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Name; Kimmie
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Other Characters; n/a
IC Information;
Character Name; Dr. Claire Saunders aka Whiskey
Canon; Dollhouse
Canon Point; 2.1 Vows (After trying to jump Topher/ her existential identity crisis)
House; Hel
Power; Shadow
Personality;
”Boyd? What are you guys buddies now? Of course you are. You disapprove of everything.”
Thing about Claire Saunders is she doesn’t exist. Not that she doesn’t have a body, she does. But the body she is in is not Claire Saunders. She’s not even Whiskey. It is unknown who she truly is or at least who she originally was, and that is a large part of the person who resides in this body.
And this person knows. There are many levels.
Claire Saunders is a program, a bunch of coding or what is called an imprint. She was designed by Topher. She was the replacement doctor after the first Dr. Saunders (an old man) was killed by another active named Alpha.
Claire Saunders is quiet, deductive, and sneaky. Most often she is in her office or looking through the files. If she does leave, she often sneaks up on people. Though that may have to do with her distaste of Topher which he tells her is programmed. She does actively hate him, constantly trying to go above him or point out the flaws in his judgment. This is her original personality before she finds out that she was a doll, an active named Whiskey.
She knows her work. Claire Saunders ends up processing a dead body of someone who tried to kill one of the active’s handlers (someone who protects the active). She knew the weapon, how the person died, and even that it was surgical. She’s more than just the regular check up doctor, even though that’s what she is seen most often doing.
Claire Saunders was made to oppose Topher. He states as much. He knew that someone needed to look out for the dolls and while he does not have much of a moral compass in the beginning, she is clearly it. She tells him when things have gone too far like when Echo is being pushed too hard, and after she leaves, it is him who points out to DeWitt that Claire Saunders would never let Sierra be sold to her rapist regardless of how much wealth he had or his position in the governing body of the Dollhouse.
That is because she is connected to the dolls, even before she learns she is one. She keeps things in balance, being so devoted that she never leaves the house. But Topher tells her that that is even programmed. She doesn’t like people, doesn’t like groups, and doesn’t like pets. She’s a solitude being, one who prefers her work and being alone.
Claire Saunders is thorough. All of her files are in order, up to date, and she sees a job through. When Echo starts showing signs of evolution beyond that of a simple, erased active, it’s Claire who suggests that the actives who are exhibiting signs of higher intelligence be given what they long for: for Victor it was being with Sierra, for Sierra it was confronting her rapist, for Echo it was freeing the dolls – or so they thought.
She does have incredible insight into the dolls. She works with each of them on a daily basis and on a personal level.
When it’s believed that Alpha is targeting Echo before they know he’s back, she certifies Boyd, Echo’s handler, because she knows he’ll protect her better than anyone else. She probably shouldn’t have seeing as he was still wounded, but she cares about the safety of the dolls. She also has enough skills to complete an experimental and highly evasive brain surgery, technically that renders her temporarily blind.
But Claire Saunders is not real.
”Put the rats back in the cage before one of them bites you.”
Whiskey was a doll, an active. She was the best that the house provided, even if she thought otherwise. Whiskey was polite, always saying please and being docile. She had many engagements and was called the number one doll. All dolls are wiped clean of a personality. They are like children. There are no basic instinct, just simple drones.
Whiskey was attacked by Alpha who was obsessed with Echo. He slashed up her face with a shears to make her not her best any more. This is why Claire Saunders has the cuts and scars across her face.
She keeps them even before she knows she’s a doll. These scars are a very big part of who she is. She wants to remember what happened, even if she could get some sort of surgery to reduce them. Otherwise she is just like them. After she finds out what really happened to her, she keeps them because without them DeWitt would send her back out in the field.
She is not Claire Saunders and she is not Whiskey. Claire Saunders lost herself when she found out she was a doll. However when she hacked into the program, she never looked up her original self.
