Claire Redfield

"Look, you've got two choices here: kill or be killed, your call!"

- Claire_quote_-_Kill_or_be_killed.ogg

Claire Redfield (クレア・レッドフィールド) is a current member of the human rights organization, TerraSave. She is the younger sister of BSAA operative and former S.T.A.R.S. member Chris Redfield. Claire is a survivor of the Raccoon City Incident, which took place in September 1998 after she traveled to the city in search of her brother Chris Redfield. After escaping the city with the help of Leon S. Kennedy, Claire ventured to Europe to resume her search for Chris. In December, she was captured by Umbrella after infiltrating their Paris Laboratory and transported to the Umbrella owned Rockfort Island and imprisoned. When Rockfort Island was attacked by a mysterious Special Forces group, Claire tried to escape with a fellow prisoner, Steve Burnside, leading to both of their involvements in the Antarctic outbreak. Her brother soon learned of her situation and rescued her. In 2005, Claire confronted the t-Virus again when she arrived at Harvardville Airport to meet some friends. While surviving in the airport, she was reunited with Leon, now a U.S. Government agent, who had been sent to deal with the outbreak.

Early life
Claire grew up with her older brother Chris after their parents died. When Chris joined the US Air Force, she was introduced to his new friend, Barry Burton, and she became a close family friend. From Chris, she learned hand-to-hand combat and how to handle firearms. After high school, Redfield attended university, where she developed her interest in motorcycle customisation. At the same time, her brother moved to Raccoon City with Burton to serve in S.T.A.R.S. She was aware of the group's members, though it is unknown if she knew them on a personal level.

Raccoon City Incident (1998)
"I have to find my brother."

In August 1998, Chris left for Europe to investigate Umbrella. Out of contact with her brother, Claire left university in late September to find out where he was. She arrived in the city on 29 September, unaware that the US Army had put the city under quarantine due to the collapse of their highway blockade. She soon discovered people were killing and eating each other, and was saved by police officer Leon S. Kennedy, who had also recently arrived. The two made their way to the Raccoon City Police Station for shelter, but quickly discovered it too had fallen to the outbreak of t-Virus. Within the station, Redfield met the chief of police, Brian Irons, who, already unstable, was on a killing spree and intent on turning his victims into taxidermy. He was soon after killed by Dr. William Birkin, who had mutated from G-Virus infection. Redfield also found his daughter, Sherry, who had fled to the station on her mother's instructions. The two escaped into the sewers and, from which to Umbrella's Underground Laboratory complex in the city's industrial zone; during this journey, Sherry became lost and was parasitised by her father with an embryo. Within the laboratory, Redfield was able to produce a G-Virus vaccine to halt Sherry's continued mutation. When the facility's self-destruction system was activated, the two escaped on a train with Kennedy. Dr. Birkin attacked the train during the ride, however, and it too was destroyed, though the three were able to escape into the open. Rather than stay with the two, Claire was urged by Kennedy to leave and continue to search for her brother while he tended to Sherry.

Rockfort Island Incident (1998)
"I don't know what went on between you two, but you have it all wrong. My brother is not the kind of person you think he is."

- Claire to Albert Wesker

Following on from her experiences in Raccoon City, Redfield went out in search for her brother. Believing him to be at Umbrella Europe's Paris Laboratory, she infiltrated it in December and was captured by the facility's security forces. Taken to Rockfort Island by Rodrigo Juan Raval, Redfield's arrival coincided with a sabotage operation conducted by HCF, a paramilitary group under the command of Albert Wesker. The saboteurs succeeded in releasing the t-Virus and B.O.W.s across the virus, and Umbrella's local paramilitary forces were wiped out. Feeling sorry for her, Raval released Redfield from her cell, though believed she would eventually die anyway. On the surface she met Steve Burnside, a seventeen year old who was interned following his father's betrayal of Umbrella on the black market. The two searched for an airport to escape the island, but were repeatedly hampered by Alfred Ashford, 7th Earl Ashford, the island's commander, who believed Redfield to be linked to the saboteurs. Before they found a plane, Redfield was able to get in contact with Kennedy via a computer; Kennedy, who had gained employment within the US government's covert Anti-Umbrella Pursuit and Investigation Team, got in contact with Chris and sent him her location.

