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| 5 | !The Mortal Instruments |
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| 7 | [[folder:Clary Fairchild]] |
| 8 | !!Clarissa "Clary" Adele Fairchild-Morgenstern (formerly Fray) |
| 9 | !!!'''Played by''': Creator/LilyCollins and Creator/HopeFleury (young) (''Film/TheMortalInstrumentsCityOfBones''), Creator/KatherineMcNamara and Creator/SofiaWells (young) (''Series/{{Shadowhunters}}'') |
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| 12 | [[caption-width-right:219:[[labelnote: Click here to see Clary in the film adaptation.]][[quoteright:219:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/claryfrayfilm.png]][[/labelnote]]]] |
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| 15 | Clary was perfectly content with living life with her overprotective mother and {{geek}}y best friend. But her normal life is turned upside down she starts seeing things other people can't. When she comes home one evening to find her apartment sacked, her mother missing, and a demon in the room, she is thrust into the world of the Shadowhunters. Which sucks, considering she was totally unprepared for it. And if that wasn't enough, she might be the only one who can stop the impending war. |
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| 19 | * ACupAngst: Not as pronounced as some examples, but Clary feels insecure when she compares herself to the more traditionally beautiful, busty/curvy Isabelle. |
| 20 | * AdaptationDyeJob: In the books she has green eyes. In ''Film/TheMortalInstrumentsCityOfBones'', she has brown eyes, also her red hair is darker than described appearing almost brownish. |
| 21 | * AngelUnaware: [[spoiler:Unintentional, as Valentine didn't know Jocelyn was pregnant when he experimented on her with angel's blood]]. |
| 22 | * BettyAndVeronica: In the first two books, she's caught in a love triangle between her sweet, dependable childhood friend Simon and Jace, a sexy, brooding demon hunter. [[spoiler: She chooses Jace]]. |
| 23 | * BigSisterInstinct: City of Heavenly Fire has her running out of a major Council meeting to check on Emma Carstairs, because she doesn't like the idea of a scared kid being all on her own. |
| 24 | * BioAugmentation: [[spoiler:Valentine unknowingly added angel's blood to her before she was born.]] |
| 25 | * BlondeBrunetteRedhead: She is the redhead of the three main protagonists of the franchise (Clary, Tessa, and Emma). |
| 26 | * BrattyTeenageDaughter: Clary is often pretty self-absorbed at the start of the series. Even though she is unconcerned about things like popularity, she can be rather spectacularly heedless of other people's feelings, tends to jump into dangerous situations without thinking about it and will do whatever she wants even if it literally results in endangering the entire world. Luke calls her out on it one time, [[spoiler: when she tries to blindly Portal to Idris]] and she is shocked because he has never chastised her before. She starts growing out of this in later intallments. |
| 27 | * BrotherSisterIncest: |
| 28 | ** Subverted. In ''City of Bones'', [[spoiler:she falls in love with Jace, but then Valentine tells them that Jace is his son which would make them siblings. After hearing this, they break up, but still feel attracted to each other. However, it turns out Valentine was lying about them being siblings, so they get back together.]] |
| 29 | ** Later Clary meets a guy named Sebastian and they kiss, though it feels wrong to Clary for some reason. He turns out to be her actual brother. Clary didn't know this, but Sebastian did. In ''City Of Lost Souls'' [[spoiler:Sebastian/Johnathan is shown to actually want her, backing her up against a wall and forcefully kissing her, while going on about how they can be evil and rule the world together.]] |
| 30 | * CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: She's the heroic counterpart to her estranged demonic brother, Jonathan.]] |
| 31 | * CallingTheOldManOut: For the entire duration of Jocelyn's kidnapping and subsequent coma, Clary is completely devoted to bringing her back. When Jocelyn finally is cured and returned, the very first thing Clary does is tear into her for depriving Clary of her Sight and not preparing her for the Shadowhunters' world. |
| 32 | * CartwrightCurse: The trope doesn't apply to her, although when she meets Sebastian/[[spoiler: Jonathan]] for the first time she describes him as looking like a character from her manga who was this. |
| 33 | * ChekhovsSkill: Her ability to draw - this helps her [[spoiler: create Runes of her own]]. |
| 34 | %% * DeadpanSnarker: Drifts into this sometimes, especially when talking to Jace. |
| 35 | %% * DemonSlaying: She's Nephilim, although she doesn't find out about this until her teens. She eventually becomes more comfortable with the whole ordeal. |
| 36 | * DieOrFly: A key part of her role as protagonist. Despite having been raised with no knowledge of her Nephilim ancestry she starts to exhibit an intuitive, and encyclopedic, knowledge of angelic runes once she gets caught up in the events of the Shadow World. She is even able to come up with powerful runes that other Shadowhunters have never seen before. [[spoiler: It turns out that the captive angel Ithuriel had been putting them into her mind, and this aspect of her abilities starts to diminish after he is freed, such that she can no longer pull new runes out of her head at will]]. |
| 37 | %% * {{Expy}}: Of the TheDracoTrilogy version of [[Literature/HarryPotter Ginny Weasley]]. |
| 38 | * FieryRedhead: Clary has red hair, is easily upset and often lashes out at people. |
| 39 | * FishOutOfWater: Clary is not a hardened Shadowhunter or a Downworlder like the rest of the cast, at least at first. |
| 40 | %% * IAmNotPretty: She considers herself an unattractive copy of her beautiful mother. |
| 41 | %% * ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: Some shades of this for the handsome, mysterious Jace, although it isn't very blatant. |
| 42 | * IdiotBall: |
| 43 | ** At the end of ''City Of Glass'', Clary decides to [[spoiler:wish Jace back to life. Which is great except she seems to have forgotten about all the other shadowhunters that died.]] Real considerate there, Clary. Though considering what happens [[spoiler:it causes Jonathan to come back to life and create an anti-nephilium group]], this might not be a bad thing. |
| 44 | ** She usually grabs the IdiotBall and runs with it whenever Jace is involved, like when [[spoiler:possessed!Jace is able to trick her into mind-control just by batting his eyelashes at her and playing on her hormones]]. |
| 45 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: Prior to ''City of Bones'', Jocelyn brought Clary to Magnus Bane every two years to have her memories of the Shadowhunter world wiped. |
| 46 | * LikeBrotherAndSister: She and Simon come off as this at first, until Simon gains the status of UnluckyChildhoodFriend before moving rather briefly into VictoriousChildhoodFriend and then going back to JustFriends. |
| 47 | * LiteralMinded: Jace once told Clary "If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you would have died at birth." |
| 48 | * LongLostRelative: |
| 49 | ** [[spoiler:Valentine Morgenstern is her biological father. He went into hiding before she was born]]. |
| 50 | ** [[spoiler: Subverted with Jace. Valentine makes them ''think'' they're long-lost siblings, but then Jocelyn reveals that they're not actually related.]] |
| 51 | ** [[spoiler: Played straight with Sebastian, her biological older brother. Their mother though he had died, so he was raised by Valentine while she was raised by Jocelyn.]] |
| 52 | * LoveMakesYouDumb: [[spoiler:Jace has been {{Brainwashed}} by Sebastian, who is about to bring his EvilPlan to fruition. Jace manages to escape Sebastian's control temporarily, and wants to flee with the MacGuffin back to the Shadowhunters in order to prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. However, afraid that the Shadowhunters will kill Jace to stop Sebastian, Clary keeps him from getting away, assuring that he ends up back under Sebastian's mind control and ultimately allowing Sebastian to advance his plan to the next stage]]. |
| 53 | * LoveMartyr: Clary is devoted to Jace, despite the fact that he is a DeathSeeker and/or a positive magnet for MindControl. |
| 54 | * LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Jonathan Clark, the man her mother told her was her father, was just a mere acquaintance. Her real father is Valentine Morgenstern.]] |
| 55 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 56 | ** Clary sage is a plant historically used to help clear the eyes, so Clary is a name suitable for a heroine who sees the Shadow world, which most people are blind to. The meaning behind her name is mentioned by Jace upon learning it in ''City of Bones''. |
| 57 | ** Subverted, in that her father wanted to name her Seraphina, which derives from [[spoiler: "seraphim", a class of [[AngelUnaware angels]]]]. Her mother named her Clarissa instead. |
| 58 | * MoralityPet: For Jace - [[spoiler:The reason he didn't go with Valentine through the Portal in ''City of Bones'' was because he was thinking of Clary.]] |
| 59 | %% * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Her wish to revive Jace results in him [[spoiler: in getting possessed by Lilith and then he falls under the MindControl of Sebastian.]] |
| 60 | %% * NotBloodSiblings: [[spoiler:Her and Jace.]] |
| 61 | * OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:With Jace]]. |
| 62 | * OneTrueLove: Jace's. She has stated before that if he were to die, there would just not be anyone else for her. |
| 63 | %% * RapeAsDrama: Well, almost-rape by [[spoiler:Sebastian]] no less. [[spoiler: When she confides to Jace about it afterwards, she worries that he will think less of her.]] |
| 64 | %% * SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: She inherited them from her mother. |
| 65 | %% * SlapSlapKiss: With Jace in the first book. She even literally slaps him at one point. |
| 66 | * SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:Comes very close to this in ''City of Fallen Angels'', courtesy of Jace (to be fair, he was under Lilith's MindRape at the time).]] |
| 67 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Like Maryse and Isabelle Lightwood, Jocelyn Fray greatly resembles her daughter, only with sharper features. |
| 68 | * SurpriseIncest: Subverted. [[spoiler:She and Jace are revealed to be siblings at the end of ''City of Bones''. They spend all of ''City of Ashes'' and most of ''City of Glass'' angsting about their attraction, until it's revealed that[[NotBloodSiblings Jace was adopted.]] Played straight with Sebastian/Jonathan, Clary's ''actual'' brother, [[VillainousIncest who kisses her despite knowing full well that she's his sister.]]]] |
| 69 | * TangledFamilyTree: She is raised by her mother Jocelyn, and thinks of her mother's devoted, if platonic, boyfriend Luke [[spoiler: who is really a Shadowhunter named Lucian Graymark that was turned into a werewolf]] as her stepfather. [[spoiler: He later gets a RelationshipUpgrade with Jocelyn]]. She believes her biological father was a soldier killed in action, but he is really [[spoiler:the BigBad Valentine Morgenstern]]. |
| 70 | %% * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Clary isn't exactly a tomboy, but fits the role in her relationship with Isabelle. |
| 71 | * WillTheyOrWontThey: With Jace. Nothing much ever seems to happen [[spoiler: until they figure out they aren't related.]] |
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| 74 | [[folder:Jace Herondale]] |
| 75 | !!Jonathan Christopher "Jace" Herondale (formerly Wayland, Morgenstern, and then Lightwood) |
| 76 | !!!'''Played by''': Creator/JamieCampbellBower (''Film/TheMortalInstrumentsCityOfBones''), Creator/DominicSherwood (''Series/{{Shadowhunters}}'') |
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| 78 | [[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jacewayland.png]] |
| 79 | [[caption-width-right:220:[[labelnote: Click here to see Jace in the film adaptation.]][[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jacewaylandfilm.png]][[/labelnote]]]] |
| 80 | [[caption-width-right:220:[[labelnote: Click here to see Jace in the TV adaptation.]][[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jacewaylandtv.png]][[/labelnote]]]] |
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| 82 | Sarcastic, cynical, and a ladies' man, Jace seems like the archetypal ByronicHero. But it's not like [[AwesomeEgo that arrogance is unfounded]] - Jace is widely renowned as one of the best - if not ''the'' best - Shadowhunters of his age. He lives with the Lightwoods at the Institute, and is, for some reason, incredibly attracted to Clary. |
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| 86 | * AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Valentine, who was posing as Michael Wayland, physically and emotionally abused him. He would regularly beat Jace and on one occasion killed Jace's pet falcon right in front of him]]. |
| 87 | * ActionHero: Jace is very willing to get into fights. |
| 88 | * AdaptationDyeJob: He has golden eyes in the book, but blue eyes in ''Film/TheMortalInstrumentsCityOfBones''. |
| 89 | * AngelUnaware: [[spoiler:The angel's blood that Valentine used to experiment on him with gave him certain characteristics (such as the ability to jump supernaturally high)]]. |
| 90 | * BadassBookworm: He is very knowledgeable of classical literature and very talented at killing demons. |
| 91 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:He got killed by Valentine, but Clary brings him back]]. |
| 92 | * BettyAndVeronica: He competes with Simon for Clary's affection. Jace is more mysterious and thrilling, but he can also be a jerk. [[spoiler: The fact that everyone briefly thought Jace was Clary's long-lost brother]] adds a ForbiddenFruit element to him too. Meanwhile, Simon is her casual friend that's she known her whole life. |
| 93 | * BigBrotherInstinct: He tends to be very protective of his adopted siblings. |
| 94 | * BigDamnHeroes: In ''City of Glass'', he saves Clary from being killed by Valentine. [[spoiler:Valentine then proceeds to kill Jace seconds after he gives his NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech]]. |
| 95 | * BioAugmentation: [[spoiler:Valentine added angel's blood to him before he was born, through the naivete of his birth mother Celine Herondale]]. |
| 96 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:In ''City of Fallen Angels'', after his rebirth, Jace is left vulnerable to demonic possession; his death erased the protective effects of a magic ritual all newborn Shadowhunters are given to protect them demonic possession. Lilith takes advantage of his new Achilles' heel, sending him nightmares and forcing him to do her bidding. Even after she's defeated, Jace is then forced into a corrupted form of the ''parabatai'' bond, wherein Sebastian imposes his will and beliefs onto Jace]]. |
