Daybreak Application.
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badinfluenzaPLAYER INFORMATION
NAME: Goblin (formerly Otis).
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goblinhood.
OTHER CHARACTER(S) IN GAME: Maverick Taylor (deuteranope).
CANON INFORMATION
CHARACTER NAME: Charlotte Wiltshire / Q84.
CANON: Hello Charlotte.
HISTORY:
Q84 was a Charlotte, a puppet lifeform created due to someone else’s crippling self-esteem and caregiver personality issues after their death, born without imperfections, but she still became unstable. Early on, she became aware of her existence as a tool for entertainment and knew that every Charlotte was doomed to a life of suffering because they refused to fight back. Unwilling to accept this, Q84 Charlotte did everything she possibly could to come out on top. She infected classmates who opposed her with a disease that would make their egos essentially void, and bullied her classmates so that they wouldn’t bully her first. This includes driving them to suicide and using public executions run by her cult, the White Society, to gather other classmates to her side using mob mentality. All this was possible because Charles -- the original, the god of the world, the guy that died -- approached her and let her know that despite being given the directive “Be a good girl” by Mother (a perverse imitation of Lilith caused by Charles’s issues) she didn’t actually need to.
This version of Charlotte manipulates her “best friend” Anri and the tenants of the House, the scope of this false universe as far as Charlottes can comprehend it, rather than trying to be a good friend, becoming hated and feared because that will ensure her safety. Any time she gets injured or physically inconvenienced, Charlotte kills herself to wake up in a new, healthy vessel, knowing the truth of the soul cube’s data theory.
Charles frequently interacts with Q84, forming a close friendship with her despite her cruelties, as C, a bastardization of his soulmate Vincent’s OC. He has Vincent’s vessel, but there’s no trace of the Vincent personality, as Charles has taken it over after this world’s iteration of Vincent is beaten in an alley between Charlotte’s home and the school. He says that he’s only done it to keep the vessel safe, as he’s aware that all Vincent vessels tend to kill themselves if left alone.
Scarlett Eyler, the class rep, tries to stand in the way of everything Q84 does, being the idealized Scarlett that Charles’s mother wanted and often mistook him for, after being forced to abort Scarlett in infancy. She’s a perfect student and wants to protect others while adhering to rules.
When coming home from Anri’s home of trauma one day, Charlotte is attacked and wakes up to find herself drugged with Linq, something used to connect two minds together to easily bridge communication between people, though she’s unable to find the culprit. She can choose to attempt to Linq with Charles, but he catches her and invites her for a chat, instead, where they agree that neither of them have friends and Charles says that there's an imposter of him in the House, someone who pretends to be an Observer like him, but who greatly interferes. Though he doesn't exactly know it, he's speaking of Umbrella Man, who is essentially Shadow Charles.
She decides to execute Anri, but the broadcast is interrupted by Scarlett, who we see later had woken up in the infirmary with “Charles” at her side, who promises to share all the secrets of the world with her, now that he's worked up the courage to approach her. “Charles”, who is really Umbrella Man in disguise as a younger form of her brother, says that he's learned she's not the same Scarlett Eyler of his memories, but she apologizes for how she treated him all the same. Because he's tooootally nothing but an Observer, “Charles” enlists her help in stopping the world from collapsing, which means stopping Charlotte from corrupting the world -- she's the source of the executions, rise in suicides, and personality-destroying illnesses. To do that, she needs to cut off the audience (player) from the entertainment. Scarlett busts in to rescue Anri and the rest of her almost-collapsing world stabs Charlotte and throws her out the third story window. She knows that if she linqs with Charlotte, the player will be able to see her memories of the True Realm and learn the truth of the world. However efficient she is, she's not keen on being this hostile, but still winds up taking one of Charlotte’s eyes so she can access the elevator to get to the other floors of the House.
Charlotte wakes up in the infirmary, carried there by Charles, who learns that Scarlett and Charlotte linqed and explains that this Scarlett isn't the reflection of himself that he hated so much, but rather the imaginary construct of the sister he wished he had, and so isn't meant to be so aggressive. Tired, Charlotte decides to go home, but she wakes up on one of the basement’s operating tables to Felix, Bennett, and Florence trying to extract her soul cube. When they leave for a snack break, Charlotte struggles to escape the lab and the residents trying to permanently kill her. She's able to make her way to the elevator and head to the 2F (where School is), but just as she thinks she's free, Scarlett enters the elevator as well and knocks her out with a bat.
This time when she wakes up, she's back in the White Society room where the executions had taken place, tied up and in front of the broadcasts equipment. In a fit of frustration, Charlotte wishes to end Scarlett, who she sees as a monster that set up the entire universe thanks to driving Charles to suicide in the True Realm, and “fuses” with the Mother’s mind parasite that infects every Charlotte known as the Oracle. While it’s a powerful tool, using the wish means that the Charlotte’s story will soon come to an end, which was something that Charles had warned her about when her story began. Q84 kind of regrets that, but whatever, fuck everythin, she's going to end it all. She executes Scarlett publicly after addressing player as a horrible person toying with them.
C/Charles regrets Charlotte’s decision to cash in the wish far more than she does, and after teasing her quite a bit until she passes out, begs Umbrella Man to help him save Q84, who starts to immediately break down into a meat pile. Eventually, he is told to transfer her soul cube away from the fully parasitic body into a different vessel that had been deemed defective.
In a different iteration of the universe, Scarlett is gravely injured by a self-aware Charlotte that didn't have Charles around to influence her. This Charlotte slaughters everyone else on the second floor, where Scarlett has so far spent all her time since it’s where the school is and she has restricted access when it comes to the House. Because she knows everything, the Charlotte of this iteration picks out Scarlett as special as well, and leaves her alive to challenge her to find her “where Mother is”.
With the help of the Puppeteer/player, Scarlett escapes to 1F, where she stumbles into Charlotte’s home unwittingly and is found the following morning by Felix. Felix treats her injuries and when Scarlett insists that she wishes to talk to Charlotte, however horrific, and understand her, shares information concerning the Oracle parasite. Scarlett allows herself to be infected with the Oracle parasite so that she can be on the same level as Charlotte, even though she's aware that it's basically suicide. She doesn't entirely understand that it's happening, but her thought process is being overruled by another, making her see the act of confronting Charlotte as something extremely important.
