Clover

Basics

Name: Clover Soleil Xylander: Clover "clover", Soleil "sun", Xylander "forest man" (Greek) -- so "clover in the sunny forest."

Age/Birthdate/Zodiac: 20/9 April/Aries sun, Capricorn moon, Virgo rising
Occupation/School/Usual Hang Outs: UC:SC, lives in the Haystacks; she's rarely seen outside the dorm unless going to class or the Starbucks.

Skills, Hobbies: Mundane: collecting yaoi manga and DVDs; looking at pretty pretty boyz; writing and drawing really bad doujinshi of pretty pretty boyz; dressing her Dollfies up like the pretty pretty boyz in her yaoi collection; hanging out on 4chan. Super: extraordinary sense of smell; extreme conservation of energy; shock value, literally XD

Likes:

sleep
yaoi (the walls of her dorm room are lined with bookshelves of smut manga, all meticulously cataloged and sorted)
looking at pretty pretty boyz
the Internet (seriously, what can't you find there?)
BJDs (has a pair of male Dollfies she likes to pose in suggestive positions XD FOR HER ART)
coffee (mmm, venti latte with espresso shots <3)
basking in the sun (her room has a south-facing window, filled with plants)
her deliberately-exaggerated NYC accent (intimidates the hell outta the California kids XD)

Dislikes:

people TOUCHING HER STUFF
getting wet
GKMMORPG (it's boring and stupid -- though she has an account and will sometimes log in during low-traffic times >.>)
driving (she never learned how to drive and has no interest in it)
being rushed (she's a New Yorker, but she'll take her own damn sweet time, thank you)
the Big Blue Room
the complete lack of recognizable seasons in California
how small-town Sunset City is

Timeline

1988: Born in New York City (Manhattan), only daughter of Prof. Aaron Xylander, an archaeologist; unbeknown to Clover or her mother Elena, half-brother Reed born later that year, product of a dalliance daddy had with Carla Mata in Sunset City
1992-2005: School happens amid an uneventful childhood; Aaron away on digs off Central California coast most of the time, so Clover is raised by mum and grandpa Lucius (Aaron's dad), who was actually a retired Hunter and fellow archaeologist
2003: Discovers yaoi, takes up residence at Kinokuniya and on 4chan
2005: graduates high school
2006-2007: attends NYU, pursuing a physics major

This Year (2008):

April: turns 20
June: grandpa Lucius dies; spends summer poring through his estate, finds things that eerily remind her of some of the stuff Daddy has mentioned on his trips home; decides to move to Sunset City, transfers to UC:SC
late August: takes up residence in Haystacks, promptly scares her roomie into requesting a new room assignment; keeps getting told she looks a lot like this Reed Mata dude, actually runs into/steps over him on more than one occasion XD (prolly runs into him at Starbucks too, come to think of it XD)
early-mid September: sloths out for the first time, triggered by a fire daemon loose in the dorm XD

Big Deals

Appearance:

Hair: Clover's hair is just barely shoulder-length, fine and stringy and turning into dreadlocks. Since earlier this year, it's been streaked with green -- it originally was a dark ashy-mousy brown. Most people don't even notice the difference, and those who do think she dyed it (badly). It looks like she has camo dreadlocks that were grown the hard way.
Face: she has a washed-out olive complexion which would tan up nicely if she got out more, an oval face, wide roundish grey eyes, and a straight nose. In truth, she looks a LOT like Reed in the face. XD Her mouth is fairly thin-lipped; she doesn't smile a lot, and looks like a deranged Muppet when she does because she's usually in squee-mode and her eyes get HUGE. She cleans up well, though she's more what one might call a "handsome" woman rather than pretty or cute.
Build: Clover is 5'9", slender (one hesitates to say scrawny) in build, flat-chested, long-limbed, and barely recognizable as a girl most of the time, due largely to her...
Clothes: Clover wears t-shirts (mostly anime/manga fangirl stuff) and jeans or skater pants (she can wear boys' stuff -- it actually fits better due to her complete lack of ass and minimal hips), sneakers or tatami flipflops. She couldn't care less about fashion. Color preferences are blacks, greys, greens, and camo.

Personality:

Virtues: methodical, analytical, sensible, curious, highly intelligent
Neutrals: slow-talking, solitary, moody (not bipolar, but shifts erratically between bouncy and grumpy), v. fond of her yaoi <3
Vices: caustic, OCD, intrinsically lazy, not much of an attack monster at all

Blurb:

If you were to pick a poster child for female otaku everywhere, you could do far worse than selecting Clover. She is a true Japanese-culture fangirl, right down to her obsession of choice: boy-love. A rabid collector of yaoi and shounen-ai manga and DVDs, her dorm room looks like a shrine to pretty pretty boyz gettin' it on. Don't question her on it, though, especially if you're a delicate flower who reacts badly to ascerbic comebacks. A transplanted Noo Yawkuh, Clover's personality is as caustic as battery acid, and as such she can grate and intimidate even in normal conversation. Sometimes she'll do it intentionally, too, just to bust your chops.

