IC contact
Mar. 25th, 2020 12:41 pm
"It's Charlie. Leave one."
[ooc: IC contact for charlie. also good for action spam, text messages and phone calls. doesn't count towards AC.]
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Oct. 13th, 2018 06:52 pmCharlie had to sit on the urge to laugh at Newts text. Gojira. Upsetting Hermann. It must be a Tuesday. With a brief moment of hesitation, she replies back.
He's probably standing near one of Gojira's toy Catnip Kaiju. Look for it and toss it into another part of the room. I'm grocery shopping.
And that meant she was probably going to make something awesome for dinner. Either that, or she just needed time away from the labs. The only person that really knew how stressful she found it was Newt. Hermann just didn't get it, and that frustrated Charlie, too.
So she was okay with Gojira harassing the man on occasion.
Can you think of anything we need at home?
He's probably standing near one of Gojira's toy Catnip Kaiju. Look for it and toss it into another part of the room. I'm grocery shopping.
And that meant she was probably going to make something awesome for dinner. Either that, or she just needed time away from the labs. The only person that really knew how stressful she found it was Newt. Hermann just didn't get it, and that frustrated Charlie, too.
So she was okay with Gojira harassing the man on occasion.
Can you think of anything we need at home?
thisavrou app:
Jan. 24th, 2018 01:05 pmOUT OF CHARACTER
Player Name: Mouse
Are you 16 or older: Yes
Contact:plurk @ jellybabyoftheneutronflow and discord @ snarkasm#3690.
Current Characters: nope
Tag: firestarter: charlie mcgee
IN CHARACTER
Name: Charlene Roberta McGee.
Canon: Firestarter
Canon Point: Five years post escaping the Shop, plus four months of CRAU in![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
medietas
Age: Seventeen
History: Warning: Stephen King's usual Horrible to Children shenanigans here.
CRAU: It's during a trip via bus to Canada that Charlie finds herself yanked to Medietas. The sudden journey was jarring, but not as much as running into her dad, who is supposed to be dead. She gets a month with him, however, before he disappears from her life. It's during that month and the weeks after that she finds herself befriending others in her situation, most importantly one Jack Kelly, even going so far as to fall for him. And it's this relationship that helps her step out of her comfort zone. During her time in Medietas, she's experienced ghosts tearing up her house, a stay in a castle suspiciously void of the owners, and building a small family out of other residents. Now, this was only a four month stay at a stretch, so other than getting a job working in Granny's diner and establishing something resembling a normal life, there's really not much to say.
Even so, this time has helped her grow out of a bit of her trust issues and quite recently, she's gotten a job at the Blacksmithy, learning the trade and learning how to apply two of her abilities to the job.
Personality: For starters, one must understand this about Charlie above all else: Before her time in Medietas, she'd never had anyone show her any manner of kindness and honesty except for four people. Her mother, who was murdered, her father, who was also murdered, and the Manders whose only mistake in life was to take in a small child who had just lost her parents and who had a power no one understood. So she has a deep understanding of loss and an understanding that sometimes people are the monsters. She has trust issues and won't easily accept people being nice to her, because it's usually the nicest people who want the worst for her. Like the men that came to her school and said they were friends of her fathers, and Hollister with all of those bribes and saccharine kindness.
Eventually, she gets there, but not without a lot of internal struggle and questioning everything the other person does. She has an easier time trusting people her age, because she hasn't met someone her age who was out to get her.
She can be a very loving and loyal girl, though, once she figures out a person is worth trusting. She can be outgoing, silly, kind of sassy and sarcastic, but genuinely caring and loving and hoping for the best out of the people she attaches herself to. Her time in Medietas has taught her, if only a little bit, that her powers aren't something to be afraid of. That the Very Bad Thing isn't actually a bad thing at all, and is as much a part of her as her eyes or her hands.
That's not to say she won't be wary of the sudden setting change, especially without Jack there. Her stable life will be upturned and she'll struggle to find her footing, not really fond of the idea that her normal life is gone and she'll have to start over.
But her inquisitive nature will kick in, and she'll want to learn about her new surroundings and the people in it. Having been around some of these people before, she'll find some of the faces vaguely familiar, but not enough so that she'll remember her time here. It'll be enough where if someone did use her name, she wouldn't immediately react in fear and horror, thus saving people from getting burned. But she'll never fully regain her previous memories and this'll push her to reach out to people a lot more than she's used to, in hopes of understanding as much as she can about the world she finds herself now.
Abilities/Skills: Pyrokinesis, telepathy, telekinesis, mental domination, precognition.
Some of these are limited to how close she is to a person, like the telepathy and the precognition. If someone she's close to thinks about something, she'll pick up a vague idea of it. Example: Her father thinking they should hide in her grandfathers cabin on Lake Tashmore, and Charlie going "What about Granthers Cabin?" Now, this was when she was younger and her powers were still growing, so by this point, I don't see how she can't pick up a thought more clearly and understand to a degree that it wasn't her own.
Same with precognition. If someone she cares about is in danger, she'll get what basically equates to a vision or (to steal a term from Stranger Things Season 2) a now-memory. She sees what's happening, knows the details of it, but it's something from outside of her self. Example: Andy and Charlie sitting at lunch at the Manders house, Charlie going to reprimand her father that he told the Manders about her abilities and the trouble she's in, only to be interrupted by the now-memory of the Shop driving up the long driveway. She even knew they meant to kill her father
The mental domination is subtle, even now. She's not fully aware she can do it, just that sometimes she can scare people into going away. She doesn't have her fathers Push. Her mental domination ability is more about intimidation. Putting a sense of Unease in someone that makes them flee on their own.
Example: Charlie being taken to the stables by a Shop agent to await her father, turning to tell the agent to go away and even though he was tasked with watching her and making sure she doesn't make a run for it, he leaves because something suddenly pings as very Wrong to him.
The telekinesis and pyrokinesis go hand in hand and are her strongest abilities. At a young age, she was able to rip a helicopter from the sky with just a thought, stopping the propellers and sending it crashing to the ground. She threw Rainbird against a wall before setting him on fire, keeping him pinned in place while he burned.
Her abilities don't tire her out like they used to, and they certainly don't cause her harm like they did her father. But she's also not going to run around being an All Powerful Dipshit because she knows there's a time and place for when and how to use her abilities.
Strengths/Weaknesses: Avid reader. Despite missing several years in her education, she is in fact quite smart and loves to read. She is also quick at learning and loves being around food. She's also very organized and keeps messes to a minimum. She doesn't like to leave evidence that she was ever anywhere.
Weaknesses: She gets ill around the smell of cooked meat, it's a PTSD thing. She relates it to the smell of burning bodies.
She'd be good in a library or a kitchen, but won't be too picky about where she's sent.
Items: The pajamas on her black and a seven month old dark grey cat named Bubble Oh Seven. She will also have her messenger bag with pictures of herself and Jack in it and her latest journal to her father.
SAMPLES
Network Sample:
[ So the person on the video feed? She may look familiar to some of you all and if she does? That's great. Except there's a problem. She doesn't look like this place is one-hundred percent familiar. At best? She looks like she's experiencing a strange case of deja vu. Which is what's prompting this post, anyway. ]
Hey...uh...name's Charlie. Hi. So, I have a question about this place. And it's probably a weird one, but just...bear with me, here. I went from one weird situation to another, so maybe there's something there that I'm not seeing yet. But, something about this place is familiar. The faces, mostly. Feel like I've seen some of you before, but I don't recognize any of you from the islands I was just on. So, it can't be there. And I'm sure none of you are from home, otherwise this wouldn't be a problem.
