Claire Russell

Claire is a bartender at the Afterlife in.

Early Life
Claire became an engineer and worked for Militech for while before eventually quitting and opening her own autoshop in Arroyo. Here she worked on various vehicles and eventually came up with her own called "Beast". At the same time Claire worked as a bartender for the infamous club of Watson, the Afterlife. With the staff she was often very friendly and memorized their drinks. She was also responsible for naming much of the drinks on the menu after legends of Night City. These drinks, were usually the personal choices of the people who ordered them.

At one point, Claire met Dean Russell before her transition and the two got married. With her husband's support, Claire was able to complete her transition from male to female without any implants. Dean also had a love for street racing and Claire joined him in the many races he took part in, with Dean driving and Claire handling the shooting. However, during the 2076 championship race against an old corpo rival, Peter Sampson, they got into an accident and Dean was killed. Despite everyone following the rules of the game though and having killed others likewise in reversed roles, Claire became so distraught over losing Dean that she blamed Peter for her husband's death and vowed to take him out in hopes that'd bring her some peace.

2077
In 2077, Claire met two new mercs who had just been hired to work for Dexter DeShawn: Jackie Welles and V. Jackie gave Claire his personal choice and recipe for a drink, and told her to remember it for when he became a legend. After Jackie's death, Claire officially put his drink on the menu.

Street Racing
Claire after some time contacted V about asking them to join her in a street race competition as her driver.


 * V agreed to join her and raced through each race winning and getting to the next round. As they continued their success, Claire opened up with V and explained her past and what racing meant to her, including what happened to her late husband and the man responsible, but left out how it'd been fair game by the race's rules. She then revealed before the championship race the real reason she was participating this time: she wanted to get revenge on Peter Sampson.
 * Claire became angry at them for not allowing her to get her revenge.
 * V followed Peter as he left the race's route and after he wrecked his car, V and Claire confronted him, with Claire ultimately executing him there on the street. After the two got back to her shop, she then gave Beast to V, as she was done racing after exacting her revenge.
 * V followed Peter as he left the race's route and after he wrecked his car, V and Claire confronted him. However, after listening to V's comments, Claire dropped her desire to kill Peter in retaliation for Dean's death and let him go. She then gave Beast to V, as she was done racing, having been Dean's hobby and wasn't the same without him.

Database Entry

 * Every regular at the Afterlife knows Claire, the bartender who knows their favorite drink by heart, what they drank last time, and even what their friends ordered. Likewise, most know a few facts about Claire too. She's a transwoman who hasn't installed a single piece of cyberware in her body. She quit her job as a Militech engineer. And she's responsible for immortalizing Night City legends by naming drinks after them on the bar menu. Posthumously, of course.
 * What not all Afterlife clients know, however, is that Claire owns her own autoshop where she can be found spending hours under the hoods of broken-down cars and Beast, the rig she takes out on less-than-legal street races.

Associated Quests

 * The Beast In Me