wiseass | 1920s (au / aesthetic )

• the daughter of a smuggler / con-artist Claire grew up on her own in the city and survived by sleight of hand.
• upon coming of age she sought a more professional means of wealth and survival and started hustling men at games of fortune, gambling, and logic.
• trouble found her in one such smoky atmosphere at the tender age of twenty where, in pin curls and stockings, she won a fair amount of money and was attacked on her way home by several men claiming she was a cheating floozy.
• enter her memories of one, Jack Kline, who stopped his car and stopped the commotion. earning himself a few knicks and bruises in the process.
• she didn't fall immediately in love with him but over the course of several months they got to know each other better, had a few rendezvous behind drawn curtains, and by the time she'd turned twenty-one Jack had proposed and they married
• claire is deeply loyal to Jack but still as rambunctious and promiscuous as she ever was.
• she can handle herself now and stays armed, but she's hell in high heels and not afraid to be just that.