Clarissa Queen

Clarissa Queen is known throughout Snrubville as a gentle and sweet woman. She is the owner of the boat rental facility Seagull Sailing and a member of the The Town Council.

## Appearance

Clarissa is of mixed Japanese and Sri Lankan descent. She has medium toned skin and light brown eyes. Her long brown hair is usually tied into a high bun and accessorized with two seagull feathers. Her normal attire is a blue cotton yukata patterned with white seagull silhouettes tied off with a lemon yellow obi. She pairs this with a pair of kimono sandals in the summer or tall, waterproofed leather boots in winter.

## Personality

Most everyone who has met her would say she's a lovely person, and always looking to help someone in need. Since childhood, she's had a love for waterfowl of all kinds, and even to this day, she can be found sitting at the water's edge tossing birdseed and rice to the ducks. Clarissa enjoys baking, especially when she's sharing the skill with the children who inhabit the Snrubville Orphanage, which she does often. While she is able to deal with them calmly, she hates rude customers, as well as aquatic litter and sour gummies.

## History

Clarissa had a strict upbringing, mostly of her father's design. Tobias Queen's word was as good as law during Clarissa's childhood. Better even, since he aimed to shape his daughter into a picture-perfect lady of the mafia. Not wanting any part in the life of organized crime, Clarissa freed herself from Tobias' grasp at the first possible chance, moving to Whitehorse, Yukon for university. She took every precaution to cut off Snrubville, going so far as to craft a false identity for herself. At Yukon University, Clarissa pursued a degree in Early Childhood Education, motivated by her own twisted upbringing. Shortly after graduating, she married and started her own family, under the impression hers would never see her again. Her and her husband had one child.

In 2016, Clarissa's blissful life was turned on its head. After years of investigation, Tobias had finally tracked his daughter down, an event which lined up all too perfectly with the perfect motivation to draw her home. Her mother, Charlotte Queen had been paralyzed from the waist down in an accident, leaving her unable to run Seagull Sailing. When the prospect of aiding her beloved mother proved not enough to sway his daughter, Tobias turned to brute force, sending some of his men to collect her themselves.

The sudden return to her hometown was jarring for Clarissa, as was seeing everyone she knew for the first time in over a decade. Shortly after her return, Fiore Scipio contacted her asking for aid in the murder of his parents. She agreed, knowing the Scipios were as valuable to her loathed hometown's mafia as her father was.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Tobias Queen

Clarissa has never been fond of her father. His strict and inconsiderate parenting style left little room for the father and daughter to bond. She threw her whole life away to escape him, and never regretted a second of it.

#### Charlotte Queen

Her mother is who Clarissa picked up her love of baking from. She visits her at least twice in a week, when Tobias is out on business, and usually brings some sweet treat she made with the local orphans.

### Friends

#### Ezekiel Scipio

Clarissa's known Ezekiel his whole life, since her father made her babysit him and his brothers. When Clarissa returned to Snrubville, they managed to rekindle their friendship, founded on firmer ground now that Zeke was no longer seven. Their shared interests include flora, poetry, and working outside.

She's made a habit of mutilating his nickname into Zéké, stemming from a childhood mispronunciation.

#### Fiore Scipio

Fiore was only four when Clarissa left Snrubville, but he was one of the first people to reach out to her when she moved back. Their friendship is jaded by the grounds it formed on - planning the murders of Donegan and Cecilia Scipio - and Ezekiel's distaste for his younger brother following them. Clarissa and Fiore have joined forces again, their target this time around being Tobias Queen.

#### Nerium Nightshade

Another of the calm and quite types of the town, Clarissa secretly sees her as a role model, despite being many years Nerium's senior. She admires the girl's ability to smile in the face of conflict. The two bond over a shared love for the natural beauty of the world and strong curiosity regarding nature's secrets.

#### Paula

Clarissa and Paula get along swimmingly, and they often have tea parties to discuss the latest ongoings in town. Her shop's services are also the source for the doll's love of boat rides.

#### Pierre Antonio

As a child, Clarissa often ran into the ferry captain while playing on the docks. He always had a warm smile to offer so Clarissa grew to see him as a father figure.

### Enemies

#### BeNoit LeBlanc

It's not a surprise Clarissa doesn't like BeNoir, since his brash attitude is so contradictory to her calm demeanor. After she nearly drowned fishing him out of the lake, her worst is fear is that she'll just snap and end up slapping the man across the face.

## Trivia

* Clarissa was the first character Citrine\_421 designed for Snrubville.
	+ Her character was inspired by Citrine's self-given nickname "Seagull Queen."