his story; history
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observitude∙ Lilith and Seth Eyler get pregnant. Not wanting to be a father, Seth has Lilith abort the baby. She has a mental breakdown.
∙ Lilith and Seth Eyler get pregnant again. Seth leaves and Lilith keeps the baby this time, giving birth to Charles Eyler. Because of her declining mental state, she confuses him with the first, terminated child she didn't have and refers to him as her daughter, Scarlett.
∙ Charles begins having delusions of Scarlett telling him how to live, and harms himself when he doesn't live up to her standards, which is pretty much constantly. One punishment results in the death of his pet cat.
∙ Charles is forced to care for his ill mother as he gets older and usually stays at home. In middle school he makes a friend in Anri Warhol after lending her help when she was being bullied by classmates. He works hard to get good grades so he can become a doctor.
∙ High school Charles does art commission work to support the household when child support isn't enough to cover expenses. He and Anri start "dating" despite the lack of interest from Charles, and he gets in contact with an online writer named "C" who he admires. They become friends, though Charles uses the handle "Charlotte" online.
∙ "C" confesses that he is planning to ascend to godhood of his own universe, which is a convoluted way to say commit suicide. Charles agrees to be there with him when it happens. He and his mother have both run out of medication, but Lilith says that insurance has it all tied up. His delusions of Scarlett become more frequent, intense, and violent as a result.
∙ He meets up with "C" and learns that his real name is Vincent. They assure each other they aren't disappointed to see the true person one another is and find comfort in each other, but Vincent still kills himself. Despite being back on medication, his delusions of Scarlett remain severe and near-constant from the extreme trauma of seeing Vincent's dead body. Charles dissociates almost entirely.
∙ Anri tells Charles that her family is moving away. Since they're both unhappy about this, Charles suggests that they run away together and they book a hotel room. Charles offers Anri a handful of pills and when she realizes this is his way of running away, she begins to hit him. In a desperate attempt to get him to see the value he has, she kisses him, which causes his extreme mysophobia and delusions to turn her face into a disgusting parasite, but it shocks him enough that they actually talk about their problems.
∙ Anri moves away. They lose contact soon after.
∙ Charles's view of the world is distorted, with nearly everyone taking on that parasite face. It gets severe enough and he becomes so tired of having to remain in control that he even begins to see his mother in this way.
∙ Charles confronts the Scarlett hallucination and tells her that she is just a manifestation of his own self-hating ways. He takes full control and responsibility again, but only so that he can drown himself.
∙ In killing himself, there was a Big Bang-type effect that created a world made up entirely of his conscious and subconscious. This was called the World and was limited to different floors of a building known as the House. While he was the god of the World, Charles could only leave his floor if he was using another body as his vessel, representing his trapped state and escapism through fiction. While in a vessel, he often took the name "C", but was also dubbed "Umbrella Man".
∙ Different floors had different iterations of Charlotte Wiltshire that he made a point to visit, the character that Charles created to be the ideal protagonist of his stories and who was birthed by Mother, the World's manifestation of Lilith Eyler. Mother is also the cause of a parasite present in all Charlottes that aren't defective known as Oracle. Oracle has the ability to grant any one wish its host makes, but at the cost of that host's "story" coming to an end soon after.
∙ One Charlotte designated "V19" goes out of control on her floor and slaughters everyone but Scarlett Eyler, who is now a real girl and the perfect student. After many trials and tribulations, Scarlett makes a wish to the powerful parasite in her head to be able to walk in Charlotte's shoes so she can understand why she did what she did. Scarlett is reborn as a Charlotte iteration, "Scarlotte".
∙ Scarlotte "wakes up" as is put into the care of Seth, a Puppeteer. Puppeteers are inhabitants of the True Realm (real world/world Charles was born into), and this particular Seth is representative of the player. He helps to control her self-harm urges and any other extreme impulses she may have. Charles visits her frequently as Umbrella Man and early on gives her a yellow ribbon to tie around her neck to differentiate her from the other Charlottes.
∙ With Seth as her guide, Scarlotte goes on adventures. One of them results in the death of her new friend and fellow Tenant of the House, Felix Honikker, but she's advised by a being known as a Pythia that if she doesn't like the outcome, she should just change the channel, since they're currently inside the TV Realm.
∙ more episode one shit
∙ Scarlotte and O91 combining cancelled out their deaths by the Oracle parasite, and Scarlotte gained enough power that her perception of the world became reality. The part of her that remembered being sensible Scarlet dismissed the Tenants of the House as schizophrenic hallucinations, so they became nothing more than living imaginary friends that were only present when she didn't take her medication. Because of her skewed view of who the Umbrella Man was, a "shadow" version of Charles was given a physical manifestation as a much more cynical, meddling Umbrella Man. Charles remains unaware of this second "imposter" version of himself for quite some time.
∙ In an attempt to get Scarlotte to "break character" from Charlotte Wiltshire, he begins to visit her in the guise of Vincent. He introduces himself as C, the god of the world, and displays blatant mysophobia and imagination. Even when repeating stories that the original Scarlett had mocked him for writing while he was alive, there is no evidence of the cruel sister he once had. When he takes her beneath the school and offers her a handful of pills to end their suffering together, she rejects him but continues to try and help him want to live.
∙ The day of the Trial arrives, which means that each student gets one vote to give out to another. If there is a student that receives no votes, they are marked as a waste to society because of the lack of connections they've made with other people, and their soul cube gets reformatted. Scarlotte consults Seth, giving the player three options.
GREY: Scarlotte votes for her friend Anri Warhol, which she promised to do. C is the only student who receives no votes, and he's taken to the Smile Room after being shown for who he truly is -- a scared, normal boy named Vincent. Scarlotte enters the Smile Room and is relieved to find C okay, but the Oracle parasite in her head informs her that his soul cube is empty. To create a world where no one will be unhappy again, she becomes a god and swallows up everything except for C's body. Umbrella Man visits with a gift, which she perceives as a soul cube so it becomes a soul cube containing a copy of Vincent's soul, which will be "saved" if she opens it and releases him among the stars. Not wanting anyone else to suffer, Scarlotte asks Umbrella Man to eat her name in exchange for watching over the other iterations of Charlotte out there. Umbrella Man reintroduces himself as Charles, as that is his "real" name as a branching off of the original Charles, and the two sit together and release Vincent's soul.
BLACK: Scarlotte votes for C. Feeling betrayed, Anri doesn't vote for her, and for whatever reason, C doesn't either. This leaves Scarlotte as the only student with no votes, and she is sent to the Smile Room. She briefly sees C for who she believes him to really be, a boy named Vincent who loves stories and doesn't like the life he's living. When her cube is reformatted, she "dies", leaving only an empty vessel behind.
WHITE: Scarlotte decides not to vote. By not voting, she places the same importance onto everyone, and is thus "choosing everyone". Neither she nor C receive any votes and they are both sent to the Smile Room so they can be fixed. C tries to confess that he isn't a god, but Scarlotte tells him that he's a wonderful god to her, even if he's Vincent. While being reformatted, Scarlotte meets with the Oracle in her head and wishes that no one else would have to suffer as she did, as Vincent did, as anyone does. The Oracle activates and she becomes like a god, waking up in the Smile Room again but exiting out to a horrifically quiet auditorium. When she speaks, so does everyone else, and Umbrella Man soon comes and explains that to ensure no one suffered, there had to be zero conflict, which meant becoming a hivemind society. Scarlotte had accidentally erased everyone's data and replaced it with her own. In despair, she asks Umbrella Man to kill her, but he hugs her instead and assures her that he'll help her to control her powers and they will create a new world.
POST-WHITE ENDING: The player, as Seth, is offered a new choice. Umbrella Man says that as Charlotte is the new god, the True Realm has no bearing on existence anymore, and so Seth should allow him to eat his name. (The implication later I BELIEVE is that Umbrella Man wishes for the Charlottes to not have to suffer anymore, and if there is no Puppeteer to control Charlotte, she can't be used as a source of entertainment. This fails because Charlotte and Charles are both gods and both see Charlotte as a puppet being put through various stories, at her core. A puppet needs a puppeteer, so Charlotte will always be influenced by an outside source, whether acknowledged or not, as long as she and the Hello Charlotte games exist. Umbrella Man can meddle all he likes, but he can't change that fact.)
