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NAME: Clare Agnes Swann (Formerly; Vernados)
NICKNAMES: n/a
DOB & AGE: March 15, 1986 (21 years old)
BIRTH PLACE: Mesolong, Greece
RACE: Half Water Nymph
RACE ABILITIES: Able to hold breath under water longer than a normal human (but can’t breathe under water), excellent swimmer (compared to a normal human, compared to another nymph or water creature she would appear pretty average.)
RACE WEAKNESSES: Being separated from water for too long, all human weaknesses.
HOUSE: Aquatic
TIME IN HALCYON: Arrived summer '06

PERSONALITY
FIRST IMPRESSION: Shy, sweet, dreamy, pleasant, eager.
BEHAVIOUR: Clare is a dreamer. She is an idealist with an astounding imagination who believes that just about anything is possible. She is creative and compassionate, and is friendly to basically everyone at face value even if someone is hostile towards her. Clare likes to believe the best in people, thinking that below every surface there are things no human eyes can see. She has a wonderful sense of humour and has a graceful and elegant way of handling problems that arise. The biggest problem that comes from this is that Clare is very easily influenced by people on a regular basis. She wants to believe that no one would intentionally steer her wrong, and has suffered for it often throughout her life. She is spiritual and otherworldly, her dreaminess usually leaving her at a pass with what is real and what isn't. She likes to dream big or not at all, and her limited social interaction has allowed her to believe that everyone will help her achieve her dreams. She is smart with keen senses, very intune with the emotions of those around her, but is gullable and easily swayed to the opinions of others if it serves their benefit. She can be extremely naive, but is very sweet and eager to please. She can be a ball of energy sometimes, but at other times is sedated and moody, very quiet and lost in painting.
PHOBIAS: Solitude, Lonlieness

SOCIAL & ROMANCE
MOTHER: Ashlea Swann
FATHER: Christopher Vernados
SIBLING(S): Alexander Vernados (deceased)

STATUS: Single
ORIENTATION: Heterosexual
TURN ON'S: Kindness, gentleness, protective types, older men.
TURN OFF'S: Tactlessness, rudeness, arrogance, manipulation.

PHYSICAL
HEIGHT: 5'1''
WEIGHT: 113 lbs
HAIR COLOUR: Blonde
EYE COLOUR: Green
EYESIGHT: 20/20
DEXTERITY: Right
HEARING: Average

BACKGROUND
PERSONAL HISTORY: Born Clare Agnes Vernados in Mesolong, Greece; Clare’s favourite thing in the entire world has always been the open sea. Her father a fisherman and her older brother Alexander training for the same job, Clare spent a lot of her childhood on fishing boats or in sail harbors learning how to clean fish. She was an exceptionally happy child, being raised by her father and older brother, and while they were away she spent days upon days in the care of her au pair, an American by the name of Lily. The only thing that ever seemed to bother Clare as a toddler or child was the absence of her mother, but Lily was able to fill the void for many years, making it hard for Clare to miss something she never really had. Whenever Clare asked about her mother (she and her brother had come from different women), her father merely gave her the run-around, expressing little to no emotion about the woman in question. All Clare was given in regards to her mother was a name, Ashlea Swann, and a picture of her while she’d been pregnant with Clare. Her father lived in terror that Clare may become like what her mother had been—a water nymph—but he decided to play it out and wait and see if she would be human or not. Unless he had proof otherwise, he was intent to treat Clare like she was just merely a human, and kept any further information about her mother perfectly hidden. He had run her mother off after discovering what she was, hoping that without a trace of the woman, Clare would be as he hoped; purely human. Without exposure to the other side, he hoped it would just disappear.

Whenever her father and brother were gone for days at a time, Clare was in the complete care of Lily. It was the most female interaction she had, and Clare clung very fiercely to Lily for many years. Without a mother in the picture, Clare was taught all of the usual ‘girly’ things by her au pair. When Clare turned ten, Lily was sent to Italy to look after the children in another family, since Clare was at an age where her father felt she could look after herself when he was away. She eventually grew to be the one to take care of the house; doing all of the home chores, cooking, cleaning, et cetera. Clare never seemed to mind, she saw it as her duty to look after her father and brother, whom she loved very dearly. Clare was particularly cherished by her father and brother, both men exceptionally keen to keep a very watchful eye on her whenever they could. It grew to be something of a problem after she hit puberty, keeping that eye on her. It was easy to spot early on that Clare would grow into a very beautiful young woman, and her father and brother became excessively protective of her. Boys were not allowed around the house unless they worked with Clare’s father Christopher (but that didn’t stop those men from ogling at her), and Clare was told she wouldn’t be allowed to date until she was eighteen.

Clare never talked back to her father or questioned his rules about such things. She loved him and wanted to please him. She was, for all intents and purposes, what most people would consider a daddy’s girl. She was sheltered, protected from the world at all costs, her father and brother doing just about everything to preserve her innocence no matter what. Despite her reluctance to displease her father, the only real solitude Clare found was in the harbors, where she would paint, read—whatever. She always had very wonderful artistic inclinations, but had very little time to practice them. Clare was a dreamer, and if not on the waterside painting, she would be in the waves, swimming better than most in her village. Everyone merely figured it was a talent, including a young and very unworldly Clare.

