Jace Lightwood // King of Sarcasm

[Jace Lightwood]

Jonathan Christopher Lightwood

Name: Jace Wayland Morgenstern Herondale Lightwood
Age: Seventeen years old
Nicknames: Jace (First given to him by Maryse when he moved in with the lightwoods), Asshole, King of Sarcasm.
Species: Nephilim.
Special gifts: Jace has strength, speed, durability, and leaping ability that succeeds that of other Shadowhunters. This is because Valentine infused him with the blood of the angel Ithuriel while he was still in his mother’s womb.


Face Claim: Alexander Pettyfer.

Personality: Jace on the surface seems very sarcastic, vain and full of himself, which leads him to often crack a joke under pressure to hide the fact that it is getting to him. He also gives the impression of holding most people in disdain but is quite chivalrous toward women, his handsome face and ability to be quiet the charmer makes him a real ladies man. However ever since he has fallen deeply in love with Clary, he see’s that no woman can compare or ever replace her in his heart. The only people before he met Clary that Jace ever formed an emotional attachment too was the Lightwoods, otherwise he never grew close to anyone and even now it takes allot to get past his ‘Big bad’ shadowhunter mask.

Behind those golden eyes, is a soul in constant torment. Jace is often full of angst, scared that he is truly more like his adoptive father Valentine. After the fight with Lilith and Sebastian’s return, his self-hatred grows worse, causing him to feel that he doesn’t deserve to be close to those he loved. Especially Clary, after Lilith caused him to hurt her. Jace has a strong moral core but also exhibits sadistic tendencies which he gets from Valentine and at times he can be extremely vindictive though often he is being cruel to protect those he loves. Part of Jace loves Valentine because, despite the abuse, he was often kind and affectionate to Jace, he still sometimes slips and calls Valentine his father. He scolds himself when he does, because he feels it is disrespectful to Stephan and even Robert.

Physical appearance: Jace has fine wavy gold blond hair and eyes that look gold in the light and have long eyelashes about a shade lighter than his hair. He has a slim, muscular build, and is about 6". His face is described as being pretty and angular and naturally handsome, something that often gets him noticed by women…..and some men.

Like all other Shadowhunters, he is covered in thin, silver scars from years of applying various magical runes with a stele for battle and healing purposes, as well as permanent runes. He is said to look like his true father Stephen Herondale except around the eyes where he looks like his mother,Celine Herondale.

Family: Father: Stephen Herondale (Deceased)

Mother: Celine Herondale (Deceased)

Grandmother: Imogen Herondale (Deceased)

Adoptive Mother: Maryse Lightwood

Adoptive Fathers: Valentine Morgenstern (Deceased), Robert Lightwood

Adoptive Sister: Isabelle Lightwood

Adoptive Brothers: Alec Lightwood, Max Lightwood (Deceased)

History: Jace's Mother Celine Herondale was pregnant in her eighth month when her husband Stephen Herondale died. Taken over by grief, and already having problems with depression she killed herself by cutting her wrists and bled to death. Valentine Morgenstern had given her a mixture of Angel blood after giving his wife Jocelyn demon blood. When Celine commited suicide he didn’t want his experiment be wasted. So he cut Jace out of Celines dead body and raised him.

Valentine raised Jace to be a fighter and that to love something was to destroy it, but he found that the Angel blood had made him soft so he planned his own "death". When Jace was ten years old, he saw what he thought was two men slitting his father’s throat. After which he went to live with the Lightwoods, and grew up eventually considering them a second family. When he is seventeen, he goes on a demon hunt with Isabelle and Alec who are like his brother and sister. They three of them having been training to be shadowhunters for years. The hunt leads them to the club Pandemonium, and that’s where they meet her. Clary Fray, a seemingly mundane girl that Jace is fascinated with from the first moment he lays eyes on her. The next day, Jace fallows her to a poetry reading and offers to take Clary to meet his tutor, but before he can do so, she receives a distressing phone call from her mother. She returns home to find her mother missing, the apartment trashed, and a monstrous creature, a Ravener demon, lying in wait for her. Having a bad feeling about her quick leave, Jace fallows her only to find her knocked out after she had shoved HIS sensor in the demons mouth. He takes her back to his home "The Institute”.Here, she recuperates from the injuries she sustained.


