Charlotte Evangeline Hartwell
indulgent mad men oc but i’m so open to using her in other roleplays ! i’m quite flexible with characters ! she was written to be paired w ken but fuck it we ball, i’ll so ship her with an oc of yours or in another fandom !
some of her diary entries:
full name: Charlotte “Lottie” Whitmore
age: Mid-to-late twenties // July 15th
sexual orientation: straight, though deeply affectionate and intimate with women in a way that often reads as romantic to others. she didn’t grow up with any sisters but had very intense female friendships.
occupation: Secretary and part-time artist
fashion sense: prim, polished, and endearing—poofy mousy-brown hair, sweet sweater sets, pencil skirts, delicate accessories. She wears soft pastels, ladylike florals, heels. Everything about her feels warm and unthreatening.
alcohol, smoking, drugs: barely drinks, and only if someone insists and she doesn’t want to be rude. smokes occasionally in social settings to calm her nerves (and always coughs afterward!) definitely once got way too high at a client dinner and wouldn’t stop complimenting people around her for the most minute details.
mother: Adeline Whitmore — charitable and delicate, occasionally forgetful, obsessed with appearances
father: Charles Whitmore — CFO of a business
siblings: One older brother (Charles Jr., whom she calls “Arlo”); they don’t speak too often but she never fails to call him
— Born into a well-off family in Bronxville, Lottie was raised in a house with marble countertops, strict dinner schedules, and endless rules about what was “appropriate.” She was the kind of girl who wore lace gloves to church and had porcelain dolls on a high shelf she wasn’t allowed to touch.
— Her father adored her in that absent, high-standard way—always expecting her to be good, polite, and quiet. Her mother worried constantly about her getting too much sun.
— Despite a privileged upbringing, Lottie grew up feeling strangely overlooked—too soft-spoken for the country club set, too dreamy to be taken seriously.
— After secretarial school, she got her first job through a connection of her father’s, but proved herself immediately. She is dependable, flexible and most important, she is discreet. Always doing things as though they weren’t necessarily work, almost like you were just inviting a friend to lend a hand.
— Lottie quickly became beloved in the office. She didn’t climb the ladder—but she was well-liked enough that she never ran into any issues of worrying about losing her job. Kind, capable, warm.
— Lottie later developed a soft but distinct art style—she paints mostly in watercolor and ink but has branched out into oil pastels. She’s shown in a few galleries by the early 1970s, her work described by one critic as “like peeking into someone’s memory of being loved.”
