Shinku No Sora O Koete {A BLEACH STORY}

CLAIRE VERSCHAFFELT

Name: Marie Antoinette Von Claire Verschaffelt
Alias: Ave Maria
Gender: Female
Age: ???

Appearance:

Claire has long dark hair and pale white skin. Her eyes are said to be purple, but some say that it is also blood red. She enjoys wearing fancy dresses, most of them are Gothic themed, matched with different dolls of weird nature. Her favourite doll is a blood stained "Kira" (from deathnote) plushie which sometimes seem like it has a mind of it's own.

Aside from her Hollow Number (Hollow Serial Number), she has a tattoo found on her lower back hip. It is written in neat Gothic calligraphy, the word"Ave maria" with a throned cross between the two words. Another is the name Ciel inked just above her right breast area.

She has an X shaped scar across her chest, it stretches up to her shoulder blades and on her hips, on both sides. Even with incredible regeneration, this scar shows no sign of ever vanishing.

The origin of the scar is still unknown.


Hollow Hole: Right eye

Mask Remnants: on the back of her neck This from time to time grows and usually by will. When it grows, it turns into demonic horns similar to that of a high ranking demon.
Number location: Right above her back hip tattoo on the upper right side.


Personality:

Claire is childish by nature. Her innocence and lack of any hollow like characteristics stupefy most of her kin and mock her for that.

But even though bullied, ridiculed and mocked by them, their is still a fear they cannot understand, and it is the existence of Ave Maria.

Mostly, Claire is non violent, she can turn any situation into play no matter how ridiculous it may seem. Her interest in human life made her 'vegan' as she called it. She has a weird liking to blood. Be it shinigami, hollow or human, she will drink it. But she does not drink without permission, she is polite, sweet and always adorable at best.

Hollows mostly tolerate her spoiled behaviour because she was their Princess. She is an heir to the kingdom of Windsore, the country of Ween (HOLLOWEEN). But she shows no interest in running the country, in fact she prefers living with her human in the human world. She loves the living world, in fact she claims to be the biggest fan. She would even go so far as killing her own if they so dare touch her most precious humans.

Childish by nature, but born for destruction. Within the deepest of her soul, a deep dark secret is kept, a dark existence that is Ave Maria. Ave Maria, in a sense is evil incarnate, a formless demon who shared a body with her. One body, two souls, that is why she is feared and pampered by her own, for when the time comes when Ave Maria is released into the world, it would be complete and total madness.

Fighting Aggression:

Claire sees everything as a game, and sees her enemies as fools hopelessly crying for attention. She's the type to run away when the situation gets difficult, but its all part of the façade, somewhere inside Claire lies a sleeping tiger which awakens when she retreats to her resurrection. But in times even her resurrection fails her. Claire only has one resurrection form, but its a lot like a two way path where one leads to a normal release and the other an irregular/abnormal release.

When in abnormal release, Claire turns into a completely mad person, somewhat ignoring all her other senses and depending only on pure instincts. Luckily, her instincts haven't failed her and keeps her from dying from time to time.

When its normal, she becomes a cold blooded monster, yet you can still sense the essence that is Claire only, but in this state, a sense of maturity is present.


Back-Story:

I was once part of the living...

Claire was once a homeless orphan. Her parents died from a terrible tragedy which lead her into loosing her right eye. She was very pretty... but not after the accident.

She became everyone's laughing stack, the tragedy had not only taken her parents life, but her humanity as well. "Why didn't you take me with them" she asked the man in the sky, the one who controlled everything in the world. She only saw him as a coward hiding behind a façade of a better tomorrow.

She could do nothing about humanity, this race was not something worth saving. This race was who gave her life, who gave her joy, who gave her sorrow, who gave her an never ending lust of envy. How lucky were the cowards who left her to live. How lucky they were that they got out of this joke of a life.

The only sin that she's admitted to is that she was born, "Sorry I was born, sorry I was ugly" she cried. "Sorry I was born, sorry I was ugly."

She was tormented through out her high school, she was ridiculed, humiliated abused, and was even raped. She had not the courage to fight for her self we she cant even stand her existence in this world. But who would believe her anyway?

There was a boy she liked, his name is Ciel, he was the type who has the looks but sticks with the books. He's a role model for men, in his own special way. Claire saw through his act. He looked happy, yes, he helps everyone else, yes, he does everything so diligently, like a committed husband to the world its self.

But Claire saw through the lie. He wears a pretentious mask, a lot like her.