[ Except maybe it would be. What does she know? She kinda shrugs, though. It's not terribly important to get to the bottom of this mystery, but it'd certainly help her settle in some. The round,
grey kitten makes an appearance, sniffing at Charlie's face a bit intrusively and Charlie leans back,
frowning. ] Bubble, can you not?
[ It's ignored in favor of more sniffing before Charlie just picks the cat up and sets her on the floor with a huff. ] I love you, Bubble, but you're rude.
[ And back to the device. ]
I think my cat's hungry, so I'm going to find food for her. So to make this short, if you do recognize me, help me out. This deja vu shit is for the birds.
[ /endfeed. ]
Prose/Action Sample: One TDM thread with a few replies.
Another one. That one got no replies, but it's still a writing sample, right?
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Player Name: Mouse
Are you 16 or older: Yes
Contact:plurk @ jellybabyoftheneutronflow and discord @ snarkasm#3690.
Current Characters: nope
Tag: firestarter: charlie mcgee
IN CHARACTER
Name: Charlene Roberta McGee.
Canon: Firestarter
Canon Point: Five years post escaping the Shop, plus four months of CRAU in
medietasAge: Seventeen
History: Warning: Stephen King's usual Horrible to Children shenanigans here.
CRAU: It's during a trip via bus to Canada that Charlie finds herself yanked to Medietas. The sudden journey was jarring, but not as much as running into her dad, who is supposed to be dead. She gets a month with him, however, before he disappears from her life. It's during that month and the weeks after that she finds herself befriending others in her situation, most importantly one Jack Kelly, even going so far as to fall for him. And it's this relationship that helps her step out of her comfort zone. During her time in Medietas, she's experienced ghosts tearing up her house, a stay in a castle suspiciously void of the owners, and building a small family out of other residents. Now, this was only a four month stay at a stretch, so other than getting a job working in Granny's diner and establishing something resembling a normal life, there's really not much to say.
Even so, this time has helped her grow out of a bit of her trust issues and quite recently, she's gotten a job at the Blacksmithy, learning the trade and learning how to apply two of her abilities to the job.
Personality: For starters, one must understand this about Charlie above all else: Before her time in Medietas, she'd never had anyone show her any manner of kindness and honesty except for four people. Her mother, who was murdered, her father, who was also murdered, and the Manders whose only mistake in life was to take in a small child who had just lost her parents and who had a power no one understood. So she has a deep understanding of loss and an understanding that sometimes people are the monsters. She has trust issues and won't easily accept people being nice to her, because it's usually the nicest people who want the worst for her. Like the men that came to her school and said they were friends of her fathers, and Hollister with all of those bribes and saccharine kindness.
Eventually, she gets there, but not without a lot of internal struggle and questioning everything the other person does. She has an easier time trusting people her age, because she hasn't met someone her age who was out to get her.
She can be a very loving and loyal girl, though, once she figures out a person is worth trusting. She can be outgoing, silly, kind of sassy and sarcastic, but genuinely caring and loving and hoping for the best out of the people she attaches herself to. Her time in Medietas has taught her, if only a little bit, that her powers aren't something to be afraid of. That the Very Bad Thing isn't actually a bad thing at all, and is as much a part of her as her eyes or her hands.
That's not to say she won't be wary of the sudden setting change, especially without Jack there. Her stable life will be upturned and she'll struggle to find her footing, not really fond of the idea that her normal life is gone and she'll have to start over.
But her inquisitive nature will kick in, and she'll want to learn about her new surroundings and the people in it. Having been around some of these people before, she'll find some of the faces vaguely familiar, but not enough so that she'll remember her time here. It'll be enough where if someone did use her name, she wouldn't immediately react in fear and horror, thus saving people from getting burned. But she'll never fully regain her previous memories and this'll push her to reach out to people a lot more than she's used to, in hopes of understanding as much as she can about the world she finds herself now.
Abilities/Skills: Pyrokinesis, telepathy, telekinesis, mental domination, precognition.
Some of these are limited to how close she is to a person, like the telepathy and the precognition. If someone she's close to thinks about something, she'll pick up a vague idea of it. Example: Her father thinking they should hide in her grandfathers cabin on Lake Tashmore, and Charlie going "What about Granthers Cabin?" Now, this was when she was younger and her powers were still growing, so by this point, I don't see how she can't pick up a thought more clearly and understand to a degree that it wasn't her own.
Same with precognition. If someone she cares about is in danger, she'll get what basically equates to a vision or (to steal a term from Stranger Things Season 2) a now-memory. She sees what's happening, knows the details of it, but it's something from outside of her self. Example: Andy and Charlie sitting at lunch at the Manders house, Charlie going to reprimand her father that he told the Manders about her abilities and the trouble she's in, only to be interrupted by the now-memory of the Shop driving up the long driveway. She even knew they meant to kill her father
The mental domination is subtle, even now. She's not fully aware she can do it, just that sometimes she can scare people into going away. She doesn't have her fathers Push. Her mental domination ability is more about intimidation. Putting a sense of Unease in someone that makes them flee on their own.
Example: Charlie being taken to the stables by a Shop agent to await her father, turning to tell the agent to go away and even though he was tasked with watching her and making sure she doesn't make a run for it, he leaves because something suddenly pings as very Wrong to him.
The telekinesis and pyrokinesis go hand in hand and are her strongest abilities. At a young age, she was able to rip a helicopter from the sky with just a thought, stopping the propellers and sending it crashing to the ground. She threw Rainbird against a wall before setting him on fire, keeping him pinned in place while he burned.
Her abilities don't tire her out like they used to, and they certainly don't cause her harm like they did her father. But she's also not going to run around being an All Powerful Dipshit because she knows there's a time and place for when and how to use her abilities.
Strengths/Weaknesses: Avid reader. Despite missing several years in her education, she is in fact quite smart and loves to read. She is also quick at learning and loves being around food. She's also very organized and keeps messes to a minimum. She doesn't like to leave evidence that she was ever anywhere.
Weaknesses: She gets ill around the smell of cooked meat, it's a PTSD thing. She relates it to the smell of burning bodies.
She'd be good in a library or a kitchen, but won't be too picky about where she's sent.
Items: The pajamas on her black and a seven month old dark grey cat named Bubble Oh Seven. She will also have her messenger bag with pictures of herself and Jack in it and her latest journal to her father.
SAMPLES
Network Sample:
[ So the person on the video feed? She may look familiar to some of you all and if she does? That's great. Except there's a problem. She doesn't look like this place is one-hundred percent familiar. At best? She looks like she's experiencing a strange case of deja vu. Which is what's prompting this post, anyway. ]
Hey...uh...name's Charlie. Hi. So, I have a question about this place. And it's probably a weird one, but just...bear with me, here. I went from one weird situation to another, so maybe there's something there that I'm not seeing yet. But, something about this place is familiar. The faces, mostly. Feel like I've seen some of you before, but I don't recognize any of you from the islands I was just on. So, it can't be there. And I'm sure none of you are from home, otherwise this wouldn't be a problem.
