[ CLEMENTINE FONTAINE, SHE/HER, ELLA PURNELLÂ ] is a TWENTY-TWOÂ year old BABYSITTERÂ from PROSPER, WV. They are AMBITIOUSÂ and HARDWORKINGÂ but also CONDESCENDINGÂ and SELF-CENTERED.Â
BASICS
FULL NAME: Clementine Greene Fontaine
NICKNAME(S): Clem
BIRTHDAY: January 5, 1975
AGE: 22
HOMETOWN: Prosper, WV
BIRTHPLACE: Prosper, WV
RELIGION: Agnostic
FAMILY
MOTHER: Sylvia Fontaine, nĂŠe Greene (42)
FATHER: Â George Fontaine (44)
AUNT(S): Her mom has two sisters, and her dad has one: Barbara Greene, Patricia Lansdowne, and Nancy Hines. And then there are the aunts who married her uncles: Judith Greene, Betty Fontaine, and Carol Fontaine.
UNCLE(S): Iâm as exhausted by her family as you are. But thereâs Richard Lansdowne, Robert Hines, Clarence Fontaine, and Leroy Fontaine.Â
SIBLING(S): N/A
COUSIN(S): So... so many. I donât want to name any because uwu wanted connections.
PET(S): The family has 4 goats: Fidget, Nanny, Tulip, and Gunther. And then 6 chickens: Laverne, Shirley, Cher, Yolko Ono, Noodle, and Princess.
APPEARANCE: Clem is 5â˛3âł (a fact she really lords over her mom who stands at 5â˛2âł). She has brown hair, mostly naturally straight but slightly wavy, and bangs. She likes putting clips in her hair in that very classic 1990â˛s way or curling it like this. It doesnât hurt that her good friend is a hairdresser either, so she gets to reap the rewards of that too. As for makeup, that picture of Alicia Silverstone is actually not a bad reference. She keeps it minimal, but doesnât opt for mascara because sheâs deeply afraid of looking too bug-eyed đ.
STYLE: I have a section on her Pinterest that is her CLOSET INSPO. The main goals are 1) cute and 2) cozy. Think early Sabrina the Teenage Witch meets early Rory Gilmore and Joey Potter (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). She is often seen in long skirts or jeans, plus a tank top with a little sweater over it. And then of course knock-off Steve Madden slip-ons or her pair of black and white sketchers. She also beads a lot, more of a nervous habit than anything else, and while she quite often doles out her creations (some much uglier than others <3) to friends and family, there is one she wears almost always, which is THIS but the flowers are green and yellow. She doesnât go out of her way to be stylish but she would rather d*e than leave the house looking like she just rolled out of bed.
FAMILY: Clementineâs mom is, how you say... a little infamous around Lockhorn County. Sylvia Fontaine is a self-proclaimed psychic (their house has this sign in the front yard to welcome the believers, the doubters, and the curious). Obviously, sheâs not popular with the very devout of Lockhorn County, therefore Clem has not always been the most popular with that population either. But Clem has had just about every conversation there is to have about it by now: sheâs been cajoled, shunned, embraced, interrogated, etc. Told sheâs going to hell, asked if she had the âvisionâ too. Her nose itches before the landline rings six times out of ten, but that seems an awful lot like coincidence more than anything else so to that question, the answerâs always been a resolute no. But anyway, Sylvia Fontaine is kind if not a little odd. You may try to avoid eye contact with her at the Family Dollar lest she grab your wrist and tell you to make the most of the next three years before she picks up a six-pack of toilet paper and goes to checkout. Leaving just the smell of jasmine behind. <3
Clementineâs dad is a general practitioner lawyer. He is just about the blandest man alive but he loves his wife and thinks his daughter is the beeâs knees. Is he perfect? Nah. Heâs stingy, his practice isnât doing great, and his male pride keeps him from sharing many of the familyâs financial issues with anyone, but he DOES watch 60 Minutes with Clem every Sunday, so. And on the sweeter side of things, marrying the kooky girl down the road felt like destiny since the day he met her. Riding by on his rusty Schwinn, Sylvia called out he was going to fall as he passed and, distracted by the fact that she finally spoke to him, he quickly hit a rock and went tumbling over his handlebars. She patched him up and he fell in love. Itâs a story Clementine made him tell her over and over again when she was a kid.
