anon said: Could you explain Claire? I think I understand her as a concept as far as what you're going for for her, but there seems like a lot going on and I don't want to misunderstand what she's actually about. Not to say characters aren't multifaceted! Is she soft and loves flowery soft smelling soaps or is she a succubus out for men? Does she have a heart and she's just guarded or is she a maneater? She seems untouchable, which is great if that's what she is! I just get confused about if that's how I'm meant to read her.
!! this is relevant to her main verse and harlan verse !! other verses she is very much just guarded and hasnt experienced as much trauma.
Yeah! She is the embodiment of a girl who has eaten away at her girlhood for her own safety (i hope that makes sense). In her timeline (which ive yet to write out cause im lazy) she is very much a soft and quiet child, she gets into chaos here and there with her friends but nothing that turns heads too often. Its when she’s 16 that she witness’ her father kill her mother brutally, and that is where that soft delicate girlhood retreats into her. Its not an over night situation where a switch flipped, but she slowly grew numb and once the numbness wore off she was nothing but rage.
And growing up that rage morphed from simply small acts of aggression and tiny bouts of rage, to fully consuming her by the time she’s 20. She didn't fight it, didn’t wake up and look in the mirror and say oh wow im a monster, she embraced it. She is what i like to think of a divine feminine rage, unbridled, emotional, feeling too much all at once, and dead silence that scares the shit out of everyone. She is very much untouchable, but there are moments that can be seen in her interactions with others where pieces of her come out stronger than the other. With her best friends? she is soft once more, the edges are still sharp but dont cut as deep.
With those like her father, or the people she tried to turn to and trust but betrayed her you see her rage. Her hatred, her insatiable desire to destroy and corrupt and tear them down piece by piece even if she loses herself in the process.
In a short way it is safe to say she does have a heart, but its corrupted and wounded and no love could really fix it 100%. She doesn’t want to be fixed, she wants to devour and destroy and when the night comes and she’s alone only then does she let herself smell soft and be gentle again. When the maiden allows herself to fully become the hag / witch / succubus to feel alive once again, but only at the cost of who she once was.
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