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A drop in the
---ocean,
a change in the
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---ocean,
a change in the
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I was praying that
you and me
might end up
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you and me
might end up
---together.
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{ clarissa atlantica }
need to know wrote:✶ - - - ❝ come now, a little bit closer. ❞full name: clarissa oceana atlantica
✶ - - - ❝ look into my eyes, my soul. ❞
pronunciation: clair-iss-ah / at-lanti-kah
meanings: clarissa means 'bright; famous',
while atlantica represents her dedication
to the ocean.
goes by: rissa, riss, clary
gender: female
age: seventeen years old.
sexuality: straightweight: one-hundred and
✶ - - - ❝ my life, forever in riddles. ❞
twenty-seven pounds { 127 lbs }
height: five feet, eight inches { 5'8 }
hair color: clary has dark, mahogany
brown high-lighted with reddish tones
and low-lighted with a black color.
eye color: riss has redwood-like eyes.
they're brown, but when the light
reflects off of them. . . they're
almost the color of a redwood.
they hold a certain emptiness to them;
it's chilling, really.
skin color: she has olive skin that
tans easily.positive traits: independent, confident,
✶ - - - ❝ never fiddle with love. ❞
mature, brave, passionate
negative traits: hopeless, regretful,
lonely, hot-headed, empty, self-absorbed
bad habits: quick to judge / too defensive
not entirely reliable / pushes others away
good habits: brilliant listener / protective
brutally honest / gives great advice
fears: being alone. clarissa's family
has already cast her away - she doesn't
want to feel that pain ever again.
dreams: besides the faint hope
of making up with her family, clary
hopes to find a boy who can take her
as she is and be there when she needs
him to be. nobody's ever truly been
there for this lonely girl.
secret: at age sixteen, clarissa made a
fatal mistake. after a large fight between
her and her parents, she began shouting
things she knew would hurt them. their
biggest secret was revealed, right in front
of her little sister who never knew of the
events. she hurt her parents but infuriated
them as well - she wasn't supposed to know
about the secret of her mother's affair.
clarissa was disowned from the family, never
to return to their lives again. it hurt, and
she promised to never make a mistake like
that again. she was set to live with her aunt
and has been there ever since.past relationships: two; none that
truly meant anything to her.
current relationship(s): none as of yet.
crush(es): silly, rissa wouldn't kiss and tell.
family: parents - pasifica and richard
younger sister - marina
aunt - ripleigh
- __Realization.
- ------"Hello, my beautiful daughter," murmured the soft voice of an exhausted Pasifica. The day was warm and the sky was just turning the loveliest shade violet when the exhausted mother was finally able to cradle the child she'd so been longing for. Wisps of mahogany hair topped the head the color of a fresh peach, tickling her nose as she bent to give the newborn baby a kiss. A warm hand met her back; Richard's blonde curls brushed past her cheek as he bent to kiss the child's pink, rounded nose.
------"She's absolutely perfect," he whispered, his large blue eyes filled with adoration and wonder. Could this beautiful thing truly be his? It was hard to believe. Honestly, though, she looked nothing like him. All her looks she acquired from her mother. Well, most of them, anyways. She had her mother's dark hair and eyes, as well as the same lips, but there was something about that nose and the curve of her eyebrows that spoke otherwise. Richard was hidden away in the babe's fresh features; hidden yet strangely visible.
------"What should we name her?" Pasifica asked, her eyes leaving her child once to glance Richard's way.
------"How about Regina, after my mom?" he offered, examining his daughter's face with an questioning look.
------"No! You know your mother absolutely hates me. What about Aquatica? It was my grandmother's name."
------"Aquatica? That's a name?"
------"Richard. . ."
------"Well, if you want to go the 'weird sea names' route, why don't we just name her seaweed and get it over with?" he muttered, growing impatient. As much as he loved her, Pasifica was being difficult. All of her family members had strange names; none that he wanted for his baby girl.
------"You're not making this easy, you know," she murmured, gently pressing her thumb into the baby's small, grasping hand. "You're tired. Don't try to deny it - I can see it in your eyes. I'm tired too; believe me."
------Pasifica was right; she always could read him so easily. His eyes were drooping, but he fought the exhaustion, not wanting to miss a moment of his daughter's first day in the world. Richard gently cupped her cheek, his thumb stroking the soft skin below her eye slowly. "I know. I'm sorry. She really does need a name, though. Something that is beautiful, like her."
------And just like that, it came. She wasn't sure where her mind had wandered, but it brought her somewhere beautiful. "I know her name."
------"What do you have in mind?" Richard asked, a quirky half-smile pulling at the corners of his lips. He took his wife's hand in his and planted a kiss on the soft skin between her pointer finger and her thumb, his clear blue eyes meeting hers.