After hearing that there was a block on Clarys mind, Jace goes with her to the Bone, where the Silent Brothers attempt to break it. After finding out that Magnus Bane has something to do with it, Jace goes with Clary and the Lightwoods to one of his parties (Tagged along by Simon) However Simon is turned into a rat and stolen by vampires. Jace and Clary go to rescue him, almost dying in the process. Back at the institute, Jace cant help his growing feelings for Clary and takes her up to the green house for her birthday where he kisses her kiss, but Simon sees them kiss a second time and reveals that he has been in love with Clary for years, and is angry and jealous. This whole thing secretly angers Jace but he hides it behind his sarcasm as usual. Clary realizes that the Mortal Cup is in the tarrot cards her mom gave to Clary's neighbor and tells Jace and Hodge. Jace, Clary, Alec, Isabelle, and Simon go and retrieve the Mortal cup, Simon waits in the car. Unfortunately a greater demon- one more powerful than most demons, is in their way. Alec gets severely injured but Simon saves them and sends the demon back to its dimension.


Back at the institute, Hodge betrays them all and turns Jace and The mortal cup over to Valentine. Once with Valentine Jace learns that the man he believed to be his father wasn’t dead, leaving him confused but also relived. Not sure what to think about what his father was doing, but also glad he was alive. However his world came crashing down when Clary came for him (with a bunch of wolves), at first he was so relieved to see her, the girl he loved but then his father told them

She was his sister….


A battle ensued, almost getting Luke killed but Jace betrayed his father. For Clary. Valentine offered to take him back to their home in Idris, but he refused and after he was gone Jace knelt on the floor and Clary held him.

A few months later, Maryse tells Jace to leave the institute. Because the Inquisitor Imogene Herondale wanted to question him about Valentine. When the Inquisitor arrived to Institute, Jace, using his so-called charm, angers the Inquisitor and she locks him in the Silent City. That night, sitting in the cell of the Silent City, Jace hears the screams of the Silent Brothers as something is attacking everyone. He finds out that Valentine kills the Silent Brothers to get the Soul-Sword (Second of the Mortal Instruments). A distress call goes out to the Institute from the Silent City, but the adult Shadowhunters were called to the park where a Faerie Child was killed and were not available at the moment. Isabelle and Alec decide to go find Jace and Clary tags along to go to save Jace, since she is the only person who knows the entrance.


They go to The Faerie Realm and Clary was told to stay as she was tricked into taking fairy food. However, the Queen said that "the kiss the girl most desires" will allow Clary to leave, leading Clary to kiss Jace in front of the whole Court. Simon storms off when they leave the realm. Clary, Jace and Isabelle go back to the Institution taking advantage that no one is in there. Clary and Jace have a fight about each other feelings and the fact that they are siblings in Jace's room.

Later Raphael shows up at the Institute with Simon dying in his arms, with the only choice left for him to become a vampire. Raphael explained that Simon believed that he was already turning into a vampire because he had bitten Raphael in rat form a few months before. Because he entered on his own free will, he was considered "free game" and was drained and also given vampire blood. They bury his dead body in a Jewish cemetery, as requested by Clary, and Simon is reborn. After this Clary had ignored Jace as a punishment to herself because fells guilty about Simon. This fact secretly tears Jace up inside, not sure what to think about how he felt for his sister. Just no matter what he was determined to be there for her, even if it tore him up inside.


Jace is later called to Luke’s house after the werewolf Maia was attacked, he did his best to ignore Clary, only talking to her when need be and then only acting like her brother. Jace says he knows Magnus is dating a friend of his, making Alec nervous and making it seem he is the one dating Magnus. At Clary's room Jace tells her that he wishes he could hate her. They go after the demons and that night Jace goes to visit Valentine on a boat in the river, where he sees the demon of fear in the shape of a dying Clary but he survives the encounter. The Inquisitor shows up the next morning and claims Jace was with Valentine and plans to threaten Jace's life unless Valentine returns the Mortal Instruments. She places him in a magically electrified cell in the training room of the institute, and tells him that she is going to trade his life for the Mortal Instruments. He tries to explain to her that it will not work, that he is not more important to his father then his cause , but she does not believe him.

Later Alec convinces Jace to find a way out, and suggests he should escape the cell by leaping out of the cage (which only had four walls). There, he calls Clary and she reveals that Simon and Maia were captured by Valentine. He tells her to bring Luke to the Institute, and wait outside for him. Jace tells Alec to call Magnus because he, Clary and Luke are going to need him. He then escapes through Isabelle's window and waits at the roof of the institute. Luke and Clary arrive at the Institute and Clary sees Jace jump from the roof and land safely on the ground. It is revealed that this is the ability of the Angel given to Jace by Valentine. Clary discovers that she can create new runes(her ability of the angel) including the rune "fearlessness" which Jace asked her to perform on him. Once on the boat Jace finds Simon dead and feeds him his blood to return to life thus leading Simon able to walk on daylight which is not normal for a normal vampire. Later on Jace fights a demon which he is sure he cannot win and the Inquisitor appears and sees the star shaped scar Jaces's has and says she knows who he really is. She then kills the demon for Jace and dies before telling him more, leaving the boy very puzzled.

