Clarissa Pennyson: A DC Character

### Relatives

GHOST: Victoria 'Doles' Pennyson - Mother/Super Villain (World-Wide Thief)Tristan Pennyson - Father/Criminal

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

EnderWatcherCeris - RPTara Strong - Suggested Voice Actress

### Appears in

Teen Titans: Who Are You? (RP)Teen Titans (2003)

Teen Titans: GO!

Teen Titans GO To the Movies

Teen Titans VS Teen Titans GO!

### Debut

Teen Titans: Who Are You? RP

*"People fear me because of my family background. My mom? A ghostly- criminal. My dad? A terrorist. Sometimes I wonder...is that who I could become in my future? Someone...who does the wrong things? A part of me says no. The other? Not so much an agreement."* - Clarissa

**VISION,** (real name **Clarissa 'Style' Pennyson**, born on April 17th, 1996) is the daughter of her super-villain mother, **GHOST**, and world-wide terrorist father, **Reaper**. She was born with her mother's ghostly powers but ran away to prevent her living as a criminal alongside them. She was soon discovered and found by Robin (Dick Grayson), who took her into Mount Justice to help her redeem her family name. She would later develop feelings for the Boy Wonder, though, hasn't been able to share it to prevent a break in their friendship.

## Personality

Clair is shown to be rather introverted, as she prefers not to be involved with large crowds and socialize much with others around her. Even in a group, Clair usually stays silent, but only speaks up if it was neesesary. She shows an extreme fond of tech, as on missions with the team, she would hack into a villain's tech systems to cause a malfunction from attacking. However, she is shown to be friendly and shy when she does interact with others, especially when she becomes flustered over Robin's teasing about her keeping secrets.

Clair seems to be concerned about people learning that she was born of a villainous family, attempting to hide any information that Robin could possibly access through and running away when she lets out the truth. However, she still insists on defending people whenever danger is at arise. However, despite having no distaste for heroes, Clair wonders how she can undo the misguides of her parentage, which is what makes her worry of being a hero as well.

Clair also seems to easily be confused with her emotions when interacting with her teammates. Raised to be a tool (neglected in her lonely training), she never learned how to cope with her emotions or how they work, later confirming that she was diagnosed with Alexithymia. Because of this case, she seems to pick up on the feelings she has but yet still struggles exactly what the exact emotions are, and how to react with them. One major display that has occurred numerous of times was the panic whenever she is touched by another individual, the sudden contact makes her panic and lash out from her control as she wasn't able to comprehend the actual meaning of contact, especially when her friends do so too.

## Physical Appearance

Clair is a young light-skinned female with pale blue eyes and long, brown hair.

### VISION

As Vision, Clair was comprised with a black suit with black boots and gray gloves. She wears a mask that forms the shape of a ghost face with her eyes holding a black sclera and silver irises.

### Civilian

In her civilian appearance, Clair normally wears a red T-shirt with a white zip-up sweater over it, and a pair of black leggings. Her shoe style revolves around black and white sneakers that reach only above her ankles.

## History

### Early Life

Clarissa Pennyson was born and raised in Gotham City. Her parents were criminals. Her mother, Victoria, was a master mind super-villain, GHOST, while her father, Tristan, was a terrorist on the move throughout the world, and both had raised her to follow in their footsteps. Her mother's training was rather neglected, as she forced her daughter to learn her abilities on her own while she left to commit her crimes.

In 2004, Clarissa ran away from home within the discovery of her parent's criminal history, and found herself becoming the new superhero, VISION, with her want to help others to redeem her family name at high stakes.

#### Becoming Vision

Clarissa lived on the run as a vigilante, running away from Gotham to Jump City to make her life as Vision last in safety from her parents' reach. She had lived in Jump City for two years in her times working by herself as a hero while also resisting to show emotion. It may be implied that she misses her parents' but is afraid to return home.

One day, she found the Boy Wonder taken down by a criminal in the streets and saved him. Robin, out of curiosity, hunts Vision down to confront her. He thanks her after he confirms that she was no longer a threat. Though, he offered her a place with the Teen Titans after discovering that she had been alone for a long while in pity. At first, she hesitates, but she soon accepts and starts to live a life as an inexperienced member of a team.

## Powers and Abilities

#### **Powers:**

***"You're not spooky. I'll show you spooky,"***

After her mother was experimented and escaped, she was impregnated with Clarissa and raised her, inducing her with the ghost-like abilities she had even when she was a young child. She had been able to teach her given abilities on her own through nighttime whenever a ghost visited her in her sleep. When she ran away from home, Clarissa found that she wanted to use her cursed gifts to help others, though, had to hide herself away from society in hopes to not scare people of her presence. Her ghostly abilities revolve around;

**Electromagnetic Interference:** Clair has been to disrupt any electronics in her presence, especially dangerous devices that were activated as a threat to a mission and her teammates.

   **Invisibility:** Clair can remain invisible around certain targets, but she may appear as a blur or faint light. When she wants to, however, she can appear as she was in life, though it takes a while for her to gain that level of strength.

* **Intangibility:** With her ghostly intact, Clair is able to move without hindrance even if objects were in her way, as she can phase through them at ease.

   **Possession:** A rare ability, Clair can posses other humans to get what she needs, and even use the host’s abilities against another target when at attempt.

**Mental Influence:** Clair has shown that she can manipulate other people’s minds and drive them crazy to the point of forcing them to her will and injure them. Although it is another ability that Clair has possibly mastered, this doesn’t work entirely functional in her control. Mainly, this would trigger when she is terrified enough to release such influence, which is deemed a dangerous ability to most targets and herself.

