Charcoal

"Great. The secret’s out." -Charcoal

* Seasons 2 and 3
* Season 4

**Charcoal** is an unusual Inkling with the ability to swim in water. Where it came from is unknown to her. While she was walking around she bumped into Arya Brighton and got invited into going into Alterna, where she talks to Meep Team member Cere "Han" Grove. One of his inventions reveals her secret, and when they didn't even flinch when she says her real name and the fact she can swim, she knew immediately that she has to join. Her friends call her Char.

## Backstory

### Charcoal's life from 0-5 years old

Eh nope not yet you can find out later whenever.

### Charcoal's life from 5-12 years old

Who were her real parents is unknown to her, but her first memory was when she was 5, she's being in the streets looking for food when she runs into an Octoling named #129. Despite the fact he was new, he got kicked out of Octoling society because he was a "defect." They bumped into each other, and Charcoal and #129 knew immediately that they are going to stick with each other. Charcoal asks what his name was, and he responds with #129. She tells him that he needs a name. He was confused, so she told him a bunch of names. He decided James Jonah. Charcoal, who though that name was too fancy, so she called him JJ. She always wanted to open a business that gets people's things from the water, but JJ warned her that people don't like anyone not like society's expectations and that she should keep it secret from everyone. She didn't approve, but decided to listen. They ran in the streets together until a couple decides to keep them both. They lived happily until a fateful day, where everything in Charcoal's life fell apart.

### The disappearance of JJ

One day JJ walked off while the couple and Charcoal is shopping. Where he went is unknown, and they waited for him until both of them thinks that JJ is dead. Charcoal wanted to look for him, but the couple wanted to forget about him. She and the kindly couple had an argument, and at one point, she said that she could swim. Horrified, they put her in the streets. Faced with the trauma of the day, she decided to change her name to Char and blend into society. During that time, she had identity crisises, no friends, and a feeling of hopelessness. (To see what happened to JJ, read his page.)

### Charcoal meets Arya

She decided to go on a walk, and she met Arya, and her life changed forever. She went to Alterna, and she met Agent 5, who she assumed that he was a knockoff for no particular reason. She then met Han, and they went chummy. She discovered that Han is Agent 5, and kept the secret for him. She also stopped calling Agent 5 a knockoff almost immediately. She joined the Meep Team, accepted the fact that can never see JJ again, and changed her name back Charcoal. She voted for team past just so she can possibly see him again.

### Present times

She believes that JJ is dead until Han revealed that JJ is alive. They found him, fought DJ Octavio, and saved JJ. Because of JJ begging, they created a band named The Outcasts. She once got Cat fuzzied, and she mentally shut down because she didn't want to be a Catling and was not thinking straight. Han recuited her to the Splatoon as Agent 9.

## Appearance

### Before the couple took her in

She weared dark grey rags, with the Hippie hairstyle with the coloration of dark grey with pale blue eyes.

### After they took her in

After she got tooken in, she changed it to the Hipster hairstyle, but she shaved off the ponytails because of an accident that happened because of JJ and a razor, and it's still with the dark grey. She also wore a dark grey hoodie with black jean shorts.

### When they kicked her out

After JJ disappeared and she got kicked out, she wore silver eyeglasses that no one could see her eyes through, a cat headband, and a blue hoodie with light green pants. She never got around of changing her hair color.

### After she joined the Meep team

She changed it back to the dark grey hoodie, black jeans, and taken off the silver eyeglasses and cat headband. She now uses the outfit she used when she changed her name to Char for the band.

### Season 4

She now wears headphones, and she doesn't bother cutting her hair, so her two tentacles grow a bit longer, but her shaved side of the head stayed shaved. Everything else stay the same.

## Personality

### Before the disappearance

Before JJ disappeared, she was very goofy and confident. She joked about doing dumb stuff to provoke him, and she wanted to open a business on swimming.

### After the disappearance

She's very cautious around new people, and during the time she changed her name to Char, she didn't talk to anyone with the fear of people finding out her secret. She was somewhat more cautious, but it didn't suit her.

### Meeting the Meep Team

When she bumped into Arya, she was so flustered that she talked. Many times during that conversation she almost told Arya and Han about her secret. After she got to known the two, she is back to her old self again. Despite the fact that seeing JJ might mean the destruction of the world, she still harbors those wishes. Whenever someone provokes her, she talks a lot of trash and threats.

### Season 2

Charcoal reverts back to when it was before the dissappearances, but is secretly troubled, showed in the thread "Char's somewhat backstory" and the wish to get brainwashed.

### Season 3

When JJ became Lytalized, she showed that she isn't exactly how she puts up and has lot's of insecurities she doesn't show less subtly then in Season two. Whenever Lytalized JJ even comes remotely near, she cries really hard. Now she doesn't even want to get remotely Lytalized.

### General

She can fight, and she sharpens up her skills, but she never used them in the fear she might hurt a new friend. If you insult one of her friends, however, then she would attack the person without thinking twice. She is usually super nice to other people, even if she doesn't know them that well. Unless they are giving off some danger aura or she thinks that something about them is off. She also has a somewhat mild form of depression she hides under the wraps.

## Trivia

* Before she met Arya she talked to a picture of JJ on the wall about her troubles. It worked for a while, but then it stopped, and she knew right then she desparately needed a friend.
* She is super protective of her friends. To the point that if something is wrong, she's usually the first to try to fix it. To sometimes bad concenquences.
* She always want to help if she's wanted.
* She always ask JJ questions that he can't answer
* She and JJ have a band called the Outcasts.
* Willow showed Charcoal an AI named R.U.I.N, and she loved it instantly.
* She has a really wierd obsession with going to the desert.
* She calls Terrence Terry to annoy him.
* She doesn't know that she's a Desertan Inkling and assumes that she just got a really weird mutation.
* She was called "Dolly" and she hates it.
* JJ is pretty sure that Char gave the name Charcoal to herself.
* If he's right, her real name is unknown.
* She has bones, but no one really knows this
* @Spoopy Inkling imagines her voice sounding like this
* Specifically from the song Liars.[1]

## Gallery

@DewdropdrawsStuff made this@PeacockFeatheredRaccoon drew this@AAACandy-draws-o-o drew this scene where people push off Char in the water, only to find out she swims