Charlie

* Main Outfit
* Midstory
* Dinner Scene
* Wedding

Charlie is a supporting character in the the fanfic "In Bloom." Charlie is Alpha's romantic partner. He works as a marine biologist in the state of Massachusetts. He is originally from Croatia.

Charlie is based on a parody that @Bassetfilms recoded of the song "I ain't got no iPhone." Bassetfilms is the vocal singer to the character Monster from Friday Night Funkin'.

## Physical Appearance

Charlie is taller than most and has a broad shoulders. He has light brown hair that comes down past his shoulders that he usually ties up. He has a single violet eye and wears an eyepatch on the left side of his face. His face houses many freckles.

### Clothing

##### Main

Charlie wears a tan shirt with brown horizontal stripes. His lower half features dark navy pants along with short brown boots. On his left hand he wears a gold ring on his ring finger.

### Midstory

Toward midway in the story Charlie wears a dark gray sweatshirt with the city Rijeka printed on it. He wears matching sweatpants and wears only socks on feet. His appearance is much more worn down with his hair being tied in a messy bun and an unshaven face.

### Dinner Scene

During Thanksgiving, Charlie wears his hair hair down but with a bun on top. He wears a light tan sweater with white rhombus shape designs on it. Charlie wears light blue jeans with big pockets and brown boots.

### Wedding

During his wedding Charlie wears his hair up in a complete bun. Because of Charlie's pregnancy he has gained weight. He wears a belt to make this less noticeable. The brown suit he wear has a long tail and collar. His undershirt is light green with a puffy neck collar. This suit is very pirate like.

## Personality

Charlie is shy and soft-spoken. He often stumbles over his own words when he talks because he struggles to be confident. Along with this Charlie is also very emotional. He cannot help this as he struggles with depression.

Despite all of this Charlie has grown a lot since moving away from his childhood home. He has become more independent and is more willing to stand up for himself and those he cares about if he had to. Charlie also can be an unlikely leader rather than follower. People can be physically intimidated with his hefty body He is shown to also have a humorous personality and often makes dark jokes about himself. He isn't afraid to be edgy or when something really bothers him he isn't afraid to call it out.

A secret part of his personality many don't see is he is very provocative with sex. Before he dated Alpha he had a preference over hooking up rather than dating because intimate tertianships felt like the only thing he had complete control over. He overall just enjoys it a lot.

Charlie loves music but prefers to play his guitar over singing.

He is a vegan and can be very annoying about it.

## Relationships

### Alpha

Alpha is Charlie’s husband and long-term boyfriend of about six years. Alpha is extremally handsome, charming, and smart to Charlie. They have a very close relationship. Charlie helps teach Alpha that it is ok to not be perfect, he also taught him to be more sympathetic to others. Charlie is not afraid to call his husband out if he is being rude to others. Charlie tells Alpha all his deepest secrets because he trusts him. The stuff that Alpha says when he isn't even trying to be funny makes Charlie's laugh. Charlie likes how his partner can fill up a conversation without having to worry about coming up with things to talk about himself. Charlie prefers to just listen.

Their relationship can struggle sometimes. Charlie is very aware of his husband's narcissistic type of personality and can get frustrated with it. The both of them go to relationship counselor to work on their issues and overall be brought closer together.

### Beta

At the beginning of the story Charlie is unsure of Beta. He is aware of Beta's homophobic comments toward his boyfriend Alpha but passes it off as him being an edgy teenager. Charlie can still be rather nervous around Beta and tries to avoid him.

### Clementine

Out of all of Charlie's siblings, Charlie is the closest to Clem. Throughout their life Charlie has told Clem everything.

### William

Charlie does not get along with his brother William. Charlie is physically scared of his brother because of an accident that happened to him when they were young. This accident cause him to be forever disfigured on the left side of his face and caused him to lose one of his eyes. Besides this William often does not care about Charlie's safety or feelings. It was said that William's wife Lila is Charlie's ex. It is unknown if Lila has cheated on Charlie, left him for William, or just happened to get together after they broke it. No matter the case this has caused their relationship to fall sour.

