Clara Astilla

Clara Astilla is a 17-year-old Greek Demigod daughter of Clotho and Ethan Astilla. She came to camp at twelve years old

## Basic Stuff

### Affiliation

* Camp Olympia
* The Fates
* The Trix

### Residence

Camp Olympia (Currently)Providence, Rhode Island (Formerly)

## Family

### Biological Family

* Clotho (Mother)
* Ethan (Father)
* Atropos and Lachesis (Aunts)
* Amelia Cappello and Lilly Miller (Cousins)

## Appearance

### Outfit

* Usually has gray in her clothing
* Gray shirt that says “Doubt Come In” with the three fates from Hadestown on it
* White jeans
* Light blue and Gray converse

## History

### Early Life

Clara Astilla, was born to  Ethan Asilla, a mortal man and Clotho goddess of The Thread of Life in Providence, Rhode Island on April 24, 2004. Long, long ago in a kingdom far, far away-- wrong story? Sorry! It was little past midnight, and Ethan had been out, staying at a "haunted" mansion. (The story behind the mansion is that this woman went crazy. She murdered her three kids, her husband, and the four servants. She then proceeded to cook them, and choked on the meat, several days later. They say it was the children holding her throat, making her die. Their souls have never been put to rest, and whoever stays there is in danger of the women killing them, and wanting to eat them... Possibly alive.) All the locals thought he was insane. Crazy. Just because he believed in ghosts, and he was 28 years old. Just a children's tale, they would mock him.  Still he continued, recording data on the frequencies of the ghosts. Videotaping everything. Taking numerous photos. Testing every theory. One morning, he was sitting in a diner. Ethan had been up all night, so he needed his coffee.

One lady caught his eye, even more so when she walked past, and whispered "I believe you," ever so calmly he doubted she even said it. It was a few days before he had the courage to ask her about it. When she confessed that she had thought the same thing about the house, believing the story since she was young, they spent the night together. And whilst they worked together, they fell in love. They moved all the way to Providence. After being together for two months in a grand house they bought, one thing led to another, and Ethan’s love left him for a few months. No warning, no nothing. After well past half a year of living alone, his lover returned, only this time she wasn't alone. "This is our daughter..." She told him, smiling at him. Yet, she didn't explain why she left, and he never asked. He was just too happy to have them back. And then she left again, when Clara  was only a few months old. Ethan vowed to raise their daughter with as much love and care as she showed him.

### Childhood

And he did. As the years passed, Clara grew up to be the person her father wanted her to be. She was kind most of the time, and obsessed with the other side. Even when she was four, she would go around telling kids about the ghost adventure she and her dad went on, the stories he told her at night. (Which, instead of fairy tales like normal little girls, she was told stories that would make grown men pee their pants.) At age seven she could name every demon and monster her dad had encountered (please be noted these "demons" and "monsters" are like ones you would find on Supernatural, just without the black eyes and possessing people... Just spirits that haven't crossed to the other side), and even some that he hadn't. Her grandmother also taught her how to sew, so she became good at that. Clara was viewed for being the odd one out. The weird kid. This caused her to be bullied often. On her tenth  she was walking home from school. It was the middle of autumn, so she was walking slowly, enjoying the bright colors of the leaves. The bright orange, the dark green, the mustard yellow, and the dusty brown. It was beautiful to her.

### Monster Encounter

Clara had just turned down a familiar alley, a shortcut to where her dad usually meets her for an after school snack, when this great dane looking dog looked at her. Clara loved dogs. Unworried about this particular dog, as she was often seen petting and feeding the strays, she moved slowly towards it, calling out to it in her best soft and quiet voice. I would love to write that this continued like any other dog; she managed to pet it unscathed, and gave it a dog treat that she was most of the time found carrying. (She often carried at least one, just in case she came across a dog, or animal that looked hungry.) But this wasn't the case. The dog lunged at her, going for her neck she later realized, at a much faster speed than she could keep up with. Clara managed to move just enough that it got her shoulder, dislocating it, and tearing it rather badly.

