TUCKER, Charlotte Mary

[CHARLOTTE MARY TUCKER]

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“Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”

NAME: Charlotte ("Charlie") Mary Tucker


AGE: Seventeen


YEAR: Seventh


HOUSE: Gryffindor


OCCUPATION: n/a


BLOOD TYPE: Muggleborn


WAND TYPE: 12 inch oak with dragon heartstring core


PETS: n/a



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LIKES:

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Anything that makes a big boom and involves flying sparks is right up Charlie's alley. She loves the danger of them, and, in the case of fireworks, the color.

Risks;;
Charlie isn't one to take the easiest route. She cuts close to that edge, pushes the speed limit, whatever makes her feel alive. Injuries don't phase her. The adrenaline rush she gets from taking these risks does just that.

Roller coasters;;
Again, Charlie's an adrenaline junkie; fast, twisting rides are her thing. You'd better be willing to sit in the front of the roller coaster if you want to ride with her.

Ghost stories and horror movies;;
Charlie is a never-admit-to-fear kind of person, and she loves to exercise her ability to hide her fears by watching horror movies and listening to or reading ghost stories. Perhaps they do make her a bit afraid of the dark...but she'll never admit it.

Sharp edges;;
Charlie's not crazy or anything. She's not going to go on a killing spree because she loves knives. She just, well, loves things with sharp edges. Swords. Tomahawks. Hunting knives. Daggers. You name it. She loves it. She doesn't use these things for personal harm. Just beware: if you're messing with her too much, she does carry a switchblade in her back pocket at all times. And she will use it.

Drawing;;
Ponies and unicorns? Never. Steampunk and fantasy characters? Much more likely. She's even been known to try graffiti at times. The world is her canvas after all.

Loud music;;
Just another way of defying authority. She's unable to count the number of people who told her she's going to be deaf when she's older. She figures the sooner, the better. Then she won't have to listen to them anymore.

Speed;;
It doesn't matter where the speed comes from. It only matters that it's there.

Arguing;;
Charlie is a grade A arguer. She can argue with just about anyone on just about any subject. Once the argument is started, it's not likely that she'll let it go, either.

Independence;;
Charlie takes pride in the fact that she can survive without others. It's not entirely true, however; she's lonely, though she might not admit it openly. She's just too stubborn to admit it.

Flying;;
Charlie came from a muggle family, and flying was the thing she took to the fastest. She was all over the skies before anyone could stop her, and she tried out for the beater position on the Quidditch team as soon as she understood the sport.

Charms & spells;;
Magic is one of the things that Charlie's parents can't take from her, which is why she loves it so much. She loves charms and spells most of all.

Defense Against the Dark Arts;;
Charlie's favorite class is most definitely Defense Against the Dark Arts. She not only gets to learn spells, but she gets to learn about the threats in the world and it's a bit dangerous.

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Trying to get close to Charlie before she's used to you tends to result in the opposite of the desired effect: Charlie slams the door in your face. You have to be there for her, but not so you're actually trying to reach her. She'll come to you when she's ready. Similarly, if you betray her trust before it's fully formed, she'll immediately shut you out and it's highly unlikely that you'll ever get back in.

Needy people;;
Charlie, being the self-sustaining person she is, doesn't understand people who always need attention and love. This most likely stems from the fact that she's never had the love or attention she needs.

Girly girls;;
Charlie just doesn't understand them. That's the truth.

Children;;
The problem really is that Charlie's jealous of the children she sees. She had such a dismal childhood, and, when she sees children out and about with their parents, she wishes she could have been them. She knows her life would be so different if she had had the love she'd needed, and this bothers her a lot. She doesn't plan to have children of her own because of her own childhood problems.

Rodents;;
Some people hate spiders. Some hate birds. Charlie hates rodents. Rats, mice, gerbils, doesn't matter. She's not scared of them, really, she simply doesn't like having them around.

Fairytales;;
Charlie's had a problem with fairytales since she realized what a mess her life is. She feels they've betrayed her. They made her believe in happy endings, Prince Charming, and all those things. Happy endings don't exist. Not in the world of Charlie Tucker. As a child, her favorite fairytale had been Peter Pan because he would fly in and take the Darlings away from everything, and she feels especially betrayed by that character. She'd put so much faith in him when she was young, and he never came for her. She knows now that, yeah, he's not real. But that doesn't change the betrayal.

Talking about herself;;
Charlie keeps people at a distance, and talking about herself lets them in. She doesn't feel like she can do that.

