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Out Of Character Information
Name: Matchre | scorpiontails
Age: 19
Time zone: EST (GMT -4)
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In Character Information
Name: Klara
Series: Pathologic
Canon Standing: The end of Day 6, as hell breaks loose upon the town on the eve of the Inquisitor's arrival, and the Saburovs betray her. Of note is that this is from the path where she's the player character.
Age: Six days. Physically? People call her young, but there's a significant amount of children in the game at various age that are obviously younger - so my best bet is 16.
Birthday & Astrology Sign: Taurus, April 31st because of cosmic retcon.
Arcana: The World (reversed) (it's complicated)

Personality:

What kind of person could be made by the Earth itself? Okay, picture it like this: we have our town, we have it build on ancient sacred ground which inevitably gets fucked up by the town, and then we have Gaia's Vengeance trying to figure out a good way to fix this conundrum. The result of that is Klara, who is basically what happens when the dirt under your feet tries to figure out how people work so that it can make an envoy. She's an amalgam of experiences soaked up into the soil, and such has knowledge of people but not experiences with people, save what she's had over the past six days.

Her inhuman origin often shows in how she interacts, though speaking in riddles and veiled statements is simply part of the native tongue to the town she's lived in thus far. Yet Klara can be empathic. Usually, though, she couldn't afford to be too kind, simply from the slew of factors set against her. Honestly, her twin comes off as the kinder of the two - and the more emotionally open one. They're both tricksters, it's just the twin is the one that's accepting of themself and thus less guarded toward everyone else.

Klara is excitable and easy to order around, likely because of her habits of ingratiating herself to people. The game's mechanics are focused around a) keeping your physical condition stabilized and b) running countless errands for others, so it's pretty much ingrained behavior. She doesn't lick boots, though, and she's one of the farthest things you can find from spineless.

In fact, Klara is very judgmental. She will launch accusations and form opinions practically from the first few lines she's spent talking to someone, which is pretty funny considering her own troubles with other people's opinions. Inwardly, she owes little loyalty to people - especially now, after the Saburovs have just thrown her out on her ear after claiming she was part of their family and their heir just the day before.

Her twin is closer to their inhuman nature than her - again, it ties into acceptance. Klara, by her title of thief, is trying to steal a life for herself she wasn't entitled to. It's not confirmed who came first - Klara or the sister. Perhaps Klara is what humanity was within her sister that gave her pause in bringing about so many deaths, or perhaps Klara's first lie had enough power to separate herself from her purpose.

At first the sister herself is questioning of Klara and her actions, not quite understanding why she's working against her - and about now, when things hit the fan, is when her optimism begins wearing out along with what withered version Klara ever possessed.

Backstory:

You could read this Let's Play for a direct experience.

Alternately, allow me to explain.

In an unnamed town in an unnamed time and country, there comes an outbreak of an awful disease. All attempts to cure this disease are useless. All attempts to contain it are useless. It is as if this sickness possesses a willful malice that erodes not only at a man's health, but his very morality. The town itself was a strange beast already, but the outbreak would devour every semblance of humanity it could settle in the veins of.

Klara is one of three player characters, the most important pieces in the coming plot - three pawns that will become queens. They're all healers in their own right, here for their own reasons. Where the Bachelor uses conventional medicine and the Haruspicus uses folk remedies (and folks' organs), Klara simply has mysterious powers inherent to herself. She comes to the town (and to being entirely) by waking up in an open grave, and has no real memories to herself - simply impressions of her own nature and a name, and nothing more concrete.

She's immediately fostered by the Saburovs, one of the trio of powerful families ruling the town. Where Alexander Saburov is a severe man desperate to uphold the responsibility of his position of governor, Katherine Saburov is distant and rather ethereal. She's picturesque of her position as Mistress of the Land, a clairvoyant spoken to by earth spirits.

From her first appearance in the town, Klara's reputation amongst its populace constantly suffers. When confronted about being spotted in places she doesn't remember being, she hastily claims she has a twin running amuck in her stead, which Klara is pretty sure is a lie at first but evidence mounts to the contrary.