She’s afraid of dying. If she becomes her original personality again then both Claire Saunders and Whiskey cease to exist. She states she knows who she is, but she also develops an identity crisis. If everything she knows is a program, then she seeks to do the opposite. This is why she attempts to seduce Topher. Because if he programmed her to hate him, then either she’s acting out against it or it’s the endgame.
This is why she eventually leaves. Claire Saunders would never leave. She’d become engrained in the dollhouse, but she isn’t really Claire any more and she’s not Whiskey. She isn’t an Omega like Alpha or Echo who could absorb forty personalities and access them.
She doesn’t believe she’s human though, even after she’s agreed that humans are a pile of excuses, and all she had were excuses. But that was another reason why she left. All she had were excuses to stay, and when she admits she doesn’t know what to do, Topher tells her she’s human, but she responds back “don’t flatter yourself”. So she’s some amalgam of Claire Saunders. Not necessarily Whiskey though. Whiskey never showed much growth as an active. At least not like Echo had.
”How do I live? How do I go through my day knowing everything I think comes from something I can’t abide?”
She’s her own personality now. While much of Claire is in her head and she does have the knowledge and expertise that was given to her, she’s also at a loss. She admits that she wants to die. There’s a darkness to her, willing to do anything to not feel it. It’s like Pinocchio wishing to be a real boy when she realizes that she doesn’t know what to do. She breaks down to Topher after trying to seduce him.
She first starts tampering with his equipment, putting rats in his cupboard. She wants to get back at him since he’s the one who did this to her. She blames him for not knowing who she is, since essentially she hates him.
But he did not make her hate him. That was not the coding. She had to fight for what she believed in as Claire Saunders. He pushed her, because he knew that if he just made someone that agreed with him then something could be missed and someone could get hurt. She went above the coding and hated him. That was her choice, and speaks a lot for human personality versus being programmed. She is possible of going on.
She’s just lost. She asks Topher and discusses with Boyd what to do. Both of them tell her that humans aren’t perfect either, that humans are a jumble of excuses. She wasn’t better than Topher, being able to handle combinations of personalities. She can’t go back to her original personality (something that the show plays around with with Echo as well – the idea of creating new people in bodies that are not theirs and what does that make them). So she must go on.
She’s a broken doll. Even without being Whiskey, even without remembering what happened. She knows Alpha did it to her. She knows she’s not her best any more. After Alpha breaks into the dollhouse and assaults Victor the same way he cut up Whiskey, he asks her about it and she snaps on him. It gives an insight on how she views herself and how people see her.
Her best is over. She was number one and now she’s not. She’s damaged goods and they did what they pleased with her. The original Dr. Saunders was murdered, and they had a replacement now. She is pitied, she will not pity. She is hard, because the world is hard back. She doesn’t coddle Victor after his injury. She is blunt and spiteful, about to give him a lollipop before pulling it away and eating it herself (a reference to how kind the original Dr. Saunders was).
This broken amalgam sees relationships differently.
”Special isn’t always a good thing here.”
Originally Topher was her opposition. He had all the best toys, he set up all of their brains, he tortured them with electricity, and he continually tried to play up the dollhouse as a good thing, that they were helping others. Claire challenged him. She was the one who brought up the moral and ethical dilemmas to whatever technological advances he was making. Like the surgery that temporarily blinded Echo just so the FBI could get evidence from a religious compound.
The dolls were originally like children to her, even when Dominic said to think of them more like pets. Claire always saw them as people, mind wiped people, but people nonetheless. When Victor’s erections were noticed, she was the one who decided to find out how and why and didn’t tell DeWitt until after. This also shows how dedicated she is, and dedicated to them she was. But when she found out she was one of them, things changed.
How was she any better? She still saw to their needs, but it’s different being on the other side of it. She lashed out at Victor, someone who had experienced what she had.
Alpha is one of the actives who her relationship doesn’t really change. As an active, Whiskey would have been kind to him. She was pretty docile and the actives are aware of one another. But after he attacked her, she became truly afraid of him. When he returns, it’s the only time she recoils aside from openly talking about being afraid of becoming nonexistent. He was obsessed with Echo and it cost and gave her everything. It cost her being her best, but she was given a way out of being another empty person.
