Charles

"*Maybe I'll just be a bug on the ground...unable to fly in the sky with the other butterflies...But even then...just being able to watch a beautiful flying butterfly flying free...is more than enough for me.*"

**Charles** is one of the supporting characters in Candy Series. He made his debut in Everybody's Favourite Friend: Amity.

## Biography

### Early Life

Five years back, during Charles' first year in Sacred Hearts Primary School, he was known for constantly getting good grades for his academics three semesters in a row. Hence, having his schoolmates and teachers to support and/or envy him. His relations with them did not last long as of one day, Charles was known to get addicted with an unknown video game that kept as a distraction from his studies, thus went for a crucial exam unprepared. He then cheated in the process and ended up getting caught.

Ever since then, the schoolmates and teachers' hope and likeness for Charles soon died, causing Charles to get less friends in school. All of which had made Charles to stop caring about his academics and school in general and instead focused on what he wanted. The pressure that Charles received had also kick started his Chuunibyou Syndrome in the process.

## Appearance

* Charles' full appearance in Season 1.
* Charles' full appearance in Season 2.
* Charles as an adult in Joni's dream.
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Charles is a preteen below average height with a slender build who inherited a close resemblance to his mother. He has red eyes, which is sometimes depicted as orange and black hair that is jutted in every direction with a cowlick behind his head.

He was often seen wearing eccentric clothing as opposed to the standard school-issue. As stated by Mia, Charles was known for not being physically attractive. In The Hero's Quest: Self-Improvement, Charles on some point had adapted a much more neater and modest appearance; his hair being slicked back, and changed to a more simple and unadorned set of clothes, all in attempt to display a more well mannered and disciplined side of him. However, he reverted back to his original appearance soon after.

In Joni's dream as an adult, Charles wore a gray short sleeved shirt over a black turtleneck shirt with earphones hung on his neck and he wore gray jeans. He also had his ears pierced with black dangling earrings and his hair became shorter with the bangs almost covering his eyes.

In Season 2 Charles has adopted a much neater appearance with his hair being cut into a short and neat style. He starts to wear more modest clothing as opposed to his Season 1 wardrobe which mainly consisted of eccentric clothing that was against the school rules.

## Personality

Charles was noted to be quite well-known throughout the school for his rebellious personality and troublesome behaviour. A couple of years back before his time in Year 5, Charles was known for doing rather aggressive and/or questionable actions, such as bullying Derek and his friends and constantly playing truant.

Charles had Chunnibyou Syndrome, a condition which affects the host to manifest delusional behaviour. The syndrome, hence, resulted in Charles for not having much friends in school as most tend to distant themselves from him.

However, behind his rebellious and strange nature, Charles was shown to have good morals. They are mostly shown if the situation circles around Mia, whom he has a huge crush on. On many different occasions, when Mia faces difficulties or problems, Charles was one of the few whom do not hesitate and is willing to lend a helping hand to. Him, like Joni and Emilia, were the first few that were unprejudiced against Mia, as shown in Everybody's Favourite Friend: Amity.

He has shown to be more than capable of respecting and caring for others than he himself think he is. This trait of him was displayed as despite his animosity and rivalry he had with a few people around him, like Emilia and Joni, he deeply cares for their well-being and how they see and judge him. And acknowledged the fact that they want to distant him away from Mia.

## Abilities

### Mental Intellect

Charles had displayed his mental intellect on several occasions. Such as gaining first place when he was in Year 1 in school and excelling in three semesters in a row.

### Others

Charles has shown to have several odd abilities and talents. In Little Ladies: Courtesy, he was able to swap into a different clothing in a short amount of time.

## Other Media

### Candy Careers Card Game 1.0 and 2.0

Charles, along with many other characters, are depicted and designed in several cards as performing different types of occupations. He is depicted as:

* Waiter
* Bell Boy
* Sculptor
* Flight Attendant
* Camera Operator
* Motocross Rider

### Candy Cuties

Charles, along with all characters are featured in the spin-off Candy Cuties series. Charles appears in:

* Candy Cuties Vol.3
* Candy Cuties Vol.4
* Candy Cuties Vol.6
* Candy Cuties Vol.7
* Candy Cuties Vol.8
* Candy Cuties Vol.9
* Candy Cuties Vol.10
* Candy Cuties Vol.11

## Character Interview

In the official 2018 fanbook, Charles was interviewed on several questions:

1. **Question:** In simple words, how would you describe yourself?

* **Charles' answer:** I'm Cerberus F. Lucifer the 4th, a knight of the Dark Dimension. I am all-powerful; however, if I'm exposed to the sun for too long, I will turn to ash and disappear from this world. To conceal my identity, I've disguised myself as a lowly human and have taken the name "Charles".

2. **Question:** Give us a brief description of Mia, Joni, and Emilia.

* **Charles' answer:** Goddess, bystander A, and bystander B.

3. **Question:** What is your future goal?

* **Charles' answer:** To be adored by Mia!

4. **Question:** Mia adores Julian. Are you confident you can be as brilliant as he is?

* **Charles' answer:** ...

5. **Question:** Some say that Norman's brother Noel is very much like you. What do you say?

