[Shadowhunter] Encyclopedia

✭ Jonathan Morgenstern

Name: Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern

Eye Color: Blue and Black (due to demon blood)

Hair Color: Red and Blond(as Sebastian)

Relatives: Valentine Morgenstern (father), Jocelyn Fray (mother), Clary Fairchild (sister), Lilith (adopted mother), Lydia Branwell (distant)

"I never felt so.....light."---- City Of Heavenly Fire.

Jonathan has blue eyes and red hair, the latter being of the same shade as his mother's, sharp cheekbones, and a lean figure. His eyes — even the sclera, or the white of his eyes — sometimes turn completely black, particularly when he accesses his powers. Jonathan has the "heightened speed" rune on the left side of his neck, a healing rune on the right, and the rune that binds him to Clary on the right side of his chest.

Before he was born, Jonathan was injected with pure demon blood while still in Jocelyn's womb. After the Uprising, Valentine faked their deaths by setting fire to the Fairchild manor. For years after finding out about his "death", his mother Jocelyn mourned for him. She kept a box of his things with her, and she would take it out once a year and cry over it.

Valentine raised Jonathan secretly and in seclusion in a remote cabin in Idris. Because of his demon blood, Jonathan grew up with murderous tendencies. When he turned eight, Valentine gave him his first seraph blade. He had been so eager to try it out and make his father proud that he snuck out of their cabin and killed and skinned a large werewolf.

Valentine sent Jonathan to Hell, specifically the realm Edom. Jonathan felt that Valentine's reasons were that he grew to hate him for his inclination to kill and that his father chose Jace and wanted to protect him from Jonathan.

Jonathan spent time thinking of his next steps in his new life. To blend in, Jonathan kidnapped the English Shadowhunter Sebastian Verlac from London and took on his identity. He led Sebastian's family to believe that he was safe and just needed to be away.

Meanwhile, Valentine had managed to convince the other Jonathan—now known as Jace—that he was Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern. Because it was then believed that Jace was Jonathan, they wrongly assumed that it was referring to him, leading to him accidentally activating the sword. Clary was later able to deactivate the Sword, and Jonathan, knowing that the Sword could be used to destroy him, a demon-blooded creature as well, stole the Sword with the intention of sending it to Edom with Valentine.

When he noticed that Clary was struggling with her rune powers because of her emotions, he advised her to accept her feelings instead of shutting them, and her powers, out. When they needed Clary's ability to save Jace and capture Valentine, he forced her to accept her emotions by throwing harsh truths at her, which, despite his words, Clary later thanked him for.

Jonathan was eventually able to gain the trust of the other Shadowhunters and integrated himself into the Institute, well enough that he became part of the team assigned to Valentine. He anonymously arranged for Luke Garroway to get access to Valentine's cell to kill him but reported him to Alec Lightwood, prompting Alec and the Clave to decide to have Valentine transferred to Idris to keep him safe, while he was being interrogated for the Mortal Instruments, from those who want him dead.

Jonathan gave Valentine a recap of the life he had. When the remorseful Valentine took the blame for everything that happened to him and told Jonathan that he grew to regret sending him away. Valentine told Jonathan that he was the "ultimate warrior" he'd always dreamed of, not Jace, and the man he'd grown up to be fulfilled this dream, calling him his greatest creation.

In his dying moments, Jonathan crawled ashore and used his blood to open a rift to Edom and called for his "mother", Lilith. Through this rift, several asmodei entered the world, one of which took Jonathan's body and brought it to an isolated cave. The demons then coalesced into Lilith, and she was reunited with her "son".bLilith went to great lengths to prepare Jonathan for his rebirth, and to prevent anyone from interfering.

Jace retrieved the two last things Lilith needed for him: flesh from his father Valentine, and Clary's heart—in fact her life force, which Lilith bound to him through a mark on their chests—allowing Jonathan to rise and live, as long as Clary was alive. Shortly before Lilith was killed—on Earth, and banished back to Edom—Jonathan awakened and took ahold of Clary who passed by his tomb.

Jonathan introduced himself to Clary when she woke up days after the explosion. Later, Jonathan offered to go to Paris with Clary. Jonathan took the apartment to Paris next. He continued to try and get Clary on his side, and Clary pretended to give him a chance. Jonathan, however, had a secret agenda on the side. Jonathan felt a twinge of pain and rushed outside, realizing that someone was hurting Clary.

Clary confronted Jonathan about his belief that he was being good, despite his actions. Jonathan retorted that Clary seemed to have felt good about killing their father. Clary demanded to know what Jonathan had planned with the sword, but Jonathan refused to answer, doubting Clary's loyalty.

In the final book City of Heavenly Fire he is fatally wounded by Clary who stabs him with one of the Morgenstern family swords Heosphoros which destroys the demon blood in Sebastian's body and becomes good and asks to be called Jonathan. But there is not enough good in him for him to survive and dies in his mother's arms after apologizing for his actions as Sebastian and is later cremated.

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