Boyd only takes an interest with her after he learns she was an active. This speaks more to his personality seeing that he is secretly the founder of Rossum which overseas everything in the dollhouse. But she confronts him on this. She doesn’t want his pity, and clearly that is all he is giving her if he’s only interested in her now.
However he opens her up. He shows her that while she doesn’t really know who she is, she can have a purpose (this only starts at her canon point though she ends up spending some months with him after she leaves). She takes his insight most of the time. Even before the reveal.
Ultimately she’s misguided and is unstable, not knowing who or what she is. She maintains who Claire Saunders is even when she come back, but at this point she’s at a low point, a dark point. She doesn’t know what to do, just relying on this new personality to lead her.
Samples;
Network Sample;
[Could this be an imprint? An imprint gone wrong? Claire didn’t know as she looked at the device. She knew enough that this was some communication device that the video feed was transmitting, that someone or more were watching. A brunette with slashes that were healed over stared into the feed, calm. It would take more to unnerve her.]
This is Dr. Claire Saunders. I need—I need to return to—Los Angeles. [She couldn’t openly call out the Dollhouse. No, she didn’t want to end up in the attic. Then another thought crosses her.]
Topher, if this is some sort of joke because I tried to sleep with you, I’m not laughing.
[But then it could be Alpha? Could he design a program like this?]
Alpha? [Even saying his name makes her blood freeze.] Alpha. I’m no longer a threat. I’m not even Whiskey any more, and Echo is number one now. Just—just take me back.
[Not even Adele could be stupid enough to unleash her on the world. Not when it isn’t her choice, and she’s programmed to dislike most everything.]
I—I don’t have a handler, do I?
[Her mind is reeling. How could this happen? All the likely scenarios and imprint technology goes through her head. She’s back to being calm, handling the situation as is needed.]
I need information on this place.
Log Sample; here
Name; Kimmie
Personal Journal;
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Other Characters; n/a
IC Information;
Character Name; Dr. Claire Saunders aka Whiskey
Canon; Dollhouse
Canon Point; 2.1 Vows (After trying to jump Topher/ her existential identity crisis)
House; Hel
Power; Shadow
Personality;
”Boyd? What are you guys buddies now? Of course you are. You disapprove of everything.”
Thing about Claire Saunders is she doesn’t exist. Not that she doesn’t have a body, she does. But the body she is in is not Claire Saunders. She’s not even Whiskey. It is unknown who she truly is or at least who she originally was, and that is a large part of the person who resides in this body.
And this person knows. There are many levels.
Claire Saunders is a program, a bunch of coding or what is called an imprint. She was designed by Topher. She was the replacement doctor after the first Dr. Saunders (an old man) was killed by another active named Alpha.
Claire Saunders is quiet, deductive, and sneaky. Most often she is in her office or looking through the files. If she does leave, she often sneaks up on people. Though that may have to do with her distaste of Topher which he tells her is programmed. She does actively hate him, constantly trying to go above him or point out the flaws in his judgment. This is her original personality before she finds out that she was a doll, an active named Whiskey.
She knows her work. Claire Saunders ends up processing a dead body of someone who tried to kill one of the active’s handlers (someone who protects the active). She knew the weapon, how the person died, and even that it was surgical. She’s more than just the regular check up doctor, even though that’s what she is seen most often doing.
Claire Saunders was made to oppose Topher. He states as much. He knew that someone needed to look out for the dolls and while he does not have much of a moral compass in the beginning, she is clearly it. She tells him when things have gone too far like when Echo is being pushed too hard, and after she leaves, it is him who points out to DeWitt that Claire Saunders would never let Sierra be sold to her rapist regardless of how much wealth he had or his position in the governing body of the Dollhouse.
