#oc chiara st claire

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I have about 3.5 different thoughts on how my Marvel OC calls her bio father "dad" for the first time, and they range from "This would be fun to write! :)" to "This would be fun to write! >:)"

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Me: you already have a villain!au for Chiara! You do not need another!!

Also me: but I already made a SIM!Chiara moodboard >:(

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Please share more about Chiara. She looks really cool😎

Aaaaahhh, thank you, Anon! 🥹🫶🏽 I enjoy putting her into situations, so I hope other people will enjoy her, too!

Some Chiara origin story/fun facts below the cut 🤭

So me being me, of course this is another Indigenous OC, because representation is important and I'll never ever shut up about that :)

Her full name is Chiara Kahhori St. Claire because I'm OBSESSED with that episode of What If . . . ? and I think Chiara and Kahhori would be so much fun together. In this essay I will --

A member of the Mohawk tribe, she was born and raised in upstate New York by her mom and grandma. Mostly by her grandma, because speaking of her mom!

Chiara's mom, Monica St. Claire, is a super successful lawyer who's pretty much always traveling for work

Monica may or may not have worked for Stark Industries as a legal advisor back in the day. She also may or may not have had a secret enemies to lovers back to enemies relationship with Tony Stark during that time. She may or may not have quit and fled back to New York when they broke up. And Tony may or may not be Chiara's biological father -- who's to say, since no one has been brave enough to run a paternity test?

(Slightly off topic, but sometimes I mess around with an au in which Chiara is raised by her father instead of her mother, and that shit is WILD lmao. They are a complete disaster and I love that.)

ANYWAYS

Chiara can be a menace. Are her actions cries for attention? Absolutely. Still a menace, though!

This girl basically terrorizes the Catholic school she goes to growing up

Ex: At age twelve, she refuses to do confession because "I literally have Saint in my last name, I'm basically already halfway to canonization." Age thirteen, she begins referring to the priests solely as "Pops" and/or "Daddy-O." And of course, at age fourteen, the final straw that gets her kicked out is stealing wine before Communion with some older kids.

Also at age fourteen!

Everyone forgets Chiara's fourteenth birthday. She's devastated. That night, she sees a shooting star go overhead and offhandedly makes a wish that she were important

The next thing she knows, she's got very villain-coded powers. She can manipulate/animate shadows, travel though them, take the light out of rooms, etc. Oops.

Now at age fifteen, she's been moved to Queens for a fresh start after getting kicked out of her last school, and she's trying so so hard to hide these weird-ass powers because they lowkey terrify her, and she's pretty sure that her "importance" is supposed to come from being some sort of villain -- because no hero would have such dark powers . . . Right?

There's definitely more thoughts, but at the risk of accidentally making you read a whole novel length list of ideas, I'll exercise some self control and end here for now

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dove i NEED to hear more about this marvel oc

Anon, I will literally tell you anything and everything you want to know about her, because she's been living rent free in my brain since about May. Personally, I'm obsessed with her, and I'd love to share her!

Please enjoy this moodboard for my newest and favoritest girlie, Chiara Stark-St. Claire, on the house 😌🫶🏽

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(accidentally unfollowed you trying to click on you ask box but) your last reblog really got me and i’m wondering if you have any chiara lore you’d be willing to share

Omg hi Cari! I've missed you!

Chiara is currently my favorite lil guy to put into situations, so thank you for giving me the chance to share a little bit about her <3

Chiara St. Claire is an Marvel OC that I made over the summer after doing an MCU rewatch. Bless her heart, she's trying to be a hero, I swear -- she's just not very good at it, hence this post. My personal favorite part of her lore is kicked out of Catholic school for many incidents, but the final straw being the time she refuses to call the priest anything but "Pops" and "Daddy-O." Though, in her defense, she was a very disgruntled thirteen-year-old when that happened.

There's wayyyy more I could share about her if anyone wants, but that's definitely my favorite bit

(For this ask game!)

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Help girl I'm thinking about the au where Chiara gets raised by her dad instead of her mom

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Created my Marvel OC in the midst of a very anxiety inducing weekend, and now I'm kind of obsessed with writing her story during every second of free time . . . despite the fact that I will probably never post it and will just be writing it for self-indulgence

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WIP GAME

Rules: make a new post and share 1-2 sentences from your most recent unposted WIP(s) with zero context – Let your followers guess!

Thanks for the tag @mercurygray! This was fun - I did not realize how much of a challenge it would be to find 1-2 sentences that didn't sound extremely weird without context haha

Unintentionally, her fists clench by her sides. "Not that it's any of your business, but I spend time with Peter because I like him"

I'm just gonna extend a tag to anyone working on something exciting that they want an excuse to share :)

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7 Line WIP Game

I'm so behind on tag games, but @mercurygray tagged me to share 7 lines from my WIP, and since I just started working on something I really enjoy right now, I couldn't pass it up. Thanks Merc!

I don't know if this is quite 7, but we're gonna count it anyway. (For context it's a Marvel OC, since I've recently fallen back into another past hyperfixation.)