Feeling vulnerable;;
Charlie feels that she always has to have a wall up between her and those around her. It protects her. And she hates it when she thinks people can see through the cracks. She flat-out refuses to cry in front of others because she thinks this shows weakness. This isn't true at all, but she has yet to accept that it's not.

Authority;;
Charlie has, well, a bit of an issue with authority. She hates it. The problem started with her parents, then spread to her teachers. From there, things just got worse and worse. She now hates being told what to do, and is very VERY likely to be defiant.

Loneliness;;
Though she won't admit it, Charlie's plagued by loneliness. She needs someone to be there for her, but she's too afraid and stubborn to let anyone in.

Divination;;
It's simply ridiculous, in her opinion. Ridiculous and pointless. Still, even she can't deny that she sometimes hopes she'll see a brighter future for herself in those tea-leaves. She won't tell anyone this, though.

The Hospital Wing;;
Charlie ends up in the hospital wing a LOT, but that doesn't mean she likes it. She hates being babied, and she considers being healed to be part of that. She'd rather tend to herself, thanks.

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Charlie is one of those people who thinks she has to hurt to feel. It's one of the reasons why she's so crazy about danger. When she gets hurt, she knows she's still alive and breathing because she can feel the pain.

Death;;
Despite all this love of risks and speed, Charlie's afraid of the uncertainty that comes with death. She doesn't know what comes after life, and there's no way of knowing. That frightens her. Additionally, she's scared that no one would come to her funeral. It seems trivial, because would she be there? No. But the people who come to her funeral are the people who loved her, and she's afraid to think that no one does.

Returning home;;
Basically every year, Charlie runs away to Hogwarts. She doesn't really tell her parents when she leaves, and she dawdles on her way home. She despises her parents and blames them for everything that has gone and will go wrong in her life. She never wants to go home, but she doesn't really know where else to go. Perhaps this summer will be when she finally gets away.

Love;;
Charlie's never seen an example of functioning love outside of fairytales, so she avoids it at all costs. She's afraid of falling in it, falling out of it, everything about it.


[/ul]PERSONALITY:

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Charlie has completely convinced herself that the only person she needs is Charlie Tucker. No one else. She's is always trying to convince herself that she's completely independent, but, in reality, this isn't true. She needs someone to see her for who she is. The only problem being that she can't seem to let anyone in. She's like a skittish animal when people get too close to her, and she backs away quickly. You'll know you've lost her when she quits talking to you and can't make eye contact anymore. That's when you'll know she's cut you off. She grows attached to people very slowly, and it's not likely that she'll admit she's attached to you. If she starts to trust you, it's very important that you do NOT do ANYTHING that could possibly shatter this trust. The chances of a second chance are very small.

What doesn't kill her makes her stronger;;
Charlie lives by these words. She's incredibly stubborn; once her mind is made up, it's extremely difficult to change it. She's willing to defend her decisions in life, no matter how rash they were at the time. Injuries don't phase her, and any emotional pain she feels is forcibly made into fuel for her inner fire, and she considers herself over it and stronger for it. In truth, it's not so easy to get rid of pain, and she's been bottling it all up for so many years that she's probably in danger of a mental breakdown sometime. (See "might have to break before she can be mended.")

Problems with authority;;
Seeing her parents arguing and disrespecting for so many years has made her very difficult to control. She lives to defy control, and authority figures often hate her because she refuses to be tamed. She's willing to argue, scratch, and claw her way out of the grasp of authority, and she isn't afraid of throwing verbal daggers to get them to release their grip. She feels she can't trust authority because of the way she grew up.

Speed demon and adrenaline junkie;;
Charlie loves to go fast and do things that get her adrenaline going. She constantly pushes the speed limit, she walks alone in dangerous parts of town, she confronts potentially dangerous people, she drives her motorcycle on the edge of cliffs. Whatever she can do to get her kicks. She goes fast because it makes her feel, and she's terrified of losing all feelings, which she believes could happen to her if she had to slow down. She's slowly moving toward her own destruction, but there's no one there to stop her.

Might have to break before she can be mended;;
Charlie needs someone. But she won't admit she does. The only way to make her realize this might be for her to hit rock bottom. If she finally realizes that all those bottled emotions are still there and aren't going away, if she finally gets injured by her speed demon habits and can't help herself, she might finally truly cry for help. It won't come easily, but it will most likely be the breakthrough she needs. From there, she might heal. But she'll never be right. Not completely.

