Post by Clarke Griffin on Apr 17, 2016 2:35:57 GMT
Clarke Griffin
Clarke Griffin
Age:
17
Clan:
Arkadia (Skaikru)
Occupation:
Trying not to die
Family:
Abigail Grifin - Mother
Jake Grifin - Father (deceased)
Faceclaim:
Eliza Taylor
PERSONALITY
Headstrong, determined, dependable, and intelligent Clarke is the sort of leader who leads with both her head and her heart. Kind, caring, and fiercely loyal the Griffin girl is the sort of person you want on your side. She cares a lot about the others and would give up almost anything for them. Clarke is fiercely determined to save everyone's lives even if they do not deserve to be saved. She also has a strong moral compass, and is idealistic seeing no reason for torture, cruelty, or violence of any kind but she will betray these beliefs to protect those she loves and cares for. Which was why she sanctioned Lincoln's torture to get Finn's cure.
Despite her genuinely kind nature, Clarke can be a hard person to like sometimes. She comes off as blunt and rude, especially around people she doesn't particularly like, and will not put up with nonsense. She tends to speak in a very matter-of-fact way, as if she's always right, and rarely smiles. Though Clarke can be rather blunt and closed off, she does have a vulnerable side, which she only shows around those she loves and cares for. The girl is also rather paranoid, and slow to trust, but once you have that trust she'll do anything for you. She's loyal to a fault. Unless you're dumb and break it. Then she will hate you.
She has a bit of a stubborn streak, and a willful nature that she clearly inherited from her mother. She can be impulsive and quick to accuse which often causes unnecessary problems. Clarke doesn't follow orders, she gives them, and has no problems disobeying or simply undermining the people who think they're in charge. She's been shown to hold grudges. After her father's death she refused to have anything to do with Wells because she'd blamed him for it. She's also been shown to have something of a temper, and will lash out at people in her more immature moments. Clarke is also prone to letting her heart sway her head, which can lead to her making the wrong decision on occasion..
LEADERSHIP
Clarke has proven to be a competent leader with a disturbing skill for war tactics. She's an intelligent, compassionate, and loyal leader, willing to do anything to save her people. Clarke will make the hard decisions so that others don't have to.
MEDICAL SKILLS
Before she was thrown in lockup and sent to the ground, Clarke was studying to become a doctor like her mother. She didn't get too far in her studies, and doesn't have half the skill of her mother, but she's proven to be a skilled trauma medic and has saved a lot of her friends on the ground.
TACTICAL SKILLS
Despite never actually having been in a war before now, or even really studying war tactics in depth, Clarke is scarily good at it. She quickly and easily comes up with plans to invade or knock back invaders. Clarke is also skilled at recruiting the right people to help her with these plans and set them into motion. Like the time they blew up the bridge, used the dropship for a grounder barbecue, or invaded Mount Weather.
MARKSMANSHIP
For a girl who only tolerates guns because she thinks they're necessary Clarke is a good shot. She was able to take out the guy threatening Lincoln without harming her friend. Proficient in small arms, like hand guns, only.
SURVIVAL SKILLS
Ever since they hit the ground Clarke has been learning how to fend for herself and survive this new world. Before she ran off on her own she always had other people to rely on, but now she has no one, and her skills have increased exponentially. She's proven proficient enough to hunt, and to trap small animals, and is clever and careful enough to usually avoid bounty hunters. She's not much of a fighter (outside of mud wrestling), but if cornered, Clarke will fight to the bitter end.
ARTISTIC
Clarke is skilled at drawing, as seen in the pilot, but it's not a skill that has much use in a post-apocalyptic world.
HISTORY
Growing up on Waldon, Clarke lived somewhat of a charmed life. She was always a bright child, doing well in all her classes, and it was only natural that she followed in her mother's footsteps. Clarke had a strong need to care for, and help other people which easily translated into her medical apprenticeship. Her best friend was Wells Jaha, the Chancellor's son, and she spent a lot of her free time hanging out with him and playing chess. He used to trade his own stuff to buy her art supplies, but she never knew that until she was older.