Chiara looks around, still baffled by whatever just happened. "I - I'm not sure, actually. Did I just teleport using shadows?" She leans over the side of the building and points to the shadows she had been standing in a few seconds before. "I was right there, and then I thought about where I wanted to be . . . and then I was here." She shivers. "I didn't even know I could do that." No pressure tags: @mads-nixon @almost-a-class-act @footprintsinthesxnd and anyone else who wants to do this!

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Do you have more blurbs with Tony and Chiara?

Anon, I have so many blurbs if you want them!

I'm in the middle of two different Chiara fics at the moment, so here's a little excerpt from one of them involving more of Chiara's sleepwalking shenanigans, complete with that classic Stark family sarcasm 😌🫶🏽

(Also, for context: Chiara's codename is "Eclipse", which is why she's so adamant about the whole meteor strike thing. Can't say I blame her.)

When they get to the lab, Chiara proudly holds up what she’s been working on. For the past few days, she’s torn apart a prototype of one of Peter’s old web-shooters and one of Natasha’s Widow’s Bites, trying to create her own device that can shoot out electric discharges of some sort. (“If everyone else gets to shoot stuff at bad guys, I want to do it, too,” she had explained. Since apparently being able to create giant shadow monsters that can pummel the crap out of people isn’t enough for her.)  

Peter nods, impressed. “Those Shooting Stars are really coming along.” 

Chiara sighs, rolling her eyes. “Meteor Strikes. That’s their working name.”

“Shooting Stars sounds nice.”

“It really doesn’t.” 

“There is an incoming call,” FRIDAY informs them. And before they can argue about what Chiara should or shouldn’t call her new device, one of the lab’s holographic screens appears with a video feed of Mr. Stark from . . . wherever it is the Avengers have gone on this week-long mission.

“Thought I might find you guys here,” he says. “I’m gonna trust that you two are just working in the lab to wake up for a bit before you hit the to-do list?”

“Yessir,” Peter replies at the same time that Chiara responds with, “Not a chance.” 

On the screen, Mr. Stark rolls his eyes, but it doesn’t look like there’s any malice in it. Peter isn’t exactly sure how his relationship with Chiara works – because it appears to be very different than the one Peter has with his mentor – all he knows is that it involves a lot of sarcasm and quick-witted jokes. 

“Well, anyways, I don’t have a lot of time,” Mr. Stark continues, unfazed. “Just wanted to make sure that you two are behaving yourselves and that you haven’t somehow managed to destroy the compound yet.” Someone off screen must say or do something, because the billionaire’s eyes briefly leave the screen, and he holds up a finger, as if telling someone to wait, before he turns back to them. “Oh, and Peter? I just wanted to say good job on the Bedtime Protocol last night. You handled that like a champ.”

Peter would usually beam at the praise from his mentor, but before he can even fully register what’s been said, Chiara slaps a hand over her mouth and snorts with laughter. Her eyes are bright with amusement when she turns to Peter.

“Oh my God, you have a Bedtime Protocol?! That’s adorable. What, do you get a gold star if you’re in bed before eleven or something?”

The lab falls silent. Peter blinks at her, unsure what to say. On the video feed, Mr. Stark looks just as caught off guard.

“Uh . . . The Bedtime Protocol is for you, Princess.” 

Usually, Chiara would lose her mind over someone calling her “the P word”, and Mr. Stark is probably only using it since there’s who-knows-how-many miles between them right now. Chiara genuinely seems confused, because she doesn’t bring it up.

“What?”

“It’s for you,” Mr. Stark repeats. “For when you sleepwalk.” 

“I don’t sleepwalk,” Chiara scoffs. “I think I would know if I did.”

“One of the defining features of sleepwalking is that you usually don’t remember it,” Peter points out. That earns him a glare from Chiara that clearly says You are so not helping!

Mr. Stark laughs, looking equal parts confused and delighted. “You kinda do, kid. Pretty often, in fact. That’s why we have the whole protocol in place to begin with –”

Off screen, someone shouts, and Mr. Stark’s face falls. 

“I’ll talk to you later,” he says, and then the holographic screen disappears. 

The lab is silent for a moment, and when Peter looks at Chiara, he finds her staring straight ahead with a look of disbelief plastered on her face. 

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Last Line Tag

Thank you for the tag @latibvles! I've mostly been writing Marvel fics that I'll probably never post lol lately, so here's a post-NWH blurb that haunts me :)

Curiously, carefully, Peter decides to brave the waters and push the subject -- just a little. "Did you ever go to prom in high school?" He asks tentatively, the correct answer bleeding into the forefront of his mind like spilled ink staining white fabric: our friend group only went because of you; you wore a dress that you said reminded you of Taylor Swift's; you made us all dance to "Total Eclipse of the Heart"; we laughed all night and had never felt more alive -- Chiara frowns down at the papers she's signing, furrowing her brow the way she used to when she didn't understand a math problem. Slowly, she nods. "Yes . . . But I don't really remember it." She huffs a laugh as she scribbles her signature, shrugging as she does it. "Must not have been very exciting."

No pressure tags: @liebgotts-lovergirl @mercurygray @mads-weasley and anyone else who wants to join <3