Scarlett gives the player the choice to be addressed as “Seth” or “Lilith”. It is here that Scarlett reveals that Lilith was her mother’s name, and that Seth was her father. In addition to confronting the fact that she's no longer alone, Scarlett has to see evidence of how ill Charles truly was, and how much her former state in his life destroyed him.
After exploring a few floors/dimensions with House tenants and finding different versions of Charlotte (one of which is the source of the TV Realm), Scarlett eventually comes face to face with the correct one that destroyed 2F, who reveals that the horrible, disgusting mess of organs and grossness before them is actually the Mother that Scarlett loved so dearly. When he was alive, Charles began to see the true Lilith as a parasite, and so a parasite she became. Mother is the source of the Oracle present in every Charlotte vessel, and she births every Charlotte into the world with the expectation to be a good girl.
Traumatized by this and influenced by something outside herself (sup Charlotte), Scarlett strangles V19 Charlotte to death. She realizes this isn’t at all what she meant to do, and looks up to a large nest of Charlotte vessels waiting to be born. Using the wish she is allowed by the presence of the Oracle parasite, Scarlett decides for a chance to walk in Charlotte’s shoes but retain free will and not become a murderer despite everythin. She is reborn as Charlotte, a clean slate with the direction to be a good girl, introduced to a puppeteer named Seth, and discovered by Charles, who sees who she truly is and gives her a yellow ribbon to set her apart from the other Charlottes. When told that Charles will help her kill Wiltshire again, she realizes that she failed in her mission and breaks down, becoming suicidal. She is guided through life by Seth and the Umbrella Man, following the whims of others in order to be loved, and so she goes on adventure with her new friend Felix Honikker, in the TV Realm…
Yeah, that’s right, Scarlett-Charlotte goes through the events of the first episode. And the second. And then she gets stuck in an endless cycle of suffering...until her soul cube data is freed. Charles explains that Scarlett should have died when she made the wish to save the Oracle Pythia in the TV World, but their power combined and instead created a universe, much like how Charles’s death created the one the game's take place in. This is why at the end of the first game and throughout the second, Felix and the other tenants are imaginary friends created by her schizophrenia, and the Trial is a real occurrence threatening her existence.
Q84 wakes up, much to her dismay, in the home of Charles, who she calls Father since he’s the god of her world and direct creator. Charles regrets having to go against her wishes and bring her back, especially in a vessel that, while being Charlotte, is not her own, but he can’t bear to be alone and needs her help to close out another traumatic chapter of his life. He promises to kill her once they're done. The pair head towards the room in the house that had previously gone unexplored -- his father’s room, kept shut since he abandoned them. When they find nothing but a TV, Charles explains Scarlett’s fate and his role in the second game as Vincent, where he truly felt how different his “sister” had become. Umbrella Man comes in and introduces himself as “Seth”, a being created with the name and appearance of Charles’s father unwittingly by Charles himself. After explaining that O91 Charlotte, who was the one that formed the TV World and was, in a way, saved by Scarlett-Charlotte because she wanted to save the Oracle of that world (and then became Frei, the Oracle within her in the second game), saved Scarlett-Charlotte in return for her sacrificial act, he requests that they destroy the TV so that they can release Scarlett’s soul data and everything can finally come to a close. After all, Charlotte did employ him to watch over the worlds, and she wished to end all suffering...and he was created to be the Observer of Scarlett’s created universe, much how Charles was the Observer of his own.
In Happy Ending, Charles and Q84 decide to roll the dice by changing the channel -- and switching Scarlett-Charlotte to another version of reality where there’s a chance she’ll be happier. The new channel shows Charlotte sitting on the couch and eating chips. Just that. Unsatisfied, Q84 changes the channel again, and continues changing the channel with increasing desperation for a happy ending that never comes until Charles finally forces her to stop. No one has any power in the world he's created, as it's just as self-destructive as he is. Q84 plans to rebuild the White Society so that she can create a mob of mindless vessels they can use to store the vast consciousness of Scarlett. In a glitchy puddle of flesh and disease, Scarlett-Charlotte and Frei discuss going to see the stars for real this time… When the game is started up again, the player is met with a sea of students with yellow eyes, hinting that they're being used as vessels, and screams. Fun!!
In True Ending, Charles and Q84 agree to save Scarlett. Q84 has Charles leave the room so that she can do the deed, beating the TV into a mess while she comes to terms with all the hopelessness and determination of the universe. They collect the body of the Vincent vessel, which had predictably killed itself, before tossing it into a bottomless pit that Q84 supposes has seen many Vincent corpses in its time as well as any other corpse Charles had to deal with, and they say goodbye. Charles accepts his faults that have shaped the nature of his world, and realizes that his creative pursuits brought him close to people in a way that he couldn't accomplish otherwise. He assures the recreation of his mother that she did the best she could and injects a syringe into her. Mother begins to crystallize and collapse the House around them, and as she dies, Charles breaks down as well. Q84, the last Charlotte, comforts him. There is nothing to be sad about.
Umbrella Man is a dick and breaks down into a glitchy mess before the reality kicks off into Charles addressing the puppeteer and thanks them for staying with his world and story despite the choices not really mattering. Scarlett-Charlotte thanks her “Seth” as well for taking care of her, assuring the player that she's really happy this time.
STRENGTHS:
Original: Charlotte was meant to be the perfect protagonist, a sweet girl you could identify with and who never did anything wrong, but who had bad luck befall her all the same. Given the nature of incomplete stories and ideas, many versions of that protagonist were released into the world created by Charles, and Q84 Charlotte was one of them. Q84 was an unusual case right from the beginning, and was even assumed to be defective by her creator -- she became aware of the truth of the world she was in, as well as the patterns found within it, and came to the conclusion that she was nothing but a target for horrible things to make good entertainment out of. When she learned that every Charlotte never fought back against their tormentors, she made sure to flip the script and come out swinging, rather than take it. Although she was told by an inner voice present in all functional Charlottes to “be a good girl”, all it took was someone coming along and questioning what would happen if she didn't to open up the world of possibilities, and she became a rogue protagonist.
