#lgbtmi

Do vampires have nightvision? Well even so, Charlie moves like he does. He always steps lightly and is quick to adjust his step to avoid obstacles. He could navigate his childhood home blind and knows the basement he lives in under that drag parlour like the back of his hand.

He used to be scared of the dark when he was little, especially in the first few months after his mum passed away. She'd gotten in a car accident and died on the way to the hospital when Charlie was six, and they couldn't hold an open casket funeral, so as far as baby Charlie was concerned his mum had just stepped into the dark and got swallowed by it, and for those first few months he had to sleep with the light on. That ease with which he moves through the dark these days came much later, when he realised machines were more predictable and less judgemental than people and he really got into hacking, which he did deep into the night on his dad's old desktop so he wouldn't find out.

10. How open is your oc to trying new things? Are they the adventurous sort, or would they rather stay in their comfort zone? Why?

answered here!

18. How does your oc fare in an emergency situation? Do they panic, do they freeze, do they take charge?

First of all, Fuck You. I know this is a dig to that one time he had a panic attack and fled to the top of the Dom tower after a bestial failure, but you know this is atypical behaviour! In an emergency he will freeze briefly to analyse the situation, and then his brain goes brrrr and he kicks into overdrive (source: Roy the IJ corpse). Though, to be fair, the IJ shenanigans was also an anomaly but that was definitely because Arthur was being less than useful. Usually though, the best option for Charlie is to just step back and disappear. If stuff happens involving Kine, Charlie is only a liability to the Masquerade.

27. What’s your oc’s preferred mode of transportation? Walking, vehicle, (or in a sci-fi/magic setting) teleportation?

I don't remember if Charlie had his driver's license or not tbh, he always rode shotgun but never drove himself, so you probably know this better than I do if I ever mentioned it. THAT SAID, the man lives in Amsterdam, so the easy thing would be to say by bicycle, but nothing is further from the truth. He hates cycling. His bike got stolen two weeks after he moved to the city and he just never bothered to replace it. I like to think he took up skateboarding at some point to get to campus, but he gave that up after his embrace. Those tiny wheels make too much noise to be able to move stealthily while invisible, so now it just sits in his cupboard collecting dust. He now takes the underground a lot. He can leap the gates with ease and no one is any the wiser.

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