Despite this William was invited to Charlie's wedding. Charlie still cares for William and hopes to have no bad blood with him.

### Basset

Charlie and Basset have a pretty good relationship. Basset often acts like the older brother he is giving him advice and supporting him. Basset still has caused Charlie some pain and can creep him out sometimes. When Charlie lost his eye Basset was the one who suggested they should hide it from their father so they would not get in trouble. Basset is also the one who drove Charlie to become vegan with his eating and taxidermy habits.

### Neil

Charlie and Neil's relationship is completely broken. Neil never approved of Charlie's relationship with Alpha and is suggested to always hope for Charlie to come back to live with him. Charlie still attempts to have some sort of relationship with him but the final straw caused them to cut ties when Charlie came out to Neil as pregnant. Neil called his son a "slut" and refused to come to his wedding. This leads Charlie to become heartbroken.

### Senpai

Charlie does not mind Senpai, but does not have much in common with him. Sometimes Charlie also can find himself getting annoyed with the incorrect things that Senpai can say. Overall though Charlie does not hate Senpai but would not choose to hang out with him.

## Background

Charlie was born to Neil along with his younger sister March 18, 1989 in Croatia. Neil was a busy man while Charlie was growing up and so he was often led to the care of maids or his older brothers. This turned out to be mistake because at the age of six, his older brother William ran into his eye with scissors. Matters only got worse when both Basset and William were to scared to tell their father in fear that their would get in trouble. They hid Charlie's eye under an eyepatch and told him to stay quiet. This went on for a week until Charlie got so sick he ended up passing out and being rushed to the hospital. His eye was lost and was so disfigured that there was no chance for him to ever get a glass eye. Charlie has PTSD from this experience but hide his emptions to avoid stigma from his family.

Another traumatic thing that Charlie went through was William's bullying. William would throw and pour milk on him and laugh. This caused Charlie to develop a fear of milk.

### Transition Journey

Charlie was assigned female at birth. Since he was young he has always felt different. He never felt like he belonged with the other little girls his age. The earliest memory of this is wanting no one to call him his legal name Charlotte but his nickname “Charlie.” Charlie also hated every time Neil tried to dress up him and his sister identically. He did not want to wear a dress. This lead him to be labeled as a “tomboy.”

When Charlie was in middle school his first crush was on the popular mean girl of the school. This made him think he was a lesbian before he realized that he also had a crush on the football captain as. Charlie then realized he was bisexual, this made him happy to realize this but he still did not feel like he fully knew himself.

During the freshman year of high school, Charlie was able to finally understand that he wanted to live his life as a man. After researching on the school’s computer. The first person he came out to was his sister. Coming out to his father turned out to be one of the most difficult things he had to do. Along with struggling to trastion Charlie foguht to get on medicaiton for his anciety nad depression. He also stuggled with drinking issues and faced a lot og bullying. His father first denined his idenity, this lead to become the final straw and cuased Chalrie to face a severve mental health crisis.

### Shanty

In the "In Bloom" prequal fanfic "Shanty." Charlie mets Alpha for the first time. During this time Charlie is studying for a bachelor in marine biology and is working on a tourist boat. Neil owns this tourist company. Charlie at this point in his life is extremally shy but confident in his sexuality. He is shown to be a people pleaser that bends over backwards when he doesn't want to. Charlie take care of his nephew for his brother William, plays for his families band despite not wanting to, and taking care of his rude father. Alpha points out that he deserves better and that lights a spark within him.

It is stated at this point Charlie is not looking for a relationship because his ex girlfriends Lile broke up with him for his older brother. Charlie is willing to try it w

After Shanty Charlie and Alpha have a long distance relationship with the both of them going back and forth visiting each other . a couple years after that Charlie ends up moving away from his family to move in with Alpha. They shortly get engaged after.

## In Bloom

Charlie is introduced into the story in Chapter six. When his fiancé Alpha comes home after a stressful call from his brother Charlie He learns that Alpha is struggling with his relationships with his brothers and that Beta was on the news. Charlie becomes worried and tells Alpha he should call Beta.