Escaping the Antarctica, Redfield and Burnside discovered Umbrella's Antarctic Base had fallen to a t-Virus outbreak brought there by the retreating Rockfort personnel. During their search of the facility, they found it was located several miles from an Australian polar observation base, and made plans to take control of a truck to drive there. The two ran into Ashford, who had followed them, but in their fight with him he was shot and fell off a ledge, where he was able to awaken his sister, Alexia, who had mutated from t-Veronica infection. After an counter with the Ashfords' father, Alexander, Redfield and Burnside found the truck and drove off. They were soon after set-upon by plant-like tentacles, which knocked the truck over, and the two were dragged by to the base as Alexia's prisoners. Redfield awoke to find Chris, who had tracked her to Antarctica from Rockfort Island. Faced with the new threat of Alexia, and the arrival of Wesker, Claire hurried to find Burnside, who had been taken for t-Veronica research. Burnside mutated into a large creature after Burnside found him, but his refusal to kill her led to his death at the hands of Alexia's pods. When her brother set off the facility's self-destruct system, she was taken captive by Wesker as a hostage after his men had confiscated Burnside's corpse for their own testing. Her freedom was bought when her brother led him into a fight, giving her time to prepare a Harrier jet for take-off. Chris arrived mere seconds ahead of the explosion, but they were able to escape without damage to the plane.

Harvardville Incident (2005)
"Bastard! That little girl will probably have nightmares for the rest of her life because of you!" In the years following the incident at the Antarctic Base, Redfield became associated with TerraSave, an NGO organisation which offered aid to victims of bioterrorism, which became a global threat following the collapse of Umbrella. In 2005, TerraSave set its eyes on WilPharma, an American pharmaceutical company that reached headlines following its connection to a t-Virus outbreak in India. The incident was in fact a bioterrorist attack, which WilPharma provided a t-Vaccine to combat. The terror attack was covered up, but footage of WilPharma's treatment was leaked, giving the inaccurate perception they were performing inhuman human testing.

Redfield traveled to Harvardville, the company's home town, as part of an organised protest aimed at Senator Ron Davis, a Harvardville-native who was known to invest heavily in the company. Redfield and another protester were arrested by airport security, which coincided with a coordinated terrorist attack infecting people within the airport as well as on an inbound plane. The resulting spread of t-Virus led to the airport being placed under lockdown by the 75th Ranger Regiment, and a plane crash destroying much of the airport terminal. Redfield and several other survivors, including Senator Davis and Rani Chawla, a young child in the care of TerraSave, took shelter within a VIP lounge and made phone calls to the outside world. Later that night, Kennedy and two members of SRT entered the airport via the roof in a mission to rescue the group ahead of a Ranger assault on the terminal. Redfield provided the name of a suspect behind the attack, Dr. Curtis Miller, whom she had briefly seen during the initial Zombie attack. Dr. Miller had previously worked for WilPharma and TerraSave, but had been ousted from both groups.

After being let outside, Redfield met Dr. Frederic Downing, a senior researcher for WilPharma, who revealed to her the cover-up in India. When a WilPharma truck carrying vaccine samples was sabotaged, Redfield traveled with Dr. Downing as a guest to the local laboratory complex while he had reserve vaccine samples prepared. In the laboratory, Redfield learned from Dr. Downing they had acquired samples of the G-Virus on the black market and, from a phone call between Downing and Senator Davis, came to the conclusion Davis was somehow involved in the terrorist attacks. Downing left her alone to check out a disturbance downstairs, which was found to be Dr. Miller attacking the complex; Downing telephoned her to warn of the attack, but was cut off. After infecting himself with the G-Virus, Dr. Miller fought a Ranger squad sent in to capture him. The ensuing fight with them and Kennedy destroyed much of the complex, but Redfield escaped with only minor injury.

