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|FullName=Claire Temple
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|Gender=Female
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|Theme=Marvel
|Theme=Marvel
|Chartype=AFC
|Chartype=AFC
|Active=Active
|Active=Dropped
|Occupation=healin'
|Occupation=Nurse
|Groups=Defenders
|Citizenship=United States of Ameria
|Quote="Guilt makes people do stupid shit."
|Residence=New York City
|Education=University
|Groups=[[Defenders]]
|Quote="You've got to be kidding me."
|PAge=Late 20s
|PAge=Late 20s
|AAge=28
|AAge=29
|DOB=July 5, 1997
|DOB=5 July 1997
|Height=5'6"
|Height=170 cm
|Weight=125 lbs
|Weight=57 kg
|Hair=Black
|Hair=Black
|Eyes=Brown
|Eyes=Brown
|Actor=Rosario Dawson
|Actor=Rosario Dawson
|Song=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keow2YgWaZ4 "Dark Nights" - Dorothy]
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|Profile=Drafted involuntarily into the war of Hell's Kitchen, Claire Temple pits herself in dual roles: emergency nurse by day and a healer and mender of New York's vigilantes by night. Known purely by word-of-mouth, and her identity marginally sheltered to keep the monsters off her doorstep, there is alluded talk to a "night nurse" among the street-level heroes: a woman you call for the emergencies without worries of police reports or uncovered identities. She performs unparalleled surgical work in the most sparse and bereft of conditions, maintains strict doctor-patient confidentiality, and makes damn sure her patients stay alive. She's certain she's in over her head, but she's seen too much and she's sick of being afraid. What's a woman to do?
|Profile=Drafted involuntarily into the war of Hell's Kitchen, Claire Temple pits herself in dual roles: emergency nurse by day and a healer and mender of New York's vigilantes by night. Known purely by word-of-mouth, and her identity marginally sheltered to keep the monsters off her doorstep, there is alluded talk to a "night nurse" among the street-level heroes: a woman you call for the emergencies without worries of police reports or uncovered identities. She performs unparalleled surgical work in the most sparse and bereft of conditions, maintains strict doctor-patient confidentiality, and makes damn sure her patients stay alive. She's certain she's in over her head, but she's seen too much and she's sick of being afraid. What's a woman to do?
== Personality ==
===Current Player Approved: Not Applicable===
'''Bleeding Heart:''' You would have to be to sacrifice time, resources, safety, and sanity trying to keep vigilantes -- most of them FRIENDS -- stitched together in one piece. And to do it non gratis. Claire might be hanging on fresh off a double-shift and four hours of sleep in the last forty, but she'll never turn anyone away. She'll never turn a blind ear against an emergency, even one that might threaten her own unstable-at-best safety. She might even have trouble denying medical assistance to less-than-scrupulous patients, with their lives on the line. She can be curt and blunt and sass-mouthed the entire time she gives up her life to do triage in someone's basement for fourteen hours, but she'll do it without hesitation.
|Description=Claire Temple is a woman who looks always tired around the edges and always ready for trouble. There is a sharpness in her dark eyes which says she always expects something dangerous to come around the corner - but it's not fear, it's simply someone who is prepared. She has deeply tanned, olive skin, clearly Latina in descent. Her intelligent eyes are midnight brown and her messy, slightly layered hair the same deep brunette. Despite her exhaustion, there is something about her which is beautiful. She has stately, slender features with high cheek bones and a generous mouth. Her frame is thin, but has enough curve to hips and breasts that she might be considered more hourglass than lanky.
 
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'''Pragmatic:''' When you're in the health industry, you don't search for cures so much as you do harm reduction. That is Claire Temple's take on the vigilante war. She believes in their fight, but it doesn't mean she's going to become a burning idealist about it, or think New York or any place else is going to be cleaned up overnight. She strafes a very sensible step away from the more passionate crusades, and tries to provide the clear head and mouthpiece of logic contrary to so many emotional pleas. After all, she's trying to keep these damn masked fools alive, and not kill themselves trying to enact their change.
More often than not, Claire is in a pair of scrubs. She favors traditional blues, but sometimes she'll be in a teal or a deep maroon. Ugly or not, she is a nurse who has embraced the comfortable, non-skid support of crocs and she has several pairs in black and navy. Most working hours, there is a stethoscope laced carelessly around the back of her neck. Her hair is pinned off her face just enough it doesn't get in her eyes.
 