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Sad boy was born to Lilith and Seth Eyler. Prior to his birth, Lilith had been pregnant before -- however, Seth was unwilling to be a father, and forced her to terminate the child, which led to her having a mental breakdown. Seth left before Charles was born, but he’d already caused him a lot of damage. Distraught, Lilith imposed many of her thoughts and wishes for her first child onto Charles, to the point of routinely confusing him for a girl and determining many aspects of his life. Forced to care for his mentally ill mother, who was bedridden from her severe depression, Charles worked hard to get good grades so he could become a doctor and better take care of her. He also turned to fantasy worlds for comfort, though a series of his own mental illnesses made this extremely difficult, as a mental construct of his dead sister, Scarlett Eyler, often made him punish himself if he failed to meet the high expectations they set.
By elementary school, Charles had already given up on any kind of social life. It wasn’t until middle school that he helped out one of his bullied classmates and eventually befriended her. While he didn’t have a lot of attachment to her in particular, he often went along with her plans, even accepting her decision that they’re dating -- though it was only for public appearance.
Early in high school, Charles wrote fanfiction and drew illustrations for his favorite online fiction author, C. They grew close and started instant messaging each other, though they continued to type rather formally and they didn’t know a lot of personal information regarding each other.
One day while messaging, C confided that he was planning on committing suicide so that he could be free from his horrible experiences and “ascend to godhood” in his own world, as his death would trigger a universe created from his soul. They agreed to meet up the day of before “Scarlett” turns off the computer and threatens to drop him from his third story window to injure him enough that he won't be able to meet C unless he stops messing around and studies. Charles apologizes and resolves to do better so the guilt doesn't destroy his opportunity.
C is revealed to be a boy named Vincent, who doesn’t seem to mind that Charles isn’t the cute girl named Charlotte that he used for his online profile, just being grateful he was there for him. They both express positive feelings for each other and share tender moments between teasing each other, but in the end it isn't enough to prevent Vincent from trying to create a universe consisting entirely of him -- or at least using that as an excuse -- through committing suicide. Charles had considered jumping with him, having an extreme affection and reverence for him, but instead falls back in fear, panic, and distress before calling an ambulance to report the suicide. He’s convinced himself that nothing sad happened, as it was what Vincent apparently needed, and that he needed to stay alive purely to take care of his mother. But he doesn't really feel any benefits from trying to believe that. Oops. In the end, “Scarlett” tries to force him to submit to her directions completely so he’ll stabilize and stop screwing up.
ABOUT HUNDRED DAYS LATER Anri tells him that their family is going to be moving away, and when she reveals that she doesn’t want to, Charles suggests that they run away. They book a hotel room, where Charles tries to persuade Anri to commit suicide with him via swallowing a bunch of pills. She beats him up and tearfully says that it isn’t the kind of running away that she wants, and they’ll still be there for each other even though they won’t be in the same city anymore. When she's admonishing him, Anri reveals that Charles has sunk deeper into his stories and thoughts of Vincent, no longer living for the sake of his mother, and that his story was what kept her going from week to week. She kisses him and briefly turns into a parasite face in Charles’s mind, but they break up because they’re both extremely gay (except Anri is actually bi ftr.)
A few years later, Anri stops contacting him.
Charles has given up on the majority of humanity, and even begins to see his mother as a sickening parasite. Hating himself and his reality so much, Charles walks into the (perhaps metaphorical, but probably not) ocean and drowns himself, to the protests of the schizophrenic illusion of his dead sister that spent his life bullying him, which he finally realizes isn’t really his construct of Scarlett, but a manifestation of his self-loathing. There was nothing to be sad about! Again!! Ha ha!!!
THEN SOME WEIRD SHIT HAPPENS.
Because of his obsession with Vincent, his stories, and his theory about creating worlds with soul data, different layers of reality using Charlotte as the main character instead of him were born. Every being in these realities have pieces of Charles and his life inside them, though in what way changes between AUs, except for an observer known as the Umbrella Man. The Charlottes were a combination of Charles and Vincent, and often inspired by the delusional demands of Lilith -- hence “Charlotte”, which is Charles and Scarlett smushed together. While they couldn’t be permanently killed by conventional means, because they were merely vessels used to house soul data, they had to endure many deaths and in some cases, had their data destroyed and could no longer be loaded up in a new, healthy vessel. Charlotte was always subjected to horrible torment because it meant entertainment for those in the True Realm, though it changed depending on the iteration. They were also often “defective” outside of their terrible fates, further hindered by physical and/or mental disabilities and no one around for support outside of a series of schizophrenic hallucinations that became imaginary friends.
One Charlotte in particular entered the world inside the TV and went on an adventure with one of these friends, Felix Honikker. When he suddenly died, Charlotte realized that she couldn’t change it by reloading him into a vessel like she always did, but was told to simply “change the channel”. Doing this, Charlotte was able to go to a reality where Felix was still alive, and they continued on their adventure. Eventually they find a dying creature called a Pythia, where a godlike entity called an Oracle was residing. In order to save the Oracle, Charlotte agrees to house them inside her body. A being known as Umbrella Man, an observer of their world and a name eater who wears her father’s face, watches over her. He does this because his employer, the god of her world, is invested in her happiness.
Two years later, in Hello Charlotte episode 2, the Oracle has been making Charlotte increasingly ill, as a human vessel was not made to house something of such unfathomable power. Had it not been dying, she would have already been destroyed. Still, she sticks to a routine of waking up, going to school, then going back to sleep so that her life has enough structure that she can function without having to take her medication, since she doesn’t want Felix and the other hallucinatory tenants of her house to disappear. While she doesn’t realize it, head so up in the clouds, all of her classmates bully her, including her sole friend, Anri Warhol. Sound familiar? Guess what? One day, the ideal student, Scarlett Eyler, commits suicide, and shortly after, a boy named C shows up, claiming to be the god of their world. Charlotte readily accepts him, wanting him to be happy even if it only creates more ammunition for their classmates to use against both of them. C invites Charlotte down below the school and offers a chance to ascend from their human vessels, so that they can be gods of their own world and right wrongs. They would be happy.
In Happy Ending, Charlotte agrees. She takes the handful of pills offered to her and they become cruel gods.
However, the true path has Charlotte refuse. She’s afraid to die and desperately wants C to be alive as well. Unable to handle this rejection and too afraid to commit on his own, C has a panic attack until they’re caught by school security. C says that going to the forbidden area off school grounds was all his idea and Charlotte was dragged along when she was concerned about him. Since this was the truth, Charlotte goes along with the story even though it means that only C is punished by having his social points taken away. C requests that she not vote for him during the Trial coming up, as it will be his second chance.
The Oracle works to lift the fog from Charlotte’s mind, and she’s left to discover how the world truly is. In addition to the other students no longer acting in a dopey, positive manner, they become more obviously cruel. Anri’s attitude is more noticeable as well, and is furious to have been ignored in favor of C. While eating lunch on the roof, she manipulates Charlotte into promising to vote for her during the Trial. If she does promise, Anri kisses Charlotte, though Charlotte finds that it isn’t particularly pleasant and she leaves the conversation only feeling humiliated.
While not stated explicitly in episode 2, episode 3 and supplemental material reveal that Anri has inherited some traits from Charles, in his creation of worlds. She has a sibling that her parents fawn over while holding all expectations over her. This even extends to AUs where Anri’s brother is actually dead. That particular bit was inspired by the fact that Charles had never met the real Anri’s shut-in brother, stating that he knew nothing else about him and that he could be a corpse, for all he knew.
A note supposedly from C calls Charlotte to the roof, but a group of classmates are there instead. They pin her down and cut away her hair, then leave her a mess when they think they hear someone coming. Charlotte wakes up in the infirmary with the Umbrella Man, lamenting how terrible the world is and wondering if it had truly always been that way. He sends her home, where she contemplates self-harm and perhaps even suicide.
