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| Bio: | Fandom: Heroes Age: 16  created by: gatsbyicons Six months prior to the start of the series, Claire had just become cheerleader at her high school. Jackie Wilcox, another cheerleader, befriends Claire and helps her join the cheerleading squad. Though "popular" like Jackie and other squad members, she tries not to "be a bitch," unlike Jackie. Jackie brings Claire her cheerleading uniform and pressures her to put it on. Claire declines, saying she will try it on later. Somewhat put out by this, Jackie says that there are other people who would like to be cheerleaders. At this remark Claire tugs the uniform from Jackie's hands but in doing so smashes into a glass case cutting her hand. When they show Claire's parents, Mrs. Bennet says that Claire might need stitches. After Claire, Jackie, and Mrs. Bennet leave for the hospital the phone rings and Mr. Bennet answers. It is Chandra Suresh informing him of Claire's power. Several days later, Claire is in her room trying on her cheerleading uniform. Mr. Bennet comes in and asks if he can see her hand with the stitches. When they unravel the cloth around her hand they are both surprised to see not even a small scratch. Mr. Bennet remarks, "Well that healed nicely." In the pilot episode "Genesis", set several months later, Claire has discovered her power. Frightened as to what it means, she confides in Zach, a high-school classmate who videotapes Claire testing her regenerative power by attempting to injure herself. Zach thinks Claire's power is the "coolest thing to ever happen in their town"; Claire believes it makes her a freak and is afraid of it being discovered. Her younger brother, Lyle, also discovers Claire's powers after finding the tape Zach filmed. Claire swears him to secrecy. Despite wanting nothing more than a normal life, Claire has been through her share of harrowing experiences. In the pilot episode, she saves a man from a burning train wreck. The credit for the rescue is later claimed by her friend Jackie. Wishing to avoid publicity, Claire grudgingly stays silent while Jackie takes the credit. Also, a burgeoning romance with Brody Mitchum, a quarterback from the school's football team, goes horribly wrong when a drunken Brody tries to rape Claire. The encounter ends after she is accidentally "killed" when he knocks her down on a pile of wood and a branch impales the back of her neck and embeds itself into her skull. Claire later revives on the autopsy table when the branch is removed. She manages to escape when the coroner steps out of the room. Brody is stunned to see Claire alive at school the next day, but is led to believe he misremembered the incident due to his drunken state. Discovering she is not the first girl Brody assaulted, Claire decides to take revenge. She asks Brody for a ride home and volunteers to drive his car. During the drive, she confronts him about his behavior, but Brody is unrepentant and indicates he will continue assaulting girls. Claire then purposefully crashes the car into the wall of a building at high speed. They're both taken to the hospital, even though Claire is uninjured due to her powers. When her father comes to visit her, Claire breaks down and tells him of Brody's assault. Her father says he will take care of it. When Claire approaches Brody in his hospital room later, he has amnesia to the point of not knowing his own name. Having sustained no injuries, Claire is quickly released from the hospital. After several requests from Claire, Mr. Bennet arranges for Claire to meet Hank and Lisa, a couple that is presented as her biological parents. She tries to subtly pump them for information about her superhuman power, but they seem unaware of anything abnormal about Claire. "Save the cheerleader" After the first four episodes of the series, a story arc called "Save the cheerleader, save the world" begins. Claire's ultimate fate is implied to be tied to the fate of the entire world. A future version of Hiro Nakamura told Peter Petrelli: "Save the cheerleader, save the world." In a painting Peter finishes for Isaac Mendez, a cheerleader is seen dead, with her brain removed from her skull. Isaac also experiences a vision of Claire being chased at her school. The episode "Seven Minutes to Midnight", shows Mr. Bennet telling Isaac that Sylar will kill Claire at her school's homecoming game, and he needs Isaac to help him prevent the crime by completing a painting of Claire being murdered. In the episode "Homecoming", Claire is elected homecoming queen after her friend Zach campaigns for her, persuading all of the school's "unpopular" students (who outnumber the "popular" ones) to vote for her. Claire punches fellow cheerleader Jackie after Jackie taunts Zach about his sexuality. Claire's father grounds her, ostensibly for punching Jackie, but really intending to keep her out of harm's way by preventing her from fulfilling Isaac's "prophecies." Zach persuades Claire to sneak out her bedroom window and go to the game anyway. At the game, Claire meets Peter, but since he saw the newspaper article where Jackie took credit for the fire rescue, Peter believes Jackie is the cheerleader he is there to save. An argument between Claire and Jackie in the school locker room is interrupted when the lights suddenly go