[ Except maybe it would be. What does she know? She kinda shrugs, though. It's not terribly important to get to the bottom of this mystery, but it'd certainly help her settle in some. The round,
grey kitten makes an appearance, sniffing at Charlie's face a bit intrusively and Charlie leans back,
frowning. ] Bubble, can you not?
[ It's ignored in favor of more sniffing before Charlie just picks the cat up and sets her on the floor with a huff. ] I love you, Bubble, but you're rude.
[ And back to the device. ]
I think my cat's hungry, so I'm going to find food for her. So to make this short, if you do recognize me, help me out. This deja vu shit is for the birds.
[ /endfeed. ]
Prose/Action Sample: One TDM thread with a few replies.
Another one. That one got no replies, but it's still a writing sample, right?
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god_of_hellfire
Jan. 16th, 2018 08:09 pmCharlie'd rather ignore being sick, but she can only do that for so long. Her cold hit her early Monday morning. Like, four AM early. A metaphorical punch to her sinuses that kept her up all night sneezing and coughing. By morning, it felt like it had worked itself out of her system, so she tried classes. Socialization. Being around the scant handful of people she liked being around. But she wasn't her usual sarcastic self. She was quiet, reserved, not at all in the mood.
By Tuesday, she'd given up on socialization after class and just went right to her room, the excuse being she had homework and since Charlie was the type to actuallyhappily get her homework done? No one questioned it.
But on Wednesday, she just didn't have it in her to actually leave her room. So the first thing she did, since Wednesday was the day where most of her classes were with John, was to text him and let him know she wouldn't be heading to class and had the Okay from Jean to stay in her room and she'd see him later when she was sure she was done dying from Dorm Plague.
Now, knowing John as well as she did? She expected him to show up sooner or later, so she was quick to take a shower and get dressed before putting on watch_dogs 2 to play as she waited.
And it's a funny story about the PS4 and how she got it involving one of the adults asking what would make her stay more comfortable and her jokingly saying a PlayStation 4, but that's not what matters. What matters is she's busy doing side missions as Marcus Holloway, not really able to focus on the main story, and when she hears the familiar knock of John? She kind of sighs and smiles, calling out and telekinetically unlocking her door as she did so.
"If you catch this shit, I'm not hanging out with you while you recover." This is a lie with a capital L and both of them know it.
Now, if you don't mind? She's gonna have Marcus walk through the games setting, stealing money from unsuspecting NPCs as she sits cross legged on her bed, in her usual t-shirt and jeans combo, her hair a tangled braid down her back.
By Tuesday, she'd given up on socialization after class and just went right to her room, the excuse being she had homework and since Charlie was the type to actually
But on Wednesday, she just didn't have it in her to actually leave her room. So the first thing she did, since Wednesday was the day where most of her classes were with John, was to text him and let him know she wouldn't be heading to class and had the Okay from Jean to stay in her room and she'd see him later when she was sure she was done dying from Dorm Plague.
Now, knowing John as well as she did? She expected him to show up sooner or later, so she was quick to take a shower and get dressed before putting on watch_dogs 2 to play as she waited.
And it's a funny story about the PS4 and how she got it involving one of the adults asking what would make her stay more comfortable and her jokingly saying a PlayStation 4, but that's not what matters. What matters is she's busy doing side missions as Marcus Holloway, not really able to focus on the main story, and when she hears the familiar knock of John? She kind of sighs and smiles, calling out and telekinetically unlocking her door as she did so.
"If you catch this shit, I'm not hanging out with you while you recover." This is a lie with a capital L and both of them know it.
Now, if you don't mind? She's gonna have Marcus walk through the games setting, stealing money from unsuspecting NPCs as she sits cross legged on her bed, in her usual t-shirt and jeans combo, her hair a tangled braid down her back.
An Open RP/PSL POST:
Nov. 5th, 2017 03:20 pmIt's just what it says on the tin, folks. This is for all your PSL needs. Want to continue a PSL? Throw up an idea for a thread.
Want to start one? Throw up an idea for a PSL.
This also extends to the following muses:
Eugene Sims (inFamous: Second Son)he_who_dwells
Evie Queen (Descendants 1 and 2)blueberryprincess
Emily Kaldwin (Dishonored 2)kaldwinning
Julie Grigio (Warm Bodies/Burning World)grigio
Lara Croft (Tomb Raider/Rise of the Tomb Raider)belay
Feel free to use pictures for prompt ideas, too!
Want to start one? Throw up an idea for a PSL.
This also extends to the following muses:
Eugene Sims (inFamous: Second Son)
he_who_dwellsEvie Queen (Descendants 1 and 2)
blueberryprincessEmily Kaldwin (Dishonored 2)
kaldwinningJulie Grigio (Warm Bodies/Burning World)
grigioLara Croft (Tomb Raider/Rise of the Tomb Raider)
belayFeel free to use pictures for prompt ideas, too!
1969 - While filling out paperwork and waivers for the Lot Six experiment, an experiment run by The Shop by the head of the psych department of Harrison University in New York, Andy McGee meets one Victoria Tomlinson, a woman going through the experiment to spite her somewhat controlling boyfriend. It's during the actual experiment of the hypnotic and hallucinogenic drug that Vicky and Andy fall in love.
1972 - Andy and Vicki are married and have a daughter named Charlie who is starting to exhibit signs of dangerous psychokinetic abilities. The Shop have been keeping tabs on the family and find this very interesting. (Charlie's Age: 1)
1981 - During a lunch with colleagues, Andy has a premonition that something is Wrong and he hurries home. Vicki McGee is tortured and killed for information regarding Charlie's whereabouts, Andy grabs Charlie from school with the excuse that her grandmother is very ill and the remaining McGees start their life on the run.
(charlie's age: 7 years old, a few months shy of 8)
1982 - McGee family makes it to the Manders farm where there is a standoff between them and the Shop. The Manders give them a jeep and they make it to Granthers Cabin where they stay for almost a year in relative peace and quiet. (Charlie's age: 9)
1983 - The Shop catch up with the duo, captured by one John Rainbird. This starts a six and a half month stint in The Shop's compound where father and daughter are kept apart. Rainbird, during an intense power outage, gains Charlie's trust and a week later tells her he'll get messages to her father for her. Andy, sensing something is wrong during the power outages, Pushes himself out of his drug addiction and makes a plan to get him and Charlie to escape. It goes horribly. he dies after being shot by Rainbird and charlie destroys the area out of anger, killing everyone responsible. She spends months on the road, finally making it to the Manders farm in time, slowly dying of Blood poisoning. (Charlie's Age: 10)
1984 - Charlie, healthy and sensing the Shop is closing in again, leaves the Manders farm behind and makes it to New York where she gives her story to a reporter at Rolling Stone. The reporter dies mysteriously before the story can be published. Charlie is on the run again. (Charlie is shy of 11)
1984 - 1990 and on: Charlie moves from town to town, stealing what she can and picking up odd jobs here and there. Minor things like helping reshelve library books or doing dishes and bussing tables at shady restaurants. She's never in the same place for very long, always one step ahead of the Shop, but just barely.
1972 - Andy and Vicki are married and have a daughter named Charlie who is starting to exhibit signs of dangerous psychokinetic abilities. The Shop have been keeping tabs on the family and find this very interesting. (Charlie's Age: 1)
1981 - During a lunch with colleagues, Andy has a premonition that something is Wrong and he hurries home. Vicki McGee is tortured and killed for information regarding Charlie's whereabouts, Andy grabs Charlie from school with the excuse that her grandmother is very ill and the remaining McGees start their life on the run.