The day of the Trial arrives. The Trial is an event in the school where they judge the success of students so that they can weed out the “defective” ones, as people that have no one to vote for them are clearly those who will amount to nothing in life.
Voting for C, you get Black Ending, Charlotte is left to be the only student with no one vouching for her, since Anri feels betrayed and wants to hurt her. Charlotte is taken to the Smile Room after seeing C for who he truly is, a normal boy with a love of stories and a terrible life named Vincent. Her soul cube’s data is formatted, giving her a permanent death and leaving her vessel empty.
Voting for Anri, you get Grey Ending, C is left to be the only student with no one vouching for him. Anri is genuinely surprised to be voted for, but she shows Charlotte that she’s voting for her, too, in a weird mix of guilt and happiness. C is taken to the Smile Room, shown very briefly to be a normal, scared boy named Vincent, and when Charlotte runs in to join him, the Oracle tells her that there is nothing left of him there, since his soul cube was formatted. Finding his death unfair, Charlotte forsakes humanity. Deciding no one will be unhappy or left unsafe that way, she consumes the world and everyone in it, including the Oracle. Everything...except the empty vessel that had belonged to C/Vincent. She collapses in tears, furious that Vincent didn’t ascend to godhood along with her like he said, and anguished over the fact that she couldn’t save anyone, in the end. Umbrella Man joins her in the nothingness and gifts her with a box, which becomes a soul cube because it’s what she decides it is, and says that it’s a copy of Vincent’s soul, though his original has been destroyed. He can’t be brought back, but if the soul cube is opened, Vincent’s soul data will be released, and he can be considered “saved” as he’ll become a stargazer. Charlotte is confirmed to be a god, but she’s exhausted after all her suffering and eating of worlds, so instead she gives her name up to Umbrella Man so that he’ll watch over every iteration of her world. She was always his employer. When asking for his name, rather than his nickname she gave him as a child, Umbrella Man says that she can call him Charles. (However, this is not the same Charles, but an imitation of sorts.) Charlotte releases Vincent’s soul and rests beside his vessel, happy with the knowledge that while she’ll be forgotten by the world she became the god of, the player/puppeteer “Seth” will always remember her.
By abstaining from the vote or “choosing everyone” as she puts it, you get True/White Ending, neither Charlotte nor C has anyone to vote for them, and they are both sent to the Smile Room. Terrified, C tries to apologize and tells her that he was never a god, but Charlotte stops him by saying that she always knew he was truly Vincent, and that she still believes he makes a wonderful god. Their soul cubes are formatted, and when falling into oblivion, Charlotte meets with the remnants of the Oracle inside her. She explains that she wants to save everyone and make it so they will no longer suffer. To accomplish this, she joins with the Oracle and wakes up in the world she left, except it’s terribly quiet. When she questions this, the world reverberates her question back at her from the mouths of everyone in existence, and the Umbrella Man visits her in her confusion and panic. She admits that she wished for everyone’s happiness, and for all the painful things to end. However, this caused her to consume everyone’s soul data into herself to create a hivemind that was the death of personality for everyone else. She begs for her death so that she won’t cause anyone any more pain, and though he agrees, Umbrella Man hugs her instead. He explains that his employer has already paid the price and she doesn’t need to be erased from existence -- a nod to the Grey Ending’s Charlotte. She will learn to control her power and possibly, one day, recreate her world from scratch. After this, “Seth” is also offered a choice -- as they are nothing but a mistake in the universe created by Charlotte, and the True Realm doesn’t have any bearing anymore. If the player agrees to let Umbrella Man eat Seth’s name, there will no longer be the unflinching guidance as he will cease to exist. (This fails to work, really, as Charlotte is the god of her world and imagines herself as a puppet with a puppeteer “Seth” from the True Realm. As she imagines, she creates, so the player and their influence will always exist as long as the games exist.)
Boy, that was some heavy shit. Time for Childhood’s End, the third episode, and its iteration of Charlotte, version Q84! The player takes the role of a puppeteer, but they aren’t “Seth” by default, and Charlotte doesn’t hold any affection for them.
Q84 was a Charlotte born without imperfections, but she still became unstable. Early on, she became aware of her existence as a tool for entertainment and knew that every Charlotte was doomed to a life of suffering because they refused to fight back. Unwilling to accept this, Q84 Charlotte did everything she possibly could to come out on top. She infected classmates who opposed her with a disease that would make their egos essentially void, and bullied her classmates so that they wouldn’t bully her first. This includes driving them to suicide and using public executions run by her cult, the White Society, to gather other classmates to her side using mob mentality. All this was possible because Charles -- the original, the god of the world -- approached her and let her know that despite being given the directive “Be a good girl” by Mother (a perverse imitation of Lilith caused by Charles’s issues) she didn’t actually need to.
This version of Charlotte manipulates Anri and the tenants of the House, becoming hated and feared because that will ensure her safety. Any time she gets injured or physically inconvenienced, Charlotte kills herself to wake up in a new, healthy vessel, knowing the truth of the soul cube’s data theory.
Charles frequently interacts with Q84, forming a close friendship with her despite her cruelties, as C. He has Vincent’s vessel, but there’s no trace of the Vincent personality, as Charles has taken it over after this world’s iteration of Vincent is beaten in an alley between Charlotte’s home and the school. He says that he’s only done it to keep the vessel safe, as he’s aware that all Vincent vessels tend to kill themselves if left alone.
Scarlett Eyler, the class rep, tries to stand in the way of everything Q84 does, being the idealized Scarlett that Charles’s mother wanted. She’s a perfect student and wants to protect others while adhering to rules.
When coming home from Anri’s home of trauma one day, Charlotte is attacked and wakes up to find herself drugged with Linq, something used to connect two minds together to easily bridge communication between people, though she’s unable to find the culprit. She can choose to attempt to Linq with Charles, but he catches her and invites her for a chat, instead, where they agree that neither of them have friends and Charles says that there's an imposter of him in the House, someone who pretends to be an Observer like him, but who greatly interferes. Though he doesn't exactly know it, he's speaking of Umbrella Man.
She decides to execute Anri, but the broadcast is interrupted by Scarlett, who we see later had woken up in the infirmary with “Charles” at her side, who promises to share all the secrets of the world with her, now that he's worked up the courage to approach her. “Charles”, who is really Umbrella Man in disguise as a younger form of her brother, says that he's learned she's not the same Scarlett Eyler of his memories, but she apologizes for how she treated him all the same. Because he's tooootally nothing but an Observer, “Charles” enlists her help in stopping the world from collapsing, which means stopping Charlotte from corrupting the world -- she's the source of the executions, rise in suicides, and personality-destroying illnesses. To do that, she needs to cut off the audience (player) from the entertainment. Scarlett busts in to rescue Anri and the rest of her almost-collapsing world stabs Charlotte and throws her out the third story window. She knows that if she linqs with Charlotte, the player will be able to see her memories of the True Realm and learn the truth of the world. However efficient she is, she's not keen on being this hostile, but still winds up taking one of Charlotte’s eyes so she can access the elevator to get to the other floors of the House.
Charlotte wakes up in the infirmary, carried there by Charles, who learns that Scarlett and Charlotte linqed and explains that this Scarlett isn't the reflection of himself that he hated so much, but rather the imaginary construct of the sister he wished he had, and so isn't meant to be so aggressive. Tired, Charlotte decides to go home, but she wakes up on one of the basement’s operating tables to Felix, Bennett, and Florence trying to extract her soul cube. When they leave for a snack break, Charlotte struggles to escape the lab and the residents trying to permanently kill her. She's able to make her way to the elevator and head to the 2F (where School is), but just as she thinks she's free, Scarlett enters the elevator as well and knocks her out with a bat.
This time when she wakes up, she's back in the White Society room where the executions had taken place, tied up and in front of the broadcasts equipment. In a fit of frustration, Charlotte wishes to end Scarlett, who she sees as a monster that set up the entire universe thanks to driving Charles to suicide in the True Realm, and “fuses” with the Mother’s mind parasite that infects every Charlotte known as the Oracle. While it’s a powerful tool, using the wish means that the Charlotte’s story will soon come to an end, which was something that Charles had warned her about when her story began. Q84 kind of regrets that, but whatever, fuck everythin, she's going to end it all. She executes Scarlett publicly after addressing player as a horrible person toying with them.
