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OOC:
Name: Sarah Danielle
Personal DW: elaborately
Email: gleefulgiggle@gmail.com
Timezone: US/Central
AIM/Plurk: hesladyfabulous / favors

IC:
Character name: Claudia Donovan
Character Journal(s): reactivates
Canon: Warehouse 13
Point of Origin: Post-3x09, "Shadows" (Specifically when she's heading back from Portland to Univille after the mission, so that she can bring her suitcase and a few additional clothes and things with her. I'm nice to my characters like that. Except if I was really nice to her I wouldn't be bringing her into a place full of monsters, but you know.)
Appearance: 1 | 2 | 3

Claudia is twenty-one years of age, about 5'6". She has brown eyes and short (about an inch beneath her chin) red hair with a small under-layer of black on the right side near her face (at the time I'm pulling her from, anyway). She has multiple piercings in both ears - specifically, at least three in her left ear (one lobe, two[?] pinna) and two in her right ear (one lobe, one pinna).

Background:
@ Wikipedia.
@ Warehouse 13 Wiki.

Personality:

When meeting new people, Claudia has a tendency to be a bit awkward and has, on several occasions, wound up putting her foot in her mouth. Despite that, she's fairly easy-going and open - not at all hard to get along with (so long as the other party can handle her snark). Some people might see her as rude, but her intentions usually aren't meant to hurt or offend, more just attempts to be playful. She tends not to take herself or others too seriously, and occasionally makes light of serious/dangerous situations, or uses humor to alleviate tension, probably in an attempt to keep herself from panicking. It doesn't always work. It especially won't be working given the situations she'll be put in once she arrives here, but that won't stop her from trying.

While for the most part she doesn't seem to care too much what other people think of her (in that she wears what she wants, mostly says what she wants, and dyes a streak of her hair a different color almost every week), she does want to prove herself useful. Respect can be hard for her to earn, though, as she still has some immature/child-like qualities. For instance, she's probably about as selfish as your average teenager (having a tendency to put her own feelings before others, unless of course it's someone she's close to), and she has a habit of doing before thinking, as well as saying exactly what's on her mind (and many times voicing thoughts out loud, essentially talking to herself). The way she talks and her normal vocabulary don't help give her a very grown-up image, either, but it's still something her friends and family appreciate. (Not to say she sounds unintelligent, just immature. "Dude" is one of those words she uses often enough to give evidence to this fact. She also relies sometimes on some internet slang or other current pop culture references, often including the Battlestar Galactica expletive "frak".) She's perfectly content with breaking a few rules if she deems it necessary (and when curiosity is involved, sometimes she just can't help herself), but overall her heart is always in the right place.

Family is the most important thing in Claudia's life, because during a good chunk of her childhood and teenage years it was something she desperately sought. We aren't told much about the foster family she went to after her brother disappeared, but just the fact that she never talks about or even mentions them I think goes to show she wasn't very close with them. Once she was welcomed into the Warehouse, her coworkers became her family - she even says in the beginning of the second season that they are the only family she's ever had. Adjusting to being without them here will be hard, particularly since she's already "lost" family and friends before. Indeed, from the canon point I'm pulling her from, she already thinks she's somehow just driven a close friend away and believes she must somehow be "cursed" because this happens to her so often.

In the first two seasons especially we're shown that not only is having family important to Claudia, but it's also important to her that she prove herself useful to them, that not only does she belong there but also that she's needed. More than anything she really wants to make Artie proud of her, because he's become a father figure to her. Though in the beginning she calls herself merely "tech support", it's obvious she wants to be more than that and she is beyond happy when she's finally given a chance to prove herself (and, actually, is considered the "senior agent") during a mission early in the third season.

Given a challenge, Claudia will dedicate herself to it nearly to a degree of obsession. When she first started "seeing" Joshua, her brother, and believing he wasn't dead, just stuck in between dimensions, she began obsessing over rescuing him, and over finding Artie to assist her in doing so. The walls of her apartment at that time were covered in handwritten notes to herself, pictures, and articles. Another example is during season two, when she begins to suspect Todd of not being who he says he is. She digs up information on the internet (presumably through hacking) and winds up with a file about the size of three novels. She's also given evidence that throwing herself into something will also often mean avoiding asking for help from others (the exception being her requiring help in a field/area she has no knowledge of or that someone else is an expert in), or even talking about the problem, and often she'll rely quite heavily on her feelings or suspicions rather than thinking things through logically.

One event that we learn (in 3x06 "Don't Hate the Player") had a profound impact on her was her stay in a psychiatric clinic, even though she only spent a period of a few months there, having checked herself in after she began "seeing" Joshua. Events in that episode show us that her biggest fear is that she isn't sane, that she's actually still in the psychiatric hospital and that nothing that's happened since is true or real, it's all in her mind. While this may not have been immediately evident prior to that episode, going back it may explain why she doesn't often hesitate to follow where her instincts or where her curiosity takes her, rules and sometimes other people be damned. Because if it's all in her mind anyway, then what, really, are the consequences of her actions?

