Jlaire

Jlaire is the het ship between Jim Lake Jr. and Claire Nuñez from the Tales of Arcadia fandom.

Part 1
At first, Jim merely crushed on Claire from afar and she tolerated him at best, until he attempted to woo her with quickly learned Spanish and she invited him to audition for the school play, Romeo and Juliet. Although he didn't actually want to act, he auditioned to convince Strickler that the armor was for the play. However, due to his tardiness and absence from several rehearsals, their relationship begins to turn sour. After a last minute attempt to win back her trust, he agrees to babysit her little brother, Enrique, who is actually a changling, who they dubbed as NotEnrique. After causing a mess in her house, she says she hopes to never see him again. Before he and Draal have their to-the-death rematch, he leaves her a letter, confessing all of his feelings and what has been going on with him. She forgives him, thinking it's metaphorical, but then grows suspicious and, after NotEnrique endangers her and she learns the truth, the two grow closer as she joins in on the adventures, and prepare to go to the Spring Fling together. They ultimately decide to skip the Fling, and instead dance near a cliff overlooking the city, almost kissing.

Part 2
During part two, Claire is determined to rescue Jim from the Darklands after he saved Enrique first. After everyone manages to get him back, Claire hugs him saying that she miss him and they both share a kiss. After an unconventional barbecue at her parents' house, Claire finally calls Jim her boyfriend and says that she does not care that her parents disapprove of it, officially becoming a couple. For a school assignment, that will prepare them for when they become parents, Jim and Claire paired up with one another for it. The two also talk about how they'll be there for their child when the time comes, since Jim's father left him when he was young while Claire's are hard to please. Claire was upset with Jim when he accidently killed their flower-bag child, but Jim reassures Claire that their "daughter" didn't die in vain as "she" helped Jim to learn the weakness of the slug-like monster they were after.

When Gummar took over Heartstone Troll Market, Jim and Claire work to evacuate as many trolls as possible in which led to Claire using the full might of her Shadow Staff. Even though Claire was exhausted from over doing it and Jim and saw the staff hurting her as she did so, he was glad to see that Claire is alive and will recover with rest. While the two of them are unaware of the danger that is coming, by using Claire as a puppet for her plans to kill Jim.

Part 3
After the escape from Troll Market, and during the first part of part three, Jim could see that Claire's health still hasn't fully recovered from the event and didn't want her to use the staff again or take part in Trollhunting until her cold is gone. Even though her mother's campaign signs did give the two and their friends away to keep the town safe from Gumm-Gumm attacks. When a punk rock boy, Douxie, appeared at their school and can see that Claire is smitten with him, Jim grew jealous and tries to keep them apart, but Claire uses Jim's advice about balancing her life by signing for Battle for the Bands with their girl friends. After the two took down normal criminals for a change, Jim and Claire left that they might have a future in crime fighting after they defeat Gummar for good. With Claire's cold getting worse and paying Doctor Lake a visiting didn't help, Claire decides to take her friends' advice to get some rest. Jim is glad that Claire taking care of herself and that she had missed out the weird day they just had at school. Even though Claire is feeling better after her day of rest, NotEnrique could tell that there is something odd about her of late and that it wasn't a good idea for Claire to go on a date with Jim.

Before Claire would stop it she gets possessed by Morgana, a witch who wishes to kill Jim for being Merin's current champion. Once Jim realised this and that it was the reason for her odd behaviour, he calls in his friends in hopes that they'll be able to save Claire from her. Luckily Jim and Toby were able to free Claire from Morgana when the two went into the shadow realm to find her soul, Claire was also able to win for control over Morgana's staff when she clamed her body back. Claire's possession had even allowed her to gain some of Morgana's memories, one of those memories shows Claire that the blue jewel of Jim's amulet is a map to Merlin's tomb, and only destroying it can help them find it. When Barbara Lake's memories returned she informs Claire's parents of her, Jim and Toby's secret. At first Jim was on Claire's side to keep their big secret from their families, but after Barbara convinces Jim that she, the Nuñezs and Nana Domzalski have a right to know of the dangers their children get into, Jim tells Claire that it was time for them to tell their families the truth. Mrs. Nuñez wanted to alter the town of the danger she just uncovered, but Claire, Jim and the others were able to talk her out of it.

As the two and their friends find Merlin's tomb, but had failed to stop Gummar and Angor Rot from taking the wizard's staff, they did come across the said wizard who has been sleeping for centuries until the jewel of Jim's damaged amulet woke Merlin up. Luckily Merlin was able to repair Jim's amulet and when a small part of it was missing Jim asks Claire to give them one of her hair clips, to replace the missing piece. When Merlin had showed them his memories of Killahead Claire could tell that seeing the faces of their dead friends were upsetting Jim, as he blames himself for not being able to save Vendel or Draal. Now that Merlin is on their side and wants to help them defeat Gummar, as well as Morgana to gain back his lost magic, Jim and Claire are given a list of items Merlin needs for a spell; while he makes Claire and Toby their own suits of armour. Either of when knew what the said spell is or what it is for, until Merlin informs Jim that it will turn him into a troll. So he can be both troll and hunter. Because Claire had left to find Jim's mother at the time, she didn't learn this until Jim made his decision to go along with Merlin's plan. Before Jim immerged him in the spell he thought about Claire and the times they shared together, as a human.

3Below
Jim and Claire don't appear a lot in 3Below, since the story arc is of the friends the two had made in "In Good Hands" and only appear during part one. Due to it taking place in the same timeline as part three of Trollhunters, while part two takes place after Jim and Claire had left Arcadia but Toby does mention the two from time to time. Part two of 3Below also briefly shows a battle that Jim get himself caught up in; the said battle and the part Claire plays in it is later explained in Wizards.

Part 1
On one of their troll hunts, Jim, Claire and their friends were chasing after the Trickster Troll, Porgon, just before they caught up to him the item that Porgon found caused him to disappear. Porgon's disappearance also began a time loop that only Jim remembers, due to his amulet, until he dumped into someone who also remembers it and asks Aja Tarron to use her shielded to protect Claire and the other's memories of it as well. With Claire now being aware of the time loop and had gained new friends who can help he and Jim stop Porgon and the none stop time jumps he creates with the piece of Akiridion tech, the two and their friends begin to for a plan of attack. Even though they were able to stop Porgon and get the alien technology away from the troll, Jim and Claire had ended up exposing both their and the Tarron's big secrets. In order to fix this Krel gets everyone to make one final time jump that will have Jim and Claire take out Porgon on the night they first encountered him, but it will also mean that they'll lose their memories of the time loop and the friends they had made during it. With faith that fate will bring Jim and Claire back to their new Akiridion friends again, they created their last time jump together.

Fanon
Jlaire is the main ship of the Trollhunters/Tales of Arcadia series. After 3Below had Jim forming a friendship connection with Aja Tarron in "D'aja Vu", before the timeline was altered to keep both of their secrets, fans began to rival Jlaire with Ajim. Just as part three of Trollhunters and Wizards inspired fans to also rival it with the ship between Claire x Douxie. Some role switch AUs of both the fandom and ship have Claire as the Trollhunter while Jim is a half-human Changeling who becomes close with Claire, despite the fact that he was ordered to take the amulet from her. Troll!Jim and the fanon Changeling!Jim has also got fans to place him and Claire in a Beauty and the Beast AU, which later became a trophy in ship when Claire's love for Jim turns him back into a human and gives him a second chance at life; just as it did in the Disney film.

On AO3, it is the most written ship for both characters.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Jim/Claire tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Jim/Claire tag on FanFiction.Net

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