After turning fifteen, a disaster struck on one of the boats her brother worked on, when it crashed leaving all dead. Her father, and others who’d lost family and friends, were enraged. They took to blaming whomever they could, dispensing no pity what-so-ever. While a group of men from the village were out on a smaller boat to sort through the sight of the crash, they spotted two mermen and decided above all else (even the ever changing and tempremental ocean) that these creatures were to blame. Her father tried to hide the supernatural aspect of the creatures away from Clare, as if she were in their presence or knew more about the mercreatures, they would snatch her and drag her out to sea. For once, Clare very openly disagreed with her fathers decision, especially when his actions led to the slaughter of many on one of the villages very own beaches. Clare had remained in her bedroom crying the entire night; for her fallen brother, for the waters she loved so much that had been the scene of a slaughter, causing all of the blue tides to become red. Clare begged her father the next day to tell her what had happened, and why he’d chosen to go through such bloodshed just to avenge Alexander. Her father screamed at her, telling her to stay out of it and in her place, and in a fit, Clare ran out to the beach to try and find solace. While there, she saw something that miraculously caught her eye, a merman washed up on the beach. Naturally, hearing hints about mercreatures and seeing one was a bit of a shock for a fifteen-year-old girl, but her sense of duty out-weighed her shock. In her young mind, she believed she would be rectifying the damage her father had done if she cared for this creature, and despite the fact that she knew her father would be enraged if he knew what she was doing, Clare managed to wheel the creature to a houseboat her father rarely used anymore, one that she used to play in as a child.

The creature didn’t wake up for a week; one of the longest weeks of Clare’s life, every day feeling like a year as she thought that maybe because she took him away from his habitat, she’d killed him. When he finally did wake, she was beyond enthused. She’d saved him after all, and became more than just intent to keep on protecting him. Clare cared for Silas for a year, for the first time in her entire life keeping a very large secret from her overbearing father. She knew he would be scandalized that she’d helped this creature—let alone a male—but Clare was adamant to apologize to the sea for what her father had done. Having spent so many years looking after things for her father and brother, Clare had little to no problems looking after Silas once she got into the rhythm. The only unfortunate problem occurred when dreamy, teenage, sheltered Clare fell head-over-heels in love with the man she’d been caring for. Because of their age difference, nothing was ever really allowed to become of their relationship, much to Clare’s obvious disappointment, but she cared and loved him nonetheless.

After her sixteenth birthday, Clare was found out. Her father discovered what she’d been doing for the past year, finding Silas in the houseboat. He was instantly enraged, just like Clare had foreseen, and cursed his daughter out repeatedly for bringing home such an abnormality into their lives and keeping it healthy and safe. Silas was forced to flee, and Clare was completely ignored by her father for months. Those months turned into years, years in which Clare was practically abandoned by her father in his desire to find and destroy Silas. Clare spent even more nights out by the ocean, praying for just one last glimpse of Silas somewhere safe, or coming to find her and take her away. Months after turning twenty her father finally did find Silas. Clare was brought in order to watch as her father and others tortured him. Clare had cried, screamed and begged her father to stop, but he wouldn’t listen to a daughter he believed had “shamed” him and their village.

Silas disappeared again after this, merely in the blink of an eye, and a terrified and horrified Clare ran from the scene, her father chasing her, and she flung herself into the ocean, intent on allowing herself to drown. Her venture was what enabled her to discover a little more about her mother; Clare was able to hold her breath below the surface of water for longer than a natural human. She remained under the water until she couldn't hold her breath, but by then her father had dragged her out and back onto the beach. She was hurt, naturally, but she didn’t die where as any normal human being would have. Upon realizing that Clare’s mother’s traits had obviously passed on into Clare, she was disowned, and kicked completely out of her father’s house. He told her he didn't want such a "creature" living in his home. She packed very little, cut off most of her desperately long locks of hair, and changed her last name to match her mother’s; so that she became Clare Swann. Within a day of living on her own (which she was rather poor at), Clare was found by a scout from Halcyon who offered to take her to the school to learn more about the water nymph side that she had recently discovered and had no idea how to control. With very few other alternatives, Clare agreed, and has just recently unpacked her bags within the school halls, unsure of what to expect for her future now that everything she has ever known has been taken away from her. She has no idea that this is were Silas has been taken also.

SCHOOL
+ Early Morning (Magic Use: Water)
+ Mid Morning (Dream Interpretation)
+ Mid Afternoon (Philosophy)
+ Late Afternoon (Art)

+ Book Club
+ Dance Club
+ Art Club

ADDITIONAL
NAME MEANINGS: clare- english for "illustrious"; agnes- greek for "pure"
ZODIAC: pisces- Usually Pisces cares little for making money, but cares about ideals and aspirations. Pisces likes to dream, he is not interested in competition. Pisces is drawn to the arts, especially the stage. Pisces can be moody and vague. Pisces is often the friend of the under-dog. Pisces may have many marriages.virtues: Psychic power, sensitivity, self-sacrifice, altruism. negative traits: Escapism, keeping bad company, negative moods. constellation: pisces; zodiac sign: the fish; known as: the poet; ruling planet: neptune and jupiter; quality: mutable; element: water.

DISCLAIMER
This is all part of an online RPG. Not Kristen Bell, she belongs to herself. Not Clare, but she's mine, so BTFO. For more information, contact

halcyon_mod.

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