(charlie's age: 7 years old, a few months shy of 8)
1982 - McGee family makes it to the Manders farm where there is a standoff between them and the Shop. The Manders give them a jeep and they make it to Granthers Cabin where they stay for almost a year in relative peace and quiet. (Charlie's age: 9)
1983 - The Shop catch up with the duo, captured by one John Rainbird. This starts a six and a half month stint in The Shop's compound where father and daughter are kept apart. Rainbird, during an intense power outage, gains Charlie's trust and a week later tells her he'll get messages to her father for her. Andy, sensing something is wrong during the power outages, Pushes himself out of his drug addiction and makes a plan to get him and Charlie to escape. It goes horribly. he dies after being shot by Rainbird and charlie destroys the area out of anger, killing everyone responsible. She spends months on the road, finally making it to the Manders farm in time, slowly dying of Blood poisoning. (Charlie's Age: 10)
1984 - Charlie, healthy and sensing the Shop is closing in again, leaves the Manders farm behind and makes it to New York where she gives her story to a reporter at Rolling Stone. The reporter dies mysteriously before the story can be published. Charlie is on the run again. (Charlie is shy of 11)
1984 - 1990 and on: Charlie moves from town to town, stealing what she can and picking up odd jobs here and there. Minor things like helping reshelve library books or doing dishes and bussing tables at shady restaurants. She's never in the same place for very long, always one step ahead of the Shop, but just barely.
Player Information
Name: Mouse
Age: 37
Contact: jellybabyoftheneutronflow@plurk
Characters already in Medietas: Julie Grigio
Reserve Link: Right here.
Character Basics
Character name: Charlene Roberta McGee
Character Journal:
Canon: Stephen King's Firestarter
Canon Point: Five years after running away from the Manders Farm
Age: Seventeen
Icon: http://v.dreamwidth.org/7633386/1977296
Canon Character Information
Appearance: 5'4", blond hair blue eyes, kinda skinny in an underfed way, but clearly scrappy. Her hands have scars from badly placed IVs, there's a three inch long, jagged scar on the back of her left arm that was clearly deep enough for stitches. No tattoo's, no piercings.
History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestarter_%28novel%29 (Warning: It's sad)
Personality: At this point in her life, Charlie doesn't trust anyone easily. She's been duped and lied to so many times that she can't. It's almost impossible for her to. She'll be friendly and nice to people, but don't take it for naivety. She's far from naive. She's wise beyond her years, due in no small part to how her life went for the first twelve years of it. She doesn't allow herself to get close to people, afraid that it will end badly for her or even worse for them and has a habit of pushing people away if she feels they're getting too close.
She's dishonest, too. She won't tell anyone her real name. She'll stick to a nickname or a false name. And only just that. If she does use her real name, it's either a miracle or a mistake.
When and if she does find someone she can trust, she bonds immediately and it's a strong bond. Her stubbornness won't let anything get between her and whoever it is she trusts. Charlie's loyal to the people she cares about and will fight to keep them with her.
She's learned from trusting Rainbird, however, that trusting people is just a mistake in general. So she's jaded. She tries to keep herself neutral to everything and keeps her emotions in check as best as possible. This is an old habit from childhood since her abilities were so strongly tied to them and made controlling her pyrokinesis quite tricky.
Even with all that, though, Charlie is saddled with a big heart. As closed off as she is, she can't help but care for people in need and want to do something to help them. She firmly believes at the core of her very being that life is short and pain is hard and we were all put on this planet to help each other. She wants more than anything to see good in a person, but will find it difficult to believe it's honest good and not out of a need to gain something.
She's a contradiction in terms of what she wants from people. On the one hand, she wants people to leave her alone. She thinks she'll only cause them trouble, which is very true. With The Shop still looking for her, Charlie's a magnet for hideous situations.
On the other hand, she craves normalcy. She wants to have friends and people who'll know her as Charlie and not whatever her name is that week. She wants people to accept what she can do because maybe that way, she'll be able to do the same.
You also have to remember that she is still a caring person, as shown with her relationship with the Manders. She's especially loving to the people that accept her for what she can do, what she's done, and who she is. Irv Manders in particular gave her the normal parent/child relationship she wanted. He treated her like his own child, and it broke Charlie to her very soul to run away on them. They were in danger, and this is where her fear of attachment comes in. She can't get close to people easily, not with the Shop an ever-present danger.
She's going to find life on the islands very uncomfortable at first, and won't trust the money or the house when she gets there. She'll worry about ulterior motives for a good long while until she establishes a friend or two and gets into a routine.
Powers/Abilities/Talents: Pyrokinesis, telekinesis, Danger Sense (limited to within minutes) and the ability to form an empathic/telepathic link with people if she really trusts them.
Avid reader. Despite missing several years in her education, she is in fact quite smart and loves to read. She is also quick at learning and loves being around food. She's also very organized and keeps messes to a minimum. She doesn't like to leave evidence that she was ever anywhere.
What 4 items would you like your character to have with them on the island during their stay? Semi-ratty backpack with a change of clothes, a journal and a pen
Samples - Can be linked
First Person:
Hey Dad,
It's Charlie. Life has gotten weirder and I really can't figure out a way out of this one. One minute, I was sleeping in an abandoned apartment building, next minute I'm on a boat. Heading to some island I've never heard of.
The people that run this place gave me money and a house, but the question is: why? What do they want? This isn't the Shop. I don't feel them anywhere and I have to say, that is a weird feeling. It's some kind of weird emptiness in my head. They've always been there and now? Now another paranoia fills that empty space.
I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how to leave, and I'm sorry I got myself in another bad fix again.
I love you, dad.
I miss you.
Charlie.
Third Person:tdm thread
Finally, out of the 4 words, pick one: Chimes.
[ Charlie's taking a break fro the food truck for now. People are fed. There are no customers to worry about. Wendy is sitting nearby, coloring in a coloring book and babbling at Malina and the baby is babbling back, grinning and giggling at her big sisters silliness.</small. ]
I have ten point five acres and was thinking of setting up a community garden in one of them. If you help with upkeep and maintenance, you get a portion of what's grown. Thoughts? Volunteers? Let's hear what you've got.
Text for rocky:
May. 18th, 2017 03:28 pm Did you see the news? YouTube star survives horrific bus crash into river? Yes, that's me. Yes, that fire did start the way you're afraid it did. And yes, I do in fact need your ass and the rest of you on the next plane to philly. I know you're recording right now as you said you'd be but get here.
Charlie was in Philly to tour the food scene, her first entry into her new YouTube Red channel, McEats Eats The World! But, as fate would have it, recording didn't even start. They'd been on a bus to Lancaster, the roads were muddy and the bridge they had to cross at one point was slippery. The driver in the car in front of them was drunk and swerving and at one point, they'd veered in front of Charlie's bus. Swerving to avoid a collision caused the bus driver to swerve out of control and go over the edge of the bridge. Landing upside down, the bus sank quickly and Charlie got pinned under the seat, drowning five minutes later. And two minutes after that, reviving in a violent flash of quickly extinguished fire. It was enough for her to work her way out of the seat and out of the bus and moments later, into an ambulance.
There were X-rays and tests and when she was finally left alone, she texted her boyfriend.
