Application - Charlotte "Chuck" Charles - aternatopia.
Character Demographics:
Fandom: Pushing Daisies
Name: Charlotte "Chuck" Charles
Age: 28
Physical Appearance: Brown hair and brown eyes. She possesses a certain impish quality that manifests itself in her features, giving her an almost child-like quality. She is a very beautiful young woman.
Education: Chuck was self-educated; living with her aunts at home, she essentially taught herself about the world outside her secluded box. She is also an expert in a variety of different languages, having taught herself by listening to various tapes on learning languages.
Occupation: She's had the occasional odd job, from serving as a stay-at-home juror to harvesting honey for the homeless. Currently, she works with Ned and Emerson Cod, solving murders, and serves/bakes pies at The Pie Hole.
Significant Other: Ned.
Sexual Preference: Straight.
Character Biography:
History: Chuck grew up in a bright, colorful home in Coeur d'Coeurs, living next-door to Ned. The two were good friends and played together frequently; this led to their becoming childhood sweethearts. When Chuck was eight, her father unexpectedly and inexplicably died. Unbeknownst to Chuck, his death was inadvertently caused by Ned using his newly discovered ability to bring his own mother back from the dead. During the funerals of their parents, Ned and Chuck shared their first and only kiss - separated soon afterward when Ned's father sent him off to boarding school. Chuck was sent to be raised by her aunts, Lily and Vivian, two former synchronized swimmers whose social phobias prevented them from leaving the house. Chuck always dreamed of a different life, but feared that her aunts would be unable to cope without her, and therefore stayed at home until she was 28 years old.
At 28, she visited Boutique Travel Travel Boutique to make plans, and was offered a free vacation by its owner in exchange for picking up two plaster monkeys which were thought to be simply sentimental in nature. However, the monkeys were actually gold and extremely valuable, and on board the cruise ship, Chuck was attacked from behind and suffocated to death by the Shiny Shoes Killer, who was after the monkeys. Her body was found after having been dumped overboard, and the press deemed her "the lonely tourist Charlotte Charles". Her death essentially reunited her with Ned, who, after realizing that the woman who had died was his childhood sweetheart, brought her back to life. Because he still had feelings for her, he realized he couldn't "kill" her again - leading to their inability to touch each other.
Chuck continued to work with Ned and Emerson in solving murders while secretly sending pies to her aunts' home, dosed with antidepressants. Additionally, she discovered that Ned was indirectly responsible for her father's death, leading to some tension between them for a while, although they eventually reconciled. Most recently, she found out that her Aunt Lily is actually her mother.
Personality in seven words or less: Kind-hearted, intelligent, observant, cunning, love of learning.
How Others Perceive Your Character: She's the love of Ned's life and a pain in Emerson's behind. She and Olive Snook have gotten to be excellent friends and even lived together for a period of time. Her aunt and her mother are still very much a part of her life, but they have to perceive her to be dead - for their own health, at least. Most of the time, she uses aliases when dealing with murder investigations.
Beliefs, Convictions, Morals: Chuck has a fairly optimistic perspective on life, compared to Ned's pessimism. She frequently suggested offering a hug or a kiss to Ned - "if it wouldn't kill me" - when they first reunited, and most of the time, she is the one to offer a more cheerful option when Ned seems to be looking at the world with a doom-and-gloom perspective.
Reason(s) for Escaping to Canada: She's always been interested in travel, and hopefully this time it won't wind up with her being murdered.
Their DHAs [Dreams, Hopes, and Aspirations] for Canada: She doesn't have a lot of job experience, but would be willing to investigate murders - or even just bake the simple pie every now and then.
Twenty-Questions for the Characters:
1. What turns them on: Cheese.
2. What turns them off: Lies.
3. Would they see a shrink: That would be interesting, wouldn't it?
4. Worst Childhood experience: Losing her father.
5. Favorite Film: Black and white movies are her favorite; how could she pick just one?!
6. Favorite Song: Anything that can be played on her aunts' record player.
7. Favorite Word: Gouda.
8. Least Favorite Word: Lactose-intolerant.
9. Favorite Curse Word: Any curse word in a foreign language.
10. Best gift ever received: The gift of life.
11. Sound or Noise they hate: Silence.
12. Sound or Noise they love: Bees buzzing.
13. Do they know the answer to 64 million dollar question: Perhaps!
14. [Complete the sentence] ... All the world's a stage... .and my curtain call hasn't come up yet.
15. Did Yoko Ono really break up the Fab Four: No.
16. Chuck Norris or Bruce Lee: Bruce Lee.
17. Half full or half empty: Half full.
18. Coke or Pepsi: Coke.
19. If they were a Jellybean flavor, which one: Cherry.
20. And, finally, if Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates: You again?