Clark is a male, gender-swapped version of Clarissa, sharing her snobbish personality and inflated self-importance. Proud of his status as a refined Camden Town resident, he uses the royal "one" instead of "I" to sound aristocratic, distancing himself from what he sees as vulgar everyday life. His affected speech and obsession with high culture mask deep insecurities,  which is his obsession of dominating and being dominated by his soulmate, even soulmates, plural.