newbies as custom disco elysium skills (sourced from this incredible post).
idk if there's fandom overlap here but i've put some serious thought into this. so here you go.
joke engine: i considered jester's privilege instead, but "hey atlas, it's your dad" isn't exactly speaking truth to power. he says shit to say shit sometimes, and that's okay.
instinct: a physical skill was important here, and I think instinct is the way to go -- a lot of his actions feel specifically reflexive. (see also: "i'm getting june.")
dramatis personae: crucial skill for your impressions guy to have.
mauerbauertraurigkeit: n. the inexplicable urge to push people away, literally "wall-builder's sadness." perhaps this is a me interpretation more than anything, but i see this for her. june absolutely has walls.
sarcasm: for her more than bosco, and i stand by that assertion. "oh my god, you've been talking forever" / "oh no way, i couldn't tell."
muscle memory: i like that this is a physical skill that encompasses both parkour ability and pickpocketing, two things that i think are pretty second nature to her at this point.
subtlety: genuinely, a lot of these skills are good for charlie (i could see the arguments for compunction, rationale, providence, fervor, angelus novus, stilted speech, subtle nobility, even thalassophilia or hack the planet. wouldn't go as far as severe and sincere hatred but it IS interesting to consider re: veronika), but i went simple. getting his plan to work took nothing less.
campaign: the plan itself IS his identity, i think more often than he himself realizes. "no. all fifteen years."