Background
Princess Clara
Gender: Female
Race: Caucasian
Hair: Brown
Age: 20
Job: Princess
Sexuality: Straight with bisexual tendencies
Religion: Christian; Roman Catholic is suggested
Voiced by: Tara Strong
Princess Clara is pampered, naive racist royalty, and a spoof on Disney/storybook characters, most strongly Ariel from The Little Mermaid and Belle from Beauty and the Beast; she is also the only character drawn without a black outline, another reference to her Disney pedigree. She has a "special" cousin named Bleh, who is severely mentally retarded and must wear a football helmet at all times to protect her skull. Clara seems to have inherited many of her basic personality traits from her father, the King, but has become more independent since she has been living in the Drawn Together house, and with the help of her housemates (particularly Foxxy Love), she has worked on correcting many of her character flaws.
Clara's mother died when she was a baby as a result of her father driving a carriage while intoxicated. The King remarried, and for reasons unknown, Clara's new stepmother placed a curse on Clara's vagina, causing it to turn into a giant, tentacled (and ironically, male) monster (called the Octopussoir) which can speak and appears to have his own personality. Her attempt to remove the curse resulted in Prince Charming's penis and testicles turning into a similar monstrous creature. Though it becomes hysterical and vicious when frightened by loud noises, the Octopussoir for the most part, is quite gentle and kind. In "Alzheimer's That Ends Well", Clara had Octopussoir surgically removed, but after undergoing numerous plastic surgeries to correct every little flaw she perceived her vagina as having, she ended up with a vagina resembling Joan Rivers. Clara tried to get Octopussoir back, but he had graduated from college and married a Jewish woman in the time Clara was gone, and informed Clara that he was happy with his new life and did not wish to go back to her. Clara eventually came to accept her new Vajoana (as she calls it) after it saved the housemates from the murderous intentions of some angry senior citizens.
Personality
Clara represents a stereotypical upper class WASP, and is insensitive toward minorities and those less fortunate than her. She is also very anti-Semitic, which is ironic considering her voice actress is Jewish. In this manner, Clara often acts as the (also Jewish) producers' vehicle for Jewish humor on the show. Though she makes the occasional spiteful comment, on the whole, she doesn't seem to hate or look down on people of other races, but she cannot seem to let go of the stereotypes she holds; for the most part she is completely unaware that she is being racist. The episode "Hot Tub" suggests that these beliefs were ingrained in her by her father. Later episodes have furthered the notion that Clara maintains these attitudes because she is simply behind the times, and has yet to recognize the social advances recent years have brought. She overcomes her prejudice to form a friendship (and possibly more) with Foxxy Love, though her repeated mention of black stereotypes sometimes puts a strain on that friendship. Though she is tolerant and supportive of her gay housemate Xandir, she is also homophobic, her homophobia being the product of her conservative religious views. Ironically, Clara herself is bisexual, though she does not seem to realize this (or realizes but is in denial).
She harbors crushes for rebels like Spanky and Foxxy. One episode implies that she was at one point involved in an incestuous relationship with her father, The King. She doesn't seem to notice the King's sexual feelings for her, equating his leering with paternal love. She is also extremely naive when it comes to sex; after her lesbian kiss with Foxxy, she believes she is pregnant, and it takes a sex ed lesson from Foxxy to make her realize she isn't. Despite her unusual "relationships", Clara is the least promiscuous of the eight housemates, and the only one who seems to possess any sense of modesty about his or her body. In Season One, it was suggested that this was because of her character's innocence (and her unusual vagina situation), but as the series has gone along, her religious nature has also become a significant factor.
Aside from her prejudices, Clara is usually depicted as a very warm and caring person with a genuine love for most living creatures. She occasionally shows a quick temper and fits of anger, though these outbursts are seldom long in duration. Though she is frequently guilty of insensitivity and closed-mindedness, she usually realizes when she is wrong about something, and always tries to make amends. Clara is often characterized as being intelligent and sophisticated, but lacking in common sense. In this regard, she is the complete opposite of Foxxy Love, who is unsophisticated and poorly educated, but with a great deal of common sense.
She also seems to suffer from an unlucky streak: in several competitions held by the producers, she is always among the losers; her vagina curse (see below) remains unbroken; and she also ends up in prison on one occasion. She seems to be a natural target for physical violence by the other characters, having been punched out by both Foxxy and Captain Hero, given electrical shocks by Foxxy, kicked by Foxxy after collapsing to the ground due to sickness, violently shoved to the ground and thrown out the window on separate occasions by Captain Hero, pushed down several flights of stairs by Toot, and struck violently by Wooldoor countless times to anesthetize her before surgery; this isn't even counting the times she and Foxxy have fought each other. Her list of calamities even surpasses Ling-Ling's, though only in number (not in intensity).
Religion
Clara is extremely religious, sometimes to the point of fanaticism. Her religion was mentioned in the first season, but it wasn't until Season Two that it became a defining part of her character. Clara is a devout Christian; she mentions Jesus often (in "The One Wherein There Is a Big Twist", she says that she loves Jesus as "more than a friend"), and on more than one occasion has gone off on crusades against things she considers abominations in God's eyes, such as Spanky's gay marriage to Xandir in "Foxxy vs. the Board of Education", or Wooldoor's chronic masturbating in "Clum Babies". Clara's specific denomination has not been explicitly stated, but in both "Clum Babies" and "Xandir and Tim, Sitting in a Tree", she is shown observing forms of penance (the former instance involving corporal mortification, and the latter involving praying incessantly while barefoot and dressed in rags), indicating that she is most likely Roman Catholic; this would fit in with her views against masturbation.
Generally, her character is used to satirize the right wing conservative Christian side of society; thus, Clara goes into evangelical mode whenever that angle is needed for a story. To this purpose, she is often pictured as a kind of villain against the other characters, trying to foil what she objects to. In fact in some episodes, she is depicted as having witch-like powers (most notably the ability to disappear in a black smoke flash). However, she makes a concerted effort to show that this is not all there is to her character. In "Ghostesses in the Slot Machine", when Foxxy thinks she plans to object to exotic dancing, Clara points out that "I'm more than just the same joke over and over again. You're thinking of Toot" (in reference to her weight). For the most part, her religion tends to be used to make her the antagonist when the story doesn't naturally contain one on its own. In those cases, though, she always learns her lesson by the end of the episode.
Original artwork
In old artwork before the show's release, Clara was originally drawn as a blonde, with a different dress and a lighter skin tone. MyGen Profile Generator