After Valentine is defeated and his boat sunk, Jace meets Clary for lunch and lies to her. Telling her that he just wants to be her brother from now on.
A few weeks later The Lightwoods, Jace, and Clary are leaving for the city of Alicante that evening with the help of Magnus who was going to open a Portal, but Jace doesn’t want her to go because he knows that if the Clave finds out about her powers they will use her. So he convinces everyone to change the time they leave and he says he will tell Clary, but doesn’t. He asks Simon to meet them, so he can talk to him. However, Simon and the Shadowhunters are attacked by dozens of Forsaken. One of them ends up hurting Simon. Magnus Bane opens the Portal they were using to get to Alicante that night, and the group jumps through to escape their attackers, and Jace grabs the young vampire taking Simon with them.


Later Jace, Simon, and the Lightwoods are introduced to Aline Penhallow, and her handsome cousin Sebastian Verlac. Jace immediately dislikes Sebastian, and flirts with Aline - a fact he can tell angers Simon. But what is he supposed to do? He doesn’t have any real feelings for Aline but he was trying to forget what he felt for Clary. Trying being the operative word. She later kisses him, and that is when Clary walks in. This leads to an argument between her and Jace, her feeling betrayed and Jace feeling guilty and angry that she was there at all. After Clary storms out, Jace punches out one of the windows and not caring what happened to his hand. He later lashes out at Alec, admits that he knows Alec thinks himself to be in love with him but says that it is because he was “safe”, and an excuse to not get into a relationship with Magnus.


He then goes to Luke sisters house because he knows Clary is there, she confronts him about Simon being in prison and they get into a fight. However once the calm down she convinces him to take her to the Wayland Manor to find the book of white to help her mother. There they discover an underground laboratory that Valentine had below the manor. They find a half-dead angel named Ithuriel who shows them memories, and Jace learns that he has demon blood, due to an experiment that Valentine performed on him while Jace was in the womb. The two then give Ithuriel a knife, realizing that there was no way to nurse the angel back to health. Ithuriel kills himself and the manor collapses, but both Jace and Clary survive. They kiss, and Jace tells her that he wants to be anything but just her brother, but then get into an argument, and they walk the five hours home in silence because Clary lost Jace's stele, only to find the city below them, Alicante, in flames.


They so find Alec and go to jail where Simon is kept and breaks him out. They also get Simons friend Samuel out, who they learn is actually Hodge, the previous keeper of the Institute. He tells them that the third of the Mortal Instruments (the mirror), the only one Valentine does not possess, is none other than Lake Lyn. Sebastian goes up and kills Hodge, claiming it was to keep them out of danger. When Simon sees Hodge's blood, he goes away to calm himself. Jace, Clary and Alec realize Sebastian is not who he pretends to be. Realizing his cover is blown; Sebastian admits to being a spy for Valentine and starts a fight with them, then Simon appears and attacks him, causing Sebastian runs away. The four teens go back to the Hall, and learn that Max was killed by Sebastian.


Later after Max’s funeral Jace takes Clary too Amatis’s house, and tells her how much he loves her. They talk and end up falling asleep on the bed together. At the Hall of the Accords, Luke and some other shadowhunters are trying to make a plan with no progress when discretely Jace comes. Luke goes out to talk with Jace who tells him he is going to go and find Sebastian and kill Valentine. At Amatis’s house, Clary wakes up to find that Jace is gone, and in his place he left the Morgenstern ring and a note, saying that he has gone to find Sebastian.


Jace finds Sebastian talking with Valentine, who intends to go to Lake Lyn to summon Raziel. After Valentine leaves, the two boys fight, and Sebastian tells Jace that he is Clary’s brother, not Jace. Isabelle shows up as Jace is almost killed but Jace has to save her and so kills Sebastian. He then goes to Lake Lyn to stop Valentine, finding him with Clary. Because the summoning requires death, Valentine then proceeds to kill Jace and summon Raziel, holding his adoptive son while he died. Raziel, however, sees through Valentine’s selfish plans,and because Clary managed to put her name on the Binding runes instead of her father's, Raziel kills Valentine. Because of the runes Clary gets a wish from Raziel and wishes Jace back to life.


Later Jace attends his ‘fathers’ funeral from afar and talks with Luke. At the downworlder party that night Clary catches up with him on the steps while he looked threw a boxes Lukes sister had given him of stuff that had belonged to his father. He tells her that he still wants her, still loved her and always would.

