Clary Fray

**Clarissa Morgenstern**, also known as **Clary Fray or Clary Fairchild**, is a Shadowhunter-in-training, raised outside of the Clave in the mundane world. Clary's simple and content life was disrupted when her mother was kidnapped, forcing her into action. Led on a journey of self-discovery in the Shadow World, the secrets of her past were revealed as she begins to embrace her newfound powers.

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## Biography

### Early Life

Clary Fray is the second child of Jocelyn Fairchild and Valentine Morgenstern. She was born a year and a half after her brother Jonathan Christopher, in Luke Garroway's apartment in Brooklyn.

While playing in a park when she was young, Clary was attacked by a demon, prompting her mother to ask Magnus Bane, a warlock, to take Clary's memories of the Shadow World.

Nevertheless, Clary never managed to feel completely accepted in the mundane world, always too reckless and too different to fit in.

For years, Clary believed her father was a cop named Jonathan Clark, who died before she was born. She was raised by Luke Garroway, who she considers her father.

During school, Clary met a boy named Simon Lewis in first grade. They have been fast friends ever since, practically inseparable, even working on a graphic novel together.

### First Encounter

In 2016, Clary's 18th birthday began with an interview at the Brooklyn Academy of Art. Clary was accepted into the advanced program she'd applied for, crediting the graphic novel illustrations she didn't submit as the pieces that caught the panel's attention.

Later that evening, Clary encountered a group of Shadowhunters and Magnus Bane at the club Pandemonium. Spooked by the battle she'd accidentally witnessed at the club, she rushed home and told Jocelyn, who finally began to tell her that she was a Shadowhunter. Just then, members of the Circle arrived, forcing both Jocelyn and Dot into action. Jocelyn clasped a necklace around Clary's neck and sent her through a Portal to the 89th Precinct of the NYPD and to Luke, close friend to Jocelyn and father figure to Clary.

However, while at the station, Clary overheard a conversation between Luke and two strangers claiming he felt nothing for Clary or her mother, to Clary's immense surprise. She rushed back home to find her mother missing, and a demon in the guise of Dot. The demon attacked her, severely injuring Clary and infecting her with demon venom. Jace, one of the Shadowhunters from the club, arrived just in time to save her. Overwhelmed by the venom, Clary collapsed, and Jace carried her back to the New York Institute to recuperate.

Upon waking, she met Isabelle and Alec Lightwood, the latter of whom immediately expressed his distrust of her. Isabelle informed Clary of the basics: that they, including Clary, were Shadowhunters, humans with angel blood, whose mission was to protect the Shadow World from demons and that many other fantastical beings from stories exist. In addition to discovering she was a Naphil, the Institute's trainer and former Circle member Hodge Starkweather told her that her mother was once also a member of the Circle—the organization, led by Valentine Morgenstern - that abducted her.

When they realized that the people who took Jocelyn were after a powerful artifact known as the Mortal Cup, they worked alongside Clary to gain possession of it before Valentine or the Downworlders could find it. While the people helping her were primarily concerned with securing the Cup, Clary remained focused on her search for Jocelyn.

### The Shadow World Revealed

In an attempt to unlock her seemingly blocked memories, the Shadowhunters brought her to the City of Bones, where the Silent Brothers used the Soul Sword to tap into her mind. While not all her memories were accessed, she recalled enough to realize she was Valentine's daughter. Outside the City of Bones, Simon was kidnapped by vampires in an attempt to get information on the Cup. Clary forced the others to save Simon, and infiltrate the vampires' base, the Hotel DuMort. With the help of Raphael, a vampire who disagreed with Camille's decisions, they managed to escape with Simon.

Realizing that her memories were crucial to their search for the Cup, as suggested by the demon in her apartment, Clary told the others of a memory that had come to her at the Silent City, from her youth where she saw a man named Magnus taking her memories. Simon added that his abductor Camille had mentioned Magnus Bane when he'd informed the vampire of Clary's missing memories.

The group lured the warlock out of hiding with a party, and though he was reluctant to help the people that had persecuted him, he eventually agreed when the group helped him fight off Circle members that attacked their safe haven. To her surprise, Magnus also informed Clary that Dot, Jocelyn's assistant and a close friend of hers, had been abducted by Valentine and was being tortured. Magnus then told them that he fed Clary's memories to a memory demon, Valak, for safekeeping. They decided to summon the demon, but when Jace's life was put at risk, Clary sacrificed her memories and banished the demon to save him.

