Clara Oswald

Clara Oswald
Whoverse
PRONOUNS. she/hers
SPECIES. Human; life functions halted
AGE/DOB. 23 November 1986 | Forever 29
BIRTHPLACE. Blackpool, Lancashire, England.
OCCUPATION. Teacher - English.

CONTENT WARNINGS. Scary science fiction monsters. Death of characters

MEDIUM. TV show, with some comics sprinkled in.
CANON POINT. Shortly after Hell Bent.
ALTERNATES. Possibly, but maybe not. Hit me up and let's talk.
PLAYED BY. Jenna Coleman
CONTACT. Dropbox -- Please link to your character's dropbox or contact post!

CREEPYPASTA. I understand.

There are two things in life that Clara Oswald always wanted to do: become a teacher and travel the world. When she met The Doctor, she was neither. Instead, she was still in school for teaching, and too anxious to leave London.

Eventually, her true personality came out little by little.

Clara's always the first one to notice a crying child, always the first to help. She spent decades with the book her mother read her a leaf pinned between its pages, waiting for her life to begin. Then the first time a child was legitimately, truly frightened, she gave away the leaf that spawned the relationship of her parents to a hungry sentient being. The most important leaf in the universe, because it was everything that had been, was, and might ever be.

No one told her to do this. No one explained how it worked. Clara is clever enough to have worked out that if a being devours souls, and souls are memories, then a leaf that was so important to one person had unlimited potential. It saved the natives of Akhet from having to sacrifice another Queen of Years ever again.

The TARDIS knew what that meant, however, and initially took a dislike to Clara.

Nosy.

Bossy.

Reckless.

These are all words that the TARDIS has used to describe Clara Oswald. Always meant it negatively. But the Doctor has been called all those things (and more) and it's never been considered wrong or a flaw.

The truth was that the Doctor and Clara, together, are dangerous and the TARDIS was attempting to shake her off. They do tremendous things together, save so many lives, but they will also go through hell for one another. Risk everything for the other person. Clara ran into his timestream, knowing that it would destroy her. The Doctor tricked the Time Lords into saving Clara from a fix point death after spending billions of years inside his Confession Dial. They become The Hybrid.

Thankfully, the TARDIS realized that Clara was trustworthy after she jumped into the Doctor's timestream to save him from the Great Intelligence. After that, the two got on like gangbusters. Clara became the other person apart from The Doctor who could open the TARDIS by snapping her fingers.

Clara is extremely loyal and is absolute in that loyalty. Those she loves, she loves fiercely, Clara is all heart, so there's a good chance that it won't take long for her to fall in love period. It was almost instantaneous with Danny Pink, though it took her quite some time to admit it. To him or herself. Then tragedy struck and he was taken away from her as well. It's fitting because Clara has a tendency to lose things anyway. Socks, sunglasses, pencils & pens, anything that's not chained down really. The TARDIS is full of all kinds of things she'd left behind on accident.

Clara is quick on her feet and brave. She's the first to jump into the fray, whether it's to take up arms against a cyberman or jump into the Doctor's timestream. Some of that is not really thinking about the consequences of her actions, but most of it is because she pushes herself outside of her comfort zone. It backfires about as much as it works out for her. You can tell when she's actually confident and brave versus when she's forcing it. She has nervous ticks — cracking jokes, flirting more, moving around a lot, very wide eyes — that are definite tells.

Her keen observation skills meant that she noticed things before the Doctor did sometimes. Noticing the ghost in the Caliburn House was always in the same position, recognizing that two people had romantic feelings for one another, so realize that there was a chimney in Sweetville that didn't blow smoke.

She is a fearless defender of children. Every version of her that we've seen has taught children in some fashion, either as a teacher, a nanny, a governess, or a junior entertainment director (for a space cruise ship). They are very important to her, and she sees them as not only the future, but a very important legacy and responsibility to teach them how to be kind and compassionate, to be smart and loving. Because of the time she's spent around kids, she is highly observant. You ever wonder why there's silence in your house with three children under 10? Clara doesn't. She already knows what they're doing and is on it.

She has no problems standing up for herself. If she thinks you're abusing her, treating her poorly, or just being a general arse, she'll call you out on it and not necessarily in the nicest tone. Even if you're her closest friend, she will flat out tell you that you were wrong for abandoning her, for calling her little, for treating her like the ghost of someone else, for trying to erase her memory.

Slowly, Clara became more like the Doctor, taking chances that she wouldn't have taken before meeting the Doctor. More reckless, more curious, bossier, cockier. She sometimes spoke without thinking, making a really shitty joke or comment at the worst possible times. She could lie convincingly enough to fool the Doctor into believing that everything was fine with her and Danny, when Danny chose to save the child he'd accidentally killed in the line of fire. She learned that skill from the Doctor, watching him bluff his way through scenarios and make it up on the fly.