As time goes by, Jace thought he had finally gotten his happy ending with Clary. However soon he begins to have dreams of having intimate moments with her, but then proceeding to kill her with his birth fathers knife. These dreams lead to Jace not sleeping often and not eating, and also avoiding Clary as much as possible to try and keep her safe. However the separation only leads to hurting them both deeply. However after almost hurting Clary in real life he tells her the truth and they go to the Silent city and find out that when Jace died the protection rituals on him to keep him from possession where undone. Clary leaves him with the remaining silent brothers, and goes to a party for Luke and Jocelyn’s engagement. However while he was resting in one of the cells, he falls asleep and dreams that his dead brother Max comes to him telling him he didn’t deserve Clary. However it turns out to be Lilith playing with emotions and tricks him, drawing his blood and making a rune on his chest.

she possesses Jace, and orders him to kidnap Clary. Jace brings Clary to Lilith and she orders him to kill her if Simon does not resurrect Sebastian. The whole time Jace acting vacant, and unable to control himself. Simon bites him and drains some of his blood. This poisons him because Sebastian has demon blood. Meanwhile, Clary grabs Jace's knife and cuts the rune that Lilith is using to possess him on his chest, causing the real Jace to awaken and help to kill Lilith, who is really killed by Simon, when he throws himself in between Lilith and Clary, when Lilith is torturing Clary in front of Jace. The whole leaves Jace hateing himself and pulling away from Clary, but after she talks some sense into him he starts to gain hope. However it doesn’t last long, Clary goes down stairs to talk to the arriving Clave and her mother. While Jace is waiting for them upstairs, His rune heals, hearing Sebastian's voice in his head, and with Sebastian/Jonathan now in control of Jace, Jace is forced to finish the awakening ritual on Sebastian, who is now wholly alive.
Now three months later, Jace is trying to deal with Sebastian himself. Feeling that if everyone else knew he was alive that they would hesitate killing him because it could kill Jace too. Not to mention that he feels guilty that he couldn’t fight back Sebastian from bringing him back, he blames himself for it. He cant help thinking that if it takes Sebastian with him, maybe dying would be worth it? It would keep everyone he loved safe from them both.

RULES:

Jace Lightwod for President





Your name: Nick
Roleplaying experience: Six years
Sample of Roleplay:

Feb 27, 2011 21:06:13 GMT -5 @luke said:

When Percy said that he had probably been right about the gods, Luke sighed a little. He still wasn't sure where he stood when it came to all of their godly parents but he did know one thing." You don't mean that.." He said softly as he sheathed his dagger, he didn't want to fight Percy. If anything he just wanted to go back seven years and start over, but that wasn't about to happen. He and Percy had been fighting for years now, and he was in love with Percy's girlfriend. That wasn't exactly something you could get over easily.

He buried his hands in his pockets, man was this awkward. He was Percy turn his back on him and actually thought of turning away himself, but he wanted to know what all of that yelling was about. Not to mention why he had gone all incredible hulk on him and Annabeth, yeah he had been right about one or two things. Just it wasn't like he knew that! As far as Luke was considered, he would never know about any of it either. Because when Percy wasn't acting like a jerk, he made Annabeth happy and she would probably stay with him.

Right?

Part of him, the selfish part of him hoped she wouldn't. The fact that she had said she loved him, and kissed him back in her cabin had only fed that hope. However after what happened, he wasn't sure where they stood. So he did his best to stifle that side of him that hoped him and Annabeth could get their second chance, at least for now.

When Percy turned back around, Luke almost had to hold back a chuckle cause it looked like for a moment Percy was trying to look taller. However he was able to keep his face even." It sounded like something major. Like life or death kind of thing.." He said still looking worried, it was obvious that Annabeth wasn't in any danger. Though it was starting to look more and more like Percy was going off his rocker. First going all postal on him and Annabeth, now this? What's next, turning green and dawning some purple pants?

At what he said next Luke rolled his eyes at first, and there was the hulk again. He probably wouldn't of blamed him for asking that, if he hadn't already punched him in the jaw before." I care because you are a good person, and you mean a hell of allot to Annabeth. Not to mention there was a time I called you my friend." He said truthfully but then he felt anger boil in his chest." If I heard someone in trouble I wouldn't keep walking, I actually do have a heart ya know?!" He snapped before sighing and crossing his arms over his well defined chest. When the subject of how he felt came up, he just became sick of denying it." Yeah, you know what? Your right. I do love Annabeth, have since before I left but I pushed her away because I believed the crap Kronos was shoveling about making the world better for Demi-gods, I pushed her away and I will regret it for the rest of my existence. Just she loves you now, and I respect that because when your not an ass you make her happy." He took a deep breath and was able to calm down a bit.

" It was a what?" He said before Percy suggested going back to the cabin and sighed." You should go and try and fix things with Anna, you hurt her pretty bad before and you both probably need it." What the hell? shut up Luke shut up!

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