Claire Everly/2.0 and Prior

Claire Jessica Everly is a character role-played by LunaOni

General Description
Claire Everly is a former police officer from Liberty and is currently a Dispatch FTO for the Los Santos Police Dispatch, call-sign Delta-7. Claire moved to Los Santos in search of a fresh start and to reconnect with her older sister, Brittany Angel. Claire's life has always revolved around police & investigative work and she hopes to become an officer of the law again in order to continue her passion of helping others and keeping dangerous criminals off the streets. Claire is well known for her kindness and willingness to listen to anyone, always happy to help someone no matter who they are.

Physical Description
Claire is a Caucasian female, 5'7" with pale white skin, white hair, and deep blue eyes. Her white hair is one of Claire's most notable traits, a familial trait of unknown etiology. Her hair was often kept up and out of the way in a professional ponytail, rarely seen with it down. After a few months in the city, however, Claire cut her hair short after being stabbed (and in order to differentiate herself from her very similar-looking older sister Brittany Angel) and currently wears her hair in a short bob.

Her physique is slim and muscular thanks to her past in high-school track & field and as a tactical operative for the LCPD. She has some old scars across her body from gunshot wounds earned during her career as well as a scar on her left leg she received while being tortured by the Sanctuary Killer. Claire also has a tattoo of roses on her right arm that she got after the trauma of the Sanctuary Killer case in order to help her overcome her fear of flowers, the killer's signature.

Her personal style of dress is decidedly butch-leaning, falling somewhere between Noir Detective and Jessica Jones. Claire usually wears dark-rimmed prescription glasses but has been known to use contacts on certain occasions. A prominent signature of all of Claire's wardrobes are gloves, which she wears (and occasionally insists others wear) for "protection." Another classic Claire look is her tank top, affectionately referred to as "the booby tank."

Personality
The most notable feature of Claire's personality is the generally upbeat and positive energy she brings to every interaction, even with hardened criminals. Claire's outlook on life could best be described as reckless optimism, a stalwart refusal to let the horrors of life weigh her down. This behavior is often mistaken for naivety, while in reality Claire is anything but. This assumption of naivety and Claire’s beaming, innocent aura serve to hide a surprising guile that serves her well in her chosen career.

Claire’s empathy is another of her most noted traits, and she has a history of connecting to and opening up even hardened gangsters and murderers. Claire always tells people “We're all human at the end of the day” and this shows in how she engages with people. From petty stoners to grinning thugs, Claire believes almost everyone deserves a second chance.

Her aggressive side is well-hidden but still exists, peeking through during tense gunfights and high-speed pursuits. Claire's been guilty of over-celebrating gunfights with criminals, including keeping a running tally from time to time. She works hard to suppress this side of her, repeating her adoptive parents' lessons as a mantra.

The darkest side of Claire's aggression shows itself when dealing with a special breed of depraved criminals: serial killers. These types of people, to Claire, were almost always beyond saving. Prison never helped them, and their risk of escape was too great. She'd lost her parents to a serial killer, one that was never caught, and it burned inside her every day. When dealing with the Sanctuary Killer, Claire often fantasized about putting a bullet in the man's head and ending his rampage herself.

Despite her public-facing career choice and butch detective looks, Claire is at her core a shy and awkward bookworm. She tries her best in every interaction, but has a bad habit of sticking her foot in her mouth. She means well, and always apologizes profusely or tries to cover up her blunder with a bad joke. She misses out on most pop culture references her peers pick up on thanks to spending most of her childhood and teen years reading books, running on the track, or rolling d20s.

Her sense of humor is fairly well-developed, thanks to her past cheering up her detective father after work. She also boasts a famous self-deprecating streak, and Claire is more than willing to make herself the butt of a joke in order to get someone to laugh or smile. Claire is also a big fan of harmless hi-jinks with coworkers, from spontaneous taser battles to rubber bullet duels.

When her life isn’t revolving around her main hobby and career choice, investigative work, Claire is usually a homebody owing to her bookish roots and doesn’t get up to much. Except, that is, when it comes to cars. Thanks to her father Claire has a serious love for American muscle cars, as well as a small soft spot for imports. If she’s not in the garage fiddling with whatever car she’s fallen in love with that week, she’s on the road testing the limits of the engine and the local PD’s desire to write speeding tickets.

