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[CI] - Clarissa Russo

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Joining a new group yaaayyy , this took such a long time to do Im about to cry I thought i would never finish omfg. plus the wings were a pain in the ass to draw
 
-on the other hand go on and check out :iconcapeissues: its a cool ass group about superheroes and stuff, whoop! 



"Would it be too cheesy if I said something like 'Spread your wings and fly,'?"

 




[Info]



NAME : Clarissa A. Russo 

NICKNAME : Riza, Baby Tern, [more to come] 

ALIAS : Aves (pronunciation 
here)

SEX/GENDER : Female

AGE : 21

D.o.B : May 20 

ETHNICITY : Italian 

HEIGHT : 5'4"

ORIENTATION : Demisexual || Panromantic 

OCCUPATION : College Student 







[ TEAM ] - BETA

 
POWERS : Avian Physiology

Avian physiology is the ability to use the traits of birds. Clarissa can mimic the
traits of the Arctic Tern, giving her enhanced agility, enhanced senses, a hollow
skeleton, claw retraction, and aerial adaption. 

Clarissa's wings can grow out quickly, and usually in only the span of 15 seconds
which, to onlookers, only seem as if they were always there and she was just
spreading them wide, but this is only if she uses much of her energy. She can
become tired before anything even begins and she needs time to regenerate
her body after growing on her wings. 

She has the ability to retract her wings down back into her body, literally. This isn't
a very pretty sight, and is a slower process than when she grows out her wings,
making Clarissa insecure of this fact, causing her to have the need to hide behind
something when she is retracting her wings. When she retracts them her hair color
goes back to normal.

When Clarissa grows out her wings black vein looking lines spread from her back and
travel up the back of her neck to her cheeks, this is due to the growing of her wings.
A similar thing happens when she extends her claws, her forearms change from her skin
color to black and black vein like lines travel up her forearm to her upper arm. 

When fighting, Clarissa prefers to stay in the air so she can literally swoop down at any
moment to help someone. When she attacks she either uses her wings or claws. Her
wings can also be used to blow gusts of wind. 

Clarissa often uses her wings as a shield for others. She generally doesn’t like being too
involved with the fighting due to her need to save her energy, but she knows her strengths.
The problem with this is it leaves her wings to be a weak spot. 




 

[ PERSONALITY ]

 

|| sarcastic || dependable || accepting || indecisive || hard-working || bashful ||  

Clarissa is usually a rather bashful and modest individual, one that doesn't get used to meeting
new people too easily and doesn't like being the center of attention. Although this is her
character, she is a person easy to converse with once you get passed to whole "awkward" stage.
She's easily flustered and, as mentioned, is quite modest and has a hard time accepting
compliments, but she does love getting them. 

Clarissa is a person who gradually opens up to a person the longer they know each other. Most
of Clarissa's close friends love Clarissa's sarcastic and smart retorts that she usually says on a
whim. If you get to know Clarissa long enough, she herself will be comfortable enough to show
her smart and witty side. 

When Clarissa was younger she had a problem talking to people her age, but seemed to have an
easier time talking to adults or just her mother. When she came to Charlesport she had a difficult
time with high school but eventually talking to people didn't become as hard as it was in the beginning.

Clarissa is also an extremely indecisive  person. Her inability to make decisions on a whim has also
affected her greatly, at times. Despite this she always seems to have better decisions then others.
She takes her indecisive nature and uses it to try and make better judgments.



 



[ BACKGROUND / HISTORY ]

(This is pretty long....just a warning)

Clarissa didn't originally live in Charlesport, but she had moved there when her mother retired
to become a professor at the college she is currently attending. Up until she was 13 she lived
with her mother near a private science facility in South Carolina, but it wasn't until she was
almost 15 did she actually move to Charlesport.

Clarissa was unable to hide her wings until she was around 13 and because of this she was
homeschooled and lived in a secluded area for most of her childhood, making friends with her
mother's fellow scientists. The youngest scientist involved in the project was a 20 year old
assistant named Jesse, who became Clarissa's best friend as a child, and had given Clarissa
her first comic book at 8 years old. 

Her mother, Ellen Russo, cherished and loved her, taking great care of her, and never neglecting
Clarissa despite being a well known and top-notch government scientist. Ellen had chosen to have
an anonymous sperm donor to start off the project and soon fertilized the egg that was soon to be
Clarissa. She was the head scientist of the Avian-Human project and had gathered a group of
some of the best scientists in the world, and together they studied the egg, later injecting bird
DNA once the embryo was viable. 

When Clarissa was 3 her wings began to develop, and she had weekly examinations in her mother's lab,
much like a doctor's appointment. Her wings were still small and featherless though. She also had small
claws that weren't actually very sharp at this age but her mother still made sure to keep them blunt as
she feared her daughter would accidentally injure herself. Clarissa was not a clumsy child though and
she herself knew she would not injure herself. She's learned to be extremely careful around things when
living with a scientist.

At 6 years of age Ellen had noticed that Clarissa's hair began to resemble the feathers on her wings.
Clarissa's roots began to turn black, but also a slight light purple. Soon her hair transitioned from light
purple to dark, with the middle streaks being jet black, instead of her hair being the usual dark brown
that she should have inherited from her mother. This made Clarissa somewhat insecure even at such a
young age, but she soon fell in love with her purple hair. 

