Charles Van Wyke

Time presents

Charles Van Wyke
Eight of Hearts

Personality

Charlie is an active person, preferring to be outside playing sport than staying inside or studying. Filled with anxiety, he tends to overthink everything he says and does, often spending his nights stressing over everything he did that day and so both sport and architecture is the only time his mind and insecurities eases. Good with numbers, he likes to solve puzzles and math problems, making that method the only way of him being able to focus on school. Self conscious, he doesn't take criticism well and can often ignore people if they upset him.
However, he's good at reading people and tries his best to make friends and be friendly to everyone around him. He also likes to dance, not performance but more club style, and often sneaks into one of them every other weekend. He cares a lot about the world around him and doesn't care for wealth or materialistic things, however, due to growing up with quite minimal belongings and friends, he tends to be quite possessive of everything he does have, including his loved ones.

History

Christian St Clair was in the Caribbean for a holiday when he stumbled upon Ché. She was the wife of a shoe maker who had three young boys and worked as a waitress at one of the pubs to ensure the bills were going to be paid. Similar to how he took Jasper's mother, he was dissatisfied when Ché rejected him and forcibly took what he wanted from her, leaving her torn and battered in one of the narrow alleyways. She didn't tell her husband, Ajay, though and when she realised she was pregnant with Charles, she pretended him to be Ajay's. Growing up, Charlie was always the runt of his family. All of his brother's were tall and burly whilst Charlie was nothing but bone. His older brother's often picked on him and Charlie was virtually left to his own devices.
However, with Ché being fired from her job, their financial situation drastically dropped and he often had to pickpocket and steal food to contribute and help provide for his family. He was, though, doted on by his maternal grandmother and was rude and flippant to her other grandchildren, making her a more favourable figure in Charlie's eyes. She died when he was nine. He often spent his time shining shoes after school and his true passion during this time was swimming and basketball. He'd picked both up easily due to living around the corner from the beach and his brothers were avid basketball players.
In school, however, Charlie was popular and made a wide array of friends. Though he excelled in math based classes and sport based, he struggled with the other's and could barely bring himself to focus on any of them. With his friends, however, he was given an opportunity to play sport with them, allowing him to excel. However, when he was ten years old he stumbled upon his mother's journal which had been locked away in the attic. It was here he found out how he had been conceived and who his true father was. Not sure what to do with the information, he stayed silent.
However, his mother had developed PTSD from the trauma of Christian and was already suffering from schizophrenia. She had frequent attacks where she would scream at everyone and no one. Multiple incidents occurred where she'd shove Charlie against the wall and scream obscenities at him. Afterwards, Ajay would tell him that she was yelling at other things only she could see, not at him. After finding out about Christian, Charlie had come to spend more time with Ajay, listening to him as he made shoes or simply sit in silence.
However, when he was eleven, his father sat him down, saying that his brothers and him were leaving. He said, as Charlie was the youngest, he had to stay back and take care of his mother. By morning, the three of them were gone. Forced to go on the dole, they were even worse off than before. Charlie stopped going to school and forced himself to learn how to make shoes, giving up swimming and basketball and everything else in order to keep the store running. His mother signed all the official documents and helped out in the shop whenever she was well enough. They faced frequent eviction notices but they scraped by.
When he was thirteen, he woke up in a courtyard with a girl staring down at him. Here, he was introduced to the enchantress and the Mirrorworld. He picked up his hobbies he thought were a distant dream back up. During his training, he quickly rose to the ranks to eight but kept mostly to himself, save for a friendly wall. He preferred to spend his time either playing sport or in the water. When he was sixteen, he enrolled into CCH where he has remained since. He eventually did, though, track down Christian St Clair, finding out he has a sister but didn't move to make contact. However, somehow TE figured out who they were to him, and he was given the mission to kill his father. He did this with ease: why would he feel remorse to kill a rapist? However, his sister appeared without him realising and killed her in a panic, not realising she had come back as a ghost.

Relationships

Preferences

**LIKES**

1. Swimming
2. Architecture
3. Basketball
4. Baseball

**DISLIKES**

1. Empty promises
2. Threats
3. He doesn't like screaming
4. Insults
5. Being away from those he loves

Gallery

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