Post by Kenzie on Jul 31, 2016 22:16:49 GMT -5
*TW: Her background mentions suicide
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Clementine Sophia Coleman
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Clem (preferred), Blondie (hates), Queenie
Age/Year/School ||
21, she’s a part time senior at Metric College.
Reason for Enrolling ||
Clementine actually went to Harvard Law, but for her senior year, opted to intern out in California. She found Salem’s police department and had to beg for Metric to accept her as a part-time student. Though she isn’t studying an art, because of her exceptional grades and extracurricular activities, the Academy allowed her to finish up the few classes she needs at Metric while spending most of her time interning at the forensic lab in the police station.
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4.0, she’s studying in forensic science and only attends Metric for the proximity to the police station.
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Female
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Heteroflexible
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Her hours at her internship count as her only job at the moment. Back in High School, she worked part time and saved up her money. She has money to spend but most of it goes to her rent. She loves her internship and enjoys going to it every day.
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Back at her old college, Clem fit right in with the popular crowd – just like in High School, she was a total Queen Bee. She had people waiting on her beck and call and went to parties, was well known, and totally catty. However since coming to Metric, Clementine has less time to make a reputation for herself. She is still just as entitled, arrogant, and bitchy as she was before, but she just doesn’t have the same social group. She’s a coldhearted loner to most, and really only stays on Metric’s campus to attend her classes. She spends most of her time at the police department.
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Her best friend’s name is Tiff, and she still talks to her, and invites her over to her new apartment, all the time. Among other friends are Rory Deveraux and Callum Hill, two people who she got along well with in High School who went on their separate ways.
Enemies/Rivals
Clementine didn’t get along with many people, one of which is her younger brother, Dylan. Now that things have changed within the family, she gets along with him better, but is still not the best sister to him. She also doesn’t really like Fletcher Willoughby, having known him back when he lived in Briarwood and hated him there. Moving to Salem was a way to get away from all the people she disliked at Briarwood to start a new leaf – unfortunately for her, that leaf contains a few splotches of misery from before.
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Single. In High School she dated a boy named Bentley, but they broke up when they both were going to different colleges. In College, she dated a few men, but nothing really lasted longer than a year. Now, she’s more focused on her internship than dating – though she does use Tinder and when she has Tiff come over for sleepovers, they make fun of the desperate men who message her.
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none
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5’4”, curvy but thin.
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Blonde and curled, down to her shoulders. She often pins it up, especially for work.
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Blue – Clem loves to wear makeup and never leaves her apartment without a full face of it.
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Business casual. Now as an intern, Clem hates to be caught in jeans and tee shirts and only spends time in them in the sanctuary of her own home. Normally she’ll be seen in skirts, slacks, or dresses.
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Bitchy,
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Caucasian
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Ashley Benson
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Game of Thrones, the horror genre, The Walking Dead, TV shows, haunted houses, ghosts, makeup, Chinese food, Instagram, beauty gurus, fashion, shopping, drinking/going to the bar, weight lifting, hot boys, nighttime walks, spicy food, strawberries, Cryaotic (specifically his series ‘cry reads’), youtubers, swimming
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bad horror films (don’t waste her time), ‘bad boy’ types, people assuming she’s dumb, ‘dumb blonde’ jokes, not getting what she wants, children, babysitting, pranks, wasting money, her brother most of the time, car accidents, anti-suicide ads (they remind her of Dylan), people not picking up the phone when she calls them, retail jobs (she already had 5+ years of it. She’s so done)
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Clem tends to shop a lot when very stressed out – she likes to solve all her problems immediately. She doesn’t like waiting for anything.
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Shopping and watching horror investigations on TV. She also loves to go to haunted places, learn about ghosts, and watch horror films.
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Reliable, intelligent, good actress, horror enthusiast, hardworking, confident, passionate, fierce, independent, flirtacious, feminine, outgoing, cunning, brave
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aggressive, cruel, bitchy, hotdeaded, sadistic, selfish, narcissistic, truth twister, elitist, ruthless, impatient, tease, prideful, vain
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Marie Coleman – Mother – 49 – Receptionist || Clem’s mother is the type of mother who desperately tries to be the ‘cool mom’. As a result, Clementine can get away with almost anything when it comes to her mother, her mother lets her get away with almost anything. Clementine’s got a pretty decent relationship with her mother because of that, though it is skewed in Clementine’s favor since she doesn’t really do much for her mother in return.
