Clementine DeVries Classic Wiki

## About

Clementine-Casper Melinda DeVries is the unofficial protagonist/main character of MetroTulip.
Clementine was born in Paramaribo, Suriname. She spent her early years in Suriname with her parents as well as her brother (Dirk DeVries) but moved to Toronto, Canada when she was 7. She was born with an xxy chromosome. She met Jennifer, Charlie, and Damien when she was in 2nd grade.

Clementine ran away from home on May 3rd, 2019 with the help of a stranger named Dutch (no last name given) and eventually wound up in New York City where she would end up meeting her would-be Girlfriend Bonnie Smith.

## Early Life and Exploration of Identity

At birth Clementine was given the name "Clementine-Casper" by her parents whom, due to the fact that she was born intersex, did not want to force a masculine nor feminine name onto her, instead wanting to give her one of each at birth and letting her figure out which she was more comfortable using. As a child most people would just shorten her name to either just "Clementine" or "Casper" say for the exception of a few people such as her brother Dirk, who gave her the nickname of "Cassie".

When she lived in Suriname, her family would speak Dutch at home but could all also speak Sranantongo as if it were their native language since they needed to be fluent in it to speak to some of the people around them. On account of her clear Dutch ancestry making her a black sheep to her peers as well as her abnormal anatomical situation it was hard for Clementine to make friends early in her life (Not to say that she didn't make *any* friends, just that she didn't make *many*) and as such the person she considered her best friend growing up was Dirk, her own younger brother whom she would find herself talking to for hours at a time about anything from how her day was to more existential topics such as her identity. These talks lead Clementine to settle with identifying with gender neutral terms at least until she could find a way she identified that made her comfortable.

After her mother landed a high-paying job in Canada when she was 7 her family was to move to Toronto. However, due to there not being enough space on the plane they were to leave on, 1 of them had to board the next plane which would leave a few hours later. Dirk volunteered to take the late plane due to the fact he thought it "Might be interesting". While the plane Clementine and her parents left on arrived at it's destination unharmed, the one Dirk was on's engine combusted mid-air causing it to crash into the Caribbean Sea just north of Cuba. Dirk was presumed dead much to the grief of everyone in the DeVries household.

## First Years in Canada

When Clementine arrived in Canada she only knew English on a very basic level. While sure, she could speak in basic sentences and understood what people were saying to her (albeit roughly) she absolutely could not keep up with the world around her speaking a language she only partially understood. She was able to bond over this fact with a Quebecois student named Charlie Devereaux (who at the time went by Charles) who had just switched to that school recently and was having the same linguistic problems. The 2 of them would communicate mainly in English, due to it being the only language that they both knew enough to talk in, and as they both got more and more fluent in English the more in depth their conversations became. She would also meet a boy named Damien Jefferson who, although being a monolingual native English speaker was able to become close friends with Clementine and Charlie. Together, the 3 of them formed what they called the "*Sodapop Triangle*" named after their shared addiction to soda but their teachers called them "*miscreants*". The 3 of them would do everything together from playing at arcades to wrecking Mr. Pelletier's car. It got to the point that Clementine was spending more time with her friends than her family, who Clementine started to see as nothing but an "*Orwellian Class A bitch of a mom*" and her yesman husband (whom she didn't actually even think *that* lowly of).

It was during Clementine's first year in Canada that Charlie would introduce her to her older sister (by less than half year) Jennifer Devereaux for the first time and although she wasn't a part of the triangle she and Clementine quickly became close. So close, in fact, that during her 3rd year in Canada the 2 of them became a thing. This had the unintended consequence of making Charlie extremely jealous for a while.

## The Birth of an Addiction

While the 2 of them were dating Jennifer introduced Clementine to the concept of using substances to cope with unwanted emotions, unintentionally getting her addicted in the process. The 2 of them would go on to date for a little more than a year and a half before deciding to break up on mutual terms remaining friends.

Clementine became dependent on Alcoholic beverages she stole from her mother's minifridge such as Wine and Vodka to drown out the pains of day-to-day life which, to her, seemed to just pile up one on top of the other with no end in sight. This ended up having a negative impact on her social/school life. She started a habit of sneaking some of her mum's vodka onto school grounds and bringing it to the girls' restroom where she would proceed to chug it from the bottle. It tasted like shit but it did what she wanted it to do, get her completely sloshed. As a direct consequence she'd show up to classes drunk and made everyone around her uncomfortable.

Eventually Damien, Charlie, and Jenny had to stage an intervention for Clementine, worried about the effect that this much drinking would have on her body at this stage of it's development. While it took a while to convince her, Clementine eventually eased up on the amount she had been drinking if not for the fear of an untimely death then for the fear of her mother noticing and the punishment that would ensue. Clementine would later start doing weed more in it's place which her friends didn't have much of a problem with.

## Zesputa

In 2015 Clementine met Wiktoria Rzepka (Back then going by Jacob) and the 2 of them became very good friends. Clementine would go on to help Wiktoria pursue her musical aspirations by lending a hand with the creative process and providing her instrumental abilities for her songs. They grew so close that in September of 2016 they begun to date. The 2 of them also started a band which they (or more accurately, Wiktoria) named Zesputa.

Not long after turning 14 on Christmas of 2016 Clementine would get hit by a car and broke her ribcage and right arm. While she would get better eventually Wiktoria wouldn't let Clementine help with any music until her state got better. This infuriated Clementine, who desperately wanted to make herself of use to her girlfriend so she started learning how to do everything left-handed so that in the event of her being unable to work righthandedly she could use her left hand instead; practically forcing herself to become ambidextrous. After doing so she told Wiktoria that she was going to help finish the album they were working on whether she liked it or not to which Wiktoria, knowing she couldn't convince her not to, allowed her to do so.

In late January of 2017 to celebrate the successful launch of their 1st hit album earlier that month Clementine and Wiktoria used some of the excess revenue from the album's sales to spend on a road trip through some of eastern Canada the eastern US with Wiktoria's family. It was the first time Clementine had really been "in" the United States rather than just passing through. On the 1st night they all decided to spend the night at a hotel near Knoxville, TN. Clementine couldn't fall asleep that night and as such decided to go for a walk by herself to clear her mind. On her walk Clementine came across what seemed to be the charred remains of a school and a middle-aged woman pulling a corpse out from the rubble. The woman asked Clementine what she wanted in return for keeping silent to which Clementine jokingly asked for a million dollars to which the woman pulled out a briefcase full of money seemingly out of thin air. She took the money and the rest of the road trip was relatively normal.

After the first hit album the popularity of Zesputa snowballed and in the Summer of 2018 Wiktoria went to tour solo in Europe, leaving Clementine at home to "hold down the fort for her while she was gone". Wiktoria ended up staying in Europe for longer than expected, all the while not messaging as frequently as she promised.

## Relationships

 Damien Jefferson

## Fun Facts

* She has canonically aged **1 year** since she was created back in early 2019
* Her natural eye colour is **Brown** HOWEVER she wears contact lenses that make them look **Blue** because when she was 15 she became obsessed with looking "Aryan passing"
* Her real hair colour was also originally going to be **Brown** but was later retconned to **Black** because the thought of Clementine with Brown hair is cursed in Jacquelyn's opinion (Source)
* Her genitalia is stage 3-4 (jury's still out there) on the Prader scale. Do with this knowledge what you might.