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Feb. 17th, 2016 02:11 amFirst impressions
☆ Scruffy and unkempt aesthetic — hair is wild, bleached and heavily damaged. Tends to wear no/minimal makeup and perpetually looks like she rolled out of bed already 40 minutes late for an urgent appointment (read: like a slightly manic, sleep-deprived mess). Skin is lightly tan and covered with a plentiful number of bruises.
☆ Tall, with an athletic build. Keeping good muscle tone is essential when you tend to break bones or otherwise incapacitate yourself often, also she's gotta keep a good arm for punching suckers in the face.
☆ Few neutral expressions. The look on her face tends to swing between angry, to unsettlingly happy, to bored to tears. Her actual mood is matchingly temperamental.
☆ Uniform is not the standard grunt uniform. The shirt sleeves are torn off below the shoulders and she wears different gloves and boots. Clarissa wrecks so many uniforms that HR won't let her have any more, so her gear is mismatched.
☆ Fidgety, rarely seen sitting/standing still. Centre of balance is off, so tends to sway absently if left to stand still for too long. Always the grunt getting yelled at for their shit posture during assembly.
☆ Often seen being followed around by an uncute, mean-faced Clefairy. It's just a normal Clefairy, except with bitch-face.
Personality
Clarissa has a people problem. Irritable and aggressive, she has a talent for alienating the rest of the room within seconds of opening her mouth. But while her argumentative personality can be jarring, it's rarely personal — she's just a young woman with very little patience and a severe lack of eloquence when it comes to expressing herself. Of course, her tendency to fire insults at will doesn't do her any social favours.
It does her even less good when she's at work: her insubordination causes friction between both her superiors and her fellow grunts, tossing her in no end of trouble. The one saving grace that keeps her from being thrown out on her ass for her bad attitude is the fact that she does her work (that, and Team Rocket doesn't have a great track-record for being competently staffed, let's be real). Even if she complains to high heaven about a job being below her, or thinking the higher-ups' plans are stupid a/f, she'll complete each task she's assigned to the very best of her ability. She's the one who always hands in her paperwork 30 seconds before the deadline, but only because she kept rewriting the damn thing until she finally had all the information in the correct boxes and her scruffy handwriting was more or less legible.
Team Rocket is Clarissa's biggest passion in life, and she has few other hobbies, skills, or things that excite her. It's a tightly kept secret, but one of her bigger motivations for joining and staying with the team is that deep down she knows she's a ne'erdowell. Feeling like she couldn't achieve anything worthwhile on her own, she turned to a life of crime to give her the validation and sense of accomplishment she longs for. She's sensitive to criticism and gets defensive when her means are questioned, deflecting the blame for her own failures onto circumstances or other people. However, she works hard. Though she fucks up a lot, Clarissa also takes an initiative, acting independently to do her own reconnaissance and set her own plans into motion. They don't always end well for her, but she's always learning and truly cares about being the best Rocket she can be.
Her temperament can be summed up as unstable, fickle and immature. It takes very little to snap her into a bad mood, and her opinion towards someone can change in a heartbeat, but conversely she forgets her grudges just as easily, especially if offered something she wants...she cares most about her own motivations and is hypocritical when it suits her to be. She's either full of energy or dead to the world with little in-between, becomes bored easily, and actively seeks trouble when left to her own devices for too long. She enjoys conflict, both verbal and physical. Despite her being a clutz who is dangerously injury-prone, she enjoys the rush of a good old-fashioned bust-up. She won't fight any opponent who looks like they'd give her an easy victory, and while she's not opposed to playing dirty it's only fun for her if both parties use their own hands and feet — there's no pride in winning while using a weapon.
Despite her anti-social attitude meaning she hasn't earned herself many friends since joining the team, Clarissa finds it more boring to be alone than to tag along with other people, even if it's somebody she hates. She finds it easy making a nuisance of herself by shoving herself into other people's business, regardless of whether or not they want her around. She very much gives the impression that she thinks other people exist for her personal enjoyment...
