Claire Nuñez/Relationships

A list of **Claire Nuñez**'s relationships with certain characters throughout the franchise.

## Romances

### Jim Lake Jr.

“*Remember our first date? Or that night after the dance? We've been through so much together. I am so sorry. For so long I felt guilty that I wasn't strong enough to save you in the woods. But I've fought across time and space to bring you back. It can't all have been for nothing. I'll always love you!*”
―Claire emotionally connecting with Jim's soul in the Shadow Realm[src]

At first, Jim merely crushed on her from afar and she didn't know he existed until he attempted to woo her with quickly learned Spanish and she invited him to audition for the school play, *Romeo and Juliet.* Although he didn't actually want to act, he auditioned to get closer to Claire (along with keeping his new Trollhunter status on a low profile). However, due to his tardiness and absence from several rehearsals, their relationship begins to turn sour. After a last-minute attempt to win back her trust, he agrees to babysit her little brother, Enrique, who is actually NotEnrique. After causing a mess in her house, she says she never wants to talk to him again. Before he and Draal have their to-the-death rematch, he leaves her a letter, confessing all of his feelings and what has been going on with him. She forgives him, thinking it's metaphorical, but then grows suspicious and, after NotEnrique endangers her and she learns the truth about his new double life situation, the two grow closer as she joins in on the adventures, and prepare to go to the Spring Fling together. She also attempts to aid and comfort Jim when being Trollhunter, its grave responsibilities and cost start to become too much for him. They ultimately decide to skip the Fling, and instead dance near a cliff overlooking the city, almost kissing. Jim is more than determined to rescue Enrique and help Claire.

During Part Two, Claire is determined to rescue Jim from the Darklands after he saved Enrique first. After everyone manages to get him back, Claire hugs him saying that she missed him before they both share a kiss (though she was clearly distraught that he went into the Darklands without them). After an unconventional barbecue at her parents' house, Claire finally calls Jim her boyfriend and says that she does not care that her parents disapprove of it and giving him a sweet kiss on the cheek, officially becoming a couple.

During Part Three, Jim is shown to be jealous of Claire's apparent attraction to Douxie and was very concerned when Claire came down with a mysterious cold. . When Jim and Toby went into the Shadow Realm to rescue her soul, they helped her fight the witch out of her body and restore her free will. After Jim became a half-troll, Jim wondered if Claire would still want to date him despite his new looks. She even decides to stay with Jim and join him on his journey to find a new Heartstone in New Jersey, proving her undying loyalty to him.

In *Wizards*, the two are still going strong, but Claire now carries around deep regret and feels as though she failed to protect Jim after he is severely injured by the Green Knight. She becomes fearlessly protective of him and goes to any length to keep him safe during their time in he 12th century. After the two are separated for a period of time they are reunited but she is unaware of the fact that Jim will die when he returns to the present. The two spend their last moment of peace before the start of the war by having a picnic together in later-to-be Arcadia Oaks. After Jim becomes a full troll, Claire refuses to give up on Jim and knows he will come back to her. After many failed attempts to reach him, he finally snaps back to himself and saves her before he is turned to stone. Claire is horrified and heartbroken, breaking down into tears over his statue before it crumbles and a human Jim comes out from the rumbles. She runs into his arms and the two embrace.

Altogether, Claire is shown to be more confident in the relationship than Jim. Her love for him is shown to be perseverant as she continues to date him even though her parents hate him for most of *Trollhunters*. She has also proven upon several occasions that she loves him unconditionally as she continues to love him equally after he becomes a half troll and even after he becomes a full troll.

Jim loves Claire just as much, but he loves her uncertainly and not so securely.

## Family

### Ophelia and Javier Nuñez

It would appear that Claire’s relationship with her parents seems strained since her mother seems to care more about her image and career as a councilwoman than paying attention to her own family. Claire even claims that her mother can’t even remember her daughter’s own birthday without checking her schedule. It is also hinted that Claire may be pushed too far by them since Claire claims they'd freak out if she "got a B."

When Javier and Ophelia find out about Claire's secret life, they start to become more concerned for her safety. However, they start to trust Claire more and begin to realize that she doesn’t want to be molded into some perfect daughter, making their relationship start to grow. At first, they were reluctant to let Claire graduate early and live with Jim in New Jersey, but they agreed anyway (only if they came back soon).

