Clary Fray

Clary Fray/Fairchild is a fictional character and the main protagonist of The Mortal Instruments series, which is part of a bigger Shadowhunters Fandom written by Cassandra Clare.
While at a New York City nightclub, the Pandemonium, she is stunned to observe a group of teenagers stalk and attack a supposed human and tries to stop them. She learns their names are Jace, Alec and Isabelle. They reveal that the man was truly a demon and they hint that they are part of a Supernatural community called the 'Shadowhunters'. She thinks that they are all crazy at first, but stalls when she sees when the 'human' the Shadowhunters were stalking suddenly grows claws and strange eyes and disappears when killed. She had called the security of the place before, and when they come, she soon realizes that she is the only person able to see them.
After the battle, Clary is introduced to the group of teens, who identify themselves as Shadowhunters, a race of humans who are physically enhanced with angel blood and secretly protect humanity from demons. When her mother Jocelyn goes missing, Clary learns that the event is connected to the conflict between the Shadowhunters and their enemies. She then enters the Shadowhunter community and there she finds that she also is a Shadowhunter. Her mother had paid the warlock Magnus Bane to put a block in her head so she could not remember parts of the Shadow World even moments after she sees it. She and the group of Shadowhunters try to find Jocelyn. In the process, she falls in love with fellow Shadowhunter Jace Wayland.
Clary learns that Valentine Morgenstern, who is supposed to be long dead but truly is not, the main antagonist of the series, is her biological father and her mother's ex-husband. At the end of City of Bones, Valentine tells them that Clary and Jace are siblings - which, as they discover later in the series, is a lie, as they truly are unrelated. In the second book of the series, City of Ashes, Clary dates her best friend Simon, who has for a long time had a crush on her, to forget Jace during the torturous time of believing him to be her brother. She is told by the Seelie Queen that she and Jace are Valentine's experiments but mysteriously does not explain further. She finds out later that she was exposed to powdered angel blood through her mother who consumed it unknowingly while she was pregnant with Clary. This angelic blood granted her the ability to create runes that do not exist and amplify the power of existing runes for herself. At the end of the second novel, Clary finds that an old friend of her mother, Madeleine, knows how to wake her mother, who has been in a magical coma since the first book.
In City of Glass, it is discovered that Jocelyn had taken a potion, made by a warlock named Ragnor Fell, to induce a comatose state and prevent her from being interrogated by Valentine. Before she dies, Madeleine tells Clary she needs to find Fell, who will help her cure her mother. Clary, using her power to create runes, creates a rune with the ability to create a Portal and transports herself and Luke to Idris. She falls into Lake Lyn and drinks some of the water by accident; this causes her to hallucinate because the lake's water is poisonous to Shadowhunters. Luke then takes her to his sister Amatis for healing.
During her stay in Alicante, Clary ventures to find Ragnor Fell, who will be able to help her with the potion. She is escorted there by Sebastian Verlac, whom she recently met, in an attempt to make contact with Fell. Instead, she finds Magnus Bane. He tells her of Ragnor's death and how he was called as a replacement and requests that she find him the Book of White in return for his help. She returns to Alicante. She then learns that something called the Book of White has been hidden in Wayland Manor, and travels with Jace to retrieve it. Inside the Manor, they find the angel Ithuriel tied up and left for dead in the basement. He gives both Shadowhunters visions of Valentine experimenting on his children with the demon and his angel blood in an attempt to make a stronger warrior.
They escape from Wayland Manor, after freeing Ithuriel so that he can finally die. They return to Alicante to see it burning from the first assault on the city, and after things are in order, Clary meets with the others and they go to free Simon who was taken to a Conclave prison called The Guard. They return to see the Clave, and Clary uses her rune ability to create a binding rune, enabling Shadowhunters and Downworlders to share powers. All those of age go to the battle on Brocelind Plains, and Clary has to give Simon the Mark of Cain so that the vampires will join the fight.
At last, Magnus wakes Clary's mother Jocelyn, who informs Clary that Jace is not her brother. Her real brother is Jonathan Morgenstern, who has, this whole time, pretended to be Sebastian. It is soon revealed that Sebastian is a spy for Valentine and that he tried to entice Clary into teaming up with him. Clary then tries to locate Jace to help him.