C/Charles regrets Charlotte’s decision to cash in the wish far more than she does, and after teasing her quite a bit until she passes out, begs Umbrella Man to help him save Q84, who starts to immediately break down into a meat pile. Eventually, he is told to transfer her soul cube away from the fully parasitic body into a different vessel that had been deemed defective.
In a different iteration of the universe, Scarlett is gravely injured by a self-aware Charlotte that didn't have Charles around to influence her. This Charlotte slaughters everyone else on the second floor, where Scarlett has so far spent all her time since it’s where the school is and she has restricted access when it comes to the House. Because she knows everything, the Charlotte of this iteration picks out Scarlett as special as well, and leaves her alive to challenge her to find her “where Mother is”.
With the help of the Puppeteer/player, Scarlett escapes to 1F, where she stumbles into Charlotte’s home unwittingly and is found the following morning by Felix. Felix treats her injuries and when Scarlett insists that she wishes to talk to Charlotte, however horrific, and understand her, shares information concerning the Oracle parasite. Scarlett allows herself to be infected with the Oracle parasite so that she can be on the same level as Charlotte, even though she's aware that it's basically suicide. She doesn't entirely understand that it's happening, but her thought process is being overruled by another, making her see the act of confronting Charlotte as something extremely important.
Scarlett gives the player the choice to be addressed as “Seth” or “Lilith”. It is here that Scarlett reveals that Lilith was her mother’s name, and that Seth was her father. In addition to confronting the fact that she's no longer alone, Scarlett has to see evidence of how ill Charles truly was, and how much her former state in his life destroyed him.
After exploring a few floors/dimensions with House tenants and finding different versions of Charlotte (one of which is the source of the TV Realm), Scarlett eventually comes face to face with the correct one that destroyed 2F, who reveals that the horrible, disgusting mess of organs and grossness before them is actually the Mother that Scarlett loved so dearly. When he was alive, Charles began to see the true Lilith as a parasite, and so a parasite she became. Mother is the source of the Oracle present in every Charlotte vessel, and she births every Charlotte into the world with the expectation to be a good girl.
Traumatized by this and influenced by something outside herself (sup Charlotte), Scarlett strangles V19 Charlotte to death. She realizes this isn’t at all what she meant to do, and looks up to a large nest of Charlotte vessels waiting to be born. Using the wish she is allowed by the presence of the Oracle parasite, Scarlett decides for a chance to walk in Charlotte’s shoes but retain free will and not become a murderer despite everythin. She is reborn as Charlotte, a clean slate with the direction to be a good girl, introduced to a puppeteer named Seth, and discovered by Charles, who sees who she truly is and gives her a yellow ribbon to set her apart from the other Charlottes. When told that Charles will help her kill Wiltshire again, she realizes that she failed in her mission and breaks down, becoming suicidal. She is guided through life by Seth and the Umbrella Man, following the whims of others in order to be loved, and so she goes on adventure with her new friend Felix Honikker, in the TV Realm…
Yeah, that’s right, Scarlett-Charlotte goes through the events of the first episode. And the second. And then she gets stuck in an endless cycle of suffering...until her soul cube data is freed. Charles explains that Scarlett should have died when she made the wish to save the Oracle Pythia in the TV World, but their power combined and instead created a universe, much like how Charles’s death created the one the game's take place in. This is why at the end of the first game and throughout the second, Felix and the other tenants are imaginary friends created by her schizophrenia, and the Trial is a real occurrence threatening her existence.
Q84 wakes up, much to her dismay, in the home of Charles, who she calls Father since he’s the god of her world and direct creator. Charles regrets having to go against her wishes and bring her back, especially in a vessel that, while being Charlotte, is not her own, but he can’t bear to be alone and needs her help to close out another traumatic chapter of his life. He promises to kill her once they're done. The pair head towards the room in the house that had previously gone unexplored -- his father’s room, kept shut since he abandoned them. When they find nothing but a TV, Charles explains Scarlett’s fate and his role in the second game as Vincent, where he truly felt how different his “sister” had become. Umbrella Man comes in and introduces himself as “Seth”, a being created with the name and appearance of Charles’s father unwittingly by Charles himself. After explaining that O91 Charlotte, who was the one that formed the TV World and was, in a way, saved by Scarlett-Charlotte because she wanted to save the Oracle of that world (and then became Frei, the Oracle within her in the second game), saved Scarlett-Charlotte in return for her sacrificial act, he requests that they destroy the TV so that they can release Scarlett’s soul data and everything can finally come to a close. After all, Charlotte did employ him to watch over the worlds, and she wished to end all suffering...and he was created to be the Observer of Scarlett’s created universe, much how Charles was the Observer of his own.
In Happy Ending, Charles and Q84 decide to roll the dice by changing the channel -- and switching Scarlett-Charlotte to another version of reality where there’s a chance she’ll be happier. The new channel shows Charlotte sitting on the couch and eating chips. Just that. Unsatisfied, Q84 changes the channel again, and continues changing the channel with increasing desperation for a happy ending that never comes until Charles finally forces her to stop. No one has any power in the world he's created, as it's just as self-destructive as he is. Q84 plans to rebuild the White Society so that she can create a mob of mindless vessels they can use to store the vast consciousness of Scarlett. In a glitchy puddle of flesh and disease, Scarlett-Charlotte and Frei discuss going to see the stars for real this time… When the game is started up again, the player is met with a sea of students with yellow eyes, hinting that they're being used as vessels, and screams. Fun!!
In True Ending, Charles and Q84 agree to save Scarlett. Q84 has Charles leave the room so that she can do the deed, beating the TV into a mess while she comes to terms with all the hopelessness and determination of the universe. They collect the body of the Vincent vessel, which had predictably killed itself, before tossing it into a bottomless pit that Q84 supposes has seen many Vincent corpses in its time as well as any other corpse Charles had to deal with, and they say goodbye. Charles accepts his faults that have shaped the nature of his world, and realizes that his creative pursuits brought him close to people in a way that he couldn't accomplish otherwise. He assures the recreation of his mother that she did the best she could and injects a syringe into her. Mother begins to crystallize and collapse the House around them, and as she dies, Charles breaks down as well. Q84, the last Charlotte, comforts him. There is nothing to be sad about.
Umbrella Man is a dick and breaks down into a glitchy mess before the reality kicks off into Charles addressing the puppeteer and thanks them for staying with his world and story despite the choices not really mattering. Scarlett-Charlotte thanks her “Seth” as well for taking care of her, assuring the player that she's really happy this time.
TRIAL TIMELINE
682 Days - Charles talks to Anri online and then C, c needs to work on a thing, Scarlett torments him and he goes to visit his bedridden mother, says he'll make her favorite dish tomorrow and bring it to her in her room
681 Days - Anri and Charles get pictures of a girl being bullied
646 Days - Charles and Anri go on a date to a movie and cafe, Charles comes back and finds out he's out of meds, he talks to c, who says he's going to kill himself, Scarlett threatens Charles so that he'll behave just so he can see c irl, Mother is afraid of doing anything and sleeps, but she's run out too, says it's a month until they get an appointment
625 Days - Charles meets C/Vincent and Vincent kills himself. Charles panics and dissociates and Scarlett starts acting out more despite Charles taking his meds
531 Days - Anri says she has to move away and they decide to run away together
530 Days - ?????? unless it's the night, but. Charles’s version of running away is downing a bunch of pills and Anri beats him up. Next morning they go home, next month Anri moves, year and a half later, they stop talking, so that's like 547 days, so they probably stopped right before the trial
??? Days - Mom is parasite, nothing is same, everyone is parasite
0 Days - Charles drowns himself
Episode 1
***Episode 2
***Episode 3 WHICH MIGHT NOT BE FINISHED
Charles as he appears in the first two episodes. While interacting with the Charlotte in these episodes as C, he often adopted mannerisms of an idolized version of his friend, Vincent, but considered himself to be an inferior imitation.
***Charles wiki.
Character that is essentially Shadow Charles as well as a manifestation of his mental image of his father.