"Born into this world colorless, it is others we meet along the way that give us color," and she wasn't going to let them.
Saccharine: Due to her purpose in the World's story, the persona of a sweet, ideal little girl that will see things through to the end, bending to however she is needed, is something that comes easy to her. While this is something she associates with her death, she also knows that in order to blend in and curry favor from the world, she needs to be able to give off the impression that she's as harmless and likable as everyone wants her to be. She becomes overly sweet, practically dripping with sugar, to the point of it seeming like the sham it really is...but as long as it gets her what she wants, keeping her in control, then she doesn't mind playing the role they want.
Loyal: While earning her trust is a task and a half, once she has genuine, positive feelings for someone instead of viewing them as simply a tool, she's far more likely to go out of her way for them. The greatest example is Charles, of course, who she shows her softest side to amidst all her teasing, and who she'll try to help when she can. It's still difficult to act in an affectionate manner, which she believes to be a weakness, so her displays are more often than not peeking up at the sight of someone, vaguely trying her best to comfort them (it's not great), or destroying things that would bring this other person harm or unhappiness.
FLAWS:
Cruel: More often than not, Charlotte is all barbs and venom hiding behind a too-sweet tone. During harmless times, she’ll play cruel pranks on the other tenants of the House, which could be smashing up TVs so that they can't watch their favorite shows, deleting research they spent hours on, or adding teeth to their breakfasts. It’s during school hours that she's more freely… Something. See, Charlotte isn't exactly angling to be malicious. She believes she's simply taking advantage of a perception others already have, and she just angles it in a certain direction so that it doesn't get turned on her, instead. Yes, she exploits and encourages these cruel acts, as well as suicide (to “weed out” pathetic people), but she doesn't see herself as actively abusing her fellow students. It's more about creating a defense for herself than being a bully. In this way, she’s actually more passive, as she doesn't really care about the majority of people she interacts with at school, while the other tenants matter enough to her to earn individualized pestering and/or violence. The urge to strike first only distances herself from anyone she might have been able to have a real relationship with, and every interaction is put on a scale to decide just how the other is trying to manipulate her or benefit. Not as deep down as she'd like, Q84 desperately wants bonds with others despite her insistence on staying pure white, unaffected by those that would add color to her life.
Lonely: Even though she's determined to not let others affect her, Charlotte can't help but to feel lonely, and that neediness manifests in horribly annoying acts. She’ll pester the other residents into paying attention to her, so sure that they wouldn't care otherwise. Because she's operated under this assumption, it's become a reality, and Charlotte faces the consequences of torture, experimentation, and temporary death every now and again. While this reaffirms her fears, she still carries a soft spot for the other tenants of the house, willing to forgive and fight for them time and time again. This willingness to see past harmful flaws to one’s tender side is probably the closest Q84 gets to the typical Charlotte, and luckily for her, it isn't always unwarranted. Still, she buries this softness deep down.
Obsessive: Her skewed reality is enforced by her perception of herself as the protagonist, as tenants are side characters and classmates are nothing but NPCs in her mind. Nobody cares about an NPC, and she should be no different! However, Q84 has grown obsessed with the concept of the world as nothing but a game, not necessarily wanting to “win” but to put off losing as long as possible. As the main character, she has unlimited lives at her disposal and an instant respawn time in a universe that was specifically made to be her playground. Even unexpected things are scripted scenes that she needs to prepare against -- the pressure of this doesn't do her any good, incidentally, not that she’d freely show how much she's cracking. If she cracks and breaks, she becomes like the protagonist she was meant to be, just like every other Charlotte, and she reaches a true game over. Wanting attention and love comes with the price of having to have her life always on display to the True Realm beings that are playing or watching her game, trying to run (read: ruin) her life purely for the sake of their own selfish entertainment. Fighting against that seemingly-inevitable cruelty is what inspires her own abusive acts as she tries to anticipate beyond a reasonable person where her fate might try to lead her because the visual is thrilling, or inspiring, or whatever else it is that viewers feel when engaging with media. She must stay "pure white," rather than let herself be colored by those around her, in order to avoid that fate, and places that as her highest priority.
Canon Abilities:
Respawn: Because her world is a form of entertainment, it's not possible for Charlotte to reach a “bad end”. If she dies in a way that isn't an acceptable resolution to the story, her consciousness is reuploaded into a new body so she can continue on. Charlotte uses this as a way around feeling sick or acquiring minor injuries, often choosing to kill herself and start fresh with a new body than to let herself suffer through extended pain and recovery.
Oracle: The Oracle is a parasite present in every functional Charlotte puppet, capable of granting its host a wish of unimaginable power. However, the cost of this wish is that with its resolution, the story soon comes to an end, and the protagonist (the Charlotte that activated it) falls apart and decomposes.
White Flu: Q84 developed an injectable strain called the white flu that makes its victims blank slates, absolutely devoid of personality. They are completely compliant, and when spoken to will echo back what they heard.
AU INFORMATION
AU CHARACTER NAME: Charlotte Wiltshire, formerly Design Q.
AGE: 15 physically, like 84 in reality.
GRADE: 10th grade.
AU BACKSTORY:
Instead of being born, Charlotte was created by a couple who led a cult praising the Outlands and preparing susceptible minds for the inevitable Nightfall in their own way. Her “father” was completely absorbed in his work, wanting to create the ultimate world for the ultimate destruction, but her mother had her own goals on top of growing the cult. She set up a school to pick out children that would be suitable for the cult education and worked to purify them, but quickly found she felt unfulfilled by changing the minds of others’ children. Wanting one of her own, but not having the support of her husband, she began to design herself a daughter. As Charlotte is attempt Q for the child design, it can be assumed that there were attempts A-P as well, and perhaps other designs prepared after she was functional, but her beginnings specifically are ones of blood. Her mother’s favorites of the school/cult children were selected and worked on obsessively until she felt they were ready to have their best traits harvested and pulled together to make the perfect possible daughter. Charlotte doesn't know exactly how many children her body is comprised of, given the care taken to make her look as seamless and unified as possible, nor does she know the identity behind the people she viewed as her parents, whether they were corrupted humans or something born from the Outlands. She really just knows that when she realized she was nothing but a flesh golem, a doll, a puppet, she was so overwhelmed with her newfound emotions that she slaughtered them and the remainder of the cult.
