Age: 27
Date of Birth: 29th of March
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 56kg
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Skills:
Augmentation Knowledge - It was her entire profession - understanding, refining and designing experimental augmentations that either built upon already established augmentations or created new augmentations altogether. Being an expert in her field, if given the right opportunity, equipment and time, Claire is able to alter ones augmentations or if someone's augmentation needs upkeep, she can do it too.
Remote Control Still a long ways off from being perfect, Claire's history as an experimental augmentation scientist allowed her to develop what she calls an exo-augmentation. Claire is able to control one individual/infected remotely provided she can attach a device which allows her to 'hack' into a A.A.R stimulated host. Once the small device is attached, provided it isn't removed or damaged badly, Claire can for a short time, make an augment-affected person her slave.
Talents:
Intelligence A practical prodigy from an early age, it is undeniable that Claire has the smarts to survive. It's her inability to sometimes reign in arrogance and ego that will get her killed if she isn't more careful. That, and her dependency on illegal drugs.
Health Issues: Claire has a high dependency for A.A.R.T medication. While having no augmentations herself, Claire's high intellect comes with a burden of even higher expectations. Her thoughts and ideas under-pressure are often scattered, innumerable and ground-breaking but she has an incredibly hard time prioritizing them, organizing them and then putting them to practice. For reasons not entirely known to her, not that she cares to be honest, A.A.R.T medication has the effect of a highly powerful concentration drug. The medication itself, most likely because of a lack of augmentation in her body, enables Claire to organize her thoughts and feelings and have a meaningful existence inside an otherwise chaotic intelligence.
Claire first discovered the effects of A.A.R.T's when researching dose calibrations in relation to the more powerful augmentations she was experimenting with. Forbidden to use live subjects while conducting one augmentation experiment, Claire resolved to experimenting on herself with an augmentation that was supposed to work with the body, but not be directly incorporated into it. To her dismay though, in order for the augmentation to even work she needed to have high doses of A.A.R stimulants in her body. Resigning herself as the only option for a proper test run, Claire began to take A.A.R.T medication while performing her exo-augmentation experiments. As a result, for the first time in her life Claire found a new found clarity in the way she used her intelligence. Able to work harder, longer and faster, Claire began using A.A.R.T's in secrecy while she worked.
The tablets initially had no side affects on her and only positive outcomes. Her morale was up, her work ethic was fantastic and Claire was thinking more clearly than she'd ever been able to think before. Somewhere along the way however, amid her day to day experiments and her secret augmentation experiments, what Claire was doing and her apparent incorrect use of A.A.R.T medication came into the light of Nakatomi's higher ups.
Disgraced, labelled a drug addict and heretic, Claire was stripped of her title as one Nakatomi's leading Experimental Augmentation scientists and forced to live her life as a disgraced woman. Her addiction to A.A.R.T's is violent nowadays. Still able to function as a normal human being with her high intelligence when taking A.A.R.T's it's when Claire skips a day without taking the medication that she plunges into an almost deep dementia like state; her thoughts are violently scattered, reasoning goes and Claire becomes almost delusional.
Medications: Black-Market A.A.R.T medication. She only needs one tablet a day to function.
Family Members (Deceased: Unknown): Robert Hartford, Previously was Nakatomi's greatest Experimental Augmentation Scientist.
Career Duration: Due to her intelligence, Claire was only eighteen when she began her role as an Experimental Augmentation Scientist. Her career hasn't been exactly illustrious, but she contributed to many advancements and redefining for already established augmentations. Much of her work outside enhancing already existing augmentations has largely been looked over due to her age, but mostly due to the ambitious nature of her experiments. Much of her career when not helping others was spent on creating, theorizing and alpha testing what Claire took to calling Exo-Augments. Claire wanted to take augmentations beyond symbiosis and begin to extend the proverbial augmented arm past being a part of itself but also an outer extension.
To date however according to Nakatomi reports, none of her theories or experiments ever made it off the ground and after the discovering of self experimentation and drug abuse of A.A.R.T's Claire was stripped of her academic title, forbidden to pursue a career in augmentations ever again and labelled a drug addict; all at the age of 26. A self admitted drug user, Claire will always fight back though at the claims she is a drug addict and abuser.
Living Arrangements/Current Location: Claire, due to her career has still managed to take residence in one of the Ark's most prominent and highly illustrious and sought after towers. Living a life of luxury still, Claire is able to lock herself away in a near pent-house height condo at S14 level. A predominantly shut in woman, Claire still carries herself with dignity although it wanes from day to day.
Additional Information: Claire has a quarter container of A.A.R.T's left.
History: From a young age it was apparent Claire Hartford was a genius. A girl who fought to learn all she could and obtain as much information as possible, it was no surprise that she was learning at a highschool level by the time she was twelve/thirteen. Able to understand heavy concepts with little worries, Claire had finished her high school diploma by the age of fifteen and begun a degree in Augmentation science shortly after.
It seemed from a young age that nothing would stop Claire, and her father - Robert Hartford, a leading experimental augmentations scientist working for Nakatomi was her mentor the entirety of the time she studied. Interning for and learning a lot from her father, it was really no surprise that Nakatomi openly offered Claire a position as one of their leading scientists when she graduated at the age of eighteen.
Throughout her career, Claire showed a lot of promise in the theory behind experimental augmentations, but she always seemed to fall short of hitting her experiments out of the ballpark when her ambition rose beyond what was perceived as capable at the time. Nevertheless though, Claire persisted, residing within herself that one day surely she'd be the one to take augmentations to the next level. But as the years went by, coupled with Claire's impatience and immaturity at times, she chose to begin off-the-records augmentation experiments on her own.
But as her experiments reached a precipice, Claire was forced to either make an extreme decision or leave what she was working on to fall into the shadows. Ever the ambitious woman, Claire chose to conduct augmentation experiments on herself outside of work, but was soon met with dismay when it appeared in order to have her experiments fully realized she'd need humans who took A.A.R.T medication. Unable to progress further without A.A.R stimulated humans Claire took a step further in her experiments and began to supplement herself with the medication. Something that resulted in a greater clarity for herself and enabled her to work more efficiently at work and at her extra-curricular experiments.
It wasn't long before Claire had managed to refine one of her exo-augmentations and was ready to test it properly on others when Nakatomi discovered what she was doing. Her father had been carefully watching Claire and concerned about her behavior turned her in to the company which saw her stripped of her title, privileges and access. Left with nothing but a high dependency on A.A.R.T to function and a substantial wealth, Claire became a disgraced name among the Ark's inhabitants. She also cut her father from her life for what she perceived as the ultimate betrayal.
She currently lives on S14 in one of the Ark's most sought after residential locations. She still takes A.A.R.T medication as without it, she cannot function properly without going cold-turkey, something she swears would kill her. While Claire may have lost any hope of her career and experiments going further she was able to sneak her last exo-aug. experiment out of Nakatomi's labs.