Fictional story written by Charles that echoes his relationship with Vincent.
∙ Lilith and Seth Eyler get pregnant again. Seth leaves and Lilith keeps the baby this time, giving birth to Charles Eyler. Because of her declining mental state, she confuses him with the first, terminated child she didn't have and refers to him as her daughter, Scarlett.
∙ Charles begins having delusions of Scarlett telling him how to live, and harms himself when he doesn't live up to her standards, which is pretty much constantly. One punishment results in the death of his pet cat.
∙ Charles is forced to care for his ill mother as he gets older and usually stays at home. In middle school he makes a friend in Anri Warhol after lending her help when she was being bullied by classmates. He works hard to get good grades so he can become a doctor.
∙ High school Charles does art commission work to support the household when child support isn't enough to cover expenses. He and Anri start "dating" despite the lack of interest from Charles, and he gets in contact with an online writer named "C" who he admires. They become friends, though Charles uses the handle "Charlotte" online.
∙ "C" confesses that he is planning to ascend to godhood of his own universe, which is a convoluted way to say commit suicide. Charles agrees to be there with him when it happens. He and his mother have both run out of medication, but Lilith says that insurance has it all tied up. His delusions of Scarlett become more frequent, intense, and violent as a result.
∙ He meets up with "C" and learns that his real name is Vincent. They assure each other they aren't disappointed to see the true person one another is and find comfort in each other, but Vincent still kills himself. Despite being back on medication, his delusions of Scarlett remain severe and near-constant from the extreme trauma of seeing Vincent's dead body. Charles dissociates almost entirely.
∙ Anri tells Charles that her family is moving away. Since they're both unhappy about this, Charles suggests that they run away together and they book a hotel room. Charles offers Anri a handful of pills and when she realizes this is his way of running away, she begins to hit him. In a desperate attempt to get him to see the value he has, she kisses him, which causes his extreme mysophobia and delusions to turn her face into a disgusting parasite, but it shocks him enough that they actually talk about their problems.
∙ Anri moves away. They lose contact soon after.
∙ Charles's view of the world is distorted, with nearly everyone taking on that parasite face. It gets severe enough and he becomes so tired of having to remain in control that he even begins to see his mother in this way.
∙ Charles confronts the Scarlett hallucination and tells her that she is just a manifestation of his own self-hating ways. He takes full control and responsibility again, but only so that he can drown himself.
∙ In killing himself, there was a Big Bang-type effect that created a world made up entirely of his conscious and subconscious. This was called the World and was limited to different floors of a building known as the House. While he was the god of the World, Charles could only leave his floor if he was using another body as his vessel, representing his trapped state and escapism through fiction. While in a vessel, he often took the name "C", but was also dubbed "Umbrella Man".
∙ Different floors had different iterations of Charlotte Wiltshire that he made a point to visit, the character that Charles created to be the ideal protagonist of his stories and who was birthed by Mother, the World's manifestation of Lilith Eyler. Mother is also the cause of a parasite present in all Charlottes that aren't defective known as Oracle. Oracle has the ability to grant any one wish its host makes, but at the cost of that host's "story" coming to an end soon after.
∙ One Charlotte designated "V19" goes out of control on her floor and slaughters everyone but Scarlett Eyler, who is now a real girl and the perfect student. After many trials and tribulations, Scarlett makes a wish to the powerful parasite in her head to be able to walk in Charlotte's shoes so she can understand why she did what she did. Scarlett is reborn as a Charlotte iteration, "Scarlotte".
∙ Scarlotte "wakes up" as is put into the care of Seth, a Puppeteer. Puppeteers are inhabitants of the True Realm (real world/world Charles was born into), and this particular Seth is representative of the player. He helps to control her self-harm urges and any other extreme impulses she may have. Charles visits her frequently as Umbrella Man and early on gives her a yellow ribbon to tie around her neck to differentiate her from the other Charlottes.
∙ With Seth as her guide, Scarlotte goes on adventures. One of them results in the death of her new friend and fellow Tenant of the House, Felix Honikker, but she's advised by a being known as a Pythia that if she doesn't like the outcome, she should just change the channel, since they're currently inside the TV Realm.
∙ more episode one shit
∙ Scarlotte and O91 combining cancelled out their deaths by the Oracle parasite, and Scarlotte gained enough power that her perception of the world became reality. The part of her that remembered being sensible Scarlet dismissed the Tenants of the House as schizophrenic hallucinations, so they became nothing more than living imaginary friends that were only present when she didn't take her medication. Because of her skewed view of who the Umbrella Man was, a "shadow" version of Charles was given a physical manifestation as a much more cynical, meddling Umbrella Man. Charles remains unaware of this second "imposter" version of himself for quite some time.
∙ In an attempt to get Scarlotte to "break character" from Charlotte Wiltshire, he begins to visit her in the guise of Vincent. He introduces himself as C, the god of the world, and displays blatant mysophobia and imagination. Even when repeating stories that the original Scarlett had mocked him for writing while he was alive, there is no evidence of the cruel sister he once had. When he takes her beneath the school and offers her a handful of pills to end their suffering together, she rejects him but continues to try and help him want to live.
∙ The day of the Trial arrives, which means that each student gets one vote to give out to another. If there is a student that receives no votes, they are marked as a waste to society because of the lack of connections they've made with other people, and their soul cube gets reformatted. Scarlotte consults Seth, giving the player three options.
GREY: Scarlotte votes for her friend Anri Warhol, which she promised to do. C is the only student who receives no votes, and he's taken to the Smile Room after being shown for who he truly is -- a scared, normal boy named Vincent. Scarlotte enters the Smile Room and is relieved to find C okay, but the Oracle parasite in her head informs her that his soul cube is empty. To create a world where no one will be unhappy again, she becomes a god and swallows up everything except for C's body. Umbrella Man visits with a gift, which she perceives as a soul cube so it becomes a soul cube containing a copy of Vincent's soul, which will be "saved" if she opens it and releases him among the stars. Not wanting anyone else to suffer, Scarlotte asks Umbrella Man to eat her name in exchange for watching over the other iterations of Charlotte out there. Umbrella Man reintroduces himself as Charles, as that is his "real" name as a branching off of the original Charles, and the two sit together and release Vincent's soul.
BLACK: Scarlotte votes for C. Feeling betrayed, Anri doesn't vote for her, and for whatever reason, C doesn't either. This leaves Scarlotte as the only student with no votes, and she is sent to the Smile Room. She briefly sees C for who she believes him to really be, a boy named Vincent who loves stories and doesn't like the life he's living. When her cube is reformatted, she "dies", leaving only an empty vessel behind.
WHITE: Scarlotte decides not to vote. By not voting, she places the same importance onto everyone, and is thus "choosing everyone". Neither she nor C receive any votes and they are both sent to the Smile Room so they can be fixed. C tries to confess that he isn't a god, but Scarlotte tells him that he's a wonderful god to her, even if he's Vincent. While being reformatted, Scarlotte meets with the Oracle in her head and wishes that no one else would have to suffer as she did, as Vincent did, as anyone does. The Oracle activates and she becomes like a god, waking up in the Smile Room again but exiting out to a horrifically quiet auditorium. When she speaks, so does everyone else, and Umbrella Man soon comes and explains that to ensure no one suffered, there had to be zero conflict, which meant becoming a hivemind society. Scarlotte had accidentally erased everyone's data and replaced it with her own. In despair, she asks Umbrella Man to kill her, but he hugs her instead and assures her that he'll help her to control her powers and they will create a new world.
POST-WHITE ENDING: The player, as Seth, is offered a new choice. Umbrella Man says that as Charlotte is the new god, the True Realm has no bearing on existence anymore, and so Seth should allow him to eat his name. (The implication later I BELIEVE is that Umbrella Man wishes for the Charlottes to not have to suffer anymore, and if there is no Puppeteer to control Charlotte, she can't be used as a source of entertainment. This fails because Charlotte and Charles are both gods and both see Charlotte as a puppet being put through various stories, at her core. A puppet needs a puppeteer, so Charlotte will always be influenced by an outside source, whether acknowledged or not, as long as she and the Hello Charlotte games exist. Umbrella Man can meddle all he likes, but he can't change that fact.)