Despite despising her origins, Charlotte found it hard to not want everything to be swallowed up after that, so she eventually continued the work of a preacher for the Outlands. After several years of this, she went quiet again, probably because a vampire clan tried to expose her as...not being a vampire...because that's what she went with as her cover story. She was eternally 15 and needed blood sometimes, so it made sense! Follow her into oblivion!! Anyway, she's resurfaced again recently, but hasn't immediately gone into her cult shtick, and once upon a time she tried to Contract with a daemon but got rejected. While she assumed it was for being a golem, in reality the daemon didn't wish to muddle with a core component of her magic, the Oracle, which is an unhatched, parasitic godling egg within her that powers her body and consciousness. When student Tokidoki Rikugou put up a site detailing the conspiracy of Daybreak, Lotte was lucky enough to stumble upon it prior to its censorship, and used what information she had to seek it out. The Herald business and summer vacation stalled her progress a little, but now she’s here and ready to fuck! shit! up!! By which I mean gently try to sabotage the efforts while coming off as a darling miracle child.
AU PERSONALITY DEVIATION:
For my own sake, not viewing other people as NPCs makes her interact with them a little more like...people...and also react more significantly than she would in canon, with people evoking more of a response from her, whether real or faked.
She's also been "aware" far longer in the AU than she has been in canon, and so despite her poor implementation of it, she has slightly more wisdom.
RACE: Flesh golem.
SECRET SOCIETY: she’s her own secret society in her mind.
POWERS:
Bowling with Brains: For short periods of time, Charlotte can detach parts of her body and have them remain fairly functional. The longer she is kept apart, the less control she has over her whole being, and her flesh is prone to decay. These parts must be soaked in blood to properly attach, but sewing/stapling herself together will work short term.
Being an undead-like construct, her body doesn't do well in extreme temperatures or around abundant moisture, and she tries to stay out of sunlight as prolonged exposure can damage her and cause her scars to become more prominent. Her eyes are also sensitive to sunlight, being so fogged over naturally by their dead state, that a bright day only reflects off the clouding in her eyes and effectively blinds her. At times, her eyes can glow yellow, but it seems to be more for dramatic effect than anything, much to her frustration.
Need Regen? Apply Blood!: Being kept running by blood magic but not having a proper blood supply of her own, if Charlotte is damaged in some way, she is able to regenerate her body by taking relatively fresh blood and applying it to her wound. If this is an external injury, her skin will knit itself back together quickly as she absorbs the blood, while if it's an internal injury, she must swallow or inject the blood, and the healing process is a bit slower. Either way, the mess of the blood doesn't remain for long, as the perfect child is naturally always clean and pure, and it just becomes another part of her.
Zombiter: If she manages to bite someone susceptible to her blood magic (based on player permissions, the deciding factor ICly is unknown) then she can cause some of their life energy to necrotize. This results in becoming pale and sickly, and feeling more weak for a number of hours (player discretion or roll a d6 tbh).
Whoops a Weakness, Suggestible: Because she is still a golem, while an unusual and aware one, Charlotte finds it incredibly difficult to disobey when others tell her to do something. The more forceful or commanding the instructions, the harder it is for her to stay in control of her individuality. Not heeding her directions will cause Charlotte great mental distress and pain, which in turn can lead her to hurt herself physically as an additional punishment.
The Oracle: Not much is known about Oracles other than they are parasitic gods that feed off strong desires, but a dormant egg of one is the reason behind Lotte's ability to function as a golem and as a being in her own right. However, Oracles are extremely dangerous to deal with even if consent must be explicit, and if Charlotte were to awaken the parasite within her because of a conscious, powerful wish, it likely wouldn't be long before the godlike existence tore her apart from within and caused her very being to rot, then disintegrate. Luckily she has no idea it exists!
Because of a rumored connection between Oracles and Seers, it's possible that if someone competent enough were working with some physical part of her/tapping directly into her magic, they could find a way to boost accuracy of a Seer's visions...but, like. Nah. She'll cut someone who tries to dig around her insides again, the intersection of science and magic is an unholy birthplace for abominations and she ain't gonna stand for it.
HOUSING: Aube 101!
RP SAMPLE
3. DESCRIBE YOUR IDEA OF AN IDEAL SCHOOL EXPERIENCE.
Being a beloved school council president sounds like fun.
5. WHAT DO YOU FEEL MOST LIMITS YOU FROM ACHIEVING YOUR TRUE POTENTIAL?
Haha... I guess not knowing what my true potential can be. What can a flesh golem all achieve? ...I'd like to find out!
Why... I could have the potential of any number of kids.
7. WHAT COURSE WORK DO YOU DETEST MOST? WHY?
Essays.
I'd much rather talk about something than write about it. Minimum word counts are fake, too. I think it should be a maximum word count. "Explain this concept as completely as you can in 100 words or less!" Anyone would much rather read that.
9. WHEN GIVEN FREE TIME, WHAT DO YOU DO WITH IT?
I really like learning about all my friends [read: acquiring blackmail], so I'd probably go hang out with them [read: try to hassle/coerce them]!
10. WHEN UNDER PRESSURE OF A TIGHT DEADLINE, HOW DO YOU RESPOND?
No problem! I know it'll work out. [Somehow. She won't be involved.]
11. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM YOUR PEERS?
Not much.
I hear the people here are really nice and helpful! But I guess I expect them to do their best. All they can do is their personal best, right?
12. WHEN WORKING IN A GROUP, HOW DO YOU ORGANIZE TO ACHIEVE YOUR ULTIMATE GOAL?
However the group wants to organize isn't a problem for me. [Not her problem. Do everything yourselves.]
13. DO YOU FEEL YOU CAN RELY ON YOUR PEERS, OR DO YOU FEEL YOU MUST EXCEL ON YOUR OWN?
I'd much rather my peers rely on me.
15. WHAT ABOUT THE FUTURE DO YOU FEAR THE MOST?
Nothing about the future is for sure, so nothing. Something that could happen... I don't want to go back to being what I was before I woke up.
17. WHAT IN THE FUTURE DO YOU MOST LOOK FORWARD TO?
Hm... I can't really grow up, so I'd like to watch everyone else get to grow old. [And die. She wants to see them die.]
