Charlotte Paige

Marine Rescue Team (MRT)

* Instructor

Crisis Response Unit (CRU)

* Instructor

Charlotte Paige is a character role-played by Simplynoodle

## **General Description**

Charlotte Paige is a Lieutenant with the Los Santos Emergency Medical Services.

## **Background Information**

Charlotte lived in a small town south of Richmond, Va with her parents, her father owned a small private practice in the town they lived at. He would leave a few months at a time to go out to other cities for business meetings. Charlotte and her mother would attend with him, making it like a family vacation they started to become more frequent around the age of 3 and Charlotte and her mother stopped going with her father. At the age of 6 Charlotte's parents died in a house fire, Charlotte then moved in with her aunt, uncle and cousin. Charlotte's uncle was and still is an alcoholic who would take out his anger and rage on Charlotte's aunt, and cousin Nova and herself. Nothing ever became physically but the emotional and verbal abuse still effect Charlotte on a daily bases that she is continuing to push though. Charlottes uncle use to blame Charlotte for the death of her parents and would always tell her that if it wasn't for her they would still be around. Around the age of 16 Charlotte hit a rebellious stage in life, her cousin Nova got married and moved away leaving her in the path of being the one that her uncle would take his anger out on telling her how worthless she is and how she would never get anywhere in life. With his words echoing in her mind and not know what direction to take in life Charlotte started drinking at a young age. At the age of 18 Charlotte moved across the country as far away as she could get to a college where she had hops of going. The first year of college involved a lot of parties and drinking which lead ultimately lead to poor grades which ended in her dropping out of college. Charlotte slowly saw herself slipping down the path like her uncle was in and following in the expectation that he told her she would never amount to anything. Charlotte eventually got back on track with how she wanted her life to go and decided to try and pursue a career in the Medical field. After leaving at 18 Charlotte quit talking with her uncle, she would hear from her aunt from time to time but Charlotte cut all ties with her uncle until she turned 25. Her aunt expressed to her that he quit drinking and that he wanted to try and save what little relationship the two could save. Since then her relationship between her uncle has been better, they are on talking terms and he is actively trying to make up for all the things he did and she is trying to learn how to forgive him.

After dropping out of college Charlotte moved around the country trying to find the perfect spot to start a life. She eventaully found herself moving to Los Santos to try and start a life for herself. She applied to the Los Santos Fire department and began working her way up in the department. Not long after she started working she met and began dating James Vice for a period of time the relationship moved fast, but they ended up breaking up. Although their relationship ended on good terms, she is no longer in contact with him. There was a period in her life when she started dating Frisco McGarret which only lasted a few months before she ended things. Charlotte started working more and began clocking in with Ernest Flanagan, she looks up to as mentor and quickly became her best friend. Most of the time when Charlotte and Ernie were clocked in, Ernie was trying to set her up on a date with Nick Stevens which was unsuccessful.

Around the break up between her and Frisco, Charlotte met Hans Roulette who then introduced her to Cara Samson. At the beginning Charlotte was not to sure where her friendship would go between her and Cara. But not long after meeting one another then became inseparable. Charlotte started to spend more time with Hans and Cara when she was off duty, this started her new found friendship with members of Syndicate and eventually lead to her relationship with Ricky Rogers. Around this time Charlotte moved in with Hans and Cara at their beach house down near the pier.

Charlotte was there for Cara as her bridesmaid when her and Hans got married and continued to be there for her after the marriage ended. Within that period of time Charlotte and Cara started to spend more time with Ella Winham and Mindy Rose. The four of them spend a lot of time together when the boys were out "working" they often joked that they were the Syndicate Angels.

Not long after they started calling themselves Syndicates Angels a feud happened between Cara Samson involving Kevin Flame and Mindy Rose leading to Cara getting shot by Flame. After the involvement of Cara getting shot tensions were pretty high between Ella, Cara, Mindy and Charlotte. Most of Syndicate decided to take a vacation away from the city for a bit. Ricky and Charlotte decided it would be a great time to meet each other's family, however things did not go so planned. After returning from their vacation tension was high between the two of them. Ultimately, the tension between Ricky and Charlotte cause problems between the two of them. There was no formal break up, but an event involving Ricky's prized Jester was the turning point for the couple. After the break up and she took a trip back home for a few more weeks to re evaluate her life.

Arriving back to Los Santos Charlotte met up with Ernie and was offered a promotion to Lieutenant she accepted. Charlotte, Ella and Cara are still close, not as close as before but they are still her best friends. Charlottes main focus as of now is learning how to become a leader and helping Ernie run the EMS department.