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Sad boy was born to Lilith and Seth Eyler. Prior to his birth, Lilith had been pregnant before -- however, Seth was unwilling to be a father, and forced her to terminate the child, which led to her having a mental breakdown. Seth left before Charles was born, but he’d already caused him a lot of damage. Distraught, Lilith imposed many of her thoughts and wishes for her first child onto Charles, to the point of routinely confusing him for a girl and determining many aspects of his life. Forced to care for his mentally ill mother, who was bedridden from her severe depression, Charles worked hard to get good grades so he could become a doctor and better take care of her. He also turned to fantasy worlds for comfort, though a series of his own mental illnesses made this extremely difficult, as a mental construct of his dead sister, Scarlett Eyler, often made him punish himself if he failed to meet the high expectations they set.
By elementary school, Charles had already given up on any kind of social life. It wasn’t until middle school that he helped out one of his bullied classmates and eventually befriended her. While he didn’t have a lot of attachment to her in particular, he often went along with her plans, even accepting her decision that they’re dating -- though it was only for public appearance.
Early in high school, Charles wrote fanfiction and drew illustrations for his favorite online fiction author, C. They grew close and started instant messaging each other, though they continued to type rather formally and they didn’t know a lot of personal information regarding each other.
One day while messaging, C confided that he was planning on committing suicide so that he could be free from his horrible experiences and “ascend to godhood” in his own world, as his death would trigger a universe created from his soul. They agreed to meet up the day of before “Scarlett” turns off the computer and threatens to drop him from his third story window to injure him enough that he won't be able to meet C unless he stops messing around and studies. Charles apologizes and resolves to do better so the guilt doesn't destroy his opportunity.
C is revealed to be a boy named Vincent, who doesn’t seem to mind that Charles isn’t the cute girl named Charlotte that he used for his online profile, just being grateful he was there for him. They both express positive feelings for each other and share tender moments between teasing each other, but in the end it isn't enough to prevent Vincent from trying to create a universe consisting entirely of him -- or at least using that as an excuse -- through committing suicide. Charles had considered jumping with him, having an extreme affection and reverence for him, but instead falls back in fear, panic, and distress before calling an ambulance to report the suicide. He’s convinced himself that nothing sad happened, as it was what Vincent apparently needed, and that he needed to stay alive purely to take care of his mother. But he doesn't really feel any benefits from trying to believe that. Oops. In the end, “Scarlett” tries to force him to submit to her directions completely so he’ll stabilize and stop screwing up.
ABOUT HUNDRED DAYS LATER Anri tells him that their family is going to be moving away, and when she reveals that she doesn’t want to, Charles suggests that they run away. They book a hotel room, where Charles tries to persuade Anri to commit suicide with him via swallowing a bunch of pills. She beats him up and tearfully says that it isn’t the kind of running away that she wants, and they’ll still be there for each other even though they won’t be in the same city anymore. When she's admonishing him, Anri reveals that Charles has sunk deeper into his stories and thoughts of Vincent, no longer living for the sake of his mother, and that his story was what kept her going from week to week. She kisses him and briefly turns into a parasite face in Charles’s mind, but they break up because they’re both extremely gay (except Anri is actually bi ftr.)
A few years later, Anri stops contacting him.
Charles has given up on the majority of humanity, and even begins to see his mother as a sickening parasite. Hating himself and his reality so much, Charles walks into the (perhaps metaphorical, but probably not) ocean and drowns himself, to the protests of the schizophrenic illusion of his dead sister that spent his life bullying him, which he finally realizes isn’t really his construct of Scarlett, but a manifestation of his self-loathing. There was nothing to be sad about! Again!! Ha ha!!!
THEN SOME WEIRD SHIT HAPPENS.
Because of his obsession with Vincent, his stories, and his theory about creating worlds with soul data, different layers of reality using Charlotte as the main character instead of him were born. Every being in these realities have pieces of Charles and his life inside them, though in what way changes between AUs, except for an observer known as the Umbrella Man. The Charlottes were a combination of Charles and Vincent, and often inspired by the delusional demands of Lilith -- hence “Charlotte”, which is Charles and Scarlett smushed together. While they couldn’t be permanently killed by conventional means, because they were merely vessels used to house soul data, they had to endure many deaths and in some cases, had their data destroyed and could no longer be loaded up in a new, healthy vessel. Charlotte was always subjected to horrible torment because it meant entertainment for those in the True Realm, though it changed depending on the iteration. They were also often “defective” outside of their terrible fates, further hindered by physical and/or mental disabilities and no one around for support outside of a series of schizophrenic hallucinations that became imaginary friends.
One Charlotte in particular entered the world inside the TV and went on an adventure with one of these friends, Felix Honikker. When he suddenly died, Charlotte realized that she couldn’t change it by reloading him into a vessel like she always did, but was told to simply “change the channel”. Doing this, Charlotte was able to go to a reality where Felix was still alive, and they continued on their adventure. Eventually they find a dying creature called a Pythia, where a godlike entity called an Oracle was residing. In order to save the Oracle, Charlotte agrees to house them inside her body. A being known as Umbrella Man, an observer of their world and a name eater who wears her father’s face, watches over her. He does this because his employer, the god of her world, is invested in her happiness.
Two years later, in Hello Charlotte episode 2, the Oracle has been making Charlotte increasingly ill, as a human vessel was not made to house something of such unfathomable power. Had it not been dying, she would have already been destroyed. Still, she sticks to a routine of waking up, going to school, then going back to sleep so that her life has enough structure that she can function without having to take her medication, since she doesn’t want Felix and the other hallucinatory tenants of her house to disappear. While she doesn’t realize it, head so up in the clouds, all of her classmates bully her, including her sole friend, Anri Warhol. Sound familiar? Guess what? One day, the ideal student, Scarlett Eyler, commits suicide, and shortly after, a boy named C shows up, claiming to be the god of their world. Charlotte readily accepts him, wanting him to be happy even if it only creates more ammunition for their classmates to use against both of them. C invites Charlotte down below the school and offers a chance to ascend from their human vessels, so that they can be gods of their own world and right wrongs. They would be happy.
In Happy Ending, Charlotte agrees. She takes the handful of pills offered to her and they become cruel gods.
However, the true path has Charlotte refuse. She’s afraid to die and desperately wants C to be alive as well. Unable to handle this rejection and too afraid to commit on his own, C has a panic attack until they’re caught by school security. C says that going to the forbidden area off school grounds was all his idea and Charlotte was dragged along when she was concerned about him. Since this was the truth, Charlotte goes along with the story even though it means that only C is punished by having his social points taken away. C requests that she not vote for him during the Trial coming up, as it will be his second chance.
The Oracle works to lift the fog from Charlotte’s mind, and she’s left to discover how the world truly is. In addition to the other students no longer acting in a dopey, positive manner, they become more obviously cruel. Anri’s attitude is more noticeable as well, and is furious to have been ignored in favor of C. While eating lunch on the roof, she manipulates Charlotte into promising to vote for her during the Trial. If she does promise, Anri kisses Charlotte, though Charlotte finds that it isn’t particularly pleasant and she leaves the conversation only feeling humiliated.
While not stated explicitly in episode 2, episode 3 and supplemental material reveal that Anri has inherited some traits from Charles, in his creation of worlds. She has a sibling that her parents fawn over while holding all expectations over her. This even extends to AUs where Anri’s brother is actually dead. That particular bit was inspired by the fact that Charles had never met the real Anri’s shut-in brother, stating that he knew nothing else about him and that he could be a corpse, for all he knew.
A note supposedly from C calls Charlotte to the roof, but a group of classmates are there instead. They pin her down and cut away her hair, then leave her a mess when they think they hear someone coming. Charlotte wakes up in the infirmary with the Umbrella Man, lamenting how terrible the world is and wondering if it had truly always been that way. He sends her home, where she contemplates self-harm and perhaps even suicide.
The day of the Trial arrives. The Trial is an event in the school where they judge the success of students so that they can weed out the “defective” ones, as people that have no one to vote for them are clearly those who will amount to nothing in life.
