Charles and Loan

Charles and Loan is the rivalry but partnership seen in Mystery Spell.

## Overview

Charles and Loan is the relationship between Charles Huxley and Loan Huxley seen only in Peter Bartholy's story route. Charles is Loan's father and the two seem to have a very complicated relationship, but what is clear is that it is dysfunction and Charles is not a good father to Loan.

At first, they seem to have a normal type of father-son relationship, as in Charles being the strict but caring father to Loan who wants his attention but also wants to defy him, but it was anything but normal behind closed doors.

Charles at first didn't seem too fond of Loan's girlfriend Samantha Gautier to which Loan didn't care about. However, Charles had ulterior motives and it's clear that he doesn't have a lot of respect for his son or his relationship since he was caught having an affair with Samantha by the player. When Loan found out that Charles and Samantha were sleeping together, he seemed to shut down to not show his anger but was probably really hurt that they betrayed him.

Later on in the story, it is revealed that Charles is the leader of the Descendants of the Templars and wants Loan to join them and eventually take his spot as the leader one day. He also revealed to Loan that he is a werewolf and that Loan will become a werewolf too when his transformation begins, which saddens Loan since he was brought up by Charles to believe that all supernatural creatures are evil monsters and that they needed to be destroyed. Loan mostly went along with his father's plans despite his reluctance due to Charles manipulating him.

Whether Charles truly loves Loan or not is up for debate. Charles does seem to care about Loan and wants to help him with his new found werewolf state and would probably be sad if anything were to happen to Loan, and also wants him to take over his trusted group one day. But Charles is also a selfish person, who only cares about himself and power and would probably use Loan as a way to get his power or use him to protect himself if he had to, and even went as far to murdering Loan's own girlfriend for his own benefit. Charles raised Loan to live in prejudice and hate against his own kind which made Loan hateful and mean towards people like the Bartholy brothers, as he believed they were monsters that wanted to kill innocent people.

Charles can pretty much be blamed for corrupting his son, forcing him to be on the evil side and align with him in his group, and eventually getting him arrested in the good ending due to how he raised Loan, not caring about his son's feelings and using him for his own power. Loan doesn't at all seem to be as evil as his father but he certainly was brainwashed by him to do what Charles asks which also resulted in him being murdered in Viktor Bartholy's story route. The Descendants of the Templars tried to invade The Arcane to kill Viktor, but failed which resulted in all of the perpetrators being killed by decapitation from Viktor Viktor, and Charles was the one who more than likely made the command for them to do it. It's possible that Loan goes along with his father's requests out of either the love for his father or possibly wanting him approval.

Their relationship is a sad but interesting father-son duo which resulted in lust, betrayal, greed and murder and it can all be blamed and Charles not doing what a father is supposed to do, which left Loan being misguided in the world filled with supernaturals. Charles and Loan are very different but also sometimes similar, Loan does disagree with many of Charles methods though like kidnapping and murdering innocent people which he seems disgusted by. What is known about their relationship is that Loan would be better off without his father and that Charles doesn't deserve the privilege of being his dad since he tires to make his own son become a cold hearted murderer like himself.