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Clarissa "Clary" Fray/Fairchild/Morgenstern is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Mortal Instruments series. While at a New York City nightclub, the Pandemonium, she is stunned to observe a group of teenagers with apparent supernatural abilities: Jace, Isabelle, and Alec. She sees them attack a demon and soon realizes she is the only person able to see them.
After the battle, she is introduced to the group of teens, who identify themselves as Shadowhunters, a race of humans who are physically enhanced with angel blood, who secretly protect humanity from demons. When her mother Jocelyn goes missing, Clary soon learns the event is connected to the conflict between the Shadowhunters and their enemies. She then enters the Shadowhunter fold, using her newly revealed mystical abilities to assist the group while attempting to find her mother. In the process, she falls in love with fellow Shadowhunter Jace Herondale.
She learns Valentine Morgenstern (the main antagonist of the series) is her biological father and her mother's ex-husband, and in the end of City of Bones, Valentine tells them she and Jace are siblings (which they discover later in the series is a lie). In the second book of the series, City of Ashes , she dates her best friend Simon, who has had a long-time crush on her, in order to forget Jace during the torturous time of believing him to be her brother. She is told by the Seelie Queen she has the ability to create runes that don't exist, but they do, which later enables her to destroy Valentine's ship using the "Open" rune. In the end of the second novel, she finds an old friend of her mother, Madeleine, knows how to wake her mother, who has been in a magical coma since the first book.
In City of Glass , it is discovered Jocelyn had taken a potion, made by a warlock named Ragnor Fell, to induce a comatose state and prevent her from being interrogated by Valentine. Before she dies, Madeleine tells Clary she needs to find Fell, who will help her cure her mother. Clary portals herself and Luke to Idris, and falls into Lake Lyn and drinks some of the water by accident, causing her to hallucinate and become lucid as the Lake's water is poisonous to Shadowhunters. Luke then takes her to his sister Amatis for healing.
During her stay in Alicante, Clary ventures to find Ragnor Fell, who will be able to help her with the potion. She is escorted there by Sebastian Verlac, whom she recently met, in an attempt to make contact with Fell. Instead she finds Magnus Bane, who tells her of Ragnor's death and how he was called as a replacement, and requests she find him the Book of White in return for his help. She returns to Alicante, where Sebastian kisses her. She rejects him after having feelings of "wrong" while he kissed her, and they continue back to Alicante. She then discovers the Book of White is hidden in Wayland Manor and travels with Jace to retrieve it. Inside, they find the angel Ithuriel tied up and left for dead in the basement. He gives both Shadowhunters visions of Valentine experimenting on his children with demon blood in an attempt to make a stronger warrior.
They escape the manor after freeing Ithuriel so he can finally die; the two then share a moment of passionate romance. They return to Alicante to see it burning from the first assault on the city, and after things are in order, Clary meets with the others and they go to free Simon. They return to see the Clave, and Clary uses her rune ability to create a binding rune, enabling Shadowhunters and Downworlders to share powers. All those of age go to the battle on Brocelind Plains, and Clary has to give Simon the Mark of Cain so the vampires will join the fight.
Magnus wakes her mother, who informs Clary Jace is not her brother&mdash.Sebastian (the real Jonathan Morgensten) is. It is soon revealed Sebastian is a spy for Valentine and tried to seduce Clary into teaming up with him. Clary then tries to locate Jace to help him. She runs into Valentine, who ties her down in order to complete his summoning of the Angel by using her blood; however, when Jace arrives to rescue her, Valentine forces her to watch as he fatally stabs Jace in the chest. Upon summoning the angel, she changes the marks on Valentine's summoning circle giving her the ability to control the Angel, and after Valentine is slain, she wishes to have Jace back. After Jace is brought back to life, the two get together, realizing their love for each other isn't incestuous.
In the fourth book, City of Fallen Angels , she and Jace are happily in love. But soon, Jace starts to behave strangely and avoids her, leading Clary to assume he wants to break up with her. In truth, he has been influenced by Lilith, who sent him dreams in which he kills or hurts Clary. During the party, when Lucian's pack celebrated his engagement with Clary's mother Jocelyn, she is kidnapped by a fully possessed Jace and taken to Lilith. There, she learns her brother Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern/Sebastian Verlac is going to be raised from dead by Simon, and she was brought just to make him do that. Using Jace's affection for her (as his possession has no effect towards that part of him), she cuts the rune which enabled Lilith to control him. Seeing his chance, Simon destroys Lilith with his Mark of Cain. After her destruction, Isabelle and Alec appear on the scene, but Jace shoos them away since he doesn't want to be consoled as he feels terrible for hurting Clary, in spite of the fact that he wasn't himself. Alec then shoves Clary back to the room as they get into the elevator, feeling only she can help him. Clary and Jace reaffirm their love after she convinces him he is not a horrible person. The last words Clary says to him before going down are, "I'll be back. Five minutes," and they share a kiss before she leaves and comes back to find him gone, unaware his rune has healed and he is possessed once again.