She pretends, on occasion, to think highly of herself (such as saying "I'm pretty fabulous" or "I'm being awesome") but this is mostly in regards to her abilities (namely: hacking) and when given direct compliments she's much more likely to be humble about it or brush it off, showing that she may be more shy than she lets on. This is further evident by her hesitance to play her guitar or sing in public, even though she's apparently very good at it. Though, during the third season her friend and co-worker Pete finally does convince her to do so, saying that he's heard her through the walls at the bed and breakfast they stay at.

We're never given in-depth detail about her past, and the fact that she rarely wants to talk about it (and actually at one point calls herself a "freakazoid with no past") suggests that nothing special happened there, other than the death of her parents (which she also never talks about) and the disappearance of Joshua, as well as her brief period in the psychiatric clinic and, during childhood, the possibility she was in one or more foster homes. It's easy to assume that, along with not making much of a connection with any foster families she had, she didn't make many lasting friendships when she was younger either. Or, given evidence that she believes she's somehow "cursed" with friends pulling away or her repelling them, it may be the friendships she did have never lasted long or ended badly. Either way, she's not prone to talking about them.

Skills/Powers:

Claudia is an ace with the computer (namely hacking) and isn't afraid to gloat about it. She's also quite handy with inventing things, repairing things, or upgrading things. "Things" referring to mostly objects of an electrical/mechanical nature. Some references to things she has invented and worked on.

She's fairly skilled with her weapon, the mini-Tesla, having practiced with it at the Warehouse. Any other weapons she probably has not used very often. Since she is technically a "senior" agent at the Warehouse by the time I'm taking her from, she probably knows how to use a gun but has not had a lot of practice with it. (Though I would not expect her boss to let her go on missions without at least some knowledge of them.)

Resourceful and quick-thinking, she has on occasion saved herself or others by thinking on her feet. (For example, grabbing a nearby tag-scanner and shining it in someone's eyes to keep them from using an artifact.)

Gear:
- 4 simple ring earrings (wearing)
- 3 silver necklaces (wearing)
- 1 pair of sunglasses (wearing)
- 1 black tank top (wearing)
- 1 purple/gray zip-up jacket (wearing)
- 4 decorative pins (wearing, attached to jacket)
- 1 pair underwear (wearing)
- 1 pair dark denim jeans (wearing)
- 1 belt (wearing)
- 1 pair socks (wearing)
- 1 pair boots (wearing)
- 1 messenger bag, containing:

- 1 cell phone (unusable here)
- 1 Farnsworth (also unusable)
- 1 Mini-Tesla gun [Close up & Size ref]
- 1 mini engineer toolkit
- 1 wallet (credit cards, hotel key, $41.19 in cash and change)
- 1 travel-size first-aid kid (bandages, gauze, disinfectant)
- 1 iPod nano + headphones (usable until battery dies)

- 1 suitcase, containing:

- 1 laptop with accessories (usable until battery dies)
- 1 USB toolkit
- 3 pairs of underwear
- 3 pairs of socks
- 2 pairs of jeans
- 3 tank tops
- 1 camisole
- 1 pair of sweatpants
- 1 hoodie
- 1 toiletries bag (hotel soap, hotel shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant)
- 1 make-up bag (eyeliner, mascara, lip gloss, nail polish, assorted temporary hair-dye)
- 1 hairbrush

Why do you want to play this character in this particular setting?
Claudia's not great at asking for help (especially at the point I'm pulling her from), at least not in a "My brain is shorting out and I'm scared for my life and I need someone to talk to and help me through this" sort of way. She's also not great at asking for help in the simpler "FUCK THERE IS A MONSTER THAT WANTS TO EAT ME AND MY TESLA WON'T RECHARGE AAAAUGH" way either, but she's way more willing to do the latter than the former. Either way, I really want to put her in a place where she's forced to open up and rely on strangers to help her. Though not very physically strong or adept with many weapons yet, she's quick-witted and resourceful and can be a help to others in that sense. She's also already had a brush with "insanity" (she thought she was going crazy, at any rate) and I've always wanted to play with that a little more.

Writing Samples:
Canon-setting thread with Artie. (S2 Claudia, prose style.)
Last Voyages log post, takes place in Gotham City. (Early S3 Claudia, prose style. This is my favorite thread from there, just sayin'.)
Fourth-wall event at Last Voyages. (First person/comment-spam style.)
Last Voyages again, directly after a canon-update in which she learns her best friend is dead. (Late S3 Claudia. First person/comment-spam style.)
A Dear-Mun entry re: the decision to throw her into this game. (First person/comment-spam style.)