Clace

Clace is the het ship between Jace Herondale and Clary Fray from the Shadowhunters fandom.

Canon
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City of Bones
Clary and Jace first met at the Pandemonium Club when Clary found Jace, Alec, and Isabelle killing a demon. Their second encounter happened when Clary's mother was kidnapped by Valentine. When Clary went back to her apartment, she was attacked and nearly killed by a Ravener demon, however, Jace rescued her and took her back to the New York Institute.

Jace helps Clary to navigate the Shadow World and the truth of what she is - a Shadowhunter - a half human, half angel breed of warriors who hunt and kill demons. While they appear to find each other annoying, they are drawn to each other. They share their first kiss in the Institute's greenhouse on Clary's fifteenth birthday.

Shortly after, however, the two are tricked by Clary's father (Valentine Morgenstern) into believing that they are siblings.

City of Ashes
Despite the fact that they believe they are siblings, Clary and Jace find it hard to deny their feelings for each other. Jace tried to keep his distance from Clary, while Clary began dating Simon. However, they kissed more than once while under the impression that they were siblings. They also began arguing a lot more.

City of Glass
Despite the fact that they believe they are siblings, Clary and Jace find it hard to deny their feelings for each other. Jace tried to keep his distance from Clary, while Clary began dating Simon. However, they kissed more than once while under the impression that they were siblings. Once Clary discovered from her mom that Jace wasn't her brother, she went to stop Valentine, only to discover that Jace was dead. She defeated Valentine and used the Angel's wish to bring back Jace. The two officially began dating.

City of Fallen Angels
Lilith began controlling Jace and giving him dreams of killing Clary. He was afraid of hurting her, so he distanced himself again. When Clary discovered that Jace had become bound to Sebastian (her biological brother), she created a plan and joined them in order to rescue Jace. Eventually, Jace and Sebastian's bond was broken.

City of Lost Souls
However, Jace's body was engulfed in heavenly fire for weeks due to being stabbed with Glorious, which kept the two of them apart.

City of Heavenly Fire
After Jace's fire was contained in Heosphorous while in Edom, they consummated their relationship.

Lady Midnight
After the Dark War, Clary and Jace took over the New York Institute. In 2012, Jace proposed to Clary, who initially rejected it due to having visions of herself dying; however, those visions were of a different version of herself dying in Thule. Upon discovering that, she told him the truth.

Queen of Air and Darkness
After Magnus and Alec's wedding, she Portaled him and herself back to the New York Institute, and proposed to him, and he said yes.

Jace and Clary first met outside of Pandemonium, on the night of Clary's eighteenth birthday. He was surprised that she had the sight, as he believed that she was just a mundane. However, he later learned that she was Clary Fairchild and saved her from a demon that had attacked her at her apartment. They were originally a sharp relationship, often teasing and being sarcastic towards another. However, they eventually began to care for one another, especially as Jace volunteered to teach Clary how to be a Shadowhunter. Jace, despite his initial "to love, is to destroy" outlook, began to fall for her.
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After the pair went on a mission together, and Clary thought that she had killed Jace, she realized her feelings for him. Once back at the institute, Clary kissed him, and the pair began seeing each other romantically. However, the false discovery that they were siblings put a halt in their budding romance. Clary immediately shot down her feelings for Jace, and while she seemingly moved on with Simon, Jace struggled visibly and blamed his lapse of judgment and his love for Clary as more than a sister, on the demon blood he was led to believe he had. When Jace found out from Valentine that they were in fact not siblings, Jace was eager to tell Clary but decided against it when he thought that Clary was happier with Simon.

Clary eventually discovered that she wasn't Jace's sister, but nothing changed in their relationship due to her relationship with Simon. Clary's feelings for him, which she'd tried to suppress, were brought to the surface by the Seelie Queen. The Seelie Queen was bored and wanted to make a point to Simon - that Shadowhunters always choose their own kind. She then forced Clary to kiss the one she truly desired, who turned out to be Jace. Simon broke up with her, and Clary distanced herself from Jace. After Clary and Simon had moved on from each other and tensions had died down between the three, Clary and Jace restarted their romance. Clary also saved Jace's life by resurrecting him by compelling a wish from the Angel.

Unlike with any of his past flames, Jace chose to take things slow with Clary, not wanting to risk letting Clary see something in him she wouldn't like.

Fanon
Fans had become conflicted after the end of the first book. Many shipped the two but were "squicked" out by the possible incest. When it was revealed that they weren't related, fans were relieved, even if they didn't necessarily ship the two.

On AO3 it is the most written ship for Clary and Jace. It is also the third most written ship in the Shadowhunters (TV) tag, and the second most written in The Shadowhunter Chronicles and The Mortal Instruments tags.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Clary/Jace tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Jace/Clary tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Jace/Clary tag on FanFiction.Net