out and Claire hears someone approach. Claire tells Jackie to run, but Sylar catches them and cuts Jackie's scalp telekinetically. Claire is thrown against a wall without a second thought when she attempts to intervene. Claire, splattered with blood, quickly recovers from her broken bones, gets up, and runs away from Sylar, who realizes he has made a mistake as Jackie dies from massive blood loss. In the hallway, she finds Peter and the two of them flee the building. Claire takes Peter's advice to run toward the stadium full of people, but then turns back to find him lying in a pool of blood. She is then astonished to see him heal himself just like her. As Claire goes to get help, she runs into the arms of her relieved father, who says the police will handle things at the school. He also says she is lucky to be alive, leading Claire to admit that her survival is not due to luck. When the story continues in "Fallout", Claire's father informs her that he has always known about her powers and has done things he is not proud of to protect her. He tells her Sylar has been taken care of, but warns Claire not to tell anyone about her powers, claiming there are others who would want to harm her. Claire recovers the remaining video tapes depicting her powers from Zach and destroys them. She warns Zach not to tell anyone about her healing abilities. Claire and her father are interviewed by law enforcement officials, but Claire tells them both she and Peter must have been "just lucky" to have survived Sylar's attack. Claire later meets with Peter alone and is fascinated when he tells her he risked his life to save her (as he was not sure in advance if he had adopted Claire's healing factor). She remarks that he is "totally my hero." Claire later discovers that both her brother and Zach no longer remember what they've seen regarding her unusual healing abilities. Claire panics and calls her father, extremely frightened. Mr. Bennet reassures her that he remembers and everything will be all right. The Haitian then appears out of the shadows and covers Claire's mouth with his hand. He tells Claire that Mr. Bennet sent him to wipe her memory of the preceding events, just as he has wiped the memories of Brody, Lyle, and Zach. The Haitian even states that he had to mind wipe Claire's mother "so many times" in the past. However, the Haitian then said that there is a reason Claire must remember and asks her if she can keep a secret. Alone Two weeks later in "Godsend", Claire is struggling with being alone again since the Haitian did not wipe her memory. In front of her father, she pretends that she does not remember anything the Haitian was supposed to erase. She tries to reconnect with Zach, but between his lack of memory and resentment over the way their friendship ended in grade school, he's not interested. Desperate, Claire meets with the Haitian to discuss her options and the state of things. She mentions "save the cheerleader, save the world," wondering what it means and if she's even "saved." The Haitian states that she has been saved for the time being. He also rebuffs her request to see Peter, stating he is being watched by her father. She asks the Haitian to give Zach his memories back, as she does not want to be alone, but he tells her he cannot. Before leaving, the Haitian also recommends she respect her abilities more, rather than see them as an affliction. Eventually, Claire takes Zach back to the spot where they filmed "attempt number six." After redoing the same stunt from "Genesis", she now says into Zach's camera, "This is Claire Bennet, and as far as you know, that was attempt number one." In "The Fix", Claire and Zach search for information on her biological mother, telling Mr. Bennet that they have been grudgingly partnered together on a biology project for school. Their search leads them to Meredith Gordon, a woman reported to have died in a fire along with her eighteen-month-old daughter. They believe Claire to be Meredith Gordon's reportedly-dead daughter. When Claire contacts several people with the surname "Gordon," she finds a woman who identifies herself as Meredith. The woman is shocked to hear that Claire survived and is revealed to possess the ability of pyrokinesis. In "Distractions", Claire and Meredith meet, sharing their powers with each other. Later, Meredith telephones Claire's biological father, who is revealed to be Nathan Petrelli, informing him that their daughter is still alive. In the episode "Unexpected", Claire finds that her mother is showing signs of temporary memory loss, at one point even forgetting who Mr. Muggles is, only to revert to her normal self a few minutes later. Later on, Claire's mother collapses while in the kitchen and is rushed to the hospital. When Mr. Bennet arrives, Claire is unable to suppress her anger against him any longer and admits to knowing about the repeated memory wipes that Mr. Bennet has had done on her mother. After this, the family returns home, where they are confronted by Ted Sprague and Matt Parkman. In "Company Man", Claire and her family are held captive by Sprague and Parkman. After a botched attempt to free the family by Mr. Bennet, Claire and her father convince Matt to shoot her to get Sprague's trust. She attempts to free her family after she regenerates, but is captured by Sprague in the