| 97 | * BrotherSisterIncest: In ''City of Bones'', [[spoiler:a fortune teller tells him that he will "Love the wrong person". He falls in love with Clary, who turns out to be his sister. Subverted when they end up not related. He is the son of Stephan Herondale, his supposed father's second second-in-command]]. |
| 98 | * ByronicHero: Handsome, brooding, charismatic, aloof, the list goes on. Also a DeathSeeker and drenched in {{Mangst}}. Jace has a very strong personal presence, but he's not exactly a source of much positivity. |
| 99 | %% * CainAndAbel: With Sebastian who, though they're not related, were both raised by the same man, and Sebastian even refers to him as 'little brother'. |
| 100 | %% * CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler:A difficult feat for Jace, even after years of having been abandoned by Valentine.]] |
| 101 | * TheCasanova: He is implied to have been involved with lots of girls, and he flirts with Kaelie in ''City of Bones''. However, prior to Clary he was never in a long term relationship. |
| 102 | * CassandraTruth: In ''City of Glass'', his outright dislike and suspicion of Sebastian raises a ''lot'' of eyebrows [[spoiler:despite the fact that he was right all along]]. |
| 103 | %% * ChronicHeroSyndrome: Especially when the end result will end up benefiting Clary. |
| 104 | %% * CrazyJealousGuy: Does have a tendency to lapse into this, especially when it concerns Clary and another guy. |
| 105 | * CunningLinguist: He's fluent in several languages. |
| 106 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Blonde hair and golden eyes. |
| 107 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: He saw his father, Michael Wayland, murdered in a pool of his own blood. [[spoiler:That was staged, of course. And Michael Wayland was never his father.]] |
| 108 | * DeadpanSnarker: The snarkiest in a WorldOfSnark. Applies mostly in the books |
| 109 | * DeathSeeker: Can get like this often, much to the frustration of Alec and Isabelle, and later almost everyone else. Sometimes it is just reckless overconfidence, other times it is because of his traumatically confusing family history. |
| 110 | * DemonSlaying: He's a Nephilim, it's a requirement. Although, he is more intensely focused on it, then other people. |
| 111 | %% * DisneyDeath: He gets better the second time. |
| 112 | * DistinguishingMark: The star-shaped mark on his shoulder [[spoiler:which is a birthmark of the Herondale family]]. |
| 113 | * DistressedDude: A recurring plot in almost every book is him being held in some form of captivity. This despite the fact that he is one of the most skilled [[DemonSlaying Shadowhunters]] of his generation. Most of it is that he is a bit of a DeathSeeker, and a large amount of effort on the part of his family and friends goes into getting him out of whatever trouble he has gotten into. In ''City of Bones'' his best friend [[BeleagueredAssistant Alec]] had initially never slain a demon, primarily because his main focus was on keeping Jace alive instead. |
| 114 | %% * {{Expy}}: Of the TheDracoTrilogy version of [[Literature/HarryPotter Draco Malfoy]]. |
| 115 | * FearlessFool: In ''City of Ashes'', he gets a Fearless rune put on him by Clary. After a few minutes of fighting TheLegionsOfHell, he notes that the rune might be ''a little bit'' of too much of a good thing. In particular, he notes how blasé he was becoming in regards to injuries. |
| 116 | * FlatEarthAtheist: He considers himself an agnostic even though he belongs to an order founded by angel and has met and killed many a demon himself. He claims it's because he's never personally met an angel or knows anyone who has but he does know that holy water, sacred ground and blessed weapons work because he uses them on a regular basis! |
| 117 | * HappilyAdopted: By the Lightwoods. Granted, Maryse and Robert are not the most emotionally engaged of parents, but they do care for him greatly. His adoptive siblings all love him dearly. Clary lampshades this when he is angsting about his lack of a last name and she points out that he's always been Jace Lightwood. |
| 118 | * HarmfulToMinors: His childhood, basically, the least of which involved his father murdering his pet falcon. |
| 119 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Alec Lightwood. [[spoiler:Alec's sexuality and initial attraction to Jace]] notwithstanding, the two share a "parabatai" bond which is explicitly stated as being a permanent platonic bond of partnership even stronger than that of brothers. |
| 120 | * IdiotBall: Grabs it with a bloody deathgrip when he refuses to tell anyone about the possible [[spoiler:prophetic dreams he's having about murdering Clary until it's almost too late, nearly starves himself to death, doesn't sleep... oh, and ends up getting himself possessed by Sebastian. What an IDIOT.]] |
| 121 | * IHaveManyNames: He changed his surname quite a few times due to the confusion about who his father was. He first was Jace Wayland, Jace [[spoiler:Morgenstern]], Jace [[spoiler:Herondale]] and Jace Lightwood. He eventually decides [[spoiler: to stick with Herondale.]] |
| 122 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: While he unquestionably cares for some people, he also considers hurting them emotionally an acceptable outlet for his own {{Mangst}}. Also, can remain prejudiced easily even if the basis of his prejudice towards the target changes. For example, he seamlessly switches from calling Simon "mundane" to [[spoiler:"the vampire"]] as if he simply cannot remember the personal names of anyone who is not a Shadowhunter. |
| 123 | * JumpPhysics: He has the ability to jump supernaturally high, thanks to the [[spoiler: angel's blood.]] |
| 124 | %% * LadykillerInLove: With Clary, naturally. |
| 125 | * LikeBrotherAndSister: With Isabelle, with whom he has a purely platonic relationship. |
| 126 | * LightningBruiser: Jace is very fast, very strong, and very enduring, thanks to [[spoiler:Valentine]]'s training. |
| 127 | * LongLostRelative: |
| 128 | ** [[spoiler:Subverted. For a time, Valentine tricks him and Clary into thinking they're lost long siblings. Its turns out that Jace was actually adopted]]. |
| 129 | ** [[spoiler: Imogen Herondale realizes that Jace is her grandchild -- whom she thought died in the womb -- not long before she dies. Jace himself doesn't learn of their connection until the following book.]] |
| 130 | * LoveMartyr: Jace is obsessively devoted to Clary, even when he believes [[spoiler: that they are siblings]]. |
| 131 | * LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Michael Wayland was never his father. Valentine Morgenstern is, he raised Jace while under the guise of Michael Wayland]]. Though ''City of Glass'' reveals that [[spoiler:his father was actually Stephen Herondale. Valentine adopted him after his mother died, but [[SecretOtherFamily he kept him a secret from his real son]], and vice versa]]. |
| 132 | * {{Mangst}}: A fair-sized chunk of the conflicts in the series are in some way related to the fact that Jace tries to conceal emotional and physical problems even from Clary and Alec. He will go into dangerous situations alone to try to work out his issues, which rarely ends well. His DeathSeeker tendencies are tied directly to this. |
| 133 | * MrFanservice: Much attention is given to how attractive Jace is, especially since the viewpoint character is in love with him. |
| 134 | * NayTheist: He ''believes'' that there is a God, just not that God cares, after seeing his father murdered in front of him. |
| 135 | * NeatFreak: Clary notes that his room is as neat as a pin. When he is rooming with Magnus Bane, the poor messy warlock is driven nuts by Jace fixing up his apartment. |
| 136 | %% * NotBloodSiblings: Him and the Lightwoods, and [[spoiler:him and Clary after all]]. |
| 137 | * OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:With Clary]]. |
| 138 | * {{Omniglot}}: Jace can speak a ''lot'' of languages, thanks to all the training his father put him to. An example is when he speaks to Sebastian in Romanian in ''City of Glass''. |
| 139 | --> '''Jace''': "De ce crezi ca va ascultam conversatia?"/"Why do you think I was listening to your conversation?" |
| 140 | --> '''Sebastian''': "M-ai urmarit de când ai ajuns aici. Nu-mi dau seama daca nu ma placi ori daca esti atât de banuitor cu toata lumea.” / "You've been watching me since you got here. I can't tell if you don't like me or you're just this suspicious of everyone." |
| 141 | * OneTrueLove: Clary's. She is the one person he cant live without. In a parallel universe, her death is the one that destroys him and ultimately makes him a villain. |
| 142 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Jace comes from [[spoiler: the initials for Jonathan Christopher]], which hardly anyone calls him. When his full name is revealed at the end of the first book, its significant because [[spoiler:it makes Clary think he's her long-lost brother, who also had the initials J.C.]] |
| 143 | %% * PetTheDog: |
| 144 | %% ** All his interactions with Max fall under this. |
| 145 | %% ** Also to Clary when he's not being a Jerkass. |
| 146 | * PlayfulCatSmile: Clary often likens his smile to that of a cat, adding that it comes of as mischievous. |
| 147 | %% * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: A horribly serious example. He gives Clary one in the beginning of ''City of Glass''. He later apologizes and acknowledges that he basically criticized Clary for having the same FatalFlaw he is equally guilty of having. |
| 148 | * SecretOtherFamily: [[spoiler:He was being raised alongside Jonathan Christopher/Sebastian without ever knowing it]]. |
| 149 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Manly Man to Alec's Sensitive Guy. Jace is aggressive, forward and often downright antagonistic even in the face of Shadowhunters of much higher rank than him. Alec is shy, reserved and is easily hurt emotionally. |
| 150 | * ShipperOnDeck: For [[spoiler:Alec and Magnus, despite traditional Shadowhunter prejudices about both homosexuality and Downworlders]]. |
| 151 | * SignificantMonogram: [[spoiler:Jonathan Christopher]] "Jace" Wayland. The "[[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} JC]]" variation. |
| 152 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler:Amatis tells Jace that he looks exactly like Stephen Herondale did save for his mother (Celine)'s eyes.]] |
| 153 | * SurpriseIncest: Subverted. [[spoiler:He and Clary are revealed to be siblings at the end of ''City of Bones''. They spend all of ''City of Ashes'' and most of ''City of Glass'' angsting about their attraction, until it's revealed that [[NotBloodSiblings he was adopted.]]]] |
| 154 | * TangledFamilyTree: He is [[spoiler:supposedly the son of Michael Wayland. But then it turns out that Michael was murdered and the man who supposedly fathered him was really Valentine Morgenstern, leading to a BrotherSisterIncest problem with Clary. It later turns out that his actual biological father was Valentine's right-hand man Stephen Herondale]]. Needless to say, Jace goes through a great many surname changes, although he often uses Lightwood after his adoptive parents and siblings. [[spoiler:Worth noting that Stephen had previously been married to Luke's sister]]. Although after ''City of Heavenly Fire'', [[spoiler:he adopts his father's last name, Herondale]]. |
| 155 | %% * ToughLove: His confrontation with Alec about Alec's "secret crush" on him could be construed as this. |
| 156 | * {{Wangst}}: [[invoked]] Hilariously used by Alec to shut Jace down when Jace was being critical of the way Alec was wrecked over his breakup with Magnus. Alec finally found his sass and retaliated: |
| 157 | -->'''Jace:''' You're pining. |
| 158 | -->'''Alec:''' Look who's talking. 'Oh, I love her. Oh, she's my sister. Oh, why, why, why--' |
| 159 | * WillTheyOrWontThey: With Clary. Nothing much ever seems to happen [[spoiler: until they figure out they aren't related.]] |
| 160 | %% * WingedHumanoid: In Clary's dream and sketch. |
| 161 | * YouKilledMyFather: Subverted. He [[spoiler:initially believes that Valentine killed his father, until a declaration of LukeIAmYourFather. Double subverted when it's revealed that Jace is not Valentine's son and that he really did kill Jace's father, albeit not directly]]. |
| 162 | %% * VitriolicBestBuds: Eventually becomes one with Simon |
| 163 | [[/folder]] |
| 164 | |
| 165 | [[folder:Simon Lewis]] |
| 166 | !!Simon Lovelace (né Lewis) |
| 167 | !!!'''Played by''': Creator/RobertSheehan (''Film/TheMortalInstrumentsCityOfBones''), Creator/AlbertoRosende (''Series/{{Shadowhunters}}'') |
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| 169 | [[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/simonlewis.png]] |
| 170 | [[caption-width-right:220:[[labelnote: Click here to see Simon in the film adaptation.]][[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/simonlewisfilm.png]][[/labelnote]]]] |
| 171 | [[caption-width-right:220:[[labelnote: Click here to see Simon in the TV adaptation.]][[quoteright:219:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sim.jpg]][[/labelnote]]]] |
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| 173 | Clary's best (and probably ''only'') friend, Simon, along with her, inevitably discovers the world of the Shadowhunters - something he eventually becomes a part of. |
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| 177 | * AdaptationDyeJob: Has brown eyes in the book, but has green eyes in ''Film/TheMortalInstrumentsCityOfBones''. |
| 178 | * AdrenalineMakeover: [[spoiler: After getting turned into a vampire and everything, Isabelle notes he's gotten more attractive.]] |
| 179 | * {{Animorphism}}: Simon is turned into a rat in ''City Of Bones''. |
| 180 | * BettyAndVeronica: |
| 181 | ** At first he competes with Jace to be with Clary. Jace is new and exciting, while Simon is an ordinary guy whom Clary has grown up with. [[spoiler: He does date her briefly, but then they decide they're BetterAsFriends.]] |
| 182 | ** He himself is hit by this when he starts dating Maia and Isabelle, whom he describes as a 'steady candle' and 'burning star' respectively. [[spoiler: They both break up with him, but he gets back together with Isabelle.]] |
| 183 | %% ** Later, he becomes the Archie to Maia's Betty and Isabelle's Veronica. |
| 184 | %% * BirdsOfAFeather: Seemingly with Maia. |
| 185 | * BloodLust: [[spoiler:After he becomes a vampire, he needs blood. Badly. After he is imprisoned by Inquisitor Aldertree, the latter tries to starve him to death to find out the secret of his being able to walk in daylight.]] |
| 186 | %% * BoyNextDoor: Caring, attentive, and has been at Clary's side for years. |
| 187 | %%* DeadpanSnarker: One of the snarkiest in the books. And that's saying something. |
| 188 | * DistinguishingMark: The [[spoiler: ability to walk in sunlight, nicknaming him "Daylighter" and the Mark of Cain, though he later loses the latter.]] |
| 189 | %% * {{Expy}}: Is a CompositeCharacter of the TheDracoTrilogy versions of [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Seamus Finnigan]]. |
