Clove

Clove is the other half of the orange twins here at camp, known for being fiercely protective of their family and a great Fight Club Jr. trainer.

Appearance
Clove is a sunset orange tiefling with a mess of curly black hair and white, pupil-less eyes. They have red coloration around their eyes and shoulders, along with black on their hands and feet. They have both black and gold freckles scattered across their body. Their horns are straight with a hook jutting down towards their ears, and both the ridges and the tips fade to orange. Clove is also covered in a vast collection of silver scars, most appearing to be from weapon injuries, but with several that look like animal bites and burns. Their left ear is torn in several places and both ears are pierced with silver jewelry. There are also three rings pierced through the ridges of their tail.

Clove is rarely seen out of armor, even during day-to-day activities. They favor an asymmetric set of studded leather armor with a plastron and steel shoulder guard over their right arm that leaves their left arm bare. Clove is known for mixing traditionally masculine and feminine clothing, regardless of the occasion, and wears tall heeled boots and corsets even in combat. They also own a suit of heavy black chainmail-and-leather armor that they use for serious fights. Clove binds their chest in most circumstances and wears a shoulder length glove on their right arm even when sleeping and swimming.

Clove has a collection of black linework tattoos, namely: a large piece across their back and shoulders resembling a star chart with overlapping circles; waves, clouds, and serpents winding up both their legs to meet with the star chart; a floral piece on their right shoulder.

Personality
Clove is the spicy half of the sweet and spicy duo that are the orange twins. They are energetic, impulsive, cheerful, honest, and often stupid, with a chronic competitive streak. They enjoy causing problems on purpose, especially to their friends, and are known for getting drunk easily, or at least having a knack for finding very strong liquor. Clove is a skilled fighter and spends most of their free time either in Fight Club or managing Fight Club Jr., their residential cabin that they converted into a training arena for people interested in learning self-defense or combat skills.

Though Clove’s external persona can come off as indifferent and cocky, they are surprisingly intuitive. They don’t consider themselves a person who is ‘good with words,’ opting to self-identify as ‘the muscle,’ but is quick to notice when someone is troubled and will offer advice to the best of their capacity.

While Clove is typically friendly, they’re fiercely protective of their family, primarily Clementine, but also Relish and more recently, Uva. They have been known to threaten violence and quickly act on these threats when they feel those they love have been hurt. This included grievously injuring Ashe in the Lounge.

Clove struggles with feelings of inadequacy stemming from their difficulty with reading, tendency towards violence, and personal view of their body image, seeing themselves as the ‘stupid’ and ‘ugly’ twin, though they have not voiced this to anyone. After becoming a cleric, their perceived inadequacy was exacerbated by their inability to effectively heal.

Magic
Clove’s magic manifests as primarily as silver threads, though it has also appeared as mercury-like droplets, mirror shards, and black stars hung in silver smoke. Most of their spellcasting has a performative physical component, including broad gestures with their arms and occasionally footwork, as demonstrated in their casting of Silence. They frequently change the shape of their spiritual weapon, though they tend towards the forms of a glaive and greatsword. Their Inflict Wounds spell burns with a signature lichtenburg pattern and when casting Spirit Guardians, they summon the spectral forms of fallen people who grasp at Clove’s opponents with skeletal hands.

Clove’s healing magic is flawed. They do not heal cleanly- if skin has been broken, Clove’s magic leaves shining silver scars. Though the silver sheen dulls gradually over the course of years, the scar is permanent and will never fade. Clove is extremely frugal with their healing magic because of this and feels immense guilt when their magic marks people. They don’t use magic much outside of combat and are frequently surprised by displays of magic in everyday life.

Background
Clove and Clementine were born as the 6th and 7th children of a large family of 8 total children. The two of them left home in their teenage years and found passage on a ship across the ocean. The two of them haven’t talked in much detail about what happened from when they landed in port to when they came to camp, but there have been mentions of slavery, the twins being separated, and other trauma.

Clove has reason to believe they have been killed before, and has made mention of a bargain that they have to keep. The rest is lost to Lööps.