## **Physical Description**

Charlotte is a 27 year old Caucasian women with brown hair and blue eyes. Her hair is normally up in a bun when she is on duty or down to a side braided. If she is not in her uniform she is usually in casual clothes and sneakers. Charlotte has some small burn scars on her left leg. Two old bullet scars on her right shoulder. She has two large stab wound scars on the bottom right of her abdomen. From her collar bones up Charlottes face has a slight light pink tint compared to the rest of her complexation. Charlotte was burned a man with blue hair who drove a tanker truck inside of Bennys one night and blew it up trapping her friends Cara and Ella inside. Skin graphs were applied to help with her burning. From a distance it is not noticeable, but when up close others can see. This is one of her biggest insecurity when it is pointed out.

## **Personality**

Charlotte is a bubbly person who tends to talk to much sometimes and to loud. She is very friendly and is always willing to help others first rather than helping herself.

Charlotte also has a short temper.

Charlotte jokes that she is a pro driver but in reality she is a terrible driver. She often blames Ernie for her driving since he taught her.

## **Relationships**

**Love Interests**

Ernest Flanagan - Current boyfriend and best friend. Charlotte and Ernie history goes back to her very first day joining the EMS department. Ernie trained her for a majority of her EMS career, the quickly became very good friends based on their mindset, humor and just how perfect they meshed together as friends. Shortly after she received her EMT badge Charlotte and Ernie became the next dream team within the department. Clocking in together all the time, planning parties and spending time together on their off times. Shortly after Charlotte began dating her ex Ricky, Charlotte and Ernie's relationship began strained much like most of her friendships aide of Cara and Ella. Most was due to Ricky being a criminal and Charlotte being EMS. Thought out Charlottes relationship with Ricky she stopped clocking in as much and stopped hanging out with Ernie. The two became estranged for a few months. After Charlotte returned from her long vacation Ernie and her reconnected. He offered her a Lieutenant positions with in the department. They instantly reconnected and things went back to how it was before they became estranged. The two are the same in so many ways with similar views and goals in life. Based on on how they process things and how they handle situations. Ernie has been there for Charlotte thought a lot of her tough times in her life and has been there to help her find her way though what difficult things she needed to over come. He has been with her when Ty has kidnapped her and has saved her life countless times. Out of everyone Charlotte knows in her life, Ernie is the only one who knows so much about her past and is the only one who she has feel 100% comfortable with opening up too about the daily struggles she is is faced with. After knowing each other for 2 years the two decided to try things out as a couple going into this with the mind set of not wanting to lose the friendship so if things were to start going south they would end things to keep the friendship in tacked.

Jason Scoresetter - Ex Boyfriend- Occasional flirts have been given between each parties towards one another. the pair dated for a few weeks but in the end Charlotte ended up breaking it off.

Ricky Rogers - Ex Boyfriend - Charlotte and Ricky met after she started hanging out with Cara Samson and Ella Winham. Their relationship started fast and Ricky's life style was extremely different that what she was use too. After only a few weeks into their relationship Ricky and other members of Syndicate were involved in a large dun shoot out between the police and Syndicate. Multiple members of Syndicate including Ricky were sent to the ICU for a spam of a week. When Ricky woke up he was confused and lost his memory of his relationship between him and Charlotte. Ricky assumed Cara, Charlotte's best friend was his girlfriend, after a awkward and confusing few days his memory came back. However, things still did not go so well. Ricky and Charlotte ended up going to visit his parents which did not go well. Charlotte and his parents did not like each other at all. Despite trying to get his parents to like her then ended up traveling to her aunt and uncles so he could meet the. One night at dinner Charlotte's uncle said something to Ricky along the lines of him needing to get his shit together and start making time for her which resulted in making Ricky snap and fighting Charlotte's uncle. Finally getting back home, they both tried to put the terrible meetings of each others family behind them, but that was easier said than done. Charlotte received a promotion which required her to have to focus more on work and how people saw her. This in ended in Charlotte trying to talk Ricky into changing and swaying a bit away from the criminal life style. Charlotte started getting tired of all the shit he was getting into and not spending time with her. One night she tried to spend time with Ricky but he was to busy wish Syndicate business so she took out his Jester that he absolutely loved drove it to a bridge and places a brick on the gas and had it drive off into the water. Needless to say their relationship ended after that. Charlotte has not seen Ricky since that night.