### Enrique Nuñez

Claire deeply loves her baby brother, acting more like a mother than a sister to him since their parents almost always work late. She becomes visibly distraught and dismayed when she learns that her real brother has been kidnapped and taken into the Darklands, replaced by a changeling nicknamed NotEnrique. As revealed in "Where Is My Mind?", her biggest fear is losing Enrique and failing to keep him safe.

After Jim saves Enrique from the Darklands, Claire is greatly relieved and happy to have her real brother back, unharmed. She later goes into the Darklands to rescue Jim to pay off her debt.

### NotEnrique

Ever since Claire discovered that her brother had been stolen and replaced with NotEnrique, they both share a rocky relationship. Although shown to argue, they are rather close and he even showed Claire that her real brother is safe. They act much like real brothers and sisters. As the series progresses this bond is shown to grow stronger to the point when he begins referring to Claire as *Sis*, and should she be harmed he makes statements such as, "Keep your hands off my sister!*"*

In Part Three, NotEnrique grows very concerned about Claire's odd behavior when she starts getting taken over by Morgana's power.

## Friends/Allies

### Douxie Casperan

Douxie is a good friend of Claire. In *Trollhunters*, Claire seemed rather bashful when she meets him in person and admires his band. He also suggests that she and her friends should participate in the Battle of the Bands. She even giggles at his witty comments and blushes from his charming looks (much to Jim's jealousy).

However, Claire's heart belongs to Jim and the two are nothing more than friends. Douxie is even shown to support her relationship with Jim and wants the two to be happy.

In Wizards Claire was surprised to find out that Douxie is over 900 years old. Their relationship developed further in her become his apprentice to help her develop her shadow magic. Thanks to his help, Claire was able to overcome her fear of her gifts and use it help her friends. They act like Brother and Sister they do take jabs at each other. Douxie personally sees her as a sister he never had.

### Mary Wang and Darci Scott

Mary Wang and Darci Scott are Claire's close friends and they are often seen hanging out together. They even made there own band. They both are fully supportive of her and Jim getting together. As the series goes on, they become more observant of Claire acting suspicious and tries to figure out what she won't tell them. Mary assumes that Claire is dating a college guy, and uses that as a cover-up.

It is unknown how they felt when Claire decided to travel with Jim and the other trolls to New Jersey, but they were most likely heartbroken.

### Toby Domzalski

Originally, Claire was more distant and hostile towards Toby and often forgot his name, no matter how many times he told her.

When Claire became a Trollhunter, Toby started to get more envious of Claire and started to compete with her for the role of Jim's sidekick. However, Claire assured him that she wouldn't come between Toby and Jim. Since then, they've started to get along better, though Claire still often got annoyed with Toby's harebrained schemes.

They both become very good friends and teammates. While Jim was venturing in Darklands alone, Claire and Toby both cover his personal life and trollhunting missions until they both plan to rescue Jim together.

### Blinky Galadrigal

Claire and Blinky are very close friends and teammates in their battle against evil. They both like to help in solving mysteries and hide puzzles to find the weaknesses of their enemies like with Gumnar's Triumbric Stones to finally eliminate him as a threat.

### AAARRRGGHH!!!

Claire and AAARRGGHH!! are very close friends and teammates in their battle against evil. When AAARRGGHH!! was turned into stone by Angor Rot's poison she was extremely sad by his lost. After the resurrection of AAARRRGGHH!! she was happy in seeing him return.

### Steve Palchuk

At first, Claire seemed to acknowledge that Steve was a jerk, even after he shoved her away when she tries to defend Jim. After he becomes Jim's understudy, she seems to have grown close to him as she believed that he changed since joining the play (but she was unaware that he was just using her to get under Jim's skin). However, after she discovers Jim’s secret and begins to spend more time with him, their relationship took a turn as Claire showed immediate disgust towards his flirting and when she tries to cover Jim's absence with "Jim Lake Disease", he had no problems trying to make her look like a fool. However, after Steve learns Jim's secret, it's most likely that they are at least mutual friends.

In *Wizards*, the two are close friends and do take friendly jabs at each other; Claire is obviously annoyed by Steve's utter insolence, yet appreciates his help either way.

### Vendel

Claire met the troll elder Vendel after she finally learned the truth about trolls and Jim, Toby, Blinky, and AAARRRGGHH!!! brought her to Trollmarket. At first, Vendel took umbrage of another human in Trollmarket until Claire spoke to him in perfect Troll, impressing him so much that he easily warmed up to her.

