Claire

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**Claire** (*Kurea*) is one of the supporting characters of the *Galaxy Express 999* manga , anime, and movies.

A woman made completely of crystal glass, Claire works as a waitress on the 999. Her mother forced her to give up her body in exchange for the glass body, and she's working part-time in order to afford a body of flesh. She is very polite, gaining Tetsuro's trust. She sacrifices herself to save Tetsuro from his hallucination in the asteroid belt.

In the Eternal arc of the manga and Eternal Fantasy, Claire is brought back to life after Tetsuro and Maetel return to the same asteroid tunnel where she died years before.

## Name & Appearance

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Claire used to live as a human until her mother forced to give up her body in exchange for a body of glass. Her body of flesh resides in Pluto's graveyard of ice.

With her glass body, she has the ability to shine bright, lighting up any dark room. She also has the capability of self-destruction, which she used on the tunnel demon and Promethium.

## Biography

### Galaxy Express 999 (Andromeda)

Little is known about Claire's early life other than her mother forcing her to give up her human body for one of glass. In order to afford a new body, she begins working part-time on the Galaxy Express 999. She meets Tetsuro and Maetel, two new passengers. Tetsuro wonders if her body is made of acrylic or tectite, but Claire tells him that she is a made of crystal glass. She speaks ill of her mother, who forced her into this body.

Later, when the 999 goes through an asteroid tunnel and the lights turn out, Claire uses her body to increase the vibration of her eternal energy and emit a bright glow allowing Tetsuro and Maetel to see. She takes Tetsuro's hand to walk him back to his seat, and Claire says it's the first time she's touched a body with real flowing blood. Claire disappears and Tetsuro begins to hallucinate. He sees his mother, but it's quickly revealed that this is a demon. The demon tries to throw Tetsuro out the window but Claire grabs onto the skeleton. Her body shatters into many pieces along with a flash of light.

The 999 conductor begins to release the now-ordinary glass remains of Claire out into space. One piece of Claire remains, and Tetsuro takes it as a keepsake.

***In the manga***, as the 999 arrives to it's final stop, a robotic woman appears to greet Tetsuro and Maetel. Her name is Meno, and se has the catalog of machine bodies for Tetsuro to choose from when they arrive at Andromeda. Tetsuro says she reminds him of Shadow and Claire, and Meno says that Claire was her daughter. She says that Claire returned to Earth because of her glass body, and quickly changes the subject.

Later, Tetsuro shows Meno the tear that he kept from Claire, and in a fit of rage he throws the catalog out the window of the 999. When they arrive on Andromeda, Meno says that she has chosen a body for a him: a small screw. When Tetsuro is revealed to have survived, Meno says that it was when she saw Tetsuro keep Claire's class as a keepsake, she realized she was making a mistake. She boards the 999 after Promethium's demise.

### Galaxy Express 999 (Eternal)/Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy

As Tetsuro and Maetel embark on their second voyage, they pass through the same asteroid tunnel where Claire lost her life. She re-appears this time to Tetsuro's surprise. Claire says that her body was restored by someone, a person who Maetel knows. Maetel says that Tetsuro will meet this individual later. Claire says that her old body on Pluto was stolen, and that when the Mechanical Empire fell, some of those mechanical people decided to take bodies that didn't belong to them instead of returning to their own.

Claire continues her work on the 999, this time assisting the conductor and Kanon as well. When they arrive on Helmazaria, Claire goes to meet someone. She meets a man on the planet who says that she could live for 1000 more years if they remodeled her body. He throws her out of the window where Tetsuro rescues her, and she tells him that she is grateful for his help and will one day repay him.

### Galaxy Express 999 (1979 movie)

After leaving Pluto, Tetsuro and Maetel meet Claire in a story similar to the original manga/TV series. She says on her days off she goes to Pluto to look at her old human body. She remains with the main cast throughout the duration of the film.

At the end of the film, Promethium tries to kill Tetsuro. In an act similar to what she does to the hallucination demon, Claire grabs onto Promethium and shines brightly, destroying herself while also destroying Promethium. She tells Tetsuro that he was her only friend and that he loved her. Her remains only leave a tear that Tetsuro picks up and leaves as a keepsake.