ATTENTION.
You have been drafted to compete in the arena.
Name:
Charlotte Richardson.
Also Known As:
Char, Charlotte. Sometimes goes by her last name.
Cyclops, one-eye, and that chick with the burned face are also acceptable.
Age:
Twenty-one.
Gender:
Female.
Description:
Charlotte is a massive human being. Standing at six feet, four inches, she towers over just about everyone she meets. After six years of hard labor in an Optimei work camp, strong is an understatement.
In prisons- and work camps especially- people are quite a bit more savage than they are in the outside world. Beatings are normal, rape commonplace. Pretty women don't last. Strong ones do.
Let's start at the top. In order to prevent people from grabbing her hair, Charlotte has kept it hacked short. What used to be gold-brown curls is now just an inch of scruffy growth. The woman's eyes are muddy brown, her skin harshly tanned from the sun. It's not a pretty tan, either. It's uneven, dark in some places, lighter in others, patchy and peeling on her arms and legs. Her original skin tone was on the darker side of caucasian.
Now her face. It's a sight to see, and I don't mean that in a good way. Her nose is short and sharp, crooked in the middle from a break when she was a kid. Her eyebrows are thick, eyelashes short. Her chin is square, and her cheekbones are low enough to give her a constant scowling expression.
In her first year at the work camp, she was taken by some of the older prisoners for hazing. The task set to her was to smother a little boy because he had a cough. The prisoners were suspicious of anybody who was sick, but none of them wanted to kill the kid themselves. When Charlotte refused and pointed out their own cowardice, one of the men decided that they would try a new hazing ritual. He had Charlotte's shirt half off before the woman was able to shove her knee up into his crotch. As punishment, one of his cronies built a fire while two others held Charlotte's hands up behind her back. Her hair was the first thing to catch fire. It smells awful when it burns, you know. Her skin cracked and peeled, and even though she screamed, they didn't let her up. Just held her there, shrieking, as the fire took the skin and then, finally, her right eye. Charlotte passed out after that, and probably would have died if one of the Optimei wardens hadn't been on patrol nearby. He didn't rescue her because he felt sorry for her, of course. He just couldn't have any of the laborers die on his watch, because that means a black mark and too many black marks mean permanent disqualification from life.
So that's the story of how Charlotte lost her eye. Charming, isn't it? That's also one of the reasons she keeps her hair so short.
Her arms are very strong, simply because of the work she does every day. Her hands are calloused, and because they've blistered and healed over and over, she can't feel with them very well except for with the tips of her fingers. Charlotte is not someone you would want to handle delicate objects, let's just say that.
Her breasts are small and would doubtless be larger is she put on weight, but there's no use in being feminine in prison. She doesn't care. Her midriff is thick and muscled, her hips wide. She had long, thick legs and big feet. Her toes are kind of stubby, which means that she has to work extra hard to keep her balance when the ground is slippy.
Personality:
Charlotte is very blunt, and this can lead to her being typecast as stupid. She isn't; it's just that she only has so many damns she can give about things. Social situations are not her forte, but she can navigate them adequately if there are only one or two other people. Large crowds confuse and dismay her, and she is completely incapable of public speaking.
She has rather large commitment issues, mainly because she grew up more or less alone. It's a big, crazy world, and dying is what humans do best. It happens all the time, and Charlotte came to know this as she grew up. There were no fantasies, no fairy-tale endings. Wishes don't come true, there are no such things as charming princes. Life is pain and suffering and if you can't survive then you're better off dead. But, see, Charlotte survived. She didn't let herself die. She learned to beg and cheat and steal and she learned how to stay alive.
The idea of love is alien to her, and the thought that this phenomena called sentiment might lead her to lay down her life for somebody is downright frightening. Charlotte is severely asexual; attempted rape tends to do that to a person. She doesn't like being touched by other people, even accidentally. She also attaches a lot of worth to material goods, especially food, which is why she has issues with people handing her things. If she offers you something that belongs to her, take it seriously. She only does that when she trusts you, and trust is hard to come by in a world like this one.
Claustrophobia. There is nothing that terrifies Charlotte more than tight spaces.
Skills:
Exceptionally strong, especially in her arms. Tough, with a very high pain threshold.
There's not much that can top having your face shoved into a fire, after all.
Likes:
Being alive. Food. Cold water. Rain, if it isn't the acid kind.
Dislikes:
Being touched. Having things handed to her.
Fears:
Fire. Enclosed spaces. Dying.