There are times when she would think rationally and say. "I gave up on the world first" but the truth makes her all the more anxious, she couldn't bare with the fact that she got her self right to the core, and would not admit to her own wrong.

Like Ciel, she was lying to both her self and the world, they're to scared of the truth, that they do what they do to help out the ends of two different paths.

"Youre ----- right?" he asked Claire one afternoon after class, she didnt think he noticed her, but it seemed like he knew she was watching him. "Don't be scared, I don't mind you watching me."

Claire was speechless, not only did he know her name, but he also knew what she was thinking, she simply ignored him as if pretending she didn't know he was talking to her.


"Wait" he said stopping Claire from any further movements, "You have your hair tied up today, you look better that way."

Claire for a fact didn't even notice her self, she had her hair tied up that day, it was prolly cause of gym class. The first compliment she heard in years, was from a boy she liked who didn't seem to care about her past.

The scar on her face was aching so bad cause of the pain, she couldn't stand how he was nice to everyone yet it was all a game to him, "The pretentious boy i love" she thought.

She simple continued walking away with only one thought in mind.

"Goodbye."

At the day of there graduation, Claire was no where to be found. Ciel was looking for her, yet, it would appear that she missed the ceremony.

Later, he found a letter inside his locker, it was in a plain white envelope neatly folded into perfection. It only had two words written in it in bold katakana. "Thank you" it said, Ciel never knew who it was from, but he had the feeling that it was from Claire.

He looked for her everywhere, but she wasn't even home, if she wasn't, where else could she be? He knew nothing about her, yet, he felt something odd about this whole thing. He didn't give up searching for her even after an hour, 4 hours, 8 hours till his body finally gave up.

It was early the next morning, that Claire's dead body was found inside the library, where she first saw Ciel.

There was no sign of struggle, suggesting that she hung her self thus committing suicide.





and then, i died...
She remembered nothing of her human life, but the bitterness kept her haunting the living. Her soul remembers the places where she once was, remember the faces of those who laughed, who feared, she haunted them all for several years. But through her haunting, she saw a demon chasing after her shadow, she ran from this unknown terror but couldn't. As it reached her she was sucked into a dark hole pulled her in, she was no longer in the living world, but in an empty vast place, where she felt at home for some time. But she didn't realize what danger the world brought until she met the ones who reside among them.

She was asked by the larger guys a question. "A soul you must be, but i sense nothing special in you, you would neither taste good nor satisfy my hunger, but i sense strong emotions from you, you'd like to be stronger, perhaps?"

Claire just gave a nod as she knew not of words at the time.

With the nod, she was transformed by 5-10 to 20 hollows into one of them.

She was no longer ashamed of how she looked... For the first time in her life, she felt like she

I became less and less human, i became, empty

Upon turning into a hollow, Claire had visited several places in the world, but non of them were as interesting as she could not communicate with this beings they called human.

She was once like them, one of them, walking under the great bright light they called sun, but she cant remember any of it. She had longed to be human, but she thirsted for there spirit, that ever flowing mystic stream of life, she needed there life force so bad, yet she couldn't bring her self into killing them.

Not until her leader forced her to do so. In a matter of life and death, she encountered a hollows mortal enemy, a shinigami, she had lost a few limbs, but to be able to return to normal, she had to make a choice, a choice of eating human souls, or dying. She chose to live and have feasted on them then on.

She became stronger and stronger as she ate even more, it even came to a point when she ate her fellow beings as well.

It was not later that everyone feared her once more, a thing that ached her lifeless heart from deep within. She was sorrowful yet again.

She left Hueco mundo in search for a better path, yet, something about leaving a place ached her heart, she feared that if she left, she will leave something that of hers that will never be hers.

The trials of life put her through a test once more, an encounter with someone which made her into the arrancar that she is now. The arrancar who had not heard of the word sorrow.

i became the ruler of this world, i am became... a God-King.

She returned to her home, Hueco Mundo, a changed being, she's could no longer tell truth from reality, but one thing's for sure, she exists for a reason, and her memories do to.

She went home to those who took care of her when she lived in Hueco Mundo, to Ween Country, she came back, she's heard of the news, her acting father died, so she was forced into ruling a kingdom she had no interest in, but was willing to do it so long as they wont keep her bored.

So the Kingdom changed dramatically, from something with so much history, to something... More comical.


The kingdom on Windsor, became Ween... The Hollow-Ween Country, she said.