She gives it at least eight hours before he shows up and since no one can figure out how she survived without injury, they were keeping her overnight for observation. Lame.
Charlie was in Philly to tour the food scene, her first entry into her new YouTube Red channel, McEats Eats The World! But, as fate would have it, recording didn't even start. They'd been on a bus to Lancaster, the roads were muddy and the bridge they had to cross at one point was slippery. The driver in the car in front of them was drunk and swerving and at one point, they'd veered in front of Charlie's bus. Swerving to avoid a collision caused the bus driver to swerve out of control and go over the edge of the bridge. Landing upside down, the bus sank quickly and Charlie got pinned under the seat, drowning five minutes later. And two minutes after that, reviving in a violent flash of quickly extinguished fire. It was enough for her to work her way out of the seat and out of the bus and moments later, into an ambulance.
There were X-rays and tests and when she was finally left alone, she texted her boyfriend.
She gives it at least eight hours before he shows up and since no one can figure out how she survived without injury, they were keeping her overnight for observation. Lame.
China had been home for almost a year, if Charlie'd done her math right. It had been a blur getting here and their first apartment had been a shitfilled shithole with demon bugs from hell. But their new place? Their new place was spacious and...okay, yeah...it was just one huge room with a bathroom, but even the bathroom was big.
And it wasn't like they needed a ton of space. If Charlie were going to be honest with the people that kept putting them up in different places around China? They didn't need anything fancy. Just not the bug infested shithole.
So she was happy with their loft apartment. It was close to everything, but still far enough away where Andrew and Charlie had their privacy. And there was skylight access which made their two-AM heroics that much easier.
Especially tonight.
They'd spent weeks tracking a group of people that had become a nuisance in town, their passion for violence ruining what would otherwise be a very nice neighborhood, and their love of mugging the elderly something that just wasn't okay by Charlie's standards. Deep down she suspected this was why they were put here because after they stopped a group of kidnappers in their old neighborhood and reunited families with missing relatives, it was suddenly time to move. They'd made a name for themselves as benevolent demons, though the people they went after often called them Yaoguai and once she'd told Andrew what it meant (strange ghost, but essentially they were being called demons), they decided to roll with it and terrorize the group of muggers and thugs.
This started off simply enough. Isolate the smaller idiots, scare them off and work their way towards the bigger people who were in charge using their powers to make it seem like the world just went Fucking Nuts. Shaking doors, random bursts of fire, moving objects everywhere. The usual Stupid Teen With Powers shit, complete with disguises that only left their eyes showing.
When they got to the head idiot in charge? That hadn't been as easy. He had a gun, and Charlie disliked those. Passionately. They reminded her of dying. He seemed less cocky, however, when the gun was removed from his hand and more willing to comply with Andrew and Charlie's demands once Andrew made a show of crushing the gun in his hands (through amazing and clever use of TK.)
Turn yourself in.
Turn your friends in.
We will know if you do and we will come after you again if you don't.
So now, Charlie was flopped on their bed in their apartment, dressed in a tank top and pajama bottoms and freshly showered. It was about twenty minutes after returning home and she was picking at the container of flavored beef and noodles she'd retrieved from the fridge and decided to eat cold. Her eyes were on the skylight and she was kinda smirking.
"Any time I look at that skylight, I'm reminded of the skylight I had at home and the many times it was basically a door. I'm pretty sure my door got used twice. Grand total. For the entire time that I've known you."
And it wasn't like they needed a ton of space. If Charlie were going to be honest with the people that kept putting them up in different places around China? They didn't need anything fancy. Just not the bug infested shithole.
So she was happy with their loft apartment. It was close to everything, but still far enough away where Andrew and Charlie had their privacy. And there was skylight access which made their two-AM heroics that much easier.
Especially tonight.
They'd spent weeks tracking a group of people that had become a nuisance in town, their passion for violence ruining what would otherwise be a very nice neighborhood, and their love of mugging the elderly something that just wasn't okay by Charlie's standards. Deep down she suspected this was why they were put here because after they stopped a group of kidnappers in their old neighborhood and reunited families with missing relatives, it was suddenly time to move. They'd made a name for themselves as benevolent demons, though the people they went after often called them Yaoguai and once she'd told Andrew what it meant (strange ghost, but essentially they were being called demons), they decided to roll with it and terrorize the group of muggers and thugs.
This started off simply enough. Isolate the smaller idiots, scare them off and work their way towards the bigger people who were in charge using their powers to make it seem like the world just went Fucking Nuts. Shaking doors, random bursts of fire, moving objects everywhere. The usual Stupid Teen With Powers shit, complete with disguises that only left their eyes showing.
When they got to the head idiot in charge? That hadn't been as easy. He had a gun, and Charlie disliked those. Passionately. They reminded her of dying. He seemed less cocky, however, when the gun was removed from his hand and more willing to comply with Andrew and Charlie's demands once Andrew made a show of crushing the gun in his hands (through amazing and clever use of TK.)
Turn yourself in.
Turn your friends in.
We will know if you do and we will come after you again if you don't.
So now, Charlie was flopped on their bed in their apartment, dressed in a tank top and pajama bottoms and freshly showered. It was about twenty minutes after returning home and she was picking at the container of flavored beef and noodles she'd retrieved from the fridge and decided to eat cold. Her eyes were on the skylight and she was kinda smirking.
"Any time I look at that skylight, I'm reminded of the skylight I had at home and the many times it was basically a door. I'm pretty sure my door got used twice. Grand total. For the entire time that I've known you."
Hey, baby. Hey, baby. Hey!
Feb. 27th, 2017 07:24 pmCharlie and patience were not now nor had they ever been on speaking term. She was a quick thinking girl who had no time to wait for anything so watching Rocky play through this RPG she'd had custom made? It was killing her, especially since she was waiting for him to get to the end and discover why she'd had it made. She was pregnant and this was the best way she could think of to announce it.
The game had been made in a week by a friend of hers and it was called 'The Crazy Wonderful Beautiful Adventures of Bane and McEats' and she'd called her friend up the minute she received news from her doctor saying yes. She was pregnant. And she even had an ultrasound photo of not one but two little blips. Twins. They were having twins.
And she'd had that image incorporated into the ending, complete with a voice over recorded by her that told the story of why she'd had this game made ending with her saying "Congratulations, my favorite nerd. We're going to be parents." And the basics of this game had been them running around trying to find spare parts for a broken projector and an outdoor movie screen (which was a nod to how they spent movie nights) all while doing crazy quests for friends. Quests like make an Angry Phoenix dish or hunt down recipe pages in SlenderChefs restaurant from hell. It was one of the most random and insane things she'd ever seen and she loved it.
But that damn wait was killing her and a bored Phoenix is not a good thing. Thankfully, their characters had found the last piece for the camera and Rocky was two minutes from hearing that message and seeing that ultrasound photo.
This was gonna be a blast to edit later.
The game had been made in a week by a friend of hers and it was called 'The Crazy Wonderful Beautiful Adventures of Bane and McEats' and she'd called her friend up the minute she received news from her doctor saying yes. She was pregnant. And she even had an ultrasound photo of not one but two little blips. Twins. They were having twins.
