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PLAYER INFORMATION
Name: Stormy
OOC Journal: stormy
Over 18? Yes.
Email/IM/Plurk: vacate
Current characters: N/A

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Claudia Donovan
Canon: Warehouse 13
Age: 22*
Canon/AU/CR AU: Canon.
Reference: Wikipedia: Claudia | WH13 Wiki: Claudia
Canon Point: S04.E06. "Fractures". During a routine inventory sweep not shown during the episode.

* Her age is listed more than once, as 19 at the end of the first season, but that contradicts errors in the dialogue which suggests she's 22. Considering the show does pass several years, I'm going with the one that matches to her canon point closest.

WORLD INFORMATION
Warehouse 13 takes place on our modern Earth. A majority of the series is situated in and around Univille, South Dakota. Seven miles outside of Univille is Warehouse 13, the thirteenth in a series of secret organization owned warehouses that holds artifacts, items imbued with strong emotions during single moments in history. As a result, these artifacts often have magical properties. Warehouse Agents are tasked to retrieve them when they become a danger to the world. All artifacts are cataloged, and stored in an organized system at the Warehouse, with the most dangerous artifacts being confined to The Dark Vault, where higher security precautions are taken to ensure they don't get out into the world. Warehouse personnel are often former Secret Service, ATF, and FBI agents. To the residents of Univille, they are IRS workers and aren't generally liked by the population. Warehouse 13, itself, has a slight steampunk overtone, as many of the gadgets and items used within it are rehashed antiques or creations of early technological geniuses.

There are several important positions to note: Warehouse Agents are those responsible for bagging and tagging the artifacts, performing inventory, and going on dangerous retrieval missions. Important current agents include Arthur Nielson, Myka Bering, Pete Lattimer, Halena Wells (H.G. Wells), Steve Jinks, and Claudia Donovan. While Leena does help with maintaining the Warehouse, she is not referred to as an agent. All Agents reside at Leena's Bed and Breakfast outside Univille and each agent receives their own room. When an agent dies or is lost, their room is kept exactly as it is and moved to the Warehouse as evidence. The current highest ranking agent in the Warehouse is Arthur Nielson, who assigns other agents their missions and acts as a supervisor.

Each Warehouse also has a singular Caretaker whose life is tied to the building, and so far has been shown to be able to index the contents of the warehouse in their mind along with a nearly omnipresent ability of popping up suddenly. The current Caretaker of Warehouse 13 is Mrs. Irene Fredrick, but there is a fail safe in place for this position. In an emergency, this position can be transferred to another. The back up Caretaker for Warehouse 13 has been designated to Claudia Donovan.

Presiding over the Agents and the Caretaker are the Regents. They're best described as a civilian oversight board. Seemingly normal people who have been given the opportunity to act in the best interest of humanity's future and make final decisions regarding the Warehouse, its contents, and workers. Regents are not invincible, and more often than not are just people with exceptionally good intuition and insight. The Regents operate slightly outside of the bounds of the Government, but they can be swayed and influenced by individuals in great power.

PERSONALITY
For much of her life, Claudia has only had a single family member — her older brother, Joshua Donovan. They lost their parents when they were young to unexplained circumstances. Both were incredibly smart children. Joshua raised Claudia until an artifact, Rheticus' Compass, came into their lives. Warehouse Agent Arthur 'Artie' Nielson came to retrieve it disguised as a professor in the college, but instead he encouraged Joshua to use the artifact which had teleportation powers in an experiment. He believed Joshua was smart enough to make the compass work. When Joshua activated the artifact, it nearly destroyed his lab and it took Claudia's only remaining family away. Everyone believed Joshua had been destroyed by the artifact, and the professor disappeared.

Claudia was put in a foster home until she was eighteen. Other people described her as a good kid, very smart, but she was reclusive; she didn't have friends. Six months before becoming a Warehouse 13 agent, she was convinced she was going crazy because she kept seeing and hearing her deceased brother call out to her. Not knowing Rheticus' Compass had locked Joshua into another dimension rather than kill him, she checked herself into a mental hospital. The Psychiatric clinic is one of the most scarring experiences of her life. Her doctor, Dr. Michener, shows up later in the series as an illusion of her greatest fear telling her that none of what she now knows — the warehouse and her friends — is true. Isolation from the people she cares is something that terrifies her. In finding the Warehouse and hunting down Artie, she displayed how strong her single-minded determination can be. Her walls were littered with clues, evidence, and research notes. She's extremely intelligent. Some of this is inherent as she seems to have a natural aptitude for figuring out extremely difficult problems. Her room has plenty of books on philosophy and science.

