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RP Sample: The sample must be a thread, with at least five comments from you, that you have made anywhere with this character in the last four months at the canon point you have chosen for said character. Linking to a post or log containing multiple threads will also suffice, as long as at least one of the threads has the required number of comments. This thread sample can be in any format (e.g. network post, prose log, actionspam, Dear Mun post, and so on). While it does not have to be set in Victory Road's setting, you can use a Victory Road test drive thread for this sample, as long as it's a different thread than one used for the second sample below. What we are looking for here is grasp of your character's voice and a sense of how you operate as a role-player. If we feel that the sample provided is not adequate, we reserve the right to ask for another.

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Player
Name: bii
E-mail: all dot your dot beliefs at gmail
Preferred Contact:

obiisama
Timezone: PST
Current Characters in Victory Road: Greg Universe, Steven Durante, Akane Tendo

Character
Name: Claudia Kishi
Series: The Baby-Sitters Club
Timeline: after the end of Claudia’s eighth grade year, but before she starts high school, which I guess makes it vaguely post-canon, although honestly their eighth grade year defies all explanation and the only explanation I have is that Stoneybrook was full of Weird Time Anomalies or possibly Nicky Pike disturbed some weird shit during #9 The Ghost At Dawn’s House that kept everyone stuck in a crazy time loop until the house burned down in the last book of the BSC proper, but ANYWAY we’ll take the big events from eighth grade year (like Mimi dying and Claudia being temporarily a 7th grader) as definitely having happened and all the smaller ones as… maybe having happened???
Canon Resource Links: Wiki Entry!

Personality: Claudia tends to present herself differently in different circumstances. Her favorite first impression to give people is that of a mysterious and aloof figure, someone quite different from ordinary boring people. And it's true that even with people she knows well, Claudia likes to occasionally play at being the inscrutable, artsy loner. But with her close friends and with her babysitting charges, Claudia shows a whole different side of herself.

A side that is, dare we say it, quite wacky.

“I think clothes make a statement about the person inside them. Also, since you have to get dressed every day, why not at least make it fun? Traditional clothes look boring and are boring to put on. So I never wear them. I like bright colors and big patterns and funny touches, such as earrings made from feathers. Maybe this is because I'm an artist. I don't know. Today, for instance, I'm wearing purple pants that stop just below my knees and are held up with suspenders, white tights with clocks on them, a purple plaid shirt with a matching hat, my high-top sneakers, and lobster earrings. Clothes like these are my trademark." (BSC#2)

Claudia loves bright colors and would cover the world with them if she could. She loves putting on loud music and dancing with herself or with anyone she can persuade into joining her. She adores junk food. She also adores boys. Her parents and friends call her boy-crazy.

She also adores mystery novels and prides herself on being able to solve whodunnit faster than the detective can. She likes to say that even if she isn't scholarly, she's not stupid. She just doesn't have patience for academics. She also doesn't really have the patience for people who she feels flaunt their intelligence and can get kind of shirty if she thinks people are showing off their education. (This is totally thanks to Janine.)

"Nobody, but nobody, dresses like Claudia. At least, nobody in our grade. (We used to have a friend, another member of the Baby-sitters Club, named Stacey McGill, who dressed kind of like Claudia. But Stacey moved back to New York, where she used to live. And anyway, trust me, Claudia is unique.) The best way to get this point across is to describe to you what Claudia was wearing at lunch that day. It was her vegetable blouse: an oversized white shirt with a green vegetable print all over it - cabbages and squashes and turnips and stuff. Under the blouse was a very short jean skirt, white stockings, green anklets over the stockings, and lavender sneakers, the kind boys usually wear, with a lot of rubber and big laces and the name of the manufacturer in huge letters on the sides. Wait, I'm not done. Claudia had pulled the hair on one side of her head back with a yellow clip that looked like a poodle. The hair on the other side of her head was hanging in her face. Attached to the one ear you could see was a plastic earring about the size of a jar lid." (BSC#17)

Her clothing philosophy is go bold or go home. She likes to make outfits that are memorable, experimental even. But even though Claudia believes in taking her fashion to the limit, she also respects that the fashion has to reflect the person wearing it as well. She follows this principle when she crafts jewelry for her friends.