And she'd had that image incorporated into the ending, complete with a voice over recorded by her that told the story of why she'd had this game made ending with her saying "Congratulations, my favorite nerd. We're going to be parents." And the basics of this game had been them running around trying to find spare parts for a broken projector and an outdoor movie screen (which was a nod to how they spent movie nights) all while doing crazy quests for friends. Quests like make an Angry Phoenix dish or hunt down recipe pages in SlenderChefs restaurant from hell. It was one of the most random and insane things she'd ever seen and she loved it.
But that damn wait was killing her and a bored Phoenix is not a good thing. Thankfully, their characters had found the last piece for the camera and Rocky was two minutes from hearing that message and seeing that ultrasound photo.
This was gonna be a blast to edit later.
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Dec. 1st, 2016 05:45 pmCharlie's decision to sell her part of From the Ashes wasn't one she took even remotely lightly. It wasn't a whim. It wasn't something she woke up one day and just decided to do. As impulsive as her kind were, she really thought this through. That restaurant was her baby, so letting it go was a hard decision. She wanted to be with Rocky, though, and when he asked her to move in with her, she sat her business partners down and went through her decision with them.
She was still listed as a founder and there was a picture of her on the wall. And she was allowed to take her recipes and start a food truck with them, a food truck aptly named Rise Again. It's a theme. She's rolling with it.
Now was her first morning in Nevada and she'd gotten up early to make breakfast for Rocky. She'd been given an Adventure Time cook book from Teiran because that had been their favorite show, and now there was a stack of bacon pancakes with honey butter and maple jelly waiting for Rocky. As was a Charlie in a McEats tank-top and short pajama shorts. She gave him at least twenty minutes after she got out of bed before he came wandering to find her.
She was still listed as a founder and there was a picture of her on the wall. And she was allowed to take her recipes and start a food truck with them, a food truck aptly named Rise Again. It's a theme. She's rolling with it.
Now was her first morning in Nevada and she'd gotten up early to make breakfast for Rocky. She'd been given an Adventure Time cook book from Teiran because that had been their favorite show, and now there was a stack of bacon pancakes with honey butter and maple jelly waiting for Rocky. As was a Charlie in a McEats tank-top and short pajama shorts. She gave him at least twenty minutes after she got out of bed before he came wandering to find her.
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Sep. 2nd, 2016 11:17 pmCharlie is asleep, curled up in a small ball with a customized PS4 controller in hand, the design on it cats eating pasta. But that's not really important. What matters is Charlie is curled up in a small ball when she wanted to be awake so she could greet her boyfriend when he arrived.
A lot happened in the past few weeks and while Charlie tends to be fairly easy going, she hits limits and hits them hard. it had been a succession of one thing after another, one of the things being a few coworkers having to quit due to school and other obligations. Which was fine, she got it. But filling those positions and training newbies was never fun for her.
And then customers being dicks and having nightmares about Nolan.
She'd hit a limit and decided to call Rocky and ask him to join her for a staycation. A much needed staycation.
And she really did plan to stay awake to await his arrival, putting in inFamous: Second Son to play until he got there, but it was while she was powering Delsin's Neon abilities up when it hit her how tired she was from everything. She only intended to close her eyes for a few minutes, but that turned into a couple hours and she didn't hear Rocky use the key she hid for him to let himself in.
A lot happened in the past few weeks and while Charlie tends to be fairly easy going, she hits limits and hits them hard. it had been a succession of one thing after another, one of the things being a few coworkers having to quit due to school and other obligations. Which was fine, she got it. But filling those positions and training newbies was never fun for her.
And then customers being dicks and having nightmares about Nolan.
She'd hit a limit and decided to call Rocky and ask him to join her for a staycation. A much needed staycation.
And she really did plan to stay awake to await his arrival, putting in inFamous: Second Son to play until he got there, but it was while she was powering Delsin's Neon abilities up when it hit her how tired she was from everything. She only intended to close her eyes for a few minutes, but that turned into a couple hours and she didn't hear Rocky use the key she hid for him to let himself in.
Charlie'd had enough of being on Go to last a lifetime. She really didn't want to be out of her house or out of washington with Nolan recovering, but she had prior commitments she was pushed to keep. By Nolan. Who probably really has hit a limit with how often she asks if he's okay or if he needs anything.
So to the stuffy restaurateur's convention she went. Or...welllll that was her intention. Instead, she went to Nevada to be with Rocky for what was supposed to be a few hours. It turned into a whole weekend with her werewolf boyfriend and honestly, it was what she needed to reset herself and relax. She'd been so on edge since the mugging that she had started to annoy herself.
Now she was home with Nolan, picking at take-out from the Thai place four blocks down and watching Men in Black 2.
She'd been quiet for most of it, but the second Johnny Knoxville's character showed up, she points at the TV and looks at Nolan.
"Did I ever tell you he's a Phoenix?" She's going to wait for him to respond, smirking some.
So to the stuffy restaurateur's convention she went. Or...welllll that was her intention. Instead, she went to Nevada to be with Rocky for what was supposed to be a few hours. It turned into a whole weekend with her werewolf boyfriend and honestly, it was what she needed to reset herself and relax. She'd been so on edge since the mugging that she had started to annoy herself.
Now she was home with Nolan, picking at take-out from the Thai place four blocks down and watching Men in Black 2.
She'd been quiet for most of it, but the second Johnny Knoxville's character showed up, she points at the TV and looks at Nolan.
"Did I ever tell you he's a Phoenix?" She's going to wait for him to respond, smirking some.
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Jul. 28th, 2016 03:28 pmCharlie's not the biggest fan of the restauranteur convention, mostly because it's all old people in stuffy clothing with stuffier attitudes. She attended her first one at nineteen and basically got laughed at. Somehow, she got suckered into going and while she did in fact at least want to visit New Mexico, there was something she wanted to do more.
Nevada had, surprisingly, not been on her route but a few GPS tweaks later and she was at least en route. It was at a rest stop, diner burger in a to go package on her knees as she sat in her car, where she pulled out her cellphone to text Rock.
Hey, sexy. I need your address. I'm sending you something I think you'll enjoy and no, you're not allowed to ask what. Just enjoy the surprise.
Nevada had, surprisingly, not been on her route but a few GPS tweaks later and she was at least en route. It was at a rest stop, diner burger in a to go package on her knees as she sat in her car, where she pulled out her cellphone to text Rock.
Hey, sexy. I need your address. I'm sending you something I think you'll enjoy and no, you're not allowed to ask what. Just enjoy the surprise.
several texts for nolan, one for rocky
Jul. 25th, 2016 06:03 pm[For Nolan]
APPARENTLY YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER HAVE COME BACK TO TOWN BECAUSE THEY WANT TO HELP OUT
DO THEY NOT BELIEVE I GOT THIS
DID YOU TELL THEM TO COME BACK
THEY CAN'T SLEEP AT THE APARTMENT AGAIN YOUR MOTHER KEEPS REARRANGING MY KITCHEN
MY
KITCHEN
but anyway, if you knew and you forgot to tell me, i'll blame the codeine and not kill you this time
[and for Rocky]
poll: i want to donate my hair to wigs for kids. great idea or no? it'd just be chin length once they're done
APPARENTLY YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER HAVE COME BACK TO TOWN BECAUSE THEY WANT TO HELP OUT
DO THEY NOT BELIEVE I GOT THIS
DID YOU TELL THEM TO COME BACK
THEY CAN'T SLEEP AT THE APARTMENT AGAIN YOUR MOTHER KEEPS REARRANGING MY KITCHEN
MY
KITCHEN
but anyway, if you knew and you forgot to tell me, i'll blame the codeine and not kill you this time
[and for Rocky]
poll: i want to donate my hair to wigs for kids. great idea or no? it'd just be chin length once they're done
McEats - DITL Video
Jul. 20th, 2016 08:38 pm[ It starts out with basically the same McEats Intro. Some awesome music, a cartoon drawing of her holding a spatula with a big grin on her face and her usual PSA wherein this isn't for kids because she swears a lot. And then, Charlie's outside and it's obvious she's holding the camera herself. It's windy in Seattle so her hair is tied back and she has a hoodie on with a Pokemon logo on the right. ]
Hey, guys. Sorry for being absent. Like Bane said, I had some real-life stuff to handle and that had to take priority for awhile. But I'm back and I'm here to answer a question a lot of you asked lately.
