Clementine Robertjon

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Clementine ‘Clem’ Robertjon is a Gilded Lily trying to build her life.

Personality

Kindly. Despite all she's been through, Clem has been able to hold onto her morals and doesn't knowingly take advantage of the items she holds if it would hurt or negatively change people.

Bisexual, having had both boyfriends and girlfriends in the past.<ref>My character got a cute boyfriend that liked borrowing her clothes, I got a boyfriend that liked borrowing my clothes.  My character got a girlfriend who put hot sauce on everything, so did I.”- Excerpt from In Absentia 21.10</ref> However, she avoids close relationships for fear of those around her getting hurt.<ref name=":0">Her disposition is kind, if troubled.  She very much enjoys the company of people, but avoids maintaining any long-term relationships.  Many people close to her have died, including her friends and family, or else they’ve suffered worse fates.  She earns a fair income and alternates between periods of seclusion and times spent wandering the city, with a focus on the arts.

Clementine is well aware of the existence of Others and suspects practitioners, but has been kept from full awareness, in part because awakening her or fully revoking her Innocence would tie one to her, and none of the twenty or so practitioners who have directly or indirectly been involved with her are willing to do so when it comes to Clem Robertjon.  Her existence is too fraught with hazard, and her relatively intact survival up to this point may be owed to her Innocence. To take away that safety net while simultaneously lashing their fortunes to hers is not a risk any are willing to take.  She remains quietly and enthusiastically interested, frustrated, and curious and these facts should be minded. - Bonus Material: Dossiers</ref>

She has some skill at handling the supernatural but is frustrated by the fact that no-one who knows more is willing to risk satisfying her curiosity.<ref name=":0" />

She's made a career out of selling her found items to Practitioners after the community took note of her, allowing her to finally put her life in some semblance of order.<ref> The practitioner community took a hand in events after an event with a piece of currency that ‘drank’ nearby change and loose money to increase its denomination before ‘shitting out’ (to use the assigned practitioner’s vernacular) a sapphire and becoming a penny again.  Once Clem had people to sell the items to and a bit of a listening ear, she found something of an equilibrium.  She was later offered a low-cost apartment at Sargent Ave Hall. - Bonus Material: Dossiers</ref>

Given the Pattern that Bristow used, her actions in Kennet are somewhat influenced by her fellow Aware tenants Sharon and Daniel.

Relationships

Corey

A non-binary person who may well be her soulmate. Spent a fun weekend together but Clem cut things off given the pattern of her own life. Following encouragement from Avery, she reached out and they began a relationship.

Kennet Trio

Seemed to get along with them well.

Lawrence Bristow

While he was admittedly helpful to Clem,<ref name=intro>“He keeps strange tenants.  Some are complicated.  A gilded lily, who stumbles on magic items by accident on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. [... "] Alexander spoke, “A lot of the residents have something intrinsically different about them.  The Gilded Lily has always been a Gilded Lily, dating back to early childhood, when she was drawn to the antique store.  She led a chaotic, confused life until practitioners stepped in to offer counsel, and take things off her hands.  She will, by virtue of the stars she was born under or a pattern established in long-running bloodlines, either find magic items or have magic items find her.  I don’t know if you could retrieve what the couch potato has lost.”
[...]
“He does errands for his landlord in exchange for a cut on rent.  One of a few that do.”

“So is that his strength?” Verona asked.  “A bunch of people that run errands, and then the rest are just there, pumping power into his place of power?”

“There are other things.  He buys interesting items from the Gilded Lily, who runs an online store.
[...]
“I suspect he’ll send his Aware to Kennet.  I’d guess at least three of these six.  The Gilded Lily is a kind girl who he’s helped out a lot, so he might ask her to deliver something to someone in the city.  She may very well literally trip over something you’ve forgotten about or weren’t even aware of, if she doesn’t bring something into the city.  She’ll pick it up or unwittingly bring it with her, and disaster frequently follows from that, forcing Others out of hiding or forcing local practitioners to handle the crisis.” - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.8</ref> she doesn't completely trust him; partly because she knew he was keeping things from her. Was willing to take an hours long drive to BHI if it meant getting one over on him.

