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[bravebartender]

PLAYER INFORMATION

PLAYER: Emily (iluvroadrunner6)

AGED 18+? Yes.

RESERVED? No.

IN-GAME CHARACTERS: Emma invited me.

CHARACTER INFORMATION

NAME: Cami O’Connell

CANON: The Originals

CANON POINT: 319: No More Heartbreaks

ARRIVAL TYPE: Rescued.

IC USERNAME: bravebartender

HISTORY: Here, have a wiki.

PERSONALITY:

Cami O’Connell is incredibly Catholic.

Most people wouldn’t consider it the most important qualifier, but it’s a word that encompasses both her good qualities as well as her flaws. It’s also something that has been a central focus of Cami’s life from the time she was a young girl. Even if she has lapsed in the practice of the faith itself, with an uncle who was a priest and a twin brother who was a seminarian, the Catholic Church has been a part of her life from the time she was a young girl, and those ideals and teachings were a huge part of her formative years growing up. Cami, in a lot of ways, embodies the true meaning of the word Catholic: all-encompassing, welcoming and universally compassionate, choosing kindness over judgement. In fact, sometimes, she will choose kindness over good judgement, but that’s a common flaw when you care too much.

Witch, werewolf, vampire or human, Cami approaches them with the same openness and welcoming air, up until they cross her, and even then she forgives rather than lashes out in retaliation. With her background in psychology she is aware of the complicated ticks of the human psyche and her background as a bartender only adds to the ease with which people open up to her. She has the kind of openness and ease that can break down even the most difficult walls, because in that openness they can trust that she won’t judge them.

But with that kindness and compassion comes incredible guilt for those she can’t help. This is particularly strong when it comes to her twin brother, Sean. Before she learned that he was cursed by vengeful wishes, Cami agonized over trying to find the “thing she missed.” She felt that she knew her brother so well, and the horrific nature of his actions made her question why she couldn’t see the signs coming sooner. Losing Sean is what pushed her towards considering psychology as a profession and still drives her in the understanding of the human mind and the rest of the world around her. She even questions her own emotional states – after Klaus compels her to let her brother go, she feels guilty about her lack of guilt, rather than taking it as a sign that she’s finally moving past her brother’s death.

It’s those suspicions that drive her, allowing her to take apart the puzzles of the world around her, even when she doesn’t entirely understand what’s happening to her. Cami is incredibly clever, leaving herself notes and messages in code when she started noticing gaps and disconnects in her memory due to Klaus’ compulsion, as well as putting together the clues her brother and uncle left behind for her regarding her role as the leader of the human faction. While it’s not a role that Cami has grown into as of yet, it’s her family’s legacy and her last connection to her brother and Uncle Kieran. As much as she tries to keep herself out of the supernatural, her strong ties to the Mikaelson family as well as the witches of New Orleans force her hand in a lot of ways, wanting to do what she can to help protect the people that she cares about and using her family’s knowledge to help do so.

Cami also is incredibly brave with a very low sense of self preservation. If her continued relationship with Klaus Mikaelson – in both it’s ups and downs – isn’t evidence enough, the numerous moments of her trying to take on beings far older and more powerful than her should fill in the rest. Cami isn’t afraid to fight for what is right, whether it’s control of her own mind, protecting the lives of the people she loves, or trying to keep the people she loves from doing incredibly dumb things. Talking Klaus Mikaelson out of his bad life choices is a regular event that doesn’t always work, but she has a way of speaking to him that accomplishes the difficult task of both managing to get through to him on an emotional level while still being honest with him at the same time. It’s a combination of both her candor and her ability to see more than a monster cuts through his initial resistance to someone telling him that he’s wrong, and despite her better judgement, she cares very deeply for Klaus. It is also because of that better judgement that she tries to keep her distance, but she can’t resist the siren call of someone who needs her, even if it’s someone who may be broken beyond actual repair.

However, as we’ve learned in Season 3, this forgiveness can have a breaking point. When Cami is forced to enter the transition to become a vampire, we being to see a starker side to Cami. In being forced to kill herself the same way her brother was forced to kill himself, and having her hand forced in going into transition, the patience and understanding she would normally give people broke away. She began to build her armor more around herself, wanting to be able to protect herself and do it on her own terms, not someone else’s. Klaus, after all, promised to protect her, and Klaus failed to do so and caused her to lose her humanity in the process. Her insights and understand of people come under a much colder consideration as a vampire, both as a means of protection and keeping herself alive. At the same time, that doesn’t mean she doesn’t still care about her friends. The sharper, heightened emotions that come with being a vampire don’t allow her to just shove those emotions to the side unless she decides to turn them off completely.

When it comes to Clock Box, while she will be incredibly grateful for the rescue, as she doesn’t want to die, as much as she may put up a good face, she will also be feeling incredibly isolated, alone, and not sure who to trust. She may fall back on old habits of finding a bar and offering her services as bartender as it’s a job she really loves, but for right now she’s going to be focused on trying to rebuild a life and managing still being a vampire and all that entails. It’s going to be rough, but she’ll figure it out, one way or another.

INVENTORY:

1 - black comfy sweater
1 - pair of jeans
1 - one pair of flats
All addition clothing therein
1 - enchanted vampire daylight ring
1 - deadly supaoriginal werewolf bite

CHANGES: n/a

SAMPLES

ONE: PSL Prose thread
TWO: From a little earlier in canon, but here’s some fic.
THREE: Here, have some cross-canon.

Hopefully these are okay! If I need to do a separate, different kind of sample, let me know and I’ll write something up, but her last game was locked so unfortunately I can’t link them for you here.