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PLAYER INFORMATION

NAME: Brandi
AGE: Over 18
CONTACT: spectromagic
EXISTING CHARACTERS: N/A

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CHARACTER INFORMATION

TYPE: Canon
NAME: Clara Oswald
AGE: 27
MOTIVATION: Clara, at her canon point, is motivated by adventure and getting to see wonders. She feels very much like an aimlessly floating leaf that won't ever land, because she feels she's not content with ordinary things. So she's motivated to seek out the thrill of adventure, because it helps her find purpose.
ARRIVAL SCENARIO: Artifact

HISTORY: History on TARDIS wiki. She will be coming in from the end of s7.

PERSONALITY: Clara Oswald is an impossible girl. She starts out as a mystery to the Doctor, one of the greatest mysteries he ever gets to try and solve, and often times is a complete mystery to everyone else she encounters. Initially, she may come across as an adorable and flirty token sidekick sort of character but it doesn't take long to see that there's much more to Clara that meets the eye. There is a lot of herself that Clara doesn't easily reveal to others, which makes solving her mystery even more impossible for the Doctor. It's easy to see that Clara uses her sharp wit as a defense mechanism, and her teasing as a way to seemingly test the person she's speaking with. She comes across as cool and collected, but then shows hints of wanting someone's approval. She'll do something because she says it needs to be done and she's the only person that can do it, but then asks if she did things correctly and seeks some sign of validation. Hidden away beneath all that sass and energy is a lot of vulnerability that she tries to keep tucked away where no one else can realize it exists.

The biggest part of Clara’s character is that she’s a control freak. She loves to be the boss, to be the one in control of every situation she finds herself in. When she’s not in control, she quickly can panic, and isn’t sure how to go about things. She can become aggressive or bossy in order to maintain control of a situation, and is seen in the series going to great lengths in order to keep control over things. If she's not in control, she's prone to doing reckless things to get that control back.

While she doesn't necessarily like secrets, she is perfectly content being a mystery in herself, never offering more information than is needed in order to keep a safe distance between herself and another person. She likes to think of herself as being the strong-willed boss, the one that's in charge of her own destiny. She doesn't necessarily like being bossed around and will give some sass when it's warranted, but she does listen, and is known as the only companion that actually stays put when she's told to. She only does so because of the trust she puts in the Doctor, which probably means she won't listen at all to someone that she doesn't have any faith in. When she's put in charge of a military force on another planet, she takes her job very seriously and easily assumes command, not allowing anyone to sway her orders or her opinions on what she believes to be the right thing to do. She's a natural leader, and is often seen taking the charge of situations she deems that she can make a difference in. She doesn't want to be bossy just for the sake of being in charge, but it's just a position that she does well in and her charismatic nature makes it easy to get people to listen.

She's a slightly quirky young woman, a feisty one that talks fast, and alternates between having a playful lilt and a sharp tone to her voice. She's often described as being clever and witty, and she is good at being able to say just the right thing to get a reaction out of someone. She can be a bit of a flirt, and is seen saying that she falls for someone sometimes twice a day. She just meshes very well with any kind of person, because she's clever enough to figure out the things to say in order to keep them guessing. She's very personable and is able to make conversation with strangers easily, and she's very good at falling into playful banter. But a lot of what she shows of her feisty personality can be a part of the mask she wears to protect herself, to keep the part of her that seeks approval and is vulnerable from being found out. Once she gets to know someone well, the quirky part of her doesn't go away, but she's prone to having more meaningful conversation and insights.

Clara often is a very practical and analytical girl. She's entirely no-nonsense in her approach to dealing with situations that require any amount of actual thought or consideration. When she's encouraged to sing in order to block out some of her fear in a soviet submarine, she initially refuses and only gives in right when she thinks everyone is about to die. She's blunt in her questioning of others when she needs to know something, and she can be seen carefully taking in any information given to her and thinking it over before forming her next question or a response. She slips in some teasing and light remarks in between her analyzing whatever is going on, but she never loses focus of keeping a clear head. She observes things that the Doctor misses, and picks up on social cues and hints that others sometimes can't. She handles her nannying and teaching jobs without letting any nonsense slip in. She has a gentle strictness about her method of command, until all of her buttons have been pressed and she's left with a sharpness to her tone that dares anyone to argue with her.

She's highly resourceful, and uses her intelligence on a practical level. She is seen being able to pick up a variety of concepts right away, without any teaching or prompting. After riding as passenger on a hover bike once, she is able to pilot it herself. She is able to be handed over a variety of weapons and is just able to know how to use them. She is good at figuring things out just by doing them, and she takes a very hands on approach to just about everything she does. While she says she doesn't particularly like history, she is always curious about learning every time and place she visits, and is a never ending source of questions. Knowledge is a form of power, and she definitely doesn't want to be left completely powerless when it comes to information.

Clara's bravery is something that is often overlooked, due to the fact she can be quite wide eyed and fearful in dangerous situations. But despite how afraid she might be of something, or how reserved she might come across in dangerous situations, Clara is very brave. She is able to face her fears and conquer them. She saves the Doctor on numerous occasions, and she is able to gather enough courage to step into the Doctor's timeline and save both him and the entire universe. She is seen in her first episodes more or less reacting to the events that unfold around her, reserved and unsure of what in the world is going on. As things progress and she sees and experiences more, she is more capable of leaping head first into any kind of situation. She still has her moments of wide eyed fear, but she is able to react and survive despite it. She willingly sacrifices her own safety over and over again to save others, which balances out the times she gets in over her head and needs to be saved.

Clara is also fiercely independent. She exercises great amounts of free will in every episode she's seen in, and every single thing that happens to her in the series is because of choices she's made for herself. When asked by the Doctor to travel with him, she refuses to answer him right away and instead makes him come back the next day to get his answer. And when she agrees to go with him, she doesn't just drop her regular life and move right into the TARDIS and never look back. She only travels with him once or twice a week, and from conversations heard in the episode Nightmare in Silver, it appears to be she only travels with him on Wednesdays. Despite loving to travel and enjoying her time with him, she refuses to just give up everything else to run off and ignore her responsibilities. When the Doctor regenerates and she takes to traveling with him, she does so on her own terms still. He may show up at her work and her flat, but it’s up to her whether or not she travels with him. She keeps her life with the Doctor very separate from her home life back on Earth, and gets furious when the two lives crash together and intersect into something she doesn’t fully have control over.

SKILLS / POWERS: Clara is your average human. She has no special powers or education beyond what's considered average for someone of her age and upbringing. She does seem to have a knack for being able to quickly learn how to operate machinery she's never used before, and for picking up weapons and using them with relative ease.
NERFING: n/a
INVENTORY: The clothes on her back (plus some jewelry she's wearing).

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