Clementine is kind of my go-to character for horror games, apparently. This is her second, after Haven. That might sound kind of cruel, that I keep sending the nine-year-old to games with increasingly low levels of happiness (actually, in Haven she wasn't even 9 yet, #canonpoints), but it actually has nothing to do with enjoying writing a child in trouble or in distress and everything to do with the fact that she's this fuckin' amazing ray of sunshine in the lives of people she gets close to, and god, they need that. I'm not lost on the irony that the mod who helps inflict so much suffering plays a character largely to ease it, but hey, even I don't think everyone needs to suffer all the time. It's the little okay moments that make shit tolerable, even just barely. That's a huge theme in her canon, finding those little pockets of happiness when the world goes to shit, and I love playing with it in RPs, too. I'm also kind of amused by how she's one of the only season one Clementines left in games - how everyone else seems to have canon-updated to season two. While my S2 Clementine voice comes easier by the week, I'm just not quite ready to let her grow up yet. I want to max out her potential as a kid, first. I also want to wait for a few more episodes of season two to come out, for the sake of not canon-updating a million different times. So yeah, it'll probably be at least six months before I canon-update her at all.
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MUSE STRENGTH: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Like, seriously, she is the strongest muse I've got as a general rule and that doesn't seem ready to change. The great thing about Clem is, I never have to canon-review. Her tags just come so fuckin' easy to me, it's a breath of fresh air. It's interesting, though, to see how much Box is changing her. You never really get time to see how Lee's death changed her in canon (unless season 2 is an indication, and jfc is she hardened there), so working through that plus everything going down in Box is something that seems to be changing her a lot more than I realized. I mean, I like it, but she's hardening more than I realized she would. More than she did in canon at her age. This place has that effect on people, I guess. She's dying in a thread dated yesterday, and when she comes back from that, she's going to have more Serious Shit to work through than she's ever had to deal with thus far. Existential shit, murder shit, being undead and perma-killing your buddy shit... It's going to be a process, and it's kind of uncharted waters in my playing of her, so that makes me a little nervous in the best way. Either way, the muse is still going strong - I'm looking forward to all of the future shit she gets into! And I'm also looking forward to watching her pseudo-family grow. |
CAST STRENGTH: □ □ □ □ □
CR STRENGTH: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Well, I mean. She kind of has no cast, so there's that. We might have a Duck incoming, so that'll be really interesting to play out. She'll have such a strong protective instinct with him, even to the point of getting herself in danger over it if she has to, because he already died once and she needs to keep him safe. For Kenny and Katjaa. Even if they're dead, too. Other than Duck, I would cry actual tears for a Ben, because she'd adopt him too, and their friendship is way cute basically all through canon. I'd also love to have people from the Walking Dead show to throw her at, especially a Carl, because they've kind of got something in common in a big way. Aaaand then there's Lee. Man, Lee is a really complicated case. I would love a Lee if one app'd, but I'm not out hunting for one, because that's kind of a complicated mess where Clem's at right now. If we got a Lee, the mun would have to be ready for her not to flock to him and cling to his side forever like she did in canon. Oh, don't get me wrong, she'd be thrilled out of her mind to see him, but he's such a sore spot for her and that's just getting worse, not better. She misses the shit out of her first real partner, and she'd give almost anything to see him alive again, but soon she'll have been with her new pseudo-family as long as she was with Lee, and his death only made her that much more fiercely loyal to the people who're still alive. Which brings me to her CR. Which is fucking amazing. She has her new partner Ghoul, whom she's on her way to dying for as we speak, plus she has so so many people she's really starting to care about. Amery, Raph, Jesse, Teej, the list goes on. I want to start to drag more of them into her definition of 'family', and I want to find her people to take under her own wing. Other kids, maybe, or more innocent grown-ups.
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PLOTTING CAPABILITIES: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
TAGGING PRIORITY: ■ ■ ■ □ □
At this exact point in time, her tags aren't as high in priority, but mostly because writing engaging tags as a zombie is way harder than I gave it credit for. (Props to Camille for doing that shit all the time, wow.) I really liked the developments and threads that came from her time as a zombie, but I'm honestly super glad it's coming to a close. I miss playing Clementine, even if I still had undead-Clem. I guess that's how her CR must feel - they miss the living Clem, even though semi-living Clem is right there. When she's human again, her tags are gonna spike in priority I'm sure. As for plotting capabilities, man, there is so much she can do. She can't get super involved in the politics of the place or anything, but she can still explore, get into trouble, meet people, help people... She finds a way to make friends with some of the most unconventional people, and I love it. I'm going to keep her out of many huge plots in the future, to give her a break and to give Ghoul a break and to focus on doing the bigger shit with Shepard and Sally for now, but I'll definitely still be throwing her around wherever I see an opportunity. |
GENERAL FUN LEVEL: ■ ■ ■ ■ □
LIKELIHOOD OF DROP: □ □ □ □ □
The missing dot on 'fun' is owed exclusively to how much I am ready for her not to be a zombie anymore, aaaaa. Fortunately that's a thing now, so it's all uphill from here! Really though, I've had such a blast with Clementine the entire time she's been in Box, almost every single thread she's been in has been wonderful and beautiful and ugh perfect. So obviously, there's a zero percent chance of me dropping her anytime soon. Hooraaaaay. Like I said already, she's not gonna have anything huge going on for a couple of months to give her time to breathe a little from everything this past month and to give the people who worry about her a much-needed break, so I hope to spend that time strengthening her bonds with people and having her help others out instead of vice-versa. I want to use her being a child to do cute fun stuff and drag others into it, like blanket forts and shit like that, but she's not in the right mindframe for it anytime super soon, so that'll have to wait a little bit too. |
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