Claire Tanjung

Claire Tanjung is the main character in Paper Rings. The entire book of Paper Rings is in her perspective.

Looks
Claire has black hair, which can sometimes be mistaken to be deep brown. Her hair is around waist-length and wavy. She has wide, dark brown eyes with deeper brown flecks in them. She is described as short, and in the book is 5 foot 4.

Personality
She is a bright, fun, bubbly person who enjoys having fun ! She’s a risk-taker, and makes decisions on impulse. She can also be super sarcastic and grumpy, depending on her mood.

Likes
In the book, she is described to be a dancer. She believes that dance is much harder than basketball or football, clearly expressing a mild dislike for the other two sports. She begins to like basketball though after she plays it more with Asher every Wednesday.

In the book, she is also a huge swiftie, playing a bunch of different Taylor Swift albums in it. You can inference that during the time period of Paper Rings, her favorite album is Lover as she plays it the most often. It also represents the title, which is named after a song in Lover.

She is also a theatre kid, shown when they do drama in their school. There’s not much info on her like of theatre, because she ends up ditching it in the end.

According to Once Upon A Time, which is in the same universe as Paper Rings, she and Asher’s younger sister Dani bonded over their love of writing. Writing seems to be one of Claire’s interests, even though she doesn’t really mention it in Paper Rings.

Dislikes
In the book Paper Rings, Claire doesn’t express an extreme dislike for many things. Although, she does say she hates second chances and really doesn’t give them out often. She also shows hatred of betrayal, as she felt extremely awful when Asher betrayed her.

Name Pronunciation
Her name is pronounced Cl-ay-re Tan-juh-ng

Love Interests
Before she had a crush on Asher, in Once Upon A Time she tells Dani she had a crush for about three years on an unknown guy. At the time she told Dani about the crush, she was already going out with Asher and had been for around three years. The name of the guy has not been made known yet, and might not ever be.

Her main love interest is Asher Klein. They get together in the book Paper Rings after the huge plan. Their ship name is Clasher, made up by her best friend Bridget Ziesenheim. To the point of the most recent book of the same universe as Paper Rings, Once Upon a Time, she has been dating Asher for about three years. They seem to probably last a long time.

Friends
A lot of her friends names are made known, and they all seem to be very close. A list of her friends are below.

Bridget Ziesenheim :

Bridget is described of being one of her closest friends in the books, and the one that started the whole letter and adventure of Paper Rings. Bridget and her hang out often in many sleepovers and meetups. They seem to tell each other almost everything, and seem to call and facetime super often. They have a ton of inside jokes and know about each other’s crushes. It was mentioned in a comment that in the beginning Claire used to hate Bridget, but overtime they became closer and became best friends.

Taryn Parke :

Taryn is one of the friends who first assumed that Claire and Asher were dating. She and Taryn also seem to talk often, and seem to know each other really well. Taryn seems completely okay with getting roped into the crazy plans of both Asher and Bridget, and they have a lot of fun together.

Ally Long :

Ally Long is another one of Claire’s super good friends. She’s that one violent friend who’s always there to have Claire’s back. She and Claire don’t seem to hang out much by themselves, but they are definitely close.

Jane Pauli :

Jane is one of Claire’s quieter friends, but they still seem to have a super good relationship. They seem to be close and super comfortable with each other, Jane being the friend that will always listen.

Caroline Olszewski :

Caroline is the one friend that throws the stuffed animals and is clearly confused about some of the stuff that is going on. She definitely is one of Claire’s close friends.

Relatives
The only relative made known in Paper Rings is Dove Tanjung. Dove has a few noticeable mentions, especially in the epilogue. She seems like a crazy, lovable younger sister, and she and Claire are close.