Charlie

Overview

Group/Faction Affiliation: Dark as Midnight

Status: Unknown

Charlie, is a demented young man that walks the line between victim and monster. Scarred by his rough past, Charlie was never able to fully move past his childhood. The trauma gave rise to a manipulative voice in his head, compelling him to commit unspeakable acts. It was only fitting for him to be adopted into Dark as Midnight. Charlie found a twisted sense of belonging and comfort in DAMN, and a new motherly figure who was able to fill the void since his own mother’s death. With his new family and mother, Charlie was able to walk a gruesome path of flesh and blood.

Appearance

For many warboys, removing the red helmet is a rite of passage, marking the transition from warboy to full DAMN member. To Charlie it meant preserving the bond he formed with his newly found family, and as such he continues to wear it. The helmet itself is said to have previously belonged to a deceased DAMN member named Hades, who died long before Charlie had arrived in Gorka. In remembrance of his mother, Charlie clad a black nurse dress with black or red leggings. He also wore a red children’s briefcase on his back, likely a gift from Cat.

Origins

Abused and battered as a young child, Charlie lived with his mother and father in a stilted house outside of Khelm. His mother worked as a nurse in the Berezino clinic, and his father a railway worker. During his childhood, his father's short temperament would often lead to Charlie being beaten and shackled in the house's basement. Charlie’s mother as described by Charlie was the "sweetest woman". She would sing him lullabies, and read him bedtime stories every night. They would play games, sing, dance and laugh together. Charlie clung to his mother, as she was the only one who cared for Charlie.

One fateful day, when Charlie was meant to be in the basement. Charlie’s mother brought him upstairs to cook him his favourite meal, pork. When Charlie's father came home, he became enraged at the prepared meal, and the possibility that Charlie was upstairs when he wasn't supposed to be. This resulted in Charlie's father finally snapping and murdering his mother right in front of Charlie. After witnessing this gruesome act, a dark voice inside Charlie emerged, commanding Charlie to kill his father.

This dark voice stuck around after that day, and it continued to manipulate and deceive the young boy, forcing him to commit heinous and unthinkable acts. The voice enjoys making others suffer, which includes Charlie at times as well. Charlie believed that consuming human flesh would satisfy the voice for a short period of time, but the voice would always reemerge.

This continued into the boys' later years and adult life. For a period of time, Charlie rejected the voice's commands. But the voice only became louder and more obnoxious. The voice became unbearable and drove Charlie deep into the Black Forest. It was there, consumed by the voice inside, that Charlie was discovered by Dark as Midnight.

Demeanor

Charlie was often soft spoken, but the way in which he muttered words made most people uneasy. Due to Charlie’s cannibalistic nature, he was often seen laughing/crying as he spoke, his body also constantly twitching and shaking. Members of DAMN often joked that the twitching and shaking made Charlie’s aim better. Charlie was often caught speaking to himself, either talking to the voice in his head, or trying to calm himself down. He enjoyed carrying around his brown teddy bear, and would often take it out once an interaction had settled down and began to play.

Actions

After being found on one of Cat’s field trips, Charlie was taken to Gorka to be initiated as a warboy. During Charlie’s first day as a warboy, Iris commanded him to murder one of his fellow warboys who had just met. So, Charlie snuck up behind the warboy while he was drinking from Gorka Well, and bashed him mercilessly over the head with a cooking pot. After that moment both Cat and Iris took a liking to Charlie, and Cat began to claim him as “her warboy”.

As Cat and Charlie continued to spend more time together, going on field trips, killing, playing with, dismembering, and eating people. They both began to fill voids in each other's lives, for Charlie that was the loss of his birth mother. Eventually this resulted in Cat beginning to sing Charlie lullabies or tell him bedtime stories, and Cat give him an outlet for talking about the voice in his head through journal entries which he wrote in red crayon.