Clarissa

   

Clarissa
Biographical Information
Age:	18
Height:	5'4
Gender:	Female
Status:	Unknown
Originally From:	France
Affiliations:	France
Relationship Information
Family:	Catherine de' Medici (Mother) Richard Delacroix (Father) Nostradamus (Foster Brother) Prince Francis(Half Brother) Princess Elisabeth (Half-Sister) Prince Charles (Half Brother) Prince Henry (Half Brother)'
Character Information
First Appearance:	Pilot
Portrayed By:	Katie Boland
GALLERY

Clarissa is the castle ghost more or less, who lives secretly within it's walls. Though silent and mysterious, she has developed a possible crush on Mary Stuart and warns her of dangers from time to time. She keeps her face hidden due to a childhood scar.

Personality

Clarissa is shy with new comers and is scared of what other people will say or how they will react to her and her disfigured face. She is very bold and daring however, and doesn't seem to overly care about consequences. Like when she let a man die to save Colin's life, or killed Aylee for personal reasons. She is loyal to a point. She loves Nostradamus, as well as Mary. However her love for Mary is more on an obsession.

Early Life

Clarissa is the love child of the Queen of France, and her secret lover Richard Delacroix. She was born less than 20 years ago to the couple while the Queen's husband was away. She was born with her father's birthmark on her cheek, and was left to die in the forest. A man soon found her before the wolves did and brought her home to his son and wife. He tried different potions and elixirs to rid the baby of her birthmark. When those didn't work he resorted to surgery, leaving the now young child permanently scared. Once the man died, his son Michel de Nostredame took charge of the child and eventually brought her to French court with him. He warned Clarissa to stay quiet and hidden from sight if she wished to remain with him and in the castle.

Season 1

• Pilot

Clarissa watches Mary's arrival.

Clarissa watches from a window as Mary Stuart arrives in front of the entire French Court.

Later that evening Clarissa is spying on Queen Catherine while she is informing Colin MacPhail on his new obligations. Clarissa decides to warn Mary of her spiked wine and sneaks back into the hidden hallways of the castle, and warns Mary thought a hidden door in Marys' own room.

The next day Clarissa's hard work pays off, and Mary has avoided being raped and loosing her alliance with France and is even thanked by the Queen of Scotts for her guidance.

• Snakes in the Garden

Clarissa decides to save the life of Colin. The night before he was to be beheaded, she pained a red 'X' on the door of another man. Later after he is tortured on the rack, she sets him free into the woods.

The next day at a party for her friend Prince Charles and his fiancé Lady Madeleine Clarissa becomes annoyed when Charles doesn't have time for her. He tries to explain but they are interrupted by Queen Mary.

Clarissa overhears Charles explain to Mary who she is. Mary tries to talk with her, but Clarissa get's scared and runs back into the shadows of the castle walls.

After the party Clarissa is spying on Mary in her room again. Mary takes a good sized couple of marbles and rolls one down the secret passageway in her room to Clarissa. Asking her questions about Queen Catherine and the English, including the newly arrived Simon Westbrook.

If the marble is rolled back, the answer is yes, if not, the answer is no. Clarissa reveals The English & the French Queen, may or may not be working together, but they both want her gone. Clarissa gets scared after too many questions and runs away again, but not before leaving Mary with a Key.

That night Nostradamus scolds her for interfering as he cleans off the 'X' she painted on the wrong door. He tells her to stay awy from Mary.

• Hearts and Minds

During a day of sporting events between Francis and the newly arrived Tomás, Catherine mentions during their archery session, that the target is modelled after a supposed castle ghost.

That night Clarissa decided to hide under Mary's bed for the night.

• Left Behind

Mary comes to Clarissa for help again. The castel has been taken over the Count Vincent and his Italian men. Mary begs Clarissa for help and leaves her a piece on chalk to mark the way to the stables for her and the rest of the French court to escape though. Clarissa does as asked and creates a path with the chalk from a halway to the stables for everyone.

Hours laters, Francis' new love interest Olivia D'Amencourt is walking alone. She leaves her spot behind the door to follow Francis' instead of staying behind and making sure Mary and her ladies are helped into the door, as it can only be opened from one side. Clarissa scares Olivia and then takes her somewhere.

• Fated

Clarissa following Aylee

Clarissa spies of Queen Catherien and Diane de Poitiers conversation, where Catherine warns Diane to take care of Lady Kenna. Clarissa, wanting Mary to stay, or perhaps out of spite, takes matters into her own hands when Diane decided not to possion Kenna.

