In a cozy little nook of central's city's many apartments and lofts lived a woman with fair white skin, pale blue eyes, a button nose, soft lips, and slightly curled chestnut brown hair. This woman's name was Clarity Springs and even though she didn't know it yet this was the night her life would change forever.
Currently Clarity was sat at her desk working on a circuit board. She had already changed out of her work clothes and into a pair of comfy pajama's for the night. She wore soft royal blue sweat pants, an equally soft gray koala shirt and matching koala slippers to keep her feet nice and toasty as she worked. She had her hair drawn back into a high pony to keep her hair out of her face. She also wore a pair of blue rectangular glasses and a silver circuit board pendant in the shape of a heart.
In front of her lay a dismantled computer a top the wooden desktop. The surface's space was cluttered with dissembled parts and wires. The machine in question was stripped down to nothing, but it's exposed blue circuit board. Her pale blue eyes were intently focused on the piece of technology as she nudged a few pieces around with some silver pliers the size of tweezers. In fact, she was so fixated on her task that she barely noticed the storm that was raging outside her cozy little apartment. The sound of the rain splattering against the window panes was all but forgotten to her as she tinkered with the circuit board completely tuned in to what she was doing.
The storm finally became apparent to her as her double door windows blew open banging against the cotton candy blue wall on her right side with a repeated clang as as the windows fluttered from the raging winds. Water sprayed into Clarity's apartment splattering it's droplets upon her rich hardwood floors. She shrieked as the rain sprayed in bouncing it's clear droplets onto her work causing the circuit board to spark menacingly in front of her. She rolled her blue desk chair back immediately distancing her torso from the sparking mess in front of her.
"Oh come on," The woman groaned placing the pliers down on the desk frusterated at her luck as she watched the electrical currents spark in the machine. She drew her bottom lip between her teeth, taking off her glasses with a sigh.
"What now?" the woman sighed as her phone began to ring. She picked up the phone and looked at the screen. The caller id read Lis and a picture of everyone's fave blonde cit girl popped up on the screen. This put a smile on her face. She slid the green button answering the call.
"Hey, Lis what's up?" She asked into the receiver as she walked over to her window to attempt to close them. She kept her phone tucked on her shoulder as she reached her arms out and shut one half of the window latching the first hatch down. She had always loved the old timey fairytale look of these windows, but the way they latched seperately was always a stupid feature of her loft in her opinion.
"I met a guy! And guess what he lives in Central same as you!" Felicity told her excitement leaking from her voice.
"Oh really? That's erm interesting..." Clarity said as she tried to find the right words to respond to her friends revelation.
"I know! Did you go to see the particle accelerator turn on or did you forget?" Felicity questioned her friend all too knowingly.
"Oh my god that was tonight? I completely forgot. I just got so wrapped up with what I was doing..." Clarity trailed off with a sigh.
"I knew you'd forget. I should've called earlier to remind you" Felicity told her.
"You should've. I live in this city and the one time something majorly scientifically cool happens I completely miss it." Clarity complained. Felicity struggled not to laugh on the other end of the line.
"It's okay, Clarity. You'll see the next one." Felicity told her trying to lift her spirits.
"Yeah, sure I will" Clarity replied with an eye roll as if Felicity could see her perform the action.
"Hey, don't beat yourself up over it. I'm sure the next world changing event is going to be made by you" Felicity joked.
"Oh really? Well, I'll probably miss that one too." Clarity replied making Felicity laugh.
Clarity gasped eyes wide as a huge beam of orange light erupted into the sky a shockwave following closely afterwards as the particle accelerator exploded. Her pale blue eyes were wide as a pure blue bolt of lightning shot down from the sky sending Clarity flying backwards crashing into her desk and into the circuit board that was still sparking with electricity. She had dropped her phone in the puddle of rain water at the foot of her window. The blast effectively causing a power outage.
"Riri are you okay? Clarity!? Clarity!?" Felicity yelled worriedly into the receiver as the line went dead. The sound of static all that remained.
Clarity lay there unconscious on the floor, hurt and alone. Her body pixelated and blue lightning whirred across her skin as if her body was trying protect itself from further harm. The circuit board that she had crashed into had burned through the back her pajama top and was now wedged deeply into the skin of her lower back. She laid there for hours until finally her eyes slowly opened. No longer were they a pale blue, but an abnormally bright blue color that glowed as lightning continued to travel along her body. From this day onwards Clarity Springs would forever be changed.
Hooray! The first chapter of Clarity's origin story is out! now for some questions for you all to answer!
1. How do you think she's going to meet team Flash?
2. Should I flash forwards nine months or just do it day by day?
3. What do you like about clarity so far?
4. What do you hate about clarity so far?
5. Do you want my chapters to be longer or are they okay at this length for now?
6. Anything else you would like to say to me!
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