In the minutes immediately following the fight, Redfield discovered all footage had been recorded and streamed to a third party. Piecing together distortions with Downing's phone call, Redfield and Kennedy realised Downing was behind the attack, and had faked his death in Miller's attack to escape with G- and t-Vaccine samples for a black market deal with a foreign agency Kennedy's agency had already arrested. Downing himself was revealed to have been an Umbrella researcher, who had stolen the G-Virus from the Underground Laboratory; changed his name and gained employment within WilPharma. To prosper from bioterrorism, he masterminded the attacks in India so proof of the vaccine's effectiveness could be determined, and radicalied Dr. Miller to continue the work in the United States so eliminate himself as a suspect. Thanks to the work of Redfield and Kennedy, the G-Virus was denied to the the Bajiri military.

Sushestvovanie Island incident (2011)
"Time to meet the cause of our misery."

- Claire to Moira before confronting Alex Wesker.



In 2011, Redfield and a number of other TerraSave members were captured in a raid on their headquarters by a paramilitary organisation led by Alex Wesker. Having entered a deal with TerraSave founder, Neil Fisher, the members were taken to Sushestvovanie Island in the Baltic, and infected with t-Phobos Virus for Wesker's personal research in copying her consciousness into a new host. In exchange, Fisher was to be provided with a sample of the Uroboros Virus, so that a vaccine may be produced, in an arrangement Fisher believed to be for the greater good.

Redfield; Moira Burton and Gina Fowler found themselves trapped within a decaying Brezknev-era prison that had been modified under Wesker's orders to serve as a torture chamber, and were set upon by the infected failed experiments before them, dubbed Afflicted. Though Foley was killed, Redfield and Burton were able to escape into the woods, where they found Fisher; Pedro Fernandez and Gabriel Chavez at an abandoned fishing village. Due to the nature of the t-Phobos Virus, Fernandez, who was repeatedly harassed by Afflicted, became stressful enough for the virus to begin mutating him, and he become a dangerous adversary for the others. Redfield; Fisher and Burton were separated from Chavez, who was hard at work repairing a helicopter, with Fisher also splitting up as they got into the city, intent on obtaining his Uroboros sample while keeping the others unaware. The two encountered the mutant Fernandez a second time, as a mutating Chavez crashed the helicopter into the city. While exploring the decaying city ruins further, Redfield and Burton found a young girl, Natalia Korda, who had also been abducted in the TerraSave attack. Korda did not react to the monsters as the others did, and was captured by Fisher as Wesker's ideal test subject.

On their own, Redfield and Burton journeyed into the industrial zone, where they were led into a trap by Wesker, who had rigged a factory to catch fire. The two escaped into the sewers and, believed dead, were able to make their way through and raid Wesker's base, a single tower that loomed above the island on all sides. At the base of the building, they found out the truth of Fisher's dealings with Wesker, and that he had been betrayed and infected with Uroboros. He seen mutated into a powerful monster and had to be killed by Burton. Progressing to the top of the tower, the two witnessed Wesker shoot herself, seeing Korda as her successor and herself no longer necessary in her own plans. With Wesker dead, however, the building began to self-destruct. Redfield was able to jump out of an opening in the wall and survived the plunge into the sea, though Burton was left behind.

Redfield was found floating in the ocean and rushed to a hospital for examination. When visited by Barry Burton, now a BSAA agent, she gave he and the BSAA enough information to plan out a mission, though it took another six months to confirm the location of the island. Redfield returned to the island in a BSAA helicopter the morning after Burton's one-man raid which rescued Korda and his daughter. The group were set-upon by Wesker, who's suicide attempt had failed and triggered violent mutations, but following her death all four were able to escape ahead of the BSAA sterilisation operation.

Sonido de Tortuga Incident (2014)
In 2014, Claire Redfield and TerraSave were dispatched to Sonido de Tortuga Island to investigate after reports of unusual possible B.O.W.-related activity. While in the city of Conejo on the neighboring Zanahoria Island, she uncovers a heavily mutated fish, and proceeds to photograph it with her phone before sending it over to her partner, Inéz Diaco. However, shortly after this is done, the fish suddenly comes alive, forcing Claire to stab it with her combat knife. Further investigation lead Claire to historical documents in the Conejo city library, which revealed that Umbrella founder Oswell E. Spencer had purchased a former US Military Base on the island in the late 1990s. Unable to get in touch with Inéz, Claire immediately contacted Chris and the BSAA for support. While Chris was unable to arrive due to being on another mission, he dispatched a team of South American BSAA agents lead by Parker Luciani to rescue Inéz.