NAME: Goblin (formerly Otis).
CONTACT:
OTHER CHARACTER(S) IN GAME: Maverick Taylor (
deuteranope).CANON INFORMATION
CHARACTER NAME: Charlotte Wiltshire / Q84.
CANON: Hello Charlotte.
HISTORY:
Q84 was a Charlotte, a puppet lifeform created due to someone else’s crippling self-esteem and caregiver personality issues after their death, born without imperfections, but she still became unstable. Early on, she became aware of her existence as a tool for entertainment and knew that every Charlotte was doomed to a life of suffering because they refused to fight back. Unwilling to accept this, Q84 Charlotte did everything she possibly could to come out on top. She infected classmates who opposed her with a disease that would make their egos essentially void, and bullied her classmates so that they wouldn’t bully her first. This includes driving them to suicide and using public executions run by her cult, the White Society, to gather other classmates to her side using mob mentality. All this was possible because Charles -- the original, the god of the world, the guy that died -- approached her and let her know that despite being given the directive “Be a good girl” by Mother (a perverse imitation of Lilith caused by Charles’s issues) she didn’t actually need to.
This version of Charlotte manipulates her “best friend” Anri and the tenants of the House, the scope of this false universe as far as Charlottes can comprehend it, rather than trying to be a good friend, becoming hated and feared because that will ensure her safety. Any time she gets injured or physically inconvenienced, Charlotte kills herself to wake up in a new, healthy vessel, knowing the truth of the soul cube’s data theory.
Charles frequently interacts with Q84, forming a close friendship with her despite her cruelties, as C, a bastardization of his soulmate Vincent’s OC. He has Vincent’s vessel, but there’s no trace of the Vincent personality, as Charles has taken it over after this world’s iteration of Vincent is beaten in an alley between Charlotte’s home and the school. He says that he’s only done it to keep the vessel safe, as he’s aware that all Vincent vessels tend to kill themselves if left alone.
Scarlett Eyler, the class rep, tries to stand in the way of everything Q84 does, being the idealized Scarlett that Charles’s mother wanted and often mistook him for, after being forced to abort Scarlett in infancy. She’s a perfect student and wants to protect others while adhering to rules.
When coming home from Anri’s home of trauma one day, Charlotte is attacked and wakes up to find herself drugged with Linq, something used to connect two minds together to easily bridge communication between people, though she’s unable to find the culprit. She can choose to attempt to Linq with Charles, but he catches her and invites her for a chat, instead, where they agree that neither of them have friends and Charles says that there's an imposter of him in the House, someone who pretends to be an Observer like him, but who greatly interferes. Though he doesn't exactly know it, he's speaking of Umbrella Man, who is essentially Shadow Charles.
She decides to execute Anri, but the broadcast is interrupted by Scarlett, who we see later had woken up in the infirmary with “Charles” at her side, who promises to share all the secrets of the world with her, now that he's worked up the courage to approach her. “Charles”, who is really Umbrella Man in disguise as a younger form of her brother, says that he's learned she's not the same Scarlett Eyler of his memories, but she apologizes for how she treated him all the same. Because he's tooootally nothing but an Observer, “Charles” enlists her help in stopping the world from collapsing, which means stopping Charlotte from corrupting the world -- she's the source of the executions, rise in suicides, and personality-destroying illnesses. To do that, she needs to cut off the audience (player) from the entertainment. Scarlett busts in to rescue Anri and the rest of her almost-collapsing world stabs Charlotte and throws her out the third story window. She knows that if she linqs with Charlotte, the player will be able to see her memories of the True Realm and learn the truth of the world. However efficient she is, she's not keen on being this hostile, but still winds up taking one of Charlotte’s eyes so she can access the elevator to get to the other floors of the House.
Charlotte wakes up in the infirmary, carried there by Charles, who learns that Scarlett and Charlotte linqed and explains that this Scarlett isn't the reflection of himself that he hated so much, but rather the imaginary construct of the sister he wished he had, and so isn't meant to be so aggressive. Tired, Charlotte decides to go home, but she wakes up on one of the basement’s operating tables to Felix, Bennett, and Florence trying to extract her soul cube. When they leave for a snack break, Charlotte struggles to escape the lab and the residents trying to permanently kill her. She's able to make her way to the elevator and head to the 2F (where School is), but just as she thinks she's free, Scarlett enters the elevator as well and knocks her out with a bat.
This time when she wakes up, she's back in the White Society room where the executions had taken place, tied up and in front of the broadcasts equipment. In a fit of frustration, Charlotte wishes to end Scarlett, who she sees as a monster that set up the entire universe thanks to driving Charles to suicide in the True Realm, and “fuses” with the Mother’s mind parasite that infects every Charlotte known as the Oracle. While it’s a powerful tool, using the wish means that the Charlotte’s story will soon come to an end, which was something that Charles had warned her about when her story began. Q84 kind of regrets that, but whatever, fuck everythin, she's going to end it all. She executes Scarlett publicly after addressing player as a horrible person toying with them.
C/Charles regrets Charlotte’s decision to cash in the wish far more than she does, and after teasing her quite a bit until she passes out, begs Umbrella Man to help him save Q84, who starts to immediately break down into a meat pile. Eventually, he is told to transfer her soul cube away from the fully parasitic body into a different vessel that had been deemed defective.
In a different iteration of the universe, Scarlett is gravely injured by a self-aware Charlotte that didn't have Charles around to influence her. This Charlotte slaughters everyone else on the second floor, where Scarlett has so far spent all her time since it’s where the school is and she has restricted access when it comes to the House. Because she knows everything, the Charlotte of this iteration picks out Scarlett as special as well, and leaves her alive to challenge her to find her “where Mother is”.
With the help of the Puppeteer/player, Scarlett escapes to 1F, where she stumbles into Charlotte’s home unwittingly and is found the following morning by Felix. Felix treats her injuries and when Scarlett insists that she wishes to talk to Charlotte, however horrific, and understand her, shares information concerning the Oracle parasite. Scarlett allows herself to be infected with the Oracle parasite so that she can be on the same level as Charlotte, even though she's aware that it's basically suicide. She doesn't entirely understand that it's happening, but her thought process is being overruled by another, making her see the act of confronting Charlotte as something extremely important.
