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Revision as of 04:26, 16 May 2012
Clarissa Adele "Clary" Fray is one of the main protagonists of the series. She is a human, a Nephilim, assumed at first to be a mundane living a normal human life, prior to the beginning of the City of Bones.
History
Clary was born to Valentine Morgenstern and Jocelyn Fray. Her mother had turned against her father's ideals months before her conception. She plotted the rebellion in hopes of killing Valentine. She would have left him. However, he would have chased after her. He would have, to use her words, moved heaven and hell while looking. On her own, she would have let him. However, she loved her daughter far too much. She wasn't willing to bring Valentine down on her. Therefore, her mother planned the Uprising.
Her mother ran from shadowhunter culture with the help of her longtime friend Lucian Graymark. She fled to New York, where she had Clary. When Clary was born, she was named Clarissa Adele Fray.
Jocelyn hoped that Clary would have a blind Inner Eye since some Shadowhunters need to be trained to see the Shadow World. However, that was not the case. Clary could see the Shadow World perfectly fine. Therefore, Jocelyn went to Magnus Bane in hopes of having him remove her Inner Eye. However, Magnus warned her that doing so would likely kill her. Therefore, he came up with the plan of casting a spell. The spell would make her forget anything of the Shadow World as she saw it. It had to be recast every two years and Clary was taken back to Magnus every time that it was necessary.
Around this time, Clary had the shadowhunter children's ritual performed on her. Jocelyn almost didn't go through with it. However, after much persuasion on the part of Magnus Bane, she agreed. Brother Zachariah of the Silent Brothers and a female Warlock, likely Tessa Gray from the hints provided, acted as the representative for the Iron Sisters.
When Clary was five years old, her mother's old friend Luke showed up at their door. For one night he was supposed to stay. That night, Jocelyn came out of her room and saw him playing an Idrisian card game with Clary that she hadn't seen since she left. It convinced her to allow Luke to become a staple part of their lives. In fact, he became so intermixed with Clary's life, she began to think of him as her father. He, in turn began to think of her as his daughter.
When Clary was six years old, she met Simon Lewis. The two grew to be inseparable. Over time, they grew to be best friends. However, Simon eventually fell in love with Clary. He hid it poorly from everyone but her. She never knew of his feelings and simply thought of him as her best friend. However, it is implied that she may have grown to love him had the events of The Mortal Instruments never occurred.
Personality
Clary is portrayed as being incredibly stubborn and a little sarcastic, but is a very caring person, with lots of compassion for her friends and family. She also often changes her mind and opinion about certain things and people around her.
Appearance
She is said to look almost exactly like her mother [1]Added by ♪lizzie♪™, with green eyes and curly red hair, thought she does not see it, nor does she see the beauty others see in her. In City of Bones, she says that she is a smaller less beautiful and more childlike version of her mother. She says that she has carroty-colored hair, rather than Jocelyn's red hair. She also says that she has a light dusting of freckles and is around 5 foot tall. It is mentioned a few times that she dresses in a boyish fashion, wearing T-shirts, jeans and sneakers.
Relationships
Jace Wayland
Clary first meets Jace Wayland in City of Bones. It first appears that both find each other's presence a slight annoyance, yet intriguing and find themselves drawn to each other. However, throughout the first
novel they slowly start to fall in love and Clary starts to describe Jace in great detail, showing that she her admiration towards him. The two share a romantic kiss at the Institute's greenhouse after a late dinner together, but begin to have tension after Jace misunderstands seeing Simon in Clary's bedroom. At the end of the novel, they discover that Valentine Morgenstern is the father to both of them, making them siblings. During City of Ashes their relationship becomes complicated, they still believe they are brother and sister and so Jace starts ignoring her in hope that he can get over his feelings for her. He tries to convince Clary that it doesn't matter that they're siblings, but the idea repulses her. She tells him that they should try to act more like brother and sister, instead of lovers. In City of Glass they begin arguing a lot, for example, when Jace kisses another girl, Clary becomes angry at him. However, she also gets angry when he kisses her, showing that her feelings for him are
mixed. The two soon find out that they are not siblings and get together. In City of Fallen Angels however, Jace begins to become closed off with Clary. Later in the book, Clary and Jace find out that it was because Jace was being controlled by Lilith, the mother of all dead children.
Simon Lewis
Simon is Clary's childhood friend. They have been best friend for years long before the time she found out about Nephilim. It becomes obvious that he has had a crush on Clary for most of that time and attempts to admit this to her in several occasions but fails. He finally does in the City of Bones after a heated argument about Jace, after he catches them kissing outside of her bedroom. However, she does return his feelings, and is even oblivious to this at first, expressing surprise as Simon confesses, and only views him as a best friend and does not want to ruin their [2]Clary and SimonAdded by Clarylightwood long-running friendship. By City of Glass he has accepted that Clary does not feel the same way about him and so moves on. He has feelings for both Maia and Isabelle Lightwood, but still remains to be Clary's best friend.
Alec Lightwood
Alec Lightwood is aggressive towards Clary when he first meets her and mostly ignores her when she's around him. After a while of hanging around with the Nephilims, Clary notices the way Alec acts when around Jace, and
realizes that he is gay, confirming this with Isabelle. They get into an argument at one point after Alec confronts her about how she should leave the Institute and the world of the Shadowhunters after they return from the lair of vampires, with Jace in a bad condition. He tells her how she seems to be affecting Jace in a bad way, but seems to be referring to how Jace is treating her specially. His hostility towards her becomes worse after
Clary, hurt, criticizes him about being selfish, his true feelings for Jace and how she rephrases Jace's statement about him being too weak to kill demons. Their awkward situation goes on until Alec recovers from a near-death encounter with Abandon and it is revealed that Jace and Clary are siblings, where the two reconcile as Alec walks Clary to the greenhouse, to Jace.
Jocelyn Fray Clary and Jocelyn have an exceptionally close relationship. Clary often describes her mom as beautiful and they
love each other dearly. When her mother is kidnapped by Valentine, Clary did everything in her power to rescue her. Her mother was found and Clary visited her in the hospital every day. She went to great lengths, such as opening a portal to Idris, to find and save their mother.
When in Idris, Clary and her mother are reunited. Clary had spent so much energy trying to find her mother, she hadn't thought of anything else. She hadn't thought of how angry she was that she had been lied to. However, she and her mother worked out their differences soon enough.
Valentine Morgenstern
Although her biological father with his convincingly manipulative trait, Clary does not feel any sympathy or paternal love towards him. She chooses not to believe anything he says, knowing that Valentine is quite a good liar with only evil intentions.
Lucian Graymark
While in the guise of a normal, mundane human as her uncle under the name Luke Garroway, Lucian has taken care of Clary along with Jocelyn. For this, Clary sees Luke as her true father, as she loves him as one, rather than Valentine.
Film
[3]Lily Collins made over as Clary. She was cast on December 10, 2010. Prior to being cast, she was said to be a huge fan of the series. Also, she underwent an audition with Jamie Campbell Bower, after which he was cast as Jace Wayland. Lily had this to say about Clary: “Clary’s journey is all about self-discovery. She’s finding out throughout the story what she’s actually capable of and figuring out her feelings toward two guys, as well as her mom, as well as when we find out who her dad is.”