Werewolf;;
It all happened so fast. She was out in the Forbidden Forest after dark, knowing full well that there were dangerous creatures out there. But that was what made this midnight excursion so exciting! All alone in the woods, a stupid little third year, she'd been attacked. Bitten. Turned. It's painful to say the least, but, while most people find being a werewolf to be a curse, she finds it to be quite the contrary: a blessing. A release. It allows her to release her anger, and she's often much calmer after the full moon. She doesn't try to suppress her inner werewolf. She simply sneaks out to the forest and lets herself be free. The forest is her sanctuary, in wolf form and human form.


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MOTHER: Marina Tucker, muggle, waitress, 34. Alcoholic.


FATHER: Sam Tucker, muggle, construction worker, 35.


SIBLINGS: n/a


HISTORY: Charlotte Mary Tucker was unplanned and unwanted. Her mother, Marina, was only 17--still in high school--when she became pregnant. Her father, Sam, was only a year older. That was when the slow motion train wreck started. In the small town they lived in, it was expected that, since Marina was now pregnant, the two would get married, and Julie Holland, a severe, forceful woman and Marina's mother, was not about to let Sam get away with knocking up her daughter. Marina and Sam had, in Julie's opinion, made their bed and now had to lie in it. She forced them into marriage, though Sam put up a fantastic fight from the start. It was a doomed union from the start.

Charlie was born on November 17th, 1991 at 10:31PM. She wasn't welcomed into the world with open arms and smiles like most children. She was brought into the world screaming, as though she knew her life would be hard from the start, and was passed around, seeing on her father's face a look of disgust, on her mother's a look of sadness, and on her grandmother's a look that said "what a waste of a life." And things could only get worse as she grew. Marina didn't really have a clue how to care for her child, Sam ignored her unless he absolutely couldn't stand the screaming or crying anymore and had to do something, and Julie undermined everything Marina tried to do. Charlotte, poor, innocent, dear Charlotte, never truly knew care or love.

She didn't know it then, however. It wasn't until later that she found out something was missing in her life. As a toddler, she tried her very hardest to please; she'd entertain audiences of outsiders with juvenile dancing and singing, and was praised for it. They all said she was cute, adorable, precious. But as soon as the company was gone, she became just another mistake. Her first true encounter with love was when her mother enrolled her in a preschool (to get rid of her for a few hours on weekdays, really) and she saw the way other parents acted around their darling children. She didn't know it was love then. She didn't know what that was. But she knew she wanted it. As she grew older, moving on from preschool to grade school she started to see more clearly. Marina started drinking. Sam started bringing strange women to the house when Marina was out working. Julie moved away very suddenly ("good riddance", she said) for reasons Charlie still doesn't know. The world started to fall down around her.

It was during her first few years of grade school that the arguing started. The violence. It started out as bickering, Sam and Marina tearing into each other over finances, things way in the past, anything. It didn't take long, however, for bickering to escalate into full-out arguing. Shouting. Screaming. Shattering plates, glasses, vases, anything breakable that they could get their hands on. Sometimes, when Marina was drunk enough, things would even come to blows. When things got bad, Charlotte would run to her room, shut the door, and sing to herself to drown out the sounds. But she never could completely.

Things started going wrong. Of course, they were already wrong for Charlie Tucker. But other things. Things that should be out of her control. Lights would explode when she got worked up. The walls would shake and pictures would fall from them. Strange things. Impossible things. Her parents were muggles; they knew nothing of these beginning spurts of untrained magic. All they knew was that their daughter was a freak. She became the target of verbal abuse because of her powers, and she had to learn to fight back and become immune to the insults.

Her Hogwarts letter couldn't arrive soon enough. Of course, while her parents wanted her gone, they didnt' want her going to a school of witchcraft and wizardry. But Charlie wouldn't let them stand in her way. She escaped like she so frequently did before, and worked on her own to discover the world of magic that was all around. She stole money from her parents to pay for the things she needed for school and her train ticket and was off before they could stop her.

Her years at Hogwarts were dreams come true to her. Magic. Mischief. The Forbidden Forest. Sneaking out. Detention. It was all perfect. Hogwarts felt like more of a home than her house ever did. She tried out for the Quidditch team, specifically the Beater's position. A night of sneaking out to the Forbidden Forest landed her in the hospital wing with a werewolf bite. Charlie's life has been turned upside-down by magic...and that's exactly how she likes it.

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