Character Role: The Hopeful
Age: 213, but looks like a girl that is barely 23
Appearance: FaceclaimClara still looked like a really young girl, after all these years. Most of it was thanks to the vampirism, of course, but also a lot thanks to her smile, her perfect skin and those little freckles she still had, even if the sun didn't shine on her as it did before. She was also more on the shorter side, barely 5'2", and had a fit body, being a woman that enjoyed moving around and never staying still. Her most relevant feature would be her blue eyes, always sparkling with curiosity and tease, and always complimenting her dark, rebellious hair. Most of her lower body and arms are covered in old scratches and scars, the signs of her infancy travelling around in the middle of forests and small villages. She tries to stay up to fashion with what she wears, though she tries to always give her clothes a touch of prepared carelessness and colour, a way to show herself in what she wears.
Background: When Clara was a child, she lived in a pretty different world than what most little girls knew. What she understood at that time, it was that her mother (no idea where her father was) lived on one of the carriages, with a nomad group, travelling around the deep forests of Europe. She never knew where they were going, or why they had to move every few months, not even why the
Old Man always looked young, but she never needed to understand. She was taken care of, she had her mother around, being loving, she had lots of kids to play with, everything a little girl would need.
It was years later when she understood. In her teenage years, she had that strike of rebellion, and soon she was scaping the circle with some friends to head to a small village nearby. There, she heard all the rumours: the man with a huge amount of people and kids with him, the man that never aged, people with weird bites, kids and families disappearing. She didn't trust all of that, saw that everyone in the group was happy, but she started being more suspicious, not knowing what to think.
She started asking her mother questions, but never got a clear answer. Always excuses, always having to go, always 'I'll explain later'. Later never came, the disaster appeared before it could. The Old Man had always been somewhat closed but nice enough, most kids not having to deal with him that much, the adults were the ones that disappeared in his car for hours a few times a month. But with each village and each new rumour, he turned more sour, the visits to his car more frequent, every adult looking more tired and pale.
Until one day her mother got inside the car, and came out minutes later, angry, complaining and shouting. The Old Man was screaming after her, threatening. Her mother got her to gather her things, the few she had, and they left the group, a grim feeling over her. When they camped, after having walked for hours, was the last time she saw her mother. She woke up, exhausted, a weird feeling in her bones, and no body next to her. Looking for her mother, she came back to the camp site she remembered, and saw a carnage: blood everywhere, carriages burning, bodies on the floor in puddles. Only death was there.
She understood what the Old Man ws, and what she was, when the sun scorched her the next morning, as soon as it touched her skin. She understood the tiredness and paleness of everyone the first time she felt the hunger, and had to stop herself after she smelled a kid's scrape on the knee. She understood the freedom they had in the camp, as it was in exchange for something else. And she understood that what happened to her mother and her was a payment, when the blood of all the others wasn't enough, and the Old Man had wanted to force her to join. Her mother wanted to save her from having no choice but, instead, made the decision.
Personality Traits:Clara is a bright person, far more intelligent than she looks, but also someone that enjoys far more talking to people, teasing and playing than showing off her abilities. She has had her fair share of violence and sad stories, but her way of working through all of that has been to show the world the kindness she wants there. During all these years, she has learnt to be a loving, nice person, even if she can be harsh, detached and cold when it's necessary or she has ran out of patience. She tends to also be on the more impulsive side, taking quick decisions, and ignoring others if she is sure about her choices.
Goals/Motivations:After a lot of years alone, Clara has finally found someone she cares about. She had been playing with the idea of humans and vampires working together for years, but this time it's the opportunity to make it a reality. She wants to make sure
The Human is okay and develop a way to get vampires to collaborate with humans, instead of this continuous fighting and hunting each other.
Relationships:Clara was a social person, quite big on family and friends, until she started her afterlife. First because of the shock, then because she didn't know how to handle talking to humans again, and finally because she was scared, but recently she has gotten out of her head to try again. Now she is in contact with
The Human, one of the few people that really knows her, and easily the only one she trusts.
Special Abilities or Skills: Hiding with humans: Thanks to
The Human, Clara is always up to date with the human world, and has information about everything happening. Also, her nice and soft demeanor makes her able to hide in between humans very nicely.
Soft charm: She can be quite charismatic when needed, but her biggest strength would be getting people to like her with her general politeness and softness. It's not enough to change minds, but makes it very difficult for people to really hate her.
General fitness: Thanks to her upbringing, Clara has been moving and enjoying time outside since she can remember. All the abilities she developed running around, climbing and playing with other kids are abilities that her body still remembers, making her quite agile.
Fears/Flaws:Flaws: Her biggest flaw would be being too trusting, always trying to believe the best of people. She can be easy to manipulate, if you can lie convincingly enough, and she also makes impulsive decisions, being an easy target for scammers. She tends to talk too much when nervous, so a good listener could get every bit of information out of her if they know what they want to get. She does need to be really focused and really know that she cannot say a thing to really hide it.
Fears: Loneliness. She has spent many years alone, and now that she has gotten a new connection, she isn't willing to let it go.
Quotes:✧"Oh, don't be like that. There is more than dark and suffering in the world"
✧"There is always another secret... Isn't it fun? More things to discover"
✧"Being a vampire doesn't make you dark and brooding. That's actually quite human"
