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[that_cost]

Player Info

Name: Mouse
Age: 33
Contact: plurk @jellybabyoftheneutronflow aim @runsfromtheshop
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Character Basics:

Character Name: Charlene Roberta McGee
Journal: that_cost
Age: 17
Fandom: Firestarter by Stephen King
Canon Point: 6 years after the end of her book
Debt:

Class A: 10
Class B: 6
Class C: 19

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GRAND TOTAL: 14 years, 7 Months

Canon Character Section:

History: Oof

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.

She would, at first, think Teleios was bullshit. Either that or she really did die and this was an odd kind of afterlife. Eventually, once she settles in and gets used to the idea, I think she'd welcome it. She thinks she needs to pay for what she did, for all the havoc and damage she caused even though it wasn't entirely on her. But, as stated above, she's saddled with a big heart and it's filled with guilt and pain, so the chance to pay for it is a welcome one. She'll try hard to not cause trouble in the setting, not wanting to add to her time. She just wants to make amends for destroying the Shop and hurting all those people, even if they did deserve it.

Powers/Abilities:

Pyrokinesis. Not the kind that needs a source. It just needs a thought from her to work. It's pretty damn strong, too. It's not something she likes about herself, nor is it something she'll be flaunting around and advertising until she's more comfortable with herself.

Appearance:

5'6 inches tall. Underweight by a bit due to living on the run and never having steady income to buy food. Pale skin with some freckles here and there, blonde hair that goes past her shoulders. She has a scar on the back of her left arm, just under her shoulder, from crawling into a pigpen to steal an apple. It was stitched shut at one point. Attire-wise, she dresses to blend in. Plain t-shirts, jeans. Plain sneakers.

CR AU (irrelevant and therefor left blank)

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Samples:

Actionspam Sample:

[ So there's this girl, here, sitting on a bench with a journal on her knee. While it doesn't look like she's paying much attention to her surroundings, you can bet that she actually is. She's watching the man on the corner as he looks over apples and haggles the price with the vendor. She's watching the woman a few stalls over as she talks loudly and excitedly with a friend.

Most of all, Charlie's watching the people watching her. She doesn't much care for it, not one bit, so she's keeping those specific people in her periphery. What do they want? Why are they watching her? She's not going to show her discomfort just yet. Her pen scratches away at the paper in her journal, handwriting tight and small as she writes a letter that's not meant to be sent. Another glance at the person watching her and Charlie's noted they've moved closer.
She sighs, packing her pen into her book and closing it, shoving it into her backpack.

Before the person can get too close, Charlie's on her feet and heading towards the nearest crowd. She's gone and away before anyone can register what's happened, even Charlie. ]

Prose Sample:

At first, Charlie was reluctant to believe that this place wasn't Shop related. Sure, she had her doubts. For starters, it was far too fancy and far too well thought out for that group of dipshits. They couldn't control one little girl years ago, so this was clearly well beyond their scope of thought.

Second: There were far too many people. Not all of them had powers like her. Some of them were normal, average, every day people.

Third: She was still alive. She'd caused them such hell after they destroyed her life that the only thing they could possibly want from her was her death.

So this wasn't the Shop. This place was something else entirely. In Charlie's opinion, it was what she needed. She was here to serve time for what she did, and Charlie was okay with it. She though she needed to pay, too.

So Charlie settled in. She found herself happy to work wherever she was put, building a routine based around her job. She was fine with staying in one place. God knows the last time she did that because Charlie sure as hell couldn't remember.

She almost wanted to celebrate this opportunity, but she didn't. Instead, she woke up every morning (if she even slept at all), she went to get breakfast, went to work and lunch and dinner and came home to write more letters to her father and her mother and the Manders in that worn, brown leather journal she hid in her room.

This was good. This was normal. This was her life now and Charlie was fine with that.

Maybe one day she'd find a friend to share it with. She was gonna be here for a while.