Lucie Herondale

Lucie Herondale
Biographical information
Full name:	Lucie Blackthorn (née Herondale)
Born:	1887
Age:	16 (as of 1903)
Kind:	Shadowhunter
Residence:	London Institute
Known relatives
Family:	Will Herondale (father) Tessa Gray (mother) James Herondale (brother) Ella Herondale † (aunt) Cecily Herondale (aunt) Gabriel Lightwood (uncle) Anna Lightwood (cousin) Christopher Lightwood (cousin) Alexander Lightwood (cousin) Herondale family (According to a family tree): Jesse Blackthorn (husband) Unnamed children Cordelia Carstairs (sister-in-law) Owen Herondale (nephew) Blackthorn family
Affiliation
Parabatai:	Cordelia Carstairs
Status
Status:	Alive
Physical description
Gender:	Female
Hair color:	Brown
Eye color:	Blue

Lucie Herondale is the second and youngest child of Will Herondale and Tessa Gray, and the younger sister of James Herondale.

History

Lucie developed a love for writing when she was young. On her eighth birthday, James got her a thick blank book, which became one of her most prized possessions. She kept it next to her bed and copied her favorite pieces of her own work into it.

In 1899, Lucie went to France with her mother. There, she met and, in a span of two weeks, became very close to Cordelia Carstairs. They began to exchange letters every week. Some time after, at the age of twelve, Lucie began to write what would become a two-thousand page novel called The Beautiful Cordelia, with the heroine named for her.

Personality

Her mother, Tessa, once told Magnus Bane that compared to James, Lucie was the impetuous one. She also is a very practical girl, but can still be quite dreamy.

Physical description

Lucie has brown hair, inherited from her mother, and pale blue eyes that are a shade lighter than her father's.

Skills and abilities

• Nephilim physiology: Being Nephilim, Lucie is expected to possess 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, agility, stamina, and coordination, which would improve over time and practice.
• Runic magic: Due to the angel blood in their veins, all Shadowhunters are all able to apply runes of the Gray Book on their skin without any real danger. These Marks, in turn, give varied effects that serve to benefit the wearer.
• Demonic magic: Lucie is said to have special "talents" due to inheriting some demon blood from her mother. However, as of 1903, she is still unaware of them.

Relationships

• James Herondale: brother, with whom she is very close.
• Cordelia Carstairs: her best friend and parabatai.
• Matthew Fairchild: James' parabatai, whom she also adores.

Appearances

Clockwork Princess (first mention) The Whitechapel Fiend (first appearance) Nothing but Shadows (mentioned only) Cast Long Shadows Every Exquisite Thing Chain of Gold (will appear)

The Midnight Heir (mentioned only) The Last Stand of the New York Institute (mentioned only) City of Heavenly Fire (mentioned only) The Land I Lost (mentioned only) Lord of Shadows (mentioned only)

Gallery

CJ Lucie 02.jpg CJ Tessa & Lucie.jpg Tessa & Lucie Flower card James & Lucie tarot card

CJ Cordelia & Lucie.jpg Cordelia & Lucie October December Spring Discarded Spring design

Trivia

• In-universe notes
• Real-world notes
• Upcoming content

• She was named after Lucie Manette, a character in the book A Tale of Two Cities, a favorite of both her parents.
• Lucie, like her brother and cousins, can speak Welsh.
• Her favorite book is Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
• Like her father, she is the parabatai of a Carstairs.
• Her brother, James, calls her Spots and Tuppence, among other nicknames.

According to a found family tree, she went on to marry Jesse Blackthorn, with whom she continued the Blackthorn line, and died in 1959 at the age of 71 or 72. The same family tree mistakenly stated that Lucie was born in 1891.

While both Lucie and James gained significant, special abilities through the demon blood they inherited from their mother, she, unlike James, is still unaware of them as of 1903 and it is something she wonders about. Also unlike James (who has golden eyes), however, she doesn't have any physical sign of peculiarity.

• Her power will be encountered/discovered as part of the story of The Last Hours. It will be, in some ways, scarier than James' power.

Lucie is a writer, particularly of novels.

The mystery of Jesse Blackthorn's fate occupies her mind.

Lucie is inclined to make things up.

She and Cordelia are set to become parabatai in The Last Hours, after having been pen pals looking to become parabatai for years.

Lucie is not fond of Alastair, though she doesn't know how he treated her brother at the Academy, and partly because Alastair avoided the Herondales before their "enforced proximity" in The Last Hours. She plots to give the "Beautiful Cordelia" of her story an irritating brother as a form of literary punishment.

Lucie can see ghosts/the dead. Though this is typical of most Shadowhunters, it is possible that she, like her father, Will, just sees even those who don't want to be seen, or that it has a connection to her "gift".