The eccentric aloof artist and the wacky goofball both serve the same purpose, however—they're both public personas to keep people from touching the real Claudia, someone who only Mimi really knew. Underneath it all, she's a fairly earnest person who just wants people to value her for who she is. She's tired of people wanting things from her that she can't give or only want her for the person she thinks she is. One of the reasons she likes little kids so much is that the things kids want from her—a friend, someone to watch out for them—are a lot easier and less complicated than the things adults want. It's usually with little kids that Claudia is the most open with.

“Anyway, I wore the coolest tuxedo I'd recently bought in a thrift shop, including a silky, piped shirt and a bright red velvet cummerbund. I removed the shoulder pads from the jacket, which made it really slouchy (I love that look). Then I bought a pair of white socks with silver glitter.

I decided to wear a pair of red sneakers to match the cummerbund. I swept my hair up and fastened it with a rhinestone barrette in the shape of a musical note." (BSC#85)

Deep beneath it all, Claudia is insecure. She worries that maybe she is stupid—and not just compared to her genius sister. Stupid compared to everyone. She feels unloved and unappreciated by her family, a legacy of having been compared to Janine all her life. She knows her friends care about her and she appreciates that they do, really she does, but that's not the same thing as having the love of family. Deep inside, Claudia believes that only Mimi truly loved her and Claudia still feels the ache of missing her grandmother deeply. (She's wrong: her parents do care about her, but they don't understand her. And Janine is actually jealous of Claudia, who can do the social thing while she herself can’t.)

One of the reasons she's so boy-crazy is that she wants that same kind of deep love again. She keeps searching for it, falling for boy after boy after boy, but for some reason none of them ever seem to be right. None of them seem to be able to love her unconditionally the way she wants, the way she needs, which is not surprising since teenagers are bad at romance.

Pokémon Information
Affiliation: ~~Poke-sitter~~ Breeder!
Starter: Smeargle, named "Ashley" after her art friend Ashley Wyeth
Password: Atomic Fireball

Samples
RP Sample: Thread with Thace in the TDM

Victory Road Sample: One minute Claudia had been waking up in an unfamiliar room that definitely was not her room—not only did it not look like her room or have its own phone, but it didn't have any hidden candy either because she'd checked—and then next a woman who said she was Claudia's mom but was so not Rioko Kishi that it was time for her Pokemon Journey and handed her a backpack and ushered her out the door! Before she'd even had time to get a good outfit together!

Granted, Claudia had already been dressed when she'd lay down on her own bed back home in hopes of getting in a good half-hour's nap before Kristy and the others showed up for the first pre-high school meeting of the Baby-Sitters Cl...

"Oh my lord," Claudia swears out loud, in the middle of New Bark Town. "I'm going to be late to the BSC meeting. Kristy is gonna kill me."

—

After Claudia had finished freaking out about how very thoroughly Kristy Thomas was going to murder her once she finally found her way back to Stoneybrook—because Kristy took things way too seriously sometimes--there really wasn't anything to do but start walking. The fake definitely not her mom had stuck a map in the bag, so she sort of had an idea where the next city was... if not how to get there besides walking.

Claudia had no idea where 'Johto' was supposed to be, but that was evidently where she was.

There was a notepad, she noticed, as she went to replace the map in her bag. And a pen. Which Claudia supposed would have to be her art supplies for now until she got enough money for the good stuff. Which reminded her… Claudia takes out the map again, finds the labeled 'Daycare' and draws a circle around it. That's where she's going. She'll definitely be able to find work there.

Further examination of the bag showed that it had a lot of really basic, normal stuff—like underwear and socks—and some other things that Claudia wasn't really sure why she had, including all these white and red balls. One of them, she notices, is a little heavier than the others. She picks that one up. Presses the little button. There's a flash of light and—

"Smeargle!" proclaims the little creature standing in front of Claudia, that she can only assume is some of paintbrush dog.

"Oh my lord," Claudia yelps.

Edited 2020-07-05 14:34 (UTC)

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