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COME AND MEET
THE GIRL WHO CAN

name. Clara Oswald
age. 132 (physically 28)
born. November 23, 1986; Blackpool
died. November 21, 2015; London
status. ~~Dead~~ Immortal

sexuality. Bisexual
gender. Female
species. Human
canon. Doctor Who
canon point. 9x12, "Hell Bent" + CRAU (see below)

CLEVER

RECKLESS

COMPETITIVE

NARCISSISTIC

CONTRL FREAK

about. Plucky schoolteacher-turned-time-and-space-traveler. Clara lived the first twenty-four years of her life waiting to go somewhere, so when a weird old guy with a weird old box knocked on her door, she went running. She spent the next four years traveling the universe with him, becoming more and more like him, and eventually reaching a horrific level of codependency with him.

Nothing's sad until it's over. Then, everything is.

personality. Bubbly and manic on the outside, shrewd and calculating on the inside. Doesn't know how to do a damn thing halfway. Loves with a terrifying intensity, and would absolutely go to hell for someone she cared about. Theatrical and self-obsessed. A nearly pathological liar, and a master manipulator. Once got in a fight with Gandhi. Has been known to cheat at board games. Might have a slight death wish, or just a startling lack of self-preservation. But really, pop over for tea sometime - she's friendly.

Likes outer space, Jane Austen (in more ways than one), red wine, motorbikes, and nice dresses. Dislikes being patronized or controlled.

appearance. Five feet and one inch of whoopass. Straight brown hair. Overlarge brown eyes. Eyebrows that will judge the shit out of you. Slightly funny nose. Wears short skirts, motorcycle boots, and a lot of rings.

Large, grisly scar across her throat. Smaller gunshot scars at her hairline and on her left arm. A smaller scar through her eyebrow. Antler tattoo over her pulse on her left wrist. Tattoo just below it that reads "𝚟𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚎". Third tattoo on the back of her neck that reads "000".

Lancashire accent. Clipped, commanding. Talks too much and too fast

about that dead thing. Clara's body is frozen in time, in the nanosecond before her death. Her heart doesn't beat, she doesn't need to breathe, eat, sleep, or any other typical necessities of life, and if you cut her she won't bleed. So functionally, she is both dead and immortal.

If your character would notice that the person they're talking to isn't breathing or blinking, or if they can typically hear heartbeats, feel free to notice that something is up with this weird lady!

mask or menace. Clara has CRAU from Mask or Menace, where she was active from October 2015 to June 2018. I won't sum up the entire 2.5+ years, but the following are the most key pieces of her development in MoM:

THE SHADE. Clara was given the power of smoke manipulation, which includes the ability to turn her body into smoke. This smoke is thick and pitch black, and varies between hot or cold depending on her emotional state. In this form she can enter people's lungs and cause suffocation, severe tissue damage, and even death. With these powers, Clara operated as a vigilante superhero known as the Shade, named after the creature that killed her.

DETECTIVE WORK. During a bought of heavy depression, Clara lost her passion for teaching, and turned to another career path. She trained as a private investigator. It was largely a front for her vigilante work, but it was a useful way to make money while satisfying her need to stick her nose everywhere and trail dangerous people.

COSIMA NIEHAUS. In early 2016, Clara met and fell in love with Cosima Niehaus. Cosima was a touchstone when she felt like she was losing the human part of herself, and she started making an effort to have a normal life by her side, eventually marrying her. Unfortunately Cosima left about six months before Clara came to Deerington, and with her went any desire to settle down with someone else.

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