She runs into Valentine, who ties her down in order to complete his summoning of the Angel Raziel by using her blood. Then, when Jace arrives to rescue her, Valentine forces her to watch as he fatally stabs Jace in the chest. Upon summoning the angel, Clary changes the marks on Valentine's summoning circle, giving her the ability to control the Angel, and after Valentine is slain, wishes to have Jace back. After Jace is brought back to life, the two get together.
In the fourth book, City of Fallen Angels, Clary and Jace are happily in love. But soon, Jace starts to behave strangely and avoids her, leading Clary to assume he wants to break up with her. In truth, he has been influenced by Lilith, mother of all demons and former wife of Adam before Eve, who sent him dreams in which he kills or hurts Clary, because when he was raised from the dead by Raziel, all of his protections placed on him at birth were stripped away, leaving him vulnerable to demonic influence.
During the party, when Luke's pack celebrated his engagement with Clary's mother Jocelyn, she is kidnapped by a fully possessed Jace and taken to Lilith. There, she learns her brother Sebastian Morgenstern is going to be raised from the dead by Simon, who is blackmailed by Lilith for the life of Clary, and she was brought just to make him do that. Using Jace's affection for her (which remains undiminished because his possession has no effect on that part of him), she cuts the rune which enabled Lilith to control him. Jace and Lilith fight fiercely until Lilith stops him by torturing Clary. Seeing his chance, Simon comes in the way of Lilith's blow to Clary, the Mark of Cain possessed by him returns the blow sevenfold to Lilith, destroying her.
After Lilith's destruction, Isabelle and Alec appear on the scene, but Jace shoos them away since he doesn't want to be consoled as he feels terrible for hurting Clary, even though he wasn't himself. Alec then shoves Clary back to the room as they get into the elevator, feeling that only she can help him. Clary and Jace reaffirm their love after she convinces him he is not a horrible person. The last words Clary says to him before going down are, "I'll be back. Five minutes," and they share a kiss before she leaves and comes back to find him gone, unaware his rune has healed and he is possessed once again.
In the fifth book of the series, City of Lost Souls, Clary has realized that Jace has gone away with Sebastian Morgenstern. The Clave was alarmed by the sudden disappearance of Sebastian and Jace and started to search for any signs of them. But other problems come to the Clave and it has to set aside the search for Jonathan. Clary is outraged by the news. Using the bell given to her by Kaelie Whitewillow, a waitress and subject of the Seelie Queen's, she goes to the Seelie Queen's palace where she has to beg for help. The Seelie Queen has requested that Clary steal the faerie rings kept inside the institute. Clary steals the rings but doesn't give them to the Queen because of the appearance of Jace and Sebastian at the library, both healthy and safe. Afterwards, Clary accepts their offer of coming with them.
Then Sebastian's plans are finally revealed to her. When Sebastian finds her communicating with Simon through the Faerie rings, he fights her and attempts to harm her. At the enchantment ceremony, she was surprised when Amatis was turned into a dark Shadowhunter by the blood of Lilith. At the same time, Magnus, Alec, Maryse, Isabelle, and Simon arrived, with Glorious the sword in hand. When Glorious was handed to her, she struck Jace, the mark of Lilith burning, making him cry out in pain.
She then visits Jace in the Institute where he is healing. She enters his room, and immediately hugs Jace which reaffirms their relationship.
Finally in City of Heavenly Fire, Sebastian has taken many Shadowhunters and turned them into his Endarkened. The remaining Shadowhunters retreat to Idris for safety. Sebastian offers to leave the Shadowhunters alone if he is given Clary and Jace. Before the Clave can make a decision Clary, Jace, Simon, Isabelle and Alec sneak off to Edom, the demon realm Sebastian is hiding in; there, Sebastian has Jocelyn, Luke, Magnus and Raphael prisoner. After spending days trying to find Sebastian, they come upon his castle, a dark version of Alicante. Sebastian offers Clary a place next to him, in exchange for leaving everyone she knows and all of the Shadowhunters alone. She accepts it, knowing that she has to keep everyone safe. When Sebastian is momentarily distracted she stabs him with the Morgenstern blade, containing Heavenly Fire. He is returned to the brother that she could have had before he then dies.
The group manage to escape after Simon gives up his immortality and memories of the Shadow World to Magnus Banes's demon father, Asmodeus. Months later Clary talks to him but he doesn't remember her. At her mother and Luke's wedding, Simon tells her he remembers her. She and Jace are happy, as the others are. In the end, Clary and Jace remain in a happy, committed relationship.