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 parents in a secluded stilted house outside of Khelm. His mother worked as a nurse in the Berezino clinic, and his father was a railway worker. During Charlie's 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, even sometimes Charlie himself. 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 or crying as he spoke, while his body twitched and shook. Members of DAMN often joked that the twitching and shaking made Charlie’s aim better. He 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, a bear seemingly from his childhood. Charlie would often take the bear out once an interaction had settled down and began to play with it.
Actions
Warboy
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 he had just met. So, Charlie snuck up behind the warboy while he was drinking from the Gorka Well, and bashed his head in 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, and 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.
During Charlie's time as a warboy, Draven Sanguine, who was the current leader of DAMN, spoke about the DAMNATION, the betrayal against the Cult of Papa. As a warboy Charlie mocked the Cult, pretending to speak to PAPA as a joke. However, there were a few times where the voice in Charlie's head faded and the distant dark voice of PAPA spoke to him. Charlie always supressed this, and continued to fuck shit up as a warboy. He was often seen with other DAMN members at the Black Cross Aid Station, AKA the Raid Station, blowing up wall and murdering patrons.
The Funeral
After Cat murdered Monshies, a Black Cross member, the Black Cross held a funeral. Bored and wanting something to do, Cat and Charlie snuck into the funeral by swapping pieces of clothing. The pair's attempts to blend in were undermined by uncontrollable fits of laughter, which aggrivated Black Cross members and other guests. As Black Cross security began to remove them, two men dressed in tattered clothes ordered them to sit on a nearby bench beside them. Sitting on the bench as directed, Charlie and Cat realized the men who had taken claim over them were members of the Cult of Papa. The Cult members layed out various blades onto the ground, and urged Charlie to use the knives on one of them. Charlie held a small kitchen knife for a moment, but the voice in his head screamed "NO", and Charlie tossed the knife in the dirt. After that, the cultists began to slash and hack away at eachother, but were shot dead by Black Cross members. The members became histeric, and pointed the guns at Charlie and Cat, as the two had unknowingly become a part of a cult ritual. They were stripped of their belongings, but were allowed to leave with their lives.
Regicide Over time, Charlie and Iris developed a bond of their own, though it began largely through Cat’s close relationship with her. This connection resulted in Charlie playing a key role in the "Regicide" broadcast. The group was notorious for infighting and betrayal, with power struggles often ending in premeditated death. Iris alongside her trusted inner circle, approached Charlie to ask for his thoughts on their current leader, Draven Sanguine. As was typical for Charlie, he spoke honestly, expressing how Draven would rarley leave Gorka and seemed to have grown soft. While Charlie beleived this to be true, he also admited that he thought Iris would be a better leader. Which was a statment that reflected both his honest opinion and his desire to make Cat happy. Iris explained the plan of betrayal, and the role Charlie was to play in the execution. His task was to subdue Draven with a taser and restrain him. Despite Draven resisting multiple taser cartridges, Charlie was able to bring Draven to the ground, and the broadcast and execution moved forward.