'What's a day in the life like for McEats?'
I don't know how exciting this video is going to be, but here goes. It's...
[ And she checks her watch, nose wrinkling. ]
Well, my day starts early as fuck. It's 6 AM and I have to head to the docks to talk to my fish guy.
[ She inhales softly, sniffing the air for a moment before looking so happy! ]
But first, an important stop. You really can't start the day without a good breakfast.
[ Cut to: Charlie standing in line at a food truck that advertises freshly made mini cider donuts and hot coffee. She's talking to the people who run it, all friendly and familiar. ]
Is it okay if I film how the donuts are made? [ Something is said and she perks up. ]
It is? Awesome! Thank you so much.
[ And another cut to donuts being made by an old fashioned machine. Batter is dropped in perfect circles about an inch in diameter into heated oil and the donuts float along as they fry the machine flipping them perfectly so they cook right on the other side and someone scoops them out, putting them on paper to drain. Charlie orders a dozen and a coffee, asking for cinnamon sugar toppings. They're stuffed into a bag and handed over and Charlie continues on, stuffing a donut in her mouth. ]
Alway--[ Hang on. She had a mouth full of food. It's washed away with a sip of coffee and she clears her throat, addressing the camera. ]
Always ask before filming, because some people just aren't for it and that's more than okay.
[ And another cut, this time to Charlie at the docks, leaving with a long receipt in one hand. ]
Like I said, some people aren't for it. My guy at the docks is very camera shy, so I had to put the camera away. That's fine. I can respect that.
Now, to work to drop off the delivery list.
Again, this is gonna be very boring.
[ This time it's not so much a cut as it's someone sped up the boring parts of Charlie making a few more stops to order vegetables and fruits and other large quantities of ingredients, finally arriving at From the Ashes. ]
Okay! It's actually now about...ten in the morning and a lot of my orders have been placed for work. We buy local and support small business farmers and butcher shops and deal only with the freshest ingredients. It's something we all agreed on before we even opened the place. You wanna see where I work?
[ This is probably where Nolan got a hold of things and did some editing because Charlie's entrance into the back door of her restaurant is in slow motion and to Lenny Kravitz' cover of American Woman, but then there's a record scratch as Charlie almost walks into someone and apologizes profusely. ]
Oh, god. Are you okay? You good? Hey! How's it going? Good to see you.
[ And to the camera, she looks properly embarrassed as she ducks off screen. It's another cut, this time to the prep area. ]
This is where I do a lot of help with prep work. Chopping, filleting, portioning. All the boring shit that goes into making great food.
[ She clearly does not think this is boring. Not with the big dumb grin on her face. ]
All of my orders from earlier are starting to roll in, and what usually happens is I pick a few things out to make a special for the day, whip it up and show everyone how to do it. Thankfully, I had a coworker do it yesterday and there are ribs cooking in the oven for a braised rib taco dish for today. So I don't have to worry.
Sorry. Next time.
[ There's a few more spots filled in with Charlie actually doing some cooking, and even doing some prep work for an Angry Phoenix challenge. This involves making a pasta infused with Ghost Pepper oil, a thick sauce made from several crazy-hot peppers, tomatoes, garlic, onions. It's basically madness with some extra large crawfish and prawns and clams thrown in and the pasta is hand rolled. Instead of showing who has the challenge coming their way, she shows people the Wall of Shame, wherein there are 78 people. The Wall of Fame is deceptively empty and there may or may not be Halloween cobwebs strung across it. ]
Maybe someday there'll be a picture up. I doubt it. I'm not exactly nice when it comes to that food challenge. Which, someone’s going to learn real soon, aren’t you, Bane?
[ With that, Charlie turns the camera to one Bane, a grin on his face. ]
Darn tootin’! [He adds a thumbs up for emphasis to add to his cheesy smile and deliberately stilted speech.] Because nothing says fun like dining on fine Italian cuisine made with top quality seafood and the concentrated essence of a thousand demon buttholes to burn the flesh from my skin! And mouth. And esophagus...and my butthole. I’m basically gonna burn alive, is what I’m trying to say.
[ There’s nothing but laughter from Charlie and then she turns the camera to herself for a moment. ]
If he finishes, he said he’s gonna donate the five hundred dollar cash prize to charity.
[ And there’s more, but Charlie won’t say, turning the camera back to Bane. ]
[Rocky nodded, still overly cheerful….and still giving the camera a thumbs up.]
I’ll leave it to them in my will! Because I’m gonna be a pile of garlic scented ashes. [He then abruptly drapes an arm around Charlie’s shoulders, deliberately hanging on her as he continues to address the camera.]
I’m gonna die is what I’m saying. From demon butthole pasta. And fire. [He pauses, looking down at Charlie with a dubious expression.] I just wanna know, are you a confirmed sadist? Or is it just a hobby? [He’s fighting the giggles now, and leaning on her more for support than to be obnoxious and derpy.]
[ Charlie looks up at him, smirking and trying to not giggle, too. He’s cute. She can easily admit to that. ]
This is the part where you want me to offer words of comfort and reassure you that everything’ll be fine, isn’t it?
[ Silence. And then Charlie’s laughing. ]
That’s funny.
[Rocky’s just giggling endlessly now, resting his forehead on her shoulder as he tries to quell his laughter, but without success. He can’t help it, it’s been a crazy few days, he’s insane, and she’s his brand of crazy. He’s kind of not ready to ever go home, and thinks he may have found his new best friend, and bonus: she’s a super cute blonde.]
I hate you.
[It might as well have been an ‘I love you’ as he finally got some of his giggles under control and composed himself. Straightening, he made a show of brushing off his shirt, straightening an imaginary tie over the Playstation t-shirt he was wearing, then saluted Charlie theatrically.]
Right. Into battle with demon buttholes I go.
[He turns to the camera one last time, faking a grimace of desperation.]
Help!...
[ With that, Charlie turns to the camera with a smirk. ]
He’s right. I kinda am a sadist. Kinda. Now that you know, you’ll have to wait to see how this goes when Bane posts his video. Later!
[ And now it's time to go home, but there are no exterior shots of her apartment. Instead, it's right to the interior. Right where she's seated next to one Nolan from 'Keep the Camera's Nolan'. They're both grinning at the camera, Nolan looking kinda tired but happy to see Charlene. He's eating something she brought home, as is she, and when she swallows the bite in her mouth, she addresses the camera one last time. ]
Hey, all. It's now 9:30 at night, sorry most of the day was spent at work. But, you asked what I did and there it was. When I'm not working on videos for all of you, I'm working hard at feeding people and sometimes I come home to my roommate and watch bad tv until it's time to sleep. Thank you for putting up with this pathetic excuse for a video and tune in next week where, to celebrate the release of PokemonGo!, I teach you all how to make Pokemon Candy Cake Pops. Keep being awesome! BYE!
