Claire is also very ambitious, with his sights set high. He was born to be a leader, he knows his place in the world - at the top - and he aims to stay in his place. Claire takes risks to get what he wants, and he can be a very good leader, especially later in the series after learning his lesson about his Family. He knows how to inspire loyalty in people through his own charisma and through knowing how to treat people right - he is tough but fair on his followers, and they tend to see something in him that inspires them to follow him, to believe in him. His intelligence shines through, and with the development and growing he's done through the course of his canon, learning the value of the people around him, the value of doing the right thing for the people who follow him and the people he has an effect on, he's grown to be a powerful enough leader that the same mafia that once turned on him asked him back and follow him without question.
However, Claire is definitively not all good, and his weaknesses at times can outweigh his strengths. The fact that he's an unstable genius is something that never changes about him. His mental state is questionable at times, and he can be incredibly flighty and impulsive, making decisions on a whim that aren't always good for himself or his people. While this has toned down considerably by the end of the series, earlier in the series he's quick to violence, responding with force when people do things he doesn't like - he has an affinity for grenades and explosives, which he refers to as 'fireworks,' and frequently had to be restrained from simply blowing peope up when they defied him. Though this has toned down seriously by the end of the series, it is still, to some extent, an aspect of his personality.
His ambition is also a bit of a negative, leading him into things he can't always handle as well as he thinks he can, getting in over his head and needing help to get himself to safety. He does rely quite a bit on Giovanni and his other followers in his canon, and without that support network, he would likely end up getting himself into a few fights or situations where he's out of his depth alone.
Claire's mental instability is also apparent in the fact that when things go drastically wrong, when he's reminded of his father, when he's betrayed, when things hit the bottom of the barrel and he doesn't know what to do, he can shut down rather than struggling through. This is demonstrated in canon where he is betrayed by his men and is attacked on his way out - two of his close friends and bodyguards, Ian and Mitchell, die protecting him, and this stress causes him to simply shut down, going into a comatose sort of state despite Giovanni, his remaining friend, trying to snap him out of it and saying he needs him. Claire will likely be more resistent to this after having gone through it once in canon, but considering his remaining mental instability, the right set of circumstances could cause him to temporarily shut down like this again.
All in all, Claire is a complex, flawed individual with a lot of personal development under his belt, and the opportunity for a lot more.
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Claire is also very ambitious, with his sights set high. He was born to be a leader, he knows his place in the world - at the top - and he aims to stay in his place. Claire takes risks to get what he wants, and he can be a very good leader, especially later in the series after learning his lesson about his Family. He knows how to inspire loyalty in people through his own charisma and through knowing how to treat people right - he is tough but fair on his followers, and they tend to see something in him that inspires them to follow him, to believe in him. His intelligence shines through, and with the development and growing he's done through the course of his canon, learning the value of the people around him, the value of doing the right thing for the people who follow him and the people he has an effect on, he's grown to be a powerful enough leader that the same mafia that once turned on him asked him back and follow him without question.
However, Claire is definitively not all good, and his weaknesses at times can outweigh his strengths. The fact that he's an unstable genius is something that never changes about him. His mental state is questionable at times, and he can be incredibly flighty and impulsive, making decisions on a whim that aren't always good for himself or his people. While this has toned down considerably by the end of the series, earlier in the series he's quick to violence, responding with force when people do things he doesn't like - he has an affinity for grenades and explosives, which he refers to as 'fireworks,' and frequently had to be restrained from simply blowing peope up when they defied him. Though this has toned down seriously by the end of the series, it is still, to some extent, an aspect of his personality.
His ambition is also a bit of a negative, leading him into things he can't always handle as well as he thinks he can, getting in over his head and needing help to get himself to safety. He does rely quite a bit on Giovanni and his other followers in his canon, and without that support network, he would likely end up getting himself into a few fights or situations where he's out of his depth alone.
Claire's mental instability is also apparent in the fact that when things go drastically wrong, when he's reminded of his father, when he's betrayed, when things hit the bottom of the barrel and he doesn't know what to do, he can shut down rather than struggling through. This is demonstrated in canon where he is betrayed by his men and is attacked on his way out - two of his close friends and bodyguards, Ian and Mitchell, die protecting him, and this stress causes him to simply shut down, going into a comatose sort of state despite Giovanni, his remaining friend, trying to snap him out of it and saying he needs him. Claire will likely be more resistent to this after having gone through it once in canon, but considering his remaining mental instability, the right set of circumstances could cause him to temporarily shut down like this again.
All in all, Claire is a complex, flawed individual with a lot of personal development under his belt, and the opportunity for a lot more.