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[practically]

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Name: Brandi
Age: 31
Contact: snogbox
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Character Basics:

Character Name: Clara Oswin Oswald
Journal: practically
Age: 26
Fandom: Doctor Who
Canon Point: Right before dying in The Snowmen.
Debt:

Class A: None
Class B: 2 years
Class C: 1 year, 8 months

N/A

GRAND TOTAL: 3 years, 8 months

Canon Character Section:

History: Over here~

Personality:
Clara Oswin Oswald is a very mysterious woman who can't seem to settle on who or what she wants to be. A very big theme of her character is having a double life, where she's a barmaid with her natural cockney accent and has a more laid back nature, and also is a governess named Miss Montague that comes across as practical and stern. It's never made clear why she leads a double life, but it is very obvious that her governess life is the false one, since she goes by a fake name and hides her accent with a more posh and respected one. The children think her natural accent is a fake one and ask her to talk in her "secret voice". Clara wants to be seen as competent and wants to be respected, and knows that her natural voice makes her look simple and easy to take advantage of. She tells the Doctor that people think she's sweet and simple and often has ideas above her station, but she definitely isn't and doesn't think her ideas are things to be mocked because of the rank she was born into in life. She tries very hard to project a sense of the same practicality that the other upperclass people around her do as a governess, in order to project the fact that she has her shit together and isn't simple minded.

As mentioned before, Clara can be very practical, especially as Miss Montague. She will always be bluntly honest with others when it is warranted, but as a governess she can be particularly stern in her advice for the Latimer family that she works for. No matter which life Clara is taking on, she does what must be done in order to survive, and to keep those she cares about safe. She doesn't walk away from those she cares about, and that includes the Latimer children that she's a governess for. When the children express fear of being attacked by the ghost of their former governess, Clara immediately goes into action and attempts to get the Doctor to help her children. She fights in order to keep them safe. She's seen talking to the owner of the pub where she's a barmaid, and it is assumed that she is filling in for someone on short notice and took a brief leave of absence from the Latimer family in order to help the owner so he wouldn't be short handed during the busy holiday season.

Clara is also a very playful and flirtatious person. She is seen flirting with the Doctor shortly after meeting him, and doesn't hesitate in making him squirm with her flirting. She actually seems to take great amusement in the fact she can fluster him. She's also a very witty person who is good at fast paced banter and teasing conversation, but if someone says the wrong thing she's quick to have a bite to her tone. She's playful, but not a doormat, and she's not going to stand for being insulted. She can be very sassy, and is seen using a good deal of teasing and sarcasm toward the Doctor. She is a bit of a firecracker when it comes to her sass and her wit, and it makes her seem outspoken in quite a few points in the episode she appears in.

She is a very clever and resourceful person, and some might even go so far as to say she's cunning. She doesn't necessarily intend on being manipulative, but she is able to figure out how others tick and speak to them in ways that will motivate them to do what she wants them to. She is able to talk the Doctor out of wiping her memory after meeting him by suggesting that if he does she won't be able to defend herself from the dangers that are lurking about. She makes the children she cares for believe she was born behind the clock face of Big Ben (which explains her acute sense of time) and that she invented fish because she dislikes swimming alone. They question if her stories are true and she makes them believe that they're absolutely true, which gives her a sense of whimsy along with her wit. She's a very curious person, one that doesn't mind leaping head first into action and figuring out what's going on with the things she's curious about hands on. When she watches the Doctor go up a hidden ladder into the clouds, she doesn't hesitate in running forward to try and go up the ladder herself and follow him. She goes all the way up a spiral staircase to walk on a cloud, and takes to examining the TARDIS that waits there. For some people, curiosity is a weakness. For Clara, it is a driving force. She wants to see and experience things in the world, and is awestruck by the wonders that await her when she meets the Doctor and goes into the TARDIS for the first time.

As mentioned before, Clara goes through a lot in order to protect the Latimer children. She is very motherly toward them, and guides them with a stern but gentle hand. She obviously cares for the children a great deal, and doesn't hesitate in being a maternal figure for them. She is very protective, not only of the children, but those she considers to be a friend as well. She helps the Doctor escape danger when he comes to help the Latimer children, and although it isn't intentional she acts as a shield between the Doctor and an ice woman that attacks them and makes him able to save the world at the cost of her life.

She is a very adventurous person, and seems to be able to just stumble upon little adventures in every day life. She passes by the snowmen that make her stop and take notice of them, and is swept up in an adventure that has her working alongside the Doctor. She finds a staircase in the sky that leads to a cloud she can walk on and takes some time to explore it. She rushes headfirst into danger in order to fight alongside the Doctor, and doesn't hesitate in helping him. When he offers her a key to the TARDIS, she instantly accepts, seeming to be excited for the adventure that awaits her. She doesn't even seem to care that the ship is high tech and beyond anything she's ever seen in her entire life, doesn't question the fact that he may be an alien or something dangerous. She doesn't even think it's scandalous that a young woman would be running off with a man she just met in a blue box that's smaller on the outside, which potentially goes back to the fact that she's a progressive thinker for her time.

