Name: Clementine
Age: 12 (1), 21 (2)
Gender: female
Pronouns: she/her
Race: indigenous american
Personality:
Clementine is incredibly intelligent and cunning for someone her age, capable of thinking fast under pressure and scheming things well in advance. She's very emotionally unstable and prone to violent outbursts, and doesn't conceptualize herself in relation to others well - as such, she has few friends and tends to keep to herself. She loves fashion and makeup, and considers them one of the few things that keeps her going. She often struggles with flashbacks and general misery, and is very lonely overall.
Biography:
Timeline 1.
Clementine grew up in a very abusive home. Her father was an alcoholic and rarely home, while her mother struggled with drug addiction. It often seemed like when they weren't ignoring her existence they were yelling at her or hitting her, and she grew up isolated and fearful.
From a young age she walked to school by herself, and was noted by teachers as often getting into fights or being violent when she wasn't isolating herself. She struggled with suicidal + homicidal thoughts and outbursts of rage, but none of her teachers clued into what might be happening in the end, as her bruises and other marks were generally covered. As such, she walked a very lonely and unhappy path.
What happened started as an accident.
She had been assigned to do a partner project with a 7th grade classmate, and the two were out in the local woods looking for nature items and for the product. However, as per usual, Clementine couldn't get along with her and found herself angry at the other constantly. In the end, when the other made a rude comment, she ended up picking up a heavy rock and throwing it directly at her head.
She didn't realize what she'd done until it was too late.
In a panic, Clementine had to think fast. Telling someome never occurred to her - with much struggle, she loaded her classmate's body into the wheelbarrow they'd brought and began to cart it through the woods. She knew this place well, as she often came out here to escape home - she took the body to a hidden area, dumped it, and covered it in foliage as best she could. Afterwards, she hid the wheelbarrow in a similar manner and ran for home.
At first, she was horrified by what she'd done, and terrified that someone would find out. However, as news spread that her classmate had gone missing and investigation happened, she also felt a strange adrenaline from having taken a life - and an urge to do it again.
3 months later, after no one had found the body, it happened again. This time, Clementine had been intentionally sidling up to a classmate, and invited them out to play in the woods. She brought an old baseball bat of her father's with her and led them to the hidden place in advance before killing them in the same way - one strike to the head.
2 months later, it happened again. And again a month after that.
Clementine, constantly torn between the rush of the kill and her own lapses of guilt, began to skip school and hide at home as investigation began to connect the disappearances of her 4 classmates. She almost couldn't understand why she was doing this, only that it was a strange escape from everything else awful in her life. However, she wasn't able to hide forever - eventually, she saw it on the news: they had found the dump site, the place she'd hidden all the bodies.
At that point, Clementine couldn't take it anymore. She didn't want to be caught, she didn't want to stay home, she didn't want to stay anywhere anymore. Hours after hearing the news, Clementine took her father's hunting knife and slit her wrists. She was found an hour later by her mother, already dead, and gone from everything she'd done.
Timeline 2
Clementine would have kept killing if everything hadn't changed.
Her father suddenly obtained a new job in another state, and despite all the fighting with her mother insisted that they were moving. Within two weeks, they were gone - he'd arranged everything beforehand, and Clementine was forced to uproot and leave the site of her murders.
At her new school she committed nothing like she had before - she'd lost all confidence now that she was in a new place with new surroundings. However, she watched the news constantly in a paranoid state, terrified that police would connect the dots and come after her. However, the bodies were never found. As such, she continued life in the same lonely way she had before.
As a teenager, Clementine spent most of her time out of the house trying to get away from her parents. She would often break into the highschool in the evening and spend the night there, knowing her parents couldn't care less if she was gone. She began to wander the town aimlessly, and due to it being very small she never got into any fights - however, she did end up getting into drugs by way of people she met.
At 18 Clementine officially fled her parents' home to go stay with acquaintances of hers who said she could stay with them if she helped sell their drug product. As such, she made a living with them, completely dysfunctional from a normal standpoint. She was detached, often violent, and could barely keep any friendships. In truth, not only was she constantly haunted by the years of abuse, but also by the 4 children she'd killed when she was 12. Every day as she sits alone, she continues to wonder if she'll ever be caught - and if things would have been different if she was just born someone else.
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