Appearance

Clementine is a woman of Asian descent, with short hair, but with an overall feminine appearance and large chest.<ref>Clementine’s hair was short and parted like a schoolboy’s, but she had a lot of feminine affectation in the choice of basic makeup, shirt, shorts, and shoe colors, and a bigger-than-average chest that would make it hard for her to be mistaken as a little boy from any distance. - Excerpt from Back Away 5.5</ref> She has scars on her face that causes her eye to stay partially closed, as well as more scars on her neck and arm.<ref>She also had scars. Some were a bruised purple-blue that would always stand out, and others were smaller. One by her eye, making it perpetually a bit more closed than the other, one at the side of her throat, one bad one inside the crook of her elbow. It looked like she’d been stabbed at one point, with how straight and short a line it was, on the back of her forearm. - Excerpt from Back Away 5.5</ref>

To some people with good enough Sight like Avery's her aware condition is apparent.<ref>She had hesitated to step outside because of the woman stooped over at the doorway, which was stupid.  But the woman had something going on.  Avery saw a silhouette streaked with handprints, translucent and foggy where those handprints didn’t exist, connections spilling out from the cracks as film reels or belts with sections cut out to suggest scenes.  Footprints made her recent travels across the library obvious – from front door to table to bathroom to kids section to table.  Residual crimson touched some handprints and connections.
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An Other?  No.  Avery didn’t get that vibe.

Aware?  It didn’t seem anywhere near as extreme as Kevin, Ted, Rae, or Clementine had been.  Kevin with the blood weeping from his eye, bloody connections groping out.  Ted caked in so many handprints and carrying so many connections he barely looked human, Rae with her wall of handprints around her, Clementine with handprints moving, groping in the dark around her.

This wasn’t as animated, but there was something, still.
[...]
“She’s ... like what Toadswallow told us about, with the Aware. [Repulsive] thing for goblins.” - Excerpt from Shaking Hands 9.8</ref>

Abilities and Art

Clem naturally attracts Magic items to her, a pattern which has accelerated throughout her life.<ref>Note – At this stage, the progression of ‘finds’ continues to accelerate, monthly rather than seasonal. - Bonus Material: Dossiers</ref> The Carmine Beast's blood boosted her power, or possibly the cracked temporal watch, caused her to find multiple items during her visit to Kennet.

She is an Aware person who after her visit to Kennet has an almost complete awareness<ref name=bwc>An eye with a three-quarter circle appears at her shoulder.
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will always be. Her Aware
ness is at 25%, and has held s
teady there for five decades, t
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Depicted Right: Clementine in Alexander’s spirit sight. Pale, a plate on her forehead that bears the number 4. A collar reads ‘Bound-2 seals-breaking. And she has the eye at her neck, only a silver there. A halo with a seven pointed yellow star in it appears behind her head.
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Clementine Roberjon – [“Gilded Lily”?]
Age corrupted, soulmate…
Long and s…
Collector…
shaky bind…
Fragile Aw…
Focal power..
Maintains a [Mur]…
$1,094 in a…
Assets tot[a]…
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Depicted, final image: Clementine, no eyes, no mouth, only an ‘x’ inset into cracks. The ‘four’ plate at her forehead is cracked as well, as is her shoulder. Bloodstains frame the bottom part of the page. - [Spoilers 7.3] Borrowed Eyes comic</ref> her still existingInnocence is believed to be why she as survived so long.

Tools

Her apartment is full of magic items, though no innocent is likely to see this She has a magic bracelet that can re-arrange rooms, which she uses to securely store the worst items in a room which doesn't exist.

• Puzzle bracelet - lets her access a specialized room anytime she's in a building.
• Cool Earring - An item that everyone becomes attracted to unless worn. If worn it makes you attractive. If used more than three times it will leave your relations hollow. To store it safely you must put it in a box with jewels on each side. Part of a set consisting of two earrings, two rings, a diadem, necklace and pin.<ref>“But everyone seems to want it.  Keep it, use it if you will.  But wear it only for one scene, one event.  From the moment you put it on, you should be entering a new place or doing a single thing.  Attending an evening ball, or talking to one important person.  This is not a hard limit, but two points make a line, and three can be a constellation.  It would leave you hollow, if too many of your relationships are touched by that glittering light.  Seal it away in a box covered in jewels on all six sides to confuse and refract its light or wear it, but don’t hold it as you are now.  Worn, it makes you desirable.  Appropriately boxed up, it sits quiet.  Held… people will kill you to have it.  Collected as a set of two earrings, two rings, diadem, necklace and pin, the wearer will be king or queen of all things in their awareness, but you would not get that far.  It is as good as inevitable that you would die trying.”- Exrcept from Back Away 5.c</ref>
• Goblin Matchbox - Sets fires randomly when lit and makes existing fires bigger. Naturally replenishes.<ref>Goblin Matchbox.  To be used with care, it set fires very easily as matches were lit, in random places nearby.  If there were already fires, it also made fires nearby abruptly bigger and harder to manage.  Good for distractions, if there wasn’t anything especially vital nearby.  Her own limited diagnosis told her there were ways to get more control over the end result and what got set on fire.  Better relationships with goblins, maybe.- Excerpt from Summer Break 13.5</ref>
• A knife that kills anything it cuts.<ref>- Excerpt from In Absentia 21.10</ref>
• Sanguine Stone - Power source that can fuel practice by squeezing the stone and dripping blood onto whatever your working on. After you stop squeezing it the stone tries to take control of the working and use it against you.<ref>Sanguine Stone.  No longer would they have to share the Hot Lead between them.  It was a power source.  Simple enough to use.  Squeeze, it dripped blood, and dripped blood enhanced any practices it touched.  Continuing to squeeze produced more concentrated blood, which increased the enhancement over time.  It could, as far as Clem or Verona’s diagnosis had been able to figure out, provide steadily improving enhancement for a long, long time.
  