Adoption
Claire was born to troubled parents, their previous children having been taken from the home for their own safety just a couple years prior. Thanks to a keen-eyed social worker, baby Claire didn't spend long under the roof of her abusive and drug-addicted birth family. Familiar with the family's history, the social worker contacted a pair of prospective parents who were friends with the adoptive parents of Claire's older sister Brittany Angel. These prospective parents, the Everlys, adopted Claire eagerly and thanks to their connections the adoption was processed quickly.

Childhood
Jesse Everly, a respected LCPD detective, and Emily Everly, an English teacher, were close to perfect parents for Claire. Her childhood was filled with good memories like playing with the family dog, family picnics at Middle Park, and cozy winter nights at home with fun movies. While she got along well with her parents, Claire and Angel's relationship was more fraught. When the Angels and Everlys met for family time, Brittany and Claire usually ended up arguing, which always left Claire upset and confused.

Despite the relatively happy home life, Claire's social life as a kid was almost nonexistent. An awkward kid, Claire never really fit in with the others, and spent all of her free time buried in books and daydreaming about becoming a cop. Claire struggled with bullies growing up, both due to her white hair and her nerdy demeanor. Jesse and Emily encouraged Claire to not let the negative perceptions of others get her down and to never be afraid to reach out with empathy. It worked, once, and Claire made her closest childhood friend that way, turning her from a bully to a buddy. Usually, though, the bullies just bullied harder and Claire went home depressed.

In high-school Claire had become used to her status as a pariah, giving up on earning the respect of her peers. Her teachers and coaches, however, were always impressed at the work Claire put in. High test scores and timely homework earned her a sterling reputation with school officials, but didn't help her at all in the eyes of her peers. Claire also excelled in track & field, spending long hours lost in the runner's high on the school's track.

Loss of Parents
While at home studying one winter night during high-school, Claire's parents were out on a date, relaxing from a particularly brutal case her father Jesse was working on. The Everlys never made it home that night, with their mutilated bodies being found in Middle Park by an early morning patrol. Claire's world spiraled out of control with the murder of her parents and she sought what answers she could from her fathers' fellow officers. Overcome by their own emotions, her fathers' coworkers let Claire too close, and she got details of the investigation that were burned into her mind.

Her father Jesse had been on the trail of a particularly cunning serial killer, one who seemed to strike abruptly and leave practically no evidence behind. Detective Everly had struggled with the investigation but was recently making headway. A slip-up had finally left physical evidence and Jesse was filled with a renewed fervor for the case, dedicating himself to stopping the relentless murderer. The chance never came, as Jesse and his wife Emily were murdered and detectives in Jesse's unit were convinced it was the same killer he'd been investigating. Now privy to case details, Claire made a firm resolution that she would dedicate her life to hunting down the type of criminals that took the life of her parents.

Claire, taken in by the Angels following her own adoptive parents' murder, was firmly dedicated to becoming a cop. Upon graduating high-school she attended Vespucci University in Liberty City and received a Criminal Justice degree. She applied to join the LCPD immediately after graduation, and thanks to her father's history in the department, she was readily accepted.

Trivia

 * Claire's middle name Jessica was chosen in honor of her adoptive father, Jesse Everly, who along with his wife Emily adopted Claire as a baby. Since being taken in by the Angels following the murder of the Everlys when she was a teen, Claire often refers herself as "Claire Jessica Angel Everly."
 * Claire dabbled in D&D in high-school, playing some games with the few friends she had, and she's recently gotten back into it as an adult. She can regularly be seen working D20s into her professional and personal life as a result of this.
 * Criminals used to respond with "Oh no, it's Claire!" when she arrived to calls in her last city due to her capability in pursuits.
 * Was once mag-dumped by a cartel wielding AKs and Gusenbergs and then lit on fire in Middle Park
 * Once suffered from a severe phobia of yellow taxicabs and flowers, especially white ones, due to a serial killer she investigated.
 * Piloted Air-1 in her last city, under the call-sign "Claire-1"
 * Has an uncanny knack for falling off of roofs, ladders, and down stairs
 * Claire is a huge fan of disguises and quite good at them, owing to her background in UC work. She keeps a hefty stash of wigs in her home & vehicles for a variety of disguises.
 * Once an avid smoker, Claire has quit smoking since moving from Liberty, only feigning a smoke when on an undercover job.
 * Undersheriff Rocko Colombo has struck Claire with his car two times and counting now.

Clips

 * Claire gets her first job in the city
 * Exactly like Sgt. Angel!
 * It's all in the hair
 * Claire busts her own ass as well as she busts criminals