Her perfect life turned on it's head with the failure of the Ark's systems. Jake, her dad, was the first engineer to notice something was wrong. There wasn't any fixing the system. They were all going to die. Clarke overheard her parents arguing. Jake wanted to tell the people of the Ark what was wrong. Abby didn't want him to. It would cause pandemonium. He'd be floated.
It was obvious that Clarke learned her listening skills from her father because the man went right ahead and did exactly what his wife warned him not to. The guards arrested Jake while he was filming his warning and he was dragged off. Clarke was there when they floated him. He gave her his watch, telling her how much he loved her, and she held her mother and cried as he was sucked out into space. The only person she'd trusted with Dad's plan was Wells. It had to have been him. Filled with righteous fury Clarke decided that she hated him, and she was going to finish what her father started. It didn't work out so well. She got caught almost instantly.
She'd been locked up in Solitary for about a year when they came for her. Clarke was terrified. She wasn't eighteen yet! She had a few more months at least! Chaos surrounded her as she was pulled out into the cell block for the first time in a long time. Clarke fought the guard who had her, but then suddenly her mom was there, and she was telling her it was all going to be okay. They were going to the ground.
They made it to the ground mostly alive. It had been a terrifying experience, but the moment the doors had opened and Octavia stepped outside, Clarke took a deep breath and realized she was free. They weren't dying of radiation poisoning yet! Which meant there was a chance that everyone on the Ark could be saved. Unless, of course, they all died before they could figure out how to radio the Ark back that it was safe. Her excitement at being on the ground quickly dulled.
A radiation soaked forest was between them and their next meal. Clarke was unimpressed by the other delinquents running around and fussing about who was in charge. She didn't want to be in charge. She just wanted food, shelter, and for Wells Jaha to go away. No one was listening to her though. In her frustration Clarke took charge. She got a small group of them to go with her in search of Mount Weather. Clarke couldn't have imaged what they would find in the woods. The ground was already inhabited.
They attacked Jasper, and Clarke and crew went on an epic adventure to rescue him. During this time she was still staunchly ignoring Wells Jaha, who she blamed for her father's death, but it soon became clear he hadn't killed her father. She forgave him, and their friendship rekindled, just in time for him to die, His murderer, a little girl, died because of Clarke's poor choices and she felt terrible about it. A guilt that stung as much as the grief of losing her best friend did. After that unfortunate incident Clarke and Bellamy came to the conclusion that they couldn't do whatever the hell they wanted. The pair implemented rules, and banished Murphy from their camp.
Octavia went missing. Bellamy sent out a search team to find her, many of whom would never come back, but Clarke was glad to see her friend again when they brought her back. She was less glad to see a wounded Finn. Even less glad to see they'd captured a Grounder. Clarke was morally opposed to the idea of torturing Lincoln for information. She was more interested in having her mother talk her through the procedure over the new radio connection! Go Raven!
That was, of course, until she realized the knife blade stuck in Finn was poisoned. Impulsively, Clarke raced up the ladder and demanded Lincoln tell them the antidote. The man was impressively stoic, even as Raven electrocuted him, and it was Octavia that managed to get the antidote. Clarke's need to save Finn made it so she didn't care. At least, until later when she felt guilty about what they had done to Lincoln while simultaneously happy and angry about Finn surviving and not telling her he had a girlfriend. Shortly after that they found supplies: some much needed blankets, and guns.
Finn, who kept nagging her that this wasn't the right path, managed to set up a meeting with the Grounders. Clarke didn't know how he'd managed it, and was instantly suspicious, asking Bellamy and some of his gunners to come with them just in case. It turned out to be a terrible idea, because Anya was scary (and right), and Jasper's trigger finger basically screwed up any hope of Finn's plan working. Everyone yelled at everyone else, the best way to solve problems, but they were interrupted by the Exodus ship's sonic boom as it breached the atmosphere. Except it was a day early, and then it exploded. Clarke crumpled to the ground in a wave of grief she never saw coming.
