Haruka McClarren

Haruka McClarren is a female survivor played by Host of Proselyte. She was accepted on February 6th, 2017 and is currently alive and active on the server.

Appearance
Haruka is a thin woman of Japanese and Scottish descent who stands at 5 feet and 3 inches tall and looks quite young for her age. She weighs around 130 pounds. Despite being so small of frame, Haruka is fairly athletic, and has a runner’s build, her legs quite toned with lean muscles from years of running and keeping in shape for gymnastics. She has medium dark, reddish-brown hair that goes to the middle of her back, with with noticeable streaks of grey hair mixed in. Her eyes are a mix of brown and green together, heterochromatic in the sense that both eyes are identically two different colors, with Brown bleeding into the green in her eyes.

As for clothing, Haruka wears casual clothing; she has a wool coat with her that she only wears if it gets too cold out; otherwise, she’s wearing either a sweater or blouse of some sort, as well as pants as she doesn’t see skirts or dresses as practical in this world no matter how hot out it is. She also has a pair of scuffed up, dark brown aviator boots she wears as well as a pair of sneakers she keeps in the bottom of her bag considering her boots would be far too warm to wear once the weather starts to get warmer. Haruka likes to dress modestly; her sense of style is sort of a mix of both masculine and feminine as are her mannerisms. She walks as a woman would, but doesn’t sit like any sort of lady.

Distinguishing features about Haruka include her quite curly hair, and it’s natural red tint, considering she appears fully Asian. She has various areas of her skin on her body that has freckles covering it, her abdomen, shoulders, and arms included in that.

Personality
Haruka is a very mellow person, and despite being nervous around strangers, she’s quite calm in stressful and dangerous situations. It takes a lot of pressure to make Haruka crack, and when faced with situations like this, she tries to remove her bias, and serve as a mediator and attempts to defuse situations before they escalate to a state where guns are drawn and shots are fired. She does her best to do this, and to keep situations calm, however she’s aware that some people cannot and will not be reasoned with. In the event of that happening, she lets the situation play out, and removes Jacob and Hannah from the situation to make sure they aren’t harmed unless they’re the ones fighting, in which case she doesn’t try to stop their fighting.

Aside from being this voice of reason in a time of unreasonable people, Haruka does her best to not go out of her way, either. If someone needs help, she’ll normally let them deal with it on their own unless it’s something life-threatening. She may show indifference most of the time, however she feels that people should deal with their problems on their own unless her expertise is needed. With those she cares for, Haruka can be quite affectionate, despite still quiet and reserved in conversation unless her opinion is asked for. If she’s asked to speak, she’s able speak with a strong voice, and using clear and concise words.

History
Haruka McClarren was born to a Japanese father and a Japanese and Scottish mother on October 31st of 1988, in Hell, Michigan, when visiting family. However,their daughter grew up in very wealthy, however not wasteful, household in New York City, in Manhattan. Haruka never wanted for anything, getting training in multiple languages including German, English, Korean, Spanish and French. Her parents also were more than overbearing, and constantly critical of her every decision; they’d have rather seen her practicing her piano, languages, and her Taekwando instead of playing around with her toys. With the rare free time she was given, an adolescent Haruka took to reading books, and books of any kind. Haruka was exceptionally bright, and it showed in her school work. In all during her school years, Haruka skipped a grade four times, showing a talent for learning and learning very fast. Haruka was never a brave child, and always scared easily; that’s still true to this day, however she’d become better at hiding it from other people. She also needed glasses for whenever she was driving or looking at anything far away, being Nearsighted.

Her relationship with her younger sister growing up was… strained at times. Hikari got the slack that Haruka was never given; they always seemed to baby her, and was spoiled while Haruka was constantly pressured to be better and make something of herself. Hikari was never pressured like Haruka was, and even decided to become a photographer with her parents not caring if she did.

Haruka was twelve when her parents forced her to make the decision of what she’d do for the rest of her life, being a sophomore in high school at this point. They forbid her making any sort of choice she might’ve wanted, such as a musician, librarian, writer; the choices they gave her were Pre-Med, Pre-Law, and Accounting. She decided it was best to help people, and went with Pre-Med, intending to become a surgeon. As she grew older, Haruka applied to the University of Pittsburgh for schooling, as well as numerous other schools; she ended up being accepted each one she applied to, and quite literally had the pick of the litter. She decided on the University of Pittsburgh, much to her parents’ surprise, though she was doing as they asked, in a way, so they dropped the subject at the time… They did, however, constantly second guess her decision, and criticize her each step of the way. Her parents… ‘encouraged’ her to join the Gymnastics team for the school.