|History=Born and bred New York City, Claire has never been scared of what the city has to offer. She grew up the daughter of a single latina mother in Hell's kitchen with several siblings, raised by both her mother and her grandmother who only spoke Spanish. She walked home after school with her own key to let herself in and remembers New York of the 80s, before things started cleaning up. It made her fearless in the face of most anything else she sees in her adult life. Her mother worked hard to ensure she and her siblings had whatever they could want. They had lots of cousins too, down the block and down in Florida. For as hard as life might have seemed, it was a happy one.
'''Forbearing:''' Claire Temple has the patience of martyred saints. She can take a lot, endure a lot, and sit with a lot more, and do it without too much complaint. Past the physical tests of her exhausting double life, she can soldier the emotional side of it with an enviable strength, be it trapped in the middle of mafia wars and up to her arms in gouting blood. She keeps her cool under pressure and bears psychological weights with surprising prowess. In short, she dines on stress for breakfast.
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One of Claire's biggest regrets is that her grandmother passed a year before she graduated nursing school, but she never let it hold her back. She dove into her career in her abuela's name, never forgetting the advantages her family left her (a rent controlled apartment that was her grandmother's, an education, a whole lot of love.) She's been a nurse for a decade now and is widely regarded as the best nurse at Metro General. She's taken third shift (4 am - noon) because it lets her help the super heroes during the worst hours of the night, then go off to work. Then the Reign of Terror happened, and life was thrown into chaos. She worked longer shifts, helped more heroes, and basically did nothing but work for three years. She thought it would break her, but somehow she survived. It made her stronger. Now, however, she doesn't know how to go back to a normal life.
'''Burgeoning Vigilante:''' Much as she thinks herself a healer, Claire's got the soul of a warrior. She sure gives the masks constant shit for their bad health decisions and high mortality rate for martyrdom, but she gets it -- gets their reasons why. It resonates all too strongly with her. She's tired of being afraid and, most of all, she's tired of doing nothing. At times she reconsiders what she's in, is sure it's going to someday kill her, but the fact remains: at her heart, there's no regrets. She can't close her eyes and go back to sleep and pretend the horrors out there don't exist. And one day waits on her horizon, when she realizes not even healing and mending will be enough to calm the storms in her heart. When she realizes she must do more.
|Skills=<span style="color:#00CED1">'''BRILLIANT'''</span>
 
