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YOU
Player name: Danii
Contact: yarnzipan @ plurk / gamenotifications @ gmail
Referral: Ty / the invite form
Current characters: No one!

THEM
Character Name: Clara Josephine Kent
Character Age: late 20s, early 30s
Canon: DC Comics
Canon Point:

History/World: Here's the existence of the canonical Superwoman whose details aren't really clarified. Otherwise, she'll be in a world much like Man of Steel/Birthright with the following 'tweaked' backstory as discussed here.

Personality:

The first impression you get of Clara Jo, as she is called by friends, is that she has a little much on her shoulders. There's a multilayered truth to this, one that starts with the fact that she's inherently a very honest and genuine person constantly forced to be dishonest in certain respects and which ends with the fact that she's just aware of so much more than most people are and because of her personality, tends to see that as a responsibility. If you can, do. If you can act to prevent harm or aid people, you should. And it's been a real journey for her, throughout her life, to learn how to balance what that really means without letting that overwhelm her. Because the fact of the matter is that she does have a lot on her plate. Even for a superpowered alien, she tries to balance a lot of plates, and more importantly, she tries to balance them with the mindset that not a single one can fall out of alignment because the consequences could be terrible. So while she's got advantages that other people don't have, so too does she have stresses and concerns and obligations both very real and sometimes just in her heart that others might not take on. The 'cover' of the slightly harried woman in a business suit isn't entirely a cover.

While she is Superwoman, the visibility of these stressors needs to take a backseat; she's a symbol of hope, she provides comfort and compassion and security to other people. And there's a burden to that too, to feeling very often that she can't ask others to look out for her the same way that she would almost automatically look after them. While this is present in Clark Kent, this is occasionally exacerbated for Clara by the perceptions of her due to her gender and, paradoxically but understandably, the need to do all these things without running into some of the unfortunate stereotypes and biases inherent in being a female superhero.

It's one reason why she very much relies on and appreciates the support structures that she does have in her life (especially Batwoman): the other heroes she works with, her friend and confidant Lois Lane, her family and her friends. As much as she values all life, sees the beauty and complexity and inherent potential, those people are the ones who inspire her and keep her going and help her to stabilize when the world can seem a little overwhelming. It also makes her intensely protective of those people and her protectiveness can sometimes affect her (usually very good) judgement or flare her temper, though never past the point of no return. For understandable reasons, she's learned a lot of self control over the years but also a lot of techniques for regaining control when she gets overwhelmed. Her mom helped her with a lot of those growing up. She's especially close to her mother, and it is from her (and because of that additional closeness) that a lot of her personality comes.

It's no wonder Clara Jo grew up with practicality as a pretty major concern. Family farming hasn't been profitable in ages and she, accordingly, grew up in a household that might have always had food to put on the table but was always wondering whether or not the table would be there if a harvest went bad. But Martha Kent especially has always been the kind of woman who'd much rather a bird in the hand than two in the bush. It's given her an emphasis on tangible good, real change, that helped guide her on her path through life. She's not not a dreamer? But she'll always prefer gradual, meaningful change over the chance for something huge and sweeping, as much because she can see the potential costs and losses involved as because she's also seen how short lived such things can be.

It's also been a big part of her kindness and the nature of her kindness: she opens her heart and she opens her arms to people even if they're different, even if she's a little scared. She always remembers her mother's choice to adopt her when it comes to accepting or starting off on new relationships and ventures: to act with kindness but also with courage. To see the good and the potential and let it wash away the fear so you can build and grow something wonderful.

But for all that, she's definitely not wishy-washy. Anything but. She has her convictions and she holds firm to them, sometimes to the point of stubborness. She won't hold to her ideas blind without listening to others but because of her abilities and her professions, she makes it a point not to bend unless someone's got a proper argument or piece of information to make her change her mind. Cowing her is not something that happens, even when she might realistically be in a poor position. She's going to stick it out and keep fighting until there's no more fight to do. She's got precious little patience for points of pride or people putting their ego over other's well being and she has no problem poking a big old hole in someone being a pompous windbag at folks without batting an eye. Most of the time she'll be subtle or playful about it, but take it too far and she'll get firm.

Her method of conflict resolution generally relies on empathy and a willingness to listen, to honest communication and earnestness. As far as she's concerned, it's always best to explore as many options as possible before getting into actual conflict; she genuinely believes that people almost always want to be their best selves, there's just nonsense in the way more often than not, and she's resolved to try and help them be that best self if she can. That miscommunication and fear and hurt make up so much of the reason for problems as opposed to anything like genuine maliciousness and that flavors everything she does. Firm but kind is her general manner.

She's very accepting, of different personalities and cultures and such, and she tries her best to learn from everyone she meets, whether it's pure data or just something new about the universe. She tries very hard to listen to people's personal 'languages', to read between what might be said or done to the heart of a person and their best self at that. It means she can occasionally chide or offer advice, but she'll rarely directly disapprove of someone's personality quirks or actions unless they're harming someone else. 'Hard' people or cutting people or difficult people are her bread and butter, and anyone who is themself to the hilt tends to be her favorite sort of folks.

She has more than a few anxieties around intimacy, given her secretive life, but she also very much feels the pressure of standing between two worlds, of being a Kryptonian on Earth: someone who isn't human even if she looks it, someone who was raised in one culture but is also the only living inheritor of another. Sometimes she doesn't feel human enough and starts to disassociate herself and her experiences and feel really lonely. Other times she feels too human and like her claim of being a Kryptonian is in biology only, superficial. It's something that she has trouble with especially because she doesn't feel like she can talk to her mother about this for understandable reasons.

Fiscally, she's responsible, though she's got a love of unique and exotic foods and flavors that is one of the few real luxuries she ever goes for; to cut costs, she tends to cook and bake herself to try things out and very often brings the results into the office for everyone. As you might imagine from her backstory, she really loves books (and actually finds reading the actual physical paper books to be a very meditative and calming sensory experience) and loves to get into a good old fashioned debate if one comes around and she knows her partner is the sort who won't take it personally or feel attacked. She's 100% one of those nerds who loves things like board games and activities people can play together that she can share with others without feeling like she's letting anyone win. She tends to be playful, wry, and a little bit goofy; she doesn't mind being ridiculous when she can be and she enjoys doing things genuinely and doesn't shy away from admitting it either. Doing something 'ironically' is not in her vocabulary.

She is, really, just a good woman trying to do the right thing and live her life, most days. In that, she and Clark are very much the same.


Items: She has her Superwoman suit, a container of *very* hard-wearing red matte lipstick, an eyeliner pencil, and a single normal outfit that she'd wear to work.

Powers/skills: The full explanation is here. But to put it all on the form here: Kryptonian Physiology, which allows for the absorbtion of solar energy, superhuman strength, superhuman speed, superhuman agility, superhuman reflexes, superhuman stamina, superhuman senses, x-ray vision, flight, heat vision, invulnerability, longevity, super breath, ice breath, and the ability to survive in the vacuum of space. She's also an expert combatant, a genius with incredible computational abilities, and a talent for writing, investigating, and rhetoric.

In return, she's vulnerable to kryptonite (any and all versions) and to magic. She can also have problems with sensory overload and she will need yellow sun radiation at times.

As far as I'm concerned, all of these abilities are to enhance RP opportunities and to create situations for play. I'm going to consider all of her abilities nerfed when attempting to circumvent the ship or any of the mechanisms of the game like she's been exposed to blue kryptonite/red sunlight (aka nerfed to human). She won't be inclined to push too hard on that anyway since she'd want to help the ship.

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