Braving Maryse Lightwood, a werewolf pack, and the danger on the life of her father figure, Luke Garroway, Clary successfully retrieved the cup for the Clave without her memories.

She then was faced with a heart breaking decision on Simon's fate, helped Izzy and the Downworlders protect the Seelie Meliorn, and visited an alternate dimension.

When Valentine posed as Michael Wayland, Clary caught onto his deception and gave him the faux Mortal Cup, after which Valentine falsely told her that she and Jace were siblings—that Jace in reality was Jonathan, Valentine's first child with Jocelyn. They managed to rescue the latter from Valentine, though she was still under the effects of the potion she'd taken. Because of this, Clary began hunting for the Book of the White, an ancient warlock tome with the spell that could wake her mother.

They then lost the Cup when Hodge betrayed them and gave the Cup to Valentine.

After they found the book and were able to revive Jocelyn, they lost Jace, who felt he had no choice but to join Valentine.

### Hunt for Jace

After a brief happy reunion with her awakened mother, Clary soon became preoccupied with their troubles. She broke the news to Jocelyn that Jonathan was alive and was taken by Valentine. Along with this, she was closely monitored by the Institute's new head, Victor Aldertree.

Clary escaped the Institute and Aldertree’s watch. She found refuge with Simon in the boathouse. Jocelyn came under the guise of helping her and locked her into the boathouse, prompting Clary to truly start distrusting her mother. Simon and her managed to escape and follow Jocelyn. They saw her try to kill Jace, which angered Clary deeply.

Alec blamed Clary for their dilemmas, making the latter start to falter in her sense of belonging—unable to truly fit in among the Shadowhunters while also unable to return to her former ordinary life. In an effort to get her bearings, she went to the Brooklyn Academy of Art to paint. Though Jocelyn and Luke, concerned for her safety, rushed over, she was kidnapped by Dot and taken to Valentine’s ship.

Clary was caged and mind-controlled by Dot to trick Jace into submitting to Valentine. Clary was able to get through to Dot, who then later helped her and Jace escape the ship by taking down the wards with her magic.

She made it back to the Institute, separated from Jace, where Aldertree interrogated her, trying, once again, to get her to say things that would have Jace convicted of crimes he didn't commit. Soon after, Jace contacted Clary and Isabelle from a bar in Chinatown, The Hunter's Moon.

As Clary, Izzy, Alec and Magnus tried to find a solution to keep Jace out of trouble, Clary received a panicked phone call from Simon, and left the team to go help him find his mother. She helped him find his mother and tried to convince him to tell Elaine he was a vampire. She was then called by Izzy, who let her know that Jace was going to be alright.

They stopped the wolves from killing Jace for allegedly killing Gretel, but upon coming back to the Institute, Jace was arrested, given to the Clave by Izzy. Clary got angry at Izzy. Clary's rage towards Izzy made her situation worse, until Izzy broke and told her some of the truth about the yin fen, soon after her birthday.

### Rune Creation

Clary visited Jace in the City of Bones, only to be pushed away. As she came back to the Institute, Jocelyn informed her that the Clave had decided to reassign her to Idris, and Jocelyn asked Clary to come with her. She didn't have time to give a response to her mother's offer, pulled away by Alec and Izzy to go on a mission.

A new type of demon infiltrated their ranks at the Institute and began possessing Shadowhunters to kill others. While possessing Alec, the demon killed Jocelyn, devastating Clary. A vengeful Clary set out to hunt for the demon and soon found it possessing Isabelle. The demon inexplicably was forced out of Isabelle's body, after which Clary vanquished it.

Clary mourned her mother with the help of Simon; her judgment clouded during the early stage of her grieving, Clary went to the warlock Iris Rouse in hopes of bringing her mother back from the dead.

She realized too late—after already committing to a blood oath—that resurrection through dark magic comes with a dark price, particularly for her mother's sanity. Iris set out to have her impregnated by a demon. Clary was able to fight back, discovering a new ability along the way: she received a vision of a rune that was not in the Gray Book that ultimately helped her vanquish the demon.