Upon arriving on the island, Claire and Parker met with Takeru Tominaga, Mayu, Laura Bierce and Julie, survivors of the zombie attack on the Idol Survival TV show staff, as well as close friend Marilou Mabou. Faced with a pincer attack by two new B.O.W.s, Schraube Damon and Morio, Claire took Takeru and the others to a designated "safe spot" on the island via Parker's intel.

This spot, a seemingly abandoned facility, gave way to the remnants of one of the first research facilities established by Alex Wesker following on Spencer's initial research into immortality. Chaos soon began to escalate when, while investigating, Claire witnessed Inéz die at the hands of a Hunter before meeting with one of Alex's closest associates: Dirk Miller, the creator of the island's Jǐn Dú Project for B.O.W. development.

While Claire hurried to apprehend Miller, she was intercepted by Julie, revealing herself to be a double agent for the Shén Yā Pharmaceutical corporation used Miller to obtain the final virus developed via the Jǐn Dú project. Julie proceeded to disarm and brutally assault Claire, leaving her unconscious before planning to torture her.

After Julie's plans were thwarted by the zombified Laura hours later, Claire awoke and escorted the survivors back to the surface as Julie mutated using the new virus. She was briefly apprehended Shén Yā mercenaries before using the ensuing panic of Julie's monstrous new form to escape to the attack team's boat and procure weapons. Despite being seriously wounded, Claire finally was able to incapacitate Julie via a rocket launcher strike with the help of Takeru and Morio (who was acting on his human memories of being Marilou's older brother). She was evacuated from the island on a BSAA helicopter with Parker and later reported her findings on the incident to Chris, hopeful that Sonido de Tortuga may someday be able to recover from the tragedy they faced.

Personality and relationships
Claire is strong-willed, having grown up confident with training from her older brother, Chris. Her bond with her brother is quite strong, as we first see her coming to look for him after he had gone missing from his home in Raccoon City. Immediately after the events of the outbreak, she passionately continues her search, which results in her infiltrating Umbrella's Paris Lab Facility just to find Chris, despite her being only nineteen years old.

At the end of Revelations 2 during her contact with a BSAA member, she also shows her deep concern towards her brother Chris after being informed that he is in China. She then tells him to let Piers take care of him, her concern for her older brother still coming through. Though Claire cares for her older brother and there are times when the siblings don't get along, as revealed when Moira Burton complains about the times Barry bossed her around, Claire responds "My big brother was like that growing up too". She also became friends with Barry Burton, due to his strong friendship with her brother, and became best friends with his daughter, Moira after meeting her in Terrasave.

When she was younger, Claire showed an interest in biking, she is seen driving her Harley Davidson into Raccoon City though she left the bike after the zombie encounter and meeting Leon. Claire also wore her bike vest with a picture of an angel (goddess) with bombs and the words "Made in Heaven" on the back. Claire gives this vest to Sherry to keep, even saying it protected Sherry at the end of the game. Years later, Claire seems to have given up on her biking life after joining TerraSave, evident by the epilogue of Revelations 2. She didn't ride a bike to Barry's house but went in a SUV.

Claire is quick to draw opinions on people, whether it be when she feels someone is hiding secrets, or even when someone is wholly untrustworthy (as mentioned when she tries to warn Sherry about her feelings on Derek C. Simmons). Claire also dubbed Alfred Ashford as crazy, seconds after meeting him, and didn't care in the least for his status in Umbrella which infuriated Alfred.

Subsequently, Claire easily establishes strong connections with people, despite sometimes seeming aloof and sarcastic, as she initially treated both Leon S. Kennedy and Steve Burnside though she charmed them both. Claire responds more positively to the young girls she meets, Sherry Birkin, Rani Chawla, and Moira Burton, and becomes protective of them, showing strong motherly instincts. Claire remained in contact with Sherry (with the approval of Sherry's government handler) and it would seem that even Sherry, Rani, and Claire have all spent time together - or at the very least would like to.

