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AGENT STARLING

CLARICE M. STARLING NAME
F SEX/GENDER
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS CANON
POST-FILM CANONPOINT

HISTORY

LOSING HER FATHER

Clarice is raised in rural West Virginia for the first decade of her life, the eldest of several children. Her dearest memories center on her father, the town marshal, with whom she was close. When he's killed apprehending two burglars, Clarice is devastated.

HEARING THE LAMBS SCREAM

After her father's death, ten-year-old Clarice is sent alone from West Virginia to Montana, where a cousin of her mother's runs a sheep ranch. She lives there for two months but is promptly sent away when she tries to prevent the spring lambs from being slaughtered. Her initial attempt to free them doesn't work, since they won't leave their pen when the gate is opened, so she picks one up and runs away with it. When the sheriff catches up with her, the lamb is slaughtered and Clarice is packed off to a Lutheran orphanage for the next eight years.

GOING TO SCHOOL

When she leaves the orphanage, it's to go to school for criminology and psychology at the University of Virginia, where she graduates with honors. She's recruited directly into the FBI, and though she doesn't have advantages physically or socially, her hard work is recognized by higher-ups at Quantico. Near the end of her training, one of her instructors sends her to speak with serial killer Hannibal Lecter.

ENCOUNTERING HANNIBAL LECTER

Hannibal and Clarice's relationship is both adversarial and intimate; he forces her to confide in him before he'll give her insights on the case she's working. Their interactions are her first official forays into her career, and they're simultaneously excruciating and exhilarating. In Lecter, Clarice finds a sort of mentor, giving her insights into the criminal mind that she could never learn in a classroom. He challenges her, dropping clues that require intellectual prowess and risk-taking. By the point of their last interaction, a complex mutual respect has grown between them.

HUNTING BUFFALO BILL

Her conversations with Lecter are in service of a case the FBI is rushing to solve, that of serial killer Buffalo Bill. This investigation is the first of Clarice's career, and it's the point at which she moves into true adulthood, shedding some of the damage of her youth by rescuing a young woman from an horrific fate. The skills she's developed over years are put to the test, and she succeeds through a mix of courage, intelligence, and instinct.

ABILITIES

ABILITY

• Bachelors degree in criminology and psychology, including some field experience in providing psychiatric evaluations.

• Fighting experience: Significant training in both firearms and hand-to-hand combat, experience using firearms in high-stakes situations.

• Investigative training: Behavioral science, criminal profiling, interrogation techniques, the basics of (1990s-era) forensic science, running investigative operations, surveillance skills, detailed anatomical knowledge.

• High level of physical fitness and agility.

PERMISSIONS

Yes. TOUCHING Yes. KISSING Yes. SEX Yes, but let's be in conversation about it. POWERS USE Yes, but let's be in conversation about it. INJURY Yes, but let's be in conversation about it. death

Yes, but let's be in conversation about it. FIGHT SCENES Yes. SHIPPING No, thank you. FOURTH-WALLING Yes. BACKTAGGING Yes in network, ask first in logs. THREADJACKING Please no excretory substances in sex, detailed descriptions of butt stuff, other things tbd. Ask before bringing up necrophilia or non-sapient bestiality (i.e., actual animals) in any non-criminal context. OOC HARD LIMITS

PREFERENCES

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MONSTER

appearance

Clarice transforms into a chimera, fairly close to the classical depiction of such: Her ultimate form is a lioness with the head of black-faced sheep protruding from behind its shoulders. The tail of the chimera ends in the head of a rattlesnake. It has a pair of huge moth wings that bear the markings of Acherontia styx, the death's-head moth, including the skull pattern on her back beneath the sheep's head. As a chimera, she's a mix of beasts that don't make up a congruent whole; she's the sum of disparate parts and nothing more. The transformation begins with claws and teeth lengthening, followed by the growth of a tail and wings. There's a brief window of time when she still otherwise has a human shape, but then the sheep's head begins to grow, and her body elongates and shifts into that of the lioness.

POWER_LIST

In this form, she has sharp-toothed jaws capable of deadly levels of pressure. Her legs are powerful, capable of running up to 50 miles an hour and taking 35-foot leaps; her paws are broad and sharp-clawed; and her rattlesnake tail has a venomous bite. While her wings won't allow flight, they can flap quickly enough to buffet humanoids away from her.

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Coming from the FBI, Clarice is used to a plainspoken attitude towards upsetting subject matter. The following could potentially come up as part of narrative or dialogue:

• Murder, rape, torture, mutilation, extreme violence
• Corpses
• Serial killers
• Other crimes, including robbery, arson, hostage situations, domestic terrorism
• PTSD and mental health challenges
• Law enforcement and policing
• Parental death, orphanages

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