Clara Schwarz
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Full Name:
- Clara Franziska Schwarz
Date of Birth:
- 13th May, 2001
Current Age:
- Twenty-three, nearly twenty-four.
Basic Appearance:
- Clara is tallish, about 5'8" (which is very short compared to her brother), with icy blue eyes, blonde-ish hair, she is rather slender and looks rather classy, considering how she dresses and her stature and way of standing. She generally likes to wear black, paints her fingernails and lips the same colour (dark red), often has her hair curled rather messily thanks to steam from her potions, is relatively pale with basically flawless skin, for she spends a lot of time trying to make herself look beautiful. She gives off something of an 'untouchable' vibe - but that doesn't stop men from trying (and occaisionally getting severely, even fatally injured in the process).
Personality:
- Clara is icy, b!tchy, and generally evil. Underneath all that, however, she's completely insecure and desperate for someone to love her, but she has her ideals and agendas. She loves to torture, especially with potions ("I love to watch men gasp, desperate for air, in their last struggles of life", she has said), and she loves control. She's been brought up to believe in pureblood supremacy, and she looks up to her older brother a lot, though she doesn't usually let that show. Just like her brother, she joined the Death Eaters a couple of years after graduation, after taking some time to explore the world. She is something of a tease, and she loves to trick and play with emotions, but she hates to have the same thing done back to her. She is easy to rile up and fluster (as certain people know), but she only gives people she deems worthy her time.
Family:
- There are only three living direct Schwarz decendants alive - Clara, Mark, and their sister Gretchen, who they have essentially disowned now she is married (to a muggleborn, no less). The three of them were born to Franz Schwarz, a German, and his Belgian wife, Claudia de Backer. The Schwarz family is an old German pureblood family, who most notably married in to the Engel family, another German pureblood family (however Ava Engel, Clara's grandmother, was the last to make such an advantageous match - see Johannes Engel, product of a marriage to a muggleborn).
The de Backer family is an old Belgian family, and the parents of both Franz and Claudia, who didn't care much for pureblood supremacy and didn't like the idea of warfare, threw the two together, and fortunately for them, they fell in love. However, they passed away in a horrifying accident when Clara was only two, leaving the three children to be raised by their paternal grandmother, Ava.
The Schwarz family mansion still stands, just outside Berlin, but it is mostly unoccupied. Clara and Mark use it at their will whenever they are in Germany, (Clara more than Mark), but considering the two of them mostly reside in New Zealand, the place gathers dust most of the time. Clara, however, makes occaisional trips back home, in order to check up on the house and the family possessions.
Pets:
- Clara has a white Burmese cat, named Amadeus (as in Mozart), which she usually calls 'Schatzi' (as in 'sweetheart'). Amadeus is her main confidante, and perhaps the only being she openly shows any sort of affection towards.
Area of Residence:
- Born in Berlin, Germany, now resides primarily in New Zealand.
Blood Status:
- Pureblood (pending).
Heritage:
- Clara was born in Berlin, and after her mother and father passed away, Clara, Mark and Gretchen returned to their family home, the Schwarz Manor, with their paternal grandmother, Ava. They grew up quite comfortably, and were taught the values of pureblood supremacy and hatred of muggles. Gretchen, being rather soft-hearted like her parents, refused to subscribe to those beliefs, but Mark and especially Clara followed them rigidly. Mark was sent to Durmstrang, as with all the family, followed by Gretchen two years later, and Clara three years after that. While she was an annoyance to her brother for a lot of the time, she grew in to herself more and became a formidible student, becoming Head Girl in her final year (and lording over the place with her good friends Adrianne Sedgewick and Sophora Knox). Since then, she has been doing what she does best - flirting, charming, torturing, and brewing potions.
Special Abilities:
- None.
Interests or Hobbies:
- Aside from torturing and killing (lovely), Clara likes to brew potions, flirt (just to keep in practice), as well as read and dance. The last one is something of a secret, only her schatzi Amadeus knows, actually. She also likes to bake and do other rather feminine and embarassing things, but to others she appears tough and more like a monster than a human being. Except to those who get under her skin, of course.
Additional Skills:
- Potion brewing, of course, and she can hold her own quite well in a duel.
Strengths:
- She's good at what she does, and she's tenacious. She takes pride in her appearance and she is rather clever, albeit prejudiced and snobbish. She does have love to give, believe it or not, but she doesn't let herself love easily, nor does she really know how to do it properly.