At the fifth book of the second trilogy of the series, City of Lost Souls , Clary had realized Jace was gone along with Sebastian Verlac (Jonathan Morgenstern). The Clave was alarmed by the sudden disappearance of Jonathan and Jace and started to search for any signs of Jace and Jonathan. After two weeks of repeating the same statement about what happened at the rooftop before Clary leaving him with Sebastian alive by Simon's blood. But other problems had came to the Clave and required to set aside the search for Jonathan. Clary was outraged by the news. Using the bell given by Meliorn, the Seelie Queen's lieutenant, she went to the Seelie Queen's palace where she had beg for help due to the limited resources. The Seelie Queen had requested to let Clary steal the faerie rings kept inside the Institute. She stole the rings but didn't give it to her because of the appearance of Jace and Sebastian at the library, all healthy looking and safe. Afterward, Clary accepted their offer of coming to them.
When the plan of Sebastian was finally revealed to her, she couldn't believe what could happen. At the enchantment ceremony, she was surprised when Amatis was turned into a dark Shadowhunter by the blood of Lilith. At the same time, Magnus, Alec, Maryse, Isabelle, and Simon arrived, with Glorious in hand. When Glorious was handed to her, she struck Jace, the mark of Lilith burning, making him cry out in pain.
In the epilogue, she was concerned why she couldn't visit Jace because of her thoughts telling her she almost killed Jace, but reassured by Isabelle she didn't do anything to make Jace mad. She visited Jace, but she almost thought she wasn't going to be allowed to go in due to Brother Zachariah. By the consent of Brother Zachariah, she entered, hugging Jace and reaffirming their relationship.
Clary is 5'2" with curly red hair, green eyes, pale skin, and freckles. She is said to look like her mother, who is described as beautiful and small. Clary sometimes doubts the fact that she is as beautiful as her mother, believing herself to be a duller version of her mother, with less defined features. She is rather small and thin. She is described by Jace many times throughout the series as "delicate".
She is portrayed by Lily Collins in the film adaptation of the book and Katherine McNamara in the television series.

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Clarissa "Clary" Fray/Fairchild/Morgenstern is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Mortal Instruments series. While at a New York City nightclub, the Pandemonium, she is stunned to observe a group of teenagers with apparent supernatural abilities: Jace, Isabelle, and Alec. She sees them attack a demon and soon realizes she is the only person able to see them.
After the battle, she is introduced to the group of teens, who identify themselves as Shadowhunters, a race of humans who are physically enhanced with angel blood, who secretly protect humanity from demons. When her mother Jocelyn goes missing, Clary soon learns the event is connected to the conflict between the Shadowhunters and their enemies. She then enters the Shadowhunter fold, using her newly revealed mystical abilities to assist the group while attempting to find her mother. In the process, she falls in love with fellow Shadowhunter Jace Herondale.
She learns Valentine Morgenstern (the main antagonist of the series) is her biological father and her mother's ex-husband, and in the end of City of Bones, Valentine tells them she and Jace are siblings (which they discover later in the series is a lie). In the second book of the series, City of Ashes , she dates her best friend Simon, who has had a long-time crush on her, in order to forget Jace during the torturous time of believing him to be her brother. She is told by the Seelie Queen she has the ability to create runes that don't exist, but they do, which later enables her to destroy Valentine's ship using the "Open" rune. In the end of the second novel, she finds an old friend of her mother, Madeleine, knows how to wake her mother, who has been in a magical coma since the first book.
In City of Glass , it is discovered Jocelyn had taken a potion, made by a warlock named Ragnor Fell, to induce a comatose state and prevent her from being interrogated by Valentine. Before she dies, Madeleine tells Clary she needs to find Fell, who will help her cure her mother. Clary portals herself and Luke to Idris, and falls into Lake Lyn and drinks some of the water by accident, causing her to hallucinate and become lucid as the Lake's water is poisonous to Shadowhunters. Luke then takes her to his sister Amatis for healing.
During her stay in Alicante, Clary ventures to find Ragnor Fell, who will be able to help her with the potion. She is escorted there by Sebastian Verlac, whom she recently met, in an attempt to make contact with Fell. Instead she finds Magnus Bane, who tells her of Ragnor's death and how he was called as a replacement, and requests she find him the Book of White in return for his help. She returns to Alicante, where Sebastian kisses her. She rejects him after having feelings of "wrong" while he kissed her, and they continue back to Alicante. She then discovers the Book of White is hidden in Wayland Manor and travels with Jace to retrieve it. Inside, they find the angel Ithuriel tied up and left for dead in the basement. He gives both Shadowhunters visions of Valentine experimenting on his children with demon blood in an attempt to make a stronger warrior.