------"Clarissa. Clarissa's her name."
------And so it was.
- __Jealousy.
- ------"You look just like her, you know. Like mom." Clary's plush, soft lips puckered softly as she gazed at her sister. Marina really was the spitting image of their mother; there was nothing of their father in her features whatsoever. Only a mere 13-years-old at the time, a young Rissa examined her sister with envy. The same thick, silky brunette hair, soft gentle shell-pink lips and strong, defining eyebrows that were obvious traits of Pasifica shone through in Marina. It was true - she and Pasifica could be twins. It was uncanny how little she resembled her father. At all. The 9-year-old was a beauty - she posessed the same innocent beauty that Clarissa so wanted for herself. Such a beauty could truly conquer anything.
------"Stop, Rissy. You're so pretty," Marina insisted, her large, child-like eyes trailing upon her sister. There was a hint of adoration within her gaze, so common to her. It made Clary scowl.
------"Oh, hush. You're so lucky you look like her - I have too much of dad in me." Clarissa gazed at herself once more in the reflective waters, brushing her fingers across her sloping cheekbones and down her smooth, curving jaw. She didn't see herself as beautiful - no, she felt that she looked too masculine for that. She wasn't masculine, of course, but the preteen mind can be a hard mistress.
------It was cool that morning. The ocean was surprisingly calm; glassy, almost. The two girls stumbled down to the tide pools as soon as the sun had gone up. Clarissa, who had just learned the ropes of make-up and was rarely seen without it, was natural and bare-faced, her long hair tied up in a ponytail. Marina looked fresh and awake, her large eyes wide and her thick, straight hair pinned away from her eyes. The pair looked like they leaped right out of a magazine as they picked their way down to the pools, the jagged rocks looking more threatening then they truthfully were. Pasifica wasn't worried; they girls were both strong swimmers. She knew that at least one of them would be an even better swimmer soon, too. Nerissa helped her younger sister over a particularly tricky outcropping, careful to place her feet securely in a gap to keep her balance as she lowered the girl down to the pools. She jumped down after her and took her place beside a calm, reflective pool where the conversation of appearance sprouted.
------"You look plenty like mom," Marina grumbled, casting her sister a sidelong glace. She was being kind, but the 9-year-old was suddenly feeling superior to her sister. She liked the compliments; it gave her confidence that she looked pretty.
------"Stop lying," Clary snipped, turning away to look in a different pool. The previous night's storm left a multitude of creatures to explore, large and small. Beautiful shells littered the worn rock; small crabs scuttled along the bottoms of the pools; colorful pieces of coral rested at the bases of swirling anemones. Absently Clarissa stroked her wavy locks of mahogany hair as her eyes trailed on a small, graceful anemone - she was wondering if her hair spread out around her in a chestnut halo underwater like the reaching arms of the anemone seemed to do now. If it did, the sight sure would be beautiful.
------The sound of her sister snapped the older brunette out of her daydream - she blinked her long-lashed eyes as she absorbed what Marina said. "What was that?" she asked, her voice raising as a crashing wave cascaded against the rocks.
------"You know what? You're right," Marina murmured, her eyes glued to the water. She lazily swirled her finger across the surface, scattering the abundant sea-life to the edge of the pool. "You do have too much dad in you to be pretty."
------"Excuse me?" Clary exclaimed, her jaw dropping open in shock. "What did you just say?"
------"You'll never be a pretty as me or mom."
------"Marina! How can you say such things?"
------"It's the truth."
------Clarissa couldn't believe her ears. This was her sister! Her gentle, sweet, respectful sister. But, truthfully, Marina knew not what she was saying, but the affect it was having on her sister. She wanted to best her, wanted to make her cry just because she could. The young girl had witnessed the same actions in friends houses; it looked like a sport for her friends. She wanted to be a part of that. The look on her sisters face was enough of an indicator that she'd said the right thing - angry tears were pooling in her mahogany eyes, her fists clenched at her sides. Clarissa clenched her teeth. She'd never heard her sister say such hateful things. Marina had a smug, harsh smile spread across her face - it frighted Clary. What had gotten in to her? Clarissa stood suddenly, swaying dangerously near the edge of the outcropping.
------"You think that you're grown up, but you're not." she said, her tone harsh. "You're nothing but a materialistic child!"
------"You're just jealous of me! You know it, too!" At that, Marina stood up, her thick, knitted scarf billowing in the breeze. The young Atlantica daughter turned away after the outcry, running to the path that led up to the house, leaving her older sister alone. Marina was facing the ocean, listening as the last shuffle of rocks and the pattering of sneakers dissapeared before sitting back down, covering her eyes with her arms.
- __Regret.
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