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Player Information
Player name: Emily
Contact: AIM – iluvroadrunner6
Are you over 18: Yes.
Characters in the game already: Alec McDowell, Cora Hale
Proof of Reserve: here

Character Information
Character Name: Cami O’Connell
Canon: The Originals
Canon Point: 222: Ashes to Ashes
Is your character Dead, Undead or Alive: Alive
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.

When it comes to Denouement, Cami is going to be in way over her head. You would think that living in a city as volatile as New Orleans would prepare her for something like Denouement, but while her skills as a psychologist and protection from the Mikaelsons and Marcel kept her safe, she’s now going to have to learn how to protect herself. Especially with so many people from home there to worry about her, she is going to want to be able to keep them safe as well. That’s going to have to expand to more than her ability to wield a whiskey bottle on the fly.

Regardless, Cami is going to do as she always does – she’s going to take care of the people she cares about as best she can, and she’s going to try not to die. That might not work out the way she hopes, but she’s still going to try all the same.

Items on your character at canon point:

1 – denim jacket

1 – pretty floral print dress

1 – bra and underwear set

1 – pair of fashionable-yet-comfortable shoes

1 – bottle of whiskey

Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses:

Abilities/Strengths:
Cami’s biggest strength is easily her compassion. Compassion and grim determination to see things through. She also has the ability to analyze someone and determine their motivations fairly easily thanks to her background in psychology. However, beyond that she has no special abilities as she is the token human of the Originals fandom.

Weaknesses
Cami is stupidly, irrevocably human. So fragile I’m not even kidding. She’s probably going to die a lot. She also tends to feel incredibly guilty for things out of her control, and the people she loves are easy targets to get her to do something dumb.

Samples
Network/Action Spam Sample: Cami finds a Vincent

Prose Log Sample:

[Thread starter from a meme that I’m fond of – I can provide a second sample if need be.]

Cami's been at a bit of a loss, in some ways. There's a part of her that wants to help, but she has no idea how to deal with the kind of loss that Klaus and Hayley are going through right now. Losing a child is ... losing a child is hard, she knows that much from watching her parents after her brother died, especially with the way Sean died, but losing a baby, especially after everything they had done to protect it, it must be an impossible pain. And she doesn't know how to help them, as much as she may want to.

So she relies on her instincts, if the casserole dish in her hand is any indication. She pauses for a moment when Elijah comes into view, momentarily at a loss for words. She doesn't make social calls when it comes to the oldest of the Originals - when she sees him it's because he needs her to wrangle Klaus, and he must know at this point that Klaus told her to stay away. She doesn't intend to stay long.

"I wasn't sure what to do, about ... everything. But I wanted to do something, and I'm not much of a cook but whenever someone dies in my family, we always bring food, so that no one has to cook. But as I'm standing here, holding this, I'm remembering that you're all vampires, so ... no one is going to actually eat this. Wow, I'm an idiot."

There's a beat of silence, and she takes a step back.

"Never mind. I shouldn't even be here anyway."