Camp Timeline

 * Clove immediately moved into Cabin 11 instead of Cabin 9 because they did not/could not read their room assignment, and met E, Li, and Emmett.
 * While exploring the camp with E, they found Fight Club and started a sparring match with her. After winning that bout, they met Relish and started a friendly fight with her. Clem happened upon this fight and attacked Relish in a panic, ending the fight. Clove explained to Clem that there was no real danger and the three tieflings made up, ending with Relish giving the twins each a stone from her collection.
 * Relish and Clove met for a rematch that ended with Clove knocking Relish unconscious in two rounds thanks to an especially potent Inflict Wounds. They managed to heal her without scarring her with their magic, and wrapped the encounter with Clove carrying her home.
 * Clove meets Peri and Eylette at the waterfall, and Clove becomes suspicious that Peri’s loose ideas of relationships might be harmful to Clem.
 * Clementine informs Clove that they moved into the wrong cabin. Upon moving into the correct cabin, they have a confrontation with Uva and Peri that ends with Clove threatening Peri to stay away from both Clementine and Clove. This causes Peri to move out of Cabin 9. With no roommate, Clove converts Cabin 9 into a miniature training area that would come to be affectionately known as Fight Club Jr.
 * Clove meets with Relish by the river and gifts her a blue sea glass pendant in exchange for the stone she gave them earlier. The two kiss and confess mutual feelings for each other, starting their relationship as a couple.
 * Clove meets with Eylette to teach her to swim, with moderate success.
 * Uva comes to Cabin 9 to apologize to Clove and express interest in learning self-defense. This starts the official launch of Fight Club Jr. Uva later brings Peri to practice with as well.
 * Relish sends Clove a message while heavily inebriated at a game of Truth or Dare at the campfire. Clove comes to join the party and meets Angel, Onyx, and Ashe.
 * During a conversation with Uva, Clove discovers that before coming to camp, she was married in an abusive relationship with a woman named Viola in Phandalin. After their conversation with Uva, Clove leaves camp for a period of time, eventually returning with a gift for Uva; a box of pastries from a bakery in Phandalin and news that they punished her ex-wife for her crimes through verbal, physical, and psychological means. This culminated with a ‘curse’ where Viola cannot cause physical harm through her own hand or intent without inflicting it upon herself threefold. The details of this curse were not detailed, as Uva experienced a panic attack that Clove stayed with her through.
 * Ashe meets Clove in the Lounge and mentions Clem’s silver scars, accidentally implying that Clem called them the result of ‘shitty clerics.’ Clove took great offense to this and became furious, though they were able to calm themselves when Ashe explained herself and through cutting their left palm with their claws. The two talked about their broken magic and how it has impacted their sense of worth as clerics. Ashe heals Clove’s hand with silver and asks them to heal her the next time she is injured. Clove refuses to do so.
 * Ashe, in a moment of weakness and self-loathing, tells Clove that she kissed Clementine and attempts to attack Clove, which sends Clove to the brink of rage through the implication that she hurt their twin. Clove casts Inflict Wounds on Ashe to the edge of death, destroying her hand and much of her arm with their signature necrotic lightning. Upon realizing what they’ve done, they flee the scene and abandon Ashe.
 * Clove returns to their cabin with the intent to leave camp with Clem, but finds Clem seeking refuge in their cabin, covered in soot. They break down, telling Clem that they need to leave, calling themselves ‘barely a person anymore’ and that she should come with them. Clem says that she does not want to leave, so Clove agrees to remain at the camp despite feeling certain that they will be put to death if they stay. The twins affirm that they will be together, “‘til the end.”
 * Relish finds Clove the day after the Lounge incident and they confess that they hurt someone with the intent to kill them and that they’re not a good person. Relish replies that she’s not a good person either, and that she accepts them even with their flaws, stating she has done terrible things too. The two agree that they love each other despite their past wrongs, and that they don’t need to know what happened in the past to know that they love the person before them now. Clove’s paranoia is preventing them from sleeping, so Relish gives them a platinum ring enchanted with Warding Bond to protect them and sits with them while they finally find rest.
 * Clove meets Angel again at Fight Club and the two discuss their siblings and their perceptions of self. Clove is wary of Angel because they don’t understand why Angel isn’t confrontational considering their treatment of his sister. Angel gifts Clove a black-eyed-Susan flower and says that he thinks Clove is more than just a fighter. Ashe enters the arena and Clove sees that she healed her arm with gold and discovers that she has been lying about how her arm was injured. They flee the arena.
 * Clementine and Clove have a discussion about honesty and Ashe at Ink Therapy and agree to stop lying to each other. The twins also agree to start working at repairing their mistakes, especially those concerning Ashe, and to do so together.
 * Clove confronts Ashe and asks why she’s lying for them. They break down her barriers quickly and manage to have a conversation that ends with Ashe agreeing to meet with Clem and make up following the misunderstanding between the two of them at the Forge.
 * Ashe and Clove race to the waterfall and bond while swimming. Clove asks Ashe if she intends to continue lying about her injury forever, or if they will someday be able to stop living in shame. Ashe says that she thinks her brothers will not be forgiving, but someday she will be there for them when they tell Angel and Onyx.
 * FC1 Megafight: (Clove’s role) (For full fight, please see the summary page) Clove acted as offense during the fight, dealing fiercely efficient damage to Angel and Axel. When Angel cast Inflict Wounds on Clem and caused her to scream, Clove snapped to the brink of rage and took out both Angel and Axel in one turn. When Angel came to and attempted to attack Clove again, they went for his throat, literally, and cast Inflict Wounds again, leaving Angel marked with the same lichtenburg lightning scar as Ashe. However, when Clem falls under the influence of Axel’s Calm Emotions spell, Clove rushes to her and ignores Angel, leaving him without healing. Clove stays with Clem, pleading to anyone and anything not to punish her like this, offering themselves in her place. They are struck down and killed by Onyx while holding Clem. While dead, they have the experience of existing as an unnamed consciousness in a void filled only with a voice that isn’t theirs. Upon their resurrection, they retaliated against Onyx and knocked him out, avenging their own death.
 * Clove spends the night after FC1 Megafight with Relish. In the morning, they decide to find rings to replace the ones that were destroyed when they died.
 * When Clove returned to their cabin following FC1, they were quickly descended upon by Uva, Peri, and Li. They agree to teach the three, despite being tired and deeply troubled by the events of the prior day. This eventually results in them lashing out at Li, triggering both Clove and Li’s first rages, which had to be ended by Uva casting Command on Clove and knocking out Li. Clove is able to stabilize Li, but inadvertently scars him with their flawed magic. Following this series of events, Clove has a breakdown and Peri calls Clementine to speak with Clove.
 * Clove confides in Clementine that their recent instability stems from their fear that this is the second time they’ve died and been brought back to life. They state that they had a similar experience to the vision they experienced while dead in FC1 once before when Clem had been present. Clementine states that she doesn’t know what happened then. Clove grapples with the implications of dying and how this affects their debt, and resolve to keep living, whatever the cost and despite their prior thoughts of worthlessness.
 * Clove meets Trillium in the Orchard and invites them to come with them for pie with Malva, Echo, Taryn, and Axel. The night ends with them too drunk to walk and carried back home by Relish.
 * Relish and Clove attend a double date with Axel and Angel and all parties exchange apologies regarding the events of FC1 and decide to become friends again.