Some time after, Clary began hearing a deafening scream only she could hear. Through Sister Cleophas—a former Iron Sister and Luke's sister—she learned that the sound was cries of help from an angel, one trapped by Valentine that was calling out to her. She and Jace went to release him, and the angel, Ithuriel, gave them both a vision of the sword's destruction before he left and returned to Heaven.

## Personality and Traits

Clary is headstrong, stubborn, and fiery. She is also intelligent and creative, an artist. She loves and cares deeply about her mother and her friends and is loyal to them above all others.

Having not been raised with the typical Shadowhunter prejudice and rules, she can be at odds with the more traditional Shadowhunters in the Institute, like Alec and Lydia, over issues regarding mundanes and Downworlders, strict adherence to rules and protocol.

For her friends and family, Clary is willing to go to extreme lengths, often recklessly, putting herself in danger, thus usually leaving the people who care for her extremely worried and exasperated.

She can be selfish sometimes, and do things for only her own gain, causing her friends harm in the way. She is also not immune to racism and prejudice against Downworlders.

## Physical Appearance

Clary is a beautiful young girl with bright red hair and a slim build. Hodge remarked that she greatly resembles her mother, Jocelyn. Her clothing style is generally simple and conservative. She is rather small, standing at only five feet and five inches tall.

Since meeting and becoming one of the Shadowhunters, Clary now has a number of runes burned into various parts of her body, including the iratze rune on the right side of her neck, Protected over her heart, the Vision rune on her left collar bone, and the Nyx rune on her right scapula. On her left arm, from her bicep down to her wrist, are the Blocking rune, Unseen, and the Soundless rune. On her right arm is Courage in Combat, and Visible.

Following her meeting with Ithuriel, Clary's left palm was left discolored.

## Skills and Abilities

* **Nephilim physiology**: Being Nephilim, Clary naturally possesses 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 includes enhanced strength, speed, agility, stamina, and coordination, which would improve over time and practice.
* **The Sight**: As a Shadowhunter, Clary is able to easily see through most magical illusions and layers of glamour over reality. However, due to her general ignorance to the Shadow World due to years worth of missing memories, this ability requires some prompting.
* **Use of heavenly weapons**: As a Nephilim, Clary can wield heavenly weapons such as seraph blades, with effect that would not normally work with other species.
* **Runic magic**: Due to the angel blood in their veins, all Shadowhunters are capable of applying runes to their skin without any real danger. These Marks, in turn, give varied effects that serve to benefit them.
* **Art**: Clary is a particularly skilled and talented artist.

## Possessions

* **Fairchild stele**: For her eighteenth birthday, Jocelyn gave her a stele, an heirloom of the Fairchild bloodline.
* Basic Shadowhunter gear, including a stele, seraph blades, a witchlight, and various other weapons.
* **Jocelyn's personal belonging**: Clary was given Jocelyn's clothes after her mother's death

**Previous**:

* **Portal shard**: Jocelyn gave Clary a Portal shard fashioned into a necklace before their separation. It spontaneously triggers visions of the people Clary focuses on, working like a mirror for viewing the current state or location of the person. However, like regular portals, its energy can be detected - Valentine once communicating with her while she spied on him.

## Appearances

All chapters of Shadowhunters 2.0. - Discovery.

## Trivia

* Clary's middle name, Adele, honors her maternal grandmother, Adele Nightshade.
* Jocelyn and Valentine once thought of naming her Seraphina, after Valentine's mother.
* Before it was revealed that Jace Wayland was her older brother, Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern, Clary was the heir of the Morgenstern name, and could have petitioned the Clave for the possession of Phaesphoros and the Morgenstern Manor.
* Clary can drive a motorcycle.
* Clary is more comfortable around Jewish rites than Christian or even Nephili ones, since she was raised being part of Jewish holidays with the Lewis Family.
* In the show, Clary was born on August 23rd, not March. Her birthday was pushed back so the timeline could be less rushed. Now, instead of starting 1x01 on August 23rd 2016 and ending 2x20 around October 20th 2016, Chapter 1 starts on March 23rd 2016 and 2x20 is set to be in early November 2016.