| 190 | * FishOutOfWater: He is not a hardened Shadowhunter or a Downworlder like the rest of the cast. [[spoiler:He does get turned into the latter.]] |
| 191 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: In ''City of Bones'', Simon makes a joke about Jewish Vampires. [[spoiler:That's exactly what he ends up becoming in ''City of Ashes'']]. |
| 192 | * {{Geek}}: Big time. He has several geeky interests, including video games, and comics. |
| 193 | * HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster: Clary gives him pamphlets about coming out to help him tell his religious mom [[spoiler:he's a vampire]]. |
| 194 | %% * IHateYouVampireDad: [[spoiler: To Raphael.]] |
| 195 | %% * IJustWantToBeSpecial: To the point of genuine pathos. It gets him in trouble though. |
| 196 | * InSeriesNickname: He is often called Daylighter by Downworlders, [[spoiler:for that unique, annoying detail about being a vampire that can walk around in sunlight. Thanks, Jace's angel blood]]. |
| 197 | * InsultOfEndearment: Following Jace's lead, the Shadowhunters tend to consistently refer to Simon as "the mundane", despite him proving himself useful (and at one point saving their lives). Later on it gets switched to [[spoiler: "vampire"]], although Isabelle in particular becomes less prone to use the latter. |
| 198 | * JewishAndNerdy: He's a Jewish, shy, awkward, Dungeons and Dragons-loving guy who [[HopelessSuitor can't get Clary to notice that he's in love with her]] (and is eventually rejected in favor of the dashing hero Jace.) |
| 199 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: Asmodeus takes all of his memories of Clary and the Shadow World from him as part of the deal to return everybody from Edom to Earth. This is both because he relishes human memories and he knows it will hurt all of Simon's friends, especially Isabelle, to be forgotten by him. Magnus is able to restore some fragments of Simon's memories, but for the most part he has to start over from scratch by becoming a Shadowhunter]]. |
| 200 | * LikeBrotherAndSister: He and Clary come off as this at first, until he gains the status of UnluckyChildhoodFriend before moving rather briefly into VictoriousChildhoodFriend and then going back to JustFriends. [[spoiler: They become parabatai after he Ascends.]] |
| 201 | * LoveMartyr: Simon is devoted to Clary, He [[IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy hangs in there]] even after it is absolutely clear that Clary wants to be with Jace and he himself begins to date other (supernatural) girls. |
| 202 | * MaliciousMisnaming: Magnus calls Simon a variety of names starting with S, and very rarely calls him by his name. |
| 203 | * MuggleBestFriend: He's the only "regular" main character [[spoiler: at first]] and only gets involved in the adventure because his friend Clary finds out that she's a Shadowhunter. Jace, Alec, and Izzy are initially skeptical about bringing him along since they don't think a "mundane" can keep up with them. [[spoiler: Subverted later on when he gets turned into a vampire, thus making him a Downworlder like Luke and Magnus, and a Shadowhunter after he loses his memory and enrolls in the Shadowhunter Academy.]] |
| 204 | %% * NiceJewishBoy: He has to be in order to be the [[BettyAndVeronica Betty.]] |
| 205 | * NonActionGuy: In ''City of Bones'', he is the only main character that is [[spoiler:100% a mundane]] and is depicted as totally normal and needs rescuing from a hotel crammed with vampires. However, this is ended when he [[spoiler:kills a Greater Demon]], and then is [[spoiler:turned into a vampire in ''City of Ashes''. He ends becoming a Shadowhunter later]]. |
| 206 | * NotGrowingUpSucks: [[spoiler: He is dismayed at being sixteen forever, saying that [[ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty it's one thing to be frozen at twenty-five]] but looking how he is he is never going to grow into his features. Or get a drink. And there's the fact that he's going to far outlive his friends.]] |
| 207 | * OperationJealousy: He hangs around Isabelle to make Clary jealous when it seems like she's not interested in him, although this develops into something more genuine. |
| 208 | * OnlyFriend: He's the only mundane Clary is ever seen interacting with. |
| 209 | * OnlySaneMan: Recognized that loving Clary was a dead end, and had enough self-respect to stop. |
| 210 | * PostKissCatatonia: He's stunned stupid after Isabelle kisses him. |
| 211 | * PowerTattoo: In ''City of Glass'', he receives [[spoiler:the Mark of Cain, which dates way back to the book of Genesis. Clary puts it on him to save his life. It actually comes in handy several times during ''City of Fallen Angels'', as anybody who tries to lay hands on him gets punishment laid down on them sevenfold. In ''City of Lost Souls'', the angel Raziel removes the Mark of Cain when Simon summons him, in exchange for a heavenly sword to sever the bond beyond Jace and Johnathan/Sebastian]]. |
| 212 | * TheProtagonist: He is the main character of Literature/TalesFromTheShadowhunterAcademy. |
| 213 | * RomanticRunnerUp: Clary chooses Jace instead of him, although [[BetterAsFriends he doesn't seem too affected by it in the long run]]. |
| 214 | * SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Towards Maureen, whom he is genuinely not interested in despite her liking him to an absurd degree. It comes back to bite him in the ass later on. |
| 215 | %% * ShipTease: With Isabelle and Maia. [[spoiler: It seems he and Isabelle are veering closer towards coupledom, while Maia is paired off with ex-boyfriend Jordan. He eventually does get together with her and now they're engaged.]] |
| 216 | * SlashedThroat: In ''City of Ashes'', [[spoiler: Valentine does this to collect Simon's blood. [[UnexplainedRecovery He gets better, probably because Jace gives him his blood.]]]] |
| 217 | * TokenMinority: He's Jewish. [[spoiler: This is especially hard for him once he becomes a vampire.]] |
| 218 | * TooDumbToLive: Breaking into a hotel of murderous vampires that have expressed that they wouldn't mind having an excuse to turn you into hamburger meat isn't such a good idea. Especially if you go alone. And do it at night. Sure the [[spoiler: vampire blood was summoning him back to Raphael, and he would have given in and sought them out sooner or later,]] but if he had only asked Luke, he would have known to wait a few more days[[spoiler:, and the blood would have gone out of his system, as well as the compulsion it had on him to return to Raphael]]. |
| 219 | * WalkingTheEarth: [[spoiler:He's scared he's going to end up doing this, with the Mark of Cain and everything. Good for him the angel Raziel removes it.]] |
| 220 | %% * WhoWantstoLiveForever: [[spoiler: And he won't. Asmodeus considers his Daylighter form of vampiric immortality to be such a rare and valuable source of energy that he is willing to trade safe passage from Edom to Earth in exchange for it. He even "generously" turns Simon back into a human, rather than simply taking his life entirely]]. |
| 221 | %% * VitriolicBestBuds: Eventually becomes one with Jace |
| 222 | [[/folder]] |
| 223 | |
| 224 | [[folder:Alec Lightwood]] |
| 225 | !!Alexander "Alec" Gideon Lightwood[[spoiler:-Bane]] |
| 226 | !!!'''Played by''': Creator/KevinZegers (''Film/TheMortalInstrumentsCityOfBones''), Creator/MatthewDaddario (''Series/{{Shadowhunters}}'') |
| 227 | |
| 228 | [[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aleclightwood.png]] |
| 229 | [[caption-width-right:221:[[labelnote: Click here to see Alec in the film adaptation.]][[quoteright:221:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aleclightwoodfilm.png]][[/labelnote]]]] |
| 230 | [[caption-width-right:220:[[labelnote: Click here to see Alec in the TV adaptation.]][[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/al.jpg]][[/labelnote]]]] |
| 231 | |
| 232 | The eldest Lightwood sibling, who is shyer, snarkier, and generally less welcoming, but his cold, standoffish persona crumbles faster. |
| 233 | |
| 234 | ---- |
| 235 | |
| 236 | * AdaptationDyeJob: He went from having black hair in the books, to being brunet in ''Film/TheMortalInstrumentsCityOfBones''. |
| 237 | * AloofBigBrother: Alec confesses that he was one to Max, who was closer to adopted brother Jace, because Alec was mostly concerned with keeping Max out of trouble and safe rather than doing fun and exciting stuff with him. |
| 238 | * {{Ambadassador}}: By the time of the ''Literature/TalesFromTheShadowhunterAcademy'' story "Born To Endless Night", [[spoiler:Alec has become this to the Downworlders of New York City. He is the preferred go-to Shadowhunter for both Lily Chen (leader of the vampires) and Maia Roberts ( leader of the werewolves). Less combative than Jace and a ''lot'' less high-handed than Maryse, the Downworlders look to him for guidance in solving problems. But it is also understood that he will be no less decisive in dealing with problems that they let get out of control]]. |
| 239 | -->[[spoiler:'''Lily:''' I stopped Elliott in time. I knew you'd kill him, and then I knew you'd give me your disappointed look]]. |
| 240 | * ArmoredClosetGay: He desperately tried to hide the fact that the he was gay, because of the homophobia in the Shadowhunter society and because he was afraid his parents wouldn't accept it. |
| 241 | %% * AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Courtesy of [[spoiler: Magnus Bane.]] |
| 242 | * BattleCouple: He fights alongside [[spoiler: his boyfriend Magnus Bane in the final battle]]. |
| 243 | %% * BetaCouple: [[spoiler: With Magnus; despite dancing around the issue they get together far more smoothly than Jace and Clary.]] |
| 244 | * BigBrotherInstinct: He takes his job as the eldest Lightwood sibling very seriously and displays a protectiveness over his friends. He is the oldest of the teenage cast and turns eighteen after the first book, making him legally an 'adult' and increasing his sense of responsibility for the others. In City of Bones it's explicitly stated that he's never killed a demon because he's too busy watching Jace and Isabelle's backs. |
| 245 | * ClosetGay: He hides the fact that he is gay, because of the homophobic attitudes most Shadowhunters have. His friends and siblings figure it out by themselves, but his parents remain oblivious, until he comes out by kissing Magnus in front of everyone. |
| 246 | * ComingOutStory: [[spoiler:In ''City of Glass'', he comes out rather awesomely by kissing Magnus in the middle of the entire Clave, including his parents]]. |
| 247 | %% * DemonSlaying: He's Nephilim. However, it's noted that up until late in the story he's never killed a demon because he's always looking out for Isabelle and Jace, who tend to do most of the dirty work. |
| 248 | * DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm: Occasionally he's seen to be very LiteralMinded. |
| 249 | %% * {{Expy}}: Of the TheDracoTrilogy version of [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry Potter]]. |
| 250 | * {{Gayngst}}: He struggles with his sexuality, thanks to the homophobic Shadowhunter society. |
| 251 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Jace Wayland. [[spoiler:His sexuality and initial attraction to Jace]] notwithstanding, the two share a "parabatai" bond which is explicitly stated as being a permanent platonic bond of partnership even stronger than that of brothers. |
| 252 | * ImmortalitySeeker: Looks into this when he begins to angst over [[spoiler:the fact that he is mortal and Magnus is immortal]], but [[ImmortalityImmorality flatly rejects the use of dark magic or becoming a vampire as options]]. |
| 253 | * IncompatibleOrientation: [[spoiler: He had feelings for Jace, but never said anything because Jace is straight.]] |
| 254 | * InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler:With warlock, Magnus Bane]]. |
| 255 | %% * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Is actually very loyal and loving under the stern exterior. |
| 256 | * LiteralMinded: He has a tendency to misinterpret sarcasm. |
| 257 | * MayflyDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:Alec becomes involved with Magnus Bane, who is around 400 years old, when he is only seventeen and enters a relationship with him at eighteen. The fact the Magnus is an immortal warlock while Alec is human becomes a plot point in ''City of Fallen Angels'']]. |
| 258 | * NoSenseOfHumor: Possibly because he tries too hard to be the mature one of the group. |
| 259 | * ObliviousToLove: He is a rather... odd example. Despite the fact that he and [[spoiler:Magnus]] were dating, he is caught completely by surprise by [[spoiler:Magnus's AnguishedDeclarationOfLove in ''City of Glass'']]. In his defense, [[spoiler:he was still hung up on [[IncompatibleOrientation Jace]], and his relationship with Magnus was just supposed to be a casual thing. He gets over both Jace and his obliviousness by the end of ''City of Glass'', though.]] |
| 260 | * ProperlyParanoid: After finding out a bit of Magnus's romantic past, he is shocked by how many people and the kinds of people (namely the various species and genders) his boyfriend has been with. Needless to say, he becomes a bit paranoid about it. Later that day, they are at a party with a group of their friends and Magnus mentions to a werewolf boy they had just met that he once knew the werewolf that founded the organization the boy was part of. Alec, who had been quietly sulking until this point coldly asks, "Did you sleep with him, too?". This comes off sounded like an overreaction and paranoia about someone casually mentioned as an icebreaker. [[spoiler:That is, until you read ''[[Literature/TheInfernalDevices Clockwork Prince]]'', where it is revealed that Magnus was indeed involved with him at some point. The author stated that she did this to show that Alec had a right to be paranoid about Magnus's romantic past]]. |
| 261 | * TheReliableOne: Alec often seems to be less overtly swashbuckling than Jace or Isabelle. But Magnus observes that Alec instinctively responds to people needing him, and will go to great lengths to help them. As a result, by the time of the ''Literature/TalesFromTheShadowhunterAcademy'' story "Born To Endless Night" [[spoiler:he has become a cohesive force between the Shadowhunters and Downworlders of New York City. To the extent that vampire leader Lily Chen considers him an exception to her personal rule about keeping Shadowhunters out of Downworlder business because she knows he will just help solve problems rather than chastising her about the Law]]. |
| 262 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Sensitive guy to Jace's manly man. Alec is shy, reserved and is easily hurt emotionally. Jace is aggressive, forward and often downright antagonistic even in the face of Shadowhunters of much higher rank than him. |
| 263 | * ShippingTorpedo: He isn't a fan of Jace/Clary at first, because Jace keeps putting himself in danger for Clary and [[spoiler: because Alec has feelings for [[EvenTheGuysWanthim Jace]] himself]]. This doesn't last past the first book (partially because Alec and Clary make amends, partially because [[spoiler: Clary and Jace think they are siblings]]). By the time Clary and Jace actually begin dating Alec has grown to like Clary and [[spoiler: fallen in love with Magnus]], so he doesn't become this again. |