Scarlett gives the player the choice to be addressed as “Seth” or “Lilith”. It is here that Scarlett reveals that Lilith was her mother’s name, and that Seth was her father. In addition to confronting the fact that she's no longer alone, Scarlett has to see evidence of how ill Charles truly was, and how much her former state in his life destroyed him.
After exploring a few floors/dimensions with House tenants and finding different versions of Charlotte (one of which is the source of the TV Realm), Scarlett eventually comes face to face with the correct one that destroyed 2F, who reveals that the horrible, disgusting mess of organs and grossness before them is actually the Mother that Scarlett loved so dearly. When he was alive, Charles began to see the true Lilith as a parasite, and so a parasite she became. Mother is the source of the Oracle present in every Charlotte vessel, and she births every Charlotte into the world with the expectation to be a good girl.
Traumatized by this and influenced by something outside herself (sup Charlotte), Scarlett strangles V19 Charlotte to death. She realizes this isn’t at all what she meant to do, and looks up to a large nest of Charlotte vessels waiting to be born. Using the wish she is allowed by the presence of the Oracle parasite, Scarlett decides for a chance to walk in Charlotte’s shoes but retain free will and not become a murderer despite everythin. She is reborn as Charlotte, a clean slate with the direction to be a good girl, introduced to a puppeteer named Seth, and discovered by Charles, who sees who she truly is and gives her a yellow ribbon to set her apart from the other Charlottes. When told that Charles will help her kill Wiltshire again, she realizes that she failed in her mission and breaks down, becoming suicidal. She is guided through life by Seth and the Umbrella Man, following the whims of others in order to be loved, and so she goes on adventure with her new friend Felix Honikker, in the TV Realm…
Yeah, that’s right, Scarlett-Charlotte goes through the events of the first episode. And the second. And then she gets stuck in an endless cycle of suffering...until her soul cube data is freed. Charles explains that Scarlett should have died when she made the wish to save the Oracle Pythia in the TV World, but their power combined and instead created a universe, much like how Charles’s death created the one the game's take place in. This is why at the end of the first game and throughout the second, Felix and the other tenants are imaginary friends created by her schizophrenia, and the Trial is a real occurrence threatening her existence.
Q84 wakes up, much to her dismay, in the home of Charles, who she calls Father since he’s the god of her world and direct creator. Charles regrets having to go against her wishes and bring her back, especially in a vessel that, while being Charlotte, is not her own, but he can’t bear to be alone and needs her help to close out another traumatic chapter of his life. He promises to kill her once they're done. The pair head towards the room in the house that had previously gone unexplored -- his father’s room, kept shut since he abandoned them. When they find nothing but a TV, Charles explains Scarlett’s fate and his role in the second game as Vincent, where he truly felt how different his “sister” had become. Umbrella Man comes in and introduces himself as “Seth”, a being created with the name and appearance of Charles’s father unwittingly by Charles himself. After explaining that O91 Charlotte, who was the one that formed the TV World and was, in a way, saved by Scarlett-Charlotte because she wanted to save the Oracle of that world (and then became Frei, the Oracle within her in the second game), saved Scarlett-Charlotte in return for her sacrificial act, he requests that they destroy the TV so that they can release Scarlett’s soul data and everything can finally come to a close. After all, Charlotte did employ him to watch over the worlds, and she wished to end all suffering...and he was created to be the Observer of Scarlett’s created universe, much how Charles was the Observer of his own.
In Happy Ending, Charles and Q84 decide to roll the dice by changing the channel -- and switching Scarlett-Charlotte to another version of reality where there’s a chance she’ll be happier. The new channel shows Charlotte sitting on the couch and eating chips. Just that. Unsatisfied, Q84 changes the channel again, and continues changing the channel with increasing desperation for a happy ending that never comes until Charles finally forces her to stop. No one has any power in the world he's created, as it's just as self-destructive as he is. Q84 plans to rebuild the White Society so that she can create a mob of mindless vessels they can use to store the vast consciousness of Scarlett. In a glitchy puddle of flesh and disease, Scarlett-Charlotte and Frei discuss going to see the stars for real this time… When the game is started up again, the player is met with a sea of students with yellow eyes, hinting that they're being used as vessels, and screams. Fun!!
In True Ending, Charles and Q84 agree to save Scarlett. Q84 has Charles leave the room so that she can do the deed, beating the TV into a mess while she comes to terms with all the hopelessness and determination of the universe. They collect the body of the Vincent vessel, which had predictably killed itself, before tossing it into a bottomless pit that Q84 supposes has seen many Vincent corpses in its time as well as any other corpse Charles had to deal with, and they say goodbye. Charles accepts his faults that have shaped the nature of his world, and realizes that his creative pursuits brought him close to people in a way that he couldn't accomplish otherwise. He assures the recreation of his mother that she did the best she could and injects a syringe into her. Mother begins to crystallize and collapse the House around them, and as she dies, Charles breaks down as well. Q84, the last Charlotte, comforts him. There is nothing to be sad about.
Umbrella Man is a dick and breaks down into a glitchy mess before the reality kicks off into Charles addressing the puppeteer and thanks them for staying with his world and story despite the choices not really mattering. Scarlett-Charlotte thanks her “Seth” as well for taking care of her, assuring the player that she's really happy this time.
STRENGTHS:
Original: Charlotte was meant to be the perfect protagonist, a sweet girl you could identify with and who never did anything wrong, but who had bad luck befall her all the same. Given the nature of incomplete stories and ideas, many versions of that protagonist were released into the world created by Charles, and Q84 Charlotte was one of them. Q84 was an unusual case right from the beginning, and was even assumed to be defective by her creator -- she became aware of the truth of the world she was in, as well as the patterns found within it, and came to the conclusion that she was nothing but a target for horrible things to make good entertainment out of. When she learned that every Charlotte never fought back against their tormentors, she made sure to flip the script and come out swinging, rather than take it. Although she was told by an inner voice present in all functional Charlottes to “be a good girl”, all it took was someone coming along and questioning what would happen if she didn't to open up the world of possibilities, and she became a rogue protagonist.
"Born into this world colorless, it is others we meet along the way that give us color," and she wasn't going to let them.