After she attempted to kill Missy, she made a vow to never compromise her kindness or honesty to anyone else again. She likes to think she's kept that promise.

WIKI LINK

CULTURED BADASS. Clara's thirst for knowledge has helped them. They were able to save Amy Johnson — the first woman to fly solo from the UK to Australia — because no one had ever found her body. Clara realized that history only needed to record her dying. When she was younger, instead of having boy bands on her walls, she had a poster of Marcus Aurelius, indicating that she was more into learning history than fawning over pretty boys. Robin Hood was her childhood crush, and Jane Austen was someone she greatly admired and knew more about than the Doctor. (And got to meet and kiss her so take that!)

DISTAFF COUNTERPART. While many companions have gone on to do Doctor-like things (Torchwood, Sarah Jane), Clara is the only one whose story on film ends with her in her own TARDIS, running from Gallifrey, just as the Doctor started his adventures. She gained her penchant for lying, could talk as fast as the Doctor, able to improv an outcome the way she wanted (not always as successfully as The Doctor). She's even pretended to be the Doctor on a few occasions when he was indisposed.

DON'T YOU DARE PITY ME. Outwardly, Clara can be cocky and flirty, acting as an experienced adult. But the truth is that that is a cover up for the scared girl who desperately misses her mother and worries her insecurities too much. She hides those true emotions. It's actually one of the final things she told the Doctor before her death.

FACE YOUR FEARS. Her time as a companion has been a nonstop influx of learning to face her fears. From traveling, to leaving home, to the horrors of war and losing more loved ones. It's the ultimate sacrifice that she makes on Trap Street that really cements it. She heads out to face the Quantum Shade (a raven) with a straight back, her arms open, and the words, "Let me be brave" on her lips. Though she screams in pain from being internally torn apart from the Shade, she remains on her feet until she is dead. Everyone else with a Chronolock on Trap Street tried to run.

FRIEND OF ALL CHILDREN. Clara was a nanny who likened the children she minded as her own. Splinters of Clara were also fond and protective of children. Oswin was a youth entertainment guide for a cruise ship. The Governess was obviously a nanny. In Rings of Akhaten, she sacrifices several of her most precious items for the life of one scared little girl. In Listen, she helps both young Danny and the young Doctor with their fears.

GAME ENTRY. Finding that the chameleon circuit is broken, Me and Clara sigh that their TARDIS has to stay a diner. It's fine. No different than a police call box. After setting a course, Clara noticed a strange mist. Putting on her sonic glasses to inspect it, she realizes that some temporal nonsense is going on, and now she is in another dimension. Without her TARDIS. And without Me.

NOT DEAD NOT ALIVE. When things are quiet, it's all too easy to get stuck on the fact that she doesn't need to eat or breathe. That her heartbeat just doesn't. It reminds her of her own arrogance and stupidity, thinking she could outwit Rigsy's Chronolock all by herself. It's not that she brought this on herself that scares her, it's that she would do the same thing in a heartbeat (ha) if she thought that it would save someone else. The Chronolock is still on the back of her neck, with the timer at 0, though it just looks like an ordinary tattoo of old English. Early on in her travels with the Doctor, she told him she never wanted to know how or when she died. Now she's stuck knowing exactly when, where, and how it happens.

RECKLESS. What happens when your recklessness leads to your death leads to your ability to not die or age? In Clara's case, you get more reckless. You and your companion eventually add a third woman to the mix and get sprinkled throughout history to be known as The Fates.

ABANDONMENT. What do you get when your Doctor has tried to abandon you several times in the midst of battles? Some pretty severe abandonment issues. Which leads you to do some truly awful things to get them back.

ACCOMPLISHED LIAR. All of her years with the Doctor taught her the ability to lie. She lied to the Doctor, to Danny — arguably the two most important people in her life. She didn't want to stop traveling with the Doctor and lied to Danny that she 'broke up' with him, and she lied to the Doctor that her and Danny were very happy after he was saved.

TECHNOLOGY. After being uploaded by the Spoonheads, Clara gained immense computer skills. This goes beyond Earth technology however. She could use the Doctor's sonic screwdriver and sunglasses. She was able to hijack Jack Harkness's vortex manipulator to escape from the Zygons. She could tell someone how to activate the Doctor's invisibility watch having only seen him do it once. She was also able to pull data from a broken cell phone using the TARDIS.

TEACHER. Despite her first few days at school being tumultuous, Clara eventually settled into the position and learned how to engage with her students. She made Jane Austen interesting to not just the girls in her class.

LOCKPICKING. Sometimes when you're stuck in 19th century London, you need to learn how to do a little lockpicking..

SONIC SUNGLASSES. After leaving the Doctor on his own when he didn't remember her, Clara took off in her TARDIS (stuck like an American diner) and her sonic sunglasses, previously the Doctor's.

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