Claire Redfield
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Claire Redfield is from the Video Game Series Resident Evil. Specifically the games Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil Code:Veronica X, created by Capcom.
Claire's PB is Evangeline Lilly and her journal is located at hauntedechos.
Claire is played by Varis
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History
All information in this section is taken completely from the mun's memory, how the character is felt to have gone through it, rather than chronological events for the game. it's a mix of book-canon and game-canon, as far as the mun is concerned. If you're looking for a detailed game-attuned history and sequence of events for Claire, I suggest trying Claire's Wikipedia Entry
Before the Outbreak
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Raccoon City
This is scenario Claire B from Resident Evil 2. Claire has no recollection of ever facing Birkin in his animalesque form, and never had to administer the DEVIL Vaccine to Sherry.
After nearly two months of not hearing from her brother, Chris Redfield, Claire had had enough. She hadn't gotten so much as a brief message explaining what the hell was going on in Raccoon City, and she was just getting a dead tone whenever she tried any number within Raccoon limits that she knew of. More than a little worried, Claire hopped on her motorcycle, poorly outfitted for riding and with a spare helmet because her usual gear was being borrowed by her roommate, and took the two hour ride to Raccoon City from Colorado State University.
The road she took was a little-travelled road, and the barriers that had been set up were knocked down or missing, perhaps due to other survivors before her breaking them apart and running for it. When she Arrived in Raccoon, night had since fallen, and she'd stopped at Emmy's Diner, one of Chris' favorite places to grab dinner whenever she was visiting. Things went drastically wrong from there. The diner was in shambles, bits of food, menus, silverware strewn everywhere. Claire pushed forward, though, looking for any sign of life.
Instead she found something much worse. The undead. The zombie of who was probably formerly a cook at the diner was munching down on one of the waitresses behind the cash register, however when he saw Claire, he had his chance for a fresher meal. She backed away, giving him fair warning, but he didn't heed her. She managed to grope her way backwards to the door, and spun to get the hell out, when she was greeted with more flesh-seekers scrambling at the glass front of the store, trying to get in.
That's when she saw the emergency exit, and she ran for it, narrowly missing being caught in the zombified cook's grasp. On the other side of the door was a young cop by the name of Leon Kennedy, and he shot the zombie pursuing Claire down, before giving her an arm up and taking her with him to a squad car that was fortunately nearby.
Their meeting was short-lived, however, as a zombie lurched out of the back seat after Leon recommended Claire take the gun she found in the police cruiser's glove box, and the following scuffle to avoid being bitten ended in the squad car smashing tail-end into a dead end sign. The zombie crashed through the back and was killed on impact, and the duo thought they were safe for the moment.
Or at least they did until they saw the semi careening towards them. The two barely had time to jump from the doomed cruiser before the eighteen-wheeler slammed into it, exploding into flames.
In the aftermath of the explosion, Leon hollered over the sound of flames and moans for Claire to meet him at the police station.
From there, Claire was on her own, with very little ammo, in a big city full of people intent on eating her. Still, she managed to make it to the back entrance of the Police Station, and made her way up to the helicopter dock. There she saw a lone officer, waving a helicopter in for rescue, however the cop was being closed in by the undead. Seeing them too late, he tried to fire, but was overcome, and his gunfire got out of control, hitting the helicopter pilot. The helicopter crashed into the side of the RPD dashing any hopes Claire had of getting a quick rescue.
After exploring the rooms close to the station she found a fire extinguisher, and put the flames from the helicopter out, before advancing once again into the station proper. It was then that she ran into the creature known only as Mr. X.
after escaping the Tyrant she found her way to the S.T.A.R.S. office
The Lost Three Months
Rockfort/Antarctica
Purgatory
Claire was part of the first wave of characters to suddenly appear in the "Real World" and has been here since the beginning of the game (Primarily being the only character her mun joined as, although that changed very quickly). She was originally in New York City when she appeared, as so many others were, but they were all quickly rounded up and shipped off to Purgatory, once the Government figured out what to do with them.
Claire spent this time in a post-traumatic state, due to the shock of being imagined and the fresh mental scars from Rockfort finally catching up with her. She was walking down the street shortly after being dumped into the apartment where she currently lives when she bumped into her old friend, Leon. He was, however, MUCH older than she remembered him, and while this further distressed her, she was grateful to have a familiar face, and spent a large amount of her time with him.
There was also Ashley Graham, who she somehow became acquainted with, and maybe due to the fact that Ashley wasn't pressing, they became friendly. She also managed to touch base with her brother Chris Redfield again, and affirm he was in one piece.
Claire also struck up a brief amount of discord between an unnamed character and herself, due to him wanting there to be more action in the area.
This resulted in zombies and all manner of nasties appearing in Purgatory shortly after, along with Sherry Birkin. Claire made it her primary concern to find Sherry, and left Ashley hiding in her apartment.
After this incident, Ashley moved in with Claire, in addition to Sherry. For a while, Claire was granted enough peace out of the light of drama, and got herself a job, regularly interacted with her friends, and managed to catch up on her individual friends' back stories, while learning a little about herself in the future from Leon, although he's always been vague about some things.
After a while, things started to pick up. In a bad way. The REheads were joined by Rebecca Chambers, Billy Coen, Jill Valentine, and several other people, which was great.
However, William Birkin and Albert Wesker also put in appearances, much to Claire's distaste. She still refuses to allow the Birkins to see their child, although she's not entirely certain how much longer she can keep them away.
After the appearance of Birkin and Wesker, there was a SEEMINGLY new arrival to Purgatory, known only as Frank.
Claire made the mistake of talking to Frank, which threw every single Resident Evil character sans Wesker into a parallel illusionary Raccoon City.
In this Raccoon, Claire, Leon, Ashley, Cindy Lennox, and Kevin Ryman spent most of the night fighting through similar experiences they'd all endured in the past. The only difference here was that they all woke up the next morning back in Purgatory, as if nothing had ever happened.
Barely even a week later, the Death Eaters decided they were bored and tried to take over Purgatory. Claire threw herself into the fight, but ended up almost dying for it, hit by a spell that locked her mind down and put her into a state of suspended animation. With the help of Van, she was able to break the spell, and wake up again, although she now has a scar on her back where the spell hit.
Shortly after she was finally released from the hospital, she was dealt yet another blow, and Steve Burnside showed up, broken, confused, and promptly tearing Claire's world apart. She still cares for Steve, deeply, but after a conversation with him, she realizes she's also drawn to Leon.
While she now remains conflicted, her priorities are set. She's helping Steve try and rid the T-Veronica virus from his body, by getting help from the last person she WANTS help from, but needs it, nonetheless. She'll do whatever it takes to make sure Steve stays alive this time. She feels it's the least she can do, after breaking his heart.