Voting for C, you get Black Ending, Charlotte is left to be the only student with no one vouching for her, since Anri feels betrayed and wants to hurt her. Charlotte is taken to the Smile Room after seeing C for who he truly is, a normal boy with a love of stories and a terrible life named Vincent. Her soul cube’s data is formatted, giving her a permanent death and leaving her vessel empty.
Voting for Anri, you get Grey Ending, C is left to be the only student with no one vouching for him. Anri is genuinely surprised to be voted for, but she shows Charlotte that she’s voting for her, too, in a weird mix of guilt and happiness. C is taken to the Smile Room, shown very briefly to be a normal, scared boy named Vincent, and when Charlotte runs in to join him, the Oracle tells her that there is nothing left of him there, since his soul cube was formatted. Finding his death unfair, Charlotte forsakes humanity. Deciding no one will be unhappy or left unsafe that way, she consumes the world and everyone in it, including the Oracle. Everything...except the empty vessel that had belonged to C/Vincent. She collapses in tears, furious that Vincent didn’t ascend to godhood along with her like he said, and anguished over the fact that she couldn’t save anyone, in the end. Umbrella Man joins her in the nothingness and gifts her with a box, which becomes a soul cube because it’s what she decides it is, and says that it’s a copy of Vincent’s soul, though his original has been destroyed. He can’t be brought back, but if the soul cube is opened, Vincent’s soul data will be released, and he can be considered “saved” as he’ll become a stargazer. Charlotte is confirmed to be a god, but she’s exhausted after all her suffering and eating of worlds, so instead she gives her name up to Umbrella Man so that he’ll watch over every iteration of her world. She was always his employer. When asking for his name, rather than his nickname she gave him as a child, Umbrella Man says that she can call him Charles. (However, this is not the same Charles, but an imitation of sorts.) Charlotte releases Vincent’s soul and rests beside his vessel, happy with the knowledge that while she’ll be forgotten by the world she became the god of, the player/puppeteer “Seth” will always remember her.
By abstaining from the vote or “choosing everyone” as she puts it, you get True/White Ending, neither Charlotte nor C has anyone to vote for them, and they are both sent to the Smile Room. Terrified, C tries to apologize and tells her that he was never a god, but Charlotte stops him by saying that she always knew he was truly Vincent, and that she still believes he makes a wonderful god. Their soul cubes are formatted, and when falling into oblivion, Charlotte meets with the remnants of the Oracle inside her. She explains that she wants to save everyone and make it so they will no longer suffer. To accomplish this, she joins with the Oracle and wakes up in the world she left, except it’s terribly quiet. When she questions this, the world reverberates her question back at her from the mouths of everyone in existence, and the Umbrella Man visits her in her confusion and panic. She admits that she wished for everyone’s happiness, and for all the painful things to end. However, this caused her to consume everyone’s soul data into herself to create a hivemind that was the death of personality for everyone else. She begs for her death so that she won’t cause anyone any more pain, and though he agrees, Umbrella Man hugs her instead. He explains that his employer has already paid the price and she doesn’t need to be erased from existence -- a nod to the Grey Ending’s Charlotte. She will learn to control her power and possibly, one day, recreate her world from scratch. After this, “Seth” is also offered a choice -- as they are nothing but a mistake in the universe created by Charlotte, and the True Realm doesn’t have any bearing anymore. If the player agrees to let Umbrella Man eat Seth’s name, there will no longer be the unflinching guidance as he will cease to exist. (This fails to work, really, as Charlotte is the god of her world and imagines herself as a puppet with a puppeteer “Seth” from the True Realm. As she imagines, she creates, so the player and their influence will always exist as long as the games exist.)
Boy, that was some heavy shit. Time for Childhood’s End, the third episode, and its iteration of Charlotte, version Q84! The player takes the role of a puppeteer, but they aren’t “Seth” by default, and Charlotte doesn’t hold any affection for them.
Q84 was a Charlotte born without imperfections, but she still became unstable. Early on, she became aware of her existence as a tool for entertainment and knew that every Charlotte was doomed to a life of suffering because they refused to fight back. Unwilling to accept this, Q84 Charlotte did everything she possibly could to come out on top. She infected classmates who opposed her with a disease that would make their egos essentially void, and bullied her classmates so that they wouldn’t bully her first. This includes driving them to suicide and using public executions run by her cult, the White Society, to gather other classmates to her side using mob mentality. All this was possible because Charles -- the original, the god of the world -- approached her and let her know that despite being given the directive “Be a good girl” by Mother (a perverse imitation of Lilith caused by Charles’s issues) she didn’t actually need to.
This version of Charlotte manipulates Anri and the tenants of the House, becoming hated and feared because that will ensure her safety. Any time she gets injured or physically inconvenienced, Charlotte kills herself to wake up in a new, healthy vessel, knowing the truth of the soul cube’s data theory.
Charles frequently interacts with Q84, forming a close friendship with her despite her cruelties, as C. He has Vincent’s vessel, but there’s no trace of the Vincent personality, as Charles has taken it over after this world’s iteration of Vincent is beaten in an alley between Charlotte’s home and the school. He says that he’s only done it to keep the vessel safe, as he’s aware that all Vincent vessels tend to kill themselves if left alone.
Scarlett Eyler, the class rep, tries to stand in the way of everything Q84 does, being the idealized Scarlett that Charles’s mother wanted. She’s a perfect student and wants to protect others while adhering to rules.
When coming home from Anri’s home of trauma one day, Charlotte is attacked and wakes up to find herself drugged with Linq, something used to connect two minds together to easily bridge communication between people, though she’s unable to find the culprit. She can choose to attempt to Linq with Charles, but he catches her and invites her for a chat, instead, where they agree that neither of them have friends and Charles says that there's an imposter of him in the House, someone who pretends to be an Observer like him, but who greatly interferes. Though he doesn't exactly know it, he's speaking of Umbrella Man.
She decides to execute Anri, but the broadcast is interrupted by Scarlett, who we see later had woken up in the infirmary with “Charles” at her side, who promises to share all the secrets of the world with her, now that he's worked up the courage to approach her. “Charles”, who is really Umbrella Man in disguise as a younger form of her brother, says that he's learned she's not the same Scarlett Eyler of his memories, but she apologizes for how she treated him all the same. Because he's tooootally nothing but an Observer, “Charles” enlists her help in stopping the world from collapsing, which means stopping Charlotte from corrupting the world -- she's the source of the executions, rise in suicides, and personality-destroying illnesses. To do that, she needs to cut off the audience (player) from the entertainment. Scarlett busts in to rescue Anri and the rest of her almost-collapsing world stabs Charlotte and throws her out the third story window. She knows that if she linqs with Charlotte, the player will be able to see her memories of the True Realm and learn the truth of the world. However efficient she is, she's not keen on being this hostile, but still winds up taking one of Charlotte’s eyes so she can access the elevator to get to the other floors of the House.
Charlotte wakes up in the infirmary, carried there by Charles, who learns that Scarlett and Charlotte linqed and explains that this Scarlett isn't the reflection of himself that he hated so much, but rather the imaginary construct of the sister he wished he had, and so isn't meant to be so aggressive. Tired, Charlotte decides to go home, but she wakes up on one of the basement’s operating tables to Felix, Bennett, and Florence trying to extract her soul cube. When they leave for a snack break, Charlotte struggles to escape the lab and the residents trying to permanently kill her. She's able to make her way to the elevator and head to the 2F (where School is), but just as she thinks she's free, Scarlett enters the elevator as well and knocks her out with a bat.
This time when she wakes up, she's back in the White Society room where the executions had taken place, tied up and in front of the broadcasts equipment. In a fit of frustration, Charlotte wishes to end Scarlett, who she sees as a monster that set up the entire universe thanks to driving Charles to suicide in the True Realm, and “fuses” with the Mother’s mind parasite that infects every Charlotte known as the Oracle. While it’s a powerful tool, using the wish means that the Charlotte’s story will soon come to an end, which was something that Charles had warned her about when her story began. Q84 kind of regrets that, but whatever, fuck everythin, she's going to end it all. She executes Scarlett publicly after addressing player as a horrible person toying with them.
