Claustrum Mallor: District 13

She is:
21 years of age.
Of the female gender.
Lives Underground, District 13

At first glance, Claustrum seems slightly younger than her 21 years, from her round face, and other features. However, a closer investigation proves she is older. She is quite tall, towering at five feet and six inches. She has long legs, which are slightly muscular, and long thin arms, with bony shoulders. She is skinny, but of course, like most people who have been well-fed most of their lives, Claustrum has a slight belly to her. Her skin is fair, bordering on pale, which might have something to do with living underground all her life, lacking sunlight. Her skin is often rough, and dry, resulting is red patches, which she doesn't hide.

Beginning with her feet, Claustrum has exceeding large feet, both long and wide. Her toenails aren't that often well-trimmed, and are quite long, but lack any sort of dirt underneath them. Her long muscular legs are usually shaved, however, they are often red, almost raw looking, as her skin is increasingly fragile. Claustrum's body is covered with birthmarks and moles in places such as her stomach. Above and to the left of her belly button is a dark circular birthmark, and she has a mole towards her shoulders on her back. Claustrum also has considerable curves. Her thin arms extend almost awkwardly from her slim shoulders, and have dark hair on them, especially after her elbow. Coming from her bony wrists are her hands which, like her feet, are large, with long fingernails, which she keeps neatly round, and dirt-free.

Past her shoulders, and resting on her neck, which is neither long nor short, is Claustrum's head. Her face is oval shape, with a prominent chin, and round cheeks. Her lips are quite thick, her lower lip slightly thinner, but nonetheless, her lips are full, and peach-colored. Her teeth are straight, but stained from years of drinking coffee. Above her wide philtrum is her nose, with a long bridge, extending down from between her eyes, her cartilage curving upward to form it. She has round, tear-drop shaped nostrils, which tend to flare. Her eyes, above her nose, are wide-set apart from one another. With thin eyelashes, that are hardly existent, and purple bags underneath them, her eyes are quite wide. They are light brown, and tend to sparkle in sudden light, her pupils, which are already quite large, dilating, giving her a mad look. Her eyebrows are thick and close above her eyes, which are slightly sunken into her head. Although she is well out of her adolescent years, she sometimes get small breakouts on her forehead, which she hides with her hair.

Finally, to Claustrum's unruly hair. Her hair is dark brown, darker towards her roots, and is extremely thick. It never stays flat, it's constantly all over the place. Even when it's brushed, it tends to look as though she'd just rolled out of bed. It's short, situated halfway down her neck, and cut to different lengths, some strands falling across her eyes, and over her face. She has no definite part, and if she does, it's well hidden underneath her hair, flying in every different direction.

The easiest way to describe Claustrum Mallor is: eccentric. She is down-right odd, and eccentric. She often wears vibrant colors, and is brimming with energy and imagination. One may say she is not age appropriate, and they'd be right. She is childish, ignoring the fact she has grown, and prefers to act in whichever way she'd like. She is quite stubborn, but knows her limits. Despite her child-like nature, she still knows when to stop, and when to control herself. Still, when she can no longer contain herself, she is extremely immature.

Her imagination runs wild, and when one imagines enough, one tends to believe what is in their head. She usually comes off as crazy almost, living in her own brilliant world. This world is far from reality, Claustrum's world, where she can see the sky, which she hears is blue, and she can feel the wind, and the rain, and lie in the grass. She also believes in crazy fantasies, all from her mind. She is constantly proclaiming the wonderful world in her head, and disapproves of anyone without an imagination. She believes that imagination is vital to life, and finds narrow-mindedness a serious flaw in character. She can be quite rude to those who don't take part in her beliefs, and are close-minded.

Claustrum is full of impatience as well. She is never comfortable with one thing, and living underground has made her increasingly jumpy and itching for change. She wants to see the outside world her parents talk so much about. She is impatient for things to change, for something to happen. She can become quite irrational, and testy at times, snapping at anyone who gets in her way and doesn't agree with her. She can't sit still, and it quite accustomed to little "ticks". She can be found tapping her foot, fingers or a pencil. She slouches often, or is stretching, constantly. Even when she walks, she has a bounce in her step, and it always changing speeds.

Claustrum could be called stuck up. She looks down on those who don't share in her creative side, and moves with an air of superiorly, as if she knows something others don't. And that's what she thinks. She has come to believe that the images in her mind are real, and has even gone to the extent of thinking she is special, when, in reality, she just has an over-active mind. However, if agreed with, she becomes friendly and animated, even more than she was already, and can talk for hours on length.

Gabe Mallor and Diana June were young the day their parents gathered them up and had them come Underground with them. He was 8 and she was 6. They met together, listening to the bombs rain down on the District above, and grew up together, their relationship growing and changing. When she was 23 years old, he proposed to her, and months later they were married. They tried for years to have children, praying that one day they could look down upon their beautiful offspring. Tragedy struck the day Diana found out she was infertile, unable to have children: Gabe's very pregnant younger sister, Julianne, was deathly ill. She managed to have her child before she died, whom bore a striking resemblance to the siblings, and not to Julianne's lover, who had left. Gabe told Julianne he'd care for the girl, whom Julianne said to name Claustrum. After Julianne's death, Diana and Gabe decided it would be best to raise Claustrum as if she were their own child, and tell her so. And so, they never told Claustrum about her real mother, Julianne in her early years.

Although they grieved Julianne's death, Gabe and Diana were overjoyed they could raise a child. They bade to raise her as best they could, making sure Claustrum always knew she was loved. Gabe, the more jovial of the two, would tell Claustrum stories of the outside world, and so began Claustrum's imagination and fantasies. This grew and changed as she grew older. Diana didn't overly approve of these ideas, hoping to forget the outside world, as the memories were fading from her with age. She wanted to make a new life Underground, and would reprimand Claustrum often. This would usually lead to fights, and Claustrum soon began to resent the woman who called herself her mother, for simply not agreeing with her.

Outside of her home, there came another problem. Rhoda Smith. Upon receiving her daily schedule on her arm, Claustrum realized that someone else shared the same exact one: Rhoda. Rhoda, who seemed too normal to be allowed. At first, Claustrum pursued her as a friend, but soon realized the two could not agree on a thing. Claustrum found her too dry for her taste, but never missed a chance to challenge or rival her. As much as Claustrum doesn't particularly enjoy Rhoda, she finds that she enjoys the challenge she poses to her. To this day, they remain rivals, and still have similar schedules, so Claustrum is graced with Rhoda's prescience every single day of her life.

As she grew older, people tended to shy away from Claustrum due to her eccentric habits. By the time she was 18, and ready to move into her own apartment, her parents worried for her. They'd hoped by now she would've met someone by now, and perhaps settled down together in the same apartment, in hopes one day they'd be married. Claustrum had little friends at this point, and was preparing to leave. Gabe, figuring it was time, went to Claustrum and told her the truth about Julianne. He'd hoped it would inspire her to settle down right and have children, and not get pregnant before marriage with little money, as Julianne did. On contrary, Claustrum became angry, distraught even, and taking the picture of her mother, that Gabe had, she left that night, cutting off all ties with her adopted parents. She got an apartment all to herself, which she customized, and took a job, working on the electric units around the Underground compound. It didn't particularly interest her, the job, but whatever brought in money.

She hopes that one day everything will change. She can go above ground, something she's only heard about. She wants to quit her job, leave her apartment, and live some where she can feel the sun, and walk around barefoot in the grass. And that, that impossible dream, Claustrum Mallor wants more than anything.


Codeword: Odair