They escape the manor after freeing Ithuriel so he can finally die; the two then share a moment of passionate romance. They return to Alicante to see it burning from the first assault on the city, and after things are in order, Clary meets with the others and they go to free Simon. They return to see the Clave, and Clary uses her rune ability to create a binding rune, enabling Shadowhunters and Downworlders to share powers. All those of age go to the battle on Brocelind Plains, and Clary has to give Simon the Mark of Cain so the vampires will join the fight.
Magnus wakes her mother, who informs Clary Jace is not her brother&mdash.Sebastian (the real Jonathan Morgensten) is. It is soon revealed Sebastian is a spy for Valentine and tried to seduce Clary into teaming up with him. Clary then tries to locate Jace to help him. She runs into Valentine, who ties her down in order to complete his summoning of the Angel by using her blood; however, when Jace arrives to rescue her, Valentine forces her to watch as he fatally stabs Jace in the chest. Upon summoning the angel, she changes the marks on Valentine's summoning circle giving her the ability to control the Angel, and after Valentine is slain, she wishes to have Jace back. After Jace is brought back to life, the two get together, realizing their love for each other isn't incestuous.
In the fourth book, City of Fallen Angels , she and Jace are happily in love. But soon, Jace starts to behave strangely and avoids her, leading Clary to assume he wants to break up with her. In truth, he has been influenced by Lilith, who sent him dreams in which he kills or hurts Clary. During the party, when Lucian's pack celebrated his engagement with Clary's mother Jocelyn, she is kidnapped by a fully possessed Jace and taken to Lilith. There, she learns her brother Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern/Sebastian Verlac is going to be raised from dead by Simon, and she was brought just to make him do that. Using Jace's affection for her (as his possession has no effect towards that part of him), she cuts the rune which enabled Lilith to control him. Seeing his chance, Simon destroys Lilith with his Mark of Cain. After her destruction, Isabelle and Alec appear on the scene, but Jace shoos them away since he doesn't want to be consoled as he feels terrible for hurting Clary, in spite of the fact that he wasn't himself. Alec then shoves Clary back to the room as they get into the elevator, feeling only she can help him. Clary and Jace reaffirm their love after she convinces him he is not a horrible person. The last words Clary says to him before going down are, "I'll be back. Five minutes," and they share a kiss before she leaves and comes back to find him gone, unaware his rune has healed and he is possessed once again.
At the fifth book of the second trilogy of the series, City of Lost Souls , Clary had realized Jace was gone along with Sebastian Verlac (Jonathan Morgenstern). The Clave was alarmed by the sudden disappearance of Jonathan and Jace and started to search for any signs of Jace and Jonathan. After two weeks of repeating the same statement about what happened at the rooftop before Clary leaving him with Sebastian alive by Simon's blood. But other problems had came to the Clave and required to set aside the search for Jonathan. Clary was outraged by the news. Using the bell given by Meliorn, the Seelie Queen's lieutenant, she went to the Seelie Queen's palace where she had beg for help due to the limited resources. The Seelie Queen had requested to let Clary steal the faerie rings kept inside the Institute. She stole the rings but didn't give it to her because of the appearance of Jace and Sebastian at the library, all healthy looking and safe. Afterward, Clary accepted their offer of coming to them.
When the plan of Sebastian was finally revealed to her, she couldn't believe what could happen. At the enchantment ceremony, she was surprised when Amatis was turned into a dark Shadowhunter by the blood of Lilith. At the same time, Magnus, Alec, Maryse, Isabelle, and Simon arrived, with Glorious in hand. When Glorious was handed to her, she struck Jace, the mark of Lilith burning, making him cry out in pain.
In the epilogue, she was concerned why she couldn't visit Jace because of her thoughts telling her she almost killed Jace, but reassured by Isabelle she didn't do anything to make Jace mad. She visited Jace, but she almost thought she wasn't going to be allowed to go in due to Brother Zachariah. By the consent of Brother Zachariah, she entered, hugging Jace and reaffirming their relationship.
Clary is 5'2" with curly red hair, green eyes, pale skin, and freckles. She is said to look like her mother, who is described as beautiful and small. Clary sometimes doubts the fact that she is as beautiful as her mother, believing herself to be a duller version of her mother, with less defined features. She is rather small and thin. She is described by Jace many times throughout the series as "delicate".
She is portrayed by Lily Collins in the film adaptation of the book and Katherine McNamara in the television series.