[ AAAnd the outro music.]
Hey, guys. Sorry for being absent. Like Bane said, I had some real-life stuff to handle and that had to take priority for awhile. But I'm back and I'm here to answer a question a lot of you asked lately.
'What's a day in the life like for McEats?'
I don't know how exciting this video is going to be, but here goes. It's...
[ And she checks her watch, nose wrinkling. ]
Well, my day starts early as fuck. It's 6 AM and I have to head to the docks to talk to my fish guy.
[ She inhales softly, sniffing the air for a moment before looking so happy! ]
But first, an important stop. You really can't start the day without a good breakfast.
[ Cut to: Charlie standing in line at a food truck that advertises freshly made mini cider donuts and hot coffee. She's talking to the people who run it, all friendly and familiar. ]
Is it okay if I film how the donuts are made? [ Something is said and she perks up. ]
It is? Awesome! Thank you so much.
[ And another cut to donuts being made by an old fashioned machine. Batter is dropped in perfect circles about an inch in diameter into heated oil and the donuts float along as they fry the machine flipping them perfectly so they cook right on the other side and someone scoops them out, putting them on paper to drain. Charlie orders a dozen and a coffee, asking for cinnamon sugar toppings. They're stuffed into a bag and handed over and Charlie continues on, stuffing a donut in her mouth. ]
Alway--[ Hang on. She had a mouth full of food. It's washed away with a sip of coffee and she clears her throat, addressing the camera. ]
Always ask before filming, because some people just aren't for it and that's more than okay.
[ And another cut, this time to Charlie at the docks, leaving with a long receipt in one hand. ]
Like I said, some people aren't for it. My guy at the docks is very camera shy, so I had to put the camera away. That's fine. I can respect that.
Now, to work to drop off the delivery list.
Again, this is gonna be very boring.
[ This time it's not so much a cut as it's someone sped up the boring parts of Charlie making a few more stops to order vegetables and fruits and other large quantities of ingredients, finally arriving at From the Ashes. ]
Okay! It's actually now about...ten in the morning and a lot of my orders have been placed for work. We buy local and support small business farmers and butcher shops and deal only with the freshest ingredients. It's something we all agreed on before we even opened the place. You wanna see where I work?
[ This is probably where Nolan got a hold of things and did some editing because Charlie's entrance into the back door of her restaurant is in slow motion and to Lenny Kravitz' cover of American Woman, but then there's a record scratch as Charlie almost walks into someone and apologizes profusely. ]
Oh, god. Are you okay? You good? Hey! How's it going? Good to see you.
[ And to the camera, she looks properly embarrassed as she ducks off screen. It's another cut, this time to the prep area. ]
This is where I do a lot of help with prep work. Chopping, filleting, portioning. All the boring shit that goes into making great food.
[ She clearly does not think this is boring. Not with the big dumb grin on her face. ]
All of my orders from earlier are starting to roll in, and what usually happens is I pick a few things out to make a special for the day, whip it up and show everyone how to do it. Thankfully, I had a coworker do it yesterday and there are ribs cooking in the oven for a braised rib taco dish for today. So I don't have to worry.
Sorry. Next time.
[ There's a few more spots filled in with Charlie actually doing some cooking, and even doing some prep work for an Angry Phoenix challenge. This involves making a pasta infused with Ghost Pepper oil, a thick sauce made from several crazy-hot peppers, tomatoes, garlic, onions. It's basically madness with some extra large crawfish and prawns and clams thrown in and the pasta is hand rolled. Instead of showing who has the challenge coming their way, she shows people the Wall of Shame, wherein there are 78 people. The Wall of Fame is deceptively empty and there may or may not be Halloween cobwebs strung across it. ]
Maybe someday there'll be a picture up. I doubt it. I'm not exactly nice when it comes to that food challenge. Which, someone’s going to learn real soon, aren’t you, Bane?
[ With that, Charlie turns the camera to one Bane, a grin on his face. ]
Darn tootin’! [He adds a thumbs up for emphasis to add to his cheesy smile and deliberately stilted speech.] Because nothing says fun like dining on fine Italian cuisine made with top quality seafood and the concentrated essence of a thousand demon buttholes to burn the flesh from my skin! And mouth. And esophagus...and my butthole. I’m basically gonna burn alive, is what I’m trying to say.
[ There’s nothing but laughter from Charlie and then she turns the camera to herself for a moment. ]
If he finishes, he said he’s gonna donate the five hundred dollar cash prize to charity.
[ And there’s more, but Charlie won’t say, turning the camera back to Bane. ]
[Rocky nodded, still overly cheerful….and still giving the camera a thumbs up.]
I’ll leave it to them in my will! Because I’m gonna be a pile of garlic scented ashes. [He then abruptly drapes an arm around Charlie’s shoulders, deliberately hanging on her as he continues to address the camera.]
I’m gonna die is what I’m saying. From demon butthole pasta. And fire. [He pauses, looking down at Charlie with a dubious expression.] I just wanna know, are you a confirmed sadist? Or is it just a hobby? [He’s fighting the giggles now, and leaning on her more for support than to be obnoxious and derpy.]
[ Charlie looks up at him, smirking and trying to not giggle, too. He’s cute. She can easily admit to that. ]
This is the part where you want me to offer words of comfort and reassure you that everything’ll be fine, isn’t it?
[ Silence. And then Charlie’s laughing. ]
That’s funny.
[Rocky’s just giggling endlessly now, resting his forehead on her shoulder as he tries to quell his laughter, but without success. He can’t help it, it’s been a crazy few days, he’s insane, and she’s his brand of crazy. He’s kind of not ready to ever go home, and thinks he may have found his new best friend, and bonus: she’s a super cute blonde.]
I hate you.
[It might as well have been an ‘I love you’ as he finally got some of his giggles under control and composed himself. Straightening, he made a show of brushing off his shirt, straightening an imaginary tie over the Playstation t-shirt he was wearing, then saluted Charlie theatrically.]
Right. Into battle with demon buttholes I go.
[He turns to the camera one last time, faking a grimace of desperation.]
Help!...
[ With that, Charlie turns to the camera with a smirk. ]
He’s right. I kinda am a sadist. Kinda. Now that you know, you’ll have to wait to see how this goes when Bane posts his video. Later!
[ And now it's time to go home, but there are no exterior shots of her apartment. Instead, it's right to the interior. Right where she's seated next to one Nolan from 'Keep the Camera's Nolan'. They're both grinning at the camera, Nolan looking kinda tired but happy to see Charlene. He's eating something she brought home, as is she, and when she swallows the bite in her mouth, she addresses the camera one last time. ]
Hey, all. It's now 9:30 at night, sorry most of the day was spent at work. But, you asked what I did and there it was. When I'm not working on videos for all of you, I'm working hard at feeding people and sometimes I come home to my roommate and watch bad tv until it's time to sleep. Thank you for putting up with this pathetic excuse for a video and tune in next week where, to celebrate the release of PokemonGo!, I teach you all how to make Pokemon Candy Cake Pops. Keep being awesome! BYE!
[ AAAnd the outro music.]