After the new comes out about Senpai's disappearance and criminal investigation Charlie becomes fearful of Beta and what is going to come. What makes matters worse is that Alpha expresses he wants to go after Beta after finding out a tracking app he had was working. Charlie snaps at him to not do this and Alpha promises he would not. This turned out to be a lie as Charlie wakes up the next morning to find Alpha gone. He tries to text and call him but with no luck. This leads Charlie to have a mental health breakdown that cripples him to stay in bed out of fear, anger and sadness. Despite the anger towards his boyfriend he still buckles down and listens him to call the police out of fear it would make matters worse. Charlie is to fearful to go after Alpha, he doesn't know even where he went. During this time Charlie eventually also find out the fate of Senpai over a left message on his phone from Phi.

This message causes Charlie to get enough courage to do something so he decides to call Beta of all people. Despite being afraid he cannot fully believe that Beta has killed Senpai. Charlie had hope it was a tragic misunderstanding. This turn out to not be the case as when he calls Beta he learns about Alpha's fate. Alpha was dead.

At this information this cause Charlie to snap completely expressing his anger about the whole Senpai family and how it was a mistake he move over here. over the phone Charlie states that he wasn't going to let Beta kill him and that he wasn't scared to do it himself. The call ends there.

In chapter the reader learns that Charlie indeed did carry out with this and was dead. It is unclear how he took his own life and what his final moments were like. As Fred reluctanly consumes he finds out that Charlie was indeed not only biologically was a woman but was with child. Two children. This was the final straw for Fred after a series of emotion events for him to want to scare himself to reset the world backwards to make everything ok.

### Post Reset

Charlie comes back into the story during chapter. Alpha asked him to drop of papers for his mother for him because he did not want to see Alpha. Beta driven to find out if his dream was really a dream invites Charlie to hang out with him to get some lunch. If it was true that Charlie was a trans man it would be a clear indication that everything was real because there was no other way Beta should known that.

The two of them end up going to McDonalds and it is awkward. Eventually Beta is able to make him laugh to get him comfortable around him. Beta was able to get Charlie to come out as trans making him learn that what happened wasn't just a dream.

After this meet up Charlie is seeing again during the chapter. Charlie comes over with Alpha and it excited to be with all of Alpha's family. Things soon turn sour when Alpha starts fighting with Beta and Charlie tries to intertwined but Alpha brushes him off. Charlie listens and helps Phi getting Senpai upstairs. Things get settled and the night ends with Alpha kissing his cheek.

Charlie does not make an appearance physically until the last chapter but it is mentioned that it was found out that Charlie is pregnant. They decide to keep it. At the end during the wedding Charlie is very anxious and upset, but hide it from everyone. Beta is able to let him vent to make him feel better. Charlie's main concern was that his father didn't show up because of his pregnancy and how he hated Alpha. Beta says he should forget all that and focus on his new family that actually loves him. Charlie is able to feel better from this.

Charlie story ends with him walking together with Alpha ready tp end their wedding and begin their new life together.

## Trivia.

* Charlie's favorite movie is Jaws 1975.
* He is a brony. His favorite pony is Fluttershy and Treehugger.
* Charlie is the one who mainly cooks in the house while Alpha is the one who cleans.
* Charlie is a bisexual man who has a wide range of exes.
* He and his sister used to have competitions on how many numbers they can get in a night. They chased ass.
* Charlie and Alpha liked to work out together. Charlie's favorite exercise is boxing.
* Charlie has a number of strange gifts from Alpha where while well intentioned, they come off rubbing off the wrong way.
* Charlie's legal name/dead name is Charlotte. Throughout his life everyone called him Charlie anyway so he made no drive to change it legally.
* He doesn't like taking his shirt off, so he wears one with his bathing suit.

## Gallery

* *View Full Gallery here.* Alpha and Charlie by @graverstoneLemon Charlie original Friday Night Funkin concept art. Originally posted by Bassetfilms' twitter along with a parody of the song "I got no iPhone",Charles by @graverstone