| 264 | * SiblingYinYang: With Isabelle. Unlike her, Clary notes that Alec is shyer, easier to guilt, and tries everything he can to downplay the good looks he shares with his sister. |
| 265 | * SingleTargetSexuality: [[spoiler: Towards Jace, or so he thinks anyway. Once he begins dating Magnus Bane he starts coming to terms with the fact that he really is gay. Jace puts the final nail in the coffin by confronting Alec, telling him that he was only infatuated with Jace because it was a "safe", guaranteed unrequited love that he could use as an excuse to avoid other relationships. He proves the point by demanding that Alec kiss him, which Alec cannot bring himself to do]]. |
| 266 | * StraightGay: He doesn't have any of the stereotypical traits of a gay man. For example he absolutely doesn't care about clothes or his appearance, he is not effeminate and he is a really great fighter. |
| 267 | * TallDarkAndHandsome: He shares his mother's dark hair and good looks and Clary describes him having long limbs like a dancer. |
| 268 | %% * TallDarkAndSnarky: He can be this at times. |
| 269 | * TransparentCloset: [[spoiler: In ''City of Glass'', everyone seems to know that Alec is gay before he tells them. Except his parents, judging by their reaction to him kissing Magnus in the Accords Hall]]. |
| 270 | * WhatBeautifulEyes: Magnus is very drawn to Alec's blue eyes. |
| 271 | [[/folder]] |
| 272 | |
| 273 | [[folder:Isabelle Lightwood]] |
| 274 | !!Isabelle Sophia Lightwood |
| 275 | !!!'''Played by''': Creator/JemimaWest (''Film/TheMortalInstrumentsCityOfBones''), Creator/EmeraudeToubia (''Series/{{Shadowhunters}}'') |
| 276 | |
| 277 | [[quoteright:221:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/isabellelightwood.png]] |
| 278 | [[caption-width-right:221:[[labelnote: Click here to see Isabelle in the film adaptation.]][[quoteright:221:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/isabellelightwoodfilm.png]][[/labelnote]]]] |
| 279 | [[caption-width-right:221:[[labelnote: Click here to see Isabelle in the TV adaptation.]][[quoteright:221:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/iz.jpg]][[/labelnote]]]] |
| 280 | |
| 281 | Alec's younger sister, Isabelle is beautiful, confident, and dangerous - she is an accomplished Shadowhunter, after all. Being the middle child, Isabelle is rebellious and attention-seeking. The snobbish, FantasticRacism she seems to hold against non-Shadowhunters, as well as the IceQueen persona she upholds, starts to crumble once she meets Clary and Simon. |
| 282 | |
| 283 | ---- |
| 284 | * AbortedArc: The question why Isabelle's eye colors do not match with her parents is ultimately never answered. The second half of ''The Mortal Instruments'' implies that Isabelle's true biological mother is not Maryse, but rather the woman Robert had an affair with after he was exiled from Idris to the United States, but this is never confirmed nor disproved and the issue is quietly dropped after Robert and Maryse choose to separate in ''City of Heavenly Fire''. According to WordofGod, [[https://cassandraclare.tumblr.com/post/89970218289/about-isabelles-eye-color the reason why this was never addressed is that there was never supposed to be a mystery surrounding her eye color to begin with]]. Isabelle has dark eyes because Clare has a friend with brown eyes who has two blue-eyed biological parents; genetics simply don't always work like people think they do.[[invoked]] |
| 285 | * ActionGirl: She is a very talented at killing demons. She is especially great with a whip. [[spoiler: She even briefly gets the drop on Sebastian.]] |
| 286 | * AdaptationDyeJob: She went from having black hair in the books, to being brunette in ''Film/TheMortalInstrumentsCityOfBones''. Also her eyes went from dark brown to blue. |
| 287 | * AffectionateNickname: Alec and Jace call her "Izzy" when they're being affectionate to her. Later on, Clary and Simon pick this up as well. |
| 288 | * AloofDarkHairedGirl: Described as a StatuesqueStunner with waist-length dark hair. She's also very proud and distant, as well as an accomplished Shadowhunter. |
| 289 | * BigSisterInstinct: Do not mess with her siblings. [[spoiler: Max's death hits her ''hard'' as she was in charge of him at the time.]] |
| 290 | * BrattyTeenageDaughter: She has some shades of this, constantly complaining and lashing out at her parents. [[spoiler: It was implied that this was at least partially a ploy to distract their parents from Alec's homosexuality.]] |
| 291 | * BuxomBeautyStandard: Her bust is described to be on the larger side, with [[ACupAngst Clary being somewhat envious of her]]. |
| 292 | * CombatStilettos: Isabelle wears heels constantly and fights in them when she needs to. She has even been known to use them as weapons, slashing and impaling targets with her kicks. |
| 293 | * TheConfidant: Her mother Maryse confided in her about the problems in her marriage. |
| 294 | * CoolBigSis: She acted like cool and mature older figure to her little Max, who grew to really look up to her. [[spoiler:She's crushed after his death, and even arranges her engagement party to be on his birthday so she could feel he was part of it somehow.]] |
| 295 | * DatingWhatDaddyHates: She dates anybody but other Shadowhunters, intentionally bringing home boys she knows her parents would disapprove of. Jace says it's to get attention, it works - in the wrong way. |
| 296 | * DefrostingIceQueen: Like her brother, she is not very fond of Clary at first. Later, though, she begins to open up to her. |
| 297 | * DoesNotLikeMen: While she is not averse to dating them, she distrusts men in general (in contrast to Jace and Alec, who wear their hearts on their sleeves) [[spoiler: because she was TheConfidant to her mother, who told her how her marriage to Robert was breaking apart.]] [[spoiler: She grows out of this when she genuinely falls for Simon.]] |
| 298 | * EnhancedArchaicWeapon: She uses a silver-gold whip when she fights demons, one which can somehow cut through flesh and bone. It's partially magical, however, which explains its unusual cutting capacity. |
| 299 | %% * {{Expy}}: Of the TheDracoTrilogy version of [[Literature/HarryPotter Blaise Zabini]]. |
| 300 | * {{Foil}}: The seasoned, snobbish, girly Nephilim to Clary's naive idealist tomboy. |
| 301 | * HardDrinkingPartyGirl: She enjoys going out clubbing and drinking with her friends or suitors. |
| 302 | * HiddenDepths: She's actually quite lonely underneath her snobbish exterior. |
| 303 | * InterspeciesRomance: |
| 304 | ** She briefly dates Meliorn, a half-faerie knight, in ''City of Ashes''. |
| 305 | ** She begins dating Simon, a vampire, in ''City of Fallen Angels''. Later averted when [[spoiler: Simon reverts back to a human and undergoes Ascension to become a Shadowhunter. As of ''Lady Midnight'', they are engaged]]. |
| 306 | * ItsAllMyFault: Believes [[spoiler: Max's death to be her fault, as she was in charge of him at the time.]] |
| 307 | * LadyOfWar: Isabelle is the daughter of an old, prestigious, Shadowhunter family. She herself is very talented at DemonSlaying and manages to fight quite effectively even while wearing dresses and high heels. Her preferred tactic is to use her weapon of choice, an enchanted whip made of electrum (an alloy of gold and silver). Also noted for BeautyIsNeverTarnished -- she can join her brothers fighting monsters underground without getting dirty even as they are covered in filth. When asked how she manages it, she remarks: |
| 308 | -->'''Isabelle:''' I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt. |
| 309 | * LethalChef: Although she enjoys cooking, Isabelle isn't good at it and everyone hates her food. Her mother didn't teach her how to cook because she was afraid Isabelle would be told to StayInTheKitchen. |
| 310 | * LikeBrotherAndSister: With Jace, with whom she has a purely platonic relationship. |
| 311 | * LongHairIsFeminine: The most traditionally feminine character out of the main cast, and she has long hair that goes down to her waist. |
| 312 | * MiddleChildSyndrome: Isabelle is always raring to go into fights, not to mention she consistently dates boys her parents would hate. Jace says she does it to get attention, as she is not only the only girl but also the middle child. |
| 313 | * TheProudElite: She has RavenHairIvorySkin, is extremely cold and proud, and actively partakes in Shadowhunters' FantasticRacism. She defrosts rather quickly, though. |
| 314 | * ProudBeauty: She's quite aware and is very confident about her good looks, and often likes to dress to impress. |
| 315 | * RavenHairIvorySkin: Isabelle is very beautiful, with pale, clear skin and long dark hair. |
| 316 | * RazorFloss: Edges her whip. [[spoiler:She uses it to take off Sebastian's hand in ''City of Glass'']]. |
| 317 | * ShamelessFanserviceGirl: According to Jace, Isabelle is very comfortable with her own body. |
| 318 | * SiblingYinYang: With Alec. Isabelle is not averse to showing off her beauty, is generally nicer, and like Jace, always rushing headfirst into demon-slaying. [[spoiler: It's implied that Isabelle is the way she is in part because she wants to draw attention from her brother's homosexuality, as she does not want her parents to find out when he wasn't ready.]] |
| 319 | * SillyRabbitRomanceIsForKids: Quite young to be this cynical, but then she is privy to the fact that her parents have a HappyMarriageCharade going on. She openly questions how her brothers can so readily fall in love. But then, they aren't in on the family secret. [[spoiler: She leaves this mentality behind when she falls for Simon.]] |
| 320 | * StatuesqueStunner: Isabelle is very tall and beautiful, attracting the attention of many boys. According to Jace, Isabelle hates being taller than most boys her age and would rather be dainty and petite. |
| 321 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Like Clary and her mother, Maryse Lightwood greatly resembles her daughter, except for her blue eyes. |
| 322 | * SugarAndIcePersonality: She acts cold to everyone who isn't related to her (and Jace). She warms up to Clary and Simon eventually, though, and they become two of her closest friends. |
| 323 | * TapOnTheHead: [[spoiler:Sebastian renders her unconscious in ''City of Glass'' with a hammer after he finishes with Max.]] |
| 324 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly girl to Maia (and to a lesser extent Clary)'s tomboy. |
| 325 | * WhipOfDominance: She is a haughty, bossy, alluring, and [[TheProudElite somewhat snobbish]] Shadowhunter whose primary weapon is an enchanted whip made of electrum (an alloy of gold and silver) that is able to cut through flesh and bone. And despite her girly personality, she actually really enjoys using it while DemonSlaying, and the fact she tends to fight with utter confidence while wearing [[KickingAssInAllHerFinery dresses]] and CombatStilettos also gives her a domineering air. |
| 326 | [[/folder]] |
| 327 | |
| 328 | [[folder:Magnus Bane]] |
| 329 | !!Magnus Bane |
| 330 | !!!'''Played by''': Creator/GodfreyGao (''Film/TheMortalInstrumentsCityOfBones''), Creator/HarryShumJr (''Series/{{Shadowhunters}}'') |
| 331 | |
| 332 | [[quoteright:219:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/magnusbane.jpg]] |
| 333 | [[caption-width-right:219:]] |
| 334 | |
| 335 | The campy, effeminate High Warlock of Brooklyn. Magnus, like most warlocks, is highly mercenary, but he becomes more helpful and generally heroic due to his love for Alec. |
| 336 | ---- |
| 337 | |
| 338 | * TheAgeless: Warlocks stop aging once they reach adulthood. |
| 339 | * AgentPeacock: He features glitter eye shadow, rainbow leather pants, and awesome ass-kicking. |
| 340 | * AnimalEyes: Magnus has greenish-yellow eyes with vertically-slit pupils, like a cat. |
| 341 | * BadassFingerSnap: Lampshaded in ''City of Ashes'', when he gives a warning finger-snap, and somebody feels the need to explain: |
| 342 | -->'''Magnus:''' There's no need to clarify my finger snap. The implication was clear in the snap itself. |
| 343 | %% * BetaCouple: [[spoiler: With Alec.]] Doubles as BattleCouple. |
| 344 | * BigBrotherInstinct: Seems to have this towards [[spoiler: Raphael Santiago,]] whom he spent a lot of time helping after he first became immortal. |
| 345 | ** The Red Scrolls of Magic also establishes him as having this towards Tessa Gray. He's fully aware that she can take care of herself, but he's known her since she was a teenager and can't help feeling protective. |
| 346 | * BirdsOfAFeather: Implied to be a big part of the reason he helps [[spoiler: Raphael Santiago]] in The Bane Chronicles. [[spoiler: Magnus knows what it's like to struggle with self-hatred and fear of being damned, and he wants Raphael to have it easier than he did.]] |
| 347 | * BlueCollarWarlock: He lives in a warehouse loft, throws wild house parties, generally behaves like a New York hipster and otherwise seems entrenched in modern urban culture despite his great age. Also does spellcasting for a fee as his primary source of income. |
| 348 | * BreakoutCharacter: Magnus Bane was only meant to have a minor role ''City of Bones'', but due to the amount of positive reception by the fans he received an expanded role as both a secondary character and [[spoiler:Alec Lightwood]]’s love interest – appearing in every book in ''The Mortal Instruments'' and its sequel series, ''The Dark Artifices''. Thanks to being an immortal, he recurs in the two prequel series, ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'' and ''The Last Hours'', as well, and got a series of short stories that were told from his perspective, ''Literature/TheBaneChronicles''. Finally, he is one of the only two main characters in ''Literature/TheEldestCurses''. He is arguably the most important character in the franchise. |
| 349 | * TheDandy: No matter what era he is seen in, he's always flamboyant and fashionable. |
| 350 | * DeadpanSnarker: Tends to speak sarcastically. |
| 351 | * EccentricMillionaire: He's the ''High Warlock of Brooklyn'', darlings. |
| 352 | * EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: He is quite fond of his body glitter and his magic itself does sparkle. |
| 353 | * ExtremeOmnisexual: He's been with men, women, warlocks, vampires, humans, fey, and the occasional djinn, which does show that he does go for anything. Except mermaids. They smell like seaweed. |
| 354 | * HalfHumanHybrid: As with all warlocks, Magnus is the child of a human/demon coupling. |
| 355 | * InterspeciesRomance: He's dated vampires, werewolves, faeries, mundanes and djinns. Now he's dating a [[spoiler: Shadowhunter, Alec Lightwood]]. |
| 356 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: He can induce it, such as his work on Clary. However, he can't undo it. |
| 357 | * LetsGetDangerous: When shit hits the fan, you find how he ended up as the High Warlock of Brooklyn. |
| 358 | * MagicIsFeminine: Magnus Bane is a bisexual male warlock who wears glittering eye shadow, lipstick, and nail polish. He is the only warlock among the main cast. |