Clover is also Reed's half-sister, both offspring of Prof. Aaron Xylander, whose fling with Carla Mata the year Clover was conceived begat Reed. XD Once an Indiana Jones-type, Aaron has mellowed over the years to more a Marcus Brody, clearly not the sort to tomcat around on archaeological digs. Which is why, once the truth comes out, it rather takes Clover by surprise.

Daddy is the only reason, really, that Clover came to California -- she's so very NOT a California girl. Proud of her East Coast roots, she affects a severe stereotypical Badass New York accent that makes saying "have a nice day" sound like a threat. (Her actual accent is fairly mild, though clearly East Coast in origin.) Despite being from New York City, Clover is slow-moving and slow-talking (she does talk with her hands, though, as many New Yorkers do). The slowness carries over into her thought patterns; she's methodical and systematic when problem-solving, quite capable of analyzing a situation from all angles and providing the most logical solution she can come up with. She's also blessed with good common sense; her NYC brusqueness just makes her express it poorly. XD

Clover is capable of whiplash-enducing mood swings -- she can go from squeeing fangirl to grumpy smartarse in 0 seconds, which makes some people think she's bipolar or something. She loves to sleep, and gets cross and grumpy when she hasn't slept enough (an offering of coffee will go far to placate her). She's also consummately lazy; she's used to skating by because she finds schoolwork on the whole way too easy, so she growls and grumbles when she encounters something that's a challenge, even though she secretly enjoys having to work for it. She is deeply annoyed that her (lack of) credits transfer to UC:SC put her behind a year, largely because it means she has to take the SAME BORING SHIT ALL OVER AGAIN. A creature of habit, Clover is more than a bit OCD over her yaoi collection -- despite her obsession with pretty pretty boyz, though, she is NOT boy-crazy by any stretch of the imagination. (This doesn't stop her from creating truly awful doujinshi starring the pretty pretty boyz she knows. The male Hunters can expect to find themselves the stars of stuff they really wouldn't want to star in...)

The whole sloth-thing has really thrown Clover for a loop -- the rest of it, the Hunters and daemons and such, makes a certain sense in light of the things she's been able to piece together from her grandfather Lucius' notes. She'll play nice with her fellow Guardians, but DANG if being partnered with a bunch of high-school kids isn't going to annoy the crap out of her at first XD. Clover has her dad's (and her grandpa's) strong sense of curiousity; she is bound and determined to figure out the connection between what he's doing and the stuff she found in grandpa's estate, and help put even more of the pieces of the Geldon puzzle together.

The Other Side

Elemental Control: Energy: Battery

Similar to Reed's photosynthesis, in that she absorbs and converts light into energy; what Clover does with that energy is very different, however. Once she sloths out, she soaks up light through the cyanobacteria in her fur and stores it for use by whomever needs it during battle, like a living solar power supply. Sunlight is definitely the best source of light, followed by full-spectrum lightbulbs.

Totem: Sloth! XD Clover sprouts short grey-green fur with longer bits on her lower arms and legs, her fingernails grow into long nasty curved claws, her face shifts and flattens -- she ends up looking pretty much like a green-furred Muppet XD. The green is caused by algae that live in her fur, like the fur of some species of sloths. On the downside, her metabolism slows markedly, and her eyesight goes to shit. She is also quite vulnerable in battle as she can't run from an attack; her best defense is sitting still like a green lump and blending in with her surroundings.

Abilities:

Battery: a native ability of Rangers, as a Guardian Clover takes this to its green, fuzzy, logical extreme. She can store a large amount of energy, because she expends so little in sloth-mode.
Buff: Hunters and Guardians can pull stored energy from her for their attacks, or she can transmit energy to them with a touch (LOL like ET). She'll use only one hand for this, though, to avoid inadvertently zapping her comrades...
Shock: Clover can zap the living shit out of daemons (or whoever XD) with her claws -- it's like being hit by a taser at the low end to touching ungrounded car battery terminals or having your heart jump-started with a defibrolator at max, depending on how many claws she uses. She touches some part of her target's body with at least one claw from both hands to complete the circuit.
Daemon Tracking: she's Ranger-aligned, that's what they do XD. Clover can sniff out Daemons' delicious brains energy in sloth mode with her extremely heightened sense of smell; she is better at it when it's light outside, though she can track in the dark thanks to her battery stores. Best she can do, though, is go "Over there $distance," since she doesn't move very fast in Guardian mode.
Sensing Hunters: good enough to be able to stalk Hunters around campus XD though she can't physically stalk them, as she can only do this while slothed out.
Etc.: She can claw the crap out of an attacker with her claws, and that's about it...

Type of Hunter: Ranger

Relic: none (all she found in her grandpa's stuff was cryptic notes...)

Band: Guardians