Clarissa's wings grew big enough to let her fly when she was 10. She was taught the basics of flying in
the science facility, and when she got the hang of it she was able to fly in the open field that the facility
was located at. Clarissa has always loved the feeling of flying and grew used to the open fields of the
countryside. Also around this time Clarissa had figured out how to retract and extend her claws, meaning
her mother didn't have to dull them out anymore.    

Around that time, Clarissa's mother realized she didn't want to keep running tests on her daughter, but
knew the girl needed to stay hidden. They continued to live in the facility for now, Ellen telling most of the
scientists that the project was concluded for now, but from time to time they came by to help take care of
Clarissa, including Jesse who wanted to keep Clarissa company. With this, experiments decreased, and it
began to focus more on Ellen trying to find a way for Clarissa to hide her wings. 

Finally when Clarissa was 13 years old, turning 14, her mother had concluded the Avian-Human project,
closing up the science facility and planning to move homes, leaving the project with no final result. This was
all after Clarissa had figured out how to retract and hide her wings. When retracting her wings for the first
time Ellen had found that it, unfortunately, left two large scars running down her daughter's back.  

When starting high school Clarissa's mother told her that she was going to finally meet children, teenagers
her age. This made Clarissa extremely insecure and nervous. She knew that her wings weren't normal and
needed to be hidden but she wasn't used to walking around with them hidden. 

At 14 years old, Clarissa started high school in South Carolina. And like all the other freshmen, Clarissa felt
small and nervous to be in unknown territory. When dropping off her daughter, Ellen knew how nervous Clarissa
was and tried her best to help calm her nerves. By the end of the first day she was known as "the smart girl who
owned a lot of comic books" or well, "nerd." 

The year seemed to go extremely slow for Clarissa and although she knew most of the lessons at school, she was
too shy to answer any questions in front of the entire class. By the end of the school year, Clarissa wasn't as
nervous as she was in the beginning of the year, but only had a small amount of people she even talked to.
She barely talked to anybody her age, barely even uttered a word, but she was seen to have full and long
conversations with the teachers. 

Clarissa was confronted by her "group of friends" about this, and they questioned, "Why are you so shy?"
"Don't you wanna be friends with us?" "Do you not like us?" Clarissa was of course intimidated and nervous,
she felt small, vulnerable. Although the group was seemingly harmless, she felt cornered. This first experience
had left Clarissa self-conscious and she ran away, never seeing that group again. In the middle of summer,
Clarissa already dreaded to go back to the school knowing that group would be there, and she was afraid
that they would confront her once more. 

A few weeks before the school year started Clarissa was extremely relieved to find out that they would be moving.
Clarissa's mother had told her that she was retiring from being a scientist and was going to begin working at a
college, and so the two moved to Charlesport, where Ellen began working as a college professor and Clarissa
gradually got used to hiding her wings. Her mother tried to help her converse more, but also let Clarissa go through
therapy, as requested by Clarissa herself. Though Clarissa is quite awkward, after a few years of living in Charlesport
she became..slightly less awkward. 

Clarissa's mother had also explained how Charlesport was known to have other people like her, those with unusual
but special abilities but must hide them, and this, for some reason, comforted Clarissa in a way. Charlesport became
Clarissa's new home and though it wasn't the countryside she came to love living there. 

Although Clarissa knew heroes weren't exactly the most loved in Charlesport, the thought of using her abilities
to help people made her want to take on this job anyway. While she fell in love with hero stories in comics, she truly
wanted to make her own. Nothing too gigantic happened to Clarissa that she wanted to become a hero, but all she wanted 
to do was prove that heroes and people with powers weren't as bad as they were thought to be, and she honestly
just wanted to stop hiding. 





Likes:
+ tea
+ animals (esp. dogs)
+ comics 
+ knit sweaters
+ vanilla flavored anything 
+ the countryside
+ flying

Dislikes:
- bird jokes
- rain
- deadlines
- alcohol
- getting her wings wet 





Other:

    - She’s come to hate any type of bird joke ever to exist because of the fact that her mother continuously loves to crack a bird joke whatever chance she got.

    - Aves is Latin for bird.

    - She has 3 piercings in total, 1 on each ear, and a nape piercing.

    - She has four visible moles, 1 on her right cheek, 1 under her left eye, and 2 on her neck (it looks similar to a vampire bite).

    - Her birth date is tattooed to the back of her neck, just below her nape piercing.
    - Her wings are 14 feet from one end to the other end.
    - Clarissa never came to hate her mother or the scientists involved in the project, because they took care of her, never harmed her, made sure she was healthy, and always made sure she knew they truly cared for her. (And she seriously loves her wings)





RP Info:
 
~ I'm fine with either lit or script, I don't really mind either way
~ I can RP through notes, skype, and if I can, maybe the group chat. Though notes and/or skype will probably be the most convenient for me, and I'll try and reply as soon as I can! ~

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poechie's avatar
omg she looks so sassy and cute i cant-- i just love the design you did!! <3