Seelie Queen

The Seelie Queen is the overarching antagonist in the Freeform dark fantasy/action TV series ''Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments. '' She is a mentioned antagonist in Season 1 and Season 2A, and the tertiary antagonist in Season 2B and Season 3. She was the ruler of the Seelie Court.

She was played by Lola Flanery in her child form. For her adult form she was played by Sarah Hyland in Season 2B and Kimberly Sue-Murray in Season 3B.

Beginnings
The Queen has been alive for a long time. At one point, she mentored Sia and Björk, two Seelie musicians who became famous among mundanes.

Severing ties with the Clave
In 2016, the Clave asked the Seelie Queen to send scouts to look for the Shadowhunter fugitive Valentine Morgenstern. When the scouts did not return, the Queen and the Seelies in general cut off official communications with the Clave. Though the real motive behind it was not confirmed, one of her knights, Meliorn, implied that the possibility that Valentine may win the war against Shadowhunters, as well as what they deem to be the unfair treatment of the Fair Folk under the Accords, may be the reason. When she learned that her knight Meliorn accompanied Shadowhunters into one of her realms shortly after, she punished him.

Meeting with the Queen
After Kaelie, a Seelie from her Court, killed many shadowhunters in revenge for the death of her brother Samuel, Alec Lightwood, the new head of the New York Institute, requested a meeting with the queen herself, to which she agreed only if it was with "Valentine's experiments", so Jace and Clary (accompanied by Simon, who insisted on joining them) went to the Seelie Court. There they met the queen, who was using her seelie magic to masquerade as a child. During the meeting, which consisted of a meal, the queen told them that Kaelie had been helped by a seelie knight but that she had already took care of him, and according to her words, he was now "dead, dead, dead".

She later requesed a meeting in private with Simon where she attempted to drive a wedge between him and the shadowhunters by admitting that Clary still harbored feelings for Jace, as shadowhunters would always choose their own kind, but Simon remained unconvinced. Shortly after that, the three attempted to leave and the queen used her magic to trap Simon and Jace with vines that came out of the ground and tangled them, which would reach their throats and kill them if Clary didn't save them. The only way to free them was by kissing the one whom she most desired. She kissed Simon, but the vines were still on the same state, so Clary kissed Jace instead and the vines set them free, proving the queen's theory to be true but also destroying Clary's and Simon's relationship in the process.

Soul-Sword lie and Downworld alliance
After finding out that Clave did not possess the Soul-Sword and that Alec had been lying to the Downworld, Magnus and Lue went to the Seelie Court to have a meeting with the queen. She greeted them and was not surprised at all when she received the news and in her opinion the Downworlders should dispose of the Accords and start a war against the shadowhunters. Luke disagreed while Magnus was given time to consider the matter so she gave him a red rose and told him that when all of the petals turned black, his time would be up.

Later on, Magnus went back to her to make a pact regarding the impending actions of Valentine and his son Jonathan Morgenstern. Since they knew that Valentine planned to use the Mortal Instruments to raise the Angel Raziel and wish the immediate destruction of all demon-blooded creatures, the queen offered shelter to all of the downworlders at her court, since the seelies had spent a lot of time away from the rest of the world that she doubted that the angel's will could come to their lands, so Magnus accepted her offer on behalf of the warlocks and convinced Luke and Raphael of doing it on behalf of the werewolves and vampires respectively.

After that, the four of them arrived at the Institute, but the queen was in capacity of representative of the Downworld in general, not only of the seelies, and she refused Alec's proposal of working along with the shadowhunters to stop Valentine.

Since the Queen asked about Simon, he was sent later on by Clary to talk to her, and when he did the Queen appeared to him using a more adult form than the one she used earlier. She offered Simon protection in exchange of going against the shadowhunters, and when Simon refused, she got greatly upset because he had rejected her twice, something that no one had ever done to her.

Helping Valentine in secret
Later that night, she met with Valentine since he requested an audience with her and she was initially against him, but when Valentine whispered something to her ear, her attitude changed and she told Valentine to go for a walk with her on the park.

After the walk, she allowed him to enter Idris through her land and then she had the female werewolf, Maia Roberts, kidnapped, knowing that he would desperately find her. When he effectively did, it was accompanied by Luke, and they discovered the Queen's deal with Valentine.

While Luke was looking for Maia in the Wander Woods, the Queen stayed with Simon and she allowed them to leave in exchange that Simon made a deal with her to guarantee Maia's freedom.

After Valentine's death at the hands of Clary and the party between the shadowhunters and downworlders a the Hunter Moon's bar, Simon went back to the Seelie Court, where he was greeted by the Queen, who was happy with his presence and told him that they would have so much fun together.

Mysterious mark granted
Once at the Seelie Court, Simon decided to sing, to the Queen's delight, and then she made Meliorn put a special mark on his forehead that could only be ported by a Daylighter vampire, explaining the reason why she is interesed in Simon. When Simon asked her what were the mark's powers, she told him that in the due time she would tell him and allowed him to return to New York.

Confronted by Lilith
The greater demon Lilith went to the Seelie Court to clear out certain things with the Queen. When Lilith arrived, she murdered several seelies and apologized for showing up uninvited. They talked about Eve, Adam's second wife, and it was shown that Lilith grew resentful because the seelies gave her beauty. Terrified of Simon's mark, Lilith demanded that it be removed, but the Queen defiantly refused, arguing that she gave Simon the mark because he was a daylighter, and the seelies helped everything in nature that was unique and different. Angered, Lilith attempted to kill the Queen, but to save her own skin, she made a negotiation with Lilith instead: telling her The Owl's whereabouts.

Mark removed for good
Simon and Isabelle went to the Seelie Court accompanied by Meliorn where Simon told the Queen that he went to see Cain, the oldest vampire and Abel's brother, in order to find how to remove the Mark of Cain. She accepted his decision of removing the mark, saying that with Lilith banished back to Edom, he could do whatever he felt like. The Queen initiated a ritual which consisted of Simon grabbing a rock he brought to her, the one Cain used to kill his brother. The rock then ignited itself and began to burn Simon, lifting him in the air and causing him a lot of pain. The rock's effects stopped and Simon fell to the ground, rendering him unconscious. The Queen then told Isabelle that the only way to save Simon was to be fed with blood from either a mundane or a shadowhunter. She then watched as Isabelle gave her blood to Simon, saving his life and nursing him back to health.

Allies

 * Seelies - Subjects
 * Kaelie †
 * Meliorn - Loyal knight
 * Lanaia †

Enemies

 * Valentine Morgenstern † - Situational Enemy
 * The Clave - Former Allies
 * Simon Lewis
 * Isabelle Lightwood
 * Alec Lightwood
 * Clary Fairchild
 * Jace Herondale
 * Magnus Bane - Former Ally
 * Luke Garroway
 * Raphael Santiago - Former Ally
 * Maia Roberts - Kidnapee
 * Lilith † - Attempted Killer
 * Jonathan Morgenstern † - Temporary Enemy and Kidnapper turned Ally and Lover turned Enemy and Killer