Relationships

 * Clementine: Clove’s fraternal twin and dearest friend. Until recently, the twins were separated from each other and each harbor immense guilt at not being able to help the other more during this time. They are working to repair their relationship and have promised to be honest with each other.
 * Relish: Girlfriend and partner in crime. It was love at first punch.
 * Known as PicklePunch
 * Fight Club Sparring Partners (Opponents):
 * E, Relish, Taryn, Axel, Angel, Malva, Onyx
 * Fight Club Sparring Partners (Allies):
 * Clementine
 * Fight Club Jr. Students:
 * Uva, Peri, Eylette, Opal, Li
 * Uva, Peri, Eylette, Opal, Li



Quotes

 * Clove to Relish following FC1 Megafight:
 * “You have my heart; for as long as you’ll take me, I’ll have you. You make me feel alive, Pickle, in a way I didn’t think I could. I’d do anything for you.”
 * Clove to Ashe after nearly killing her in the Lounge:
 * “Stay away from Clem...Stay away from me...or I swear to the gods you will get what you asked for.”
 * “As is, I think it’ll hurt you more to live.”
 * Clove, drunk and poking Relish in the face with a carved wooden bird:
 * “PEEP!!”
 * Clove to Ashe:
 * “At the end of the day, it’s better to be broken and useful than whole and helpless. And maybe someday, gods be damned, I’ll be able to actually believe that.”
 * Clove to E:
 * “You much of a brawler? Not to brag, but I’m something of an expert.”



Notable Possessions

 * Black and white river stone from Relish
 * Trinket from Eylette
 * Carved wooden bird from Trillium
 * Small pouch of sea glass and shells collected before coming to camp

Trivia

 * Clove is ambidextrous, but favors their right hand for spellcasting and left for single-handed weapons.


 * While capable of reading, Clove is extremely dyslexic and prefers to be read to aloud.
 * Clove is a greatweapons master.
 * They have an insatiable sweet tooth, but also love spicy food.
 * Clove’s favorite color is gold, like sunlight and the gold in Relish’s eyes.
 * Clove plays the fiddle and is a skilled dancer.
 * Clove holds the current record for most Natural 1s rolled in a single fight, with 5 natural 1s rolled during FC1 Megafight.
 * Clove occasionally uses Thamaturgy during private conversations with Clementine to make their eyes appear to look like hers.
 * ‘Clove’ is a chosen name, their birth name has not been revealed.
 * Potential names prior to settling on ‘Clove’ included Cayenne, Ochre, and Cinna.
 * In the Phoenix/Poison alternate timeline, Clove instead chooses the name ‘Hemlock’
 * Clove is currently the only character at camp who has died while here.