Charles

Charles (or Charlie) is a black ghost and secondary character in Spyman's Cosmos. Originally developed by Dr Saturn in 2014 for the Haunted Night series, this nice black pile of ectoplasm has made its appearance as a recurring character in other SC series and videos. 
Charles is a friendly ghost-like figure, that can blend his plasma into certain objects ultimately possessing them. Recently, he's often seen in the company of Caddict and Lenny, as he is the member of the No-Life-pranking gang.
==Biography==
=== Early life ===
Charles was created in one of the test chambers of Dr Saturn's Underwater Laboratory as a failed experiment with dark ectoplasm. He then became self-aware and kept by Dr Saturn as one of his monstrous pets. The object has been nicknamed 'Charles'.
Eventually, he followed his creator and joined the Spyman's Cosmos gang sometime before 2017. He became particularly good friends with Caddict, though he probably wasn't in the gang until late 2017, as well as Lenny Jester, who also wasn't in the gang until 2018, but they most likely met through Phil. With the former two, Charles became a part of the No-Life pranking trio, who started recording pranks on No-Life, later uploaded to Lenny's U-Tub channel.
=== Hurricane Inbound ===
He was seen appearing outside of Spy's Mansion for a few seconds, only to hide to the ground again, due to the heavy rain.
Sometime later, Charles emerged in the living room, upon hearing someone's loud voice. It turned out to be PCus, who has just had an argument with Mangle. Charles tried calming him down, alongside Dr Saturn and Spymankiller, and told him to respect other people's opinions. Much later, Charles took part in a Truth or Square game, along with Jeremy, Sat, Phil, Pankid, Luis, Neon and Spy. He witnessed a historic moment - Spy's hat being taken off for the first time.
=== In Search of the Scarlet Griffin ===
In summer of 2018, Charles and many of his other friends were invited by Phil to spend a few days at his mansion. Although he was travelling by bus with some of the other gang members, he and Caddict arrived late, as they went further to Stool, in order to put secret cameras in No-Life's house. After finally arriving, he was seen relaxing on a lawnchair during the barbecue.
The following day, after Phil received two messages from his old friend Jenny Brown, Charles took part in a massive research on an artifact mentioned by her - The Scarlet Griffin. At one point, he, Caddict, Spy, Lenny, Pankid and OkiWan joined Phil in the lab, talking with the gang's scientists. Charles heard that they decoded the hieroglyphics from a photo shown by Jenny on her video message. Charles then remembered there were two messages and asked about the other one, which was apparently dictated by BSoD and contradicted the content of the previous one, telling Phil to rescue Jenny from BSoD's hands, instead of pursuing the Griffin. Sat told him there was a secret sentence built from the first letter of every regular one, telling Phil and his friends to go to Brussels and find the map to the idol. While the Journey Squad left the mansion, Charles stayed alongside many others, waiting for Joseph and Mad to finish the works on their teleporter.
Charles was there, the next day, at the presentation of the scientists' teleport. He had his camera, normally used to record pranks, with him, to register the first test of the machine. When Mad was about to do it, Caddict told Charles to start rolling and he did so. Mad took a random thing from Sydney in Australia, but due to a twist of fate, it happened to be No-Life. When he saw the camera in Charles' hands, he thought it was one of their pranks and immediately got angry, starting to cause havoc around. 
He punched Caddict so hard, that he got pushed away to the door. No-Life then jumped at Charles, but only phased through him and landed on the other side, spotting PCus and searching things on him. While No-Life was being held by Mangle and Pankid, Charles and Droppy helped Caddict to get up and then witnessed No-Life being sent back. Droppy commented wondering what he would do if he realized he was so close to his house, when a loud smash could be heard and they all got buried under a bunch of hovercycles, teleported accidentally in exchange. Charles managed to avoid landing in the pile, but he was concerned, seeing his friends in it. 
