Clea Lake

Clea Lake is a psychology student and the love interest of Stephen Strange.

Biography[]

Dr. Strange[]

Clea is a normal psychology student. On an afternoon, coming back home from the library, she meets a strange woman, who does something strange to her, when she regains consciousness, Clea discovers that she has just thrown an old man down from a bridge. Believing that she has killed him, Clea goes back home in shock. She doesn't know that the strange woman was the witch, Morgan le Fay, who possessed her body to fight her enemy, the sorcerer supreme, Thomas Lindmer.

At Clea's home, she tries to sleep, but the image of the woman keeps haunting her. She tries to escape from her, but she finds herself in the streets, without even remembering who she is. Found by a taxi driver, Clea is brought to East Side Hospital, where she is recovered in psychiatry. In the hospital, she is seen by a doctor, Stephen Strange, who tries to understand the origin of her delusional state, the girl in fact, is only able to remember than, if she'll fall asleep again, she'll die because of a mysterious woman. Despite Strange's opposition, Clea is given a sedative by a nurse and falls into a coma, her soul, shocked by Morgan's possession, is trapped in the higher plans of the Astral Plane, and cannot find her way back to the body. Dr. Strange manages to reach Clea's soul thanks to Lindmer's help, he defeats the demon, Balzaroth and saves Clea, restoring her soul back into her body.

The morning after, Clea is up and well and she remembers little of what has happened in the Astral Plane, believing that it was a dream. She becomes attracted to her doctor and dates him for the same night. During their dinner, Clea sees again the woman in the mirror and is afraid everything is about to begin again. Clea faints and Strange agrees to take her place following Morgan, who just appeared in the room.

When Morgan is defeated, Clea goes back to being a normal girl and stars a romantic relationship with her former psychiatric, Stephen.

Character traits[]

Clea is a normal girl, a student who gets caught in events beyond her comprehension. She is good-hearted, an innocent soul whose corruption would please the Nameless One.