Charles Linwood

As the silent type **Charles Linwood** is described as an observer; someone who watches and learns more than he acts and perceives. He's often possessive of what he loves and obsessive of what peaks his interest. This attitude is commonly his downfall as he'll forget to care for himself and let his thoughts get to him ultimately spiraling him into somewhat of a manic episode.

On top of being a family man, Charlie is a very dedicated workaholic. Owning his own physician's clinic, Charlie often picks up shifts in the Emergency Room at Bellevue Hospital leaving him always surrounded with the hustle and bustle of the medical field. Despite how much he complains about it, Charlie loves what he does.

## Backstory

There's not much to Charles, he's a rather boring man. His father is an author who specializes in horror and his mother is a woman he doesn't like to keep around. She moved out when Charlie was 13 on account of her not being able to handle his father's mental health decline.

William Linwood, Charlie's father, had a steady decline when it came to his sanity when Charlie was a child. His father always said that when he wrote his horror novels, he wrote from experience. It was deemed a joke for the longest time until his father would begin to mumble and groan about the voices that told him to do bad things. Countless stays in facilities and lots of meds William refused to take, Charlie's mother, Ella, deemed her husband crazy and left in the wake of his worst health.

Charlie was left to care for his father as the years went on and through that he discovered his love for tending to people. He graduated high school and soon after he went to college to study to become a Physician. His specialty was the emergency room. He had been working there for little over a year before similar things his father spoke of had begun to happen to him. It was after the death of a patient when Charlie saw the mangled spirit that remained in the room that he realized his worst dreams were coming true; he was growing to be just as crazy as his father.

To cope with this sort of impending doom, Charlie had fallen into a pattern of cocaine use and frequent facility stays for his declining mental health. It wasn't until he was was in his twenties that he learned of his family past and a bloodline of **Reapers** that runs through him and his father. With the help of **Elodie Nightingale**, Charlie was able to embrace this gifted side of himself and smother out the amount of spirits that haunted him.

## Family/Friends

Charlie is the oldest and only child of William Linwood and Lilith Skelding (Now Separated). Raised in Derry, Maine, Charlie watches as his father decreasing mental health tore apart an already thinning marriage which ultimately broke the two apart. Lilith had left when Charlie was 13 which left the preteen to care for his father.

Entering high school, Charlie had managed to become Captain of the Derry Baseball Team. This soared his popularity and put him on top his senior year. This is how he met **Sethen Blackwood.** Although Sethen was in a long term relationship with **Elodie Nightingale**, Charlie had fallen in love with the track star and together the two managed to hide their relationship for months before it was revealed during a summer camp trip with **The Hellfire Club** that Charlie and Seth were invited to.

Soon after graduating high school, Charlie and Seth were married and living in Charlie's home while they cared for his father. Charlie had begun to go to medical school while Seth was a stay at home husband. After what seems like years of a discussion, Charlie (previously terrified of children) finally agrees to settling down and finding a surrogate to birth their child. Sethen's younger sister, **Caroline Blackwood**, offered herself. April 1st, 2022; Linus Linwood was born.

## Headcanons

- Charlie's favorite author is Fyodor Dostoevsky and H.P. Lovecraft. On occasion he'll enjoy his father's older works as well.

- Despite his bad posture and lanky manner, Charlie is an amazing dancer. Whether it's slow dancing or something much faster, Charlie is very coordinated. He prefers swing dancing.

- Charlie's love language is touch, especially areas around the face. He likes pressing his forehead to his partner's when embracing them.

- Charlie has always believed that when falling in love with someone, you need to be able to fall in love with their eyes. As the person ages; wrinkles come in, the face sinks in, bodies gain and lose weight, but the eyes always remain the same.