She's created a new home for herself in the Warehouse, and although she started off as only an asset, she has since worked herself up from assisting Artie (Arthur Nielson) to being a Senior Agent with her own partner, Steve Jinks. Her ties with the people of the Warehouse, her new family, are extremely strong. Saving her brother and confronting Artie for what happened ended in a huge moment of catharsis for her and redemption for Artie, who held himself responsible for Joshua's death, and that ignited a father/daughter relationship between the two of them where Artie serves as Claudia's surrogate parent and guardian figure. Pete Lattimer, Myka Bering, and Steve Jinks - all Warehouse agents who have or have had little sisters - treat Claudia as being part of their own family. This sibling relationship is the strongest in Steve Jinks. Steve lost his younger sister to a botched robbery, and Claudia reminds him a lot of her. They become close quickly, bonding during retrieval missions. Through his encouragement, Claudia breaks through a fear of performing in front of others and being judged, although he leaves her with this legacy just as he breaks off contact with her. It hurts Claudia a lot when it appears like Jinks has gone rogue. Until he reveals the truth that he has gone undercover, she's insistent and stubborn enough to dutifully continue calling him when he casts her aside, as if nothing he says can change how she feels about him being her best friend. She even created an acronym to represent it: B.F.F.W.Y.L.I.O.N — Best Friends Forever Whether You Like It Or Not. This undercover mission eventually results in his death. Claudia has a difficult time losing a member of her surrogate family, and her best friend and goes into shock and depression as a result. Once the initial stage of mourning passes, she switches gears and develops a single minded drive to bring him back regardless of the costs and even though it is against the rules, forbidden by the Regents and other agents.

Where many of the agents have a very close relationship with Claudia, some seem more like extended family. H.G. Wells was an agent who went rogue after losing her daughter. Although Helana's relationship with Claudia is more professional, they are very similar in their appreciation for gadgets and boldness. Halena remarks that she expects great things out of Claudia in the future, and Claudia does miss her whenever she is gone. Outside and inside Warehouse operations, Claudia has tried to have friends or significant others. She briefly develops romantic attractions for three different people: Todd, a guy working in the hardware store who turns out to be in Witness Protection. Claudia's relationship with him was the strongest emotionally and physically. She refers to him as her boyfriend more than once, even after he has to be relocated. She has a very brief attraction to both Douglas Fargo from the Eureka crossover who came to upgrade the Warehouse and a musician named Dwayne, but none of these seem to go anywhere or are ever referenced outside of their individual episodes.

Claudia is not without negative emotions. She's expressed a distaste for being forced into circumstances outside of her control. When it looked like Mrs. Fredrick would die, she was going to be made Caretaker without being consulted about it first. She made Artie promise not to put her in a position like that again where she had no choice. It's intended for Claudia to someday succeed Mrs. Fredrick and be a Warehouse Caretaker. In doing this, Claudia would likely outlive all of her friends and family, which for someone who is so close to the rest of the staff would be very difficult. She's also shown to hold grudges or disobey orders when it comes to her friends or her place at the Warehouse. Leena endangered her position in the first season by insinuating Claudia was working with the enemy when it was really Leena who was being controlled. This resulted in Claudia giving Leena a very cold shoulder through the beginning of the second season and them fighting about it because they're both in a similar situation where their whole life is the Warehouse. Another example of her grudges is when Regent Jane Lattimer, Pete's mother, agrees to put Steve Jinks undercover. Claudia holds Jane personally responsible for his death and vows to a regent's face to use an artifact and bring him back. Jane eventually helps Claudia do this without the permission of the other regents.

Claudia is one of the most genuinely positive agents, and part of this can be attributed to the fact she's overcome very dark places in her past - losing her family and the psychiatric clinic - to find her own truths and a new family. Those closest to her get nicknames, and are often fondly teased. She tends to use retro slang and pop culture references a lot in her speech, and she's often referred to as the 'groovy tech chic'. She's really a teenager coming into her own. She goes through mood swings, hormonal spurts, and rebellion like any other, but through her time working at the Warehouse, she's certainly grown up.

ABILITIES, WEAKNESSES, & POWER LIMITATIONS


INVENTORY:


(POSSIBLE) ITEMS REQUESTING LATER: :)
IF ANY OF THESE ITEMS WOULD BE COOL TO HAVE ON HER WHEN SHE'S TAKEN, I'M FINE DRAGGING THEM WITH HER AS SHE ARRIVES. I THOUGHT SHE OUGHT TO HAVE ONE ARTIFACT IN HAND, BUT COULDN'T DECIDE WHICH.


Appearance: Claudia is played by Allison Scagliotti, Image 01 | Image 02. As a visual note, she often dyes a streak of color in her hair during the early seasons and wears a lot of layered clothing. It's not uncommon for her to shake up her hair style or length — making her hair flippy or wavy on a whim.

SAMPLES
Log Sample: Outsiders Test Drive

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