She's not shown as having any family or close friends, but the people important to her are those she works with as a barmaid, as well as the Latimer family. She takes great care of that family and potentially views them as her own, which might explain her desire to keep them all safe when they're in danger. The Doctor is someone she's only recently met, but he quickly becomes important to her. He's someone who encourages her curiosity and challenges her, someone that's enjoyable to flirt with and is someone who can actually keep up with her fast banter. He never thinks poorly of her because of her accent or seems to care about her station, and he seems to take pride in the fact she's a quick thinker and can easily keep up with him (or even tell him what to do). So when he gives her a key to his time machine and invites her to go along with him, he becomes very important to her in the sense that she sees him as someone who can help her have adventures and treat her as an equal.

Her biggest weaknesses are most definitely her limited experience in the world. She was likely born poor and had to work from a young age, and had to learn how to act refined. The fact that she's able to manipulate and expertly control her accent in order to hide who she really is as Miss Montague is a strength, but the fact she has to hide who she is at all is most definitely a weakness. Having the dual life is something she's likely to not be able to keep up forever, and the fact is she's simply living a lie. She also tends to leap into situations without fully thinking about them first, which leads her into trouble. She's a very observant person, but also lacks the sense to really worry about herself or her own safety. She ends up dying because she's so caught up in talking with the Doctor about his time machine and traveling with him that she doesn't notice a large ice woman coming into the TARDIS and pulling her out to crash land back down on Earth.

Being in Teleios will be a big culture shock for her at first. She's never been exposed to so many different people with different fashions and ways of thinking and speaking. She's going to want to explore as much as possible and meet everyone she can. She's likely to think that she's in some form of the afterlife, even though she doesn't come across as a particularly religious person. Her first few months, she'll come across as insatiably curious and will want to see and do all the things she can. This is really her first time outside of the bubble she's lived in her entire life and she's going to make the most out of it.

Powers/Abilities: None. Clara is just a regular human.

Appearance: One (governess)
Two (barmaid)

Samples:

Actionspam Sample:

[Clara's potentially too curious for her own good, but that doesn't stop her from exploring her new surroundings. There were entirely too many places to see and things to do, and she's left almost overwhelmed trying to sort through where to start.]

Could always wander, see where I end up.

[There's a pause as she frowns, shaking her head as she places a hand on her hip.]

No. Can't do that. That's silly.

[There's another pause, and this time her other hand goes to rest on her hip, and she thinks it over some more.]

Nothing wrong with silly, though.

[And apparently that seems to determine things for her, as she takes to gathering up the fabric of the skirt of her dress in hand and heads off to explore at a run. It might be ridiculous, to hurry through and see everything in a blur. But if she sees everything quickly now, she can decide where to go back and explore in depth later. It's a clever plan, if she says so herself (which she most definitely does).

The only issue is, she finds herself resting on a bench an hour later, out of breath and exhausted. When someone stops and sits with her, it's not long before they get past the weather and onto why she's so winded. She gives a long story about what she's seen and how fast she's seen it all, and they comment on the fact that she's ridiculous. That gets her to straighten up and give them a little smirk. She's not offended at all, not when she has the opportunity to tease them a bit and pull a reaction out of them.]

Must be. Still talking to you, ain't I?

[When the stranger takes to laughing, she smirks more and chuckles, pleased with the fact she could potentially be making a friend. This is an awfully new place she's found herself in. She's thinking she'll need quite a few friends to get through how new and strange everything is to her here.]

Prose Sample:

"Oi, watch it!" Clara gave a rather handsy customer an arched eyebrow and a stern look, complete with her hand on her hip. She knew he wasn't particularly intimidated by her, and only rolled her eyes as he scoffed and reached out to give her a pat on the arm like she was a cute little girl that had done a good job.

"I thought we was going to get on better than this after last time." Her eyes narrowed a bit as she dipped her arm so his hand would fall away, and headed down to the other end of the bar in order to scoop up two handfuls of glasses. She heard the man whistle, most likely for her, and she glanced over at him skeptically. She was used to men making asses out of themselves after a drink too many, and didn't really think much of the fact the same man enjoyed making a spectacle the past two Friday nights.

Some of the glasses she was carrying still had drink left in the very bottom, and as she brushed past the man who was leering at her like she was a piece of meat, she had no problem tipping her body in just the right way that it all landed right in his lap. She did a good show of gasping in alarm and looking shocked as he jumped up out of his seat, but the act melted away as she turned away and smirked to herself.

"Pity." She turned to glance over toward the door, where the man was currently headed. "Didn't even have to give'm a slap this time." She looked back toward the bartender, who looked like he had no idea what in the hell she was going on about. That didn't matter to her, as she acted like he knew exactly what had just happened, and as she disposed of the used glasses in a bin nearby him she gave him a look that said she was the boss of the situation. "That's progress."

She never did like the customers who thought they had the right to touch her or talk to her poorly just because she was the help or had a pretty face. The fact that she was small in stature generally didn't help either, not when the men that frequented this place often thought her to be little and sweet. If she wasn't able to handle herself, it would've bothered her more, but as it was she knew how to take care of things just fine. She most certainly wasn't little and she wasn't sweet on the inside, and anyone else who thought so little of her to limit her to only being those two things weren't worth her time.