| 359 | * MagnusMeansMage: A fitting name for the High Warlock. |
| 360 | * MarkOfTheSupernatural: He has cat eyes. |
| 361 | * MayflyDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:He is around 400 years old and dating Alec Lightwood who is eighteen. The fact he is an immortal warlock while Alec is human becomes a plot point in ''City of Fallen Angels'']]. |
| 362 | * MeaningfulRename: Magnus renamed himself after he was taken in by the Silent Brothers. He still remembers his Indonesian name, but it's yet to be revealed. |
| 363 | * TheMcCoy: Of the Magnus-Catarina-Ragnor trio. He is very proud of flouting the rules and frequently banters with Ragnor for this. |
| 364 | * TheMedic: Frequently called in to provide healing whenever somebody suffers an injury that the usual Shadowhunter healing Rune cannot fix. |
| 365 | * NoNavelNovelBirth: Being a warlock (half human[=/=]half demon), he has no bellybutton. |
| 366 | * NoodleIncident: How exactly did he get himself banned from Peru? [[note]]According to WordOfGod, it has something to do with a [[InherentlyFunnyWords llama.]][[/note]][[invoked]] |
| 367 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: [[spoiler: Until he falls for Alec]]. |
| 368 | * {{Patricide}}: He killed his mundane stepfather when [[OffingTheOffspring he tried to kill him]]. |
| 369 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: While his exact age is never given we know that he looks around nineteen and has to be older than two hundred and younger than seven hundred. Historically speaking (and given that Camille wasn't lying about his ancestry) he can't be much older than three hundred years old. In the ''Mortal Instruments'' books he is implied to be lying about his age (telling Alec that he's eight hundred years old) while ''The Bane Chronicles'' flat out state that he lies about it whenever it suits him. He eventually admits to being around four hundred. |
| 370 | * SquishyWizard: Has immense magical powers, but is still susceptible to physical injury. Considering how many enemies have SuperStrength, SuperSpeed and SuperReflexes this can be a weakness. |
| 371 | * SuperpowerLottery: Basically anytime somebody needs something that is not explicitly covered by another character's power set, all eyes turn to Magnus. As a very old, powerful and knowledgeable warlock, if he doesn't know the specific spell needed, he usually knows where to get it. |
| 372 | * TokenMinority: He's part Asian. |
| 373 | * TwoferTokenMinority: He is biracial (part Asian) and a self-proclaimed "freewheeling bisexual." And a warlock to boot. |
| 374 | [[/folder]] |
| 375 | |
| 376 | !The Infernal Devices |
| 377 | |
| 378 | [[folder:Tessa Gray]] |
| 379 | !!Theresa "Tessa" Herondale-Carstairs (née Gray) |
| 380 | |
| 381 | [[quoteright:219:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tessagray.jpg]] |
| 382 | [[caption-width-right:219:]] |
| 383 | |
| 384 | Tessa has spent the first sixteen years of her life being overprotected by her aunt after [[ParentalAbandonment the death of her parents in a carriage accident]]. She lives almost all her life in books, [[GenreSavvy dreaming of having the kind of adventures the heroines she reads about do]]—until she is forced to travel from New York to London when her brother Nathaniel goes missing and only a pair of mysterious—and sinister—women called the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Dark Sisters]] seem to know where he might have gone. The Shadowhunters of the London Institute may be Tessa's only hope of finding Nate, but their mysterious world of demons and Downworlders holds many dangers for her—especially when she realizes she might be more a part of it than she'd thought. |
| 385 | |
| 386 | ---- |
| 387 | |
| 388 | %% * ActionGirl |
| 389 | * AffectionateNickname: She is called Tessa by most everyone, Tessie by her brother, and Tess by Will. |
| 390 | %% * AllGirlsWantBadBoys / SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Will and Jem respectively. |
| 391 | * AltarTheSpeed: In ''Clockwork Princess'', her wedding to Jem is moved up earlier so they can get married before [[LastWishMarriage Jem succumbs to his illness]]. It ultimately never transpires, since Jem becomes a Silent Brother afterward. |
| 392 | * ArrangedMarriage: Tessa was going to be forced to marry the Magister had she not been rescued by Will. She was obviously not very happy about it. |
| 393 | * BabiesEverAfter: |
| 394 | ** The epilogue of ''Clockwork Princess'' states that Tessa eventually has a son with Will named after Jem. Extra materials further explain that they also have a daughter, Lucie. |
| 395 | ** The two of them play major roles in ‘’The Last Hours.’’ |
| 396 | ** ''Through Blood, Through Fire'' reveals that Tessa is expecting her daughter with Jem. She gives birth to baby Mina in ''Forever Fallen''. |
| 397 | * BlondeBrunetteRedhead: She is the brunette of the three main protagonists of the franchise (Clary, Tessa, and Emma). |
| 398 | * BrainyBrunette: She is a wide reader and quotes poetry quite often. She has the potential to lapse into BadassBookworm territory. |
| 399 | * ChekhovsGun: Will's mention of Boadicea gives Tessa the strength to fool the Magister. |
| 400 | * ChekhovsGift: The clockwork angel. Also, Tessa's dislike of chocolate and the [[PerfectPoison gift]] Nate gives Aunt Harriet... |
| 401 | %% * ConvenientlyAnOrphan |
| 402 | %% * DeadpanSnarker |
| 403 | * DeadPersonImpersonation: She is able to shapeshift into dead people. |
| 404 | %% * DeceasedParentsAreTheBest |
| 405 | * DrivenToSuicide: Subverted. She makes the Magister ''think'' she killed herself so that he wouldn't get his hands on her power, but in reality she Changed into a woman who'd died by a gunshot wound seconds before the wound would prove fatal. |
| 406 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Tessa first debuts near the end of ''City of Glass'', during the party in Alicante to celebrate the victory over Valentine, though she is unidentified. She is the "brown-haired woman" Clary spots talking with Magnus. |
| 407 | * {{Expy}}: Of ''Fanfic/TheDracoTrilogy'' version of [[Literature/HarryPotter Hermione Granger]] . |
| 408 | * FakingTheDead: In ''Clockwork Angel'', she fakes her own suicide to prevent Mortmain from using her power. |
| 409 | * FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: |
| 410 | ** Her 'brother' Nate is actually her cousin. Tessa's aunt, Harriet Moore, had sex with her fiancé before they got married. Then her fiancé died before the wedding and she found out she was pregnant. To avoid a scandal her married sister Elizabeth, Tessa's mother, pretended the child was hers. |
| 411 | ** Complicated even more by the fact that her mother Elizabeth was actually a Shadowhunter named Adele Starkweather not related to the Moore's who got SwitchedAtBirth with the real Elizabeth. This means that Tessa is actually not related to Nate or Harriet at all. |
| 412 | * FamousAncestor: She is an ancestor of both the modern-day Herondale and Blackthorn families. |
| 413 | * FirstKiss: With Will in the attic. |
| 414 | %% * GenreSavvy: Because she's so wide-read. |
| 415 | * GoodAngelBadAngel: Played with by having Jem and Will be Tessa's angels, respectively. It doesn't hurt that they're both part angel. |
| 416 | * HalfHumanHybrid: She's a warlock-nephilim hybrid. Her father is Belial, a Greater Demon and Prince of Hell who fooled Tessa's Shadowhunter mother into thinking he was her husband Richard. |
| 417 | %% * TheHero |
| 418 | * HerHeartWillGoOn: She eventually moves on from Will's death, but only after decades of self-imposed isolation. She agrees to start a family again with Jem 125 years after she gave birth to Lucie. |
| 419 | * {{Humanshifting}}: This is her unique power. Her whole schtick is that she can change her appearance into any humanoid, dead or alive, as long as she has touched an object that belonged to them. She's turned into both males and females. |
| 420 | * InterspeciesRomance: With both Will and Jem. |
| 421 | * LoveTriangle: Will-->Tessa<--Jem. She manages to get both, at different stages of her life. |
| 422 | * MarkOfTheSupernatural: Despite being a warlock, she does not have a mark because her mother was a Shadowhunter. This is basically her distinguishing mark. |
| 423 | * MayflyDecemberRomance: With Will. Will is mortal Shadowhunter, while Tessa is an immortal warlock. She not only outlives him, but also a further four generations of Herondales. |
| 424 | * MoralityPet: For Will. |
| 425 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Invoked in ''Clockwork Princess'', when she realizes exactly why and how Mortmain wishes to use her. |
| 426 | * NotQuiteBackToNormal: She worries that her shapeshifting would lead to this eventually. |
| 427 | * OutlivingOnesOffspring: None of her descendants inherit her immortality. She leaves Britain after Will's death for this reason; she does not want to see her children die. Jace is actually her descendant, so she has outlived five generations of Herondales. |
| 428 | * ParadoxPerson: Her entire existence. Warlocks are physically impossible to be conceived of Shadowhunter mothers and yet she is. All warlocks have a mark and yet she doesn't. All warlocks are infertile and yet she is not. |
| 429 | * ParentalAbandonment: Her parents died when she was three. |
| 430 | * ParentalSubstitute: In ''Queen of Air and Darkness'', she takes Kit in after he decides to leave the Los Angeles Institute. |
| 431 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She still looks about 19 come the epilogue of ''City of Heavenly Fire'', even though she is well over 130 years old by that point. |
| 432 | %% * PluckyGirl |
| 433 | * ShapeShifter: This starts off the whole story because of her ability to change into anyone, even possessing some of their memories and personality (she just has to touch one of their items to do it the first time). |
| 434 | * ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Her normal body, of course. |
| 435 | * SupernaturallyYoungParent: |
| 436 | ** Since Tessa is a warlock, she is immortal and will look like she is in her early twenties forever. However, none of her descendants, including her children, James and Lucie, inherit her immortality. According to the family tree provided in ''Clockwork Princess'', at the time of Will's death, she is actually physically younger than her grandson Owen (25 years old). |
| 437 | ** By the time of the ''Dark Artifices'' series, Jace, her great-great-great-grandson, is also physically older than she is (22 years old). |
| 438 | * TangledFamilyTree: Tessa's got one heck of a tangled genealogy: |
| 439 | ** Tessa is introduced as the daughter of Elizabeth and Richard Gray, the younger sister of Nate, and the niece of Harriet Moore. Yet at the end of ''Clockwork Angel'', we learn that Richard's just an adoptive father; her actual father is an unnamed Greater Demon (later revealed to be Belial), making her a warlock with very strong potentials comparable to Magnus. |
| 440 | ** Then we learn in ''Clockwork Prince'' that Tessa and Nate are only cousins; Nate is the son of Harriet, who left him in the care of Elizabeth because she had him out-of-wedlock (being set in the 18th century, [[DeliberateValuesDissonance illegitimacy is seen in a negative light]]). This led him to [[SelfMadeOrphan poison her]], thus providing for a bait for luring Tessa to London in the first place. |
| 441 | ** Then we learn in ''Clockwork Princess'' that Elizabeth was never Harriet's sister, Nate's aunt, or even a part of the Moore family for that matter. She's actually Adele Starkweather, the long-lost granddaughter of Aloysius, the Shadowhunter head of the York Institute who was [[ChangelingTale switched by the faeries]] in exchange for the real Elizabeth Moore, a sickly mundane girl. This means that Tessa is the only known person born of a Greater Demon and a Nephilim, meaning that she inherited both angel and demon blood and thus a warlock who can have children. |
| 442 | * TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The fact that Will and Tessa kiss is revealed in the book trailer for ''Clockwork Angel'' |
| 443 | * TwoGuysAndAGirl: With Jem and Will. |
| 444 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: After she learns to control her powers. |
| 445 | * WideEyedIdealist: Tessa always compares her adventures to what she's read and hopes for the best of all situations. |
| 446 | |
| 447 | [[/folder]] |
| 448 | |
| 449 | [[folder:Will Herondale]] |
| 450 | !!William "Will" Owen Herondale |
| 451 | |
| 452 | [[quoteright:219:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/willherondale.jpg]] |
| 453 | [[caption-width-right:219:]] |
| 454 | |
| 455 | Seventeen-year-old Will is the sort of young man [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys nice Victorian girls were warned against]]. He drinks, gambles, and enjoys the company of ladies of questionable virtue—at least, as much as he enjoys anything. Will hates everyone and everything, with the possible exception of Jem, and even that's in some doubt. Charlotte despairs of keeping him alive past the age of nineteen. When he finds himself oddly drawn to Tessa, his friends begin to hope that the Downworlder girl will prove Will's unlikely salvation—but as Tessa grows closer to the bleak secret that makes his life a prison, danger threatens to destroy them both if she ever finds out the truth. |
| 456 | |
| 457 | ---- |
| 458 | |
| 459 | * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Will constantly says he's always out drinking and gambling, and that there are a dozen girls who've claimed that he'd compromised their virtue. [[spoiler:Jem, however, thinks he's lying to make himself look bad.]] |
| 460 | * BabiesEverAfter: The epilogue of ''Clockwork Princess'' states that Tessa eventually has a son with Will named after Jem. Extra materials further explain that they also have a daughter, Lucie. |
| 461 | %% * ByronicHero |
| 462 | * CartwrightCurse: [[spoiler: A variation that just doesn't cover {{Love Interest}}s. When he was younger, Will opened a Pyxis and ended up being cursed such that anybody who cares for him will die. ]] [[spoiler: Or at least, [[BlatantLies that's what the demon]] [[SubvertedTrope told him.]]]] |
| 463 | * CassandraTruth: He often talks about demon pox, but everyone thinks he just made it up. However it turns out that it is actually a real disease. |
| 464 | %% * TheCharmer |
| 465 | %%* ChronicHeroSyndrome: According to Jessamine, Will thinks he's [[Myth/ArthurianLegend Galahad]]. And it's true. |
| 466 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: When he was a twelve years old, he opened a Pyxis and accidentily released a demon, who told him [[spoiler: that he’d put a curse on him, so that everyone who loves him will die. The next day he discovered that his older sister was dead, so he ran away and spent the next few years trying to make sure that nobody cared about him.]] |
| 467 | * DeadpanSnarker: Oh, ''Will.'' |
