was later found by Clary.

## Personality and Traits

Jocelyn is a woman who would do anything to protect herself and her family. She loves her daughter Clary "more than words" and treated her mundane best friend Simon as if he were her own son. In her younger years, she had a considerable influence towards other Shadowhunters and encouraged them to the join the Circle before realizing just how corrupt Valentine had become.

As a Shadowhunter, she was one of the finest of her generation—highly-skilled and idealistic.

She tends to blame others for the messes she makes, and expects others to fix situations for her quite often. The people roped into her life by her means often end up with the bad end of the bargain. She is very independent and rather selfish, believing in assuring her own and her family's survival before anyone else's.

She has the tendency to take brash decisions because she believes they are right, and doesn't easily take criticism from anyone.

## Physical Appearance

Jocelyn had dark red hair. Along with various other runes, she also had a permanent round rune on her neck that symbolized her membership with the Circle. During her time away from the Shadowhunter world, Jocelyn had her runes hidden with glamour. Her and Clary look remarkably alike.

## Skills and Abilities

* **Nephilim physiology**: Being Nephilim, Jocelyn possessed a variety of enhanced physical and mental abilities granted to her by the angel blood of Raziel in her veins and also by the angelic Marks of the Gray Book. This included enhanced strength, speed, agility, stamina, and coordination.
	+ **The Sight**: As a Shadowhunter, Jocelyn was naturally and easily able to see through most magical illusions and layers of glamour over reality.
	+ **Runic magic**: Due to the angel blood in their veins, all Shadowhunters are able to apply runes on their skin without any real danger. These Marks, in turn, give varied effects that serve to benefit the wearer.
	+ **Use of heavenly weapons**: As a Shadowhunter, Jocelyn was also able to perform tasks unique to their species, such as the ability to use and call on the power of angels for their seraph blades, as well as to handle any heavenly weapons or objects with effect, which would normally not work for other species. In particular, these are tools made of adamas and forged by Iron Sisters.
* **Swordsmanship:** Jocelyn was highly-skilled in swordsmanship. Jocelyn was considered by some to be among the best Shadowhunters of her time. Even after years of no longer fighting, she was still quite graceful and lethal.
* **Art**: Jocelyn was a particularly skilled and talented artist.

## Possessions

* **Fairchild** **Stele**: A tool used to draw runes onto the skin of Shadowhunters, Jocelyn utilized a stele to draw Marks for varied effects. Jocelyn had a custom stele that had been passed down through generations of Fairchilds, which she eventually passed onto Clary.
* **Seraph blades**: A standard Shadowhunter weapon that Jocelyn was able to wield proficiently; despite her isolation from the Shadowhunter, Jocelyn kept a seraph blade.
* **Kindjal:** One of the pair of two kindjals commissioned by Valentine for the two of them. It was an officialization of their relationship and the Shadowhunter equivalent of a mundane promise ring. The fairy wings on black background pattern of the guard represent the Fairchild Family. The runes Fearless, Swift and Courage in Combat are carved into the hilt.

## Appearances

Shadowhunters 2.0. Discovery

* The Mortal Cup
* Blood Calls to Blood Part 2
* Malec Part 1

Shadowhunters 2.0. Dive

* This Guilty Blood Part 1
* This Guilty Blood Part 2
* A Door Into the Dark Part 1
* A Door Into the Dark Part 2
* Lover Lost Part 1
* Lover Lost Part 2
* Lover Lost Part 3
* Blood of the Covenant
* Day of Wrath Part 1
* Day of Wrath Part 3

## Trivia

* Jocelyn had a faded marriage rune on her wrist from her marriage to Valentine.