Claire Densmore is a minor character from Tim Burton's film, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. She is a young peculiar with a large mouth on the back of her head.
She is portrayed by Raffiella Chapman.
Background[]
Personality[]
Claire appears to be a shy child in the first trilogy, but becomes more outspoken in the second. She believes in the ymbrynes very much, always taking their side, and gets angry when the other peculiars don't follow Miss Peregrine's orders. In The Desolations of Devil's Acre, when the others complain that Miss Peregrine still treats them like children, Claire says that they all still are children, and if they kept sneaking off and disobeying orders, maybe they did deserve to be treated as such. She also shows a bit of a snarky side to her such as when she sneers at the "mission" H gave Jacob and Emma as nothing more than delivering a package.
Claire in the movie has a shy and insecure personality, which is shown by how she very rarely talks and speaks at a soft spoken tone. Her insecurity stems from her backmouth, and she feels embarrassed to eat with it in front of new wards, as shown in her interaction with Jacob.
Physical Appearance[]
Claire is described as doll-like, with a dainty baby face and fair skin. She has immaculate, long golden curls that hide the mouth on the back of her head. Like a doll, she is also very small, and is the physically youngest of Miss Peregrine's wards.
In the film, Claire appears as a young girl with fair skin, greyish-green eyes, and blonde Victorian ringlets that is kept in twin tails by pink ribbons on the sides of her head. She usually wears a long, pink and frilly dress with pink ribbons attached to her dress as well.
Role in the film[]
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children[]
When Jacob enters the destroyed home where the peculiar children used to stay at, Claire, along with the other children is seen spying on Jacob while he was wondering around the house.
Claire is later shown playing with The Twins in the backyard of Miss Peregrine's home.
During supper time, the other children begin to eat supper, but Claire does not. When questioned why she isn't eating by Miss Peregrine, Hugh interjects saying that she is embarrassed to eat in front of Jacob. When insisted not to be embarrassed, she proceeds to eat her chicken leg with her backmouth, which surprises Jacob.
After supper, Claire and the other children watch Horace project his dreams, only to have his projection prematurely ended due to its nightmarish (and for Jacob and Emma, embarrassing) content. Afterwards, Claire and the other children go outside and watch Miss Peregrine reset the loop.
Claire is then shown being comforted by Miss Avocet, due to her fear of having to leave her loop. Later after Mr. Barron breaks into the loop with Jacob held hostage, Miss Peregrine orders Claire and the other children to enter the other room while she is being captured, this is to prevent them from all attacking Mr. Barron.
After Mr. Barron leaves with Miss Peregrine in captivity, Claire and the other children prepare for the hollowgast that is sure to come. When the hollowgast breaks into the house, Claire is evacuated by Jacob along with the other children.
After this incident, the children decided to use the sunken ship by the shore in the loop, that Emma used as a hide out in the past to get to the loop in Blackpool (this was where Mr. Barron and the other wights set up their machine to redo the experiment they did using ymbryne's essence to gain immortality, and this same experiment is what caused them to become wights and hollowgasts) Claire is seen lifting her curls to allow her backmouth to spit out a mouthful of water.
When they get to Blackpool, Claire and the Twins begin to fight a fellow wight of Mr. Barron, named Miss Edwards, along with Bronwyn, Fiona and Olive, who were fighting another wight. In the next scene, Claire and the Twins continue to dodge Miss Edwards's knife attacks, until Miss Edwards decides to try to grab Claire from behind, only for Claire chomp on Miss Edwards arm using her backmouth, In excruciating pain, Miss Edwards is then turned to stone by the twins.
When the fight with the wights and hollows were over and the ymbrynes were free, the children leave the loop in Blackpool and decide to go back into the loop Miss Peregrine created. (After the point where the Nazis dropped a bomb on the children's home, the loop was not reset, so time continued to move forward to September 4th, 1943, rather than being reset by Miss Peregrine.)
Relationships[]
Miss Peregrine[]
Claire looks up to Miss Peregrine as a parental figure, showing great distress when Miss Peregrine could not get out of her bird form. She also mentions that Miss Peregrine reads her the Tales of the Peculiar. Being a firm believer in the ymbrynes, Claire does not question Miss Peregrine's authority over the children and is completely against the others going behind Miss Peregrine's back.
Fiona Frauenfeld[]
Fiona stays behind at Miss Wren's menagerie to take care of Claire. Claire was very upset when she witnessed a wight push Fiona off a cliff.
Bronwyn Bruntley[]
As Claire is one of the little ones, Bronwyn acts like an older sister or even like a mother towards her.
Enoch O'Connor[]
In the film, Claire appears to have a deep connection with Enoch who is an older brotherly figure.
The Twins[]
She seems to be close friends with the Twins in the film, likely stemming from their similar natures and age proximities.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- The name "Clair" (without the "e") is traditionally a name given to a males and was a popular name in the United Kingdom during the 1970s-80s.
- Claire's peculiarity is the same as the Japanese yōkai Futakuchi-Onna, a woman with an extra mouth on the back of her head beneath her hair. In-universe, it's likely that peculiars like her inspired this legend.
- Claire's birthday is on October 13.[1]
References[]
[]
Template:Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children