Saccharine: Due to her purpose in the World's story, the persona of a sweet, ideal little girl that will see things through to the end, bending to however she is needed, is something that comes easy to her. While this is something she associates with her death, she also knows that in order to blend in and curry favor from the world, she needs to be able to give off the impression that she's as harmless and likable as everyone wants her to be. She becomes overly sweet, practically dripping with sugar, to the point of it seeming like the sham it really is...but as long as it gets her what she wants, keeping her in control, then she doesn't mind playing the role they want.
Loyal: While earning her trust is a task and a half, once she has genuine, positive feelings for someone instead of viewing them as simply a tool, she's far more likely to go out of her way for them. The greatest example is Charles, of course, who she shows her softest side to amidst all her teasing, and who she'll try to help when she can. It's still difficult to act in an affectionate manner, which she believes to be a weakness, so her displays are more often than not peeking up at the sight of someone, vaguely trying her best to comfort them (it's not great), or destroying things that would bring this other person harm or unhappiness.
FLAWS:
Cruel: More often than not, Charlotte is all barbs and venom hiding behind a too-sweet tone. During harmless times, she’ll play cruel pranks on the other tenants of the House, which could be smashing up TVs so that they can't watch their favorite shows, deleting research they spent hours on, or adding teeth to their breakfasts. It’s during school hours that she's more freely… Something. See, Charlotte isn't exactly angling to be malicious. She believes she's simply taking advantage of a perception others already have, and she just angles it in a certain direction so that it doesn't get turned on her, instead. Yes, she exploits and encourages these cruel acts, as well as suicide (to “weed out” pathetic people), but she doesn't see herself as actively abusing her fellow students. It's more about creating a defense for herself than being a bully. In this way, she’s actually more passive, as she doesn't really care about the majority of people she interacts with at school, while the other tenants matter enough to her to earn individualized pestering and/or violence. The urge to strike first only distances herself from anyone she might have been able to have a real relationship with, and every interaction is put on a scale to decide just how the other is trying to manipulate her or benefit. Not as deep down as she'd like, Q84 desperately wants bonds with others despite her insistence on staying pure white, unaffected by those that would add color to her life.
Lonely: Even though she's determined to not let others affect her, Charlotte can't help but to feel lonely, and that neediness manifests in horribly annoying acts. She’ll pester the other residents into paying attention to her, so sure that they wouldn't care otherwise. Because she's operated under this assumption, it's become a reality, and Charlotte faces the consequences of torture, experimentation, and temporary death every now and again. While this reaffirms her fears, she still carries a soft spot for the other tenants of the house, willing to forgive and fight for them time and time again. This willingness to see past harmful flaws to one’s tender side is probably the closest Q84 gets to the typical Charlotte, and luckily for her, it isn't always unwarranted. Still, she buries this softness deep down.
Obsessive: Her skewed reality is enforced by her perception of herself as the protagonist, as tenants are side characters and classmates are nothing but NPCs in her mind. Nobody cares about an NPC, and she should be no different! However, Q84 has grown obsessed with the concept of the world as nothing but a game, not necessarily wanting to “win” but to put off losing as long as possible. As the main character, she has unlimited lives at her disposal and an instant respawn time in a universe that was specifically made to be her playground. Even unexpected things are scripted scenes that she needs to prepare against -- the pressure of this doesn't do her any good, incidentally, not that she’d freely show how much she's cracking. If she cracks and breaks, she becomes like the protagonist she was meant to be, just like every other Charlotte, and she reaches a true game over. Wanting attention and love comes with the price of having to have her life always on display to the True Realm beings that are playing or watching her game, trying to run (read: ruin) her life purely for the sake of their own selfish entertainment. Fighting against that seemingly-inevitable cruelty is what inspires her own abusive acts as she tries to anticipate beyond a reasonable person where her fate might try to lead her because the visual is thrilling, or inspiring, or whatever else it is that viewers feel when engaging with media. She must stay "pure white," rather than let herself be colored by those around her, in order to avoid that fate, and places that as her highest priority.
Canon Abilities:
Respawn: Because her world is a form of entertainment, it's not possible for Charlotte to reach a “bad end”. If she dies in a way that isn't an acceptable resolution to the story, her consciousness is reuploaded into a new body so she can continue on. Charlotte uses this as a way around feeling sick or acquiring minor injuries, often choosing to kill herself and start fresh with a new body than to let herself suffer through extended pain and recovery.
Oracle: The Oracle is a parasite present in every functional Charlotte puppet, capable of granting its host a wish of unimaginable power. However, the cost of this wish is that with its resolution, the story soon comes to an end, and the protagonist (the Charlotte that activated it) falls apart and decomposes.
White Flu: Q84 developed an injectable strain called the white flu that makes its victims blank slates, absolutely devoid of personality. They are completely compliant, and when spoken to will echo back what they heard.
AU INFORMATION
AU CHARACTER NAME: Charlotte Wiltshire, formerly Design Q.
AGE: 15 physically, like 84 in reality.
GRADE: 10th grade.
AU BACKSTORY:
Instead of being born, Charlotte was created by a couple who led a cult praising the Outlands and preparing susceptible minds for the inevitable Nightfall in their own way. Her “father” was completely absorbed in his work, wanting to create the ultimate world for the ultimate destruction, but her mother had her own goals on top of growing the cult. She set up a school to pick out children that would be suitable for the cult education and worked to purify them, but quickly found she felt unfulfilled by changing the minds of others’ children. Wanting one of her own, but not having the support of her husband, she began to design herself a daughter. As Charlotte is attempt Q for the child design, it can be assumed that there were attempts A-P as well, and perhaps other designs prepared after she was functional, but her beginnings specifically are ones of blood. Her mother’s favorites of the school/cult children were selected and worked on obsessively until she felt they were ready to have their best traits harvested and pulled together to make the perfect possible daughter. Charlotte doesn't know exactly how many children her body is comprised of, given the care taken to make her look as seamless and unified as possible, nor does she know the identity behind the people she viewed as her parents, whether they were corrupted humans or something born from the Outlands. She really just knows that when she realized she was nothing but a flesh golem, a doll, a puppet, she was so overwhelmed with her newfound emotions that she slaughtered them and the remainder of the cult.