That is because she is connected to the dolls, even before she learns she is one. She keeps things in balance, being so devoted that she never leaves the house. But Topher tells her that that is even programmed. She doesn’t like people, doesn’t like groups, and doesn’t like pets. She’s a solitude being, one who prefers her work and being alone.
Claire Saunders is thorough. All of her files are in order, up to date, and she sees a job through. When Echo starts showing signs of evolution beyond that of a simple, erased active, it’s Claire who suggests that the actives who are exhibiting signs of higher intelligence be given what they long for: for Victor it was being with Sierra, for Sierra it was confronting her rapist, for Echo it was freeing the dolls – or so they thought.
She does have incredible insight into the dolls. She works with each of them on a daily basis and on a personal level.
When it’s believed that Alpha is targeting Echo before they know he’s back, she certifies Boyd, Echo’s handler, because she knows he’ll protect her better than anyone else. She probably shouldn’t have seeing as he was still wounded, but she cares about the safety of the dolls. She also has enough skills to complete an experimental and highly evasive brain surgery, technically that renders her temporarily blind.
But Claire Saunders is not real.
”Put the rats back in the cage before one of them bites you.”
Whiskey was a doll, an active. She was the best that the house provided, even if she thought otherwise. Whiskey was polite, always saying please and being docile. She had many engagements and was called the number one doll. All dolls are wiped clean of a personality. They are like children. There are no basic instinct, just simple drones.
Whiskey was attacked by Alpha who was obsessed with Echo. He slashed up her face with a shears to make her not her best any more. This is why Claire Saunders has the cuts and scars across her face.
She keeps them even before she knows she’s a doll. These scars are a very big part of who she is. She wants to remember what happened, even if she could get some sort of surgery to reduce them. Otherwise she is just like them. After she finds out what really happened to her, she keeps them because without them DeWitt would send her back out in the field.
She is not Claire Saunders and she is not Whiskey. Claire Saunders lost herself when she found out she was a doll. However when she hacked into the program, she never looked up her original self.
She’s afraid of dying. If she becomes her original personality again then both Claire Saunders and Whiskey cease to exist. She states she knows who she is, but she also develops an identity crisis. If everything she knows is a program, then she seeks to do the opposite. This is why she attempts to seduce Topher. Because if he programmed her to hate him, then either she’s acting out against it or it’s the endgame.
This is why she eventually leaves. Claire Saunders would never leave. She’d become engrained in the dollhouse, but she isn’t really Claire any more and she’s not Whiskey. She isn’t an Omega like Alpha or Echo who could absorb forty personalities and access them.
She doesn’t believe she’s human though, even after she’s agreed that humans are a pile of excuses, and all she had were excuses. But that was another reason why she left. All she had were excuses to stay, and when she admits she doesn’t know what to do, Topher tells her she’s human, but she responds back “don’t flatter yourself”. So she’s some amalgam of Claire Saunders. Not necessarily Whiskey though. Whiskey never showed much growth as an active. At least not like Echo had.
”How do I live? How do I go through my day knowing everything I think comes from something I can’t abide?”
She’s her own personality now. While much of Claire is in her head and she does have the knowledge and expertise that was given to her, she’s also at a loss. She admits that she wants to die. There’s a darkness to her, willing to do anything to not feel it. It’s like Pinocchio wishing to be a real boy when she realizes that she doesn’t know what to do. She breaks down to Topher after trying to seduce him.
She first starts tampering with his equipment, putting rats in his cupboard. She wants to get back at him since he’s the one who did this to her. She blames him for not knowing who she is, since essentially she hates him.
But he did not make her hate him. That was not the coding. She had to fight for what she believed in as Claire Saunders. He pushed her, because he knew that if he just made someone that agreed with him then something could be missed and someone could get hurt. She went above the coding and hated him. That was her choice, and speaks a lot for human personality versus being programmed. She is possible of going on.
She’s just lost. She asks Topher and discusses with Boyd what to do. Both of them tell her that humans aren’t perfect either, that humans are a jumble of excuses. She wasn’t better than Topher, being able to handle combinations of personalities. She can’t go back to her original personality (something that the show plays around with with Echo as well – the idea of creating new people in bodies that are not theirs and what does that make them). So she must go on.