Weaknesses:
- Ooh, where to begin? She's too sensitive, she lets people get under her skin way too easily. She cares far too much about what other people think, she's got too much pride, she's too prejudiced...Clara is inherantly flawed, basically.
Describe your character in three words:
- Snobbish, stylish, and sensitive.
Favourite place to be:
- The Schwarz Manor, or anywhere where she can do what she does best and brew potions.
Friends:
- She keeps some contact with her old school friends, Adrianne and Sophora, but because of her attitude, she doesn't exactly have thousands of friends. She has a vague love-hate (mostly hate) relationship with Joseph Adler, and spends the most time with her brother, Mark.
Best school subjects:
- Potions, Herbology, Arithmancy, and Dark Arts.
Worst school subjects:
- History of Magic. It just didn't appeal much to Clara. It was interesting enough, but not really her scene, as she put it.
Extracurricular Activities:
- Quidditch, but she wasn't a brilliant flier by any stretch. She also played wizarding chess.
Graduation:
- Clara graduated, as Head Girl of Durmstrang, in 2019 (???)
Current Job:
- Works as a freelance potioneer, mostly living off inheritance/selling her potions. She's also a Death Eater, which is more an occupation than a job.
Plans for your future:
- Perhaps a proper job? Though being conventional would hardly suit Clara. Perhaps finding someone to marry? Maybe. They'd have to be a very special person, however.
Your Patronus:
- a thestral. It suits her morbid nature, really. And she's a highly misunderstood creature.
Your Patronus memory:
- The day she was named Head Girl of Durmstrang. It was so pleasing to Clara to be the most successful child in the family, to surpass both her brother and sister and be the most successful. And the power wasn't too bad, either.
Your Boggart:
- Acid. Well, specifically, acid (amongst other things) used to disfigure her and render her hideous. She's seen the damage she can do with poisons, she doesn't want the same done to her. She doesn't want to lose her looks, or worse, be killed.
Your Animagus:
- none. Though if she were one, she would turn in to a feline animal of some description.
Mirror of Erised:
- Clara would see herself, beautiful, successful, perhaps married to a perfect pureblood man (who may or may not take the shape of Joseph Adler, she'd never tell), formidable, and happy.
A page from your diary:
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- Clara Franziska Schwarz
Date of Birth:
- 13th May, 2001
Current Age:
- Twenty-three, nearly twenty-four.
Basic Appearance:
- Clara is tallish, about 5'8" (which is very short compared to her brother), with icy blue eyes, blonde-ish hair, she is rather slender and looks rather classy, considering how she dresses and her stature and way of standing. She generally likes to wear black, paints her fingernails and lips the same colour (dark red), often has her hair curled rather messily thanks to steam from her potions, is relatively pale with basically flawless skin, for she spends a lot of time trying to make herself look beautiful. She gives off something of an 'untouchable' vibe - but that doesn't stop men from trying (and occaisionally getting severely, even fatally injured in the process).
Personality:
- Clara is icy, b!tchy, and generally evil. Underneath all that, however, she's completely insecure and desperate for someone to love her, but she has her ideals and agendas. She loves to torture, especially with potions ("I love to watch men gasp, desperate for air, in their last struggles of life", she has said), and she loves control. She's been brought up to believe in pureblood supremacy, and she looks up to her older brother a lot, though she doesn't usually let that show. Just like her brother, she joined the Death Eaters a couple of years after graduation, after taking some time to explore the world. She is something of a tease, and she loves to trick and play with emotions, but she hates to have the same thing done back to her. She is easy to rile up and fluster (as certain people know), but she only gives people she deems worthy her time.
Family:
- There are only three living direct Schwarz decendants alive - Clara, Mark, and their sister Gretchen, who they have essentially disowned now she is married (to a muggleborn, no less). The three of them were born to Franz Schwarz, a German, and his Belgian wife, Claudia de Backer. The Schwarz family is an old German pureblood family, who most notably married in to the Engel family, another German pureblood family (however Ava Engel, Clara's grandmother, was the last to make such an advantageous match - see Johannes Engel, product of a marriage to a muggleborn).
The de Backer family is an old Belgian family, and the parents of both Franz and Claudia, who didn't care much for pureblood supremacy and didn't like the idea of warfare, threw the two together, and fortunately for them, they fell in love. However, they passed away in a horrifying accident when Clara was only two, leaving the three children to be raised by their paternal grandmother, Ava.