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|Skills='''Field Medic'''<br />
There's no other way to say it. Claire's brilliant, in her knowledge, her adaptability, her insight, her observation... There's not much that gets past Claire, and she doesn't even need to hear heartbeats to pick up on it. If she'd had the resources while she was getting her education, she could have made a phenomenal ER physician, but as it is, she's a /de facto/ physician (or unofficial nurse practitioner) to the superhero and vigilante community at large. Few run-of-the-mill MD's could take on such an arduous caseload, but Claire's become a guardian angel to plenty of men and women in and out of masks and aliases. She herself might not be superpowered in a way that might show up on SHIELD's radar, but what she has is utterly brilliant.
Claire Temple, in the emergency room, is an outstanding nurse, able to command a vast memory of medicine in combination with her considerable expertise.
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<span style="color:#00CED1">'''COMMUNITY NURSE'''</span>
However, Claire Temple, out in a lonely alley, or in the basement of a derelict building, or in a farmhouse a hundred miles from help, or kneed down on someone's bedroom over their dying body, is truly and utterly where she shines. Even armed with the most bereft of supplies and not even promised a sterile environment or even a source of light, she performs work better than seasoned surgeons. Her steady hands and innate resourcefulness makes her the McGyver of the medical world.<br />
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Claire is a trusted presence in her neighborhood. If someone's having trouble deciding whether going to the ER is a good idea, they ask for Claire's opinion. She's a valuable resource when the doctor's orders or the prescription instructions aren't clear. Sometimes getting set up to go to the hospital for a minor injury seems to be more trouble than it's worth, so occasionally Claire gets a knock on the door from someone who lives a floor or two from her place. She doesn't complain, considering how those calls compare to some of the other surprise medical visits she gets (that also, maybe not coincidentally, rarely knock on her door).
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<span style="color:#00CED1">'''RN IN THE ER'''</span>
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Claire is, of course, a nurse. She's licensed in the state of New York to do everything a registered nurse does, and she has the years of experience to be very, very efficient in doing her work in very trying circumstances. She has experience training advanced nursing students in how to handle themselves in the emergency medicine domain, but she prefers to leave instructing the next generation to the people who actually want the preceptor job. For her part, she's got more important things to do (or so she feels).
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<span style="color:#00CED1">'''SIGHT OF BLOOD (NOT HER OWN)'''</span>
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Compartmentalizing one's empathy is important for ER clinicians. The overly empathetic may be prone to cringing away from patients' illnesses and injuries, or worse, may report pain or illness themselves. Claire Temple experiences no such difficulties. She can grit her teeth, patch wounds, and stick needles with little trouble, although she may have some discomfort and distress depending on the depth of her relationship with the patient. She's not made of stone!
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<span style="color:#00CED1">'''STREET MEDIC'''</span>
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The name of the game is adaptability. Claire's tremendous knowledge of how to put the human body to rights finds expression in all kinds of crazy situations. She's done light abdominal surgery on her kitchen table. Couches work as passable surgical beds, so long as the patient is lined up properly. Claire always prefers to work indoors, but she could sling up an IV bag in a back alley if necessary. It's not about the instruments, environment, and supplies -- it's about how they can be used to help her patient, wherever she is.
|Resources=<span style="color:#00CED1">'''NO ONE'LL MISS 'EM'''</span>
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Disposable supplies are the lifeline for Claire's informal practice. She sneaks out whatever she can slip out of the supply closets -- suture packets, gauze, tape, and for the damn fool idiot vigilantes that keep getting themselves sliced up because they either go out when they shouldn't or because they don't have functional body armor, Hello Kitty band-aids. The hospital keeps on ordering, and as the staff keep going through the supplies like veritable popcorn, Claire has the opportunity to skim off the top.
|Weaknesses=<span style="color:#00CED1">'''OVER IT'''</span>
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Knock it the hell off. Call it whatever you want -- machismo, toxic masculinity, plain ol' stupidity -- Claire's had it up to *here* with it. She has no patience whatsoever for posturing, measuring contests, or any of the other idiot games some of these powered morons play to make themselves feel superior to each other, whether it's when they first meet or when they simply disagree on a course of action. Enough's enough. Could you quit acting like jerks for long enough to take out those Doombots over there? Great, thanks.
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<span style="color:#00CED1">'''SIGHT OF BLOOD (HER OWN)'''</span>
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Claire can handle seeing someone else's blood, and she can even manage to deal with seeing the blood of a loved one wounded in front of her (though sometimes with considerable difficulty). She's internalized her wariness, though, to the point that she panics if she takes a bleeding injury in all the fights among the supers and the vigilantes. Expect her to need to find where a wall joins a floor and to need to sit down for a while... Okay, need to calm down, maybe they didn't poison their weapons this time... Breathe, Claire, breathe...
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<span style="color:#00CED1">'''TERRIBLE PATIENT'''</span>
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The stereotypes are occasionally true. It's not so much that she thinks she'd be victim of a Hand doc or nurse (though the thought has occurred), it's that she really, truly hates being a patient, period. Part of it is that she can be quite tough with her patients if she feels she should be, and she's not all that comfortable with being in a vulnerable position in front of them later on. The other part is that she simply hates having to submit to medical care, and she wants it to be over and done with as quickly as possible, with a minimum of disruption to her life. She's seen enough cases go south in the ER that she doesn't like to be in that precarious state herself.
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[[Category:Defenders]]

Latest revision as of 22:50, 4 November 2020

Claire Temple (Scenesys ID: 230)
PwGmJ5D.jpg
Quote
"You've got to be kidding me."
Profile
Full Name: Claire Temple
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Theme: Marvel (AFC)
Occupation: Nurse
Citizenship: United States of Ameria
Residence: New York City
Education: University
Status: Dropped
Groups: Defenders
Other Information
Apparent Age: Late 20s Actual Age: 29
Date of Birth 5 July 1997 Actor: Rosario Dawson
Height: 170 cm Weight: 57 kg
Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Brown
Theme Song:

Profile

Drafted involuntarily into the war of Hell's Kitchen, Claire Temple pits herself in dual roles: emergency nurse by day and a healer and mender of New York's vigilantes by night. Known purely by word-of-mouth, and her identity marginally sheltered to keep the monsters off her doorstep, there is alluded talk to a "night nurse" among the street-level heroes: a woman you call for the emergencies without worries of police reports or uncovered identities. She performs unparalleled surgical work in the most sparse and bereft of conditions, maintains strict doctor-patient confidentiality, and makes damn sure her patients stay alive. She's certain she's in over her head, but she's seen too much and she's sick of being afraid. What's a woman to do?

Current Player Approved: Not Applicable

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