* **Charles' answer:** I cannot take this information lightly! He may be someone from the Dark Dimension who intends to kill me!

6. **Question:** Your friends have helped you overcome your learning disability, yet you still dislike attending school. Why?

* **Charles' answer:** I may have overcome my learning disability, but I still have a getting-out-of-bed disability.

7. **Question:** Will you ever relinquish your role as a knight and become a normal person?

* **Charles' answer:** No! The world might end if I do!

## Trivia

* Charles has '*Chuunibyou* (*中二病*) , which is a derrogative colloquial term in the Japanese language used to describe a person which manifests delusional behavior, a short form of the syndrome is *Chuuni*, which is used as a nickname that most characters in the *series* called Charles as.
* In Dreams Take Flight: Ambition, Charles claimed that his ambition was to be an architect. But in The Hero's Quest: Self-Improvement, he exclaimed that he wanted to be a pilot.
* Charles often makes brief appearances in the comics, sometimes as part of the background or having a brief speaking role. Most of these appearances are due to him following or stalking Mia around which then became a running gag through the series.
* In the official Candy Series characters' stats, several information of Charles are revealed:
	+ Charles' blood type is B
	+ Charles' favourite things are Mia and dark magic.
	+ Charles' hobby is protecting and stalking Mia.

* Charles was ranked fifth in the 2014 Candy Series characters popularity poll.
* Charles' self-given nickname: *Cerberus • F • Lucifer the Fourth*, are references to two dark tradition separately:
	+ ***Cerberus*****-** In Greek mythology, 'Cerberus' is the monstrous multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the underworld. It is also called as "Hound of Hades".

* + **Lucifer-** In Christian Beliefs, Lucifer is known as a fallen angel. This designation, referring to Lucifer. Whereas, he is commonly and better known as the **Devil** or **Satan** by humans.
		- This is further told as Charles' backstory that he made up to Mia was very similar to that of Lucifer's. Charles' backstory was about the people around him to have shown respect and joy upon his birth, as they all addressed him as a "Demon Prodigy"; while Lucifer's birth, people also showed respect and joy and called him "Morning Star". When Charles said he suffered from a "devastating defeat" after not being able to "seal the evil energy away", he later ran away from the place and now lived in the darkness, this is similar to how Lucifer was cast out of heaven due to his sins, and then later entered the Underworld to become Satan.
	+ **F.-** There are theories surrounding the fact that Charles' middle nickname "F" is a short form of a name that got something to do with certain dark origins or myths. This however, is lampshaded in Everybody's Favourite Friend: Amity, when Joni questioned Charles on what does "F" stands for, Charles responded that she should just let it go.
* According to the authors/illustrators of Candy Series, Charles' eye color are sometimes seen as lighter or darker shades of red (similar to blood red). They gave a statement to answer the question:
	+ *"His eyes are originally red color, but it would be slightly changed because the ambient lighting is different. That's why sometimes it is seen as orange color. It may also be effected by the publisher side because of color adjustment. Therefore you may see some eye color differences*."
* Charles' Facebook username is "Cerberus".
* According to the official 2018 *Candy Series* Fanbook:
	+ Charles' birthday is on February 27, hence making him a Pisces.
	+ Charles' interests are protecting/stalking Mia and saving the world.
	+ Positive traits of Charles include his masculinity, his sense of justice and caring nature.
	+ Negative traits of Charles include his lack of intelligence and his Chuunibyou syndrome.
	+ Charles does not have any strongest subjects while his weakest subjects are all subjects.
	+ Charles' favorite food are instant noodles, snacks and Mia's homemade cooking while his least favorite food are vegetables.
	+ Charles' favorite dressing style is mysterious and dreamy dark style clothing. He also loves to cosplay.
	+ Charles' pastime is daydreaming (detecting the movements of different worlds, secretly protecting (or tailing) Princess Mia and defending peace in the human world).
	+ Charles' ambition is to be the strongest knight of the Dark Dimension.
	+ Charles' role model is Sasuke Uchiha, the male deuteragonist in the Japanese manga and anime series *Naruto*.
	+ Charles' motto is "As long as I, Cerberus F. Lucifer the 4th lives, no one can harm Princess Mia!".
	+ Charles' personal stats are:

## References

1. ↑ Trainee Trouble: Perseverance, page 13
2. ↑ Charles' blood type in Character Information, see Trivia
3. ↑ Charles' birthdate in Fanbook's Character Stats, see Trivia
4. ↑ Charles' likes in Character Information, see Trivia
5. ↑ Charles' favorite food in Fanbook's Character Stats, see Trivia
6. ↑ Charles' least favorite food in Fanbook's Character Stats, see Trivia
7. ↑ The Hero's Quest: Self-Improvement, page 53
8. ↑ Everybody's Favourite Friend: Amity, Pages 85-86
9. ↑ A Hero's Quest: Self-Improvement, Page 53
10. ↑ Style With Substance: Savvy, Page
11. ↑ http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Chuunibyou
12. ↑ http://candymeow-series.wikia.com/wiki/File:CSpoll.png
13. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus
14. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hades
15. ↑ Everybody's Favourite Friend: Amity, page 52
16. ↑ Spick and Span: Cleaniness, page 12