BRYANTS, claire

[Claire Bryants]

Canon/Original Character: Canon
Name: Claire Bryants
Nicknames: Claire Bear, Bryants
Age: Nineteen
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Straight

Indian Reservation or Roanoke Town: Roanoke Town
Stable: Oaklawn Equestrians
Occupation (if any): Works at the stable
Family (please don't be all "Everyone died”...unless there's a good reason):
Mother-
Brianna Bryants, Age at Death- 38
Father-
Christian Bryants, Age at Death- 43
Siblings-
Deceased- Jacob Bryants, 12
Adopted Mother-
Michelle Peters, Age at Death- 39
Adopted Father-
Jonathan Peters, 39
Pets(optional): Horse, Captain Jack and a border collie named Roscoe

Face Claim: Hayden Panettiere
Looks and Attire: Claire has blonde hair and hazel eyes. Her figure is slender and she is average height for her age. She is not overweight, but she isn't anorexic thin either. Claire is usually wearing jeans and tops from stores such as Aero, Hollister, and Urban Outfitters, sometimes even dresses.
Personality (at least 100-150 words): Claire is sweet, funny, and sometimes shy. She has HORRIBLE stage fright at times. Music is all she lives for, and she makes her music all the time. She is a crazy, clumsy, girl who loves exaggerating things, but not to an annoying point. She can sometimes be flirty, if she's in the mood...now when she's in the middle her singing mode and you interrupt her, she's the type of girl that you would hate to get on the bad side of. Claire is never afraid to stare you down and kick some hardcore butt when needed...

Ever since the incident in her family three years ago, she’s become more of a loner. She hates being near anyone who gives her the creeps. Her music and her horseback riding has become her sanity, her reason for keeping control of her life, and she would never give it up for anything. She is always seen around her Thoroughbred stallion Captain Jack. At times, when she’s alone and thinking about her family, she cries and writes lyrics on her loss and pain. She’s never healed from the gruesome murder of her real family a few years ago, and now even her adoptive mother is gone, leaving her with her abusive drunk of an adoptive father.


Likes:
Music; animals; HORSES; show jumping; gymnastics; guitars; boys; classic cars; cars in general; Smirnoff Ice; drinking; watching movies such as Monty Python and Mel Brooks classics; reading; practicing her singing; jogging; working out; clothing; classic rock; Vin Diesel; and The Fray.
Dislikes:
Drugs; boys who don’t treat girls right; seeing violence that reminds her of her family; roaches; spiders; creepy stalkers; preppy cheerleader girls; crazy people; rap music (she thinks those two words are oxymorons); the color pink, and broccoli.
Interests:
``Music
``Horseback Riding
``Jogging
``Fixing Cars
Fears/Secrets:
Fears--
``Ending up like her real family, murdered in the street
``Being judged by the other people in town too quickly for being a “bubble gum prep” when they have no idea what she really is.
``Losing her horse, Jack, and the boy she's in love with
Secrets--
``Is part Algonquian Indian
``She has told no one about the brutal murder of her family a few years back.
``She was almost raped by a good guy friend of hers
``She has flashbacks of the murder night and the almost rape night whenever she drinks
``Sometimes she doesn’t even want to go back home to the screaming and abuse, so she sticks around the stable almost all the time every day with her handsome Captain Jack
Power: Animal Communication
Strengths:
``Music
``Her singing voice
``Her charm
``Fast runner
``Show Jumping (she has good form for Hunter Seat)
``Communicating with animals lets her see what is really going on around her
Weaknesses:
``Animals
``Boys, since she is a flirt til she meets --Spencer and falls in love
``Physically not as strong as she could be
``Can be a heavy drinker when she thinks of her family and is depressed
``Always paranoid and scared of everyone and everything

History(at least 250 words): Claire was born to a musician mother and a normal, mechanic father. They all lived in New Orleans and were pretty much your normal, every day average family. Claire developed musical abilities early on in her life, taking more after her mother than her father. They nurtured her talent, bringing her to a special music school to give her voice lessons and guitar lessons. Every week she would go in and practice to hone her talents, and she progressed rapidly, performing in recitals at the young age of 10.

Then they took her horseback riding one day and found out she had really good form in the English saddle that she was riding in, so they dropped the music courses and enrolled her in show jumping lessons. She started to enjoy it and even fell in love with a horse that was for sale at the barn. Her parents bought the horse for her and named the dappled grey stallion named Captain Jack. Claire and Jack became extremely close and were an almost perfect fit...they do have a few problems sometimes though, such as Claire not giving Jack hay when he wants or a good rubdown after a hard ride on rare occasions. Claire takes fine care of Jack, though, and he loves to just run in the open every time he gets the chance.

The family was practically inseparable when it came to loving cars. Claire craved having a Porsche like her mother, who owned a Porsche Boxster. Her father owned a red Corvette, and she was taught by her father at the age of 13 to fix cars like him.

Claire was performing at a small concert at the local music house a few years back with her musician mother when she saw a man in the audience staring at her. She thought nothing of it at first, thinking he was a fan and was just interested in their song. They left later that night, their father and little brother meeting them outside since they had been in the audience to watch and give support.

Claire saw that same man walking up to them and then the next few moments went by in a blur. She heard gunshots and was knocked backwards as someone ran. She heard screaming all around her and more gunshots ringing out. When she opened her eyes and was able to sit up, people were staring at the bodies of her family, and she started crying and yelling for someone to call 911. All the blonde haired girl could see was blood, and she watched as her parents and little brother died before the ambulances could get there to save them.

Claire buried Jacob and her parents a few days later, and Claire’s life has never been the same since. She had to be put into an adoptive home, a home where her adoptive mother cared for her almost as much as her real mother. Her father, however, was a drunk who never cared about anyone or anything. The police never caught the man responsible for the murders, although Claire gave them descriptions of the haunting man. She mostly has kept to herself and has even picked up the bad habit of drinking away her problems.

Then, one night, a drunk driver hit and killed her adoptive mother, sending her adoptive father into even more drinking. He couldn’t deal with the fact that his wife was dead, and so he started to abuse Claire, somehow blaming her and taking out his anger on her. He needed to forget about everything and everyone, and he couldn’t even look at her anymore.

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