clothilde dossier

CLOTHILDE

Age:
25-30? At the start—50s at the end? Does she age? She doesn’t look like it…

Gender:
Female

Ethnicity:
caucasian

Profession:
mind reader, magic maker, care giver, peace talker, night floater

Economic Class:
middle class? Not really important in this world, it would seem

Religion, Values, Beliefs:
she believes in magic, in the power beyond, in voices only she knows, the power of the universe if only someone will listen to what it is saying—she believes in ghosts and spirits and has seen them—her parents, her sisters. She believes in love and in hope and in family. She is spiritual, she listens to the happenings of the world around her. She feels good and evil and it affects her physically.

Family:
2 sisters—Bettine and Ophile, she is the middle sister. The sensitive, soulful one. She had two parents, both are dead. She aquires a brother-in-law in Paris and then she ends up with him (I think?). She also has a nephew…”the saint”…that is the child of Bettine and Paris. She is very close to him, cosmically and literally.

Social Ties:
2 sisters, Paris, a man in a lighthouse, small voice, her relationship with her own psyche is very key in her survival…

Physical Description:
Tall, slight, red hair…she goes bald after the birds pull out her hair. Then her hair is magically back.

Health:
She seems physically healthy. Mental health-wise, she is paranoid about birds stealing her hair so she keeps it in jars. This is perhaps just a manifestation of her fear of losing Bettine and disrupting the balance she has worked so hard to create? I don’t think the telepathy is in her head or crazy, but I do want to ponder the birds and the hair pulling. And often, Clothilde is “in her own little world”…she retreats into herself. If this were realism, I guess she’d be looney…her though, I think it’s a special talent.

Rituals:
Hair in jars
Communicating
Teaching
Flying
Listening
Watching
Loving
Levitation
Being Alone
Hair Brushing

Intelligence: Very smart, intuitive, perceives things with alarming accuracy

Level of Education: Not specified, she may have no formal education at all

Superobjective: to keep her family unified and balanced

Not/But: Clothilde is not just a woman who puts herself last in order to protect those she loves, but a woman who learns that in order to have happiness for herself AND for her family, she must discover that what she wants is also important and that self-sacrifice only leads to misery.