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Aug. 30th, 2014 08:39 pmPlayer Information
Player name: Em
Contact: thezombiecoma on Plurk
Are you over 18: Oh yes
Characters in The Box Already: Annie Walker & TJ Johansen
Character Information
Character Name: Charlie Matheson
Canon: Revolution
Canon Point: End of Series
History: HERE
Personality: Charlotte 'Charlie' Matheson was five years old when The Blackout happened.
Before the blackout, the Matheson family lived in a Chicago suburb, happy like any other nuclear family. Caleb, Rachel and their two children: Charlie and Danny. Older than her brother by three years, Charlie loved the large television the family had, the iPads, the iPods and the iPhones... after all, her father was one of the leading tech geniuses of the day. She loved playing in the yard like all the other kids in the area and she was protective of her brother, even then.
When the power went out, everything changed in an instant.
Charlie grew up in a world without any of those modern conveniences; no running water, no electricity to light rooms, wash clothes or even spark batteries. Nothing. Physics literally changed overnight.
She, like everyone around her, became resourceful and learned how to use the land around her to suit her needs. She's skilled with a crossbow (which we see her using both as a hunter and as a fighter), and she's learned her way around different plants. The community her family is a part of has livestock as well as gardens and it's obvious that everyone, Charlie included, is knowledgeable in multiple uses for animals, vegetables and minerals.
At a very young age, she watched her mother kill a man who tried to steal what little food the family had in a Radio Flyer wagon and she took that very harsh lesson with her. Not long after that, for reasons she's unaware of, her mother left the family. Charlie's father later told her that her mother had died, news that Charlie didn't take well, and Caleb regularly used that as a threat: "Don't wander off/go over there/leave the community/etc. Do you want to end up dead like your mother?" In addition to using that to instill fear in her, he made sure that Charlie kept a close eye on her brother, Danny, an asthmatic.
Close to Danny, Charlie made sure that he was always taken care of: that he ate first, that he didn't suffer from too many asthma attacks and, that if he did, he was well taken care of from the community doctor. It's made clear that there is nothing that Charlie wouldn't do for her brother, up to and including, blackmail of the actual and emotional kind to get others to help her rescue him. When Danny died, it broke Charlie a little, separated her that much more from everyone around her.
As she'd grown up , her moral compass had always been pointed in the right direction and she had a problem when she sees wrongs being done to good people. It wasn't until her father was murdered, and her brother kidnapped, by the militia that ruled over what was left of the Eastern half of the United States that she realized that the somewhat comfortable life she'd been raised in by her father was not at all safe. When she found out that her mother was still alive and everything she'd known about the woman she'd seen willingly walk away from her family was a lie, she had to come to terms with new truths about her family and the naive little girl she'd been made the transformation into the fighter she needed to be.
After yet another catastrophe, she spends six months away from her family in the big, bad world on her own, desperate to find the man responsible for all her family's troubles: Sebastian Monroe, the former President of the Republic and ruler of the militia that killed her father and brother. When she finds him, things aren't what they seems and she's forced to swallow her anger and work with him for the better of the people she's trying to protect... and it shows her willingness to put aside the anger she has for the ONE PERSON she's sworn to kill when it comes to helping family and the American people once more under threat from their own government.
She tends to be demanding, wanting answers to all of her questions and if those answers aren't satisfying to her, she often slips into the epitome of bratty teenager, though she's a little older than that. If circumstances seem to be out of her control, Charlie prefers to withdraw from everyone and everything around her rather than show weakness or fear. In a world where 'survival of the fittest' reigns supreme, it's the only way to survive. Showing weakness is the fastest way to be taken advantage of and she's not someone to let herself be taken advantage of if she can help it.
What she knows of the world is that it is a big, scary place where no one is to be trusted and everyone is out for themselves. It's a thought process that has turned her into a young woman that wants the best for herself and everyone around her while wondering who she can trust.
Items on your character at canon point:
- clothes: a brown faded leather coat, a green tank top, leather boots, socks & underclothes
- weapons: a hunting knife & belt, crossbow & arrows
- a leather pouch bag with miscellaneous things inside
Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses: Charlie is a skilled hand to hand combat fighter and an expert marksman with the crossbow she always has slung across her back. She has no idea what any kind of technology is, power is useless to her, but the upside is that she's good without it.