**Clairvoyance:** According to Clair, she had been able to see ghosts haunting her in her sleep as a child. In some cases, this had led Clair to sleep with her parents for the night or talk with them until they go away. As she got older with the help of Raven, Clair has been able to gain better cooperation to spirits to precept them to leave a host and put them to rest.

**Flight:** Clair can levitate off the ground without much trouble in her environment.

* **Wall Walking:** Clair can walk on walls by manipulating her center of gravity to walk and run up and down uneven and vertical surfaces as though they were horizontal.

#### **Abilities:**

***"It's...my specialty,"***

**Hacker Capability:** Under her mother's work, Clarissa had developed into her training to hack government systems to hijack their budget and steal their money. However, under the Teen Titans, Clair has used this skill to hijack the tower's systems whenever to shut off a certain operation and during a mission to take on devices that are on high technology advance.

## Equipment

**Tech Wrist-Watch:** Clarissa possesses a unique designed watch made by her father as a disguise for a normal one that contains important files of information; crimes, criminals, events of memory, etc. She keeps it with her at all times, especially when she's unprepared for the unexpected turns of events.

## Weaknesses

In her childhood, Clair developed severe PTSD, traumatized from the spirits she would see at night. Even when she lived and got close with her friends, Clair still had a worry of being abandoned, alone, being lied to, or even being used in any way possible. But knowing the Teen Titans as her friends, she seems to be confused by their willingness to help her, yet understands that they would never hurt her in any way, shape, or form.

**Alexithymia:** Once when Raven invaded her mind with her time at Titans Tower, it had been discovered that Clair was diagnosed with a malfunction of difficulty to expressing emotions that are deemed socially appropriate. One major example was her frightened reaction to being touched by her teammates, which led some to assume that she suffered through neglect or abuse.

* Symptoms of Alexithymia had also led to other mental cases in her behavior, mainly;
	+ Claustrophobia - The fear of being confined or in a tight-spaced area.
	+ Scopophobia - The fear of being stared at.
	+ Autophobia - The fear of being alone.
	+ Haphephobia - The fear of being touched.

## Relationships

### Robin

***"Now don't think you're not worth it just because of who you came from. You are who you decide to be, alright?"***

Vision has grown to be close with the Titans, but out of all of them, her good friend, Robin is one who she appears to be attached to the most. Although confused at first, she had secretly harbored feelings for him, unaware that Robin feels the same way about her. Both were too afraid to express how they feel about each other, even though it was obvious from teammates and enemies alike.

Since she was born in neglect with barely any connection to the world, Robin takes the time to help her adjust to a team and the good view of the world, which had strengthened their bond with each other. Vision takes the time to take in and enjoy Robin's guidance with no end, and they get along very well.

There were many hints that the two heroines held feelings for each other. Mainly, to how they're always caring for each other no matter what. Robin is often immediately at her side and concerned enough to comfort her when Vision gains a panic attack, while the latter stands up for him (out of character against her shut-down behavior) when he is threatened in any way, mainly Slade, as she is willing to fight him to protect the Boy Wonder. ￼ Robin is usually the first to jump in and save Vision when she is in trouble, often catching her when she falls, or shouting her name when she is in peril danger. There were many times where Robin has protected Vision from falling or being hit by something. Vision saves Robin just as often; usually by pushing him away from danger or possessing his body in a way to lend him her ghostly powers as a shield conduit.

Robin has shown to be quite jealous when other boys flirt with Vision or gain too much of her attention, such as Speedy. Vision has also been shown to be equally (though a bit conflicting in her Pov) jealous when those like Kitten flirt with him.

Throughout many odds, their care for each other was the one thing that stood out for both of them. Their dynamic seems to share between the Protector (Robin) and the Nurturer (Vision), as their sense of justice balances them out, despite their slight differences in personality. Robin has proven to Vision that she doesn't need to be alone and hide away to be a hero and has become an inspiration in her life to fight for what's right without the misguidance of her villainous parentage. Because of this, Vision has developed growth that led to her oath in willingness to protect her friends no matter what the cost may be, in addition to the cost of her own life in the way, seeing them as the family she never had with Robin as the core to it all.

### **Raven**

***"I know we just met. But sensing your emotions...I can tell you don't mean any harm. You proved it by saving my friend."***

Robin was the one who suggested for both Vision and Raven to bond after a nightly discussion to the first latter about their possible relations. Raven reluctantly accepts and the two girls spoke privately to each other, discussing about their past lives before becoming a Titan. The two females come to realize that they were actually similar to one another and came to know as good friends. Vision quoted that Raven 'reminds her of a sister she never had. ￼

## References

* Born in the month of April, Vision is confirmed to be an Aries.
* Vision's identity, Clarissa, is a Latin name meaning 'Bright, Clear, or Famous'. ￼
* Vision's favorite color is purple.
* She is 14 years old.
* One theme for Vision is best noted to be GHOST by Alan Walker ft. Au/Ra, as the song expresses her reluctance to be with others, yet she has held a longing to not BE alone. with a hidden longing to go back to her family despite their crimes. She had to push the thought away, however, as she feared that if she did team with others, she would only put herself into danger within the teachings her mother described of the worst-case scenario, betrayal. ￼
	+ On My Own by Ashes Remain is a theme that represents Vision's story and how her longings are revealed when she recues a lone Robin on his patrols. Robin has become an inspiration for Vision to not be alone and guided her to work as a team, giving her an opportunity to trust others and accept help when she needed it most. Vision has grown alongside Robin and his teammates and grown to know them as her friends and family, most especially, Robin. This is also noted as a pairing theme dedicated to Robin and Vision in a romantic and touching case of scenario.
* While she may have it under control, Vision's electromagnetic interference allows her to disrupt the functioning of electronics, included to the lights in the area within her presence. Depending on the emotions present, the lights may flicker, and if tempted enough, break and power down without her control and realization.