| 468 | --> '''Gabriel''': You know, there was a time when I thought we could be friends. |
| 469 | --> '''Will''': There was a time when I thought I was a ferret, but that turned out to be the opium haze. Did you know it had that effect? 'Cause I didn't. |
| 470 | ** And there's this scene from ''The Clockwork Prince'': |
| 471 | --> “They’re not hideous,” said Tessa. |
| 472 | --> Will blinked at her. “What?” |
| 473 | --> “Gideon and Gabriel,” said Tessa. “They’re really quite good-looking, not hideous at all.” |
| 474 | --> “I spoke,” said Will, in sepulchral tones, “of the pitch-black inner depths of their souls.” |
| 475 | --> Tessa snorted. “And what color do you suppose the inner depths of your soul are, Will Herondale?” |
| 476 | --> “Mauve,” said Will. |
| 477 | %% * EmoTeen: According to fans. He even lampshades it himself at times. |
| 478 | * EvenTheGuysWantHim: De Quincy and Magnus Bane both hint at loving him. |
| 479 | %% * {{Expy}}: Of the Fanfic/DracoTrilogy version of [[Literature/HarryPotter Draco Malfoy]] . |
| 480 | * {{Foil}}: To his best friend Jem. Will is rude and a jerk, while Jem is polite and kind. |
| 481 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: He is very close with his parabatai Jem. So much that even though both boys love Tessa, they are willing to let the other one have her and even if Jem died after marrying Tessa, Will would never pursue Tessa as he feels it would be a betrayal to his friend. |
| 482 | * HiddenHeartOfGold: [[spoiler: Will acts like a jerk, but it is only to stop people from caring about him too much - because of his curse, they'll wind up dead eventually.]] [[spoiler: After he finds out that there is no curse, he mellows down.]] |
| 483 | * HollywoodAtheist: Pulvis et umbra sumus. For those who don't read Horace, that means "we are dust and shadows," pretty much said by Will to be what he believes in. |
| 484 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: When Tessa (the girl he likes) and Jem (his best friend) announce their engagement, he steps aside, so that they can be happy together. |
| 485 | * ISeeDeadPeople: Like all Herondales, he can see ghosts. |
| 486 | * InterspeciesRomance: With Tessa, [[spoiler: a half Shadowhunter warlock]]. |
| 487 | %% * InsecureLoveInterest |
| 488 | * JadeColoredGlasses: He alludes to a traumatic childhood quite often. |
| 489 | * JerkAss: He very occasionally strays into JerkWithAHeartOfGold territory, but he really isn't. However, [[spoiler: he does shift into HiddenHeartOfGold territory after the discovery that he ''literally'' kills everyone he loves. Until it turns out that he doesn't. He's still distant, though, but that's just his personality.]] |
| 490 | %% * TheLancer |
| 491 | %% * MoodSwinger |
| 492 | * MrFanservice: Big time. Will's good looks are given a lot of attention. |
| 493 | * OddFriendship: He is best friends with Jem even though Will is a rude asshole and Jem is a kindhearted nice guy. They even ''look'' absolutely different: Jem is all white and silver and Will is all dark colors. |
| 494 | * PlayingDrunk: He often pretends to come home drunk to make himself look bad. |
| 495 | * RavenHairIvorySkin: He has black hair and white skin. |
| 496 | %% * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: With Jem. No points for guessing which one he is. |
| 497 | %% * StockForeignName |
| 498 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: With his mother and his sister Cecily. They all have black hair and dark blue eyes. |
| 499 | * TookALevelInKindness: He is much friendlier in ''The Last Hours'' series. Seems like being married and becoming a father has made this bad boy turn on a new leaf. |
| 500 | %% * TroubledButCute |
| 501 | * WhatBeautifulEyes: His dark blue eyes are one of his most striking features. |
| 502 | [[/folder]] |
| 503 | |
| 504 | [[folder:Jem Carstairs]] |
| 505 | !!James "Jem" Carstairs / Ke Jian Ming / [[spoiler: Brother Zachariah]] |
| 506 | |
| 507 | [[quoteright:219:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jemcarstairs.jpg]] |
| 508 | [[caption-width-right:219:]] |
| 509 | |
| 510 | Brought up in the [[ButNotTooForeign Institute in Shanghai]], Jem's parents were [[DarkAndTroubledPast killed by a demon who allowed Jem to live]]—but with [[SoapOperaDisease a terrible price to be paid]]. Frail and silver-haired, Jem seems an unlikely demon-killer, but his skills and swift intelligence make him a formidable foe. He finds a kindred spirit in Tessa as both of them feel they are torn between two worlds, neither belonging completely to one or to the other. As Jem's affection for her grows, will Will have to hurt the only person in his life he's ever seemed to care about? |
| 511 | |
| 512 | ---- |
| 513 | |
| 514 | * AltarTheSpeed: In ''Clockwork Princess'', his wedding to Tessa is moved up earlier so they can get married before [[LastWishMarriage Jem succumbs to his illness]]. It ultimately never transpires, since Jem becomes a Silent Brother afterward. |
| 515 | * BabiesEverAfter: ''Through Blood, Through Fire'' reveals that Tessa is expecting her daughter with Jem. She gives birth to baby Mina in ''Forever Fallen''. |
| 516 | %% * BewareTheNiceOnes |
| 517 | * BloodFromTheMouth: Due to his 'illness', he coughs up blood when weak. |
| 518 | * ButNotTooForeign: His father is English, while his mother is Chinese. Other than James Carstairs, he also has a Chinese name: Ke Jian Ming, though he doesn't use it very often. |
| 519 | * ChronicHeroSyndrome: According to Jessamine. Not as much as Will, though. |
| 520 | %% * ConvenientlyAnOrphan |
| 521 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: A demon who had a grudge against his mother tortured him in front of his parents, injecting him over and over with a drug that made him hallucinate vividly and left him addicted to it. |
| 522 | * DeadpanSnarker: His snarkiness comes mostly from saying something, then adding "Not really" with something humorous. He can play the trope completely straight, though. |
| 523 | * DefinitelyJustACold: To Tessa when she asks about his health. |
| 524 | * DiseaseBleach: His hair has a silver color, because of a demonic halluginogenic drug originally used to torture him as a child. Same goes for his eyes. His hair reverts back to black after he turns into a Silent Brother. And when he stops being a Brother, it's revealed that his eyes turn brown as well. |
| 525 | * ElegantClassicalMusician: He can play the violin, and quite well, too. |
| 526 | * EmergencyTransformation: Right before he succumbs to his illness, the Silent Brothers perform a ritual to make him their own, which prevents yin fen from claiming his life. |
| 527 | %% * {{Expy}}: Of the Fanfic/DracoTrilogy version of [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry Potter]]. |
| 528 | * {{Foil}}: To Will, they may be best friends, but they are completely different. Jem is a kindhearted nice guy and Will is a rude asshole. They even ''look'' absolutely different: Jem is all white and silver and Will is all dark colors. |
| 529 | %% * GentlemanSnarker |
| 530 | * ForcedAddiction: Jem was kidnapped and force-fed the addictive drug yin fen as a child. His dependence on the drug leaves him with just two choices: withdrawal followed by a quick death, or a slow death from repeated doses. |
| 531 | * ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: He can't believe Tessa accepted his proposal, since he is very sickly and probably doesn't have very long to live. |
| 532 | * IncurableCoughOfDeath: His illness that causes him to cough up blood. No cure has been found. That is until the epilogue of ''The Clockwork Princess'', when he is turned into a Silent Brother to slow the progress of the disease. 129 years later, Jem is finally cured of his disease when he is burned by the heavenly fire of Glorious. |
| 533 | * InterspeciesRomance: With Tessa, who is part warlock. |
| 534 | * JadeColoredGlasses: Subverted. He had a very traumatic experience but seems to function perfectly normally outside his "illness". |
| 535 | * KindheartedCatLover: He is very kind and adopts Church the cat. |
| 536 | * LockedIntoStrangeness: After he becomes a Silent Brother, Jem's hair mostly turns to its original black color, but some of its streaks remain white, a legacy of his years-long DiseaseBleach. |
| 537 | * MementoMacGuffin: His mother's family ring, which [[spoiler: he uses to propose to Tessa.]] |
| 538 | %% * MoralityPet: For Will. |
| 539 | * NiceGuy: Jem is almost always kind and polite to everyone. |
| 540 | %% * NiceGuysFinishLast: [[spoiler: Subverted/Averted/Inverted? Depends on how literal you take the name.]] |
| 541 | %% * TheNotLoveInterest: For Will. |
| 542 | * ObliviousToLove: Probably can't tell that Sophie's sweet on him. |
| 543 | * OddFriendship: With Will - Jem is a kindhearted nice guy and Will is a rude asshole. They even ''look'' absolutely different: Jem is all white and silver and Will is all dark colors. |
| 544 | * ParentalSubstitute: |
| 545 | ** It's revealed that after he is relieved of his Silent Brother duties, he considers raising his 12-year-old distant cousin, Emma, whose parents both died during the Dark War, but his search for the Lost Herondale, combined with Emma's own decision to stay with the Blackthorns in Los Angeles, dashes the plan. Ultimately, he becomes more of an older brother than a father to her. |
| 546 | ** In ''Queen of Air and Darkness'', he and Tessa take in Kit and act like second parents to him. |
| 547 | * PrettyBoy: The only one of the Silent Brothers who still has hair, eyes, and an unstitched mouth. As a result, he looks downright gorgeous by Silent Brother standards. |
| 548 | * Really700YearsOld: Silent Brothers are not immortal, but they age ''very'' slowly. As a result, Jem still looks around eighteen come the events of ''City of Heavenly Fire'', even though he is really 147 years old. After he is burned by the heavenly fire, he becomes a mortal again, so by the events of ''The Dark Artifices'' set five years later, he looks like in his twenties. |
| 549 | * SecretlyDying: As of ''The Clockwork Prince'', he is still hiding his SoapOperaDisease from everyone except Will and Tessa. |
| 550 | %% * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The Sensitive Guy to Will's Manly Man, Will's tendencies often making him look near-saintlike in comparison. |
| 551 | * SoapOperaDisease: It was caused by a demon drug that was used to torture him and his parents when he was younger. There is no known cure for it, and he has to keep taking a specific drug to keep on fighting - as Brother Enoch says, taking the drug means a slow death, but keeping him off the drug would mean a quick one. |
| 552 | %% * StockForeignName |
| 553 | * SwordCane: His weapon is a jade-tipped one. |
| 554 | * TechnicolorEyes: Jem's eyes, [[CurtainsMatchTheWindow like his hair]], are silver. Again, this is an influence of yin fen. |
| 555 | * TokenMinority: Being half-Asian, he is the only non-white member of the London Institute. |
| 556 | * YourDaysAreNumbered: He is addicted to a drug (yin fen) that is slowly killing him. However, to stop taking the drug will also kill him. |
| 557 | |
| 558 | [[/folder]] |
| 559 | |
| 560 | !The Dark Artifices |
| 561 | |
| 562 | [[folder:Emma Carstairs]] |
| 563 | !!Emma Cordelia Carstairs |
| 564 | |
| 565 | [[quoteright:219:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/emmacarstairs.jpg]] |
| 566 | [[caption-width-right:219:]] |
| 567 | |
| 568 | When Emma was younger, she was living happily in Los Angeles with her parents. Then they died in the Dark War under suspicious circumstances. After that she started living at the Los Angeles institute with her best friend/future parabatai Julian Blackthorn and his family. Even though the Clave claimed her parents got murdered by Sebastian, she knows that there is more to it and she is determined to find out what really happened. |
| 569 | |
| 570 | ---- |
| 571 | |
| 572 | * AbsurdlySharpBlade: Her family blade, Cortana, seemingly has the ability to cut anything. In ''Lord of Shadows'', it manages to shatter the ''Mortal Sword'', which was given by Raziel himself. Though it's later revealed that this has less to do with its cutting power and more of the fact that Emma is empowered by her parabatai bond with Julian at the time. |
| 573 | * ActionGirl: One of the best shadowhunters of her generation. In-universe, she is noted to have the potential to become the next Jace Herondale, who is ''the'' best Shadowhunter of his generation. |
| 574 | * AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: When she and Julian become the mythical Nephilim at the climax of ''Queen of Air and Darkness'', they stand dozens of feet tall. |
| 575 | * BlondeBrunetteRedhead: She is the blonde of the three main protagonists of the franchise (Clary, Tessa, and Emma). |
| 576 | * CoveredInScars: Her body is scarred because she tends to be reckless about her own safety. She's left with even more scars after she takes a whipping from the Faeries in order to protect Mark and Julian. |
| 577 | * FamilyOfChoice: Since the Dark War, she considers the Blackthorns as a second family to her. |
| 578 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Cristina. She is usually the first person Emma goes to confide her problems, and vice versa. |
| 579 | * IntimateHealing: Emma heals Julian from a fatal injury while they're cramped together in the back seat of a car. She even notes that she's straddling him. It's even this on an emotional level, as the only reason Julian's wound was able to be healed was because his and Emma's romantic feelings for each other enhanced the power of the healing runes. |
| 580 | * LikeBrotherAndSister: With Mark. Other than Cristina, he is for most of the series the only person who knows about her feelings for Julian. They become especially close when they pretend to be lovers, but their relationship always stays platonic. |
| 581 | * MoralityPet: To Julian. |
| 582 | * PlatonicLifePartners: When she and Julian became parabatai, they swore to be this. However some time later they fell in love. At the end of the series their parabatai bond gets broken and they become a couple. |
| 583 | * PromotionToParent: She helps Julian take care of his younger siblings after the Dark War, being the only person who is his age. |
| 584 | * RelationshipRevolvingDoor: She and her ex-boyfriend Cameron Ashdown had this relationship. They broke up and got back together again every four months or so until Emma finally broke up with him for good. |
| 585 | * StarCrossedLovers: She falls in love with her parabatai Julian, which is strictly forbidden. |
| 586 | [[/folder]] |
| 587 | |
| 588 | [[folder:Kit Herondale]] |
| 589 | !!Christopher "Kit" Jonathan Herondale (formerly Rook) |
| 590 | |
| 591 | [[quoteright:219:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kitherondale.jpg]] |
| 592 | [[caption-width-right:219:]] |
| 593 | |
| 594 | The son of Johnny Rook and Rosemary who grew up as a mundane. He is the current title holder of the Lost Herondale. |
| 595 | |
| 596 | ---- |
| 597 | |
| 598 | * ActionSurvivor: Throughout ''The Dark Artifices'', he is mostly out of his depth and treated like a child; though he is a Shadowhunter, he was raised mundane through and through. |
