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The basis of Claire's personality stems from his position in life - the only child of a mafia Don, Claire was raised in a rough manner, with very high expectations placed on him. While he did his best to succeed, his upbringing brought with it a host of issues that remain even after his development through the series. Claire's prominent issues are abandonment and an inferiority complex. When Claire is abandoned, he becomes stricken, almost hopeless, and very angry as a self-protective measure, sometimes seeking revenge against the person who abandoned him. In some cases, if he cares about the person enough, he can generally forgive them if they come back to him - for example, his advisor Moro has betrayed and abandoned him on two occasions, and yet Claire has asked him back without violence both times, once again trusting him fully. Still, Claire has a fear of being alone, of having no one to rely on, of being truly unworthy.
This brings us to his second main issue, his inferiority complex. As stated before, Claire's father was very rough on him, hard and always demanding more strength, more cleverness, more of everything required to be the Vampire of the Leonelli Family. Because of this roughness, Claire has developed something of an inferiority complex, always trying to assert his dominance and superior intelligence and strategy because he feels he must still prove himself to his deceased father. When he remembers his father it can stop this powerful young man in his tracks, sending him back to childhood, blanking him out for several moments before he reacts again, usually with violence. The mere mention of these father issues can send Claire into a fit of rage, vengeance, and in the series he has first shot and then kidnapped Daisuke and dosed him with LSD in an attempt to make Daisuke feel as badly as he did after Daisuke simply accused him of acting better than everyone else because he didn't feel good enough for his father. Still, over the course of the series, with the support of his Family and his right hand man, Giovanni, who repeatedly proves through actions and eventually tells Claire straight out that Claire himself is what matters to his followers, not the Leonelli Family name, Claire comes to terms with his issues to some extent, and is able to navigate his life according to his own expectations.
As mentioned before, Claire is charismatic, and very intelligent. He's been well-educated, and uses this to his advantage when making strategic decisions in his position of power. Partially because of his abandonment issues and partly because of his general personality, Claire is incredibly loyal - if someone shows him loyalty, if he cares about someone, if that person has stuck with him or done him a favour or kindness, Claire will go to extreme lengths to pay back that loyalty. If you're a friend of Claire's, you can expect him to hang on tenaciously. He doesn't want to be alone, he doesn't want to have to rely on only himself, and while he'll expect reciprocation, he certainly won't betray. For example, in his canon there was the aforementioned request for Moro to rejoin him even after betrayal. There is also a later example where he wakes up from a traumatized stupor after the betrayal of Moro and the loss of two of his closest henchmen (both of whom died to protect Claire) and goes into the streets alone, finally shooting at an android hundreds of times stronger than him in order to protect his remaining bodyguard and close friend, Giovanni.
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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.
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Claire has a habit of laughing like a crazy person when he's feeling on edge. He also responds to grief and fear with laughter rather than tears or screams. This is not pleasant laughter.
Images:
Claire standing with Giovanni, his right-hand man. (http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q38/companyvita/Donations/bscap030.jpg)
Comatose Claire being held by...someone. Possibly Kia. (http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q38/companyvita/Donations/bscap060.jpg)
Shameless pretty. (http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q38/companyvita/Donations/bscap013.jpg)
Additional Links:
Episode Summaries for all episodes of Heat Guy J. (http://www.tv.com/heat-guy-j/show/23572/episode.html?tag=episode_header;episode)
Heat Guy J Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_Guy_J) - Note: The Wikipedia has different romanizations of various names than what I use in the application, a common problem in this series. The name of the City, for example, is spelled in three different ways depending on where you look. I will use the romanizations used in my application, as they are the names/terms used in the English dub and names were not replaced.
First Person (entry type):
[ooc: set the day after the battle at the climax of the series]
[video post engages showing Claire sitting on a large leather couch in an unspecified room at his headquarters. he's smiling, but he looks tired, and the smile is almost bordering on real. his hair is mussed, just a bit, like he woke up and made the entry after running a hand through it rather than styling as usual. the smile quirks up into a smirk after a moment]
It's almost like a hangover, the aftermath of winning. Really winning for the first time in a long time. Maybe the first time ever. This rotten city is still full of trash, from top to bottom, but it's our city, isn't it?
Heh. Feels a lot better than a hangover.
[he smiles for a moment, rather than smirking, and pushes a hand back through his hair, eyes falling shut]
I'm back in my rightful place, and Aurora? Well. He'll be back.
Third Person:
The snow had stopped at some point after the battle had started, but Claire couldn't really remember when. It was really just details, he'd been more than a little distracted, watching his men fall around him, feeling the pain of each loss and the impending dread of an overall loss, supported by some sort of determination to go down fighting. The Vampire of the Leonelli Family, the person who kept the Underworld in order, with all respect to Shogun - he owed it to his people, to this city, to do everything he could. He owed it to Daisuke, who'd saved his life even after all the screw ups Claire had under his belt, after the bullets and antagonism, after the shot of LSD.
He owed it to Daisuke.
The contrast with the feeling of the cavalry arriving, tanks that weren't against him, relief, a sort of settling in, leaving only the determination - it had been complete elation. This was what Claire lived for, the high of success, the battle against the odds that proved his intelligence, the loyalty of the people behind him, the flash of the grenade as it hit home. This was what life was truly about.
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