☆ Scruffy and unkempt aesthetic — hair is wild, bleached and heavily damaged. Tends to wear no/minimal makeup and perpetually looks like she rolled out of bed already 40 minutes late for an urgent appointment (read: like a slightly manic, sleep-deprived mess). Skin is lightly tan and covered with a plentiful number of bruises.
☆ Tall, with an athletic build. Keeping good muscle tone is essential when you tend to break bones or otherwise incapacitate yourself often, also she's gotta keep a good arm for punching suckers in the face.
☆ Few neutral expressions. The look on her face tends to swing between angry, to unsettlingly happy, to bored to tears. Her actual mood is matchingly temperamental.
☆ Uniform is not the standard grunt uniform. The shirt sleeves are torn off below the shoulders and she wears different gloves and boots. Clarissa wrecks so many uniforms that HR won't let her have any more, so her gear is mismatched.
☆ Fidgety, rarely seen sitting/standing still. Centre of balance is off, so tends to sway absently if left to stand still for too long. Always the grunt getting yelled at for their shit posture during assembly.
☆ Often seen being followed around by an uncute, mean-faced Clefairy. It's just a normal Clefairy, except with bitch-face.
Personality
Clarissa has a people problem. Irritable and aggressive, she has a talent for alienating the rest of the room within seconds of opening her mouth. But while her argumentative personality can be jarring, it's rarely personal — she's just a young woman with very little patience and a severe lack of eloquence when it comes to expressing herself. Of course, her tendency to fire insults at will doesn't do her any social favours.
It does her even less good when she's at work: her insubordination causes friction between both her superiors and her fellow grunts, tossing her in no end of trouble. The one saving grace that keeps her from being thrown out on her ass for her bad attitude is the fact that she does her work (that, and Team Rocket doesn't have a great track-record for being competently staffed, let's be real). Even if she complains to high heaven about a job being below her, or thinking the higher-ups' plans are stupid a/f, she'll complete each task she's assigned to the very best of her ability. She's the one who always hands in her paperwork 30 seconds before the deadline, but only because she kept rewriting the damn thing until she finally had all the information in the correct boxes and her scruffy handwriting was more or less legible.
Team Rocket is Clarissa's biggest passion in life, and she has few other hobbies, skills, or things that excite her. It's a tightly kept secret, but one of her bigger motivations for joining and staying with the team is that deep down she knows she's a ne'erdowell. Feeling like she couldn't achieve anything worthwhile on her own, she turned to a life of crime to give her the validation and sense of accomplishment she longs for. She's sensitive to criticism and gets defensive when her means are questioned, deflecting the blame for her own failures onto circumstances or other people. However, she works hard. Though she fucks up a lot, Clarissa also takes an initiative, acting independently to do her own reconnaissance and set her own plans into motion. They don't always end well for her, but she's always learning and truly cares about being the best Rocket she can be.
Her temperament can be summed up as unstable, fickle and immature. It takes very little to snap her into a bad mood, and her opinion towards someone can change in a heartbeat, but conversely she forgets her grudges just as easily, especially if offered something she wants...she cares most about her own motivations and is hypocritical when it suits her to be. She's either full of energy or dead to the world with little in-between, becomes bored easily, and actively seeks trouble when left to her own devices for too long. She enjoys conflict, both verbal and physical. Despite her being a clutz who is dangerously injury-prone, she enjoys the rush of a good old-fashioned bust-up. She won't fight any opponent who looks like they'd give her an easy victory, and while she's not opposed to playing dirty it's only fun for her if both parties use their own hands and feet — there's no pride in winning while using a weapon.
Despite her anti-social attitude meaning she hasn't earned herself many friends since joining the team, Clarissa finds it more boring to be alone than to tag along with other people, even if it's somebody she hates. She finds it easy making a nuisance of herself by shoving herself into other people's business, regardless of whether or not they want her around. She very much gives the impression that she thinks other people exist for her personal enjoyment...