Claire was visibly saddened by Vendel's death.

### Aja and Krel Tarron

Although Claire has little interactions with the royal children alone, it's clear that they are good friends.

### Mothership

Claire was excited to meet Mother in "D'aja Vu" and had so many questions (which Mother was ready to answer).

### Archie

Claire and Archie appear to be on good terms with each other. Archie even allowed Claire to pet him even though him found it minor annoying amusing.

### Merlin

Claire and Merlin seem to have a very rocky friend with each other they would argue on how to execute their Plans against their enemies. Claire was shocked at how Merlin saw Jim Lake Jr. as a lost cause and beyond saving. The reason why was because she saw that Merlin couldn't see beyond his idea of the bigger picture to protect the world and mankind at any cost. After his death by the Green Knight Claire was sadden by his loss.

### Nari

Claire and Nari don't interact much be they clearly each other as allies. Nari tried to help Claire find Jim's soul on earth but sadly she failed which caused her to fall into deep sadness. Claire saw that Nari was concerned for her when she decided to go into the shadow realm to possibly find Jim's soul.

## Enemies

### Morgana (formerly)

“*I know her well. She's a real head case.*”
―Claire about Morgana[src]
Claire was unaware of Morgana's existence until she becomes corrupted by the power of the Shadow Staff, a relic of Morgana herself. For the beginning of Part Three, Morgana uses Claire to tell Gunmar how to bring the Eternal Night and to kill the current Trollhunter, Jim, by possessing her and trapping her soul in the Shadow Realm. After Jim and Toby rescue Claire, she begins to fight Morgana for the control of the Shadow Staff while, in the process, retain memories and knowledge of Morgana. Claire is successful as she regains control of her body and severed Morgana's connection with the staff.

After her experiences with Morgana, Claire holds a strong grudge against the evil sorceress and desires to duel her during the Eternal Night War. Claire and Morgana could be considered as foils for each other, similar to Jim and Gunmar.

In *Wizards*, both hers and Morgana's relationship becomes much more complex. When both herself along with Douxie, Jim, and Steve where sent into the past before Morgana became the evil witch that would try to kill her and her friends and allies, they both become friends. They bonded in learning that they have a talent for Shadowmancy. Claire even tried to help Morgana and Arthur patch up their relationship with each other but she ultimately failed with both of them become enemies. She was sadly in that she failed and thought that Morgana was died and had nightmares in her failure to help Morgana from falling off a cliff.

When she was unable to convince Morgana that there is another way to solve the Kingdom of Camlot Problems with the trolls through diplomacy but Morgana had enough of talking and said that the time of diplomacy is over and she become the enemy of both Claire and the Trollhunters. After returning from the past, they where sworn enemies until her resurrection where Morgana began to question herself and the motives of the Arcane Order. After Morgana saw that she was no more than a pawn for the Arcane Order, she turned on them. With that revelation Morgana joined forces with the Trollhunters and the wizards to stop the order. Claire was sadden to see of Morgana sacrifice herself to stop her brother and Arcane Order.

### Gunmar

Although they have little-to-no interactions whatsoever, it is clear that Claire and Gunmar are foes.

### Angor Rot (formerly)

At first, Claire and Angor were initially enemies when Jim tells his friends about him. In "The Shattered King", Claire attempted to take back the Killstone from the assassin, but instead took his weapon, the Shadow Staff, and made it her own.

In "A Night to Remember", Angor distraughtly believed that no man can wield his weapon, but Claire sasses that she's no man. When he attempts to take back his weapon, she kicks him in the gronk-nuks.

In Part Three, however, when Angor reforms to try and stop Morgana, he tries to use the last of his moments to help Claire trap the evil witch in the Shadow Realm.

### King Arthur

Claire and Arthur barely interact with each other, but before he became the Green Knight, they appeared to get along somewhat, yet she despised his paranoia and hypocrisy, as well as seeing the bad in creatures instead of the good (even when he threatens to kill her injured half-troll boyfriend).

When she discovers that he's resurrected as the Green Knight, she loses every ounce of respect for him when he mercilessly corrupts her boyfriend and forces him to attack her.

### Arcane Order

It is clear that Claire despises and is afraid of the Arcane Order after everything they've put her and Jim through; Especial with the Green Knight that has place a sword shard into Jim's amulet and chest that later turned him temporarily into an evil troll and attack them.