  Except there was a drawback, of course.  Several.  Gripping the stone meant a white-knuckle squeeze that was hard and painful to keep up for ten seconds, let alone the minutes needed to get the super concentrated blood to really boost a practice.  That was one thing.  The other was that when the squeeze stopped, an intelligence tied to the stone got a chance to push back, wrest control, or do something with any and all affected practices.  Sometimes that meant lashing out, back at the practitioner holding the stone.  Other times, it just destroyed whatever had been powered up.  The more power put into the object, the more power and time that other intelligence had.- Excerpt from Summer Break 13.5</ref>
• Odd one out - it hides among sets of objects (cards,, coins ect) and changes it's form to mimic them, tends to cause trouble for it's owner.<ref>The Odd One Out. It liked sets, and hid among sets, though it was pretty bad at hiding.  It could be the third joker in a deck of cards, a coin of a different country in a pocketful of change.  If the objects were magical, it would evidence a little bit of tricky magic itself.  Mostly it had a habit of springing up at inopportune times for its owner, getting players accused of cheating in poker, a letter confessing to cheating that appeared in a bundle of romantic mementos, or becoming a false page that ruined the ending of a book partway through.- Excerpt from Summer Break 13.5</ref>
• Temporary tat - A temporary tattoo that when wore makes others believe your a member of a group or organisation aligned with them. The group in question might try and initiate the wearer, if the tattoo fade you are seen as a traitor to that group, you also gain instant enmity to opposing groups. Doesn't work on practitioners or Witch Hunters.<ref>the Temporary Tat.  Or, alternate title, How Clementine Accidentally Became a Lieutenant in an International Drug Cartel.  Slap that puppy on a visible location and it gave easy membership in an appropriate group for the audience at hand.  Except, uh, it didn’t work on practitioners and she was pretty sure it didn’t work on Witch Hunters, it wore off at inconvenient times, and feigned membership came with drawbacks.  Instant enmity with opposed groups, groups tended to insist on initiating the bearer of the Tat into the group, sometimes violently, and they’d do it every time the tattoo was reapplied, forgetting the prior times.  There was also the fact that if the tattoo faded at a bad time or if the paper-thin guise was seen through by a failure to play along, the person bearing the Tat was seen as a traitor, with dangerous consequences.- Excerpt from Summer Break 13.5</ref>

Chronology

Before the Story

Whatever the reasons, a man who can not lie claimed that Clem has "always been a Gilded Lily".<ref name="intro" />

Had a hard childhood with many different items coming along and ruining her life effecting it in a generally deleterious way. Almost all of her family is dead at this point those remain seem to have broken off contact with her.<ref>“The woman with the scars, Clementine?  It started for her when she was little.  She lost most or all of her family, she can’t hold a steady job so she works online, and it’s not even being C.E.O..  Even love- a simple relationship, it’s hard for her.  Just dating, she’s scared because people who enter her life die.  A lot.” - Excerpt from Shaking Hands 9.6</ref>

She sells some of her items to various parties online.

Kennet Visit

Was convinced by her landlord Bristow to visit the town of Kennet to gather information. As she was part of a set arranged by her landlord her behavior was influenced by the people she was with such as daniel's obsessiveness and Sharon's vindictiveness.^{[citation needed]}

Was convinced to go home with Daniel, and to take Sharon with them.

Later Events

Met Alexander Belanger outside of Sargent Hall while looking for a lost friend, he had something important he wanted to discuss with her.

While she came to BHI on because of Alexander she choose to confront Bristow on the Trio's behalf instead. Met with the Kennet Trio afterward and eventually went home.

Had a meeting with Samaniego and Avery <ref>Crossed with Silver 19.3</ref>, unknown to her several other Witch Hunters also attended.<ref>Crossed with Silver 19.5</ref>

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