Clarissa slips a new possion that Nostradamus had been working on, and puts it into a drink made for the badly beaten Kenna. However when Lady Aylee drinks it instead Clarissa again takes matters into her own hands and pushed her off the 2nd floor and kills her. She dies with her friends around her and blood poring out from her head.

Hours alter when Aylee' body is brought to Nostradamus he calls her into the room. He becomes furious when he realizes she is the one to kill young Aylee as he can recognize his own poisson, he then rips off the sack that covers her face and forces her to look at what she has done. He then forces her behind a wall and into a cage as punishment as she wails and cries at him.

• Inquisition

Clarissa' face revealed

Clarissa is forced to stay in the cage that Nostradamus had put her in for over a week. He wanred her she had to keep hidden and not interfere with the lives of others in the castle. Feeling pitty for her, he tosses her, her doll along with her food. Angry as her adopted brother for keeping her locked up, Clarissa stabed him with the wood that was in the doll's body and runs off.

She then finds out from spying on Catherine that She is her mother, and that a man named Richard Delacroix is her father. She is their love child from a long time ago.

Later that night when Catherine decided to kill Mary and herself to save her children's future and birthright. Clarissa saves them both, and tries to communicate with her mother. However Catherine is startles by the sight of her long-dead-daughter and screams for her to go away. Clarissa does, heartbroken.

• Royal Blood

Clarissa watched a young couple.

Clarissa decided to sneak into her mother's chambers, while she was locked up. She went from her bed to her dresser looking for things. She opened a jewelry box and started to go through the locks of hair her mother had collected from her children. She looked at Harry's blonde lock and became jealous. However Clarissa had to hide when she heard someone coming into the room. She panicked and hid behind a dressing wall as a young couple began to make out on the bed. She watched them as they did so.

Having never left, Clarissa was still in the room when the young maiden girl was cleaning up. The young woman asked who was there. Startled, Clarissa came out from behind the curtains, and grabbed the girl. She immediately put her arms around her neck and strangled her to death.

Clarissa puts on her mask

Later Clarissa was back in her secret passages of the castle walls. She was watching her half-brothers, Prince Charles, and Prince Henry play together. She decided to open the gift Mary had left her. Inside was a half a mask. Mary had had it created for her, to cover the scars on the left side of her face. Clarissa put it on and admired herself. She then looked down at the locks of hair she had stolen. They were Henry and Charles’. She pulled out a bloody lock of her own red hair, and wrapped it around the other two.

Having heard that Charles and Henry were going to be relocated, Clarissa had hid inside the same wagon they were in. At nightfall she got out and killed the driver. She then walked over to her friend Charles who greeted her. He asked why she was there, ignoring his question she told both the boys to come with her. And said that she wanted them to be a family together.

Clarissa crying.

The next morning feeling panicked, knowing her mother what have guards out looking for her son's, Clarissa made a rash decision. She decided to tell both the boys to pick up as many, and as much rocks as they could, and to put them in their pockets. They were going to all go for a swim.

"You want us to be together. We’ll be together when we’re all dead!"

— Clarissa

Before that could happen her mother, Mary and Sebastian all interrupted them. Both her younger brothers tried to run away, but Clarissa was able to grab Charles. Holding him to her with a knife. She wasn't ready to lose him. Mary tried to reason with her, as did her mother. Clarissa only wanted them to be a family, and the only way they could, was in death. Before Clarissa could cut Charles’ throat, Mary smashed her on the head with a rock. She fell down, but before she died, Mary held her hand for her last breath.

The young Scottish queen cried over the death of her friend.

Two men that had been taxed with burying the body of Clarissa, decided to throw it down the hill. It was too cold for them to do work and they headed back to the castle. Clarissa's lifeless body laid on the snow, with both her eyes still open.

• Consummation

Clarissa was mantioned by Nostradamus and her mother Catherine while talking about her and her supposed death from a week before.

When Nostradamus went to visit her make-shift tomb stone her saw her bloody footprints leaving the grave site.

Notes

• Clarissa is the illegitimate love child of the Queen of France and Viscount Richard Delacroix.
• Clarissa shares the same birthmark as her father, Richard Delacroix. A mark that is genetic on his side of the family.
• Clarissa had a theif executed in placed of Colin MacPhail. She also snapped a maid's neck, and threatened to kill the two youngest male princes as revenge agents her mother.

Appearances

Season One
Pilot	Snakes in the Garden	Kissed	Hearts and Minds	A Chill in the Air	Chosen	Left Behind	Fated	For King and Country	Sacrifice	Inquisition
Royal Blood	Consummation	Dirty Laundry	The Darkness	Monsters	Liege Lord	No Exit	Toy Soldiers	Higher Ground	Long Live the King	Slaughter of Innocence