Clarke was convinced her mother was dead. A group of them went to go and inspect the wreckage. There was no survivors. Barely any sign people had ever been on it. But, on the plus side, they did find an explosive material to blow up the bridge with. Their risky plan was put in place just as the Grounders released Murphy on them. Like a proverbial smallpox blanket he quickly infected the camp with his sickness. And started murdering people. That too.
On a hunting trip Clarke walked into a trap set by Anya. She woke up in an unfamiliar place, being led into an unfamiliar room. Anya greeted them, telling her that they need Clarke's medical expertise, or Finn would die. She was ordered to save a girl, Tris, who had been hurt in the explosion. Or, again, Finn would die. Clarke was horrified. She hadn't really thought about the lives they had taken in the explosion. She'd only thought about the lives they had saved. Clarke failed to save Tris, and felt horrendously guilty, watched as Finn dragged off to his doom. It was a good thing that Lincoln was pretending to be one of the guards and saved her and Finn. They managed to escape back to their camp, with Lincoln going a different way to draw off the Reapers, with the news that the army was coming at dawn.
Clarke wanted to leave, and they tried, but they were herded right back into their camp. They were running out of options, as the Grounders drew closer, and it didn't help that Murphy had shot Raven and she was losing a lot of blood. She managed to guide Jasper through their idea of turning the drop ship's fuel supply into a weapon. It was operational seconds before the Grounders invaded camp. Closing the drop ship doors with her people still outside was the hardest thing Clarke'd ever done. You can't save everyone. She knew that, but she wanted to anyway. The doors closed, and Clarke sent out a silent prayer that any of her friends outside would run, before they lit the fuse. After the deafening roar of the burners going off the silence was eerie. The doors were opened and it wasn't silence that greeted them. The last thing Clarke saw was men in gas masks pointing their weapons at them.
She woke up in a white room on a hospital bed in Mount Weather. Clarke didn't believe this newfound paradise for a moment. Everything about it was too good to be true, especially after everything they'd already been through on the ground, and so she wasn't about to trust President Wallace at his word. She did like the art supplies, though, even if she mostly used them to help her plot her escape. Clarke became known for snooping around while trying to escape the mountain. If they weren't prisoners, she reasoned, then why weren't they allowed to leave? She didn't find an answer, exactly, but snooping around in the medical lab gave her some terrifying answers. These people had captured grounders, were keeping them in cages, and were using them as human blood bags.
She found a familiar face among the bars, seeking out Anya, she freed the grounder leader so she wouldn't be trying to escape alone. Clarke knew she wasn't a grounder. She'd need someone who could actually fight and who knew the terrain if she wanted to get out. They made it out, a harrowing journey, and Clarke felt that they understood each other, and that Anya would be able to help her form some sort of alliance with the Grounders to get all their people back. That was, of course, until Anya was shot.
Clarke was equal parts furious and horrified as she was dragged into Camp Jaha. Abby recognized her, demanding they release her, and seeing the mother she thought was dead moved Clarke to a teary reunion. Some of her friends were at the camp, and from them she learned that Finn was alive and looking for her. The delinquents decided to go out looking for him, and it was a good thing too, because he decided to go apeshit and kill a bunch of innocent Grounders. Clarke was horrified and refused to speak to him for awhile after that.
Mount Weather was their next target. They searched for access to the radio tower that had been jamming their signals, fighting past acid fog and reapers to get to it. That was when she found out what they'd done to Lincoln. Clarke rushed off to help their friend and with her mother's help they were able to save Lincoln's life and pull him back from the addiction. With this new-found knowledge to use as a bargaining chip, they didn't have to leave their camp like Jaha had wanted. They would stay, and they would fight.
The only problem was that in order for an alliance to work Finn was going to have to die. Clarke didn't want it, and neither did any of the others, as they all went back to fortify the drop ship. They were quickly surrounded. Clarke felt a surge of hope when Raven suggested that they could turn in Murphy in Finn's place, but that was quickly replaced by guilt. Finn had been different since she'd been taken by the mountain, but he showed a bit of his old personality again when he gave himself up voluntarily.
