[ sydney sweeney, cis woman, she/her, violet ] hey have you seen CLARA CHAMBERLAIN ? SHE let me borrow their FAVORITE SWEATSHIRT. oh, you know them! they’re 23 and they’ve been at Roy G. for SIX MONTHS. They are known to be a total VIRGO. i’m surprised you haven’t heard them blaring KEEPING TIME BY ANGIE MCMAHON all night. they remind me of A METICULOUSLY ORGANIZED BOOKSHELF, FRESHLY CUT GRASS IN THE SUMMERTIME, LATE EVENINGS AT THE LIBRARY. anyway, let me know if you see them !
violet: the academic. ambitious, disciplined, perfectionist.
cw: mention of divorce & ghosting
hi! i’m jessie, i’m 26, live in est. here is my newest brainchild, clara. there’s nothing I love more than a perfectionist character. I can’t wait to meet your muses too. <3 i’ll come back and add to this periodically.
clara’s parents were doomed from the start. they were high school graduates determined to go out and live on their own, but they couldn’t find someone willing to rent to an unmarried couple in rural tennessee. that’s how they found themselves at the courthouse saying “I do.” roughly ten months later, they had a newborn daughter.
it wasn’t that clara’s dad didn’t love her. he did. it was just that everything had happened so fast. he was only 19 years old. how he could be someone’s dad? so overwhelmed by the pressure of the commitments he made, he dropped off clara to his mother in law’s house and hopped on a greyhound. when clara’s mom came home to see that her husband was gone, she was distraught, but her parents supported her. they watched clara so she could go to community college. clara’s mom eventually scored a new job working at the dmv and that was where she met her next husband.
when her mom and stepdad got married, that was when clara started to feel invisible. by the time she was eight, her family had relocated to asheville to be closer to her new grandparents and she had three half-brothers: noah, jake, and ollie. her parents’ attentions were monopolized. it was like they didn’t have the bandwidth to care for her too, or at least that was how it felt to clara. it didn’t help that her new grandparents didn’t consider her a part of their family. it wasn’t that they were hostile toward her. they just didn’t see her as their granddaughter. clara wasn’t invited on outings with the grandparents and her parents never protested, lest they rock the boat. her brothers were a handful too. they were always getting into trouble at school.
at a certain point, clara made a choice to be “easy.” she would be uncomplicated, easy to handle, and good. she would study hard, make good grades, and be smart. after awhile, it wasn’t an effort she had to work at anymore. it just came naturally. however, her invisibility never faded despite how good she tried to be. clara would lay in bed at night and imagine her dad coming back to whisk her away. she imagined a beautiful house somewhere in new england. he would be kind and caring. there would be some sort of explanation as to why he had been gone from her for so long. it was a story that she would build in moments when she needed comfort.
clara worked hard all throughout high school and was the salutatorian of her high school class. she delivered a brief speech that afternoon to her peers. in the car on the way home from her graduation, she wondered if her parents would be more proud of her if she had been the valedictorian instead. at the end of the summer, she packed up her things in her 2004 toyota camry and moved to gainesville, florida to begin her freshman year at the university of florida.
her years of undergrad were mostly uneventful. her dreams were clear. she was going to finish her degree, take the lsat, and go to law school somewhere. clara very carefully calculated what steps she would need to take to make that happen. she didn’t commit to anything that wouldn’t bring her any closer to her eventual goal. however, she hit a slight road bump during her junior year. she fell for a boy in her 400 level government class named scott. they were only two of five people in their study group, but clara always had his full attention whenever she spoke. he always laughed the hardest at her jokes. he was the most accommodating. he had every trait she thought she might like in a boyfriend and it was even better because he had the same dreams she did.
she fantasized about him much the same way she did her dad. clara could see her and scott together so clearly. they would be successful attorneys who were never threatened by each other’s success. they would be supportive of each other with no shortage of understanding. however, when they finally consummated their flirtationship, it became clear that scott had only wanted that one thing from her and clara was embarrassed. she felt betrayed. she had gotten in too deep with him and anytime she remembered how quickly he pushed her away from him in his dorm room bed, she felt sick. after his rejection, she vowed not to look back. she couldn’t be caught in the midst of unrequited love. she went back to burying her head in her books.
her plan went as expected. she graduated, passed her lsat, and got accepted to the university of miami’s law program. clara was mesmerized by the roy g. building. she couldn’t believe her application had been accepted until she was holding the keys in her hand. much of her plan since being at roy g. is the same as it was in undergrad. study. be nice, but don’t get in too deep. go to shifts at the law office she interns for. when she needs love, she hugs her cat petunia a little tighter than usual. most of all, she dodges her mom’s phone calls and avoids looking at her dad’s new perfect family on facebook.
wanted connections:
a friend to loosen her up. get her to stop studying!!! maybe smoke some w**d or something. open to any gender.
a new romance that feels pure. god knows she needs it. open to any gender.
someone who irritates the hell out of her. I feel like it’ll be over something stupid like missing mail.
someone she knows from college ... good or bad??