Michael Coleman – Father – 50 – Customer Service Worker || Clementine’s father is a bit of a different story. Clementine’s father is a bit protective of his daughter, and unlike his wife, he doesn’t let her get away with half as much. However he trusts Clem, and is very proud of her stellar grades and the fact that she’s working towards a successful future. It’s not a secret that Clementine is their father’s favorite, and Clementine likes to flaunt that.
Dylan Coleman – Younger Brother – 18 – Cashier || Clementine said horrible things to her brother when they were in High School, which led to his low self-esteem, which led to his suicide attempt. Dylan dropped out of High School at 16, and got a full time job working at the mechanics afterwards. Clementine has taken to annoying him lately – she calls it retaliation – and calls him once a day usually to tell him to take his medicine and that if he doesn’t she’s going to kill him herself. She still thinks he’s stupid for dropping out of high school at Briarwood, but has to admit, he looks a lot happier now that he works full time and doesn’t have grades to worry about anymore.
Michael Coleman – Father – 50 – Customer Service Worker || Clementine’s father is a bit of a different story. Clementine’s father is a bit protective of his daughter, and unlike his wife, he doesn’t let her get away with half as much. However he trusts Clem, and is very proud of her stellar grades and the fact that she’s working towards a successful future. It’s not a secret that Clementine is their father’s favorite, and Clementine likes to flaunt that.
Dylan Coleman – Younger Brother – 18 – Cashier || Clementine said horrible things to her brother when they were in High School, which led to his low self-esteem, which led to his suicide attempt. Dylan dropped out of High School at 16, and got a full time job working at the mechanics afterwards. Clementine has taken to annoying him lately – she calls it retaliation – and calls him once a day usually to tell him to take his medicine and that if he doesn’t she’s going to kill him herself. She still thinks he’s stupid for dropping out of high school at Briarwood, but has to admit, he looks a lot happier now that he works full time and doesn’t have grades to worry about anymore.
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Briarwood, California. Now Clem lives in a small apartment in Salem. this is the layout of it.
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After her first car was totaled, when Clementine went off to college, she got a 2015 Kiplinger from her parents as a graduation gift rather than a party. She was ecstatic and has used the car ever since.
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For two lovely years, Clem was an only child. Then her brother was conceived. From the beginning she hated him; he took her parents attention away! She took to picking on him and as retaliation he pranked her back, and the two siblings grew up with the only goal of ruining each other’s lives. One thing Clem always found a perk was that her parents always chastised Dylan for his low grades and subpar academic excellence. He was constantly compared to her. Clementine never let her grades suffer despite her brother’s pranks.
For High School, Clem attended the prestigious Cortes Academy in the town of Briarwood. She didn’t falter in her grades and that was the one thing she kept her top priority! Though her annoying brother continued to pester her at home while living at the dorms at her High School Clementine was given a chance to get away. Her group of friends – Tiff, Callum, Rory, Raylene, and Bentley – ruled Cortes Academy. Because she was such a golden child to her parents she got away with a lot of things. She drank and partied and as long as her report cards had straight As they didn’t care. When it came time for Dylan to enter high school he didn’t make Cortes to no one’s surprise and instead joined the rival school, Briarwood High. Clem had her sights set on dating Callum, but when Bentley expressed interest in her, she jumped on that train and started to date Bentley, while encouraging both of her girlfriends to go after Callum or Rory – whichever boy they preferred. Clem’s High School life was a teenage dream, at least it was to her.
There were a few a splotches on her experience – during her senior year, her former friend Aaron crashed her car with her and her friends in it. Fortunately, everyone was fine, but unfortunately, her car was not. She met Fletcher Willoughby then, when trying to get an testament on her precious car. That year, too, there was drama with Briarwood Academy, and it was found out that her brother had vandalized her school (to spite her, no doubt). But despite meeting people she absolutely loathed, she graduated valedictorian of her class, and went off to Harvard Law the next year. For her entire time at Cortes she was debating between law and forensics and she decided Harvard would have a wonderful program in whichever one she opted to pursue. Dylan meanwhile faced criminal charges and the disappointment of their parents. He was lucky he was only 15.
Her freshman year of college was difficult – fitting in was easy, but the course load was nothing like she expected. Finally, Clementine was away from her stupid brother! After a few months, she managed to get better at her work and find some better friends. She still spoke to Tiff daily, though her contact with the boys faded. She and Bentley broke up due to pursuing different dreams. Clementine went home at the end of her fall semester, ready to cheer and tell her parents how much fun she was having. Instead, when she came back, she was greeted with the sobering news that her brother had attempted suicide in November, and no one had cared to inform her.
No one expected Clementine to care – hell, she never thought she would care – but for some reason she did. She was angry with him at first and blamed him for wanting to take the spotlight off of her and her experiences at college, and kept trying to rile him up, but nothing was getting any kind of a reaction. His body was still weak and he refused to talk to anyone. Clem didn’t understand why he’d done what he’d done – and she never would – but it scared her more than anything had scared her before. Seeing her brother not respond to her jests, not being inconvenienced by his pranks... that all scared her.
After that, both she and her brother went to therapy. It was weird to think that she was going to any sort of therapy, but Clementine liked to talk about herself. Eventually the subjects moved from her shallow commentary to deeper conversations about why she had always hated her brother. He was the baby, and so he’d be babied, and thus loved more. He always hated her so why should she love him? There was no way he actually cared and actually believed her when she said she’d wished he’d never been born. If he was in her shoes, he would be saying the exact same thing, she was certain of it.
Oddly enough, Clementine actually tried to do things with her brother that break. Dylan would usually just stay in his room while his family tried to convince him to take medication. Instead of spending her winter hanging out with the gang like they’d planned, she wound up annoying Dylan to the point that he finally got some life back into him when he told her to leave him alone. For some reason that was more satisfying than anything – just to hear him retort back to her with some life in his tone. She annoyed him enough that he agreed to take his medicine if she’d leave him alone, and the whole time, she complained about it to her friends that he was being so stubborn and annoying about it. But she still stayed outside his door to make sure he actually wasn’t lying to her and when she went back to school, she allowed Dylan to put her number into his phone. And she called him, to irritate him about taking his medicine.
She didn’t exactly know why she cared so much – her therapist, when she brought it up, blamed her guilt. She thought it was ridiculous that she would feel guilty for anything her stupid little brother did to himself, but then every time she looked at the burns that had yet to heal on his arms, she just felt another urge to clonk him over the head and force him to swallow his medicine.
Despite her new position as annoyingly self-entitled sister, she didn’t necessarily improve. She didn’t really let Dylan decide what they would do together, or listen to what he wanted. She just made sure he didn’t... try to die again.
The rest of her college experience was a whirlwind. She had relationships, friendships, roommates, and drama. Somehow she still kept her friends from High School though, and they would often visit each other wherever they were. As she grew older Clementine became a whizz at her schooling and by the time her junior year rolled around she was applying for internships. She saw one far, far away – in Salem, California – and longed to go. She sent out her application and when she was approved, she had another predicament: how would she get there?
Online classes weren’t offered for the class she needed, but the subject matter – advanced forensics – was offered at Metric Academy for their pre-med students. Clementine sent in a desperate letter and application and, after much consideration, she was approved to take the classes she needed at Metric. She wouldn’t need a dorm – she was planning to rent a small apartment close to campus – and so at the beginning of the year, Clementine and her family came down to help move her into her apartment. By then Dylan had improved – he wore shorter sleeves in the warm weather and had a full-time job at the mechanics where he’d worked as a teenager. He dropped out of school and though his parents didn’t approve, he was saving up for an apartment of his own.
It was still weird to Clementine to feel that twinge of something when she looked at the still-healing burns on his arms and remembered the many times she’d told him she’d wished he’d never been born. She ignored it, still, and instructed the men in her family of how to lift everything and where to put everything.
At Metric, Clem met a few people but not many. She bumped into Chad – who of course wanted to sleep with her – and learned who the ‘queen’ types of women were at the college. Clementine could have contested them for their titles but she had more important things to worry about – her internship. It was amazing, and is amazing, and Clementine works under the chief of police and the head forensic scientist. She usually runs coffee and papers to them, but will sometimes be called in to help with a case and is allowed to sit in on conferences and offer her two cents.
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- Though she denies it, she does feel responsible for what her brother did, and she’s still furious at her parents for not telling her during her first semester. She knows that it was so she wouldn’t be stressed during her finals, but she would have gone home one weekend to check up on her brother.
- Clementine often has her friends from college and high school come up to hang out at her apartment if they are available. She particularly is fond of streaming horror movies and laughing at the bad ones.
- Clem knows all about Chardonnay and Wyatt -- the queen bee types at the college – but typically avoids them because starting drama at a school she’s only going to be at for a year is so something she doesn’t care to do.
- The song lyrics are from Bubblegum Bitch by Marina and the Diamonds
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