She’s a broken doll. Even without being Whiskey, even without remembering what happened. She knows Alpha did it to her. She knows she’s not her best any more. After Alpha breaks into the dollhouse and assaults Victor the same way he cut up Whiskey, he asks her about it and she snaps on him. It gives an insight on how she views herself and how people see her.
Her best is over. She was number one and now she’s not. She’s damaged goods and they did what they pleased with her. The original Dr. Saunders was murdered, and they had a replacement now. She is pitied, she will not pity. She is hard, because the world is hard back. She doesn’t coddle Victor after his injury. She is blunt and spiteful, about to give him a lollipop before pulling it away and eating it herself (a reference to how kind the original Dr. Saunders was).
This broken amalgam sees relationships differently.
”Special isn’t always a good thing here.”
Originally Topher was her opposition. He had all the best toys, he set up all of their brains, he tortured them with electricity, and he continually tried to play up the dollhouse as a good thing, that they were helping others. Claire challenged him. She was the one who brought up the moral and ethical dilemmas to whatever technological advances he was making. Like the surgery that temporarily blinded Echo just so the FBI could get evidence from a religious compound.
The dolls were originally like children to her, even when Dominic said to think of them more like pets. Claire always saw them as people, mind wiped people, but people nonetheless. When Victor’s erections were noticed, she was the one who decided to find out how and why and didn’t tell DeWitt until after. This also shows how dedicated she is, and dedicated to them she was. But when she found out she was one of them, things changed.
How was she any better? She still saw to their needs, but it’s different being on the other side of it. She lashed out at Victor, someone who had experienced what she had.
Alpha is one of the actives who her relationship doesn’t really change. As an active, Whiskey would have been kind to him. She was pretty docile and the actives are aware of one another. But after he attacked her, she became truly afraid of him. When he returns, it’s the only time she recoils aside from openly talking about being afraid of becoming nonexistent. He was obsessed with Echo and it cost and gave her everything. It cost her being her best, but she was given a way out of being another empty person.
Boyd only takes an interest with her after he learns she was an active. This speaks more to his personality seeing that he is secretly the founder of Rossum which overseas everything in the dollhouse. But she confronts him on this. She doesn’t want his pity, and clearly that is all he is giving her if he’s only interested in her now.
However he opens her up. He shows her that while she doesn’t really know who she is, she can have a purpose (this only starts at her canon point though she ends up spending some months with him after she leaves). She takes his insight most of the time. Even before the reveal.
Ultimately she’s misguided and is unstable, not knowing who or what she is. She maintains who Claire Saunders is even when she come back, but at this point she’s at a low point, a dark point. She doesn’t know what to do, just relying on this new personality to lead her.
Samples;
Network Sample;
[Could this be an imprint? An imprint gone wrong? Claire didn’t know as she looked at the device. She knew enough that this was some communication device that the video feed was transmitting, that someone or more were watching. A brunette with slashes that were healed over stared into the feed, calm. It would take more to unnerve her.]
This is Dr. Claire Saunders. I need—I need to return to—Los Angeles. [She couldn’t openly call out the Dollhouse. No, she didn’t want to end up in the attic. Then another thought crosses her.]
Topher, if this is some sort of joke because I tried to sleep with you, I’m not laughing.
[But then it could be Alpha? Could he design a program like this?]
Alpha? [Even saying his name makes her blood freeze.] Alpha. I’m no longer a threat. I’m not even Whiskey any more, and Echo is number one now. Just—just take me back.
[Not even Adele could be stupid enough to unleash her on the world. Not when it isn’t her choice, and she’s programmed to dislike most everything.]
I—I don’t have a handler, do I?
[Her mind is reeling. How could this happen? All the likely scenarios and imprint technology goes through her head. She’s back to being calm, handling the situation as is needed.]
I need information on this place.
Log Sample; here