| 599 | * AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Gives one to Ty in the climax of ''Queen of Air and Darkness'', to make him reconsider trying to bring back Livvy. The fact that Ty just brushes it off makes Kit heartbroken enough that he accepts Tessa's offer to live with her in Devon, as it would separate him from Ty. |
| 600 | * BigBrotherInstinct: Happily looks after baby Mina when given the chance. |
| 601 | * FishOutOfWater: Since he was raised as a mundane, Kit has difficulty adjusting to the life of a Shadowhunter. He attempts to escape the institute several times and mostly stays away from the others' discussions to spend time together with the autistic Ty, who doesn't like to be in a crowd. It takes him a long time to agree on receiving his first rune. |
| 602 | * HappilyAdopted: Kit is pretty happy with his adopted parents Tessa and Jem and their daughter Mina. |
| 603 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: He slowly develops this dynamic with Ty throughout the events of ''The Dark Artifices''. The third book, however, implies that the relationship might have been more than heterosexual, [[IncompatibleOrientation at least from Kit's side]]. |
| 604 | * LivingMacGuffin: Jem and Tessa in general treat Kit as a sort of a holy grail. The revelation that Kit has the potential to succeed and unite both faerie realms makes this justified. |
| 605 | * PowerStrainBlackout: During the battle at the Imperishable Fields, he demonstrates the ability to disintegrate the horses of the Riders, but passes out afterwards. |
| 606 | * TheReveal: Kit is not just a mundane with the sight. He is actually a Shadowhunter, descended from Tobias Herondale. He is also a descendant of the First Heir, the daughter of the Seelie Queen and the Unseelie King. |
| 607 | * SpareToTheThrone: As a descendant of the First Heir, Kit has a claim on both the Seelie and Unseelie Courts and can raise an army to help him take the thrones. |
| 608 | * ThoseTwoGuys: After his move to the Los Angeles Institute, he is almost always seen with Ty. Livvy sometimes accompanies them before she dies. |
| 609 | * UnevenHybrid: He is mostly a Nephilim, but also has some amount of faerie ancestry through his mother. |
| 610 | [[/folder]] |
| 611 | |
| 612 | [[folder:Julian Blackthorn]] |
| 613 | !!Julian Atticus Blackthorn |
| 614 | |
| 615 | [[quoteright:219:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/julianblackthorn.jpg]] |
| 616 | [[caption-width-right:219:]] |
| 617 | |
| 618 | Julian is the third child of Andrew Blackthorn (and the first with his wife Eleanor). In the dark war his father died, his older sister got banished and his older brother got kidnapped by faeries. Since his mother had already died a few years earlier Julian and his younger sibling along with his best friend Emma (who lost all her family in the war) got placed under the care of his uncle Arthur. |
| 619 | |
| 620 | ---- |
| 621 | |
| 622 | * AffectionateNickname: |
| 623 | ** His younger siblings and Emma sometimes call him "Jules", his childhood nickname. |
| 624 | ** Played with: When Emma and Julian have sex, and later admit their feelings for each other, Emma calls him Julian. Then, upon learning about the curse, she tells him she loves Mark, not him, and goes back to calling him Jules. Julian starts hating it, and missing when she called him Julian. |
| 625 | * AllLoveIsUnrequited: Julian has been love with Emma since they were children, but Emma only starts to reciprocate his feelings after the two became parabatai. He was very reluctant to do the ceremony because it meant that the two can never be together romantically, but because Emma wanted it, he felt compelled to do it. |
| 626 | * AloofArcher: A cold and calculating fighter whose favored weapon is a crossbow. |
| 627 | * AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Does a couple of these to Emma. The second one, which happens in ''Lord of Shadows'', is particularly melodramatic. |
| 628 | * AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: When he and Emma become the mythical Nephilim at the climax of ''Queen of Air and Darkness'', they stand dozens of feet tall. |
| 629 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Julian is normally a nice guy, until you threaten his loved ones. Then he will hunt you down to the ends of earth (literally in the case of Annabel). Kieran outright states that, while Julian appears nice, he is secretly sadistic inside. |
| 630 | * BigBrotherInstinct: He is ''extremely'' protective of his younger siblings and does all he can to keep them together. It's been said once or twice that he doesn't really see them as merely siblings, but rather his children. |
| 631 | * BigLittleBrother: To Mark. Even though Mark is four years older, because of his time in Faerie, he is physically a year ''younger'' than Julian. |
| 632 | * TheChessmaster |
| 633 | * CrazyJealousGuy: Downplayed. He feels instantly jealous whenever other men get close to Emma, but mainly keeps it to himself. |
| 634 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: After years agonizing his choice to be parabatai with Emma, he gets a happy ending at the end of ''Queen of Air and Darkness'' when his parabatai bond is broken, enabling him to pursue a relationship with her. |
| 635 | * FamilyThemeNaming: Due to his father's fascination for classical history and mythology, he and all of his siblings are named after Greek and Latin historical figures. Julian is named after Julius Caesar. |
| 636 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: After Mark's return from Faerie, he becomes the Foolish Sibling, while Julian becomes the Responsible Sibling, finding himself exasperated at Mark's irresponsible handling of the household. |
| 637 | * GuileHero: Uses his wits and intelligence to keep his family together, being outright manipulative at times. However, when he has his emotions taken away by a spell, he crosses into: |
| 638 | ** ManipulativeBastard: Without his emotions - and therefore, his love for Emma and his family - to keep him in check, he becomes this. |
| 639 | * IntimateHealing: Emma heals Julian from a fatal injury while they're cramped together in the back seat of a car. She even notes that she's straddling him. It's even this on an emotional level, as the only reason Julian's wound was able to be healed was because his and Emma's romantic feelings for each other enhanced the power of the healing runes. |
| 640 | * KillingYourAlternateSelf: In ''Queen of Air and Darkness'', he kills the Julian Blackthorn of Thule. |
| 641 | * {{Patricide}}: His father, [[BrainwashedAndCrazy after he got turned into an Endarkened]], tried to kill Ty. Julian then killed his father to save his younger brother. |
| 642 | * PlatonicLifePartners: When he and Emma became parabatai, they swore to be this. However some time later they fell in love. At the end of the series their parabatai bond gets broken and they become a couple. |
| 643 | * PleaseDontLeaveMe: When Emma has seemingly been stabbed to death, Julian holds her in his arms and begs this word for word. |
| 644 | * PleaseWakeUp: After Livvy is killed, Julian repeatedly begs her to open her eyes. |
| 645 | * PromotionToParent: Julian for his younger siblings. He's not the oldest, but his older sister Helen was exiled by the Clave and his older brother Mark was kidnapped by the Wild Hunt; therefore when their father died in the war, Julian, at the tender age of twelve, had no other choice but to step up and take care of the rest of the Blackthorn brood. |
| 646 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After Annabel kills Livvy, Julian makes it his goal to personally kill her. He succeeds. |
| 647 | * SingleTargetSexuality: Julian's never felt attraction to anyone except Emma. |
| 648 | * StarCrossedLovers: He falls in love with his parabatai Emma, which is strictly forbidden. |
| 649 | * WiseBeyondHisYears: He was forced to mature when he was still 12 years old, since not only he had to take care of his siblings, he also ''de facto'' replaced Arthur's role as head of the Los Angeles Institute. |
| 650 | [[/folder]] |
| 651 | |
| 652 | [[folder:Cristina Rosales]] |
| 653 | !!Cristina Mendoza Rosales |
| 654 | |
| 655 | [[quoteright:219:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cristinarosales.jpg]] |
| 656 | [[caption-width-right:219:]] |
| 657 | |
| 658 | Cristina Mendoza Rosales is the daughter of Carmen Rosales. She grew up at the Mexico City Institute. She was very close with her distant relatives Diego and Jaime Rosales. Diego became her boyfriend and she and Jaime planned to become parabatai, but after she overheard a conversation between Jaime and Diego that implied they were manipulating her to gain political power, she left Mexico without telling them why. She then decided to go to the Los Angeles Institute where she became friends with Emma Carstairs and the Blackthorns. |
| 659 | |
| 660 | ---- |
| 661 | |
| 662 | * DanceOfRomance: With Kieran in ''Lord of Shadows''. It's the point when both realize that, in addition to loving Mark, they have feelings for each other. |
| 663 | * ForeignCultureFetish: She is vested in everything related to faeries, as her family is close to them. |
| 664 | * GratuitousSpanish: Sometimes adds Spanish words in her speech, usually when she's surprised or flustered. Strangely, she still speaks in English to Diego and Jaime, even when no one is around. Cristina handwaves this by stating that she is still perfecting her English and wants to speak it as much as possible. |
| 665 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: After her falling out with Jaime, Cristina quickly finds another best friend in Emma, who is usually the first person she confides her problems in. |
| 666 | * LoveTriangle: She likes Mark and he likes her, but Mark still has some feelings for Kieran too and Kieran is definitely still in love with Mark. And then Cristina ends up loving ''Kieran'' as well, and vice versa. Cue threesome. |
| 667 | * NiceGirl: Cristina is always kind, compassionate and willing to help other people. |
| 668 | * PlatonicLifePartners: She and Jaime used to be this. They were best friends and planned to become parabatai. However their friendship ended when Cristina overheard Jaime saying that he only wanted to become parabatai with Cristina because of political reasons and didn't actually care about her. |
| 669 | * ThreeWaySex: A rare positive, straight example. Eventually, Cristina ends up loving Mark and Kieran equally, and they both love each other and Cristina equally as well. |
| 670 | [[/folder]] |
| 671 | |
| 672 | [[folder:Mark Blackthorn]] |
| 673 | !!Mark Antony Blackthorn / Miach |
| 674 | |
| 675 | [[quoteright:219:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/markblackthorn.jpg]] |
| 676 | [[caption-width-right:219:]] |
| 677 | |
| 678 | The second child of Andrew Blackthorn and Seelie faerie lady Nerissa. He is the younger brother to Helen and the older half brother to Julian, Livvy, Ty, Dru and Tavvy. He grew up in the Los Angeles institute with his father, stepmother and siblings. When Sebastian attacked the institute during the Dark war, he turned Mark's father and teacher into endarkened. Since he couldn't do the same to Mark due to his alliance with the Seelie queen he decided to give Mark to the faeries where he got claimed by Gwyn ap Nudd and became a Hunter in the Wild Hunt. |
| 679 | |
| 680 | ---- |
| 681 | |
| 682 | * BirdsOfAFeather: Since his experiences in Faerie muddled his mind somewhat, he finds himself being close with Ty personality-wise, the similarly "out-there" Blackthorn sibling. |
| 683 | * DoorstopBaby: After his mother's death, his aunt Nene left him and Helen on the doorstop of the Los Angeles Institute to be cared for by their father. |
| 684 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Occasionally tilts towards this, since he's spent an unknown amount of time in Faerie and doesn't have a strong grasp on how to act in Shadowhunter or mundane society. |
| 685 | * FamilyThemeNaming: Due to his father's fascination for classical history and mythology, he and all of his siblings are named after Greek and Latin historical figures. Mark was named after Mark Anthony. |
| 686 | * FishOutOfWater: He struggles to adjust to life in Los Angeles after his return to Faerie. |
| 687 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Foolish Sibling to Julian's Responsible Sibling. In ''Lady Midnight'', the younger Blackthorns find him a fun older brother to play with, even though they end up destroying Julian's kitchen and earning them his sharp rebuke. |
| 688 | * HalfBreedDiscrimination: Because of the Seelie queen support for Sebastian in his war against the other Shadownhunters (which they lost) and the cold peace, the Shadowhunters and faeries developed a lot of hatred for each other. This resulted in most fearies hating Mark for his Shadowhunter side and most Shadowhunters hating him for his faerie side. |
| 689 | * HalfHumanHybrid: He is half-Shadowhunter half-faerie. The faerie blood manifests in his blond hair and pointed ears. |
| 690 | * LethalChef: The first time he tries to cook, he literally ''destroys'' the Los Angeles Institute's kitchen. While it's PlayedForDrama the first time (as Julian scolds him and the younger kids for messing around), every time Mark attempts to cook afterwards, it becomes something of a RunningGag that he ends up creating something...experimental. However, Emma admits that [[CordonBleughChef she likes his]] "doughnut-sandwiches" (taste-wise; they look horrible). |
| 691 | * LiteralMinded: Mark is a little out of practice when it comes to interpreting figures of speech after spending a long time in the LandOfFaerie. |
| 692 | * LoveTriangle: He likes Cristina and she likes him, but Mark still has some feelings for Kieran too and Kieran is definitely still in love with Mark. And then Cristina comes to love Kieran and vice versa, as well. |
| 693 | * OlderThanTheyLook: He didn't grow up in the five years he was in Faerie. As a result, despite being 21 years old, when he comes back to the human world, he has the body of a 16 year old, younger than Julian and Emma (both four years younger than him). |
| 694 | * ThreeWaySex: Eventually, with Kieran and Cristina. All three love each other equally, in all directions, and become miserable when one of them (Kieran) has to leave. |
| 695 | [[/folder]] |
| 696 | |
| 697 | !The Last Hours |
| 698 | |
| 699 | [[folder:Cordelia Carstairs]] |
| 700 | !!Cordelia Katayoun Carstairs |
| 701 | [[quoteright:219:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cordeliacarstairs.jpg]] |
| 702 | [[caption-width-right:219:]] |
| 703 | |
| 704 | The daughter of Elias Carstairs and Sona Turan, younger sister of Alastair, and cousin of James Carstairs. Cordelia was mainly raised in the Carstairs residence in Devon, but because Elias is sick, her family tended to move to different Institutes. She is best friends with Lucie Herondale, with whom she is planning to become parabatai, and secretly loves Lucie's brother, James. Cordelia wields Cortana, the Carstairs family heirloom. |
