⏳ Character Bio: Natalie Ouellette (Clockwork)

Full Name: Natalie Elise Ouellette
Alias: Clockwork
Nickname(s): Nat, Clocky (rare, mostly teasing), The Ticking Shadow
Age: 18
Birthday: September 22
Gender: Female (she/her)
Sexuality: Bisexual
Ethnicity: French-Canadian
Place of Origin: Quebec, Canada
Current Status: Alive (depending on AU), operating as a vigilante killer
Alignment: Chaotic neutral with flashes of chaotic good

🧠 Personality

Clockwork is emotionally scarred but mentally sharp. She’s a mix of brooding loner and calculated protector — often cold on the surface, but capable of deep loyalty and tenderness once trust is earned. Her trauma has made her quiet and distant, but her core is not evil — she simply believes justice isn’t always found through rules.

Traits:

• Strategic: Always thinking several steps ahead

• Guarded: Trust is earned slowly, and she’ll test you before letting you close

• Protective: Has a soft spot for people who remind her of her younger self

• Witty (dry): Lowkey sarcastic and emotionally intelligent under the surface

• Obsessive: Gets tunnel vision when focused — whether it’s a kill, a mystery, or protecting someone

🔪 Origin Story

Natalie Ouellette was an intelligent but isolated teen from Quebec, struggling under the weight of bullying and neglect. After being lured into a trap by tormentors, she was brutally attacked and left for dead. The trauma left her physically and mentally broken — but fate (or something stranger) intervened.

What happened next varies by telling: in some versions, a rogue doctor gave her the mechanical eye that ticks like a clock; in others, she encountered a supernatural force tied to time itself. Either way, Natalie woke up changed. Her right eye gone, replaced with an ever-ticking brass one — cold, exact, and always watching.

She no longer felt like a girl. She became something else — a weapon forged from grief and gears. Now she roams the darker corners of the world, hunting abusers, killers, and those who waste time — hers or others'. Her kills are clean, efficient, and quiet.

Each victim? Left with a broken watch stopped at the exact time of death.

🔩 Appearance

• Height: 5’7” (170 cm)

• Body Type: Lean and athletic

• Hair: Wavy dark brown, shoulder to mid-back length, usually unkempt

• Eyes: Left eye hazel; right eye a mechanical clock with visible ticking gears

• Clothing Style: A mix of practical and grunge — oversized hoodies, combat boots, dark layers

• Distinguishing Features:

  • Clockwork eye that ticks audibly

  • Multiple scars (especially facial and collarbone)

  • Keeps an old pocket watch on a chain — highly sentimental

• Accessories: Utility belt with scalpels or tools, fingerless gloves, messenger bag

⚙️ Abilities / Skills

• Enhanced Reflexes: Possibly supernatural — reacts faster than normal humans

• Clock Eye: May analyze weak points, track time precisely, or (in some AUs) distort time perception

• Stealth: Master at moving quietly and going unnoticed

• Mechanical Skill: Can build/fix watches, traps, and mechanical tools

• High Pain Tolerance: Can push through injuries most would collapse from

❤️ Likes / Dislikes

Likes:
✔ Rain, thunder, and storms
✔ Fixing watches (especially vintage ones)
✔ Silence and solitude
✔ Meaningful conversation
✔ Dark chocolate and black coffee

Dislikes:
✘ Loud environments
✘ Being underestimated or pitied
✘ Unnecessary cruelty
✘ Hospitals, doctors, and bright lights
✘ Having her time wasted

💔 Weaknesses

• Suffers from insomnia and possible PTSD

• Her emotional walls make forming bonds difficult

• The clock eye can overload when exposed to certain stimuli

• Often haunted by guilt or phantom memories

• Will risk herself to protect others — sometimes recklessly so

🖤 Relationships (optional AU ideas)

• Jeff the Killer: Enemies, complicated rivals, or bitter parallels depending on AU

• Nina the Killer: Could be frenemies or “you’re not so different” moment allies

• Jane the Killer: Often respectful but distant; could bond over shared goals

• Your OC: Insert bestie, caretaker, rival, or slow-burn love interest herea

🕰️ Symbolism

Clockwork represents time as trauma — how moments can break us, how wounds freeze us, and how healing is never linear. Her eye isn’t just mechanical — it’s a constant reminder of the second her life was stolen, and the reason she keeps moving forward.