The following day, Charles was watching television with Droppy, Caddict, PCus and Mangle, when Pankid came to say that the teleport was ready and order them to go to the lab, so they could join their friends. Charles observed as the others expressed their doubts and caused Pankid to finally snap and yell at them. He then went with the rest to the underground lab. Eventually, they teleported and arrived on Nisipoulis, just in time when the Journey Squad was in a bad place in their fight with Scarlet Griffin-enhanced BSoD. 
They met up with the main four and Spy spoke to them, giving everyone motivation, thanks to which, before one could notice, they were standing opposite to BSoD's army. They made a battle scream and started running towards them. Charles managed to phase inside one of the Gun henchmen and when he was approaching Pankid, Joseph and Blank Tank, Charles got out, breaking it into pieces. At the same time, he was passed by the main four running at BSoD. Eventually, they managed to defeat BSoD by creating their own Scarlet titan and once the devilish screen was broken, all of his constructs disappeared, which was witnessed by Charles, who was fighting one. 
Later, he accompanied his friends at the party in Phil's Mansion and was playing biliards with Droppy. 
=== The end of Spyman's Cosmos ===
Before the end of summer 2018, Blue Screen of Death got tired of being destroyed every time and thus BSoD's Gang was disbanded. Having nothing else to do and no enemies to beat, Spyman's Cosmos followed with doing the same thing and the friends went each in their own way. However, Charles remained in touch with Caddict and Lenny, with whom he continued to record pranks on No-Life.
=== How No-Life Stole Christmas ===
On December 23, 2019, the trio pulled yet another one of their iconic pranks. This one required Charles to phase through the walls of No-Life's house and hide a camera inside the Christmas tree, as well as put fake presents under it, that would explode with slime when opened, thanks to slime bombs from Lenny's brother. After No-Life fell victim to the prank, Charles phased into the house once again, took the camera and escaped without a word, obviously angering the boy. He then joined his friends, hidden behind a bush. Despite laughing from No-Life's priceless reaction, Charles had some doubts, regarding the prank, as he had to break into the house and break No-Life's family's privacy. However they quickly procceeded to watching the footage and having a good laugh. Then, they were caught by No-Life and had to run away from him.
The next day, Christmas Eve, the three was seen at the Stool Annual Christmas Fair. There, they witnessed a mysterious streak in a creepy elf suit destroying everything around. At one point they thought it was someone from BSoD's Gang, but refused that option, as it hasn't been active for years. Knowing that Spyman's Cosmos suffered the same fate, they decided to stop the potential new villain themselves and save Christmas.
They managed to stop "The Streak" on the city limits and unmask him. To their surprise, it was revealed to be No-Life, who went crazy, because of all the bad things that happened to him, and decided to destroy Christmas for everyone else. Additionally, he mentioned that one of the reasons for his madness was the prank that the trio pulled on him the day prior. Filled with guilt, Lenny allowed No-Life to go further. However they decided to catch him one more time and soon the four met again in the city centre. Charles and his friends talked some sense into No-Life and promised that if he minds, they will not prank him ever again. After hearing that he does what he does because of people constantly bullying him, Lenny told him to get over it and grow up. Surprisingly, the boy actually agreed and they soon went to execute Lenny's spontaneous plan.
Soon, they arrived at the Christmas Fair. Lenny brought No-Life to the main stage just before the Queen of this year's edition was announced. The Queen, who was Otillie, was mad and wanted to do something, but was unable to move due to Charles gluing her legs to the ground. Later, he came down from the stage, to join Caddict, Lenny and many other people hurt by No-Life's actions. They witnessed No-Life's apology speech and surprisingly, it caused a huge applause. Later, Charles was present at the big Christmas Eve supper, though he wasn't seen on-screen.
=== Corrupted Chaos ===
About two months later, Charles, along with Lenny and Caddict, reunited with some of their old friends to prepare a birthday surprise for OkiWan. He and his two best pals were responsible for buying the cake. They had no idea that they were being observed by the one for whom they were buying it. OkiWan was envying them, considering the fact that despite the Cosmos disbanding, they still maintained in touch and very good relations. Sometime later, after OkiWan became corrupted because of Garmatrol's actions, Charles was called by Phil, along with Caddict, Lenny and Droppy, to one of BSoD's bases. They helped to explain the situation and why they were meeting behind OkiWan's back. After the battle was over, they all went with OkiWan to see Dr Amberess Alford, who would help get rid of Oki's Power Aura. Soon after, the Spyman's Cosmos reunited.
=== The Thunder ===
In spring, Charles was stuck in Dr Saturn's Mansion, alongside many of his other friends from the gang, due to a heavy storm that broke out.
At one point of the first evening, he appeared next to Droppy and Blank Tank, who were talking about the former's music. Charles was a little mad at them for that, but then Rex came in and complained that he finds any activity related to music illegal. Charles got mad at him as well, as he already told him he was vulnerable to loud sounds, but Rex pointed out that the former two were just talking about it, which Droppy backed up. The ghost still called Rex a bitch nonetheless and they got into an argument and the truck said he was lucky, as he had a UNO session planned with OkiWan and Caddict.
Later that evening, Charles watched the news with many other people from the group and got terrified, when he heard that they were witnessing the storm of the century and that some regions of Finledge would soon be flooded. The following morning, he was watching cartoons, which was a very entertaining activity for him. Sometime later, Charles stole Droppy's stereo and hid it in the basement, so he wouldn't find it and constantly play loud music. When he noticed that his stereo was missing, he approached Charles and asked to give it back, but Charles refused. Later, Charles and the others gathered in the living room to hear the news from the scientists of the gang. The situation was yet to get even worse and Joseph revealed they nicknamed the storm "Fari", after an ancient God of thunder.
Two days later, Charles found himself in the living room, alongside many of his other friends, listening to Arthur's story about ancient Finledge and Fari himself. Sometime later, Alice asked Charles to look for a news of what happened in Vaelroth, Norway, in the newspaper he was constantly reading. Charles found the bit that told about an explosion of magical energy at Fari's mythical tombstone. Alice then deduced Fari was as real as she was and was heading for the island with his revenge, which made Charles confused.
With time, Hangajokul ended up in the storm's orange area, which the gang quickly found out about from the scientists. To add to the horror, the mansion was starting to get flooded. In that case, during an all-gang meeting, everyone knew they had to stop Fari as quickly as possible. Joseph revealed that it could be done, as Blank Tank and Rex discovered an ancient Celtic cave under the house, but it couldn't be explored due to being flooded. Charles then came up with an idea and came to Joseph to transfer some of his plasma to him. Dr Saturn then realized Charles could breathe underwater thanks to the plasma. 
Thus, a new plan was created an expedition team formed. Soon, Charles, Saturn, Joseph, Phil, Alice and Arthur gathered in a hallway. The ghost recapped the plan, that once they would be infected with plasma, they would go to the underwater cave and find out valuable information on how to defeat Fari. He was then asked by Alice if plasma transfer would be dangerous and he responded that only for him, as he would lose his energy. Then, he gave away the plasma to his friends, almost becoming a black puddle and told the expedition team to hurry.
After they came back and found out that they needed two ancient druids to conduct the sealing spell on Fari, they gave Charles his plasma back, while Dr Saturn said he would call the Coldmoor Paranormal Agency, as it was in touch with a modern group of druids. Over the next day, the scientists constructed a time machine, with which Saturn and Arthur went to the past to bring another original druid (as Arthur was already one). Meanwhile, Charles and the rest of the gang had to go up the mansion and hide on the sixth floor, as the water level outside rose drastically. Once Sat and Arthur arrived in the present with Master Firlainn, Charles witnessed the comeback of Fari, alongside Droppy and Frank.
With the threat of death above their heads and Mad preparing his teleporter for the people who would go to Stonehenge to stop Fari, Charles decided to reconcile with Rex and the latter accepted the apology, while congratulating him on the job with the underwater expedition. Charles happily thanked and said it wouldn't be possible if he and Blank didn't discover it in the first place. Later, while the main four, plus Arthur and Firlainn went to Stonehenge, Charles and the others were forced to seek shelter on the roof, where they were terrified of Fari. However, they quickly saw him defeated by a beam of light.
After the storm ended and the spring was back at its finest, Charles joined Dr Saturn and Alice on enjoying the good weather. He was singing a song about spring, which at one point was found annoying by Saturn, but despite the demands, Charles continued to sing it anyway.
=== Core Inbound ===
After the main four lost a battle with an alien tyrant Vitreous, they quickly developed a plan B and went for another one, calling Charles, alongside Pankid and Lenny for help. They got to the location by Spy's car and upon arrival, they met up with General Stefanson, who was glad to see them after the main four's success in the battle with Fari. Soon, Dr Amber's helper Gregor also arrived in his Mecha Martis and the battle started. While the gang decided to face Vitreous' Minions, Charles was told to destroy the Driller from the inside.
Once one wave of the Minions was defeated by the gang, another jumped out of the machine, but Charles possessed one of them and knocked down the others. Mecha Martis then held the Driller, allowing the rest of the gang to climb up, but it quickly got up and they all were thrown away, except Charles who managed to phase inside. Eventually the gang got back up to and noticed Charles waving to them, while holding one of the tiles on the Driller. This allowed them to get inside, this time successfully. After sliding through a vent, they arrived at the machine's power core and they all shot it with their respectful weapons.
Right before the explosion, Charles swallowed all of his friends and quickly jumped out to then release them outside, back next to Stefanson. Due to a hard landing, Saturn was a little mad, that he almost killed them, but Charles apologized, as he had to think quick. They were then congratulated by the General and saw Vitreous being devastated after his machine got destroyed. They mocked him for a little bit, until he promised revenge and that they would beg for mercy to then fly away.
Charles later rejoined his friends in front of OkiWan's house, when the main four was leaving to stop Vitreous in the Earth's core. He was mainly talking with Lenny and Caddict. When Jack Jester and Dr Rex arrived on the scene, Charles pointed it out to Lenny, that his brother had come, causing Lenny to look down.
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=== Cloak of Murk ===
After the war with Vitreous, Dr Saturn once again invited the main four to his mansion and allowed Charles to spend time with them on a video game night. Firstly though, knowing that this was how their adventures usually started, they disconnected all phones in the house and split themselves from the world. After the gang came and the two told them about it, Saturn ordered everyone to grab their controllers for a Smash Bros night, which made Charles happy, as it was his favourite game. 
Next morning, everyone in the mansion was doing their things. Charles was talking with Dr Saturn, Joseph and Alice, when they heard knocking on the door, which interrupted their good time.
The main four went to check it, afraid that their another adventure would start and it indeed did, as it turned out to be Dr Rex. He was brought inside the house and pointed at by the gang's respective weapons, while Charles tangled his plasma around him. Spy demanded answers from the evil scientist and so he revealed that he left BSoD's Gang for being mistreated and wanted to form an alliance to defeat Blue Screen once and for all. In order to be trusted, he promised that one of them could kill him if he ever betrayed them and the gang then started debating the answer, to eventually agree. 
Later, the main four and Rex left the house to storm BSoD's base, while Charles remained in the mansion.
=== Lenny's Vlogs: The Revelation ===
In September of 2020, Charles came to Phil's Mansion along with Caddict to help Lenny in recording a new video for their channel. It was supposed to be an investigation footage, as Lenny revealed that throughout the past nine months he had been collecting trails regarding No-Life's parents' faces, which, as he had noticed, were never caught on camera and sometimes glitched. Although Charles took his role as the camerman as usual, he stopped the recording without Lenny's permission, as he wasn't certain of going to No-Life's house, due to the agreement they made with him on Christmas. 
Lenny tried to convince him that it wasn't anything bad, as it wasn't a prank, but Charles still didn't want to go and Caddict was with him on that. However, being aware that Lenny would go there anyway, even if they forbid him to do so, Charles handed him a chip made by Dr Saturn, which activates once a Cosmos member is in danger and showcases their location. He said that it was in case No-Life wouldn't like it and go too far. Lenny then said that they shouldn't lose their faith in the boy and left shortly.
=== Down in the Mines ===
In 2021, Charles went on a trip with Dr Saturn and Alice to help them in their research regarding clutfunium. As the airlines didn't allow monsters on the plane, he had to travel in a suitcase and could only go out once they arrived on an Irish airport. The travel wasn't comfortable for the ghost, but he had to get through some more, as they still had to go to Wexford, Alice's hometown. Eventually, they got to her family home and met her father, Turlough, with the intention to ask him for valuable information about clutfunium. However, Turlough refused, as not a long time ago, he was visited by the Knights of the Polyhare Order, who told him to stop the research and burnt his six years worth of files.
This shocked everyone and made Charles give credit to the knights. Alice then started convincing her father to give them advices and Charles and Saturn joined her, reassuring that she would be safe. Turlough subsequently adviced the three to ask Baroness Griselda, who also recently started her research. He lended them his car and they left the house, but unfortunately, the car was pretty old, so to make the engine more powerful, Charles entered it through the fuel tank. He became one with the mobile and his friends went inside to then drive to Griselda's Castle.
Once they arrived and the butler who welcomed them confirmed that it was the baroness' castle, Charles changed the car's colour to his and spoke to the servant, who got frightened of a talking automobile. Saturn and Alice calmed him down and told that they were looking for Griselda. After getiing out of the Charlesmobile, Saturn told him to wait for them, while they went after the butler to Griselda. The ghost was left alone, which made his excitement fade away, but was eventually rejoined by the shakespearean butler, who gave him some appetizers. While eating, Charles was telling him some crazy story regarding a beach condo and when he finished it, Alice and Saturn came back, telling him to follow someone in a monocle.
Eventually the gang stopped by Griselda's excavation site and was surprised by how poorly it looked. Charles suggested it could be her choice, when they were approached by a tank, who worked there, but as it turned out, was also half of the crew, making the three even more puzzled. He also revealed that they hadn't found any clutfunium yet and that they needed better tools, which couldn't be bought, as the leader of the expedition, Sir Lochlann Murray, had never actually showed up in the mines. The three friends figured that he was defrauding the baroness' money. Charles asked for the businessman and the tank told them to look for him in the nearby town.
Upon hiding behind some crates and barrels, Charles, Alice and Saturn could see Lochlann hiring two new workers with Griselda's money in a suitcase. Conveniantly enough, Murray needed three more workers and the gang decided to apply for the job themselves, so in the evening they headed to the tavern, where Lochlann was present. He took a good look at Saturn and Charles, as well as the disguised Alice, who introduced herself as "Iron Al", but in the end they were all hired. The next morning, they arrived on the town square, from where they were supposed to travel to the workplace. Charles complained that he didn't want to work, but both Sat and Alice changed his mind, as they weren't actually going there for labour. They were finally approached by Sir Murray, who told them to enter the bus and put blindfolds on, so they wouldn't know where they would be working.
After some time of the ride, they felt that they went into a tunnel, so Charles opened his eyes and reassured his friends that they were actually underground. Soon enough, they drove out of the tunnels and were shocked seeing a huge and extensive mining facility, presumably built entirely for Griselda's money. They also spotted the Polyhare Knights guarding the place. The bus soon stopped and Lochlann began to show them around the place, bringing them to shaft number 15, where they would be mining hyssopium. Charles asked what was that, but Lochlann didn't intend to tell him and proceeded to explain the rules. He also showcasing the various types of drills and warned not to snoop around. Later, the friends were all pretending to work, when Alice noticed a weird stone slab with an inscription that seemed familiar.
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==Personality==
Charles is pretty flegmatic and hates loud sounds. Therefore, he destroys Party Machines, stereos, speakers and subwoofers making him a pain-in-the-ass sometimes, especially for Droppy. If not that, he simply steals it, like he did with Droppy's stereo. He always gets scared about himself whenever he hears the words "loud music", even if it's just a discussion about it. This was also the cause of his argument with Rex. Though it seemed like an overexaggeration, Charles was really scared for his life, as too much loud sounds would be bad for him.
Despite that, he's mostly known as "the friendly ghost", and for a reason. Charles is normally very optimistic, with a smile on his face (though he doesn't have a mouth) and being polite to everyone. He is so well-behaved, that he's trying his best to be nice even to No-Life. Despite pulling pranks on him, he didn't mean anything bad and treated them like innocent jokes. However, the pranks often broke No-Life's privacy, which was Charle's main concern and the usual cause of the discussions between him and Lenny with Caddict. Nonetheless, the two are Charles's best friends and he's usually seen spending time with them.
Apparently, Charles loves computer games, especially Roblox, but always goes insane, when the game crashes.
==Powers and Abilities==
===Powers===
*Phasing: As a ghost, Charles is able to phase his whole body and walk through walls or even become one with them. This is how he entered No-Life's house to hide a camera there, while remaining undetected.
*Immateriality: Being made of plasma and not having a body, one is able to simply go through Charles, or the other way - he is able to go through people and things, as mentioned earlier. Despite that, if Charles wants, he can become tangible whenever he wants. That's hoe he can hold a camera or how he was wearing a scarf in How No-Life Stole Christmas. This doesn't prevent him from going through objects though.
*Water resistance: Charles is somehow invulnerable to water and can breathe underwater.
*Power donation: If he wants to, Charles can transfer some of his plasma onto somebody, which in result grants the person his powers, like breathing underwater. However, the more plasma he gives away, the more he loses.
*Power Enhancement: He can control weapons and make them more powerful and deadly with his plasma.
*Flying(?): In the teaser trailer for Johnson's Vengeance, Charles can be seen soaring above the ground.
===Abilities===
*Cameraman: For some reason, Charles is considered to be the best camera operator by Lenny and Caddict, so it's usually him who is chosen to record their videos.
===Weaknesses===
*Loud sounds: Charles is vulnerable to loud noises and potential sonic attacks. After all his years, he developed a reaction to them, and whenever he hears one, he immediately starts destroying the source. Although sometimes, he goes so insane, that he wrecks everything around.
==Appearances==
#Hurricane Inbound 1/4 (cameo)
#Hurricane Inbound 2/4
#How No-Life Stole Christmas
#In Search of the Scarlet Griffin 1/5 (cameo)
#In Search of the Scarlet Griffin 2/5
#Corrupted Chaos
#The Thunder
#Core Inbound 2/5
#Cloak of Murk 1/4
#In Search of the Scarlet Griffin 3/5
#Core Inbound 4/5 (cameo)
#In Search of the Scarlet Griffin 4/5 (mentioned)
#In Search of the Scarlet Griffin 5/5
#Lenny's Vlogs: The Revelation
#Down in the Mines 1/4
#Down in the Mines 2/4
#Down in the Mines 3/4
#Down in the Mines 4/4
#Core Inbound 5/5
==Trivia==
*Charles was inspired by a blury memory of the monster from a certain horror movie.
*Back in Haunted Night days, Charles was presented as a shadow of a terrifying blob-like creature. It was then revealed Charles always looked like this.
*Charles is covered in dark plasma, which behaves similarly to Symbiotes.
*He's Dr Saturn's favourite character.
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