Blakemore Swanson/Post Wing Clipping

Contains Spoilers for Wing Clipping!!!!

Wing Clipping takes place just before the end of Blakemore's third year, so she spends her final year like this, trying to cope with how different she is now in the aftermath, trying to learn how to be normal, when she's no longer the Black Swan.

Appearance
Blake looks absolutely nothing like her former self, with the exception of black cat eye glasses. Her skin has more color, it's now more like a light tan. Her eyes are crystal clear blue, and in place of the etching of the torn feather under her eye, there now is an etching of a swan in flight. Her hair is no longer silver, but rather the color of the sunset, which she wears in two low buns, trying to look innocent and harmless.

She now wears a loose, flowy white long sleeved top, a white leather vest with a black swan pin, and pale blue jeans. She carries a grey bag that has a depiction of the good magic swan beating the Black Swan. On her feet are black flats.

Personality
Blake tries so hard to be nice. She smiles, though it seems to strain her lips, she makes eye contact, even tries to talk to people, though her voice is low and rough, having spent years of not using it. But people remember the freaky girl from the years before and often don't talk to her, which hurts her, She wants to be good and friendly, but no one gives her a chance.

She suffers from PTSD. She had to get a new room, even after it was fixed from the rampage, because she would not step foot in that part of the school again, and she randomly wakes up in the middle of the night shivering because she had a very realistic dream about being the Black Swan again. Sometimes she looks at her hands, expecting the power of the force that used to grow inside her to emerge again.

She also wrestles with her old eating disorder thoughts, though the reasoning is different. Before, it was because The Black Swan wanted to weaken her so her resistance would be down, and now it's because her mind is telling her that since she was the Black Swan, and hurt her family, she doesn't deserve to eat. She can usually resist the thoughts, but not always.

Blake is now clingy. Before she wanted nothing to do with anyone, now she wants to be normal. She wants to fit in, and she wants friends. Only a few talk to her, so she will do anything to be the perfect friend, though she knows that she can't be it, and worries that even her family who rescued her, will turn away from her and hate every fiber of her being because of who she was.

She is also very open with her emotions. If you hurt her, or scare her, or make her angry, though she probably won't tell you you did, it will be written all over her face. She even lets herself cry now, though rarely in front of her "friends."

Interests
Poetry: Blake still has her book that she was so protective of, and in it she continues to write poetry, though there is a great distinction between what she wrote pre Wing Clipping, and what she writes Post-Wing Clipping. And she lets people read the newer poems if they want to.

Pet
Skyla is still with her, that loyal bird that curls up in her hair. After Wing Clipping, Blake was worried that her bird wouldn't recognize her, but she did, chirping happily, and nuzzling Blake's face. Blake let herself laugh because of her bird now, and her laugh is a bit shy, but still a lovely sound.

Friends
Jasper Wingston

Quite possibly the only one not related to her that talks to Blake and isn't afraid to touch her, Blake worries that she's going to lose the fairy's friendship, but Jasper just laughs and tells her that won't ever happen. Jasper insists on only calling her Blake, and tells her that she needs a new nickname, one that's more positive.

Romance
One thing she isn't sure she's willing to branch out with and try, even now.