The Saburovs are decent to her, but very eager to take advantage of Klara's strange powers. After a test that goes... a little wrong, they ascertain she's not lying about them and immediately set her onto what will become a routine: Alexander orders her to investigate people he believes to be the cause of the outbreak, while Katherine has her continually go about about clearing names and converting people to one of the town's three political philosophies, Humility.

Klara has a personal stake in defending most of the people Alexander accuses - they are nearly entirely from the list of her Adherents, a set of ten important people from a cast of thirty. Their destinies and purposes are unclear, but defending them is integral and failing to leads them, as the Executors will so delicately put it, dying in her stead, because they are the only ones who will die for her. The Saburovs themselves are her Adherents, a warning sign considering the other eight are all considered criminals to some degree.

While Bachelor and Haruspicus scramble about trying to find cures, Klara is mostly trying to find out her own nature. From the start, she's accused of being a thief, a supernatural creature created by the earth, an impostor, and most mundanely a liar. It turns out she is, indeed, all of these things. As she meets more and more of the strange beings of the town, they all regard her as a fellow oddity - the indigenous sub-humans from the Steppe chant incantations to 'turn her back to clay,' the prophet with the head of a rat welcomes her as the plague that he's making a home for, and various beings of earthly origin call her their sister.

Klara both denies and embraces the identity, depending on whether it will be advantageous at the time. She appreciates her powers, but not the label of 'Plague' - she doesn't want to be death incarnate, dammit. Conversely, the plague is everything that her twin is. It's implicated that they are even one and the same person, simply different identities - and the game does have a strange treatment of other twins, a certain blurring of self. At several points, though, they meet in person, and chasing the twin away from places where she tries to settle is integral later in the game to keeping areas in the town from staying infected. The mundane explanation is Klara is hallucinating the face-to-face encounters and has an alternate personality. The supernatural explanation is that Klara's lie made them into two different people.

Because of this other-self ambiguity, making a Persona was surprisingly easy!!

At the canon point I'm using, four hundred people have just died after Klara had visited their plague-free safehouse the day before, and there are literal lynch mobs running around calling her Shabnak-Adyr and wanting her blood spilled on the earth, to toss her in the river to see if she floats, and etcetera. When she visits the Saburovs later in the day, Alexander actually casts her out of their house with the same accusations most of the town have been giving. Katherine, at least, is more regretful than scornful - but having just found out her own status as Mistress of the Land was a sham via the deceitful Rat Prophet's twisted predictions, Katherine is also now useless as an ally.

The day ends with the Bachelor half-detaining Klara and half giving her a place to hide, taking a sample of her blood to test to try and settle the plague-bearer situation once and for all. He swears that even if the plague is her doing, the worst he'll do is take her from here to the capitol for medical study, rather than give her up to enraged locals.

Canon Powers:
Sup, have a link!

Canon Weapons|Items:
Nothing except for her own two hands. Which are, in fact, a pretty formidable weapon in themselves.

Canon Allies:
None.

Canon Baggage:
Just the clothes on her back.

Persona

[IMPOSTRESS]
LVL (1) | THE WORLD

Klara Saburov | | CHARACTER LVL (1)

Fire	Lightning	Earth	Water	Ice	Wind	Dark	Light	Physical	Mind
-	-	Str	-	-	Wk	-	-	-	-

COMBAT SKILLS
►  Slumpa (40% chance of inflicting the Sick ailment on one target.(2 turns))
►  Evil Touch (40% chance of inflicting the Fear ailment on one target.(2 turns))
►  Mudo (30% chance of instant KO from the power of Dark on one enemy.)
►  Magna (Deal low Earth damage to one enemy.)
▷  Tarunda (Halves an enemy's Attack . (1 turn))
▷  Mamudo (20% chance of instant KO from the power of Dark on all enemies.)
▷  Mamagnara (Deal medium Earth damage on all enemies (Requires a small earth skill).)
▷  Marakunda (Decreases all enemies' Defense by 25%.(1 turn))
★   Sand Plague (Deal low Earth damage to all enemies, with a 40% chance of inflicting the Sick ailment.(2 turns))

SUPPORT SKILLS
►  Ailment Amp (All status ailment attacks are 1.5 times more effective.)
▷  Mudo Amp (Darkness-based attacks are 1.5 times more effective.)
▷  Dual Shadow (25% chance of the character repeating the attack they just performed. )

Writing Sample
Here is one.