Charlotte "Charlie" Bennet | Law ●

[Charlie Bennet]

Name: Charlotte Anne Bennet Age: 17 Gender: Female Sexuality: Bisexual Faction: Law Occupation: Highschool Student, Interns at a lawyer's office. Playby: Love Live!, nishikino maki Traits Positive Outgoing Takes change well Hard-working Modest Reliable Tough Versatile Negative Overly Independent Pushes people away Grumpy Machiavellian Selfish Extremely Stubborn Nervous - Coming someday \o/ History Charlie’s life didn’t exactly have the most ideal start, though it isn’t like she can remember most of it anyway. From what she’s been told, her mother had a “problem” that kept her from being able to raise Charlie. Charlie was left at an orphanage from the moment she was born, her biological mother never even held her. Her biological father’s identity is a mystery to everyone, really. Despite these less than ideal circumstances, Charlie would be adopted by Renee when she was just four months old. Therefore, Renee is the only mother that Charlie has ever really known. Renee was older when she adopted Charlie, around thirty-five, but she was already settled with a stable job and a nice house. Renee was a wonderful mother, and she couldn’t have loved Charlie any more than if she was her own flesh and blood. Secrets about her heritage and where she came from were never kept from Charlie, however, though she was always reassured that her Renee loved her no matter what. The two would spend the first four years of Charlie’s life together, with barely anyone else in the picture. Sure, she had grandparents and aunts and uncles, but she really only saw them around Thanksgiving. However, soon two things would happen that would change Charlie’s life. First, Clinton would be adopted. He was around eight at the time of his adoption, and he seemed closed off and afraid. It would take nearly a year for him to open up and start playing with Charlie. The two would form a very strong bond thereafter, and he would look out for her when she started school that year. The next thing that happened would be slightly more jarring for the young girl. She was fine with sharing Renee with Clinton, but when Renee introduced them to her girlfriend, Charlie threw a fit. She didn’t want to share Renee with anyone else, let alone this new woman. However, with a bit of persistence on Jaime’s part, Charlie would eventually warm up to her. It took Clinton longer, it always took him awhile to warm up to new people for reasons the young girl didn’t readily understand. When she was around ten, Renee and Jaime would get married, or at least have a ceremony. Charlie got to be one of the bridesmaids, and this is where her love of dressing up began. She adored having her hair curled, and trying on all the different dresses. After that, Jaime would move in with them. Jaime was always fun to have around, and spent a lot more time at the house than Renee, since she did “free-lance” work. Which basically meant she sold paintings, played the piano at weddings, and wrote some short stories and poems that were published as parts of larger collections. The family settled in well together, though with Clinton being a freshmen in high school at this point, Charlie would begin to feel like she as losing her brother. In a way, she was. In high school Clinton seemed to fall in with the wrong crowd, he got arrested several times for things like vandalism and petty theft. Renee and Jaime tried to get him all of the help they could. They sent him to therapy, Renee spent more time at home, they tried taking family vacations. No matter what they did, though, Clinton continued to push them away. This hurt Charlie in a way that nothing else in her entire life ever had or would. Clinton had been her best friend, someone she’d always been able to turn to, but now he didn’t seem to have any interest in her at all. Things continued to spiral for him until he eventually landed himself in a juvenile detention center at the age of sixteen. His spiral had effected Charlie as well. At one time she had a multitude of friends, she was always wanting to go do something, have someone over, chatting on the phone or online. These activities gradually decreased as Clinton continued to get more and more out of control. He served two years, by the time he got out, Charlie was already in high school. His time spent there seemed to have improved his attitude, and helped him out a great deal. Renee and Jaime were extremely happy to get him back, but Charlie was not. Whenever he tried to reach out to her, she would push him away. She didn’t trust him anymore, she didn’t want to be around him. She could see that she was hurting him, but in a way it felt nice. It felt nice to be the one causing the pain and not receiving it anymore. He couldn’t hurt her, no one could hurt her, unless she allowed them to. By the time she was a sophomore, though, it would seem that she was reaching out more again. She was able to make more friends, and had more of an interest in having a social life. However, she always kept her friends, boyfriends, and girlfriends at a careful distance. She made sure that if they left or betrayed her, she wouldn’t care enough for it to hurt. These superficial friendships were enough to make her mothers feel better, and it was kind of nice to not be alone anyway. It would be during this time that she would become interested in the “law” side of things. Renee had always worked as a penologist, and when Charlie expressed interest, she helped her daughter get internships and people to job shadow where her interest happened to be in that moment. She started with the coroner, but soon found that she wasn’t exactly fond of dead bodies. She finished up her job shadowing with them, however, which lasted for the remainder of her sophomore year. During the summer she job shadowed a game warden, and while she did enjoy that because it was outside and interesting, she didn't really feel like she wanted to spend her entire life doing it. When the event happened, she was approached by a god and given a wish. She wished to know when she had found her calling – a vague wish, but she assumes it was granted either way. Thereafter, she was blessed with her power, and with Cerberus, who is the first living being she’s gotten close to in several years. She finds herself wondering if perhaps her power has something to do with what her calling is, and she has put some research into it, but so far she’s unable to find a job that involves fire that really seems “right”. Going into her junior year, her mother got her an internship at a local lawyer’s office – it even paid a bit, so that was great. She finds the work sometimes boring and tedious, but she does like her time spent there. However, thanks to her wish, she knows that it isn’t her true calling. Either way, her internship lasts until the end of January. Insignia Level 1 “Hell’s Fire” – Level One – Charlie has the ability to manipulate fire, which is the power she was given upon making her wish. She cannot create fire. She has to have some sort of source of the flame, most commonly the lighter that she keeps on her person at all times for this reason. At such a low level, her manipulation of it is weak and under controlled. She’s burned her fingers and face more times in the past six months than she cares to count. Mostly right now her power is more pretty than anything. She can’t manipulate a small fire into a raging inferno that she can control or anything like that. She can “whisper” a fire to be bigger, but she can’t really control it when it gets to that point. At this point, she can successfully control a small camp fire. She can make the fire take different shapes, and if she concentrates really hard she can even run it along her arm without it burning her. The manipulation of fire – especially protecting herself from it – takes a lot of energy and she often finds herself physically drained afterward. At this point, she can use her power extensively for about thirty minutes before she passes out. Obviously the time changes depending on what she’s doing, but if she is actively using her power, thirty minutes is about her max. Her insignia takes the form of a burning star and leaf on the curve where her hand meets her thumb. The insignia is the same color as her hair, and almost appears to be actively on fire most of the time. To activate her power, she need only squeeze her thumb in her hand. “Hell’s Hound” – Passive – Her companion takes the form of a rather large, shaggy, black dog with burning red eyes. He’s actually a rather sweet creature, though is appearance might lead you to believe otherwise. He shadows Charlie wherever she goes, though he tends to stay hidden when she’s with her friends or in highly populated areas. It is clear that he is much smarter than the average dog, though he can’t speak or anything like that. It is also clear that he was meant to be Charlie’s protector, and he always curls up in the bed next to her when she goes to sleep. She has named him Cerberus for obvious reasons. Extra She loves to get dressed up and fix her hair, and dress other people up. If you aren't careful, she'll turn you into a living doll. OOC OOC Name: Ellie How did you find us?: Nai <3 Other Characters: Desmond Walsh, Bastion Lewis, Christopher Evans, Harper Collins

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