Samples
Network/Action Spam Sample:
[It's not the first time that the device has come on in the last few minutes, but this time it stays on. In fact, the young woman behind the video screen is peering into it like she's never seen anything like it before and, to be fair, she hasn't. Not one that works, really.]
Does this thing work? I mean, is it on? [She shakes it a little, then goes back to looking into the camera, before the scene shifts as she's clearly looking the whole thing over.] Hello? This is new to me and I don't know where I am. Texas seems like a long ways away and suddenly, the power's back on? When did that happen? I need some answers and I need 'em quick. This isn't right.
Prose Log Sample:
The fight against the Patriots was over, but a new fight was beginning. Sure, they hadn't gotten them all, but as far as Charlie was concerned, having what was left of them gunned down had been a victory. It might not have been her first choice - and she wasn't sure she believed Monroe's version of events (would she ever?), but the truth was, they couldn't afford to have to look over their shoulders if they were going into yet another battle.
As she packed her things, she thought back on what they'd gone through, what they'd sacrificed so far, and suddenly she felt an exhaustion wash over her that she hadn't felt before. Sure, they had to keep fighting, there wasn't any other choice, but she wondered if it was ever going to end.
They'd lost so many: her father, Danny, Maggie, Nora, Jason... even thinking about Jason now made her heart ache and she sat down on the edge of the makeshift bed in her tent. She knew his father still blamed her entirely for his death and would, if given the chance, still love to shoot her in the head, but for now - and only for now - she'd thank her lucky stars that the man was off somewhere with their crazy President.
A heavy sigh escaped without her meaning for it to and she shook her head to clear her thoughts before she resumed her packing.
"Charlie." Her uncle poked his head in, looking around the tent before focusing on her with a nod. "Time to go, put it in gear."
"Yup," Charlie said with a nod of her own as she tied the bag shut. She stood and swung it over her shoulder, no evidence that any dark thought had entered her mind on her face. "I'm ready."
Player name: Em
Contact: thezombiecoma on Plurk
Are you over 18: Oh yes
Characters in The Box Already: Annie Walker & TJ Johansen
Character Information
Character Name: Charlie Matheson
Canon: Revolution
Canon Point: End of Series
History: HERE
Personality: Charlotte 'Charlie' Matheson was five years old when The Blackout happened.
Before the blackout, the Matheson family lived in a Chicago suburb, happy like any other nuclear family. Caleb, Rachel and their two children: Charlie and Danny. Older than her brother by three years, Charlie loved the large television the family had, the iPads, the iPods and the iPhones... after all, her father was one of the leading tech geniuses of the day. She loved playing in the yard like all the other kids in the area and she was protective of her brother, even then.
When the power went out, everything changed in an instant.
Charlie grew up in a world without any of those modern conveniences; no running water, no electricity to light rooms, wash clothes or even spark batteries. Nothing. Physics literally changed overnight.
She, like everyone around her, became resourceful and learned how to use the land around her to suit her needs. She's skilled with a crossbow (which we see her using both as a hunter and as a fighter), and she's learned her way around different plants. The community her family is a part of has livestock as well as gardens and it's obvious that everyone, Charlie included, is knowledgeable in multiple uses for animals, vegetables and minerals.
At a very young age, she watched her mother kill a man who tried to steal what little food the family had in a Radio Flyer wagon and she took that very harsh lesson with her. Not long after that, for reasons she's unaware of, her mother left the family. Charlie's father later told her that her mother had died, news that Charlie didn't take well, and Caleb regularly used that as a threat: "Don't wander off/go over there/leave the community/etc. Do you want to end up dead like your mother?" In addition to using that to instill fear in her, he made sure that Charlie kept a close eye on her brother, Danny, an asthmatic.
Close to Danny, Charlie made sure that he was always taken care of: that he ate first, that he didn't suffer from too many asthma attacks and, that if he did, he was well taken care of from the community doctor. It's made clear that there is nothing that Charlie wouldn't do for her brother, up to and including, blackmail of the actual and emotional kind to get others to help her rescue him. When Danny died, it broke Charlie a little, separated her that much more from everyone around her.
