At first glance, Charlie looks like your average sleep deprived twenty-something. And to most people that's all she is. A pretty (if rumpled) face staring out the window of a bus, with a frequent twitch of some kind. For those who can pin her down and talk to her for more than a brief moment, a different picture starts to form. They find her to be a nervous girl, constantly worried about something that could be happening, always looking around just in case and convinced that everything she does or says is wrong. Get her talking about something she's passionate about and you get a third Charlie. One who desperately wants everyone to see how far she's come and how much better she is than just a toy on a shelf.
Mask
Her whole look could be described as, "take better care of yourself, please." Messy red hair shaved into a crappy floppy undercut, jewel green eyes tarnished by dark racoonish bags and lots of t-shirts and sweatpants with the occasional pair of ripped black jeans for formal events. No matter the season or the weather, she always wears her jean jacket, the thing she went through the woods to hide from her mom all those years ago. Occasionally she'll wear a silver cross necklace, but whenever she does, she finds herself unable to stop fiddling with it no matter how much she hates that she's doing it and how much everyone is staring at her. Furthermore, she's almost always moving. She's constantly fidgeting or twitching, just so she knows she still can. Even if she's holding hands or something where movement might not fit, she still blinks rapidly.
Mien
When viewed without her mask, Charlie resembles a fancy statue of an angel. She appears to be made of solid alabaster crisscrossed with veins of gold. A pair of white wings with carved feathers have been sown into her back and while they can flap, they're useless for just about everything else. A solid gold halo "floats" above her head, held aloft by stiff wires attached to fish-hooks that pierce her skull.
Mantle
Her mantle has evolved from its former winter trick of the light to a faint feeling around her of nostalgia for a time when you were a kid sitting in the shade on a hot day after running around.
Wren: Her!!! Girlfriend!!! Wren is kind of secretive and that freaks out Charlie a bit, but otherwise she's super cool and pretty and just the gosh darn best. That said, she's a non-believer and Charlie has been having a bunch of nightmares where Wren leads her straight to hell, but those are normal fears in a relationship, right? Being unsure if your girlfriend is actually the devil is a really common worry, right?
Anneliese Kiel: She knows a lot. She's a kind caring and extremely hot person who has been really nice to Charlie. She's also been scheming something with their relationship, though Charlie isn't quite sure what the endgame there is. That said, if she needs a confidant, she'll head for her.
Mearcstapa: A Stand-up guy. He and Wren are very close which can occasionally make her a little jealous and any friend of Wren's is a friend of hers. He's gone to bat for her a couple of times too, even once really putting her and Wren's relationship in perspective so she didn't screw it up and instead made it stronger.
Jack and Lux: She was kind of a jerk to them for completely understandable reasons and now she'll do anything to make it up to them. Even though Lux doesn't hold it against her. And no amount of being nice will make her feel less guilty.
Dear Sweet Artie: Probably her best friend that she isn't dating. There's something extremely freeing that comes with not being the most anxious person in the room and getting to be the protector instead of needing to be protected. He's really sweet and probably going to make her a bow so she can get really good at archery. If anyone hurt him, they'd have her to answer to.
Gallowglass: Another one of her friends. Not as close as the others, but he's a really nice guy, under the yelling and swearing. That part could change but he's a sweet friendly guy otherwise.
Ianthe: Her archery instructor. It turns out that the summer back in middle school where Charlie bounced a ball against a tree for hours lead to her having a pretty good grasp of aiming. She's going to work with Ianthe to get good at it, so she has options in a fight when the enemy isn't within punching range or hurts to touch.
Adela Fletcher: Adela offered to teach her ballet! Now she can live out her childhood ballet dreams. Granted, most of her childhood ballet dreams stemmed from wanting to impress a girl in her town who knew ballet, but they're still dreams, dang it.
Hobnobbing: Charlie gets on better with hobgoblins than most people ought to. Maybe it's the stink of her Keeper, maybe it's how she doesn't fear them, maybe it's because she has an eye for deals or maybe they just appreciate a nice jean jacket. Whatever the reason, she's made shaky alliances with a number of hobgoblins and is considered a good person to come to if you've got goblin problems and want more tact than just smashing them. She's probably a little too calm around them though and definitely a bit too eager to help them out.
Floral Arrangements: Taking her therapist's advice of getting a part time job to force herself to get out of her home, Charlie took up a job as a part time sales clerk at Doom and Bloom, a flower shop under her apartment. It serves a number of purposes: the way into her hollow, a place to feed on the emotions of grieving or romantic customers and, while she's manning the store, a place for Changelings to meet if they want somewhere outside of Faerie where no one expects them to go. All Charlie wants in return is some company, a can of Mr Pibb and for them to buy some flowers that aren't selling great.
A Couch to Cry On: When Charlie joined the Winter Court, she put up a flier looking for people to talk things Faerie things over with, in ways they can't with a normal therapist. While that flier has mostly sat unused on a bulletin board of band announcements and shitty couches, her number is still on there and her hollow is always open for people who want a place to talk things over. Just don't mind the occasional hobgoblin stopping by.
Blake's Got a New Faith: Charlie grew up in a deeply devout home where a big list of things were sins and a small list of things were virtues. And sin was *always* punished. One thing that was drilled into her from birth was to always go to church. So it was a bit of a problem when she returned to earth unable to cross the threshold of a church. Now that that forced her to confront her values and the things she learned as a child, her faith has started to falter. How could a benevolent God let Gentry exist but at the same time hate gay people? She would love someone to help her out with all of this because the chaos of a world without a divine plan weighs on her mind heavily.
Oh Father, Where Art Thou? Charlie, loathe as she is to admit it, is extremely jealous of her fetch's life. She always wanted her mom's love to the point where she was willing to beat down who she actually was inside. And now her mother loves a cheap plaster imitation of her. And she can't go back and replace her doppelganger because then she'd have to live the awful life her Fetch likes living. So she's decided to go with a different tact for parental affection. She wants to find her dad. Maybe she could make him apologize for leaving her and then she'd have someone who'd be proud of her. Only problem is that she doesn't know how to find someone who she doesn't even know the name of. Fortunately for her, she now runs in supernatural circles where there are people with powers she can't even pretend to understand. Maybe she'll find someone who can help her find him.