His death was to be an agonizing one. Raven had another brilliant solution: kill Lexa. It was tempting. So tempting. But if she wanted everyone else to live she didn't really have much of a choice. She headed for the Commander's tent. Clarke asked for a favor, to talk to him one last time, and quietly killed him as a mercy. His corpse was to be burned with his victims. Their alliance was sealed.
Finn's death hit Clarke hard. She felt so guilty, and so upset, that she was haunted by his image everywhere she went. Even as they went to burn his body with Lexa, he was there, staring at her. Out of everyone gathered there, it was in Lexa's eyes that she saw the most compassion, and it was a curiosity that Clarke did not understand at first. Then Lexa told her about Costia, and she knew there was someone else who understood her crushing guilt that wasn't her mother. Lexa gave her advice, it seemed a bit extreme, but it also kind of numbed the pain.
The alliance went well after that...if almost being mauled by giant mutant gorillas, getting an entire city blown up, and topping a hit list counted as well. Tondc's destruction was a particular low point for her. All of those people could have been saved but she didn't. She let them die. And she was wracked with guilt. Maybe she wasn't the good guy.
Plans were put into motion for the destruction of Mount Weather. Clarke was at the front of the Army outside the doors, the one that would draw the attention, and then flood into the mountain as soon as they were able. Raven and Wyck managed to take down the power. Lincoln set off the faulty explosive. They were in. Clarke's heart soared with joy! Only to stop in confusion as she watched the first of the freed Grounders come back to their people.
Lexa had betrayed her. It wasn't personal, the other girl's eyes said, but Clarke felt like she'd been betrayed. She watched in horror as Lincoln struggled to stay by her side, as he pleaded not to let them die, before he was overtaken and dragged away. Even the other spacers left her, and she was left standing, one tiny girl against the entire force of the mountain.
Clarke reunited with Octavia in the tunnels. She was so done with all of this, pounding on the entrance, even as Octavia told her to stop. A body slid down the shoot and landed near them. It was one of theirs. Fox. Clarke's resolve to save them strengthened, but her bravery still wavered when the door opened, until Bellamy stepped out. Clarke sighed in relief, glad he was okay, that they were both okay. But there were more people inside who were very much not okay.
They ran into Maya, Jasper, and Monty. Maya's air was running out, and so Octavia and Jasper volunteered to go and get her some more while the rest of them went to find President Wallace. He wouldn't help them. Clarke pleaded with the man, remembering how kind he had been to her, but then she realized that he was the one who had come up with the plan to free the Grounders. They weren't going to get any help from him. So, they went after his son.
It wasn't hard to get Cage on the radio. At least it seemed like he cared that Clarke was threatening to kill his father, and to irradiate the entire level. Dante told him not to, and even though her fingers shook with guilt, betrayal, and rage she fired off a round into the man's chest. She watched him die, feeling something in her snap, and turned to Monty. He'd done it. With a pull of a lever they could wipe out an entire people. She went for it, fueled by impulsive rage, and then stopped.
Clarke's hand hovered over the trigger that would kill everyone in the mountain in minutes. It was a hard decision, to know that by a single movement she could end over three hundred lives – even innocent children, but it was also hard to watch her own people die. Then Cage put her mother on the table. It happened to coincide with the moment that Octavia and Maya were surrounded by guards and probably about to be gunned down.
In solidarity Clarke and Bellamy pulled the trigger. Watching the people of Mount Weather die on the monitors broke her soul into little tiny pieces and shattered what was left of her to the floor. Her mother, her friends, her people were safe. But it was at a terrible cost.
She was reunited with her mother and friends for a short while as she made sure they all safely were returned back to Camp Jaha. Clarke had made her decision, though, she wasn't going inside. Most of her friends didn't understand her decision, Bellamy even tried to get her to stay, but Clarke was steadfast. She walked away from the Ark, from her friends, from everything that day. She would bear the terrible suffering of her people, and by her people, so that they didn't have to.
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