[Shadowhunter] Encyclopedia

✭ Jocelyn Fairchild

Name: Jocelyn Fray
Birth Year: 1970
Kind: Shadowhunters
Hair Color: Red
Eye Color: Green
Occupation: Former store owner

"If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change."---- City Of Ashes.

Jocelyn had dark red hair. Along with various other runes, she also had a permanent round rune on her neck that symbolized her membership with the Circle. During her time away from the Shadowhunters world, Jocelyn had her runes hidden with glamour.

A member of the Circle during its formative years, Jocelyn was married to its leader Valentine Morgenstern and was best of friends with fellow Shadowhunter and Valentine's parabatai, Luke Garroway. She was also apparently quite close to Hodge Starkweather.

Jocelyn stayed by her husband, believing that the Circle was working towards a noble goal. She eventually came to see that Valentine's goals had become increasingly extremist, and that he and his comrades constantly broke the Accords in brutal acts against Downworlders. One of the first times Jocelyn realized that Valentine was too far gone was when she saw him after he'd just massacred a group of warlocks. She tried to make sense of his actions at first, even considering asking her father to help him, but Valentine simply justified his choices by saying the Accords were a fallacy.

For eighteen years, Jocelyn was able to evade capture by the Circle. Still in hiding but finally settling down in New York, Jocelyn opened a store, Greenpoint Antiquities, and hired the warlock Dot as her assistant. As Clary grew older, Jocelyn realized that hiding her past from Clary may not be so easy with her seeing the Shadow World for what it was. After an incident with a water demon, she took the young Clary to the High Warlock of Brooklyn, Magnus Bane, and had him remove all memories of the Shadow World. She has since kept the secret from her, much to the disapproval of Magnus and Luke. She also concealed the identity of Clary's father, telling her that it was a man named Jonathan Clark.

Jocelyn was kidnapped and brought to Valentine's hideout in Chernobyl. Valentine took to watching over her in his spare time and talking to her, taking extreme offense if any Circle members spoke unfavorably about her. Meanwhile, Clary and Luke frantically worked to find and get her back.

Eventually, Valentine "let" Clary retrieve her mother's body, telling her that it had always been his intention to allow them to reunite and wake Jocelyn, and that they would eventually join him. She was awakened by Magnus with a spell from the Book of the White, and she was reunited with Clary and Luke.

Seen as beautiful, warm, and protective, Jocelyn was a woman who would do anything to protect those she loves. She loved her daughter Clary "more than words" and treated her mundane best friend Simon as if he were her own son. In her younger years, she had a considerable influence on other Shadowhunters and encouraged them to join the Circle before realizing just how corrupt Valentine had become.

As a Shadowhunter, she was one of the finest of her generation—highly-skilled and idealistic, believing in and striving for peace. While she was with Valentine, however, she was a little naive to his true nature at first before she finally saw his dark side.