Charles

Charles (he/it) is Steve Stevenson's sadistic pet pineapple. He wears a dark cloak, apparently does not like to be moved around, and seems to enjoy terrifying random visitors.

It is generally suspected that Charles is semi-sentient. Now the inofficial mascot of the Evensol assassins, Charles is loved dearly by his owner and much less so by the other two.

## Appearance

Charles looks like, for all intents and purposes, your average pineapple. With a cape on it. He's on the large side, of course, and his leaves are certainly not as fresh and supple as a pineapple still attached to a stem, but... well, he's a pineapple. He doesn't have eyes or legs or mouths or whatever.

He wears a black/dark blue cape tied at the upper part of his fruit. The stiff fabric props itself up somewhat, providing him with a nice hourglass-shaped silhouette shape.

He has a chip off the fruit at his left shoulder, a scar made by Jackdaw as a result of a miscalculation when throwing knives. The cape manages to hide it most of the time, but the inch-deep wound is definitely still there if anyone wishes to check.

Not the most conventional of objects to put at the top of dressers, fireplaces, or reading tables, Charles usually draws quite a few odd glances from visitors to the house. He gives off a certain atmosphere of smugness whenever he sits - you can almost feel him looking down at you, if the phrase can ever be used for a tropical fruit without eyes.

## Communication and personality

Charles doesn't talk. Of course he doesn't. He's a pineapple. He doesn't put words into people's brains either. Pineapples do not speak in languages.

He just lets you know, in a very quiet and not-at-all friendly way, what exactly he is feeling right now. There's a sort of aura around him.

If he's angry, you'll know that he's angry. There'll be this terrible foreboding that pours out from every wall, a feeling that you have provoked the most horrific monster on the land, that this yellow pineapple on the dresser will somehow inflict upon you a wrath surpassing that of a thousand hells. And you'll be so sorry for the rest of your life and you just wish that maybe there's a chance that you'll be forgiven by the abomination of fruit in front of you and -

People generally do not want to anger Charles.

He radiates wrath, terror, dread, or smugness depending on his mood, and apparently does not have any other emotion. An arrogant sadist who enjoys nothing better than to scare people, he does this way too often for everyone else's own good. He never forgets a grudge either, something that to this day causes Jackdaw trauma on sight.

The only person fully immune to Charles's psychic manipulation is Terrence, who has his own stuff to care about and can't be bothered with a weird fruit.

## History

Charles was introduced to Steven's household about twelve or thirteen years ago. Any history before that is unknown, especially as Steven refuses to tell anyone else how or where he got the fruit. Steven named the pineapple Charles and put a cape on it because Steven thought it was fun. A pineapple in the house of an assassin deserved to be treated like an assassin, and what defines assassins better than black cloaks?

Young Sandy came, things happened, and Charles for the first time found himself matched with an opponent. They had a faceoff that first day to establish dominance, and Sandy, unsurprisingly, won.

(Charles has been cautious of Sandy ever since.)

Charles got moved around somewhat as the years passed, to the top of dressers, dining tables, chests of drawers, even a shelf - though that only lasted for fifteen minutes as Charles got *very* angry about it.

Jackdaw came. Though Charles was initially wary of the new assassin at first because of his previous experiences with Sandy, the pineapple soon found that Jackdaw was pretty much the cinnamon roll he looked like and can be easily bullied, causing Jackdaw enough anxiety to accidentally misthrow a knife while in Charles's presence. The knife, swerving off course, nicked Charles in the left shoulder and provoked an endless amount of fury from its target.

Charles does not forget. Charles does not forgive.

## Powers

Charles can affect the emotions of those around him, most normally provoking fear, fear, fear, or fear. He can also make himself look like a pineapple, which isn't that hard considering that he is, in fact, a pineapple.

His lifespan is much longer than normal pineapples too, being completely unsusceptible to rot or dehydration. He doesn't look *that* fresh, but he's also not wrinkling up or having his leaves turn yellow.

According to analysis, Charles is a brilliant example of a nonconventional personification. He started out as a normal pineapple from a fruit stall; but then Steven gave him a name and started calling him a "him", and since Steven is the son of a witch and lives in an intrinsically magical city, Charles gradually became a pineapple with personality who cemented himself into the world.