As she'd grown up , her moral compass had always been pointed in the right direction and she had a problem when she sees wrongs being done to good people. It wasn't until her father was murdered, and her brother kidnapped, by the militia that ruled over what was left of the Eastern half of the United States that she realized that the somewhat comfortable life she'd been raised in by her father was not at all safe. When she found out that her mother was still alive and everything she'd known about the woman she'd seen willingly walk away from her family was a lie, she had to come to terms with new truths about her family and the naive little girl she'd been made the transformation into the fighter she needed to be.
After yet another catastrophe, she spends six months away from her family in the big, bad world on her own, desperate to find the man responsible for all her family's troubles: Sebastian Monroe, the former President of the Republic and ruler of the militia that killed her father and brother. When she finds him, things aren't what they seems and she's forced to swallow her anger and work with him for the better of the people she's trying to protect... and it shows her willingness to put aside the anger she has for the ONE PERSON she's sworn to kill when it comes to helping family and the American people once more under threat from their own government.
She tends to be demanding, wanting answers to all of her questions and if those answers aren't satisfying to her, she often slips into the epitome of bratty teenager, though she's a little older than that. If circumstances seem to be out of her control, Charlie prefers to withdraw from everyone and everything around her rather than show weakness or fear. In a world where 'survival of the fittest' reigns supreme, it's the only way to survive. Showing weakness is the fastest way to be taken advantage of and she's not someone to let herself be taken advantage of if she can help it.
What she knows of the world is that it is a big, scary place where no one is to be trusted and everyone is out for themselves. It's a thought process that has turned her into a young woman that wants the best for herself and everyone around her while wondering who she can trust.
Items on your character at canon point:
- clothes: a brown faded leather coat, a green tank top, leather boots, socks & underclothes
- weapons: a hunting knife & belt, crossbow & arrows
- a leather pouch bag with miscellaneous things inside
Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses: Charlie is a skilled hand to hand combat fighter and an expert marksman with the crossbow she always has slung across her back. She has no idea what any kind of technology is, power is useless to her, but the upside is that she's good without it.
Samples
Network/Action Spam Sample:
[It's not the first time that the device has come on in the last few minutes, but this time it stays on. In fact, the young woman behind the video screen is peering into it like she's never seen anything like it before and, to be fair, she hasn't. Not one that works, really.]
Does this thing work? I mean, is it on? [She shakes it a little, then goes back to looking into the camera, before the scene shifts as she's clearly looking the whole thing over.] Hello? This is new to me and I don't know where I am. Texas seems like a long ways away and suddenly, the power's back on? When did that happen? I need some answers and I need 'em quick. This isn't right.
Prose Log Sample:
The fight against the Patriots was over, but a new fight was beginning. Sure, they hadn't gotten them all, but as far as Charlie was concerned, having what was left of them gunned down had been a victory. It might not have been her first choice - and she wasn't sure she believed Monroe's version of events (would she ever?), but the truth was, they couldn't afford to have to look over their shoulders if they were going into yet another battle.
As she packed her things, she thought back on what they'd gone through, what they'd sacrificed so far, and suddenly she felt an exhaustion wash over her that she hadn't felt before. Sure, they had to keep fighting, there wasn't any other choice, but she wondered if it was ever going to end.
They'd lost so many: her father, Danny, Maggie, Nora, Jason... even thinking about Jason now made her heart ache and she sat down on the edge of the makeshift bed in her tent. She knew his father still blamed her entirely for his death and would, if given the chance, still love to shoot her in the head, but for now - and only for now - she'd thank her lucky stars that the man was off somewhere with their crazy President.
A heavy sigh escaped without her meaning for it to and she shook her head to clear her thoughts before she resumed her packing.
"Charlie." Her uncle poked his head in, looking around the tent before focusing on her with a nod. "Time to go, put it in gear."
"Yup," Charlie said with a nod of her own as she tied the bag shut. She stood and swung it over her shoulder, no evidence that any dark thought had entered her mind on her face. "I'm ready."
