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Nobody else in the room knew what was happening. Of course, I can't blame them, they've never seen Charles act like this before, but it is very indicative of what most people who have seen him like this would have thought; it's nonsensical. That kind of dismissive perspective is almost certainly what built his belief that he needs to suppress his emotions, that yelling or even violence would be better than acting weird.  I can imagine he heard a lot of “use your words” and was told to stop throwing a tantrum.  But it was never a tantrum.  Just because he wasn't able to literally say something doesn’t mean he wasn't trying to communicate in a very real way, and none of the people who shamed or dismissed Charles over the years bothered to get to know him well enough to find that out.

On the day before the residents of the Arconia are expected to move out, Charles very suddenly withdraws emotionally. Not long after being insistent on not giving up the fight, he’s telling Oliver he won’t be attending his farewell party and that he’s moved on to new friends and new hobbies, all the while seeming almost entirely unaffected. His emotions are completely suppressed. And hey, would you look at that, at the start of the scene where his emotions are very suddenly and completely suppressed, he’s reviewing his neatly packed and stacked boxes and he’s being weirdly and overly meticulous about how he’s taping them.

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