C/Charles regrets Charlotte’s decision to cash in the wish far more than she does, and after teasing her quite a bit until she passes out, begs Umbrella Man to help him save Q84, who starts to immediately break down into a meat pile. Eventually, he is told to transfer her soul cube away from the fully parasitic body into a different vessel that had been deemed defective.
In a different iteration of the universe, Scarlett is gravely injured by a self-aware Charlotte that didn't have Charles around to influence her. This Charlotte slaughters everyone else on the second floor, where Scarlett has so far spent all her time since it’s where the school is and she has restricted access when it comes to the House. Because she knows everything, the Charlotte of this iteration picks out Scarlett as special as well, and leaves her alive to challenge her to find her “where Mother is”.
With the help of the Puppeteer/player, Scarlett escapes to 1F, where she stumbles into Charlotte’s home unwittingly and is found the following morning by Felix. Felix treats her injuries and when Scarlett insists that she wishes to talk to Charlotte, however horrific, and understand her, shares information concerning the Oracle parasite. Scarlett allows herself to be infected with the Oracle parasite so that she can be on the same level as Charlotte, even though she's aware that it's basically suicide. She doesn't entirely understand that it's happening, but her thought process is being overruled by another, making her see the act of confronting Charlotte as something extremely important.
Scarlett gives the player the choice to be addressed as “Seth” or “Lilith”. It is here that Scarlett reveals that Lilith was her mother’s name, and that Seth was her father. In addition to confronting the fact that she's no longer alone, Scarlett has to see evidence of how ill Charles truly was, and how much her former state in his life destroyed him.
After exploring a few floors/dimensions with House tenants and finding different versions of Charlotte (one of which is the source of the TV Realm), Scarlett eventually comes face to face with the correct one that destroyed 2F, who reveals that the horrible, disgusting mess of organs and grossness before them is actually the Mother that Scarlett loved so dearly. When he was alive, Charles began to see the true Lilith as a parasite, and so a parasite she became. Mother is the source of the Oracle present in every Charlotte vessel, and she births every Charlotte into the world with the expectation to be a good girl.
Traumatized by this and influenced by something outside herself (sup Charlotte), Scarlett strangles V19 Charlotte to death. She realizes this isn’t at all what she meant to do, and looks up to a large nest of Charlotte vessels waiting to be born. Using the wish she is allowed by the presence of the Oracle parasite, Scarlett decides for a chance to walk in Charlotte’s shoes but retain free will and not become a murderer despite everythin. She is reborn as Charlotte, a clean slate with the direction to be a good girl, introduced to a puppeteer named Seth, and discovered by Charles, who sees who she truly is and gives her a yellow ribbon to set her apart from the other Charlottes. When told that Charles will help her kill Wiltshire again, she realizes that she failed in her mission and breaks down, becoming suicidal. She is guided through life by Seth and the Umbrella Man, following the whims of others in order to be loved, and so she goes on adventure with her new friend Felix Honikker, in the TV Realm…
Yeah, that’s right, Scarlett-Charlotte goes through the events of the first episode. And the second. And then she gets stuck in an endless cycle of suffering...until her soul cube data is freed. Charles explains that Scarlett should have died when she made the wish to save the Oracle Pythia in the TV World, but their power combined and instead created a universe, much like how Charles’s death created the one the game's take place in. This is why at the end of the first game and throughout the second, Felix and the other tenants are imaginary friends created by her schizophrenia, and the Trial is a real occurrence threatening her existence.
Q84 wakes up, much to her dismay, in the home of Charles, who she calls Father since he’s the god of her world and direct creator. Charles regrets having to go against her wishes and bring her back, especially in a vessel that, while being Charlotte, is not her own, but he can’t bear to be alone and needs her help to close out another traumatic chapter of his life. He promises to kill her once they're done. The pair head towards the room in the house that had previously gone unexplored -- his father’s room, kept shut since he abandoned them. When they find nothing but a TV, Charles explains Scarlett’s fate and his role in the second game as Vincent, where he truly felt how different his “sister” had become. Umbrella Man comes in and introduces himself as “Seth”, a being created with the name and appearance of Charles’s father unwittingly by Charles himself. After explaining that O91 Charlotte, who was the one that formed the TV World and was, in a way, saved by Scarlett-Charlotte because she wanted to save the Oracle of that world (and then became Frei, the Oracle within her in the second game), saved Scarlett-Charlotte in return for her sacrificial act, he requests that they destroy the TV so that they can release Scarlett’s soul data and everything can finally come to a close. After all, Charlotte did employ him to watch over the worlds, and she wished to end all suffering...and he was created to be the Observer of Scarlett’s created universe, much how Charles was the Observer of his own.
In Happy Ending, Charles and Q84 decide to roll the dice by changing the channel -- and switching Scarlett-Charlotte to another version of reality where there’s a chance she’ll be happier. The new channel shows Charlotte sitting on the couch and eating chips. Just that. Unsatisfied, Q84 changes the channel again, and continues changing the channel with increasing desperation for a happy ending that never comes until Charles finally forces her to stop. No one has any power in the world he's created, as it's just as self-destructive as he is. Q84 plans to rebuild the White Society so that she can create a mob of mindless vessels they can use to store the vast consciousness of Scarlett. In a glitchy puddle of flesh and disease, Scarlett-Charlotte and Frei discuss going to see the stars for real this time… When the game is started up again, the player is met with a sea of students with yellow eyes, hinting that they're being used as vessels, and screams. Fun!!
In True Ending, Charles and Q84 agree to save Scarlett. Q84 has Charles leave the room so that she can do the deed, beating the TV into a mess while she comes to terms with all the hopelessness and determination of the universe. They collect the body of the Vincent vessel, which had predictably killed itself, before tossing it into a bottomless pit that Q84 supposes has seen many Vincent corpses in its time as well as any other corpse Charles had to deal with, and they say goodbye. Charles accepts his faults that have shaped the nature of his world, and realizes that his creative pursuits brought him close to people in a way that he couldn't accomplish otherwise. He assures the recreation of his mother that she did the best she could and injects a syringe into her. Mother begins to crystallize and collapse the House around them, and as she dies, Charles breaks down as well. Q84, the last Charlotte, comforts him. There is nothing to be sad about.
Umbrella Man is a dick and breaks down into a glitchy mess before the reality kicks off into Charles addressing the puppeteer and thanks them for staying with his world and story despite the choices not really mattering. Scarlett-Charlotte thanks her “Seth” as well for taking care of her, assuring the player that she's really happy this time.
TRIAL TIMELINE
682 Days - Charles talks to Anri online and then C, c needs to work on a thing, Scarlett torments him and he goes to visit his bedridden mother, says he'll make her favorite dish tomorrow and bring it to her in her room
681 Days - Anri and Charles get pictures of a girl being bullied
646 Days - Charles and Anri go on a date to a movie and cafe, Charles comes back and finds out he's out of meds, he talks to c, who says he's going to kill himself, Scarlett threatens Charles so that he'll behave just so he can see c irl, Mother is afraid of doing anything and sleeps, but she's run out too, says it's a month until they get an appointment
625 Days - Charles meets C/Vincent and Vincent kills himself. Charles panics and dissociates and Scarlett starts acting out more despite Charles taking his meds
531 Days - Anri says she has to move away and they decide to run away together
530 Days - ?????? unless it's the night, but. Charles’s version of running away is downing a bunch of pills and Anri beats him up. Next morning they go home, next month Anri moves, year and a half later, they stop talking, so that's like 547 days, so they probably stopped right before the trial
??? Days - Mom is parasite, nothing is same, everyone is parasite
0 Days - Charles drowns himself
Episode 1
***Episode 2
***Episode 3 WHICH MIGHT NOT BE FINISHED
Charles as he appears in the first two episodes. While interacting with the Charlotte in these episodes as C, he often adopted mannerisms of an idolized version of his friend, Vincent, but considered himself to be an inferior imitation.
***Charles wiki.
Character that is essentially Shadow Charles as well as a manifestation of his mental image of his father.
Fictional story written by Charles that echoes his relationship with Vincent.
