"No... I detest trickery. But if we ourselves are to suffer deception, our hands are no longer tied."
Clara, the Changeling, is the third of Pathologic's three healers. She is present in Pathologic 2, but likely will not be playable for some time. Clara immediately stands out and starkly contrasts the other healers. She is seemingly a teenage girl without any formal training or degrees to her name, but instead has mystical powers to work miracles. Rather than being a visitor to the town, or a local of it, Clara's situation is strange and perhaps supernatural in nature; she simply appears in the bottom of a freshly-dug grave one day. She's taken in by the Saburovs, but shortly thereafter, the plague begins to sweep the town. Did I mention that she has a "twin sister" in town too?
I'm very excited to play her route once I get to it. She's shrouded in such mystery. Like all the other characters, she's quite complicated and there's many different facets to her character. Doubly so if you factor in her "twin sister." I think it's very cool how duality seems to be such a prevalent theme in her story. Is she a thief or a miracle worker? Is she going to stop the plague, or is she a harbringer of it? There's literally two of her? I've seen a lot of people say that Clara's chosen ending is the closest thing to a happy or good ending there is, but I definitely have to disagree. Despite her feat of keeping both the town and the Polyhedron intact, blood is still shed to keep the plague at bay.
Clara is such a fascinating character, and I think it's a shame that she's often overlooked. I get it; Daniil and Artemy as each others' narrative foils absolutely holds one's attention, and Clara's route was unfortunately put together more quickly than the other routes. It's something even acknowledged in the game itself if you get the developer ending. But despite all of that, Clara as a character is just great! She is hands down my favorite character design in the series. I just think she embodies that early-2000s grungy game character look very well. (I also think it's very sweet that the lead concept artist based her design on their sister.) In any case - I can't say too much about her character, since I've yet to unlock her route (fake fan alert) but I really really enjoy the whole idea behind her.