The Frozen Aspect Claire or (Fleet Sleet Claire)

**The Frozen Aspect Claire - Fleet Sleet Claire**

The Frozen variant was found upon exploring worlds far removed from natural solar energies

and necessitated exploited the freezing temperatures to survive both in and out of combat.

Among several unique innovations,

the ability to rapidly heat and cool lead this Claire to create her signature weapon.

The iCycler sidearm constantly filters water particles from the air, if necessary melting them, then flash freezing those particles

upon exiting the circular barrel of the sidearm. The round nature of the barrel effectively shapes this moisture into a dense and razor sharp dart.

Due to how rapid the freezing process is, upon piercing it's intended target the edges instantly begin to melt on contact with flesh and blood.

Though Claire found that this unique property of the iCyclers ammunition has the effect of both shrinking the projectile

and lubricating the surface enough to allow both entry and exit through at least a single target without losing considerable momentum.

Her familiarity with methods of cooling and heating allow her to make modifications on the fly

to her allies weapons, imbuing them with a similar chill,

capable of hardening crushing weapons and increasing the penetration of piercing ones.

**Connections**

The Plague Doctor - Ambroise

After being rescued, Ambroise naturally had trouble associating with the rest of the team. The plague he had cultivated within his body made lasting meaningful physical contact impossible with most living beings. His flowing leather coat, gloves and facemask further served to isolate him from the team. Up until his escape from the wasteland he had known his entire life and reaching his first new world, the Frozen Tundra, he had resigned himself to a solitary life. Until at last he found some form of meaningful companionship in Frozen Claire. Her body temperature being several degrees centigrade lower than most humans, nay most mammals, from his and other worlds, allowed him his first real form of physical contact since becoming the plague bearer. Not only did frozen claire show herself to be almost entirely resistant to the plague he had been cultivating, but her familiarity with wearing full body protection necessary in her own world put her in a unique position to appreciate what it is like to never be fully seen or truly heard. They bonded over coming from places equally barren, developing an appreciation for both the majesty and deadliness of nature. While her experiance in cryonics not only allowed him to safely store and catalog versions and stages of his plague in action, her ability to chill living beings without killing them gave him the ultimate barrier with which to adapt his unique brand of poison. After finding unique variants of the plague hardy enough to infect even chilled organisms, though still much warmed than herself, he was able to breed a plague capable of infecting organisms across species and climate boundaries. Eventually he would use these innovations, coupled with her chills ability to flash freeze plague particles to death while perfectly preserving their structural integrity, to develop inoculations for the rest of the team. This would allow the entire team to, for the duration of the plagues organic lifespan of several days, to be completely contagious while being completely unharmed themselves. Eventually even learning how to trigger a chained self destruct sequences in these non-reproducing particles which would flood the subjects entire body with an excess of ready-to-use energy granting an immediate invigorating and healing effect.

Their relationship was not necessarily 1 sided, as Claire also developed ways of weaponizing some of the viruses from her own home world for dispersal with a handmade drone. Causing infections that, while not at all harmful in the conventional sense, would drop body temperature to critical levels with every application. This application, done from a safe distance, would simulate the feeling and effects of walking into a blizzard. As the organisms of her native lands were quite tolerant intolerant to the warmth of most life forms, this effect would be self limiting and temporary. No matter how hard the effort of these cells to change the subjects body temperature as it's first action on infection, it would die out upon expanding all energy through this attempt.

**Native Abilities**

Icicle - By focusing her iCycler weapon on the softer tissues of targets, for maximum penetration, she deals Focus Damage to them, and also the target behind them, as well. Charging for longer periods using her cooling systems allows her projectiles to puncture a degree of armor and chill targets to the bone, no matter how disciplined.

Cooling Systems - By expending some energy to super cool her projectiles further, she deals bonus cold damage. While applying small improvements to her crews weapons, she can share a portion of this effect with them.

Snow Drone - After weaponizing strains of virions from her native world, Claire is able to disperse clouds of infective cells over the enemies. These cells, while unable to survive in the higher body temperatures of most living creatures off-tundra, have a unique adaptation of lowering the subjects body temperature to critical levels in an attempt to form suitable living conditions. As this drone uses biological weapons, it is both lighter and faster, than similar drones carrying modern weapon systems.

Flash Freeze - If injured to the point of bleeding, once enough of her bodily fluids have escaped and are no longer warmed by her natural metabolism, they reach a critical point of flash freezing around Claire. As her bodily circulation and gas exchange cease, most attacks no longer damage the frozen Claire. While her tissues respond to an environment similar to her home by healing at an accelerated rate, enemies who attack, especially without weapons, will suffer from coming in contact with her body while in this state.

**Learned Skills**

Arctic Jet - By studying how the Siren manipulates water to drown her foes, she is capable of directing water oulled from the environment by her cooling systems, from a reservoir, into a column over a line of enemies, before firing a grapeshot burst of ice particles through the water, freezing it into multiple protruding spikes faster than most enemies can react.

Blizzard - By learning how to vent her cooling systems in a directional burst, with a turn to prepare and direct this force, Claire can freeze a random number of enemies solid for a brief moment, though long enough to rupture a portion of their external cells. This is the most powerful technique passed down to her from Elgeon, the Ice King, who has been doing just that to foes for decades.

Cleanse - By dropping an allies body temp to bellow mammalian levels temporarily, frozen Claire has learned to effectively fight most infections, from seeing the priestess perform a similar feat with her abilities alone.

Consecrate - The Cleric has taught claire how to recite passages held sacred by his order, causing any foes coming within earshot to attack to be harmed by their own ill intention to harm.

Eagle Eye - Iana taught Claire an ability to apply the focus she has long used to fracture ice formations, temporarily raised to superhuman levels, when taking her next shot, instinctively seeking an area of critical weakness in the structure of her foe.

Entomb - A natural climber, by revisiting the Egyptians tales of both building up, and knocking down, massive buildings made of natural minerals, claire is capable of causing a landslide to crush and slow down her foes.

Hibernate - By watching Seth, the lizard, fall asleep a number of times in low temperatures, each time awakening fully reinvigorated, she has learned to temporarily drop her body temperature to hibernating levels, initiating her innate healing abilities almost to the same degree as when her body is in its natural environment.

Mend - By attending a number of procedures performed by the doctor, Claire can use her cooling abilities to fuse both bone and tissues, allowing a far more rapid recovery than naturally possible.

Power Ballad - By studying the similarities between her cooling systems and the Guitarists personal sound generators, she is capable of cooling the air in rapid rhythmic patterns mirroring his strongest and lowest pitched of chords.

Shake off - The unyielding muslc eof the wrestler, able to shrug off negative effects through sheer mass and willpower, have taught claire how to do the same due to her chilled and hardened body.

Track - Watching how the assassin always keeps one eye on her next killshowed Claire how to notice patterns and structural weaknesses within a single target as a free action.

Wail - The banshee has demonstrated to Claire how directed soundwaves of the right pitch can buffet foes about while rendering many defenses much less effective

Zone Defense - Claire has studied how the linebacker shelter team mates from, seemingly, several different angles at once. She is now able to, in a similar stance, somewhat redirect a portion of the enemies attacks, weakening them by forcing the foe to split their focus.