Claire Settleston

* Overview
* Synopsis
* Character Info
* Major Kills
* Relationships
* Quotes

Claire is a human inventor who lives in the city of Pyrvilia. She prefers to go by the name Clockwork.

## Appearance

Clockwork is 5'10 but wears three inch heeled boots that make her 6'1. She has long, tangled, dark brown hair that's kept in a high ponytail and brown, sunken in, bug-like eyes. Her skin is paper pale to the point she looks decrepit and her veins are visible on her hands and face. She has hollowed cheeks and dark eye bags along with a strong, aquiline nose. Her smile is always crooked, resembling something more akin to a grimace than a grin.

She has a tall, gangly build, and has horrible posture that makes her hunched over more often than not. Her hands are scarred and covered in burns from years of working with machinery.

She normally wears bright orange goggles to cover her eyes that leave red marks on her face and a black, slit mask that she wears around her neck when it's not on her mouth and nose. She wears a red and orange workers uniform which implies she either works or worked in an official Pyrvilian factory at some point. She wears calf-height platform black boots with golden buttons on them and black gloves. On her waist is a large toolbelt with multiple packs, wrenches, oils, and other things on it along with a holster for "Wild Thing," her lightning gun. She is almost always covered in oil.

## Personality

Clockwork has a tendency to speak fast and ramble with no filter, oftentimes being vague in an attempt to not contradict herself which leads to her constantly having to add details or, in some cases, forgetting to give pivotal details entirely until hours or even days later. She talks and walks like she's always in a rush and tends to be tapping her finger or leg when forced to sit still. She has a very rambunctious personality and very much "goes with the flow," going along with dangerous plans for the sake of doing them.

While she's nice, Clockwork is by no means an optimist. She has a habit of being morbidly realistic, like when Sneeble and Cleck say they'll go out in a blaze in glory and she responds by saying they'll most-likely die a forgetabble death just like the hundreds of others who die in the city. At times she says things like this so randomly that others laugh from the suddeness and take it as dark-humor. In reality, Clockwork rarely tells jokes, and when she does, they're never that funny.

Overall, she tends to be overly trusting of people, though it's implied this is because of hopefulness rather than ignorance when she talks about repeatedly being stabbed by people for being too nice.  Clockwork is horrible at hiding her feelings and often goes from exciteable highs to horrified, depressed lows within the span of seconds. She can get snippy and sarcastic when stressed, though it's incredibly rare for her to ever become angry or vengeful as she forgives people way too easily. She's been shown to feel empathy and sympathy for machines, and at times, it seems that she cares more for machinery than she does other humans. Claire only seems to regret her mechanical advancements when they bring direct harm to her with little care for how they affect others, even when those creations directly hurt innocents. Because of this, it's clear that she's an avid supporter of The Mechanical Revolution.

## Background

Not much is known about Clockwork other than that she's an inventor and is unwillingly being forced to work under Birdman. It's unknown how much she's contributed to Birdman's mechanical evolution, but it's implied it's a lot due to how she refers to his mechanical parts as "her creations," and is upset when any damage is brought to them.

## Trivia

* In episode 1x01, Clockwork was carrying a live grenade in her back pocket, keeping it from going off with nothing more than a needle.
* Clockwork is horrible with names. She constantly forgets them and mispronounces them, and is horrible at connecting nicknames to their root ones.

## Arc One: Embers

### The Northside (01x01)

Clockwork firsts make her appearance halfway through Episode One, where she shows up during Fin's Protest Speech. She cheers loudly and compliments him for how inspiring the speech was, unaware to the growing hostility coming from Fin for having a Lightbulb Lighter member in his territory. She tries to quell Fin's anger by informing him that she's only there to watch the oncoming Mek-Protest, but once Fin threatens to have her beaten, she leaves.

Clockwork later appears when Sneeble, Cleck, and Fin are all locked in the train's bathroom. After some back and forth (where the trio tries to scare Clockwork off by saying Cleck has a butt-plug stuck in him) she manages to convince Fin to open the door to her. She informs Fin she's there for the detectives, not him, and tells the group she's in danger and need of protection. Sneeble refuses to help her until it's too late and Birdman, the person Clockwork was running from, shows up on the train.

**Strength:** 16 (+3)
 **Dexterity:** 16 (+3)
 **Constitution:** 10 (+0)
 **Intelligence:** 16 (+3)
 **Wisdom** 11 (+0)
 **Charisma** 9 (-1)

## Abilities

* (List abilities here)

Clockwork has yet to have any major kills.

## Friendships

### Fin

In 1x01 "The Northside", Claire visited an Anti-Mek rally and watched Fin give a speech. She was impressed by how much he seemed to care for the other Anti-Meks and his ability to give confidence to the crowd. Despite her compliments, however, Fin threatened her with Ruth and Edward, telling her that she needed to leave before something bad happened to her. Claire ended up running away from them without ever telling Fin her name.

Later, the two met up again while on a train heading to the Coal District. After giving Fin the Life Serum and revealing that she was sent to spy on the Anti-Meks but refused to give anyone the information, the two seem to be on decent terms despite their opposing views on machinery with Fin even helping Clockwork up after she fell on the train.

### Sneeble

* Claire: "Like, what if, theoretically, one of us already knows what the threat is and, theoretically, it's like not the best of ideas to be splitting up right now? Theoretically."
 Fin: "So that sounds like you know exactly what it is even though you said theoretically three times."
 Claire: "Eh-- but to know something is kinda iffy, ya know?" (1x01 "The Northside")

1. ↑  1x01 "The Northside"
2. ↑  1x01 "The Northside"