attempt. After Sprague is shot and his radiation powers go violently out of control, Claire uses her regenerative powers to get close enough to tranquilize him. However, Claire is seen healing from severe radiation burns by one of Mr. Bennet's superiors, who insists that Claire be turned over to their employers. In the end, Claire is given to the Haitian, who is to keep her safe from Bennet's company. In "Parasite", she is supposed to go with the Haitian to flee the country but manages to slip away from him by stealing his passport at the airport. She then goes to Peter Petrelli's apartment, finding his mother, Angela Petrelli, instead. Angela reveals that not only is she Claire's grandmother, but that she and the Haitian have been corresponding for some time in order to protect Claire. "Save the world" In ".07%", Claire learns that her grandmother, Angela Petrelli, knew of her existence all along, even though Nathan thought she had died in a fire as a baby. Mrs. Petrelli tells her that she still needs protecting and the two of them will be going to Paris until after the election. When the seemingly dead body of Peter Petrelli is brought to his mother's house, Claire comes downstairs to see Peter for herself. Claire finds a huge jagged shard of glass penetrating his skull. When she pulls it out, Peter comes back to life. Later, Nathan, realizing he cannot afford to have her in the city in the days leading up to the election--to avoid any scandalous issues and possibly to get her out of the way of Peter's nuclear explosion-- asks Claire to go to Paris. Claire reluctantly agrees to go with Angela, and the two of them embrace warmly. Two days before New York is to be blown up, Claire is still staying in the Petrelli Mansion. She watches as her father Nathan greets his wife, Heidi Petrelli, and their two boys, Monty and Simon, upon their return to the mansion, although Claire is not introduced to them. Later, Claire and her grandmother, Angela Petrelli, begin packing her bags for Paris. Peter walks into the room and talks to Claire about destiny, although she is convinced the best way for Nathan to protect her is to fly to Paris. Claire tells Peter about Ted Sprague, a man who can manipulate radiation after Peter reveals he will likely "go nuclear" and destroy half of New York. Peter and Claire confront Nathan about Ted; with someone else capable of manipulating radiation, Peter is hopeful the explosion can be prevented. Nathan remains doubtful, pointing out that Peter's vision was of his own explosion. Peter reminds Nathan that he had a vision of flying as well, despite the fact that it was Nathan who could fly - a fact that impresses Claire. Later, Peter and Claire go to the Petrelli campaign headquarters to meet with Nathan. Upon arriving, they see Nathan talking with Thompson, whom Claire recognizes as her adoptive father's boss and the man she is running from. Peter gives Claire a handgun, telling her she is the only person who can get close to him if he begins to explode. He instructs her to shoot him in the back of the head, a spot she knows will prevent him from healing. She reluctantly agrees to carry the weapon. The pair recognize a location from one of Peter's drawings of Ted, and decide to look for him. While waiting for Ted to appear, Claire and Peter discuss how their powers have changed their lives. Claire then sees Mr. Bennet walking with Ted and Matt Parkman. She runs to her adoptive father as Peter and Matt acknowledge each other. Meanwhile, Peter notices his hands begin to glow as he absorbs Ted's power. New York In "Landslide", Mr. Bennet orders Claire to leave the city with Peter and Ted. They are making plans to make their way out of New York to Nebraska when Peter hears Sylar's thoughts and they hide in a building upon realizing he is nearby. When they re-emerge, Ted is arrested by the FBI. Whilst on his way to a holding facility, the FBI truck transporting him is made to crash by Sylar and Ted is subsequently murdered; his abilities having been absorbed by the villain. Upon receiving this news in "How to Stop an Exploding Man", Mr. Bennet requests that Peter stay with his daughter at all times and he agrees. Claire, however, feels betrayed when, instead of finding Sylar on their own, Peter drives them to a parking garage where Nathan is awaiting their arrival. Firm in her belief that they cannot trust him, Claire sneaks out when Peter leaves her in the car to speak with his brother, only for her to run into her grandmother, Angela Petrelli. Angela and Nathan have plans to leave the city with Claire to Nantucket but when she finds out that they knew about the impending explosion all along and is willing to let it transpire, she jumps out of Nathan's office window after bluffing them that she has accepted the situation. Rapidly healing after her fall, she runs off to Kirby Plaza where she catches up to the scene just when Peter is about to explode. Mr. Bennet hands her a gun to shoot her uncle just as she had promised before but Claire hesitates, pleading with Peter that there must be another way. Nathan flies down in between them at that moment and agrees with his daughter. Claire and the others can only watch as Nathan flies away with his brother into the stratosphere where Peter then explodes, saving New York City but possibly sacrificing