Despite despising her origins, Charlotte found it hard to not want everything to be swallowed up after that, so she eventually continued the work of a preacher for the Outlands. After several years of this, she went quiet again, probably because a vampire clan tried to expose her as...not being a vampire...because that's what she went with as her cover story. She was eternally 15 and needed blood sometimes, so it made sense! Follow her into oblivion!! Anyway, she's resurfaced again recently, but hasn't immediately gone into her cult shtick, and once upon a time she tried to Contract with a daemon but got rejected. While she assumed it was for being a golem, in reality the daemon didn't wish to muddle with a core component of her magic, the Oracle, which is an unhatched, parasitic godling egg within her that powers her body and consciousness. When student Tokidoki Rikugou put up a site detailing the conspiracy of Daybreak, Lotte was lucky enough to stumble upon it prior to its censorship, and used what information she had to seek it out. The Herald business and summer vacation stalled her progress a little, but now she’s here and ready to fuck! shit! up!! By which I mean gently try to sabotage the efforts while coming off as a darling miracle child.
AU PERSONALITY DEVIATION:
For my own sake, not viewing other people as NPCs makes her interact with them a little more like...people...and also react more significantly than she would in canon, with people evoking more of a response from her, whether real or faked.
She's also been "aware" far longer in the AU than she has been in canon, and so despite her poor implementation of it, she has slightly more wisdom.
RACE: Flesh golem.
SECRET SOCIETY: she’s her own secret society in her mind.
POWERS:
Bowling with Brains: For short periods of time, Charlotte can detach parts of her body and have them remain fairly functional. The longer she is kept apart, the less control she has over her whole being, and her flesh is prone to decay. These parts must be soaked in blood to properly attach, but sewing/stapling herself together will work short term.
Being an undead-like construct, her body doesn't do well in extreme temperatures or around abundant moisture, and she tries to stay out of sunlight as prolonged exposure can damage her and cause her scars to become more prominent. Her eyes are also sensitive to sunlight, being so fogged over naturally by their dead state, that a bright day only reflects off the clouding in her eyes and effectively blinds her. At times, her eyes can glow yellow, but it seems to be more for dramatic effect than anything, much to her frustration.
Need Regen? Apply Blood!: Being kept running by blood magic but not having a proper blood supply of her own, if Charlotte is damaged in some way, she is able to regenerate her body by taking relatively fresh blood and applying it to her wound. If this is an external injury, her skin will knit itself back together quickly as she absorbs the blood, while if it's an internal injury, she must swallow or inject the blood, and the healing process is a bit slower. Either way, the mess of the blood doesn't remain for long, as the perfect child is naturally always clean and pure, and it just becomes another part of her.
Zombiter: If she manages to bite someone susceptible to her blood magic (based on player permissions, the deciding factor ICly is unknown) then she can cause some of their life energy to necrotize. This results in becoming pale and sickly, and feeling more weak for a number of hours (player discretion or roll a d6 tbh).
Whoops a Weakness, Suggestible: Because she is still a golem, while an unusual and aware one, Charlotte finds it incredibly difficult to disobey when others tell her to do something. The more forceful or commanding the instructions, the harder it is for her to stay in control of her individuality. Not heeding her directions will cause Charlotte great mental distress and pain, which in turn can lead her to hurt herself physically as an additional punishment.
The Oracle: Not much is known about Oracles other than they are parasitic gods that feed off strong desires, but a dormant egg of one is the reason behind Lotte's ability to function as a golem and as a being in her own right. However, Oracles are extremely dangerous to deal with even if consent must be explicit, and if Charlotte were to awaken the parasite within her because of a conscious, powerful wish, it likely wouldn't be long before the godlike existence tore her apart from within and caused her very being to rot, then disintegrate. Luckily she has no idea it exists!
Because of a rumored connection between Oracles and Seers, it's possible that if someone competent enough were working with some physical part of her/tapping directly into her magic, they could find a way to boost accuracy of a Seer's visions...but, like. Nah. She'll cut someone who tries to dig around her insides again, the intersection of science and magic is an unholy birthplace for abominations and she ain't gonna stand for it.
HOUSING: Aube 101!
RP SAMPLE
3. DESCRIBE YOUR IDEA OF AN IDEAL SCHOOL EXPERIENCE.
Being a beloved school council president sounds like fun.
5. WHAT DO YOU FEEL MOST LIMITS YOU FROM ACHIEVING YOUR TRUE POTENTIAL?
Haha... I guess not knowing what my true potential can be. What can a flesh golem all achieve? ...I'd like to find out!
Why... I could have the potential of any number of kids.
7. WHAT COURSE WORK DO YOU DETEST MOST? WHY?
Essays.
I'd much rather talk about something than write about it. Minimum word counts are fake, too. I think it should be a maximum word count. "Explain this concept as completely as you can in 100 words or less!" Anyone would much rather read that.
9. WHEN GIVEN FREE TIME, WHAT DO YOU DO WITH IT?
I really like learning about all my friends [read: acquiring blackmail], so I'd probably go hang out with them [read: try to hassle/coerce them]!
10. WHEN UNDER PRESSURE OF A TIGHT DEADLINE, HOW DO YOU RESPOND?
No problem! I know it'll work out. [Somehow. She won't be involved.]
11. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM YOUR PEERS?
I hear the people here are really nice and helpful! But I guess I expect them to do their best. All they can do is their personal best, right?
12. WHEN WORKING IN A GROUP, HOW DO YOU ORGANIZE TO ACHIEVE YOUR ULTIMATE GOAL?
However the group wants to organize isn't a problem for me. [Not her problem. Do everything yourselves.]
13. DO YOU FEEL YOU CAN RELY ON YOUR PEERS, OR DO YOU FEEL YOU MUST EXCEL ON YOUR OWN?
I'd much rather my peers rely on me.
15. WHAT ABOUT THE FUTURE DO YOU FEAR THE MOST?
Nothing about the future is for sure, so nothing. Something that could happen... I don't want to go back to being what I was before I woke up.
17. WHAT IN THE FUTURE DO YOU MOST LOOK FORWARD TO?
Hm... I can't really grow up, so I'd like to watch everyone else get to grow old. [And die. She wants to see them die.]