When she was new to the campus, and to her classes, Haruka was the outsider, the one person younger than everyone else and not actually taken seriously in college. Her instructors took her seriously, though her peers were another story. She wasn’t actually befriended by anyone, and spent most of her time alone. Her solitude on top of her parent’s constant pressure added more stress on the young teen. Even through her adulthood years, her parents continued to hound her, scrutinize every choice, every grade, every little mistake she made. She started going gray by the time she entered Medical School.

Her parents wanted her to become a Neurosurgeon, however Haruka decided on going down the path to become an Emergency Room Medical Specialist, getting her doctorate in Osteopathic Medicine before going on to a residency at a hospital far away from them, at the University of Louisville Hospital. The choice made her parents furious with her. By then, Haruka had enough of them and their constant criticism, and Haruka came to the decision of cutting herself off from them entirely, refusing to speak with them or meet. The decision came as a heartbreaking shock to her parents, though if they were so blind as to not see the wrongs they did their only daughter, then Haruka felt they didn’t deserve to have her anymore, simple as that. Haruka’s life wasn’t stress-free from then on, but she certainly wasn’t endangering her health anymore with the stress. When Haruka was free from her parents and their bad influence, Haruka decided to take up Aikido classes, wanting to learn a more peaceful self-defense method.

Haruka’s Residency didn’t go that bad for her, having three years of it to go through for training. Haruka’s final year of Residency went just fine and without any problems, and she was transitioned over to being a full time ER Medical Specialist after taking the American Board of Emergency Medicine examinations. The next couple of years had her treating and diagnosing all sorts of patients; hundreds of people went through the Emergency Room she worked at. Haruka managed to save most of her patients that she took on, for however brief a time it was, showing that she didn’t need to be as old as everyone else in order to be a damn good doctor. The ones she did lose, however, hit her hard. Haruka was a soft-hearted individual inside, and even knowing she was going to lose patients didn’t prepare her for it at all. Haruka always tried to power through it, and used her deep grief at losing a patient to try even harder to save the next patient. The patient that hit her the most was her the loss of someone she considered a good friend, a woman by the name of Yolanda, at the hospital. They’d been grievously wounded off duty from the hospital, shot around five times before they were found. Haruka took on the task immediately, and pushed all those feelings she had for them aside in her attempt to do her best at treating them. The damage done was far too extensive, with the rounds also being too high a caliber to have caused minor damage. Damage on top of blood loss ended the young Nurse’s life, and Haruka felt she could’ve saved her, despite knowing there was no way she could’ve.

The death of Yolanda continued to affect Haruka to the point where she resigned from the hospital in order to make sure this negative effect on her didn’t cause them to lose more patients. With the money that she had from her few years at the hospital, she’d decided to buy a home out in the ‘sticks’ as one might call it, a log cabin where she could live in peace. She did so by learning about how to survive in the woods on her own, and eventually got herself an animal companion, a Black Labrador and Pitbull mix she named Makki. She learned enough about hunting to teach Makki how to hunt for herself when she was young so it would save her money as well as have her dog being capable of taking care of herself. In her time in the woods, Haruka would learn what she needed to survive out there, whether it was what berries and mushrooms to eat, or what plants to avoid.

She avoided most of society until she started hearing the news and how shit was going down. Haruka’s parents contacted her and told her that they, her sister Hikari included, were coming down to see her, and wanted to know where to meet her. Being as isolated as she was, Haruka reluctantly told them to meet her in West Point. Sun made her way into the town, only to find that her parents were having trouble getting into town. So she tried to get to her parents who were coming up through Muldraugh, but she found them too late; only her sister was the survivor of an attack, and Sun saved her from being trapped in the car by distracting the infected long enough for her to run out and go to Sun. The two barely made it out alive, and are currently in West Point, not knowing what to do next.

Relationships
(WIP)

Hikari McClarren:

Sirius Rowan:

Ellie Blackwood:

Gage Weber:

Tommy Chestnut:

Horace McConnell:

Everett McConnell:

Olivia Winters:

Candy Roussel: