Charles

Charles, more commonly referred to as "Chuck", is a main character who first appears in Season 3: Long Road Ahead of The Walking Dead. A homeless man, he was residing inside of a boxcar of a train where Lee and the group found him. Chuck is a kind and generous man, who selflessly cares for the safety of others more than himself.
==Pre-Apocalypse==
Nothing is known about Charles' life before the outbreak or as the outbreak began. All that is known is that he had lived in Georgia for his entire life. He was a homeless drifter, and had a family, but hadn't seen them for around 14 years.
==Post-Apocalypse==
===Season 3: Long Road Ahead===
===="Chapter 28"====
After Lee detaches the train from its damaged cars and starts the engine after finding a list of instructions, the group is surprised by Charles, a homeless man who has been living in the train. He instantly befriends the group and decides to join them as they board the train. Katjaa attempts to get Kenny to listen about Duck, but Kenny is in denial and angrily forces the group to board and shut up about Duck. The group leaves on the train.
===="Chapter 29"====
A few hours later, each of the survivors (minus Kenny) are in the boxcar, waiting for the train to arrive in Savannah. Chuck asks Lee how they had survived as four adults taking care of three kids (including Ben), which irritates Ben. Lee tells him that there had used to be more of them, to which Chuck asks if the "dead [got] them". Lee admits that the walkers had not killed them, leading to Chuck concluding that the living had killed them. Sandy tells Chuck of one of their own being killed by another, and Katjaa suddenly calls for help, as Duck begins to cough up blood. Sandy rushes over and Katjaa asks her to clean up some coughed-up blood on Duck's cheek. She takes a rag on the ground and wipes Duck's face. "He's out of time. We need to stop the train." Katjaa says to her. Sandy looks over at Lee and asks him to let Kenny know what's going on and to stop the train. In the engine car, Lee immediately orders Kenny to stop the train. Kenny simply ignores him, but Lee presses the man until he listens. Lee passively states facts and tries to sympathize with Kenny's plight to get him to stop the train. Kenny, however, refuses to believe Duck will die, stating the Duck is not like the others who died. Lee asks him once more to stop the train, but Kenny frustrated that nobody could offer him any hope, adopts a preparatory posture and glares at Lee. Lee avoids the confrontation, asking Kenny to see reason. Lee realizes that part of Kenny's denial has to do with his own failures and feelings, notably his guilt for the death of Hershel's son. Kenny, perhaps beginning to realize his guilt himself, initially denies Lee's assertion that Kenny did not kill Shawn. Kenny asks how the world could let his son live when he had helped put someone else's son in the ground. Lee calmly reassures him, places a compassionate hand on Kenny's shoulder, then finally convinces Kenny to pull on the train's brakes. The train rolls to a full stop, prompting the group to disembark. Kenny and Lee find Katjaa tending to a barely conscious and extremely pale Duck. She solemnly announces that they are out of time. Kenny curtly tells Chuck and Ben that Duck had been bit, but neither one meets Kenny's eyes in acknowledgment. Kenny is uncertain of what to do, but Katjaa resolves for him that they could not allow Duck to turn. Kenny, numbed, pleads that they did not need to shoot their son, asking if there was any way they could prevent Duck from turning otherwise. Katjaa declares that they both know that the only way to prevent reanimation is to destroy the brain. Distressed, Kenny volunteers to be the one to shoot Duck, but Katjaa argues that such a thing was beyond Kenny's ability. Katjaa herself decides to be the one to do it, asking Kenny to remain there and to remember Duck for who he used to be and hold onto that. Sandy speaks up and asks Katjaa if she's sure, and if she wants her or Lee to be the one to shoot Duck, but Katjaa remains firm about herself being the one to do it, but thanks Sandy for offering to do it. Katjaa takes Duck away from the boxcar and into the woods so that Clementine does not have to see the shooting. Clementine asks Lee what was happening, to which he tells her that Katjaa is putting him out of his misery so he will not suffer any more pain. A gunshot is heard, and Kenny begins to weep. Everyone stands in silence, and Kenny tells everyone he's going to get Katjaa, saying she's probably a wreck. Kenny walks in a daze toward where he had last seen his wife go as Lee slowly trails behind him until they stumble upon a small clearing to discover that Katjaa had shot herself rather than Duck. Traumatized, Kenny fails to characterize why she had done it and softly shuts her eyes as tears stream down his face. Glancing at Duck, he takes Katjaa's gun and stands in front of Duck. Lee joins him, pushing aside his shock so that they could deal with Duck. Kenny, in a single moment of surreal clarity mixed with dullness, asks Lee what they should do. Lee takes the gun from Kenny, wanting to spare him from the pain of having to put down his son. Dismayed at what he is about to do, Lee raises the gun on Duck and quickly pulls the trigger, preventing the boy from reanimating, much to the grief of Kenny. The two men depart from the clearing, leaving the two corpses as they were.
===="Chapter 30"====
Nearly two hours later, the train is moving but has yet to reach Savannah. Lee enters the boxcar to find Clementine alone, sitting along the edge of the doorway and watching the surrounding forest zip by. Lee joins her, asking if she was alright and if she understood what had happened when Chuck had told her. She says that she understood, but was still upset because Chuck had warned her that what had happened to Duck would happen to her as well. Angered, Lee leaves the boxcar and goes to the outside railing of the engine car. Lee challenges Chuck's assertion and demands he explain himself for telling a little girl such a thing as that. Chuck, calm, tells Lee that he had a purpose in telling her such a thing: she would die if Lee continued to treat her like a little girl. Chuck then brings up the group's lack of a tangible plan and tells Lee that he should involve Clementine in his decisions. He asks that Lee think of an appropriate plan and share it with Clementine and then teach her how to use a weapon should anything happen to him. He also implores Lee to take some scissors from his pack and cut her hair, as it would only give walkers and other people something to grab onto when they attacked her. Although Lee expresses reluctance to expose Clementine to the harsh realities of the world, Chuck convinces him that as long as she was alive, none of the previous applications about her size, strength or gender would no longer matter. Chuck then admits to Lee that his reasoning for asking this of Lee was because he had already seen too many people die and he had no desire to watch another little girl die. Lee thanks Chuck for the advice and leaves him to go back to Clementine. He finds Kenny sitting alone in the engine car and offers some quiet reassurance. Kenny, cold to any sort of sympathy, ignores all of Lee's attempts to discuss their current predicament. Lee mentions to him that he wanted to apologize for not telling him about his past, but Kenny dismisses it and tells him that he did a lot for him and his family, and he believes Katjaa would be okay with him. Lee leaves him to his own thoughts and goes back to the boxcar for Clementine. He tells her about what Chuck had told him and gently insists that the two of them are a team, and that every team needs a plan. He displays his pistol and tells her that she needs to know how to defend herself. He teaches her the basic knowledge of how to aim and shoot, also offering her some token words on how specifically she could improve her shooting. Lee finds a few glass bottles from Chuck's gatherings and sets them up on top of a cardboard box. Lee helps Clementine correct her stance and aim with two bottles before she is able to hit a third by herself with no assistance. Proud of her, Lee assures Clementine that one day, she would be able to shoot walkers too if needed. Afterward, Lee takes the scissors from Chuck's supplies and informs Clementine of the practicality of shortening her hair. She is hesitant to part with her hair, but Lee makes the final decision to cut it. She questions him on his actions before the outbreak and whether or not killing was bad at this point as he cuts her hair. Lee tells her that killing isn't good, but necessary to protect people he cares about. When her hair gets short enough to his liking, Lee ties them back and tells her she looks cute and a lot safer now. Lee leaves Clementine to go search for a map as Chuck suggested. He passes Ben, who is deep in thought and oblivious to Lee's presence. Sandy is leaning against the railing watching the train pass the area and asks Lee if he's doing alright after what he had to do with Duck. Lee assures her that he's alright and asks her if she's doing alright, saying he hasn't had time to talk to her about everything with how fast it all unfolded. Sandy tells him that she's coming to terms with what has happened in the span of 14 hours (to her knowledge) and wishes things had worked out differently. After a moment of silence between the two, Lee brings up his past to Sandy, wanting to explain to her what happened. Sandy mentions to him that Meg told her that she recognized Lee when they all first met, and she originally thought Meg meant Lee was famous for something, but understands now why Meg thought he looked familiar. She goes on by saying that his actions for the group and for Clementine have shown her who he truly is and believes that whoever Lee killed must have deserved it for him to kill him. Sandy tells him to let the past stay in the past, adding that it doesn't define him. Lee thanks her and asks if she's seen any maps laying around. Sandy tells him that she grabbed a map from the map bin in the engine car and hands it to him. Lee thanks her and leaves to return to Clementine. Before entering the boxcar, Ben stops him with the sudden revelation that he had been the one supplying the bandits with the supplies. Shocked, Lee asks why he had done it, and Ben tries to excuse his actions by explaining that the bandits had threatened to kill his friend, but Ben had been unable to break off the deal when he discovered that his friend had never been with them. Apologetic, Ben returns to his silence and offers no further comment without Lee asking for one. Lee goes back to Clementine with the map and gives his position on what to do upon their arrival, and the plan to continue searching for a boat. However, Clementine only wants to look for her parents, Lee eventually agrees to look for them. The two decide to look near the Marsh House, where she last knew her parents were staying. At the conclusion of Lee's preparations to make Clementine safer, Kenny suddenly shouts from the engine compartment for everybody to brace themselves as the brakes are engaged. Once the train comes to a complete stop, Kenny watches dumbly at an overpass in front of them with a petroleum tanker hanging from the bridge that is blocking the train's path. The whole group dismounts from the train, Kenny loudly announcing his displeasure with a series of curses. Ben suggests leaving the train behind and walking, but Kenny immediately shoots the idea down. Sandy suggests driving through it since they have more firepower with the train to move it. Kenny curtly tells her that the tanker is filled with gasoline, not milk. Irritated by the response, Sandy tells him he needs to get himself together and focus on the group and Clementine. Kenny angrily tells her she doesn't understand his grief at losing Katjaa and Duck so recently. Sandy reminds Kenny about her sister's death, saying she knows something about the grieving process. She tells him she's just trying to help, calling him an asshole. Kenny once again responds by noting his wife and son have just died. Now agitated as well, Sandy reminds him about her sister's death, Doug's death, Mark's death, her parents' probable death and tells him that the group's all been dealing with the same losses. Before Sandy and Kenny's argument escalates further, they are interrupted by a voice. "Yo! If you keep screaming like that, you're gonna get your face chewed off." A man exclaims. A woman asks them if they're trouble or not, otherwise, they're gonna keep walking. Lee tells them they're friendly. The man asks if they needed help, citing the wreck in front of the train. They request for Lee to meet them upon the bridge by climbing a ladder against the bridge's column. Lee introduces himself, learning their names as Christa and Omid. Omid points out Clementine, who had followed Lee up the ladder without his knowledge and gets excited that they had "a kid" with them. Christa notices that Lee was not Clementine's father and asks what their story was. Lee gives his own story and that of their previous day with Duck and Katjaa and how they had lost the motel. Christa offers to help them move the train, but warns him that she and Omid would leave at the first sign of trouble with them.
===="Chapter 31"====
Lee, Clementine, Christa, and Omid return to the train and introduced the latter of the two to the group and lay out the plan to get the train moving. Kenny points out a train station on the other side of the bridge that someone should check for supplies or anything that could help with the tanker while he teaches Omid the controls to the train and Christa decides to talks to Clementine. Ben stands on watch and Chuck keeps to himself as the newcomers become acquainted. Sandy talks with Christa about her past and traveling with Omid, while Lee talks with Ben about walkers in general. In the engine car, Kenny instructs Omid on how the controls work, with Omid asking if he'll get to drive it himself. Kenny reminds him that he can drive only if Kenny was unable to. Omid suggests they could drive in shifts, so he can rest. Upon Kenny's suggestion, Sandy decides to go check out the train station for supplies. Lee notices Sandy heading over and decides to follow her in case she needs help. Clementine stops him and asks if he would let her go with him. Lee agrees to let her come with him, then announces his intentions to the group before walking away from the train. At the station, Sandy infers that it had been abandoned for a long time due to the plea painted in white on top of the building. As Lee and Sandy look around, Clementine finds the entrance locked before she could go inside without anyone, something he gently warns her about. With no means to force the door open, Lee puts her on his shoulders to give her a glimpse into a window above the door, but he is mildly surprised when Clementine manages to unlock the door without going through the window. He sets her down and the three enter the station, finding the building too dark to reliably search. Lee is forced to use his spanner to prop the door open so they could see with sunlight, though Lee wishes he could keep it in case of danger. Sandy finds a blowtorch, but a locked gate separates her from the object. Lee lifts Clementine up to squeeze through a gap between the ceiling and metal bars, but she stops short before going to get the keys to open it with. Clementine alerts Lee and Sandy to a couple of walkers that have entered the building. The walkers cause Lee to drop his pistol on the other side of the gate and out of his reach. Sandy grabs her knife and dispatches the two walkers trying to corner her. Lee backs away to the door and retrieves his manual weapon, turning forth to kill the two walkers in quick succession. When all of them hit the floor, Lee sees Clementine shakily holding his pistol on the corpses. He reassures her that everything was fine, but the three of them notice another walker on Clementine's side of the gate. At Lee's instruction, Clementine rushes to get the keys, give them to him so he could unlock the gate, and hands him the gun so that he could shoot the walker in the head. Christa enters the station to investigate the gunshot. Christa notes the walkers and their proximity to one another with obvious displeasure, then criticizes Lee for taking them head-on with an eight-year-old by his side. Sandy coldly gives her own version on what had happened, irking Christa with Lee's lack of response. She goes to check for any walkers drawn by the noise, but pauses briefly to tell Lee that she hopes he knew what he was doing with Clementine. Sandy rolls her eyes and tells Lee that she's gonna go scope the area as well. Ignoring Christa's terse message, he grabs the blowtorch and asks Clementine what they had learned from this experience. She demurely states that she was not ready for a gun, but he corrects her and says that they learned not to be afraid. They walk out of the station and head back to the train.
===="Chapter 32"====
Back on the bridge, Lee starts cutting the coupling to the tanker with the blowtorch, but runs into complications as it slides out of his reach. Instead, he opts to dangle Omid over the gap to finish the job, much to the latter's discomfort. Ben spots a massive zombie herd heading toward the group, and they must leave, as Omid finally cuts the coupling. The truck damages the ladder leading to the bridge and Omid and Lee cannot get down. Clementine, Sandy, Charles, and Christa manage to make it on the train as Kenny starts it. Lee kicks the lit blowtorch onto the spilling gas from the tanker, making a small barrier of fire to buy time. They move to the other side and jump onto the train, with Omid having a bad landing and falling off, badly injuring his leg. Lee gets on the train and Christa gets off to help Omid. Lee grabs Omid first and pulls him on the train, earning backlash from the man as he goes to say something only for Christa to make it aboard. Clementine comes in to check on everyone, and Christa assures her that everyone is alright. A few hours pass and Omid makes conversation with some of the others. After questioning Charles on things he has seen in his past, he questions Sandy on how she got the "sick scar" on her face. Christa chastises him and apologizes to Sandy in case she dislikes people referring to her scar, but Sandy thinks nothing of it and tells Omid the story of the insane woman who attacked her with a knife and cut her face in the process, but killed her before she did any more damage. Omid praises her actions and says its a badass story. Kenny lays down, getting some rest in the boxcar. Christa looks over at him and asks Sandy if he's doing alright, mentioning the previous fight they overheard. Sandy tells them that Kenny is in a really bad place right now and he needs time to himself. She gets up to go check on Lee and Clementine in the engine car. Lee is driving the train, with Clementine sleeping next to him. He notices a drawing Clementine drew. Sandy enters the car, checking on Lee and Clementine. Lee talks with her about Christa and Omid and Kenny comes in, appearing a bit more stable, and talks with the two on what to do when they reach Savannah, when Clementine's walkie-talkie, which she had always said was broken, comes on. A man's voice is heard, telling Clementine that he's happy she's coming to Savannah, and that he has her parents, Ed and Diana. The voice then instructs Clementine to find him whether Lee approves or not. The three of them, who both believed the walkie-talkie was broken, are stunned and wonder who it could be as the train pulls into Savannah.
===Season 4: Around Every Corner===
===="Chapter 33"====
Roughly three hours after the end of the last episode, Lee, Kenny, Sandy, Clementine, Ben, Charles, Christa and Omid finally reach the Atlantic city of Savannah. The next day, they start to walk through the town with Lee hanging on to Clementine's walkie-talkie in case the unnamed man tries to contact her again, despite Clementine's pleas for it back. After walking a while, Christa asks to let Omid rest for a bit, despite Omid's reluctance to rest. Lee asks Kenny how much further the coast is from their position and Kenny tells them it won't be much longer now. Sandy questions the idea of there being a boat by the coast, believing someone to have taken them, but Kenny tells her there will be boats. Not much time passes before the group nears a church and the bell begins to ring. Lee becomes suspicious of the bell ringing at an unusual time and notices a figure running across a roof. Lee calls up to the person, but they have disappeared. The rest of the group had not seen the figure, however. The unknown man speaks through the walkie-talkie warning the group to move out of the street. Christa immediately questions Lee on the walkie-talkie and its functionality. Kenny wonders if the person Lee saw in the bell tower is the one on the radio, to which Sandy questions why they would bother warning them. A large group of walkers begins to descend on the group. The group tries to run, but are forced to fight back, pushing their way through the streets. Chuck kills a few of them with his shovel, Christa shoots one while protecting Omid, and Sandy uses the end of her rifle to knock some of the walkers down to make room for Lee and Clementine. Kenny is tripped by a walker under a car and drops his gun, leading to Lee saving him. Kenny comments on the close call, but Lee's attention is drawn to Clementine and Ben being cornered by a group of zombies. Ben freezes in fear and abandons Clementine to save himself, forcing Lee to shoot the walkers around her, but a stray walker reaches Clementine. Just as it goes to attack, it is promptly knocked down by Chuck and his shovel. Clementine catches up with Lee and the others, but Chuck (wanting to ensure Lee saves Clementine) stays to fight off the other walkers on his own accord. He yells to the others to move on without him and that he will meet up with them later. Sandy directs the others to follow her lead down the street, but another group of walkers makes their way onto the street. Lee opens a gate near one of the houses and tells everyone to run in as they notice Chuck is nowhere in sight now.
===="Chapter 37"====
In the sewers below Savannah, Lee uses some misdirection to avoid walkers. Along the way, Lee discovers the remains of Chuck, with an empty revolver nearby, implying that Chuck had used the last bullet on himself before being devoured. Lee says to his dead body that he deserved better.
==Death==
;Killed By
*Ben Paul (Indirectly Caused)
*Walkers (Caused)
*Himself (Suicide)
Lee moved to investigate the sewers, where he discovered Chuck, disemboweled and with a gunshot wound to the head. It is presumed that Chuck took refuge in the sewer and, knowing that he wasn't going to survive, shot himself in the head so that he wouldn't have to suffer a more gruesome fate, and prevented himself from reanimating. Lee discovered walkers feasting on his corpse and, after distracting them, Lee uncovered an empty gun next to Chuck. Lee told himself and the unmoving corpse that he had deserved better before moving on.
==Killed Victims==
This list shows the victims Charles has killed:
*Himself (Suicide)
*Numerous counts of walkers
==Appearances==
==Trivia==
*Charles is an alcoholic.
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