Ty Eza - Charlotte and Ty use to be friends when she first moved to the city. She was one of the only paramedics who would respond to calls regarding him. Ty ended up asking Charlotte out on a date twice, and each time she declined his offer. After the second time he asked her out and she declined Ty kidnapped Charlotte on one of her shifts, drive to the top of a mountain he threw flowers at her and chocolates before he stabbed her in the stomach and shot her pushing her down the mountain. The second time Ty caught wind that she had a potential interest in Nick Stevens a officer in the LSPD. Ty then kidnapped her again this time with another fellow paramedic. He took them to the Humane labs. locked them in cages and attempted multiple times to get ahold of Stevens. Ty released her co worked and forced him to take drugs before he stabbed him in the stomach. Ty took Charlotte out and he push her panic button before loading her in a car and driving away and watching all of PD and EMS respond to the Humane Labs. Ty then forced her to take drugs and drive her back to the city stabbing her again and dumping her out of the car in front of MRPD. Ty reached out to Charlotte not long after that incident telling her that he was going to kill her, he was later blacklisted from EMS. Charlottes first inital meeting of Rick and Mason Shaw was in efforts to apologize for Ty's actions which was non successful.

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**Friendships**

Cara Samson - Best friend - Charlotte and Cara became best friends through Cara's ex husband Hans Roulette although Charlotte knew Hans well before Cara , she became a lot closer to Cara than she was with Hans. Cara and Charlotte shared everything with each other, there nothing that neither of them could say together. Driving around and gossiping and talking about all the boy drama that was going on was one thing they loved to do. Charlotte looks at Cara like one of her sisters.

Ella Winham - Best Friend - Although Charlotte saw Ella here and through around the city and spoke to her shortly, Charlotte never really knew Ella that well. It was not until Charlotte, Cara and Hans started hanging out around Benny's more. Charlotte, Cara, Ella, and Mindy Rose began to spend a lot of time together due to all three of them having a significant other part of Syndicate. A lot of talking started around the city which lead to calling themselves Syndicate's Angels.

Scott Reagan - Adoptive Son - What started as a joke from her EMS tweets to remind people to eat and drink and Scott tweeting back calling her mom has now ventured into her non legally adopting him as her son.

Jenna Leigh - Best friend - Charlotte and Jenna naturally clicked when they first met. Jenna is one of Charlottes closest friends in the city, if something is going on Charlotte will not hesitate to talk with Jenna trying to get her input and thought on a situation and vise versa.

Elena Beckan - Sister - Elena showed up out of the blue claiming to be Charlottes half sister. After much talk back and forth with Elena and pieces of the puzzle put together Elena and Charlotte are a 3 years apart, Charlotte farther was our on a business trip for his practice he met Elena's mother and 9 months later Elena was around. Charlottes father paid Elena's mother money every month in order for her to keep the secret love fling a secret. Elena began dating Charlottes cousin Nova's ex husband Zach Greene. On three different situations Charlotte responded to 911 calls about Elena overdosing on cocaine, immediately after the first two overdoses Charlotte reached out to some rehab facilities to try and get Elena help. The third overdose Elena made the decision to decline rehab for a third time and ended up leaving Charlotte a note saying she was leaving town to never return. Elena has since then sent Charlotte letters from around the world and has tried to reach out to Charlotte. Charlotte has not made any attempts in reconnecting with Elena, the last letter Charlotte the letter was not clear and very hard to read. Based on prior experience on Elena's behavior Charlotte suspects that she was under the influence when writing. Since then it has been a month in a half since she has received that letter, unknown where or if Elena is okay.

Jean Boudreaux - Previous love interest. Jean and Charlotte have been long time friends since she moved to Los Santos, when he was dating her then best friend Eevee Owen, Charlotte and her boyfriend at the time James Vice did a few double dates with the pair. When Jeans relationship with Eevee ended and Charlottes relationship with James ended Charlotte and Jean did not spend time with one another outside of standard work calls. After a vacation away and a new chapter in their lives starts Jean and Charlotte shared some occasional flirts to one another. After a conversation with one another the two decided to stay friends and not to further their relationship past friends.

Mason Shaw - Charlotte and Masons friendship started by her giving him cookies anytime she would see him either around town or when she would respond to a call and he was there. Mason is a friend that Charlotte would go to for advice to get a better understanding of current situations going on.

Tommy Ginopolis - Gino and Charlottes friendship started long before he was a member of Syndicate, she knew him when he was still VCM. Although, they were not that close at that time. When she began working at Benny's and started hanging around everyone more they became close. Charlotte would often go to Gino for advice and he would often talk to her about issues going on between him and his then girlfriend.

## **Fun Facts**

Charlotte is scared of spiders, clowns and heights.

Charlotte tends to say she is a pro driver, but really she is probably one of the worst in the city.

Simplynoodle has been Role-playing since March 2017 and has been playing Charlotte since May 2019 then joined EMS department July 2019.