Charlie Martin-West

**Charlette Martin-West**, or simply **Charlie**, is a mortal girl who is best friends with Aster Vanissen and the one who encouraged him to practice witchery.

## Appearance

Charlie is a teenage girl with dark skin, black eyes, black hair that's almost always in breads with decorations at the end of each one.

She is often seen wearing sports-wear. When she goes to sleep, she wrap her hair up in a cloth.

## Personality

Charlie is strong-willed and caring. She hardly gets scared. She is also very supportive of others as shown when she encouraged Aster to speak to his family to let him learn witchery.

## Story

### *The Witch Boy*

Charlie first met Aster when she caught him using magic to grow a berry bush. They became fast friends. She had a broken leg at the time. When they met again, she asked him to play basketball with her which Aster was shown not to be good at. Later that day, Charlie helped Aster with scrying and he confined in her about how he wanted to learn witchery even thought his family said that he has to learning shifting due to him being a boy and witchery being only for girls. But Charlie told Aster that she thought his magic was brilliant which he appreciated. After Makasi visited Aster and cursed him not to tell his family about their meeting, he went to see Charlie and told her about it. Then, she told Aster how she broke her leg. Aster then used witchery to heal Charlie's leg. Later in the night, Charlie went to the Vanissen household to show Aster that the spell worked and then helped him rescue his cousin from Makasi. After Makasi was captured, Charlie gave Aster a thumbs up to show her support about Aster wanting to tell his family that he wanted to learn witchery which they decided to let him do after Grandmother told them the truth about what happened to Makasi. At the end of the book, Charlie and Aster continued to be friends.

## Relationships

### Aster Vanissen

Aster is Charlie's best friend. After he told her about how he wishes to practice witchery, she encouraged him to pursue it. She later helped Aster rescue his cousins from Makasi.

### Ariel Torres

Charlie met Ariel when Ariel transferred to Sterling Middle School. They became close friends. Ariel became jealous of Aster when she saw him and Charlie together which lead her to ask if he was her boyfriend. Charlie confirmed that he's not and that they are just friends. Even after Ariel tried to attack Charlie with a Fetch, Charlie still believed in Ariel and they continued to be together. At the end of *The Midwinter Witch*, it is hinted that Charlie and Ariel have romantic feeling for each other.

### Mr. Martin and Mr. West

Charlie is the daughter of a same-sex couple and they love her dearly as she loves them. One of her dads is the vice principal of Sterling Middle School in which Charlie attends.

### Sedge Vanissen

In the events of *The Hidden Witch*, Charlie and Sedge came to know each other. Sedge asked Charlie what it is like to go to normal school. After a basketball game, Sedge told Charlie and her dads that he wanted to attend Sterling in which they agreed. Since then, Charlie and Sedge became friends and helped him in his new school life.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Athleticism:** Charlie is good at sports, especially basketball and baseball.

## Trivia

* Charlie is the daughter of a same-sex couple.
* For most of *The Witch Boy*, Charlie had a cast on her leg after she broke it before the book began. But after Aster healed it, it came off and since then, her leg only had a band-aid on it.
* It is possible that Charlie is an LGBTQ+ character. This is shown in *The Hidden Witch* when her friends at school talked about the cute boys they met at summer camp, thought Charlie showed no interests. At the end of *The Midwinter Witch*, it is shown that she may have romantic feeling for Ariel which she returns.
* Charlie may have some resemblance to Harvey Kinkle from the *Sabrina the Teenage Witch* franchise.