| 705 | |
| 706 | ---- |
| 707 | |
| 708 | * AbsurdlySharpBlade: She wields Cortana, the Carstairs' famously unblockable blade, decades before Emma gets to wield it. At the climax of ''Chain of Gold'', she manages to incapacitate Belial -- in his own realm, no less -- with it, even though Princes of Hell are supposed to be NighInvulnerable. |
| 709 | * AffectionateNickname: James and Lucie tend to call her "Daisy", while her family's pet nickname for her is "Layla", from the main character of a Persian folktale. |
| 710 | * AllLoveIsUnrequited: She is in love with James, who is in love with Grace (albeit [[CharmPerson not entirely of his own volition]]). The family tree seen in ''Clockwork Princess'' indicates that Cordelia would eventually marry James, though Cassandra Clare has stated that the tree is not entirely reliable. In ''Chain of Gold'', there are hints that James is beginning to requite her feelings, but he is currently focused on Grace at the moment. In the ending of ''Chain of Iron'', her feelings are finally reciprocated, but various misleading moments and false starts cause Cordelia to believe that James never loves her, hence why she decides to go out with Matthew to be away from him. [[spoiler:This is rectified in ''Chain of Thorns, when she learns that James' affection for Grace is artificial, and the only person he is in love with is Cordelia.]] |
| 711 | * BrokenPedestal: At Elias. She starts ''Chain of Gold'' being determined to free Elias from the Clave's imprisonment, only to learn that Elias is not entirely innocent himself and has been a drunkard for basically her whole life. His "illness" is less of an illness and more of the fact that Sona and Alastair wanted to hide that he was drunk all the time. |
| 712 | * ButNotTooForeign: She is half-Persian through her mother and inherited her brownish skin tone. |
| 713 | * ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: Does this at two separate times in ''Chain of Thorns'', both directed at James for saving her from a demon attack, and both because he prevents her from gaining information from them (as Lilith's paladin, they won't dare to attack her anyway). |
| 714 | * DaddysGirl: She is close to Elias and wonders why Sona and Alastair don't seem to be as interested as her to save him from the Clave's interrogation. When she finds out the truth, she is understandably horrified. |
| 715 | * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: In ''Chain of Gold'', she incapacitates Belial, a Prince of Hell, using Cortana, causing his realm to fall apart. It's later revealed that Belial managed to survive, but only because he is linked to his deal with Tatiana Blackthorn, meaning Cordelia would've killed him right there if the link did not exist. |
| 716 | * TheDreaded: |
| 717 | ** Not Cordelia herself, but her sword Cortana is definitely one to Belial, after it manages to wound him in ''Chain of Gold''. It's revealed that Cortana is the only weapon capable of defeating Belial for good, but it takes three tries to do it. The whole plot of ''Chain of Iron'' happens because Belial is afraid of the sword so much that he chooses to take precautions by preparing for a vessel that is immune to Cortana. |
| 718 | ** After she becomes Lilith's paladin, all lesser demons are frightened upon meeting her. |
| 719 | * FieryRedhead: Played with, though she's usually one of the more level-headed members of the group. |
| 720 | * GratuitousForeignLanguage: Sometimes peppers her speech with Persian, as she was raised in a bilingual household. |
| 721 | * HeroicBSOD: A low-key one at the end of ''Chain of Iron''. Upon realizing that she had unwittingly pledged her allegiance to Lilith, she begins to consider if she is worthy at all of wielding Cortana, becoming Lucie's parabatai, or even being a Shadowhunter in general. |
| 722 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Lucie Herondale. |
| 723 | * HiddenDepths: She sings and dances beautifully and can recite ''Layla and Majnun'' by heart. |
| 724 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In ''Chain of Iron'', she reacts in utter shock and horror upon learning that she pledged allegiance not to Wayland the Smith, but to ''Lilith'', the Queen of Demons. |
| 725 | * SecretKeeper: She is this to Alastair regarding both his sexuality and his feelings for Thomas, and to Matthew, regarding the events of the short story "Cast Long Shadows." |
| 726 | * TakeAThirdOption: In ''Chain of Thorns'', she is repeatedly told that she can kill Belial using Cortana (thus, Belial is dead but Cordelia will be bound to Lilith forever), or she can submit to him (thus, Lilith loses, but Belial will reign). [[spoiler:She decides to give Cortana to James, after convincing Belial to temporarily cede control to him, and James then gives himself a non-fatal wound, which fulfills the "stab Belial three times" prophecy while also preventing Lilith from claiming Cordelia.]] |
| 727 | |
| 728 | [[/folder]] |
| 729 | |
| 730 | [[folder:James Herondale]] |
| 731 | !!James Morgan Henry Herondale |
| 732 | [[quoteright:219:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jamesherondale.jpg]] |
| 733 | [[caption-width-right:219:]] |
| 734 | |
| 735 | The son of Will Herondale and Tessa Gray, older brother of Lucie, and the parabatai of Matthew Fairchild. A troubled child with a love for books, he is reserved and rarely acts out his emotions. As a result of his demonic blood, James has the mysterious ability to enter a shadowed realm; when he does so, his form in the real world will grow hazy and, if strong enough, sometimes allows him to phase through things as a shadow. James has long been in love with Grace Blackthorn, but finds it hard to be with her in the face of her domineering mother. It becomes even more complicated when his sister's potential parabatai, Cordelia Carstairs, comes into the scene. |
| 736 | |
| 737 | ---- |
| 738 | |
| 739 | * AngerBornOfWorry: The one time that James is furious at Cordelia happens in ''Chain of Thorns'', when [[MistakenForSuicidal he thinks that she was trying to commit suicide by summoning demons]] at the place where her father died (she was actually trying to get information about Belial's current plans). He begins ranting that she is the love of his life, he lives because she exists, and if she dies he will die as well, and then [[Literature/WutheringHeights he will haunt her forever for leaving him.]] |
| 740 | * BadassBookworm: He is as knowledgeable about books as he is about Shadowhunting. |
| 741 | * BelatedLoveEpiphany: After Grace's bracelet is shattered, James remembers that the woman in his dreams is not Grace, but Cordelia...just in time for Cordelia to see him being intimate with Grace, make assumptions, and leave him for Paris. |
| 742 | * BigBrotherInstinct: He's notably protective of his younger sister Lucie. |
| 743 | ** One of his first (chronological) appearances has him lying to his family about his treatment at the Shadowhunter Academy because he doesn't want either her or their mother to be upset. |
| 744 | ** In ''Chain of Thorns'' his first reaction upon finding her and Jesse in Cornwall is to reassure her that everything's going to be alright. |
| 745 | * BlessedWithSuck: His phasing ability. It earned him a lot of mistrust from other Shadowhunters, who at the time strongly detest Downworlders. |
| 746 | * FantasticRacism: When he was in the Shadowhunter Academy, he was ostracized after he demonstrated his demonic ability to enter the shadow realm. Eventually he was expelled when he was accused of being complicit in his bully's death. |
| 747 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With his parabatai, Matthew Fairchild. The two often find themselves able to share secrets only with each other. |
| 748 | * HonorableMarriageProposal: He proposes to marry Cordelia to save her reputation of apparently having made out with him, since this is the early 20th century and fornication is scorned ([[RightForTheWrongReasons they actually did]], but the circumstances were different). |
| 749 | * INeedAFreakingDrink: When Grace tells him that she will no longer contact him, he gets drunk at a pub and shoots a chandelier with a gun. Later that year, when Grace announces that she is engaged to marry Charles, James ponders over the Thames while drinking from Matthew's flask. |
| 750 | * InSeriesNickname: He's "Jamie" to most of his friends and family, and "Jamie bach," to his father and Matthew. |
| 751 | * {{Intangibility}}: When his powers manifest particularly strongly, he can enter and exit the shadow realm to phase through objects. |
| 752 | * ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: In ''Chain of Thorns'', Cordelia accuses James of holding this mentality when he tries to convince her that his true love has always been her, and not Grace. In her perspective, James pursued Grace when she was aloof at him and ignored Cordelia when she made herself available to him, and now he does the opposite when he has gained Grace's attention while Cordelia is slipping away from him. Of course, she doesn't know that the real cause of the problem lies in Grace's mind-control bracelet. |
| 753 | * TheLeader: The unofficial leader of the Merry Thieves. Cordelia outright states the trope word-for-word. |
| 754 | * MoreThanMindControl: Since he was 13, James has been partly mind controlled by Grace, who used her family bracelet to make him fall in love with her. He is still able to act independently, but all of his attention is instantly focused on Grace whenever she appears. |
| 755 | * NearAndDearBabyNaming: He's named for his parents' closest friend, James "Jem" Carstairs. |
| 756 | * OneTrueLove: James' love for Cordelia is so strong that it can even make him consider his actions while under Grace's charm, something that is not supposed to happen. |
| 757 | * PoorCommunicationKills: Regarding his feelings for Cordelia, ''big time''. Throughout ''Chain of Iron'', he could have communicated them any time, but always ends up saying the wrong things or being interrupted by someone. By the time he has gotten the courage to confess it, Cordelia cannot take it anymore and decides to leave him. Taken a step further in ''Chain of Thorns'', even after he is no longer under Grace's spell, he still decides not to tell Cordelia about the real circumstances behind their attraction, because he doesn't want her to fall in love with him out of pity. He merely states that Cordelia is his true love, and he never loves Grace -- a statement that Cordelia takes to mean that he only loves things that he cannot control. |
| 758 | * PuppyLove: He was 13 when he fell in love with Grace. It is later revealed that his love was fabricated; while he does care for her, James only started loving Grace after she made him wear the Cartwright bracelet, which enabled her to use her charm on him. In truth, he actually fell in love with Cordelia, which directly caused her to put on the charm so it would not interfere with Tatiana's plan with Belial. |
| 759 | * RaceForYourLove: At the end of ''Chain of Iron'', he attempts to catch up to Cordelia and Matthew's train that is bound for Southampton so he can set things right about his feelings for the former. However, he is stopped by his father, who wants him to rescue Lucie. |
| 760 | * SupernaturalGoldEyes: He has gold eyes that his peers have long feared to be a sign of his demonic ancestry. |
| 761 | * UnevenHybrid: Like Lucie, James is 3/4 Shadowhunter 1/4 demon. |
| 762 | |
| 763 | [[/folder]] |
| 764 | |
| 765 | [[folder:Lucie Herondale]] |
| 766 | |
| 767 | [[quoteright:219:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lucieherondale.jpg]] |
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| 770 | The daughter of Will Herondale and Tessa Gray and younger sister of James. An aspiring writer, she is a potential parabatai of Cordelia Carstairs. Like most Herondales, Lucie is capable of seeing ghosts who do not want to be seen. However, it seems that Lucie can see things that even ordinary Herondales cannot, such as the tied soul of Jesse Blackthorn, and even more bizarre, she can command them to do anything she wishes, too. |
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| 774 | * BadassBookworm: Like James, she is a bookworm and has written a few books herself. This doesn't stop her from becoming a prodigious Shadowhunter. |
| 775 | * BoyMeetsGhoul: ''Chain of Gold'' opens with Lucie meeting Jesse Blackthorn, by then deceased for a year, though she does not know at the time. |
| 776 | * CompellingVoice: Other than seeing ghosts that ordinary Herondales can't see, she can compel them to do anything she wants. As shown at the end of ''Chain of Iron'', if her will is strong enough, Lucie can even [[{{Necromancy}} bring people back from the dead]]. [[spoiler:She loses both abilities at the end of the third book.]] |
| 777 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Cordelia Carstairs, whom she longs to be her parabatai. The two have been friends since they were young. |
| 778 | * InSeriesNickname: "Luce". |
| 779 | * ISeeDeadPeople: Lucie has an enhanced version of the Herondale gift of ghost-seeing; not only she can see ghosts who do not want to be seen, she can see souls tied only to a certain people. The reason for this is unknown, though it seems to be the same gift that her distant relative Kit Herondale possesses. |
| 780 | * {{Necromancy}}: In ''Chain of Iron'', she has plans with Grace to bring Jesse back from the dead. The end of the novel has her bring him back -- not through dark rituals, but using her own will. ''Chain of Thorns'' clarifies that this is technically not necromancy, as Jesse merely went to a state in between life and death when he succumbed during the ritual of his first runes. |
| 781 | * {{Necromantic}}: Assuming that the family tree seen in the first edition of ''Clockwork Princess'' is accurate (which seems unlikely, given many points have been contradicted as of ''Chain of Gold''), Lucie would end up marrying Jesse and became ancestor to the modern-day Blackthorn family, even though Jesse died before the two even met each other. [[spoiler:''Chain of Thorns'' confirms that it is indeed correct.]] |
| 782 | * MostWritersAreWriters: Lucie is an aspiring writer and has written a few novels, though mainly for her and her friends' amusement. The favorite one seems to be "The Beautiful Cordelia". |
| 783 | * ObliviousToLove: When she was young, she did not realize that Matthew fancied her, as she already considered him, like the other Merry Thieves, a brother to her. |
| 784 | * OneOfTheBoys: She is close and tends to stick around with the Merry Thieves -- her brother, Matthew, Christopher, and Thomas. |
| 785 | * UnevenHybrid: She is 3/4 Shadowhunter, 1/4 demon. |
| 786 | * TheUnfavorite: Not to her parents, but it is noted a few times that her demonic grandfather, Belial, always pays more attention to her brother, James, than her, because he can travel through the shadow realm while she cannot. |
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