You have been drafted to compete in the arena.
Name:
Charlotte Richardson.
Also Known As:
Char, Charlotte. Sometimes goes by her last name.
Cyclops, one-eye, and that chick with the burned face are also acceptable.
Age:
Twenty-one.
Gender:
Female.
Description:
Charlotte is a massive human being. Standing at six feet, four inches, she towers over just about everyone she meets. After six years of hard labor in an Optimei work camp, strong is an understatement.
In prisons- and work camps especially- people are quite a bit more savage than they are in the outside world. Beatings are normal, rape commonplace. Pretty women don't last. Strong ones do.
Let's start at the top. In order to prevent people from grabbing her hair, Charlotte has kept it hacked short. What used to be gold-brown curls is now just an inch of scruffy growth. The woman's eyes are muddy brown, her skin harshly tanned from the sun. It's not a pretty tan, either. It's uneven, dark in some places, lighter in others, patchy and peeling on her arms and legs. Her original skin tone was on the darker side of caucasian.
Now her face. It's a sight to see, and I don't mean that in a good way. Her nose is short and sharp, crooked in the middle from a break when she was a kid. Her eyebrows are thick, eyelashes short. Her chin is square, and her cheekbones are low enough to give her a constant scowling expression.
In her first year at the work camp, she was taken by some of the older prisoners for hazing. The task set to her was to smother a little boy because he had a cough. The prisoners were suspicious of anybody who was sick, but none of them wanted to kill the kid themselves. When Charlotte refused and pointed out their own cowardice, one of the men decided that they would try a new hazing ritual. He had Charlotte's shirt half off before the woman was able to shove her knee up into his crotch. As punishment, one of his cronies built a fire while two others held Charlotte's hands up behind her back. Her hair was the first thing to catch fire. It smells awful when it burns, you know. Her skin cracked and peeled, and even though she screamed, they didn't let her up. Just held her there, shrieking, as the fire took the skin and then, finally, her right eye. Charlotte passed out after that, and probably would have died if one of the Optimei wardens hadn't been on patrol nearby. He didn't rescue her because he felt sorry for her, of course. He just couldn't have any of the laborers die on his watch, because that means a black mark and too many black marks mean permanent disqualification from life.
So that's the story of how Charlotte lost her eye. Charming, isn't it? That's also one of the reasons she keeps her hair so short.
Her arms are very strong, simply because of the work she does every day. Her hands are calloused, and because they've blistered and healed over and over, she can't feel with them very well except for with the tips of her fingers. Charlotte is not someone you would want to handle delicate objects, let's just say that.
Her breasts are small and would doubtless be larger is she put on weight, but there's no use in being feminine in prison. She doesn't care. Her midriff is thick and muscled, her hips wide. She had long, thick legs and big feet. Her toes are kind of stubby, which means that she has to work extra hard to keep her balance when the ground is slippy.
Personality:
Charlotte is very blunt, and this can lead to her being typecast as stupid. She isn't; it's just that she only has so many damns she can give about things. Social situations are not her forte, but she can navigate them adequately if there are only one or two other people. Large crowds confuse and dismay her, and she is completely incapable of public speaking.
She has rather large commitment issues, mainly because she grew up more or less alone. It's a big, crazy world, and dying is what humans do best. It happens all the time, and Charlotte came to know this as she grew up. There were no fantasies, no fairy-tale endings. Wishes don't come true, there are no such things as charming princes. Life is pain and suffering and if you can't survive then you're better off dead. But, see, Charlotte survived. She didn't let herself die. She learned to beg and cheat and steal and she learned how to stay alive.
The idea of love is alien to her, and the thought that this phenomena called sentiment might lead her to lay down her life for somebody is downright frightening. Charlotte is severely asexual; attempted rape tends to do that to a person. She doesn't like being touched by other people, even accidentally. She also attaches a lot of worth to material goods, especially food, which is why she has issues with people handing her things. If she offers you something that belongs to her, take it seriously. She only does that when she trusts you, and trust is hard to come by in a world like this one.
Claustrophobia. There is nothing that terrifies Charlotte more than tight spaces.
Skills:
Exceptionally strong, especially in her arms. Tough, with a very high pain threshold.
There's not much that can top having your face shoved into a fire, after all.
Likes:
Being alive. Food. Cold water. Rain, if it isn't the acid kind.
Dislikes:
Being touched. Having things handed to her.
Fears:
Fire. Enclosed spaces. Dying.