The Schwarz family mansion still stands, just outside Berlin, but it is mostly unoccupied. Clara and Mark use it at their will whenever they are in Germany, (Clara more than Mark), but considering the two of them mostly reside in New Zealand, the place gathers dust most of the time. Clara, however, makes occaisional trips back home, in order to check up on the house and the family possessions.
Pets:
- Clara has a white Burmese cat, named Amadeus (as in Mozart), which she usually calls 'Schatzi' (as in 'sweetheart'). Amadeus is her main confidante, and perhaps the only being she openly shows any sort of affection towards.
Area of Residence:
- Born in Berlin, Germany, now resides primarily in New Zealand.
Blood Status:
- Pureblood (pending).
Heritage:
- Clara was born in Berlin, and after her mother and father passed away, Clara, Mark and Gretchen returned to their family home, the Schwarz Manor, with their paternal grandmother, Ava. They grew up quite comfortably, and were taught the values of pureblood supremacy and hatred of muggles. Gretchen, being rather soft-hearted like her parents, refused to subscribe to those beliefs, but Mark and especially Clara followed them rigidly. Mark was sent to Durmstrang, as with all the family, followed by Gretchen two years later, and Clara three years after that. While she was an annoyance to her brother for a lot of the time, she grew in to herself more and became a formidible student, becoming Head Girl in her final year (and lording over the place with her good friends Adrianne Sedgewick and Sophora Knox). Since then, she has been doing what she does best - flirting, charming, torturing, and brewing potions.
Special Abilities:
- None.
Interests or Hobbies:
- Aside from torturing and killing (lovely), Clara likes to brew potions, flirt (just to keep in practice), as well as read and dance. The last one is something of a secret, only her schatzi Amadeus knows, actually. She also likes to bake and do other rather feminine and embarassing things, but to others she appears tough and more like a monster than a human being. Except to those who get under her skin, of course.
Additional Skills:
- Potion brewing, of course, and she can hold her own quite well in a duel.
Strengths:
- She's good at what she does, and she's tenacious. She takes pride in her appearance and she is rather clever, albeit prejudiced and snobbish. She does have love to give, believe it or not, but she doesn't let herself love easily, nor does she really know how to do it properly.
Weaknesses:
- Ooh, where to begin? She's too sensitive, she lets people get under her skin way too easily. She cares far too much about what other people think, she's got too much pride, she's too prejudiced...Clara is inherantly flawed, basically.
Describe your character in three words:
- Snobbish, stylish, and sensitive.
Favourite place to be:
- The Schwarz Manor, or anywhere where she can do what she does best and brew potions.
Friends:
- She keeps some contact with her old school friends, Adrianne and Sophora, but because of her attitude, she doesn't exactly have thousands of friends. She has a vague love-hate (mostly hate) relationship with Joseph Adler, and spends the most time with her brother, Mark.
Best school subjects:
- Potions, Herbology, Arithmancy, and Dark Arts.
Worst school subjects:
- History of Magic. It just didn't appeal much to Clara. It was interesting enough, but not really her scene, as she put it.
Extracurricular Activities:
- Quidditch, but she wasn't a brilliant flier by any stretch. She also played wizarding chess.
Graduation:
- Clara graduated, as Head Girl of Durmstrang, in 2019 (???)
Current Job:
- Works as a freelance potioneer, mostly living off inheritance/selling her potions. She's also a Death Eater, which is more an occupation than a job.
Plans for your future:
- Perhaps a proper job? Though being conventional would hardly suit Clara. Perhaps finding someone to marry? Maybe. They'd have to be a very special person, however.
Your Patronus:
- a thestral. It suits her morbid nature, really. And she's a highly misunderstood creature.
Your Patronus memory:
- The day she was named Head Girl of Durmstrang. It was so pleasing to Clara to be the most successful child in the family, to surpass both her brother and sister and be the most successful. And the power wasn't too bad, either.
Your Boggart:
- Acid. Well, specifically, acid (amongst other things) used to disfigure her and render her hideous. She's seen the damage she can do with poisons, she doesn't want the same done to her. She doesn't want to lose her looks, or worse, be killed.
Your Animagus:
- none. Though if she were one, she would turn in to a feline animal of some description.
Mirror of Erised:
- Clara would see herself, beautiful, successful, perhaps married to a perfect pureblood man (who may or may not take the shape of Joseph Adler, she'd never tell), formidable, and happy.
A page from your diary:
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