She couldn't believe it! On her birthday too! While she tried to dodge the dog, she hadn't noticed a new kid from school standing in the alley way. (If you couldn't tell, this is her protector, a satyr named John. Soon after moving to her school, the two became close friends.) After watching for a moment, John managed to help end the hell hound's life, before giving Clara some ambrosia for her wounds. (Which, to her, tasted like her father's spaghetti.) John explained everything to her; she was a demigod. And that she had to go to Camp Olympia. Well not had but it would be ideal in order to keep her safe. Clara politely refused. This had to be a prank, or a dream, she thought. After she was healed, John walked her back to the store her dad was at. Before he left, he warned her that she was putting her father in danger every second she stayed. Ignoring the warning, she stayed. Her father needed her. She couldn't just leave him like her mother did.... Could she?

### Coming to Camp

It was two years before she finally decided to leave. (She was attacked three times, one by a giant scorpion, another by a hell hound, and the last one by a fire breathing horse. The last one actually worried her. She loved horses. She never told her dad because she didn't want him to start studying the creatures, and, quite honestly, she still believed it was some sort of dream.) It was in the middle of a regular teenage fight with her dad that she decided to leave. He wasn't in the best of moods since his agent wasn't helping him get his book of his lifetime research published, and neither was Clara since that day had been one of the worst bullying times she had gone through.  During dinner, when they usually spoke about their day, they were silent. Clara picked a fight. She asked about his day, and when he asked about hers she replied with, "Horrible, because we don't live a normal life." Normally her dad would talk about it, but he wasn't in the mood. They got into a screaming match, before her father yelled, "Your mother would still be here, if it weren't for you!" Directly after saying that, he stopped, looking like he had just been punched, while Clara looked at him as if she didn't know who he was. "I hate you." She whispered, before leaving

She met up with John a few minutes later, and told him she wanted to leave for Camp right now. She managed to take his wallet, and, since she was trusted by her father, she knew his PIN number. This would buy them tickets for an airplane ride to England. For the both of them, it cost a grand total of $554, for a two hour, and 55 minute flight. (They were stopped and questioned once about adult supervision, but after Clara, who used to be on the debate team back home, pointed out that there were no laws about them traveling without someone over the age of 18 with them, there was no need. Plus she made up a story that they were visiting a sick grandmother, that did the trick.) During the flight, she started to feel bad. But she would think about what he said, and the rage would tear her heart into pieces once more. Once they landed, (Clara felt a little sick, and her legs were wobbly) they took a taxi to the Camp. For most, the Camp was likely a place that meant heaven, and better times. A place to sing, and dance, and write a musical on. But for her, it was only a reminder of her father's words. Words he could never take back, and she would always associate with him. Camp for her was an escape from the monster inside him. The monster that had possessed her father. And that, my dears, is the story that scared her the most. She's been at camp for several days. She was claimed by the fate, Clotho and later became the tenth member in the trix

## Personality

She prefers isolation and doesn't reach out to many people. The few friends she does have, aka the Trix, she is loyal to. She is cruel and not very good at being nice or kind. She is violent and easy to provoke. She is good at making clothes and often does for her cabin or the other Trix. She and Max once had a competition on making the best outfits, which ended in a tie as both are very skilled at making clothes. Clara is generally depicted as the most clever and manipulative of the Fates. She is also shown to be good at holding the group together and making plans. Because of these qualities, she is viewed as the leader of the trio. She is detached and sarcastic, which is her most notable quality. She speaks in a very stream of consciousness, and often says things without regard for consequences. She is honest, hot-headed, a little impulsive and flirtatious. Clara will do the pettiest things for an ounce of drama. Almost everyday, she is constantly making pointed references to various movies and TV shows in the form of nicknames for other people. Clara knows everything about everybody. It's why her hair is so big. It's full of secrets. As a Fate, Clara is very attuned to the past. And her definition of the past is very general and immediate. She is aware of every little thing that just happened a minute ago. Ever heard the phrase "pleading with fate"? Clara likes to take it to a minor scale. She is a neutral, both in the destiny stance and morally. She has no interest in keeping other people's secrets, though she does manage the restraint to stay quiet, even if just for a little while. If something happens, Clara should be the first person you go to for damage control. You have two or three days at most to convince her to stay shut. Thankfully, Clara is easily pleased even for just a short while. She likes to just ask for little things from others, like a cup of coffee or to carry her bag to class for the day. She is practical and logical this way, knowing that her knowledge will regularly update and everyone will just have to keep coming back to her if they intend on keeping their secrets. Clara is exceptionally good at reading people, and knows them on very intimate levels because of her past-reading ability. Even if she isn't close or friendly with people, she knows them well. Despite this, Clara does not purposely form opinions on others and likes to see everything from a logical, impersonal and objective point of view.