her birth father's life in the process. As the first season ends, Claire reconciles with her adoptive father and they make plans to reunite with the rest of their family. The future In the alternate future of "Five Years Gone", Claire has been hidden from the world by Mr. Bennet due to the world's newfound awareness and fear of those with special powers, having been shipped from place to place in an effort to keep her identity and whereabouts secret from her biological father (President Nathan Petrelli) and his "hero"-hunting Homeland Security Department. She works as a brunette waitress in Midland, Texas, in the Burnt Toast Diner, under the alias of "Sandra". She discusses an upcoming wedding with her blond-haired fiancé, Andy. However, upon learning that others are aware of Claire's existence, Mr. Bennet travels to Midland in order to once again erase Claire from the map. Although he succeeds in persuading her to pack up and leave, he is later betrayed (and presumably killed) by the merciless Matt Parkman, who telepathically discovers Claire's location and apprehends her at the diner. Claire is taken to the Petrelli Mansion in New York, where she is visited by Nathan Petrelli. Nathan explains the necessity of the sweeping presidential measures he's taken against the genetically-advanced of the world. Though simply disgusted with her father at first, the situation takes a turn for the worse when "Nathan" reveals himself to be Sylar in disguise. He has killed both Nathan and Candice Wilmer, using her power of illusion to masquerade as Nathan. Sylar telekinetically scalps Claire, killing her. Isaac's art Claire appears in Isaac Mendez's paintings many times. The first painting seen with Claire is the episode "One Giant Leap". It is a painting of Claire walking away from Zach. This painting mirrors a scene that occurred immediately before the painting was shown. Claire appears in three more paintings that come to pass in the episode "Homecoming". One is of Claire running up the steps of the school auditorium, with a shadow cast over her. Another is of Claire's face with an afraid and shocked expression. The last is of a shadowed man standing over a cheerleader that is implied to be Claire with her brain missing (however, the victim turns out to be Jackie Wilcox). This painting was started by Isaac Mendez and finished by Peter Petrelli. The last painting of Claire seen is in the episode "Parasite" when Hiro tries to steal Takezo Kensei's sword from Linderman's archives. In the background of the office, there is an image of Claire on an autopsy table with her chest cut open. This scene occurred in "One Giant Leap". Powers and abilities Claire can spontaneously regenerate any tissue in her body, allowing her to recover from any injury within seconds to minutes. She does need to manually remove foreign objects from her body and push bones and joints back into position. She also rarely shows visible signs of pain after being injured, since she fails to notice several broken ribs on one occasion and does not complain when her head is twisted 180 degrees.[2] She did, however, grimace when her hand was damaged during her retrieval of a class ring from an active garbage disposal and when her brother fired a staple into her hand. Series writers Joe Pokaski and Aron Coleite would only comment that she "feels pain, but not the way most of us do."[3] Claire's ability has not been shown to have any definite limit thus far (although it is strongly implied that having her brain removed would permanently kill her). Between her tolerance for pain and seemingly unlimited healing potential Only once has Claire's healing ability not immediately come to her aid. In "One Giant Leap", she is "killed" after being stabbed through the lower part of her brain by a branch. The branch remains in place for several hours, during which time an autopsy is performed. During the autopsy, the branch is removed, triggering the healing process a few seconds later. A similar incident occurred to Peter Petrelli, who was dead for some time due to a shard of glass in the back of his head, only to resuscitate almost immediately after Claire removed it (Peter possessing the ability to empathically mimic the abilities of others) in ".07%". This incident also demonstrates Claire's ability to undo even the normally irreversible destructive processes that happen to bodies immediately following severe trauma or death. Despite having been clinically dead for several hours, she was able to revive completely. In "Company Man", she is able to survive being shot in the chest by Matt Parkman, regenerating within a few minutes. She also recovers from an intense burst of radiation given off by Ted Sprague after he is shot. Although there is an allusion to Claire's discovery of her ability as a young child in "Godsend", the Heroes graphic novel "Hell's Angel" shows that baby Claire was saved by Mr. Bennet before she was injured by the fire. The episode "Six Months Ago" is the earliest demonstrated instance of the healing ability. While wrestling over a cheerleading outfit with Jackie, Claire accidentally cuts her hand on some broken glass. Though the wound does not heal instantly, it is healed completely just a few days later when her father asks to look at it.
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