Claire seems to also act as an inspirational figure to some of the girls she meets. Although Sherry follows Leon's footsteps as a government agent, Sherry acknowledges that both Claire and Leon helped her form her personality as someone who does not give up and sees the good in people. At some point, Claire also establishes a connection to Moira Burton, the older daughter of Barry Burton and is the eventual inspiration for Moira to join TerraSave. While Moira is known to be rebellious and foul-mouthed, it's unknown if it was influenced by any previous connection to Claire, unlikely due to Claire's civil attitude.

In contrast to her stoic brother, Claire has sense of humor she teases Leon over his relationships with Ada and Angela and when nearly crushed by a trap on Sushestvovanie Island Claire repeated Barry's joke that she was nearly a "Claire sandwhich" to Moria's embarrassment. Sherry also seems to demonstrate Claire's knack for occasional sass, Claire having been one of very few people she was allowed to interact with in her life. Sherry has even come to see Claire and Leon as her surrogate parents since Annette and William died in Raccoon City.

She is initially deeply emotional and having a great compassion, being one of the few heroes to display rash and strong emotions ranging from fear, anger, and sadness so early on and it is these emotions that drive her on. Yet, by the time of the attack on Harvardville airport, she demonstrates more professionalism and level headedness when faced with drastic situations. Claire still occasionally allows outbursts of emotion shine through her more adult exterior, usually a result of anger at people that mindlessly or selfishly cause harm to others, seen when Senator Davis nearly gets Rani killed by Zombies trying to save himself. Claire wasted no time slapping the Senator in the face and calling him a bastard.

Later in life, Claire became more hardened and serious, shown by her almost never losing her cool in the incident at Sushestovanie Island.

Like Chris and Barry, she dislikes Albert Wesker and later Alex Wesker, known to them as the Overseer, because of Alex's experiments on fear taking the life of her colleagues. In the climax fight against Monster Alex, Claire manages to shoot her with an RPG-7 as instructed by Barry mirroring how her older brother Chris and his partner Sheva Alomar kill Albert with the same weapon as Jill instructs them to use it.

Skills and abilities
Having learn some military combat techniques and firearms from her older brother Chris, Claire is able to shoot various firearms and enables her to sidestep to avoid contact with the moving zombies during the Raccoon City Outbreak.

At the start of Resident Evil CODE: Veronica, Claire had some impressive feats when she avoids getting shot from the helicopter during her infiltration at the Paris Lab Facility and outsmart her enemies by shooting a gas tank to blow them up in explosion. She can also aim directly in a quick shot using Alfred's sniper rifle during her fight with the mutated Alexander Ashford as she manages to kill it in one single shot.

In the Darkside Chronicles during both Memories of a Lost City and Game of Oblivion, Claire is able to knock the zombie as a counterattack by stabbing with a combat knife followed by a heavy knee.

From Resident Evil: Degeneration until Resident Evil: Revelations 2, Claire finally shows her military combat skills where she knocks the zombie using a straight kick to get Leon's handgun to shoot them down to rescue Rani Chawla. In contrast to her older brother Chris who focuses more on punches and grappling, Claire focuses more on the kicks after both Leon and Jill Valentine who were derived from their combat techniques and fighting style which she was seen knocking the Afflicted with a roundhouse kick to the face. Her roundhouse kick resembles how Leon knocks the Ganado in the Los Iluminados incident and both her stealth attacks and weapon disarming are also from Jill when she was under Wesker's control during the Kijuju incident. Both of those skills are demonstrated after her capture in Sushestvovanie Island and also able to disarm Gabriel when he is about to make a stealth attack on them when they enter the Wossek. She is also very efficient of using a knife when she fatally stabs the Afflicted and to attack a mutated Neil to rescue Moira from his grasp. Her way of using the knife is the same as how her older brother Chris wields his combat knife in a Filipino martial arts style of Eskrima.

Upon facing the mutated Alex Wesker, Claire is expert of sniping the enemy using the sniper rifle and the RPG-7 as she can directly hit the mutated Alex with a single shot much like she did to defeat the mutated Alexander Ashford with the same weapon.