Why am I rambling in this section of all sections? Is anyone still reading? Hello? Anyway, she has a million cousins and her aunts and uncles all live along the same street and are always coming in and out of the house. Her momâs sisters also have âThe Sightâ to varying degrees (one claims she can only work before a big storm, the other needs to hold hands and close her eyes with a client for 15 minutes before she tells them something frustratingly vague), and her cousins help with the goats and chickens and have various animals themselves, and man a stand selling goat cheese and eggs. Clem avoids those duties as much as she can because yuck.
FRIENDS: Clementine is predominantly friends with people she met in high school, Iâd say, and her closest friend is Sienna. She is not opposed to making new friends, but she does always want a deep soul connection with every friend she makes. And if one isnât there, sheâs majorly bummed -- but she still loves them! And wants to spend time with them. And most of all, she likes people who care deeply, are at least moderately intelligent and have a creative streak. She secretly, but not-so-subtly sometimes, wishes there were more options; she feels like she hasnât met a new person in fifteen years.
Also, she basically wants to be friends with every girl because of her 1990â˛s Girl Power Agenda.
LIVING SITUATION:Â She does in fact live in a quaint and moderately-sized home in Prosper... and itâs her parentsâ house. :) Clem still wakes up and goes to sleep and dances to Mariah Carey in the same bedroom sheâs had since she was a literalllllll baby. Thereâs comfort there, and it feels like a vital piece of her, and the fact that she would have to live somewhere small and dingy and not filled with memories if she moved out is sort of a major deterrent from actually moving out.
WORK: Clementine founded her babysitting business when she was twelve years old, high off a read of Dawn and the Impossible Three (the then-latest installment in the Babysittersâ Club series). Is Clem... a natural when it comes to dealing with children? I would not say yes, technically, but she tries her darndest and doesnât take shit from whiny four-year-olds, so she at least has that going for her. Plus, she has a head for business and organization. Plenty of other people she grew up with joined and left the endeavor over the years, and nowadays she has a couple young cousins and a fifteen-year-old neighbor under her wing. Itâs a whole production, and your muse has seen her flyers around town more than once.
And this isnât necessarily Work but Clem also has a feminist zine that she started when she was eighteen (cue all the middle-aged men throwing tomatoes at her). It has gone through several name changes over the years (often enough in the beginning that it was surely difficult to keep up): from HILLBILLY SUFFRAGETTE to CHILDREN OF THE NEW WORLD and then SMART GIRLS AT THE HOT STOP. Nowadays, itâs APPALACHIA BABY. And she is very much always looking for creative types to contribute to it. <3333 So thatâs also a WC, heyo.
SCHOOL: Clem was an okay student up until seventh grade, and then she made a very concentrated effort to be a great student. Sheâs not a savant or a genius, but sheâs a very hard worker. Education = opportunity. And as a frequent visitor to the library, she read about people in places all over the country, and all over the world, who were doing amazing, life-changing things. She wanted to be a part of that too. Itâs a shame she hasnât managed to leave her childhood bedroom yet.
I wouldnât say Clem was super popular (uhhh... weird psychic mom vibes), and probably endured more frequent teasing when she was in elementary school, but she mostly got along with everyone... to a degree. Sheâs condescending and not totally in tune with other peopleâs feelings, so not all interactions were 10/10 but I donât think she made any enemies along the way. Some acquaintances might have thought of her as an Ice Queen, and other students slut-shamed her. (That was a Bad Time.) But she was happy with the circle of friends she had and tried very hard not to care about anyone elseâs opinion (which was impossible btw).
ASPIRATIONS: Clemâs dream isnât much different to many people in their early twenties. She wants to follow her passion, or at least find one, and she wants to learn and see the world. She wants to leave Lockhorn County, but that doesnât mean she doesnât want to come back sometimes. Sheâd love to go to a real college, though she dreads the idea of being the oldest person in the room. I wish the TV show Felicity was out in 1997 because would basically be her entire fantasy life.
There are a few reasons why Clem hasnât been able to leave (okay weâre headed toward Secret Territory) and she doesnât know where to begin to deal with them, so she focuses on her work, her hobbies, her creative endeavors, and her friends. Maybe if she does that, the ache that comes with missing something you never had might shrink.
RIVALRY: When it comes to the rivalry, Clem likes to pretend sheâs above it (even though *cough* Prosper is better *cough*), so you wonât see her getting worked up about it anytime soon. But! Her general attitude might betray her feelings every once in a while, try as she might to hide it and appear very open-minded. And has she participated in any shenanigans? Maybe once... or twice. In the ninth grade! Sheâs too âmatureâ and âenlightenedâ to do so nowadays ~