### Fatal flaw

Clara's fatal flaw is her Anxiety and she tends to worry about things she did in the past

## Appearance

Clara is described to be a beautifully yet mysterious seventeen year old girl. Clara is said to have long brown hair, brown eyes, tanned skin. She wears a gray shirt that says “Doubt Come In” with the three fates from Hadestown on it, some white jeans, and converse

## Powers and Abilities

### Clotho Kid Powers

* She has the ability to see other's lifelines, and is able to figure out what type of life she will live.
* She innately knows what a person's fate will be when she looks at a person's lifeline.
* She allowed to intervene and subvert a person's fate and save that person from their original demise *only once per person*. If the person she saves is destined to die a new way as a result, she cannot interfere or attempt to subvert their new fate as words will immediately fail them if she tries to tell them of their new doom nor can she convey the new way of death to anyone else.
* She can also go in this shadow ghost-like state and act a voice or whisper in someone's head causing doubt, the victim can’t see her but others can
* She can also see alternate futures
* She is able to spin threads from her hands, and manipulate these threads for various effects.
* Because her mother represents the past, she can see the past, and every event of the past.
* She can selectively alter the past of a target (whether living, object, place, etc.) and determine when, where, what, how, or even why something happened in the past.
* She can shadow travel

### General Abilities

* ADHD: Clara's supernatural alertness and keen senses that keep her ready for, and alive, in battle.
* Knitting skills: Clara is extremely good at knitting
* Tailoring skills: Clara is good at sewing and making clothes
* Superhuman strength: Being a demigod, Clara is stronger than the average mortal. Even when battered and exhausted.
* Superhuman durability: Being a demigod, Clara is more durable than a regular human
* Superhuman reflexes: Clara has incredible reflexes, which is proven throughout his life
* Superhuman agility: Being a demigod, Clara has shown countless times her amazing agility

## Relationships

### Friends

#### Lilly Miller

Clara and her cousin and *wildly* different. Lilly is always in the now, a trendsetter, whereas Clara is into old "vintage" or "retro" things of the past. Surprising to most people Lilly and Clara co-exist easily well. Not only well. They're the best of friends.

#### Amelia Cappello

If you thought Lilly and Clara were polar opposites, get in with this. Amelia is the daughter of Atrops but when it comes to the logistics of time travel, and the art of trying to confuse Lilly, it's no hard route for this family friendship.

### Family

#### Clotho (Mother)

In the case of Clara's mother, Clara knows next to nothing about her. Other than the fact that she was around when Clara was a baby, and that she was magical in some way. A naturally curious demigod, Clara always asked her father about it, and the question is always bounced back. Now that she knows who her mother is, she does respect Clotho as her mother and as a goddess

#### Ethan (Father)

Clara used to be closer to her father when she was much younger and still growing up, but before Clara came to camp, they got into an argument and Ethan said that Clara was the reason why her mother couldn't be in their lives, so now Clara hates her father

## Etymology

German, Latin. From the Latin clarus, meaning **"bright, clear" or "famous"**.

Astilla means splinter in Spanish

## Trivia

1. Clara is represented with color Light Pink
2. Despite her mother being the youngest of the Fates, Clara is the leader out her and her cousins
3. Clara hates the entire country of Australia
4. Clara loves sewing
5. Clara can see into the past
6. Clara loves gossiping
7. Clara owns a whip made a of fire
8. Clara hates hamburgers