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
About 4 months have passed since City of Glass. Jace and Clary start the book happy, in love, and free of guilt. However, Lilith, the Mother of Demons, who gave Sebastian her demon blood, who Clary has been informally investigating, begins controlling Jace and giving him dreams of killing Clary. Afraid of his dreams becoming reality, he distanced himself from her, confusing Clary, who worries whether he still loves her. After a passionate makeout, his dreams become reality: he grabs a knife and cuts her arm. Devastated, he confesses that he's been dreaming of killing her, and Clary takes him to the Silent Brothers to cure him. They tell him that after the resurrection, having told no one, he is missing a demon protection spell that all shadow hunters get at birth. He stays the night to get the ceremony, and Clary goes to Jocelyn and Luke's rehearsal dinner. While there, Jace gets completely possessed by Lilith, and leaves for the dinner. Clary is surprised by his arrival, but he reassures that they did the protection ceremony, and everything is fine. They leave the party, and he knocks her out, and brings her to Lilith. Jace holds her at knifepoint, but Simon, Izzy, Magnus, and Alec come to save them, and stop Lilith from resurrecting Sebastian. At the end of the book, everything seems fine, with Jace having broken free, but when everyone leaves the roof, Jace stays behind, and resurrects Sebastian.

City of Lost Souls
The book starts two weeks later. Both Sebastian's body and Jace are missing, and everyone things Jace is dead except the Gang, who are still searching. Jace comes to visit Clary multiple times, begging her to come with him and Sebastian, which is when she realizes that he is still possessed. When Jace comes to her house, and Luke gets hurt, she decides that with the help of Simon and the Seelie Queen, she would take go with them, and pretend to defect, but only to learn how to save Jace. While traveling the world with them, Jace and Clary flirt, go on dates, and almost consummate their relationship many times. But are either interrupted or Clary is plagued by knowing that he isn't Her Jace, and that he is acting different, despite having the same charming, arrogant personality. Under the surface, Jace and Sebastian are tethered to one another through a rune that cannot be cut with a regular wound. They are linked, whatever injury Jace feels, Sebastian feels, and vice versa. She learns of Sebastian's plans to resurrect Lilith and take over the world with The Infernal Cup, an inverted version of the Mortal Cup, which turns shadowhunters into 'endarkended'--basically zombies who are loyal to Sebastian. While out getting the cup, Jace is injured with a special knife by a defected Iron Sister, whom he kills, that temporarily severs the link between them, allowing Jace to think freely from Sebastian's mind control. Clary comes to him, and she is happy to see that he back, and she begs him to come with her, but Jace says he can't, and begs her to kill him, so that Sebastian dies before completing his plan to take over the world. He also admits that he is jealous of this Other Jace for spending time with her, and is in agony, because he can't do anything but watch. She refuses to kill him, and instead calls for Sebastian, notifying of their broken link. Sebastian comes, and Jace is betrayed. The wound heals, and Other Jace returns. Clary feels tremendous guilt, and when they go to the ceremony to revive Lilith, Simon and the Gang show up with a sword made of Heavenly Fire that can sever the bond between Jace and Sebastian, but also burns out the bad in people, and if they're more evil than good, they die. The plan was to stab Sebastian, but Jace wouldn't let her, so she stabbed him instead, faithful that Jace was more good than evil, and would live. At first, It seems that Jace had died, and Clary holds him in her arms, as Simon and her mom suggest that she let him go, but she refuses. Jace does wake, and the bond is severed, and they win the battle against the endarkened. A few days later, Clary comes to visit an injured Jace, worried that he would be angry, but he forgives her for stabbing him, and is glad to see her in fish-net stockings. However, Jace reveals that after being stabbed by Heavenly Fire, it nows runs through his veins, and when his blood pressure gets too high, he starts to burn, so they are unable to have much physical contact. To which Clary responds that it's good that she wore fish-net stockings so that he learns self-control.

City of Heavenly Fire
A month goes by, and Jace is learning how to control his heavenly fire. After an attack by Sebastian and his endarkened, they go to Idris, where Sebastian 'projects' into and visits Clary. Jace barges into the room, and Sebastian leaves. Jace and Clary comfort each other after Sebastian, and Clary admits that Sebastian had sexually assaulted her, and Jace comforts her. After another attack, Jace and Clary and the rest of the Gang go to Edom, an alternate, barren dimension of earth that lost against the demons, and where Sebastian has been holding out. When entering, everyone sees dreams that they think they want, but don't really. Clary dreams of an alternate reality where Valentine was good, and she was raised by Jocelyn and Valentine along with Sebastian, who wasn't injected with demon blood. It's her wedding day to Jace, but she realizes it's a dream when she can't remember when he asked her to marry her, and when she asks, they just say that he didn't, everyone knew they would get married oneway anyway, which makes Clary tense since she hadn't been given the choice, and she wakes up. When she asks Jace what he saw, he doesn't answer. After an attack by demons where he unleashes his heavenly fire in full force, Clary walks through fire to get to him, and save him, and draws a rune that allows her to take his heavenly fire and put it into her sword, relieving him of his heavenly fire. They don't tell anyone that he is free, but they later consummate their relationship by the side of a lake, because luckily Jace brought a condom to hell. They all sneak into Sebastian's hiding place, and eventually kill Sebastian, and he dies in her arms because he was more demon than good, but he is briefly returned to his natural state. After a sacrifice of Simon's immortality and memories to Magnus's father, a great demon, in exchange for getting back home, everything is good. The book ends with Jocelyn and Luke's wedding a few months later at Luke's lake house, where Jace and Clary sneak off to make out.

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